A map showing trade routes along which playing cards were traded
Looking forward to speaking about the journeys of playing cards in our 'Games through History and History through Games' Colloquium @universityofleeds.bsky.social on Weds 21st and hearing some fascinating papers on games and colonialism. Thanks to @owenhodkinson.bsky.social for the invitation! ♠️♦️♣️♥️
📚 Congratulations to @carolinebarron.bsky.social on the publication of 'Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Etchings from the Research Collections of the British School at Rome'!
🖼️ This book follows a 2021–4 exhibition at @bsrome.bsky.social co-curated by Dr Clare Hornsby and Dr Caroline Barron
Congratulations to Graham Barrett, who has won the La corónica International Book Award for his book, *Text, and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia: The Written and The World, 711-1031*!
Full details here with a snap of Graham at Kalamazoo to receive the award:
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¡Recién salida del horno! 🔥
Reseña del libro de Graham Barrett, Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia (711–1031), imprescindible para quienes estudian cultura escrita en la Alta Edad Media
🆓 👉 revistas.usal.es/uno/index.ph...
#ManuscriptStudies #PeopleAndWriting @erc.europa.eu
Please join us in congratulating the winner of the 2025 La corónica International Book Award--Graham Barrett (Durham University) "Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia: The Written and The World, 711-1031" (Oxford UP). lcclacoronica.org/journal/winn... #kzoo25 @oupacademic.bsky.social
Another soldier waiting patiently in the margin for a very long time.......
BL Add MS 11695; Beatus of Liébana, Commentary on the Apocalypse; 1091-1109 CE; Spain, N.; f.194r
Another early medieval winner at Kalamazoo! Congratulations to Graham Barrett for winning La Coronica book award for his recent monograph
Join us in celebrating the winner of the 2024 La corónica International Book Award -- Sarah Ifft Decker (Rhodes College), "The Fruit of Her Hands Jewish and Christian Women’s Work in Medieval Catalan Cities" (Penn St UP, 2022) lcclacoronica.org/journal/winn...
Not all Roman curses adopt the common lead burrito of doom format. Here we have a curse inscription calling for the punishment of a thief from Merida, Spain. (yes, it's curse week in epigraphy. Finally)
With @isochesh.bsky.social visiting Tinashe’s excellent exhibition lincolnartscentre.co.uk/event/commun... take a look if you’re in Lincoln @uolconservation.bsky.social @uolhumanities.bsky.social @leahww.bsky.social @lincolncons.bsky.social @laurafg.bsky.social @lincolnmedieval.bsky.social
How is the crisis in higher education impacting history and historians in the UK?
Lucy Noakes on the scale of cuts and closures, and how the Royal Historical Society (@royalhistsoc.org) can advocate for our discipline.
www.historyworkshop....
Want to learn something new this summer? This 2-day course on writing in the Early Frankish World could be for you! 👇 #MedievalSky @ies-sas.bsky.social
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Last chance to book for this online introduction to Medieval Spanish Palaeography running 28 April - 1 May 👇 #MedievalSky
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Useful map which shows the location of Noah's Ark, between the two peaks of Mount Ararat
BnF MS Espagnol 30; Abraham Cresques (?), Atlas of nautical charts, known as the Catalan Atlas; 14th century (around 1375 CE); Majorca; f.4r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
Good to see this in the news: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Chag Pesach Sameach!
Israelites cross the sea pursued by the Egyptians, with the pillar of cloud behind, & the pillar of fire ahead.
#Passover
BL Add 14762; 'Ashkenazi Haggadah'; 15th c; Germany, S.; ff.14v-15r
Chag pesach sameach! The frogs are very lively. 🐸
#Passover
BL Add 27210; the 'Golden Haggadah'; 14th century; Spain, N.E; f.12v
UK academia’s lack of language skills ‘imperils research integrity’ www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
We are like the leaves that the many-flowered season of spring
sends forth, when immediately they are increased by the rays of the sun, like them we enjoy the flowers of youth for a cubit’s
span, knowing from the gods neither evil nor good.
📜 Curious about medieval scripts, books & docs from Spain?
Short Course: Introduction to Medieval Spanish Palaeography
🗓️ 28 April – 1 May 2025
🖥️ Online | Part of #LIPSS @ies-sas.bsky.social
⏳ Registration closes in 1 week!
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#palaeography #ManuscriptStudies
The bibliophile and bluestocking María Josefa Pimentel looking almost Wollstonecraftian in a mid 1790s miniature. The most important collector in late Enlightenment Spain?
#condesdeOsuna
#LazaroGaliano
#miniatures
#womenandbookhistory
Due to unforeseen circumstances we have an opening for a paper in the @imc-leeds.bsky.social panels that Jess Holt and I organised. If you have a paper, do think of us (happy to answer ?s). @lincolnmedieval.bsky.social @lincolnrecsoc.bsky.social imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2025/pre...
Here is the depiction of a seder table from the 'Ashkenazi Haggadah'.
#Passover
BL Add 14762; the 'Ashkenazi Haggadah'; c.1460 CE; Germany, S.; f.6r
Family around the Seder table, with the pets beneath the table
#Passover
BL Add 26968; Forli Siddur; 1383 CE; Italy, Central (Romagna, Forli); f.119v
A miniature of Chaucer at the beginning of the Tale of Melibee; it is April after all......
MS EL 26 C 9; Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; ca. 1400-1410 CE; f.153v The Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Photo of Minima and Silvius, the Latin mice. Silvius is handing a little bunch of spring flowers to Minima - grape hyacinths, a miniature daffodil and flowering currant.
#fabulamurina (mouse story) 410
hodie est diēs matris in Britanniā (Today is Mother's Day in Britain). Silvius flosculum Minimae dat (Silvius gives Minima a posy). "te amo valde, Mamma!" ("I love you very much, Mummy!)
Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus
BnF Latin 12048; Sacramentarium gelasianum; 8th century; France (diocese of Meaux or Cambrai?); f.143v @gallicabnf.bsky.social
Take courage!
BL Stowe MS 17, 'The Maastricht Hours'; 14th century; f.240v
Love this little parade of ducks, hens & chicks which surround the coat of arms of the German humanist Johannes von Botzheim (d. 1535). Tasty strawberries too! In his copy of Walter Burley’s ‘De vita et moribus philosophorum’ (Nuremberg, not after 1473). @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.3.A.7.2[852]
