Niels Petersen
@muntera.bsky.social
Historian @uni-goettingen.de
The medieval maritime, pre-modern transport and urban history. 🗃️ And Banthas. ❤️project: @viabundus.bsky.social
The medieval maritime, pre-modern transport and urban history. 🗃️ And Banthas. ❤️project: @viabundus.bsky.social
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29th December is the feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, who was murdered on that day in 1170 CE in Canterbury Cathedral.
BnF NAF 16251; Images de la vie du Christ et des saints; 13th century; f.81r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
BnF NAF 16251; Images de la vie du Christ et des saints; 13th century; f.81r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
December 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
29th December is the feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, who was murdered on that day in 1170 CE in Canterbury Cathedral.
BnF NAF 16251; Images de la vie du Christ et des saints; 13th century; f.81r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
BnF NAF 16251; Images de la vie du Christ et des saints; 13th century; f.81r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
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If you don’t want to listen to myself or other academics trying to warn that fascism is seeping into every facet of your life and people are being radicalized at light speed as the west is remade as a fascist regime listen to the news trying to scream it out as well.
‘It’s frightening’: How far right is infiltrating everyday culture
‘It’s frightening’: How far right is infiltrating everyday culture
Extremist messaging now woven into music and YouTube videos, with one expert saying: ‘You can be radicalised sitting on your couch’
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
If you don’t want to listen to myself or other academics trying to warn that fascism is seeping into every facet of your life and people are being radicalized at light speed as the west is remade as a fascist regime listen to the news trying to scream it out as well.
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Make a Bond movie academic
No Time To Write
No Time To Write
Make a Bond movie academic
For Reviewer 2’s Eyes Only
For Reviewer 2’s Eyes Only
Make a Bond movie academic
Live and Let Cite
Live and Let Cite
December 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Make a Bond movie academic
No Time To Write
No Time To Write
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Day 24 and we’ve reached the final window of this year’s Coastal Lexicon Advent Calendar!
Today’s word is:
🌊 tide — the rising and falling of the sea twice each lunar day
A Common Germanic inheritance concerned with time; cognate with German "Zeit", Dutch "tijd", Norwegian/Danish "tid".
1/3
Today’s word is:
🌊 tide — the rising and falling of the sea twice each lunar day
A Common Germanic inheritance concerned with time; cognate with German "Zeit", Dutch "tijd", Norwegian/Danish "tid".
1/3
December 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Day 24 and we’ve reached the final window of this year’s Coastal Lexicon Advent Calendar!
Today’s word is:
🌊 tide — the rising and falling of the sea twice each lunar day
A Common Germanic inheritance concerned with time; cognate with German "Zeit", Dutch "tijd", Norwegian/Danish "tid".
1/3
Today’s word is:
🌊 tide — the rising and falling of the sea twice each lunar day
A Common Germanic inheritance concerned with time; cognate with German "Zeit", Dutch "tijd", Norwegian/Danish "tid".
1/3
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Offre d’emploi – Stellenausschreibung: Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in in Mittelalterlicher Geschichte (6.-12. Jh.) § 28 Abs. 1 HmbHG
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Offre d’emploi – Stellenausschreibung: Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in in Mittelalterlicher Geschichte (6.-12. Jh.) § 28 Abs. 1 HmbHG
Der Arbeitsbereich Mittelalterliche Geschichte sucht zum 01.04.2026 eine:n Wissenschaftliche:n Mitarbeiter:in Einrichtung: Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften, Fachbereich Geschichte, Arbeitsb…
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December 24, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Offre d’emploi – Stellenausschreibung: Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in in Mittelalterlicher Geschichte (6.-12. Jh.) § 28 Abs. 1 HmbHG
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there's got to be a story to tell about academics under siege held together by eduroam, and the original republic of letters.
google thinks no one has ever made this link, which is how you can tell google is not the republic of letters.
google thinks no one has ever made this link, which is how you can tell google is not the republic of letters.
December 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
there's got to be a story to tell about academics under siege held together by eduroam, and the original republic of letters.
google thinks no one has ever made this link, which is how you can tell google is not the republic of letters.
google thinks no one has ever made this link, which is how you can tell google is not the republic of letters.
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Day 23 and we've reached penultimate window of this year’s Coastal Lexicon Advent Calendar!
Today’s word is:
🌊 strand — 'the land bordering a sea, a shore or beach'
Common to Germanic, strand being the default ‘beach’ word in Dutch, German, Danish and Norwegian.
Today’s word is:
🌊 strand — 'the land bordering a sea, a shore or beach'
Common to Germanic, strand being the default ‘beach’ word in Dutch, German, Danish and Norwegian.
December 23, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Day 23 and we've reached penultimate window of this year’s Coastal Lexicon Advent Calendar!
Today’s word is:
🌊 strand — 'the land bordering a sea, a shore or beach'
Common to Germanic, strand being the default ‘beach’ word in Dutch, German, Danish and Norwegian.
Today’s word is:
🌊 strand — 'the land bordering a sea, a shore or beach'
Common to Germanic, strand being the default ‘beach’ word in Dutch, German, Danish and Norwegian.
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Day 22 of the Coastal Lexicon Advent Calendar and today’s word is:
🌊 eddy — water that runs contrary to the direction of the tide or current, a small whirlpool
"Those great eddees...that suck into them and overwhelm whatever comes within their reach"
(T. Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth, 1684)
🌊 eddy — water that runs contrary to the direction of the tide or current, a small whirlpool
"Those great eddees...that suck into them and overwhelm whatever comes within their reach"
(T. Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth, 1684)
December 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Day 22 of the Coastal Lexicon Advent Calendar and today’s word is:
🌊 eddy — water that runs contrary to the direction of the tide or current, a small whirlpool
"Those great eddees...that suck into them and overwhelm whatever comes within their reach"
(T. Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth, 1684)
🌊 eddy — water that runs contrary to the direction of the tide or current, a small whirlpool
"Those great eddees...that suck into them and overwhelm whatever comes within their reach"
(T. Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth, 1684)
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“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
— Aldous Huxley
— Aldous Huxley
December 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
— Aldous Huxley
— Aldous Huxley
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A small piece of sea off Hoy
December 21, 2025 at 12:33 PM
A small piece of sea off Hoy
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Today is the December solstice at 15:03 GMT/16:03 CET.
This @eumetsat.int MTG‑I1 image from 19 December 2025, 06:00 GMT, shows Earth’s day–night terminator tilted near its annual maximum of about 23.5°.
This @eumetsat.int MTG‑I1 image from 19 December 2025, 06:00 GMT, shows Earth’s day–night terminator tilted near its annual maximum of about 23.5°.
December 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Today is the December solstice at 15:03 GMT/16:03 CET.
This @eumetsat.int MTG‑I1 image from 19 December 2025, 06:00 GMT, shows Earth’s day–night terminator tilted near its annual maximum of about 23.5°.
This @eumetsat.int MTG‑I1 image from 19 December 2025, 06:00 GMT, shows Earth’s day–night terminator tilted near its annual maximum of about 23.5°.
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Day 21 of the Coastal Lexicon Advent Calendar and today’s word is:
bight — 'a bend in a coastline, a shallow bay'
Common to Germanic, cognate with Dutch bocht, German Bucht.
As in German Bight from the Shipping Forecast:
"There are warnings of gales in Forth, Tyne, Dogger, Fisher, German Bight…"
bight — 'a bend in a coastline, a shallow bay'
Common to Germanic, cognate with Dutch bocht, German Bucht.
As in German Bight from the Shipping Forecast:
"There are warnings of gales in Forth, Tyne, Dogger, Fisher, German Bight…"
December 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Day 21 of the Coastal Lexicon Advent Calendar and today’s word is:
bight — 'a bend in a coastline, a shallow bay'
Common to Germanic, cognate with Dutch bocht, German Bucht.
As in German Bight from the Shipping Forecast:
"There are warnings of gales in Forth, Tyne, Dogger, Fisher, German Bight…"
bight — 'a bend in a coastline, a shallow bay'
Common to Germanic, cognate with Dutch bocht, German Bucht.
As in German Bight from the Shipping Forecast:
"There are warnings of gales in Forth, Tyne, Dogger, Fisher, German Bight…"
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The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.
December 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.
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Day 20 of the Coastal Lexicon Advent Calendar and today’s word is:
🌊 fog dog — a break or clear patch in a fog at sea
"These transient breaks, which are called by the sailors ‘Fog dogs’...are generally considered good"
(Athenæum, 2 April 1831)
📸 Sea, gulls and fog, neekoh.fi (CC BY 2.0)
🌊 fog dog — a break or clear patch in a fog at sea
"These transient breaks, which are called by the sailors ‘Fog dogs’...are generally considered good"
(Athenæum, 2 April 1831)
📸 Sea, gulls and fog, neekoh.fi (CC BY 2.0)
December 20, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Day 20 of the Coastal Lexicon Advent Calendar and today’s word is:
🌊 fog dog — a break or clear patch in a fog at sea
"These transient breaks, which are called by the sailors ‘Fog dogs’...are generally considered good"
(Athenæum, 2 April 1831)
📸 Sea, gulls and fog, neekoh.fi (CC BY 2.0)
🌊 fog dog — a break or clear patch in a fog at sea
"These transient breaks, which are called by the sailors ‘Fog dogs’...are generally considered good"
(Athenæum, 2 April 1831)
📸 Sea, gulls and fog, neekoh.fi (CC BY 2.0)
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Another beer post for the evening: In 1241, Pope Gregory IX informed Archbishop Sigurd Eindridesson (r.1231-52) that children who are baptised in beer can not be considered to have been properly baptised.
December 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Another beer post for the evening: In 1241, Pope Gregory IX informed Archbishop Sigurd Eindridesson (r.1231-52) that children who are baptised in beer can not be considered to have been properly baptised.
@rbb mit unklarer und ziemlich harscher Berichterstattung: Bezieht sich die Überschwemmung mit Jauche nun auf das Berliner Kindl oder den "Glühwein! 3,50 €"?
December 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
@rbb mit unklarer und ziemlich harscher Berichterstattung: Bezieht sich die Überschwemmung mit Jauche nun auf das Berliner Kindl oder den "Glühwein! 3,50 €"?
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Herausgegeben von der tollen Christine Kleinjung mit vielen Beiträgen ebenso toller Kolleg*innen: www.campus.de/buecher-camp...
Freiwillig gewählt, gottgewollt oder schicksalhaft erlitten, ein Buch von Christine Kleinjung - Campus Verlag
Christine Kleinjung: Freiwillig gewählt, gottgewollt oder schicksalhaft erlitten - Armut und Verzicht in der Vormoderne
www.campus.de
December 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Herausgegeben von der tollen Christine Kleinjung mit vielen Beiträgen ebenso toller Kolleg*innen: www.campus.de/buecher-camp...
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Möchten nur auch Sie diese nächsten schlimmen Wochen heiter und froh durchleben und dann im Januar wieder munter zu uns und Ihren hiesigen Geschäften zurückkehren.
An Goethe, 11. Dezember 1798
An Goethe, 11. Dezember 1798
December 11, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Möchten nur auch Sie diese nächsten schlimmen Wochen heiter und froh durchleben und dann im Januar wieder munter zu uns und Ihren hiesigen Geschäften zurückkehren.
An Goethe, 11. Dezember 1798
An Goethe, 11. Dezember 1798
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Another beautiful Shchedryk performance amidst ruins.
It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia.
The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.
It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia.
The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.
December 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Another beautiful Shchedryk performance amidst ruins.
It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia.
The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.
It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia.
The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.
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Shoutout to our dear colleague Dr. Mikola Volkau for his new NAWA funded project "The route to Europe: urbanization and roads in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the 16th to the middle of the 17th century" at the Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences 2025-2027.
December 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Shoutout to our dear colleague Dr. Mikola Volkau for his new NAWA funded project "The route to Europe: urbanization and roads in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the 16th to the middle of the 17th century" at the Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences 2025-2027.
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Hot on the heels of my first book contract with Palgrave MacMillan (2026), I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve just signed a contract with Bloomsbury to publish a book on the sailors and song collectors who saved the sea shanty (due March 2027). I can’t wait to get stuck in! ⚓️🎶 #seashanties #maritime
December 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Hot on the heels of my first book contract with Palgrave MacMillan (2026), I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve just signed a contract with Bloomsbury to publish a book on the sailors and song collectors who saved the sea shanty (due March 2027). I can’t wait to get stuck in! ⚓️🎶 #seashanties #maritime
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Day 19 of the Coastal Lexicon Advent Calendar and today’s word is:
🌊 geo — a rocky gully on the coast in Caithness, Orkney and Shetland
A Norse borrowing < gjá 'rift, cleft, chasm', as in the Faroese village Gjógv
Formed by high-energy wave erosion along a line of structural weakness in the rock
🌊 geo — a rocky gully on the coast in Caithness, Orkney and Shetland
A Norse borrowing < gjá 'rift, cleft, chasm', as in the Faroese village Gjógv
Formed by high-energy wave erosion along a line of structural weakness in the rock
December 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Day 19 of the Coastal Lexicon Advent Calendar and today’s word is:
🌊 geo — a rocky gully on the coast in Caithness, Orkney and Shetland
A Norse borrowing < gjá 'rift, cleft, chasm', as in the Faroese village Gjógv
Formed by high-energy wave erosion along a line of structural weakness in the rock
🌊 geo — a rocky gully on the coast in Caithness, Orkney and Shetland
A Norse borrowing < gjá 'rift, cleft, chasm', as in the Faroese village Gjógv
Formed by high-energy wave erosion along a line of structural weakness in the rock
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From salt to... sanitation! 🧂➡️💩
This 15th-century salt-trade barrel was repurposed as a latrine lining in #Constance. A good example of #MedievalRecycling and resourcefulness in everyday life.
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
🏺 #archaeology
This 15th-century salt-trade barrel was repurposed as a latrine lining in #Constance. A good example of #MedievalRecycling and resourcefulness in everyday life.
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
🏺 #archaeology
December 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
From salt to... sanitation! 🧂➡️💩
This 15th-century salt-trade barrel was repurposed as a latrine lining in #Constance. A good example of #MedievalRecycling and resourcefulness in everyday life.
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
🏺 #archaeology
This 15th-century salt-trade barrel was repurposed as a latrine lining in #Constance. A good example of #MedievalRecycling and resourcefulness in everyday life.
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
🏺 #archaeology
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The MIDDLEBURG reached the Cape on 18. Dec 1625
Master Willem Kornelisz. Schouten died before.
They fougth 2 Portuguese carracks near St. Helena, afterwards lost.
resources.huygens.knaw.nl/das/detailVo...
Master Willem Kornelisz. Schouten died before.
They fougth 2 Portuguese carracks near St. Helena, afterwards lost.
resources.huygens.knaw.nl/das/detailVo...
The Dutch East India Company's shipping between the Netherlands and Asia 1595-1795
Resources Huygens ING zijn bronnen die zijn uitgegeven door het Huygens Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis.
resources.huygens.knaw.nl
December 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The MIDDLEBURG reached the Cape on 18. Dec 1625
Master Willem Kornelisz. Schouten died before.
They fougth 2 Portuguese carracks near St. Helena, afterwards lost.
resources.huygens.knaw.nl/das/detailVo...
Master Willem Kornelisz. Schouten died before.
They fougth 2 Portuguese carracks near St. Helena, afterwards lost.
resources.huygens.knaw.nl/das/detailVo...
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We offer four PGT programmes, including MLitt History & MLitt History of the Highlands & Islands. In the latest Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey, our MLitt History scored a perfect 100% for overall student satisfaction.
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December 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Join us in January!
We offer four PGT programmes, including MLitt History & MLitt History of the Highlands & Islands. In the latest Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey, our MLitt History scored a perfect 100% for overall student satisfaction.
To find out more and to apply ➡️ bit.ly/CfH-PGT-study
We offer four PGT programmes, including MLitt History & MLitt History of the Highlands & Islands. In the latest Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey, our MLitt History scored a perfect 100% for overall student satisfaction.
To find out more and to apply ➡️ bit.ly/CfH-PGT-study