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Elke Krotz
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History of Medicine, Medieval literature and language (German, Latin)
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
Once upon a time in a university near you, in-person teaching was a thing, as you can see in this image of 1612. Young people with hats came together, regularly and voluntarily, prepared for classes, and enjoying a lively learning situation of *checks notes*, a 90 minutes monolog of someone else ...
The image of 1612 shows an academic scene of early modern Europe: a lecture hall with a professor on a professorial chair at the upper centre, a large groups of students present. This is one from a series of eighteen plates by the workshop of Crispijn van de Passe, depicting scenes of academic life, more here: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1972-0722-6-3
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
egoelke.bsky.social
Some #lichen and #fungi from trees near the Baltic Sea
November 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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aaronm.bsky.social
A much more exciting week brought 76 #Manuscripts online at the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes a glossed Priscian, a bunch of 17th C Barberini stuff, a pile more Ge'ez, many Cicero, Iñigo de Mendoça's Spanish _Vita Christiana_, and MORE
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 45 of 2025
A total of seventy-six manuscripts were digitized this past week. Barb.lat, with twenty-nine, and Ott.lat with twenty-eight, contributed the majority of the volumes, following recent patterns. A full ...
www.wiglaf.org
November 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
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.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
egoelke.bsky.social
Am Meer gehen die Uhren anders: die eine vor, die andere nach und der Zug fährt eigentlich schon seit längerem um 34 nach ab...
Bahnhofsuhr in Travemünde mit drei falschen Angaben. Actually it was 9.22 and the train leaves 9.34.
November 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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tainonen.bsky.social
3-year postdoc with CODICUM project for a medievalist placed in Odense, Denmark!

Special focus on Latin, palaeography & Dominican text and book history 📖😍🕵️

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3-year postdoc position in medieval studies
3-year postdoc position in medieval studies The Department of Culture and Language invites applications for a 3-year postdoc position in Dominican studies within the CODICUM project. The position is e...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
egoelke.bsky.social
I learned there are #lichen fans in bluesky, here are two from Austria:
A lichen found in Austria Another lichen from Austria
November 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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elderman.bsky.social
Didn't someone make a political commercial about that?
November 6, 2025 at 5:14 AM
egoelke.bsky.social
A wonderful beard lichen in a tree in central Finland.
Eine wunderbare Bartflechte an einem Baum in Mittelfinnland.
Die Autokorrektur macht aus beard lichen Beats Kuchen, das muss ich nicht verstehen ...
Beard lichen, Bartflechte
November 6, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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denniskberlin.bsky.social
Mal was fürs Herz.🫶

Diese Bilder entstanden in Sassari auf Sardinen und zeigen tausende Stare.

Murmuration nennt sich das und dient in erster Linie dazu Fressfeinde zu verwirren.

Natur kann schon echt geil sein.
November 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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capitularia.bsky.social
New manuscript pages have recently been published. Check capitularia.uni-koeln.de/en/blog/neue... to find out more. #medievalsky #capitularia #manuscripts
New manuscript pages | Capitularia
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November 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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lisafdavis.bsky.social
I had a great time speaking with Matilda Siebrecht about medieval manuscripts, European mss in North America, and of course my favorite manuscript (#Voynich)! Here's part 1 of our conversation: open.spotify.com/episode/60q1...
The Voynich Manuscript with Dr Lisa Fagin Davis (part 1) - Ep 40
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November 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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klostermedizin.de
Even the fires of a world war could not destroy this magnificent mandrake.

Kassel, 2° Ms. phys. et hist. nat. 10, 9th c.:
orka.bibliothek.uni-kassel.de/viewer/image...

#histmed #bookhistory #medievalsky
November 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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tigerlilyrocks.bsky.social
The Special Issue of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Orosius Through the Ages, is out!!

Co-edited with Elisabeth Manzo & Cameron Wachowich, on the boil since 2019, we're so pleased with the final output. Both Dr M. & Dr W. have completed their PhDs since then too!
Image of front cover of BICS Journal Issue, Orosius Through the Ages Image of Table of Contents of BICS Special Issue Orosius Through the Ages
November 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Unusually lavish for a medical manuscript.

Florence, BML, Plut. 73.16, f.181v and f.182r, c. 1250:
tecabml.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

#histmed #bookhistory #medievalsky
November 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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sims-mss.bsky.social
This little manuscript contains a treatise on cosmography that describes and illustrates the Ptolemaic model of a spherical earth at the center of the concentric spheres of the universe, and includes diagrams of eclipses and an astrolabe (UPenn LJS 26) #medievalsky

🔗: https://bit.ly/41EAKFa
November 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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lswisnom.bsky.social
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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bookhand.bsky.social
Furry seal skin AND tiny Icelandic manuscripts!

www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...

www.icelandreview.com/news/rare-15...
Eight pages bound in furry seal skin may be Norway's oldest book
The little book is so rare that the National Library of Norway is bringing in experts from around the world to learn more.
www.sciencenorway.no
November 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Dioskurides-Fragment aus dem 9. Jahrhundert entdeckt.
Wenn's um Feigen geht, dann ist es das Ende des 1. Buches der "Materia medica".
www.forschung-und-lehre.de/forschung/un...

#histmed #medievalsky #bookhistory
Unibibliothek entdeckt Pergamentfragment aus dem 9. Jahrhundert
In der Bibliothek in Halle ist beim Digitalisieren eine Handschrift gefunden worden. Sie hatte als Einband reformatorischer Schriften gedient.
www.forschung-und-lehre.de
November 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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rorynaismith.bsky.social
Very exciting news for those interested in early medieval England: a hugely important new volume on crops and food supply (by Helena Hamerow, Mark McKerracher & the FeedSax team) is now available Open Access academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...
Feeding Medieval England: A Long ‘Agricultural Revolution’, 700–1300
Abstract. As in the rest of Europe, the population of medieval England grew steeply, especially between the tenth and thirteenth centuries. This volume inv
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October 31, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
New book on early medieval medicine coming down the line: boydellandbrewer.com/book/early-m...
Early Medieval Medicine in Context
Fresh perspectives on how medical texts, broadly construed, were recorded, perceived and utilised.
boydellandbrewer.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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After a zeitgeisty Halloween costume? Look no further than the back of your wardrobe
After a zeitgeisty Halloween costume? Look no further than the back of your wardrobe
Finding a last-minute party outfit doesn’t have to be a chore. Whether it’s a hi-vis vest or those boot-cut jeans you last wore in 2002, you probably already own something ripe for repurposing
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October 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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sshmedicine.bsky.social
CFPs History of Health in the Maghreb
The organizers invite submissions for a workshop on the history of public health in the Maghreb region, to be hosted by the University of Maryland.
#histmed #medhumanities
Workshop: History of Health in the Maghreb. Colonial Biopolitics, Postcolonial Challenges and International Healthcare (1830-1980) | H-Net
CALL FOR PAPERS - Workshop: History of Health in the Maghreb. Colonial Biopolitics, Postcolonial Challenges and International Healthcare (1830-1980) Workshop dates: May 5-6, 2026Deadline for submissio...
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October 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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October 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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October 24, 2025 at 6:37 AM