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Medieval Art Research @medartres.bsky.social · 18h

The Courtauld is offering a a new fully funded Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture for eligible projects focusing on England from the eleventh to the early sixteenth centuries. Statement of intents are due by 17 November 2025.

Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture, Courtauld, statement of intent deadline 17 November 2025

The Courtauld is offering a a new fully funded Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture for eligible projects focusing on England from the eleventh to the early sixteenth centuries. Statement of intents are due by 17 November 2025.

medievalartresearch.com

Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 1d

This (not from that piece) is one of those charts where I am completely aware of the data but my mental map of how the global economy works still almost refuses to update to the new reality. Because the pace of change has been so rapid.

Mohamed Qassiti @mqassiti.bsky.social · 1d

Here's Rosamond McKitterick saying, the manuscript was probably produced in the North-Rhine region turn of 9th century.
www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...

£1m Auction Estimate for 10th Century Gospel Written by German Canonesses

A 1,000-year-old Latin Gospel manuscript believed to have been written by a community of women at Essen Abbey in Germany around the year 900 will come to auction next month at Christie's. The manuscri...

www.finebooksmagazine.com

Dominik Waßenhoven @domwass.bsky.social · 1d

I doubt that the gospel was written at Essen in the early 10th c. and then remained there until 1803. The library at Essen was destroyed in mid 10th c. Therefore, it would be more likely that the Gospel book was acquired later from somewhere else.

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone got a spare £million? Asking for.... Well, asking for me news.artnet.com/art-world/me...

Rare Gospel Written by Medieval Women Could Fetch More Than $1 Million at Auction

A recently discovered gospel likely written by women at the abbey of Essen in the 10th century could sell for more than $1 million.

news.artnet.com

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 1d

That Roman database of roads that's been in the news: treat with some caution.

Michel Kasprzyk @michelkasprzyk.bsky.social · 1d

Comparaison entre ce qui est connu (en rouge) et les tracés du dataset (en vert) pour l'est de la Bourgogne. Les données mises a disposition sont sans doute meilleures dans les zones où des spécialiste ont été sollicité.e.s (Egypte, etc). Bonne base de départ donc, mais a utiliser avec prudence 3/3

Michel Kasprzyk @michelkasprzyk.bsky.social · 1d

Comparaison entre ce qui est connu (en rouge) et les tracés du dataset (en vert) pour l'est de la Bourgogne. Les données mises a disposition sont sans doute meilleures dans les zones où des spécialiste ont été sollicité.e.s (Egypte, etc). Bonne base de départ donc, mais a utiliser avec prudence 3/3

The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s fun tax tip…

(It’s a similarly daft situation that railways pay tax on fuel/energy but airlines don’t pay any tax on their aviation fuel, a huge hidden subsidy)

youtu.be/dr9MH0NuUtg?...

Private jets don't pay fuel tax. Now I don't either.

YouTube video by Oli Frost

youtu.be

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 1d

I was just required to produce two utility bills! It is ridiculous.

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 1d

I conclude that anyone hostile to a national ID scheme probably hasn't had to prove their ID recently.

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 1d

Important for anyone using Early English Books Online.

Mikko Tolonen @tolonen.bsky.social · 1d

Great news! This is out: Opening the black box of EEBO academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...

Opening the black box of EEBO

Abstract. Digital archives that cover extended historical periods can create a misleading impression of comprehensiveness while in truth providing access t

academic.oup.com

HistoryExtra @historyextra.bsky.social · 1d

Set alight by Reformation hopes and long-standing grievances, the German Peasants’ War looked like it might successfully upend the established order. Instead, it ended in catastrophe

🗝️ This article is free to read

https://bit.ly/4qzjEU6

In 1525, an army of revolting peasants seemed unstoppable – but a brutal end was on the horizon

Set alight by Reformation hopes and long-standing grievances, the German Peasants’ War looked like it might successfully upend the established order. Instead, it ended in catastrophe

bit.ly

Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 1d

"The administration ballooned, and inside the administration the financial technocrats took over. There was less and less sympathy with Columbia as a place of thought. It was more about Columbia as an enterprise..."

www.chronicle.com/article/mahm...

Mahmood Mamdani Doesn’t Want to Talk About Zohran

The Columbia scholar, and father of the mayor-elect, on politics, academe, and antisemitism.

www.chronicle.com

Mikko Tolonen @tolonen.bsky.social · 1d

Great news! This is out: Opening the black box of EEBO academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...

Opening the black box of EEBO

Abstract. Digital archives that cover extended historical periods can create a misleading impression of comprehensiveness while in truth providing access t

academic.oup.com

Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 1d

Medieval wall uncovered as part of conservation work at St. Oswald's Priory, Gloucester built in 900 AD. 👇
BBC News - Medieval wall uncovered at historic monument in Gloucester - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Medieval wall uncovered at historic monument in Gloucester

Archaeologists have carried out conservation work at St Oswald's Priory in Gloucester.

www.bbc.co.uk

Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 2d

This is super funny. After four decades of dismissing pre-Islamic history & clinging to Islamic period symbolism, the IRI now is using things like this, a full size statue based on the famous Shapur I relief, to drum up support & get popular support. Ii doubt it will work as ppl are too jaded.

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Old fishing nets from France become vital protection against Russian drones in Ukraine

Fishers from the Brittany coast are sending horse-hair nets to catch weapons and shield civilians and soldiers

www.theguardian.com

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 2d

Fascinated to learn there's a well-regarded novel about Wikipedia, by the technology reporter Stephen Harrison. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

The Editors weaves Wikipedia’s volunteers into a global suspense tale

Fiction gives a Wikipedia expert room to explore a small but powerful community.

arstechnica.com

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 2d

Free online talk on Constantine the African, and his adaption of the work of al-Majūsī, next Tuesday.

CSMBR Pisa @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder

𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐭' 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞!
csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin...

#CSMBR #OnlineLectures #CompoundMedicamentes #ConstantinetheAphrican

The Science of Compound Medicaments - CSMBR

This lecture explores al-Majūsī’s "Kitāb al-Malakī" and its Latin translation, showing how Book X on compound medicaments was reshaped into a new synthesis of pharmacology and philosophy.

csmbr.fondazionecomel.org

CSMBR Pisa @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder

𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐭' 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞!
csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin...

#CSMBR #OnlineLectures #CompoundMedicamentes #ConstantinetheAphrican

The Science of Compound Medicaments - CSMBR

This lecture explores al-Majūsī’s "Kitāb al-Malakī" and its Latin translation, showing how Book X on compound medicaments was reshaped into a new synthesis of pharmacology and philosophy.

csmbr.fondazionecomel.org

Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks to the BBC we've just learnt that the effigies of Gog and Magog, appearing in the Lady Mayors Show are:

"representations of 2 giants captured by the Roman general Brutus, first governor of Londinium, back in the day" 🧐

Thank you

Two giant basketwork effigies being carried in a parade with a red London bus behind

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 3d

An interesting time to be thinking with Wikipedia, the only "social media" to be designed to generate consensus, not division.
on.ft.com/3LNokFM

Why American-style polarisation is spreading across the west

New research shows how incentives in the modern media ecosystem help explain rising division and negativity

on.ft.com

North West Medieval Studies Postgrad Network @northwestmedieval.bsky.social · 3d

Exciting news! NWMS member @eddiemeehan99.bsky.social’s latest article Identity, exemplarity and the ideal king in early medieval Ireland has now been published in the Journal of Historical Research, academic.oup.com/histres/adva...

Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 3d

City of London lawyer Andrew Milne bought up hundreds of freeholds on homes across Sheffield before advising leaseholders that, if they didn’t pay him exorbitant sums (upwards of £25,000), he’d see them in court. Well done @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social @joshiherrmann.bsky.social for exposing this.

A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived

Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk

Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 3d

Thinking of becoming one of those philosophers who runs together sense and reference to make the provocative claim that something doesn’t exist when really I’m saying that it is often misconceptualised; like fish, language or the Gulf War.

Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 3d

Words to live by tbh

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 4d

TBF, these were somewhat consequential.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 4d

'there is a wide spectrum of views about AI among economists. But the economic consensus is that it might be no more consequential than some other technological advances, such as electricity, the internal combustion engine and computers.'

Who’s right about AI: economists or technologists?

Forecasting the impact of artificial intelligence has become fraught, with evangelists pitched against sceptics

www.ft.com

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 4d

'there is a wide spectrum of views about AI among economists. But the economic consensus is that it might be no more consequential than some other technological advances, such as electricity, the internal combustion engine and computers.'

Who’s right about AI: economists or technologists?

Forecasting the impact of artificial intelligence has become fraught, with evangelists pitched against sceptics

www.ft.com

CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 4d

New version of Girl Yelling In Guy's Ear at Concert Dropped:

A pair of leopards on a rock, with trees in the background. The leopard on the left has a paw draped over the leopard on the right's shoulder, and has its mouth open, as if yelling in the one on the right's ear. The one on the right looks skeptical, and mildly annoyed.

A finalist in the 2025 Comedy Wildlife image contest, by Hikkaduwa Liyamage Prasamtja Vinod named “Bad Mouthing”

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 4d

If you've not read it, you should: Henry Parkes's landmark article on Emperor Henry II, which has had a significant impact on scholarship internationally.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/P9YSAI...

Henry II, liturgical patronage and the birth of the ‘Romano-German Pontifical’ Henry Parkes

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