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Dénes Harai
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Docteur en histoire / PhD in History | FRHistS | Société de l'Histoire de France | historien de la Renaissance (France, Navarre, Béarn; Hongrie, Transylvanie) | UPPA, UR ITEM https://item.univ-pau.fr/fr/organisation/membres/cv_-dharai-fr.html
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Very pleased that we got to publish this Comment in the TRHS! And many thanks @chriscampbell1.bsky.social for pitching it.

Further reflections on this and other subjects are certainly welcome. 😊

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What does Gen AI mean for the work of the historian and the value of historical experience, skills and craft?

'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social.

New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
Front page of 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' Comment article, title 'The Historian in the Age of AI', by Chris Campbell. Full abstract: "This comment interrogates the methods and conclusions of Working with AI, a recent report conducted under the auspices of Microsoft, which identified historians as the profession with the second-highest ‘AI applicability’. It finds that the authors’ conclusions are based on an erroneous simplification and misrepresentation of a historian’s typical professional tasks, which have been publicly amplified by extensive media coverage. This comment then offers a wider provocation about the report’s conception of a professional historian, and whether it is related to the public application of ‘historian’ to a number of different practitioners with varied training and qualifications. In particular, it seeks to highlight a paradox which the report exposes: that we cannot defend the specialist training and expertise of professional historians against the encroachment of AI without also separating the academic skills and qualifications of historians from those engaged in more popular forms of historical writing and communication. The comment questions how we might grapple with this paradox without reverting to academic elitism."
December 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Jean-Claude Maire Vigueur - A tavola con i signori

Cibo, lusso e potere nelle corti rinascimentali

Vient de paraître chez Il Mulino
November 18, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Happy 423 years of us! 🎉 📚

The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602...

This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
Illustration of the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford, featuring an intricate architectural drawing of the historic building with detailed facade, numerous windows, and figures dressed in academic robes seated in the foreground. Engraving of the interior of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, featuring detailed architecture with arched ceilings, rows of books, and figures walking between the bookshelves. Aerial view of the Radcliffe Camera surrounded by Oxford University's historic buildings, with a cloudy sky above. Aerial view of the historic University of Oxford, showcasing intricate architecture and a person walking across the courtyard.
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Thanks to Lizzy McNeill of BBC's 'More or Less' (@timharford.ft.com) and to @janmachielsen.bsky.social of @royalhistsoc.org for this opportunity!
janmachielsen.bsky.social Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · Nov 2
Quite excited to see one the #medievalsky articles we published in the Transactions @royalhistsoc.org make it onto BBC Sounds! 🗃️

An excellent Halloween themed More or Less episode counting the stakes used by Vlad the Impaler.

Have a listen!

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
More or Less - Halloween special: How many people did the real Dracula impale? - BBC Sounds
Looking at the math's behind the myth
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November 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Thanks to Konstantinos Tsavalos (www.iefimerida.gr/stories/o-my...) for his reading of 'Counting the stakes' (doi.org/10.1017/S008... of @royalhistsoc.org) in @iefimerida.bsky.social
Πόσους ανθρώπους σκότωσε στην πραγματικότητα ο Βλαντ ο Ανασκολοπιστής - Ο μύθος του Κόμη Δράκουλα καταρρέει - iefimerida.gr
Πόση αλήθεια υπάρχει πίσω από τη θρυλική αγριότητα του Βλαντ; Ήταν πράγματι ο πιο αιμοσταγής πολεμιστής της Ευρώπης ή ένα θύμα υπερβολών και πολιτικής προπαγάνδας;
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October 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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We've two new titles forthcoming in our New Historical Perspectives book series:

> Gareth Roddy's 'Atlantic Isles' is published on 30 October bit.ly/3WFhpRg
> Rachael Harkes's 'Forging Fraternity' is available from 6 November bit.ly/4ogSm2H

Full details from @uolpress.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2
Cover images for the two forthocming titles in the New Historical Perspectives book series: 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940', by Gareth Roddy Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society. The Palmers' Guild of Ludlow, by Rachael Harkes
October 15, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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BBC HistoryExtra recently featured new research on the victims of 'Vlad the Impaler' bit.ly/47neK4M. The article draws on new work by Dénes Harai which is published in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'.

Dénes's 'Transactions' article is now available bit.ly/46iJfIU #Skystorians 1/2
Vlad the Impaler was medieval Europe's bloodiest warlord, but is the scale of his murder just a myth?
Vlad III Dracula, the brutal warlord and inspiration for Bram Stoker’s genre-defining vampire, has long held a reputation as medieval Europe’s most terrifying ruler. Now, new research asks: how true a...
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October 13, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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"Counting the Stakes" (doi.org/10.1017/S008...) read by Ligia García for @planeta16.com
October 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Thanks to James Osborne of History Extra (www.historyextra.com/period/medie...) for reporting on my recently published article 'Counting the Stakes: A Reassessment of Vlad III Dracula's Practice of Collective Impalements..." (doi.org/10.1017/S008...), Transactions of the @royalhistsoc.org
https://historyextra.com/period/medieva…
October 12, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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'Counting the Stakes: A Reassessment of Vlad III Dracula': new in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/46iJfIU

In this new article, Dénes Harai reconsiders the victims of 'Vlad the Impaler' (c.1431-76), the historical inspiration for Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula #Skystorians 1/2
First page of 'Counting the Stakes: A Reassessment of Vlad III Dracula’s Practice of Collective Impalements in Fifteenth-Century South-eastern Europe', by Denes Harai, new research article in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. Abstract: 'Dubbed ‘the Impaler’ by his contemporaries, Vlad III Dracula (c. 1431–76), was accused of the slaughter of between 40,000 and 100,000 individuals, 20,000 of them allegedly impaled at the Wallachian capital Targovişte. Although historians have often considered these figures inflated, none of the numerous studies dedicated to the voivode of Wallachia have undertaken a methodical evaluation of the extent of this exaggeration. This article takes up this historiographical challenge by examining all available documentation. In so doing, it provides a full reassessment of the practice of impalement in fifteenth-century south-eastern Europe. Contrary to assumptions of previous scholarship, Vlad’s use of impalement was influenced simultaneously by pre-existing Hungarian and Ottoman practices. Quantitative analysis shows that only 7–10 per cent of the impalements claimed by sources can be considered plausible and proposes a new data-driven estimation of Vlad’s impaled victims. Finally, a comparison with other rulers shows that, while Vlad ordered collective impalements more frequently, the average number of victims per impalement was similar to that elsewhere in south-eastern Europe.' Image of Vlad III Dracula from c.1488 text: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, public domain.
September 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Christine Kooi - La Réforme aux Pays-Bas, 1500-1620

À paraître en novembre chez Brepols
August 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Vient de paraître "Reframing Treaties in the Late Medieval and Early Modern West", dir. I. Lazzarini, L. Piffanelli et D. Pirillo. @oxunipress.bsky.social

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Reframing Treaties in the Late Medieval and Early Modern West
Abstract. Opening a fresh chapter in the burgeoning field of premodern diplomatic history, Reframing Treaties focuses on peacemaking through a wide geopoli
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August 2, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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⚠️Breaking News : La Bibliothèque Diderot de Lyon est en ligne.
Plus de 12 000 documents en libre accès sont consultables depuis chez vous. 🛋️
Et ce n'est qu'un début ! 🤩
Pour découvrir la richesse de leurs fonds ⬇️
BDL : tinyurl.com/3shka7x3
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#Booksky #Skystorian
July 7, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Agustín García Simón - La ambición de poder

Galería de validos

Vient de paraître chez Marcial Pons
July 2, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Vous souhaitez comprendre comment est né l'anabaptisme ? savoir ce qui s'est passé lorsque La Rochelle est tombée en 1628 ? rencontrer la “reine des Camisards” ? découvrir le “protestantisme d'atmosophère” dans lequel baignaient certains auteurs français du XIXe? Ce numéro de la RHP est pour vous !
July 1, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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🎓 Colloque "La Violence à la Cour (XIVe-XIXe siècle)".

📍Sorbonne Université (Centre Roland Mousnier/Institut de recherche sur les civilisations de l’occident moderne), salle G647, 17 rue de la Sorbonne, Paris 5e.

🗓️ 11-12 juin 2025.

🔎 Plus d'informations. ⤵️
June 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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It's #WorldOtterDay!
To celebrate here's a lovely woodcut illustration of a very hungry little otter found in Conrad Gesner's Historiae Animalium (c.1602)
An open book showing an illustration of an otter eating a fish
May 28, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Colloque – Pardoning and Pardon Letters in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (15th-17th centuries)

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Colloque – Pardoning and Pardon Letters in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (15th-17th centuries)
5-6 June 2025. UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles and KU Leuven Brussels Campus. The PARDONS project ( funded by the Belgian Science Policy Office invites proposals for a conference on pardoning …
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May 21, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Work like this, by David Carpenter and Nicholas Vincent (both Fellows @royalhistsoc.org), requires expertise, deep knowledge, judgement and analysis.

Such work enriches us and culture. We should celebrate and value it as we do discoveries and breakthroughs in other walks of life #Skystorians
Royal Historical Society badges with the logo 'I know the value of history'.
May 16, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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🦙📚 Alpacas in the library - coming Friday! 📚🦙

In the name of reducing exam stress, we will be hosting alpacas on the Radcliffe Camera lawn on Friday 23 May 1-4pm.

Open to all members of the University with access by University/College/Library card.
Image description: Alpacas in a temporary enclosure on the grass lawn in front of the Radcliffe Camera library, with a crowd of people gathered around, under blue but a partly cloudy sky.
May 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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📖 Parution : Alvaro Adot Lerga, Ph. Charreyre, Denes Herai (dir.), "Princes, conseils et réformations à la Renaissance
Politique et religion (Europe-Amériques)", Madrid, Casa de Velázquez, 2025.

🖱️ En ligne : books.openedition.org/cvz/54111

📚 Lien éditeur -> www.casadevelazquez.org/publications...
April 22, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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[VIENT DE PARAÎTRE] 🪲
Comment la documentation « magique » de l’Antiquité gréco-romaine (rites guérisseurs, malédictions, requêtes aux divinités), entre religion et registres de savoirs, invite les animaux, pour leurs pouvoirs et leurs forces vitales.
À retrouver en librairie et sur notre site ! 🐍
April 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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#VendrediLecture 📖 #OpenAccess
🆕 #Nouveau sur OpenEdition Books

Princes, conseils et réformations à la Renaissance. Politique et religion (Europe-Amériques)- Álvaro Adot Lerga, Philippe Chareyre et Dénes Harai (éd.)

🔗 En libre accès : https://books.openedition.org/cvz/54111
March 28, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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📢 🏛️Le CNRS a ouvert un poste CDD de trois mois pour la fonction de bibliothécaire à l’IHMC, pour un début de contrat au 1er mai 2025.

Date limite de candidature : 15 avril 2025

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March 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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En ce 26 mars, les Nocturnes de l'Histoire, c'est aussi à Pau, Bayonne et Hendaye: item.univ-pau.fr/fr/activites...
Nocturnes de l'Histoire 2025
Le mercredi 26 mars 2025 se déroulera partout en France la 5ème édition des "Nocturnes de l'Histoire". A Pau, Bayonne et Hendaye, les historiens du l
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March 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM