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Mohamed Qassiti
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Student at @uni-wuppertal.bsky.social|History of Medieval Studies|Medieval Science and Education|Medieval Mediterranean|Latin-Arabic entanglements esp. translation movements
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lorenzkammerer.bsky.social
I wrote my PhD thesis on 15th century professors, and i`ll never stop smiling about the countless complaints about academic life in their letters and notebooks. "I`m overcommited" "I should have finished my dissertation before joining my order", "I lost count how many things i`ve written". :D
mqassiti.bsky.social Mohamed Qassiti @mqassiti.bsky.social · 17h
We always think of monks and canons being all so dutiful. But they were only human, after all.
November 26, 2025 at 10:48 AM
mqassiti.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #MiddleEastStudies #MenaSky #skystorians
washingtonviews.bsky.social Washington Views @washingtonviews.bsky.social · 4d
#OnThisDay in 1986 Flashback: As the Middle East Studies Association ( #MESA) Annual Meeting opens today in Washington DC...At the 20th (MESA) Conference held in Boston BERNARD LEWIS and LEON WIESELTIER "debated" EDWARD SAID and CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnVH...
Bernard Lewis and Leon Wieseltier vs. Edward Said and Christopher Hitchens
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November 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Der Vatikan (Freiherr-von-Stein-Gedächtnisausgabe)
spiegel.de DER SPIEGEL @spiegel.de · 1d
Papst Leo XIV.: Vatikan ist mit seinem Latein am Ende: Tempora mutantur – die Zeiten ändern sich, auch im Vatikanstaat. Mit dem neuen Regelwerk für die Römische Kurie verliert Latein seinen Status als vorgeschriebene erste Amtssprache des Verwaltungsapparats.
Papst Leo XIV.: Vatikan ist mit seinem Latein am Ende
Tempora mutantur – die Zeiten ändern sich, auch im Vatikanstaat. Mit dem neuen Regelwerk für die Römische Kurie verliert Latein seinen Status als vorgeschriebene erste Amtssprache des Verwaltungsapparats.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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buecherwurm99.bsky.social
"Denn der eigentliche Sinn einer Bücherei im generellen – egal ob mit Büchern, Hörbüchern oder digitalen Medien – ist es, allen Menschen den Zugang zu Wissen, Geschichten und Bildung zu ermöglichen. Niedrigschwellig, barrierefrei und unabhängig vom Geldbeutel."
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Hörbücherei für blinde Menschen in Österreich steht vor dem Aus
In der Hörbücherei in Wien kann man sich als blinder Mensch barrierefreie Hörbücher ausleihen. Mehrere Bundesländer stellen nun die Förderung ein. Ein Rückschritt in der Inklusion, sagt ihr Leiter
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November 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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fbgotha.bsky.social
#SaveTheDate An anonymous world chronicle originally composed in 713 CE, likely by a Syriac monk from Apamea, has remained almost unknown until now. In his Gotha Manuscript Talk, Adrian Pirtea speaks about the rediscovery of the only surviving copy! Wednesday, 26 November 2025, 6:15 CET
A photo showing the ancient ruins of Apamea
November 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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transmedhistory.bsky.social
AotW: Johannes G. Stolk and Theresa Jäckh, 1009: Adémar of Chabannes on the Destruction of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, in: Transmediterranean History 3.2 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

*We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !*

#medievalists #medievalsky
plan of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Adomanàn’s De locis santis (9th century), today Vienna, ÖNB, cod. 458, fol. 4v.
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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houseofmodhist.bsky.social
Vielen Dank für die Info! Nun ganz anbei
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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#medievalsky
jbwaagmeester.bsky.social Bastiaan Waagmeester @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social · 2d
Can't get enough of local priests? I hope not, because my book 'Pastoral Works. Priests, Books, and Compilatory Practices in the Carolingian Period' has just been published by Brepols (doi.org/10.1484/M.US...). You can read the book's introduction on my website (libripendis.eu/posts/26past...).
Cover of the book 'Priests, Books, and Compilatory Practices in the Carolingian Period'
November 24, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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ulrichr.bsky.social
Ein weiteres, faszinierendes Anschauungsobjekt zum Seminar:

Annette von Droste-Hülshoff:
Doppelseite Arbeitsmanuskript
Meersburger Nachlass, Nr. 1030-1/MA I 36

u.a. [S. 3]
- Ungastlich oder nicht, [zw. 30.09.1841 u. Anf. 02/1842]

via: archive.nrw.de (Danke!)

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Doppelseite eines Manuskripts. Das Papier ist vergilbt, die Tinte ins Bräunliche verblasst. Beide Seiten enthalten drei Spalten, nicht alle sind vollständig beschrieben. Der Text enthält Tilgungen, Hinzufügungen auf der Wort- und Zeilenebene und ganzer Strophen sowie Umstellungen. Die Handschrift ist sehr klein, aber mit kräftigem Federstrich ausgeführt, in deutscher Kurrentschrift.
November 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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petertarras.bsky.social
My last thread was about the dispersion of manuscripts from St Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai and the challenges to record these comprehensively. Part of this challenge is that these dispersed books sometimes contain other dispersed books. A thread: 1/
petertarras.bsky.social Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · Oct 26
Last week I posted a thread about the collector Friedrich Grote who was one of the main agents responsible for the dispersion of manuscripts from St Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai. But what do we know about the extent of this dispersion? A thread: 1/
petertarras.bsky.social Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · Oct 11
I recently came across an online auction that was held last year to sell three curious photos and a court document. What do these have to do with one of the most important manuscript collections in the world? A thread: 1/
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November 3, 2023 at 9:07 AM
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twigtechnology.bsky.social
Seals singing in a sea cave

#Orkney 🦭🎧
November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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enniusredloeb.bsky.social
The heavens above and the books below

BL Burney 275; Scholastic miscellany incl. Priscian, Cicero, Boethius, Aristotle, Euclid, Adelard of Bath, Ptolemy, translated by Gerard of Cremona; between 1309 and 1316 CE; France, Central (Paris); f.391r
November 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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laurajcleaver.bsky.social
Want to start the new year by learning new things? In January 2026 Anna Somfai will teach an online course on medieval philosophical and scientific manuscripts. More information here 👇 @warburginstitute.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social #MedievalSky please reskeet!

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IES: LIPS & LRBS Winter School | 2026
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November 19, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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monicamedhist.bsky.social
Okay, I've fleshed out this initial timeline w/ bibliographical citations & a few more pertinent details on how & when our current knowledge about the 12thC medic Trota of Salerno was recovered. You can find it here: doi.org/10.17613/emm... #histmed #MedievalSky
Timeline of the "Recovery" of Trota of Salerno
On November 18, 19, and 20, 2025, what turned out to be a lively thread on the social media platform, Bluesky, raised some questions about when and how the historicity of the 12th-century female medic...
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November 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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dclberlin.bsky.social
#OTD 238 years ago, Rasmus Rask (1787–1832) was born 🎉 A comparative historical linguist and author of a number of grammar books, he is today best known for showing the systematic links between the (North) Germanic languages and other Indo-European languages.

#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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#medievalsky
pbahners.bsky.social Patrick Bahners @pbahners.bsky.social · 5d
„Die Universität verliert mit Hermann Jakobs einen prägenden Gelehrten, der sich um die Erforschung des Reformadels und monastischer Reformbewegungen im 11. und 12. Jahrhundert und durch bedeutende Bände der Germania Pontificia verdient gemacht hat.“ www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...
Prof. Dr. Hermann Jakobs (1930-2025) - Historisches Seminar
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November 21, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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smittermeier.bsky.social
Offener Brief gegen die zunehmende unkritische Nutzung von KI an deutschen Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen - bitte teilen! openletter.earth/gegen-die-un...
Gegen die unkritische Anwendung und Implementierung sog. Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) in der deutschen Wissenschaft und im Hochschulalltag
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November 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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proflroach.bsky.social
Hot off the press, my review of Doublier's (excellent) 'Reich ohne König?'. The book is an absolute game-changer for how we approach politics in 11th and 12thC northern Italy.

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Ein Reich ohne König? Akzeptanz, Deutung und Repräsentation königlicher Herrschaft im regnum Italicum zwischen dem 11. und 12. Jahrhundert. By Étienne Doublier. Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Schriften 84. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. 2024. LXXIV + 666 pp.; 45 colour figures and 10 b/w maps. €115. ISBN 978 3 447 12274 0.
Click on the article title to read more.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
In case you'd like to try before you buy, the good folk @academic.oup.com have made Chapter 1 of my book free to view for a few weeks :) academic.oup.com/book/61370/c...
November 20, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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medievaljon.bsky.social
Dumbarton Oaks has a large collection of Byzantine coins if I remember correctly
mqassiti.bsky.social Mohamed Qassiti @mqassiti.bsky.social · 6d
Never thought about it before, but are there any large collections of medieval coins in the USA?
November 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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ebwood.bsky.social
Laura beat me to recommending Princeton (and singing Alan Stahl’s praise!), especially for Byzantine. There’s also the ANS, Yale, and Harvard.
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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lauramorreale.bsky.social
Princeton has a wonderful coin collection, curated by the generous and inimitable Alan Stahl. Here is Alan talking about some of them: middleagesforeducators.princeton.edu/resource/coi...
Coins of Axum (medieval Africa) in the Princeton University Collection
In this video, Princeton Curator of Numismatics Alan Stahl introduces a new and growing collection of coins from the medieval African kingdom of Axum, in the area that is now Ethiopia
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November 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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karlgalle.bsky.social
Okay, this site seems to have more info, and it sounds like main issue is that only a small portion of overall collection has been made digitally available -- possibly we would have to go back into ancient skills like (gasp!) reading card catalogs! 😂 americanhistory.si.edu/about/depart...
The Collection
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November 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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monicamedhist.bsky.social
My thanks to all who have been engaging w/ this 🧵 about retrieving the work of the ♀️ healer Trota out of this (itself digitally retrieved) medical manuscript from the 12th century. Here's a mini-🧵 w/ some follow-up info, the kind of connections that come from shared expertise. #WomensHealth #histmed
monicamedhist.bsky.social Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 8d
Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.
Breslau Codex (Wrocław, Stadtbibliothek, MS 1302, s. xii ex./xiii in.), f. 82ra, showing tear in the page but only the very edge of the text in the inner gutter.
November 20, 2025 at 11:09 AM