Alfonso de Zamora
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Al lasso, fuerça: https://ephe.academia.edu/Jes%C3%BAsdePradoPlumed
In the Other Place: @perurealfonso
In the Other Place: @perurealfonso
Pinned
El mundo como descanso | Jesús de Prado Plumed
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Pues esto salió hace ya unos años pero, para qué negarlo, me quedó majo así que lo vuelvo a dejar por aquí, por si interesara al respetable público:
www.revistadelauniversidad.mx/articles/e38...
www.revistadelauniversidad.mx/articles/e38...
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I spent Christmas thinking about Greco-Bactrian kings and Greek texts in Nubia, and now you can too!
If you'd welcome some distraction from Armageddon, here's my January mega-post, all about the Greek language's life beyond Europe.
dannybate.com/2026/01/06/g...
If you'd welcome some distraction from Armageddon, here's my January mega-post, all about the Greek language's life beyond Europe.
dannybate.com/2026/01/06/g...
Greek, the Asian and African Language
Just as the borders of Europe are geographically, politically and socially fuzzy, so too are its linguistic edges. Whatever lines of demarcation we care to draw, the many flavours of speech to be h…
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January 7, 2026 at 9:49 AM
I spent Christmas thinking about Greco-Bactrian kings and Greek texts in Nubia, and now you can too!
If you'd welcome some distraction from Armageddon, here's my January mega-post, all about the Greek language's life beyond Europe.
dannybate.com/2026/01/06/g...
If you'd welcome some distraction from Armageddon, here's my January mega-post, all about the Greek language's life beyond Europe.
dannybate.com/2026/01/06/g...
By way of introduction: my book, The Multiplicity of Scripture: The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible (Toronto: PIMS 2025)
pims.ca/publication/...
Available in North America via @uoftpress.bsky.social, in Europe via @brepols.net, and in digital form by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
pims.ca/publication/...
Available in North America via @uoftpress.bsky.social, in Europe via @brepols.net, and in digital form by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
The Multiplicity of Scripture: The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible – Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
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January 7, 2026 at 10:17 AM
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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
An extra episode to accompany our Films of Ideas series: David explores The Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn, the writer and co-star of My Dinner with Andre. How did a play first performed in 1996 turn into a prophetic text for our times?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
An extra episode to accompany our Films of Ideas series: David explores The Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn, the writer and co-star of My Dinner with Andre. How did a play first performed in 1996 turn into a prophetic text for our times?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
January 4, 2026 at 8:47 AM
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
An extra episode to accompany our Films of Ideas series: David explores The Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn, the writer and co-star of My Dinner with Andre. How did a play first performed in 1996 turn into a prophetic text for our times?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
An extra episode to accompany our Films of Ideas series: David explores The Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn, the writer and co-star of My Dinner with Andre. How did a play first performed in 1996 turn into a prophetic text for our times?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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Disponible nuestra edición del Diablo Cojuelo a cargo de Pablo Brañanova. El género novelesco se revela ya en esta obra como el que mejor recoge cualquier temática y enfoque: realismo degradado, peripecia de pícaros, sátira costumbrista, folklore, nigromancia…
clasicoshispanicos.com/ebook/diablo...
clasicoshispanicos.com/ebook/diablo...
El Diablo CojueloLuis Vélez de Guevara
Por los años en los que se compone esta singular obra de nuestra prosa áurea, el imperio daba ya buena cuenta de su franco declive. Los grandes cambios políticos y culturales cristalizaban en forma d...
clasicoshispanicos.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Disponible nuestra edición del Diablo Cojuelo a cargo de Pablo Brañanova. El género novelesco se revela ya en esta obra como el que mejor recoge cualquier temática y enfoque: realismo degradado, peripecia de pícaros, sátira costumbrista, folklore, nigromancia…
clasicoshispanicos.com/ebook/diablo...
clasicoshispanicos.com/ebook/diablo...
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Our tribute to Natalie Zemon Davis, in the Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte. Please share widely!
www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...
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Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History Volume 116 Issue 1
Volume 116, issue 1 of the journal Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History was published in 2025.
www.degruyterbrill.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Our tribute to Natalie Zemon Davis, in the Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte. Please share widely!
www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...
www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...
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New job:
3-year postdoc position in medieval studies
University of Southern Denmark
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69652
3-year postdoc position in medieval studies
University of Southern Denmark
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69652
December 19, 2025 at 11:10 AM
New job:
3-year postdoc position in medieval studies
University of Southern Denmark
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69652
3-year postdoc position in medieval studies
University of Southern Denmark
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69652
Carsten Wilke about "Israël S. Révah - The Scholar who Revolutionised #Sephardic Studies" youtu.be/Zvj6piDNfUo?... via the Sephardic Genealogical Society #JewishHistory
I. S. Révah - The Scholar who Revolutionised Sephardic Studies
YouTube video by Sephardic Genealogy
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December 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Carsten Wilke about "Israël S. Révah - The Scholar who Revolutionised #Sephardic Studies" youtu.be/Zvj6piDNfUo?... via the Sephardic Genealogical Society #JewishHistory
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So many fun initials in the @rialibrary.bsky.social manuscript of the week! MS 23 P 10 (iii) is a 15th-century medical treatise, containing an Irish translation of Oxford physician John of Gaddesden‘s Rosa Anglica and other works 📜🎉
December 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
So many fun initials in the @rialibrary.bsky.social manuscript of the week! MS 23 P 10 (iii) is a 15th-century medical treatise, containing an Irish translation of Oxford physician John of Gaddesden‘s Rosa Anglica and other works 📜🎉
Beth Mardutho The Syriac Institute (@bethmardutho.bsky.social) is seeking a research assistant for a project #Fellowship on #Syriac #PrintingCulture in Europe from 16c to 19c Latin is a must. Interested stds or recent grads can DM www.facebook.com/BethMardutho #BookHistory #EarlyModern
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December 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Beth Mardutho The Syriac Institute (@bethmardutho.bsky.social) is seeking a research assistant for a project #Fellowship on #Syriac #PrintingCulture in Europe from 16c to 19c Latin is a must. Interested stds or recent grads can DM www.facebook.com/BethMardutho #BookHistory #EarlyModern
«Dévese sobre este libro dosmil y quinientos mar[avedís]» דיב'ישי שוברי אישטי ליברו דושמיל אי קיניינטוש מר\, Madrid, RAH, cod. 16, f. 308r, «procede del mº de S. Millán de la Cogolla».
December 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
«Dévese sobre este libro dosmil y quinientos mar[avedís]» דיב'ישי שוברי אישטי ליברו דושמיל אי קיניינטוש מר\, Madrid, RAH, cod. 16, f. 308r, «procede del mº de S. Millán de la Cogolla».
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings "8 Days (of Hanukkah)" Lyric Video
YouTube video by DaptoneRecords
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December 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Tycho Brahe born 14 December 1546, built his Uraniborg, the first custom-built observatory in modern Europe on the island of Hven. It cost a fortune, how was it financed and why? #histsci #histtech
thonyc.wordpress.com/2014/10/30/f... Brahe's Uraniborg main building from Blaeu's Atlas Maior (1663)
thonyc.wordpress.com/2014/10/30/f... Brahe's Uraniborg main building from Blaeu's Atlas Maior (1663)
December 14, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Tycho Brahe born 14 December 1546, built his Uraniborg, the first custom-built observatory in modern Europe on the island of Hven. It cost a fortune, how was it financed and why? #histsci #histtech
thonyc.wordpress.com/2014/10/30/f... Brahe's Uraniborg main building from Blaeu's Atlas Maior (1663)
thonyc.wordpress.com/2014/10/30/f... Brahe's Uraniborg main building from Blaeu's Atlas Maior (1663)
"Rethinking #Kabbalah: its origins and its beginnings" with Tzahi Weiss and Saverio Campanini (@unibo.it/@ephe-psl.bsky.social), hybrid from @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social #JewishStudies #MedievalSky #EarlyModern
December 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
"Rethinking #Kabbalah: its origins and its beginnings" with Tzahi Weiss and Saverio Campanini (@unibo.it/@ephe-psl.bsky.social), hybrid from @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social #JewishStudies #MedievalSky #EarlyModern
De valetudine vel inopia linguae Latinae in Civitate Vaticana, colloquium Latine habitum: youtu.be/0vqsGFzUoM4?...
Philologus iratus #6 | De Latinitate vaticana mortua et conculcata
YouTube video by Speaking Latin
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December 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
De valetudine vel inopia linguae Latinae in Civitate Vaticana, colloquium Latine habitum: youtu.be/0vqsGFzUoM4?...
Si queréis escuchar una interpretación hippie #PeaceAndLove de las intenciones del autor de la primer gramática de hebreo escrita en español, en el #MéxicoColonial quedó grabada: www.youtube.com/live/W65VZWK... Gracias @drgsespinosa.bsky.social por la insobornable moderación!
December 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Si queréis escuchar una interpretación hippie #PeaceAndLove de las intenciones del autor de la primer gramática de hebreo escrita en español, en el #MéxicoColonial quedó grabada: www.youtube.com/live/W65VZWK... Gracias @drgsespinosa.bsky.social por la insobornable moderación!
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As a little treat for you, here's an #ArabicBible Advent calendar 🧵. Every day I'll post a verse from the Christmas story from one of the oldest Arabic Gospel lectionaries, Sinai ar. 72, dated 897 CE (and a few other texts in between). [2nd attempt, I won't be offended if you point out my nonsense.]
December 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
As a little treat for you, here's an #ArabicBible Advent calendar 🧵. Every day I'll post a verse from the Christmas story from one of the oldest Arabic Gospel lectionaries, Sinai ar. 72, dated 897 CE (and a few other texts in between). [2nd attempt, I won't be offended if you point out my nonsense.]
An undescribed copy of the first #HebrewBook printed in Naples, 1487, David Qamhi's commentary to the Psalms, has now been identified by Ó. Lilao, rare books librarian & D. Varela, Hebrew adjunct prof., in Salamanca's university library: revistas.upsa.es/index.php/he... #Provenance #BoookHistory
Un incunable hebreo en la Biblioteca General Histórica de la Universidad de Salamanca
| Helmantica
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December 5, 2025 at 10:34 AM
An undescribed copy of the first #HebrewBook printed in Naples, 1487, David Qamhi's commentary to the Psalms, has now been identified by Ó. Lilao, rare books librarian & D. Varela, Hebrew adjunct prof., in Salamanca's university library: revistas.upsa.es/index.php/he... #Provenance #BoookHistory
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Florencia del Pinar
Primera poeta española con nombre documentado, siglo XV.
Uno de los nombres que debía aparecer en negrita en la #PequeñaHistoriadelaLiteratura dentro de su vocación de revisión y ampliación de un canon construido, durante siglos, desde una mirada patriarcal.
Primera poeta española con nombre documentado, siglo XV.
Uno de los nombres que debía aparecer en negrita en la #PequeñaHistoriadelaLiteratura dentro de su vocación de revisión y ampliación de un canon construido, durante siglos, desde una mirada patriarcal.
December 4, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Florencia del Pinar
Primera poeta española con nombre documentado, siglo XV.
Uno de los nombres que debía aparecer en negrita en la #PequeñaHistoriadelaLiteratura dentro de su vocación de revisión y ampliación de un canon construido, durante siglos, desde una mirada patriarcal.
Primera poeta española con nombre documentado, siglo XV.
Uno de los nombres que debía aparecer en negrita en la #PequeñaHistoriadelaLiteratura dentro de su vocación de revisión y ampliación de un canon construido, durante siglos, desde una mirada patriarcal.
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Escribí sobre el legado de Margit Frenk (1925-2025), filóloga inmensa y maestra de maestros. Conocía como nadie la cultura oral y popular de la España moderna y fue modelo de una filología viva, útil y comprometida
Gracias a @sebasfaber.bsky.social y @ctxt.es por el interés
ctxt.es/es/20251201/...
Gracias a @sebasfaber.bsky.social y @ctxt.es por el interés
ctxt.es/es/20251201/...
Margit Frenk (1925-2025). La riada del canto popular
A lo largo de los años, la mexicana desplegó toda la potencia de la buena filología para recuperar lo que cantaba el pueblo entre los siglos XV y XVII, desde rondas de amor a cantares de faena
ctxt.es
December 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Escribí sobre el legado de Margit Frenk (1925-2025), filóloga inmensa y maestra de maestros. Conocía como nadie la cultura oral y popular de la España moderna y fue modelo de una filología viva, útil y comprometida
Gracias a @sebasfaber.bsky.social y @ctxt.es por el interés
ctxt.es/es/20251201/...
Gracias a @sebasfaber.bsky.social y @ctxt.es por el interés
ctxt.es/es/20251201/...
Next Sunday, I'll be speaking abt clandestine Jewish readings of #Maimonides in #ColonialMexico alongs people who know much better than I do about Maimonides: eurojewishstudies.org/eajs-virtual/ It's all online
DM for programme if you wish. #HistoriaIndiana #Conversos #JewishHistory #EarlyModern
DM for programme if you wish. #HistoriaIndiana #Conversos #JewishHistory #EarlyModern
EAJS Virtual 2025: Translating Maimonides – European Association for Jewish Studies
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December 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Next Sunday, I'll be speaking abt clandestine Jewish readings of #Maimonides in #ColonialMexico alongs people who know much better than I do about Maimonides: eurojewishstudies.org/eajs-virtual/ It's all online
DM for programme if you wish. #HistoriaIndiana #Conversos #JewishHistory #EarlyModern
DM for programme if you wish. #HistoriaIndiana #Conversos #JewishHistory #EarlyModern
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A small fragment of a very early edition of Flavius Josephus's works printed in the Low Countries in around 1475.
The elegant pen-flourished initial probably saved this fragment...
(GW M15163 - @enssib.bsky.social collection)
#incunabula #incunable #fragmentology #fragments #bookhistory
The elegant pen-flourished initial probably saved this fragment...
(GW M15163 - @enssib.bsky.social collection)
#incunabula #incunable #fragmentology #fragments #bookhistory
December 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
A small fragment of a very early edition of Flavius Josephus's works printed in the Low Countries in around 1475.
The elegant pen-flourished initial probably saved this fragment...
(GW M15163 - @enssib.bsky.social collection)
#incunabula #incunable #fragmentology #fragments #bookhistory
The elegant pen-flourished initial probably saved this fragment...
(GW M15163 - @enssib.bsky.social collection)
#incunabula #incunable #fragmentology #fragments #bookhistory
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We know that Herzog tried to talk key witnesses out of testifying against Netanyahu.
We know that Herzog lobbied for a presidential pardon for Netanyahu before he was elected as president.
We know that Netanyahu supported Herzog in the secret ballot in the Knesset.
We know that Herzog lobbied for a presidential pardon for Netanyahu before he was elected as president.
We know that Netanyahu supported Herzog in the secret ballot in the Knesset.
November 30, 2025 at 11:48 AM
We know that Herzog tried to talk key witnesses out of testifying against Netanyahu.
We know that Herzog lobbied for a presidential pardon for Netanyahu before he was elected as president.
We know that Netanyahu supported Herzog in the secret ballot in the Knesset.
We know that Herzog lobbied for a presidential pardon for Netanyahu before he was elected as president.
We know that Netanyahu supported Herzog in the secret ballot in the Knesset.
#Tradition, Innovation and #Migration: #Digital #Palaeography in Search of Wandering #Scribes and (#Hebrew)Books, hybrid conference #MiDRASH project www.midrash.eu/2025/11/19/t... 8-10 December #HebrewManuscripts #DH #JewishBooks #Manuscripts #BookHistory
Tradition, Innovation and Migration: Digital Palaeography in Search of Wandering Scribes and Books – MIDRASH
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December 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
#Tradition, Innovation and #Migration: #Digital #Palaeography in Search of Wandering #Scribes and (#Hebrew)Books, hybrid conference #MiDRASH project www.midrash.eu/2025/11/19/t... 8-10 December #HebrewManuscripts #DH #JewishBooks #Manuscripts #BookHistory
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Otro fragmento del "Diario de posguerra en Madrid, 1945-1946" de Rafael Cansinos Assens, recién publicado y ya en las mesas de novedades de las librerías. No te quedes sin tu ejemplar.
zurl.co/MMyEX
zurl.co/MMyEX
November 30, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Otro fragmento del "Diario de posguerra en Madrid, 1945-1946" de Rafael Cansinos Assens, recién publicado y ya en las mesas de novedades de las librerías. No te quedes sin tu ejemplar.
zurl.co/MMyEX
zurl.co/MMyEX
New on the blog!
In this blog post, Luis Ramos reflects on his research and explains how his book uncovers the transformative role that eighteenth-century Mexican Jesuits played in reshaping European intellectual life.
voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/m...
In this blog post, Luis Ramos reflects on his research and explains how his book uncovers the transformative role that eighteenth-century Mexican Jesuits played in reshaping European intellectual life.
voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/m...
‘Mexican Jesuits write the history of the Americas’ by Luis Ramos
Mexican Jesuits write the history of the Americas by Luis Ramos has recently been published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. The volume is an examination…
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November 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM