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The Dorothy Dunnett Society. Literary society and registered charity promoting the works of Scottish novelist Dorothy Dunnett and historical research.
For more information on Dorothy Dunnett and her work, please visit
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[1/10] La recherche montre que la peste noire résulte d’une conjonction climatique, commerciale et sociale. Des éruptions volcaniques ont refroidi le climat, ruiné les récoltes et déclenché des importations de grains qui ont favorisé l’arrivée de la maladie. #HGGSP #ClimateHistory
Des éruptions volcaniques auraient favorisé l’arrivée de la peste noire en Europe au XIVe siècle
La plus grande pandémie de l’histoire, qui a décimé 30 à 60% de la population européenne selon les endroits au XIVe siècle, a été très probablement favorisée par une ou des éruptions volcaniques en 13...
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December 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Join our team, @mideastmedieval.bsky.social, @imems.bsky.social & colleagues at #IMC2026.

Explore #fragmentology from methodology applied to manuscripts, case-studies on textile fragments or pieces of relics; Latin to vernacular; early to late medieval; East to West.

#medievalmonday #medievalsky
December 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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#MedievalSky #AcademicSky @currentarchaeology.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Thaniks! I'm diving into B Tuchman's "A Distant Mirror" & tho I know a trick or two about The Black Death, her in-depth (in-death?) chapter on the mid-14th century iteration of the plague is fascinating.

If you ever wished you could 'live' in a different time, this would not be it.

#medievalsky
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new newsletter from me & @lollardfish.bsky.social on a volcano, ice cores, and the Black Death (and the humility of what research can tell us) #medievalsky

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A Volcano Caused the Black Death?
Plague on a Boat
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December 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Christmas cake made ✅
List sent to Santa ✅
Don’t forget to book your Winter School place… #MedievalSky
December 9, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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The founding of a Cistercian abbey, a good investment
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#CistercianTradition #MonasticLife #MonasticTradition #MonasteryLife #abbey #abbeye #historyfacts #MedievalMonks #CistercianHistory #MedievalHistory #ChristianMonks #MedievalChurch #medievalsky
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The founding of a Cistercian abbey, a good investment
A blog on the Knights Templar and Cistercian Orders and related medieval history in general
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December 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Forests to Farmland - The Age of Clearance in Medieval Europe
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Forests to Farmland - The Age of Clearance in Medieval Europe
A blog on the Knights Templar and Cistercian Orders and related medieval history in general
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December 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Notre Dame Australia has advertised a new scholarship for postgraduate studies in Jewish history valued at over AU$56,000 per annum. They are particularly interested in students who want to focus on medieval Jewish philosophy or intellectual history.

#MedievalSky #EarlyModern #skystorians
An image of the PDF poster for The Maimonides Scholarship. It includes an image of an illuminated medieval manuscript and the following text: About the Scholarship The Maimonides Scholarship supports graduate research in Jewish philosophy and intellectual history. Candidates will complete a thesis under the supervision of Dr Raphael Dascalu. We particularly welcome proposals in medieval Jewish philosophy or intellectual history, including projects in dialogue with medieval Christian and Islamic traditions. Degree options Maimonides Scholars may enrol in one of three Notre Dame research degrees: • Master of Philosophy (MPhil) – 1.5 years full time (includes coursework) • Master of Arts (Research) (MRes) – 2 years full time (no coursework) • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) – 3 years full time. Scholarship package • Stipend valued at $36,862 per annum (tax-free, indexed). • Tuition Fee Offset scholarship for domestic students valued at approximately $20,000 per annum. • International applicants may seek an International Fee Remission Scholarship. • Find out more: notredame.edu.au/scholarships. 2026 applications • Semester 1 or 2 start • Prospective applicants should contact the Centre at least a month ahead of submission. Eligibility Applicants are required to have completed substantial past study in Philosophy, Religion, Jewish Studies or related fields, usually including a previous short dissertation (such as an Honours thesis). Specific eligibility criteria for the MPhil, MRes and PhD can be found here: notredame.edu.au/hdr Enquiries: chop@nd.edu.au and raphael.dascalu@nd.edu.au Additional text includes a description of the Notre Dame Centre for the History of Philosophy (CHOP) and a brief biography for Dr Raphael Dascalu. He is Senior Research Fellow in the History of Jewish Philosophy at the Notre Dame Centre for the History of Philosophy. He specialises in the medieval Jewish philosophical tradition, particularly Judaeo-Arabic texts.
December 5, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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At long last, a recipe: Chicken in a wine sauce, a kind of proto-coq au vin. Except with lots of spices and lemons.

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#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #earlymodern #chicken
A painting by Joachim Beuckelaer. The picture shows an improbably well-dressed female servant holding a spit in her left hand and a plucked and dressed bird in her right. A second fowl is already spitted ready for roasting. Lemons are visible in a fruit basket in the left background while meat and large fish dominate the right foreground, ready to make a lavish meal.
December 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Next Monday, 1-2pm, Séverine Angers takes us into the world of women’s patriotism during the American Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars – told through intimate letters from military families. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...
#earlymodern #history #letters #WarofIndependence 🗃️
prizepapers.bsky.social The Prize Papers Project @prizepapers.bsky.social · 8d
Next week, Séverine Angers will present her research on women's patriotism during the American Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars, based on letters from military families. Sign up for the Prize Papers Talks Special Edition with the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven with the link below!
December 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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From the Vianello et al. 2025 preprint: Figure 1. Venetian Quarantine Timeline and Early Cartographic Context. #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #EpiSky #Venice
Vianello et al 2025 (preprint) Figure 1. Venetian Quarantine Timeline and Early Cartographic Context. The upper part of the image shows a timeline of major epidemiological events in Venice's early modern history. The lower part shows a 16th century map of the city and its lagoon.
December 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Today, I found a long and detailed recipe for cooking a cake on a spit over the fire. It's not #Baumkuchen and not quite #langosz, but definitely related.

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#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #earlymodern #openfire #cake
An earlier experiment with a related, but different recipe. The photo shows a wooden spit over a metal firepit with glowing embers. To the left, another spit with chickens rests closer to the heat source. Dough has been wrapped irregularly around the central section of the strip and secured loosely with string which is cutting into the surface as it rises. The outside is already browned. This recipe (linked in the blog post) is from a less reliable source and unlike today's does not specify the degree of heat. That is why I used a low heat to give it time to rise and soak up the melted butter it was supposed to be served with. This may be a misunderstanding by the nineteenth-century editor.
December 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Did I hear someone mention massive #earlymodern telescopes? de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:T...
Contemporary image of Hevelius's 140 foot telescope, from "Machina Coelestis" (1673)
December 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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And here is another rather big but still handy #earlymodern telescope, next to the giant one!, used by a man with one hand in 1673.
An image showing a big telescope in 1673 over Danzig. The Source: Johannes Hevelius https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Machinae_Coelestis_p480.jpg
December 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Interesting-looking new book from OUP by a former colleague of mine:
#earlymodern #bookhistory
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Early Modern Merchants and their Books
Abstract. Early Modern Merchants and their Books offers the first dedicated study of the literary and intellectual lives of the merchants of seventeenth-ce
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December 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Are you a member of our COST Action PCPSce and would you like to carry out a Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM)? More info on how to apply: pcps-ce.eu/grants/
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Grants & Opportunities: Take Your Research Further! — PCPS CE
GRANT INFORMATION SESSIONApril 11, 2025 from 9:30 to 11:00 am (CEST). Missed it: Take a look at the Zoom Recording!
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December 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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And not just funny, the apparently inconsequential Crouch is actually crucial to the story.
November 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Yeah, first door is open!
A kitchen cabinet, the door is open, you can see the shelves. On the upper shelf sits a tabby cat, looking out.
December 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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December 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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asls.org.uk Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 4d
“…some of the most compelling women characters you’re likely to find in print. [… Dorothy] Dunnett’s female characters have both feet firmly planted in a sixteenth-century world”

Historian @yvonneseale.bsky.social on the women of THE LYMOND CHRONICLES
#BookWormSat 💙📚
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The Women of the Lymond Chronicles
Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles may be one of the most influential series of novels that most people have never heard of. The books follow nobleman Francis Crawford of Lymond on his high-stakes ad...
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December 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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#dunnett
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#Burgundy

This week‘s #dunnettquote is featuring Charles the Bold
The Grand Duke rode in the middle, glistening in a golden cuirass and a black velvet cloak starred with jewels whose worth, at a quick calculation amounted to a hundred thousand florins at today's rates ..."
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December 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Instead of our weekly #dunnettquote, today we give a hint to the Dorothy Dunnett Advent Calendar 2025

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Dorothy Dunnett Advent Calendar 2025
Dorothy Dunnett Adventskalender 2025
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December 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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A bumper WG is on its way to members: 52 pp (8 colour) including a talk by the Head of Maps at the National Library of Scotland; a project to catalogue notebooks from the Dunnett Archive; armour in C15 Bruges; retelling Macbeth; second part of priests and prophets; and Lymond and Strozzi in Calais.
Cover image (historic map of Scotland and France) of Whispering Gallery 168.
November 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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#dunnett #HouseofNiccolò
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November 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 6:36 AM