Mario Damen
@mariodamen.bsky.social
Historian | Medieval History | Burgundian Low Countries | Brabant | Tournaments | Nobility | Gift-giving | State formation | Heraldry | Paleography | Associate prof @ University of Amsterdam
https://www.uva.nl/profiel/d/a/m.j.m.damen/m.j.m.damen.html
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Mario Damen
@mariodamen.bsky.social
· Oct 29
The Joust as Performance: Pas d’armes and Late Medieval Chivalry
pasdarmes.org
Are you interested in the Middle Ages, tournaments and chivalric culture? Then check out our new website on pas d’armes (English: passage of arms), a highly ritualised form of tournament that was very popular in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries across Europe.
pasdarmes.org
pasdarmes.org
This is excellent! Since we are rethinking at the History Department @uvahumanities.bsky.social all courses where essays are required, this is an insightful essay to start the discussion. Also, maybe even more important, an important (long) read for students on their first class of any course...
TEACHERS: If you're looking for a reading to assign, to help explain why you're banning AI from your classroom, here ya go.
There didn't seem to be one article that rounds up all the major issues. I tried to do that here, so it's a long read. Feel free to use/share as you like.
There didn't seem to be one article that rounds up all the major issues. I tried to do that here, so it's a long read. Feel free to use/share as you like.
Why We’re Not Using AI in This Course, Despite Its Obvious Benefits
A reading for your students
emergingethics.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
This is excellent! Since we are rethinking at the History Department @uvahumanities.bsky.social all courses where essays are required, this is an insightful essay to start the discussion. Also, maybe even more important, an important (long) read for students on their first class of any course...
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👀Wow! (not the price but that they just had this and who knew?)
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Almshouse in Dorset discovers its 15th-century Flemish triptych is worth £3.5m
Artwork that hung for centuries at St John’s Almshouse in Sherborne will be sold to raise funds for social housing
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
👀Wow! (not the price but that they just had this and who knew?)
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Ik begrijp dat er dagen voorbij gaan zonder dat u denkt aan de Spaanse, post-Romeinse leider Theodomir. Het verdrag dat hij sloot met de Arabieren, is een sleuteldocument voor ons begrip van de Arabische veroveringen. En de man zelf is ook interessant.
mainzerbeobachter.com/2025/11/11/t...
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Theodomir - Mainzer Beobachter
Een tijdje geleden postte ik enkele blogjes over de Arabische verovering van het Iberische Schiereiland in 711 na Chr. Simpel samengevat stak generaal Tariq ibn Ziyad vanuit de Maghreb over naar Andal...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Ik begrijp dat er dagen voorbij gaan zonder dat u denkt aan de Spaanse, post-Romeinse leider Theodomir. Het verdrag dat hij sloot met de Arabieren, is een sleuteldocument voor ons begrip van de Arabische veroveringen. En de man zelf is ook interessant.
mainzerbeobachter.com/2025/11/11/t...
mainzerbeobachter.com/2025/11/11/t...
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Does Artificial Intelligence have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past?
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for historians facing the current Higher Education crisis.
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for historians facing the current Higher Education crisis.
Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History
Does Artificial Intelligence have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for the his...
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Does Artificial Intelligence have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past?
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for historians facing the current Higher Education crisis.
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for historians facing the current Higher Education crisis.
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Deze maand verschijnt de 'Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Leiden' in open access: brill.com/display/titl.... De publieke presentatie is op 2 december, zie uitnodiging.
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Deze maand verschijnt de 'Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Leiden' in open access: brill.com/display/titl.... De publieke presentatie is op 2 december, zie uitnodiging.
For all scholars interested in noble material culture: it is still possible to apply for this postdoc position @uvahumanities.bsky.social #medievalsky #earlymodernsky #skystorians #materialculture ⬇️
Vacature voor een postdoc om onderzoek te doen naar het culturele netwerk van Hendrik III van #Nassau en Mencía de Mendoza (10 maanden fte). Kom werken bij @uvahumanities.bsky.social en bouw mee aan een tentoonstelling in Stedelijk Museum #Breda! ⬇️
werkenbij.uva.nl/vacatures/po...
werkenbij.uva.nl/vacatures/po...
Vacature — Postdoc Staging Nobility in Urban Space. The Nassau Dynasty and the Towns of the Low Countries
De Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (ASH) heeft een vacature voor een postdoctorale onderzoekspositie voor 10 maanden met ingang van 1 februari 2026. Deze functie maakt deel uit van het onderzo...
werkenbij.uva.nl
November 6, 2025 at 10:52 AM
For all scholars interested in noble material culture: it is still possible to apply for this postdoc position @uvahumanities.bsky.social #medievalsky #earlymodernsky #skystorians #materialculture ⬇️
Vacature voor een postdoc om onderzoek te doen naar het culturele netwerk van Hendrik III van #Nassau en Mencía de Mendoza (10 maanden fte). Kom werken bij @uvahumanities.bsky.social en bouw mee aan een tentoonstelling in Stedelijk Museum #Breda! ⬇️
werkenbij.uva.nl/vacatures/po...
werkenbij.uva.nl/vacatures/po...
Vacature — Postdoc Staging Nobility in Urban Space. The Nassau Dynasty and the Towns of the Low Countries
De Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (ASH) heeft een vacature voor een postdoctorale onderzoekspositie voor 10 maanden met ingang van 1 februari 2026. Deze functie maakt deel uit van het onderzo...
werkenbij.uva.nl
October 30, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Vacature voor een postdoc om onderzoek te doen naar het culturele netwerk van Hendrik III van #Nassau en Mencía de Mendoza (10 maanden fte). Kom werken bij @uvahumanities.bsky.social en bouw mee aan een tentoonstelling in Stedelijk Museum #Breda! ⬇️
werkenbij.uva.nl/vacatures/po...
werkenbij.uva.nl/vacatures/po...
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A reminder that there's about a week left to pitch your paper for this year's interdisciplinary Late Medieval France and Burgundy Seminar, the loveliest event of its kind, at Durham in mid-December! There's a great (and non-exclusive) theme, and it's lots of fun for ECRs and senior scholars alike!
October 23, 2025 at 7:50 AM
A reminder that there's about a week left to pitch your paper for this year's interdisciplinary Late Medieval France and Burgundy Seminar, the loveliest event of its kind, at Durham in mid-December! There's a great (and non-exclusive) theme, and it's lots of fun for ECRs and senior scholars alike!
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Two weeks remaining to submit your paper proposal for the EAUH2026 conference in Barcelona!
CfP: Moving people: residential mobility and the housing market in European cities (1200-1800)
We are looking for papers for a session at the EAUH 2026 conference at Barcelona.
Deadline: 22 October 2025
See, for the full call, including 99 other sessions: www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/#se....
We are looking for papers for a session at the EAUH 2026 conference at Barcelona.
Deadline: 22 October 2025
See, for the full call, including 99 other sessions: www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/#se....
Sessions – EAUH2026
www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu
October 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Two weeks remaining to submit your paper proposal for the EAUH2026 conference in Barcelona!
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Voor de volledige vacature en meer informatie, klik op deze link: shoc.research.vub.be/nl/vacature-...
VACATURE: doctoraatsonderzoeker aan de VUB (onderzoeksgroep Social
VACATURE voor een doctoraatsonderzoeker aan de VUB (onderzoeksgroep
shoc.research.vub.be
October 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Voor de volledige vacature en meer informatie, klik op deze link: shoc.research.vub.be/nl/vacature-...
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Call for applications! 📣
The German Historical Institute London is seeking a Research Associate with a particular research interest in medieval history (with a focus on late medieval English history) for a part-time project position to start on 1 February 2026. 🤝
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The German Historical Institute London is seeking a Research Associate with a particular research interest in medieval history (with a focus on late medieval English history) for a part-time project position to start on 1 February 2026. 🤝
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September 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Call for applications! 📣
The German Historical Institute London is seeking a Research Associate with a particular research interest in medieval history (with a focus on late medieval English history) for a part-time project position to start on 1 February 2026. 🤝
1/3
The German Historical Institute London is seeking a Research Associate with a particular research interest in medieval history (with a focus on late medieval English history) for a part-time project position to start on 1 February 2026. 🤝
1/3
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I want to send *both* books to someone who'd find my work useful! (PP in paperback, GR in hardback—note it's also available as a free PDF! library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...) If that's you, just *quote-post* this thread, and I'll pick a recipient next week 😊 (To share without entering, just repost!)
September 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I want to send *both* books to someone who'd find my work useful! (PP in paperback, GR in hardback—note it's also available as a free PDF! library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...) If that's you, just *quote-post* this thread, and I'll pick a recipient next week 😊 (To share without entering, just repost!)
Ploughing peasants on parchment and in stone now in Chantilly and Senlis. Tell me the differences 😀
What an amazing exhibition in of the Tres riches heures du duc de Berry!
But how little attention the peasants recieved both in expo and catalogue white in the end they paid for all this magnificence.
What an amazing exhibition in of the Tres riches heures du duc de Berry!
But how little attention the peasants recieved both in expo and catalogue white in the end they paid for all this magnificence.
September 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Ploughing peasants on parchment and in stone now in Chantilly and Senlis. Tell me the differences 😀
What an amazing exhibition in of the Tres riches heures du duc de Berry!
But how little attention the peasants recieved both in expo and catalogue white in the end they paid for all this magnificence.
What an amazing exhibition in of the Tres riches heures du duc de Berry!
But how little attention the peasants recieved both in expo and catalogue white in the end they paid for all this magnificence.
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Appel à contribution – Staging nobility in urban space. Noble commemoration and representation in medieval towns
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Appel à contribution – Staging nobility in urban space. Noble commemoration and representation in medieval towns
Organisers: Julia van Leeuwen (University of Amsterdam) and Sieben Feys (Ghent University)Sponsors: Dutch Research Council (NWO); Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds (BOF), Ghent University This session expl…
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September 3, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Appel à contribution – Staging nobility in urban space. Noble commemoration and representation in medieval towns
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Staging nobility in urban space. Noble commemoration and representation in medieval towns.
Cfp, Leeds IMC, 6-9 July 2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social
#medievalsky #nobility #urbanspace #imc
Come and join us and present your research in one of our sessions at the International Medieval Congress!
Cfp, Leeds IMC, 6-9 July 2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social
#medievalsky #nobility #urbanspace #imc
Come and join us and present your research in one of our sessions at the International Medieval Congress!
August 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Staging nobility in urban space. Noble commemoration and representation in medieval towns.
Cfp, Leeds IMC, 6-9 July 2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social
#medievalsky #nobility #urbanspace #imc
Come and join us and present your research in one of our sessions at the International Medieval Congress!
Cfp, Leeds IMC, 6-9 July 2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social
#medievalsky #nobility #urbanspace #imc
Come and join us and present your research in one of our sessions at the International Medieval Congress!
Staging nobility in urban space. Noble commemoration and representation in medieval towns.
Cfp, Leeds IMC, 6-9 July 2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social
#medievalsky #nobility #urbanspace #imc
Come and join us and present your research in one of our sessions at the International Medieval Congress!
Cfp, Leeds IMC, 6-9 July 2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social
#medievalsky #nobility #urbanspace #imc
Come and join us and present your research in one of our sessions at the International Medieval Congress!
August 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Staging nobility in urban space. Noble commemoration and representation in medieval towns.
Cfp, Leeds IMC, 6-9 July 2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social
#medievalsky #nobility #urbanspace #imc
Come and join us and present your research in one of our sessions at the International Medieval Congress!
Cfp, Leeds IMC, 6-9 July 2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social
#medievalsky #nobility #urbanspace #imc
Come and join us and present your research in one of our sessions at the International Medieval Congress!
In #Valenciennes where the prolific chronicler Jean Froissart was born. But the town administrators seem to have forgotten this amazing medieval author. Square is dirty and statue heavily damaged. #medievalsky
June 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
In #Valenciennes where the prolific chronicler Jean Froissart was born. But the town administrators seem to have forgotten this amazing medieval author. Square is dirty and statue heavily damaged. #medievalsky
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Super excited to share the CFP for the 'Borders, Boundaries, Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages' conference. Organised by Tash Jenman (Oxford), Naomi Reiter (QMUL), and myself (Lincoln/OCHJS) this will be held in Oxford 20-21 April 2026. All welcome, please share!
June 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Super excited to share the CFP for the 'Borders, Boundaries, Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages' conference. Organised by Tash Jenman (Oxford), Naomi Reiter (QMUL), and myself (Lincoln/OCHJS) this will be held in Oxford 20-21 April 2026. All welcome, please share!
Treasure hunting! These days in the municipal archives of #Douai. And then you don’t expect to find the signature of ‘Rex Alfonsus’ i.e. Alfonso the Magnanimous, king of Aragon and Naples in a charter from 1451!
June 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Treasure hunting! These days in the municipal archives of #Douai. And then you don’t expect to find the signature of ‘Rex Alfonsus’ i.e. Alfonso the Magnanimous, king of Aragon and Naples in a charter from 1451!
Thoughtful essay by Graham Burnett in @newyorker.com, 'Will the Humanities survive AI?' Spoiler: the answer is yes, although 'within five years, it will make little sense for scholars of history to keep producing monographs in the traditional mold.'
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?
Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.
www.newyorker.com
June 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Thoughtful essay by Graham Burnett in @newyorker.com, 'Will the Humanities survive AI?' Spoiler: the answer is yes, although 'within five years, it will make little sense for scholars of history to keep producing monographs in the traditional mold.'
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Weet iemand of er in Holland (of elders Gelre? Friesland?) paardenfokkerijen waren in de 15de eeuw? Het gaat om speciale oorlogspaarden (destriers) die Filips de Goede in de jaren 1430 laat overkomen uit Holland naar Vlaanderen. Dit boek biedt helaas geen uitsluitsel: www.delpher.nl/nl/boeken/vi...
Gevonden in Delpher -
Geschiedenis der paardenfokkerij in Nederland
www.delpher.nl
May 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Weet iemand of er in Holland (of elders Gelre? Friesland?) paardenfokkerijen waren in de 15de eeuw? Het gaat om speciale oorlogspaarden (destriers) die Filips de Goede in de jaren 1430 laat overkomen uit Holland naar Vlaanderen. Dit boek biedt helaas geen uitsluitsel: www.delpher.nl/nl/boeken/vi...
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Happy to announce two vacacies at the @uvahumanities.bsky.social for a postdoctoral researcher (3 yrs) and a PhD (4 years) in our ERC Synergy project BLOCKADE, which explores the two global blockades of the First and Second World Wars and their aftermaths. See www.blockades.eu for more info.
BLOCKADE – Blockade in the Era of the Two World Wars
www.blockades.eu
April 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Happy to announce two vacacies at the @uvahumanities.bsky.social for a postdoctoral researcher (3 yrs) and a PhD (4 years) in our ERC Synergy project BLOCKADE, which explores the two global blockades of the First and Second World Wars and their aftermaths. See www.blockades.eu for more info.
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Happy 750th birthday to Amsterdam! To highlight its medieval roots I wrote a paper on how Amsterdam's hospitals helped its inhabitants in creating old age pensions - Open Access:
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
@onsamsterdam.bsky.social
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
@onsamsterdam.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Happy 750th birthday to Amsterdam! To highlight its medieval roots I wrote a paper on how Amsterdam's hospitals helped its inhabitants in creating old age pensions - Open Access:
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
@onsamsterdam.bsky.social
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
@onsamsterdam.bsky.social
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To any reviews editor who happens to receive a copy of this: I'd be happy to take it on.
@enghistrev.bsky.social
@enghistrev.bsky.social
NEW | Medieval Warhorse publishes today! The first ever systematic and integrated scholarly study of medieval warhorses spanning archaeology and history is available now.
Discover more here:
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
Discover more here:
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
March 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
To any reviews editor who happens to receive a copy of this: I'd be happy to take it on.
@enghistrev.bsky.social
@enghistrev.bsky.social