Shahrouz, PhD
@parchmentwizard.bsky.social
Professor | PhD, Yale History | Specialist in the Middle Ages + World History | Manuscript collector | Taking each day 24 hours at a time.
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I’m a medieval historian specializing in law & notarial culture in the Mediterranean region. My PhD research focused on the rise of the legal profession in the city of Montpellier, c. 1200-1400. Manuscripts & paleography 📜!
Also a professor of World History. Some of my courses below:
🗃️ #medievalsky
Also a professor of World History. Some of my courses below:
🗃️ #medievalsky
October 30, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The teachers "mistakenly taught their students about the wrong Roman ruler — Augustus Caesar instead of his predecessor, Julius Caesar."
Were the teachers not suspicious of the fact that their Caesar managed to live into old age and died in a much less perforated state?
apnews.com/article/aust...
Were the teachers not suspicious of the fact that their Caesar managed to live into old age and died in a much less perforated state?
apnews.com/article/aust...
Studying the wrong ancient Roman ruler gets Australian high school seniors out of a history exam
Teachers at nine high schools in northeastern Australia discovered days before an ancient history exam that they had mistakenly taught their students about the wrong Roman ruler — Augustus Caesar inst...
apnews.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The teachers "mistakenly taught their students about the wrong Roman ruler — Augustus Caesar instead of his predecessor, Julius Caesar."
Were the teachers not suspicious of the fact that their Caesar managed to live into old age and died in a much less perforated state?
apnews.com/article/aust...
Were the teachers not suspicious of the fact that their Caesar managed to live into old age and died in a much less perforated state?
apnews.com/article/aust...
I should be grading, which of course means I have exhausted every possible route on the internet to learn about arrowheads made from meteorites, including the Mörigen Arrowhead, found in Estonia and thought to have been made from one of the Kaali meteorites nearly 3,000 years ago.
October 15, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I should be grading, which of course means I have exhausted every possible route on the internet to learn about arrowheads made from meteorites, including the Mörigen Arrowhead, found in Estonia and thought to have been made from one of the Kaali meteorites nearly 3,000 years ago.
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Averroes, Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics: fragment from a MS of the Latin translation by Michael Scot (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 1091)
www5.kb.dk/manus/vmanus...
www5.kb.dk/manus/vmanus...
July 30, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Averroes, Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics: fragment from a MS of the Latin translation by Michael Scot (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 1091)
www5.kb.dk/manus/vmanus...
www5.kb.dk/manus/vmanus...
I would like to share my recent discovery that a McDonald's Big Mac combo is not a wise choice as the very first meal after a stomach bug.
July 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I would like to share my recent discovery that a McDonald's Big Mac combo is not a wise choice as the very first meal after a stomach bug.
Reviving this quote from the historian Marc Bloch, killed in 1944 while resisting the Nazis in France. #medievalsky
"I think our country sinks beneath the yoke.
It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash
Is added to her wounds."
(Macbeth, 4.3.45-47)
"I think our country sinks beneath the yoke.
It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash
Is added to her wounds."
(Macbeth, 4.3.45-47)
In honor of Marc Bloch’s entry into the Panthéon, some encouraging words from The Historian’s Craft, which he wrote nearly 80 years ago while fighting with the French Resistance, just months before the Nazis captured and later executed him. #medievalsky
April 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Reviving this quote from the historian Marc Bloch, killed in 1944 while resisting the Nazis in France. #medievalsky
"I think our country sinks beneath the yoke.
It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash
Is added to her wounds."
(Macbeth, 4.3.45-47)
"I think our country sinks beneath the yoke.
It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash
Is added to her wounds."
(Macbeth, 4.3.45-47)
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Game Informer is back! The entire team is returning and we can't wait to reconnect. Come join us to celebrate the best in games, the people who make games, and the people who play games from all around the world.
www.gameinformer.com/letter-from-...
www.gameinformer.com/letter-from-...
March 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Game Informer is back! The entire team is returning and we can't wait to reconnect. Come join us to celebrate the best in games, the people who make games, and the people who play games from all around the world.
www.gameinformer.com/letter-from-...
www.gameinformer.com/letter-from-...
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I teach a History of Medicine course and insist, following @monicamedhist.bsky.social, that my students distinguish correctly between "Trota" and "Trotula." A French pop media article came up on my feed with a reminder that her erasure endures.
#medievalsky
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
#medievalsky
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Les femmes et la médecine au Moyen Âge : le cas de Trotula de Salerne
Que sait-on de Trotula de Salerne, pionnière de la gynécologie et de l'obstétrique au Moyen Âge ? A-t-elle été victime de ce qu'on appelle aujourd'hui l'effet Matilda ? Pourquoi cette figure encore my...
www.radiofrance.fr
March 6, 2025 at 4:17 AM
I teach a History of Medicine course and insist, following @monicamedhist.bsky.social, that my students distinguish correctly between "Trota" and "Trotula." A French pop media article came up on my feed with a reminder that her erasure endures.
#medievalsky
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
#medievalsky
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Is the Early Modern period a black hole of history? As a medievalist, I am frequently exhilarated and dismayed by how often I encounter something seemingly important but totally unknown to me when venturing past my curfew of 1499.
March 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Is the Early Modern period a black hole of history? As a medievalist, I am frequently exhilarated and dismayed by how often I encounter something seemingly important but totally unknown to me when venturing past my curfew of 1499.
I'm amazed by the efforts of the staff at The Getty Villa @gettymuseum.bsky.social to protect the museum during the Palisades Fire.
youtu.be/dbt4p7xMfk8?...
youtu.be/dbt4p7xMfk8?...
Getty Villa employees recount how they raced to save the museum from the Palisades Fire
YouTube video by ABC7
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February 27, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I'm amazed by the efforts of the staff at The Getty Villa @gettymuseum.bsky.social to protect the museum during the Palisades Fire.
youtu.be/dbt4p7xMfk8?...
youtu.be/dbt4p7xMfk8?...
I've finally done it. The instructions for the papers in my undergraduate history courses explicitly prohibit the use of the phrase "throughout human history." But will it be enough?
#medievalsky
#medievalsky
February 20, 2025 at 6:05 AM
I've finally done it. The instructions for the papers in my undergraduate history courses explicitly prohibit the use of the phrase "throughout human history." But will it be enough?
#medievalsky
#medievalsky
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PROJECT REVEAL! We're a video game podcast where every episode is a slumber party. Tune in every other Monday to hear four women from around the game industry talk games, stories, & life advice.
Spotify: tinyurl.com/59rxjh4w
Apple: tinyurl.com/276vpwcx
YouTube: tinyurl.com/bdcpca4k
Spotify: tinyurl.com/59rxjh4w
Apple: tinyurl.com/276vpwcx
YouTube: tinyurl.com/bdcpca4k
February 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
PROJECT REVEAL! We're a video game podcast where every episode is a slumber party. Tune in every other Monday to hear four women from around the game industry talk games, stories, & life advice.
Spotify: tinyurl.com/59rxjh4w
Apple: tinyurl.com/276vpwcx
YouTube: tinyurl.com/bdcpca4k
Spotify: tinyurl.com/59rxjh4w
Apple: tinyurl.com/276vpwcx
YouTube: tinyurl.com/bdcpca4k
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Very sorry to learn of the death of medieval historian Walter Goffart, who was a friend and an inspiration.
February 15, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Very sorry to learn of the death of medieval historian Walter Goffart, who was a friend and an inspiration.
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Bob (R.I.) Moore, Professor @newcastleuni.bsky.social for many years, died this morning. He leaves behind an impressive body of academic work, including his masterpiece “The First European Revolution, c. 970-1215”. He was also a pioneer of comparative world history. We will sorely miss him.
February 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Bob (R.I.) Moore, Professor @newcastleuni.bsky.social for many years, died this morning. He leaves behind an impressive body of academic work, including his masterpiece “The First European Revolution, c. 970-1215”. He was also a pioneer of comparative world history. We will sorely miss him.
Read Dr. Marie Kelleher's book! #medievalsky
Dr. Marie Kelleher was an incredible scholar who mentored me at CSU Long Beach for ~8 years. I studied under her for my bachelor's and master's degrees in history. Like everyone who knew her, I was devastated by her sudden passing last year. I'm thrilled that her final book, The Hungry City, is out.
January 16, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Read Dr. Marie Kelleher's book! #medievalsky
Dr. Marie Kelleher was an incredible scholar who mentored me at CSU Long Beach for ~8 years. I studied under her for my bachelor's and master's degrees in history. Like everyone who knew her, I was devastated by her sudden passing last year. I'm thrilled that her final book, The Hungry City, is out.
January 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Dr. Marie Kelleher was an incredible scholar who mentored me at CSU Long Beach for ~8 years. I studied under her for my bachelor's and master's degrees in history. Like everyone who knew her, I was devastated by her sudden passing last year. I'm thrilled that her final book, The Hungry City, is out.
Seeking advice:
I'd like my undergraduates to read an article-length work about medieval precursors to Early Modern colonialism, esp. in an Iberian context + how Spanish colonialism drew on earlier interactions with Muslims. Something like Fernández-Armesto's *Before Columbus*. #medievalsky
I'd like my undergraduates to read an article-length work about medieval precursors to Early Modern colonialism, esp. in an Iberian context + how Spanish colonialism drew on earlier interactions with Muslims. Something like Fernández-Armesto's *Before Columbus*. #medievalsky
January 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Seeking advice:
I'd like my undergraduates to read an article-length work about medieval precursors to Early Modern colonialism, esp. in an Iberian context + how Spanish colonialism drew on earlier interactions with Muslims. Something like Fernández-Armesto's *Before Columbus*. #medievalsky
I'd like my undergraduates to read an article-length work about medieval precursors to Early Modern colonialism, esp. in an Iberian context + how Spanish colonialism drew on earlier interactions with Muslims. Something like Fernández-Armesto's *Before Columbus*. #medievalsky
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This single manuscript page has writing on it spanning over 1400 years. The base text is 6th century and there are notes from the 13th, 15th, 18th and 19th centuries. There are few objects that remained interactive for longer than medieval manuscripts.
BNF Latin 2630, f1r
BNF Latin 2630, f1r
January 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This single manuscript page has writing on it spanning over 1400 years. The base text is 6th century and there are notes from the 13th, 15th, 18th and 19th centuries. There are few objects that remained interactive for longer than medieval manuscripts.
BNF Latin 2630, f1r
BNF Latin 2630, f1r
A local account I follow for the city of Montpellier in France posted the January 2025 meal calendar for school kids. It’s genuinely disorienting comparing the quality of this food to the processed pizza bagels, chicken nuggets, and Hot Cheetos on offer for us at my school in the US in the 1990s.
January 4, 2025 at 7:37 PM
A local account I follow for the city of Montpellier in France posted the January 2025 meal calendar for school kids. It’s genuinely disorienting comparing the quality of this food to the processed pizza bagels, chicken nuggets, and Hot Cheetos on offer for us at my school in the US in the 1990s.
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slate.com/life/2024/12... an honor to join so many in a pilgrimage to Avignon to honor the force that is Gisèle Pelicot. #pelicot #mazan
The Shocking Trial That Was Unlike Any This Legal Historian Has Ever Seen
Historian Sara McDougall specializes in rape and abuse trials. This one really hit different.
slate.com
December 21, 2024 at 7:21 AM
slate.com/life/2024/12... an honor to join so many in a pilgrimage to Avignon to honor the force that is Gisèle Pelicot. #pelicot #mazan
Here is a grumpy fish creature with a leaf tail drawn by a notary to serve as the letter “I” in 1372.
Am I right that the fish has a mustache?
#medievalsky
Am I right that the fish has a mustache?
#medievalsky
December 7, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Here is a grumpy fish creature with a leaf tail drawn by a notary to serve as the letter “I” in 1372.
Am I right that the fish has a mustache?
#medievalsky
Am I right that the fish has a mustache?
#medievalsky
I love medieval notarial signatures. Some are more glamorous than the one pictured, but I like how the notary—named Berengarius Rogarius—embedded his initials into his mark of authenticity. Dated 1284.
The document is a mom getting permission to sell her son's property...More below. #medievalsky
The document is a mom getting permission to sell her son's property...More below. #medievalsky
December 6, 2024 at 10:17 PM
I love medieval notarial signatures. Some are more glamorous than the one pictured, but I like how the notary—named Berengarius Rogarius—embedded his initials into his mark of authenticity. Dated 1284.
The document is a mom getting permission to sell her son's property...More below. #medievalsky
The document is a mom getting permission to sell her son's property...More below. #medievalsky