Saving this 1911 poster for the next time I teach the Wife of Bath’s Tale and gender essentialism.

Found this interesting tidbit on a reread of Juliet Barker's "Conquest." I can think of a very good reason why a man with the last name "Convers" would have been eager to settle in Normandy and integrate into a French Christian family. #medievalsky

Medieval England was never an "essentially homogenous country, with little diversity", and a certain anti-immigrant twitter thread is an example of why we need to expand definitions of "diversity" when thinking about the medieval past before it's coopted to exclude people in present. #medievalsky