Steven Teasdale
@steventeasdale.bsky.social
Former Postdoc at UniGenova | alumnus UToronto | First Gen + ASD | studies Mediterranean economic history 1350–1750, focusing on slavery, commerce, networks, notarial contracts, law, and business | also digital humanities, semantic data and environment.
This is a fascinating article, well worth reading!
NEW ARTICLE: Yemeni coins trace relations between pirates, merchants, and enslavers that traversed the North American, Arabian, & Madagascar coasts in the 1690s and shed light on colonial material exchange.
#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
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A Trail of Coins from Yemen to New York: Pirates, Plunder, and Enslavement in the World of Margrieta van Varick, ca. 1695 - Panorama
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November 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This is a fascinating article, well worth reading!
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The adventures of a precocious 6-year-old and his stuffed tiger debuted on November 18, 1985. NPR's Renee Montagne spoke with the comic strip's editor, Lee Salem, in 2005.
40 years ago, Calvin and Hobbes' raucous adventures burst onto the comics page
The adventures of a precocious 6-year-old and his stuffed tiger debuted on November 18, 1985. NPR's Renee Montagne spoke with the comic strip's editor, Lee Salem, in 2005.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
The adventures of a precocious 6-year-old and his stuffed tiger debuted on November 18, 1985. NPR's Renee Montagne spoke with the comic strip's editor, Lee Salem, in 2005.
The current campaign about the inadequacy of the Mercator map (correctthemap.org) brings to mind this map in Braudel's "Mediterranean" that eschews the Mercator projection and provides a striking reorientation in which "the great Sahara desert dominates the sea." #skystorians #earlymodern
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The current campaign about the inadequacy of the Mercator map (correctthemap.org) brings to mind this map in Braudel's "Mediterranean" that eschews the Mercator projection and provides a striking reorientation in which "the great Sahara desert dominates the sea." #skystorians #earlymodern
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This has been quite a long route from marginal text missing from a photograph to connections to the "slow pandemic" that was leprosy in the Middle Ages (constantinusafricanus.com/2025/01/26/l...). But that's how #histmed works in an interdisciplinary mode. Thanks to all who have contributed!
Leprosy in the Global Middle Ages: A Slow Pandemic
In August 2024, Jordan became the first country to officially eliminate leprosy.1 Countries participating in the World Health Organization (WHO)2 have committed not simply to bringing percentages o…
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November 20, 2025 at 11:39 AM
This has been quite a long route from marginal text missing from a photograph to connections to the "slow pandemic" that was leprosy in the Middle Ages (constantinusafricanus.com/2025/01/26/l...). But that's how #histmed works in an interdisciplinary mode. Thanks to all who have contributed!
Some of my finds at the @victoriacollege.bsky.social book sale this year: a triptych of poems by AF Moritz, one of my favorite Canadian poets. And I always like to find ephemera in my books, in this case, an invitation to the "Eleventh Annual Archibald Lampman Poetry Reading" in 2010.
November 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Some of my finds at the @victoriacollege.bsky.social book sale this year: a triptych of poems by AF Moritz, one of my favorite Canadian poets. And I always like to find ephemera in my books, in this case, an invitation to the "Eleventh Annual Archibald Lampman Poetry Reading" in 2010.
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For the light of the eyes 👀 Look at this unsteady hand from mid 14th c just before Florence and all of Europe were about to be swept by the #BlackDeath (from the account books of the Florentine hospital of Santa Maria Nuova)
#medievalsky
@artandinequality.bsky.social
#medievalsky
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November 5, 2025 at 10:38 AM
For the light of the eyes 👀 Look at this unsteady hand from mid 14th c just before Florence and all of Europe were about to be swept by the #BlackDeath (from the account books of the Florentine hospital of Santa Maria Nuova)
#medievalsky
@artandinequality.bsky.social
#medievalsky
@artandinequality.bsky.social
The kids did another great job decorating this year!
November 1, 2025 at 3:44 AM
The kids did another great job decorating this year!
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A translation of 2 rival accounts of an expedition that deteriorated into friction and feuding. The French Conquest of the Canary Islands translated by Craig Taylor and Jane H M Taylor is out now. buff.ly/Ko959Sj #medievalsky
October 15, 2025 at 7:15 AM
A translation of 2 rival accounts of an expedition that deteriorated into friction and feuding. The French Conquest of the Canary Islands translated by Craig Taylor and Jane H M Taylor is out now. buff.ly/Ko959Sj #medievalsky
Today at 5pm EST / 11pm CET! MAP FORUM PRESENTS: Trading at the Edge of Empires: Francesco Carletti, Florentine Family Networks, and Global Commerce by Brian Brege. MAP Forum talks are available exclusively online. To join, visit medici.org.
October 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Today at 5pm EST / 11pm CET! MAP FORUM PRESENTS: Trading at the Edge of Empires: Francesco Carletti, Florentine Family Networks, and Global Commerce by Brian Brege. MAP Forum talks are available exclusively online. To join, visit medici.org.
I've been working with Transkribus for fifteenth-century Latin notarial contracts, including testaments, so I'm looking forward to seeing this presentation!
If you want to know more about our use of handwritten text recognition software (Transkribus) on the wills project, tune in on Zoom next week 👇
All welcome (not just postdocs!).
#EarlyModern 🗃️ #DigitalHumanities #HTR #CitizenScience
All welcome (not just postdocs!).
#EarlyModern 🗃️ #DigitalHumanities #HTR #CitizenScience
Project Research Fellows Harry Smith and Emily Vine are looking forward to speaking as part of the Warwick History 'Post-Doc' Club series, next Wed 22 October @ 17.00.
They'll be discussing 'Digitization & Citizen Science'📜💻
Follow this link for Zoom details:
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
They'll be discussing 'Digitization & Citizen Science'📜💻
Follow this link for Zoom details:
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
October 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I've been working with Transkribus for fifteenth-century Latin notarial contracts, including testaments, so I'm looking forward to seeing this presentation!
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Elated at Joel Mokyr's Nobel Prize! You can find numerous accounts -now multiplying by the minute- of his scholarly contributions. Today I want to celebrate the man and the mentor.
October 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Elated at Joel Mokyr's Nobel Prize! You can find numerous accounts -now multiplying by the minute- of his scholarly contributions. Today I want to celebrate the man and the mentor.
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"Bob Fogel said to me once: For economics to work without economic history is like an evolutionary biologist without paleontology. You just miss 99.5% of all the species that ever walked on this earth." Joel Mokyr www.youtube.com/live/__0sGvj...
LIVE: Nobel Prize in economics winner Joel Mokyr speaks
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October 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
"Bob Fogel said to me once: For economics to work without economic history is like an evolutionary biologist without paleontology. You just miss 99.5% of all the species that ever walked on this earth." Joel Mokyr www.youtube.com/live/__0sGvj...
Fifteenth-century Latin place name of the day: "Antona" which refers to Southampton and not Ancona, a common mistake made by many scholars, including myself (especially since late medieval Italian notaries often alternated between using 'c' and 't' in words requiring either.
October 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Fifteenth-century Latin place name of the day: "Antona" which refers to Southampton and not Ancona, a common mistake made by many scholars, including myself (especially since late medieval Italian notaries often alternated between using 'c' and 't' in words requiring either.
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My review of @stefanbauer.bsky.social and Simon Ditchfield's edited collection A Renaissance Reclaimed: Jacob Burckhardt's Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy Reconsidered, in Marginalia Review of Books. www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/moderni...
Modernity is a Predicament: On Jacob Burckhardt and the Italian Renaissance
Daniel Woolf on A Renaissance Reclaimed: Jacob Burckhardt's Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy Reconsidered History is a peculiar discipline. It has long prided itself on its rules and canons, y...
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September 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
My review of @stefanbauer.bsky.social and Simon Ditchfield's edited collection A Renaissance Reclaimed: Jacob Burckhardt's Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy Reconsidered, in Marginalia Review of Books. www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/moderni...
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The latest open-access text from the Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus project has arrived, an edition of Giovanni Pontano's 15th-century commentary on the pseudo-Ptolemy astrological "Centiloquium" - scroll down to the final title on their pubs list: ptolemaeus.badw.de/publications #HistSci #medievalsky
October 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The latest open-access text from the Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus project has arrived, an edition of Giovanni Pontano's 15th-century commentary on the pseudo-Ptolemy astrological "Centiloquium" - scroll down to the final title on their pubs list: ptolemaeus.badw.de/publications #HistSci #medievalsky
In our tour of Toronto libraries, my daughter Celeste and I recently visited the S. Walter Stewart Library in East York. We loved the spacious architecture and overall atmosphere, as well as (of course) the selection of books!
October 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
In our tour of Toronto libraries, my daughter Celeste and I recently visited the S. Walter Stewart Library in East York. We loved the spacious architecture and overall atmosphere, as well as (of course) the selection of books!
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Negotiations have stalled. Trump keeps changing his policies. Ukrainians, backed by Europeans, are taking matters into their own hands, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes:
Ukraine’s Plan to Starve the Russian War Machine
Negotiations have stalled. Trump keeps changing his policies. Ukrainians, backed by Europeans, are taking matters into their own hands.
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September 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Negotiations have stalled. Trump keeps changing his policies. Ukrainians, backed by Europeans, are taking matters into their own hands, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes:
A concise graphic summarizing the Creative Commons License Spectrum... crucial for understanding licensing in the cultural heritage sector. More detail at creativecommons.org/share-your-w... @creativecommons.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 3:54 AM
A concise graphic summarizing the Creative Commons License Spectrum... crucial for understanding licensing in the cultural heritage sector. More detail at creativecommons.org/share-your-w... @creativecommons.bsky.social
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The digital version of God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is officially out! If you're interested in ancient Mediterranean slavery's effects on Christian thought and practice, this is for you.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
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God, Slavery, and Early Christianity
Cambridge Core - History of Religion - God, Slavery, and Early Christianity
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September 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The digital version of God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is officially out! If you're interested in ancient Mediterranean slavery's effects on Christian thought and practice, this is for you.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
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In the next few days we'll be circulating our Autumn 2025 project newsletter! 🍂✉️
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September 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
In the next few days we'll be circulating our Autumn 2025 project newsletter! 🍂✉️
To receive a copy and find out what we've been up to over the last few months, make sure you're signed up to our mailing list: forms.office.com/e/JbUEq4Za1u
@leverhulme.ac.uk @uoearchhist.bsky.social #history
To receive a copy and find out what we've been up to over the last few months, make sure you're signed up to our mailing list: forms.office.com/e/JbUEq4Za1u
@leverhulme.ac.uk @uoearchhist.bsky.social #history
A fascinating talk by Hisayuki Kubota at the ACRE 2025: Climate Data Recovery Conference in Singapore... the breadth of scientific and historical sources (Japanese, Russian, English, Chinese ++) in his study of the "cold period" in Asia during the early 20th century is very impressive! #envhist
September 16, 2025 at 6:57 AM
A fascinating talk by Hisayuki Kubota at the ACRE 2025: Climate Data Recovery Conference in Singapore... the breadth of scientific and historical sources (Japanese, Russian, English, Chinese ++) in his study of the "cold period" in Asia during the early 20th century is very impressive! #envhist
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Haven't seen this before. A husband and wife stamped a different side of the same piece of wax with their seal. LFC Ch XXV 14. #medievalsky
September 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Haven't seen this before. A husband and wife stamped a different side of the same piece of wax with their seal. LFC Ch XXV 14. #medievalsky
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1. It is good to have access to Francesco Pegolotti’s manuscript, since Allan Evans has somewhat simplified the spelling of some of the names in his edition.
#mongolsky
#tengri
“Avixamento del viaggio del Ghattaio per lo chanmino della Tana ad andare e tornare chon merchatantia.
#mongolsky
#tengri
“Avixamento del viaggio del Ghattaio per lo chanmino della Tana ad andare e tornare chon merchatantia.
September 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
1. It is good to have access to Francesco Pegolotti’s manuscript, since Allan Evans has somewhat simplified the spelling of some of the names in his edition.
#mongolsky
#tengri
“Avixamento del viaggio del Ghattaio per lo chanmino della Tana ad andare e tornare chon merchatantia.
#mongolsky
#tengri
“Avixamento del viaggio del Ghattaio per lo chanmino della Tana ad andare e tornare chon merchatantia.
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the crisis in which the University of Chicago is now engulfed -- one entirely of its own making, and which has led to the (hopefully temporary) suspension of admissions into numerous PhD programs in the humanities -- represents I think a seismic event in the history of American higher education
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August 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
the crisis in which the University of Chicago is now engulfed -- one entirely of its own making, and which has led to the (hopefully temporary) suspension of admissions into numerous PhD programs in the humanities -- represents I think a seismic event in the history of American higher education
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