Jürgen Sarnowsky
@caoursin.bsky.social
Historian from the University of Hamburg, mainly working on the Middle Ages. Main interests: Military Orders, Hanseatic League, Urban, Baltic and Eastern Mediterranean History, History of Science and Travelling, England, Manuscripts, Digital Repertories
Memory on copper. Prasasti Taji, from Ponorogo, East Java, inscription dated 823 Śaka (901) by Sri Maharaja Watakura Dyah Balitung, granting tax-free status (sima) to gardens and rice fields in Taji, mentions salted food and dried salted meat. National Museum of Indonesia, Jakarta
November 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Memory on copper. Prasasti Taji, from Ponorogo, East Java, inscription dated 823 Śaka (901) by Sri Maharaja Watakura Dyah Balitung, granting tax-free status (sima) to gardens and rice fields in Taji, mentions salted food and dried salted meat. National Museum of Indonesia, Jakarta
Memory in stone: Statue of a queen, East Java, 15th c., possibly Suhita, Queen of Majapahit 1429-1447, demonstrating her political importance. National Museum of Indonesia, Jakarta
November 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Memory in stone: Statue of a queen, East Java, 15th c., possibly Suhita, Queen of Majapahit 1429-1447, demonstrating her political importance. National Museum of Indonesia, Jakarta
Memory on stone: Prasasti Baru - Charter of the Maharaja Sri Airlangga granting the inhabitants of the village Baru a tax-free zone (sima) because they gave him and his army supplies in his fight against King Hasin, 1030, National Museum of Indonesia, Jakarta
November 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Memory on stone: Prasasti Baru - Charter of the Maharaja Sri Airlangga granting the inhabitants of the village Baru a tax-free zone (sima) because they gave him and his army supplies in his fight against King Hasin, 1030, National Museum of Indonesia, Jakarta
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13th century drawing identified as Gregory the Great
Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Liturg. 297; Noted breviary; 12th c with later additions (added drawing, 13th c, first half); Germany, south, Münsterschwarzach, Schwarzach-am-Main, Benedictine abbey of St Felicitas; f.10v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Liturg. 297; Noted breviary; 12th c with later additions (added drawing, 13th c, first half); Germany, south, Münsterschwarzach, Schwarzach-am-Main, Benedictine abbey of St Felicitas; f.10v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
13th century drawing identified as Gregory the Great
Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Liturg. 297; Noted breviary; 12th c with later additions (added drawing, 13th c, first half); Germany, south, Münsterschwarzach, Schwarzach-am-Main, Benedictine abbey of St Felicitas; f.10v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Liturg. 297; Noted breviary; 12th c with later additions (added drawing, 13th c, first half); Germany, south, Münsterschwarzach, Schwarzach-am-Main, Benedictine abbey of St Felicitas; f.10v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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This is a slow moving thread of screaming and horrified city gates. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #ScreamingCityGates
June 11, 2024 at 10:26 AM
This is a slow moving thread of screaming and horrified city gates. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #ScreamingCityGates
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This is exactly how I listen to #podcasts. Like the painted woman of #earlymodern fame: frozen in time, slightly sceptical and a bit amused, while holding a drink.
October 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM
This is exactly how I listen to #podcasts. Like the painted woman of #earlymodern fame: frozen in time, slightly sceptical and a bit amused, while holding a drink.
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Combining direct lighting - as Mark the Evangelist is demonstrating by using the illuminating dove - is great for targeted tasks and emphasizing details at your desk, while indirect lighting - see the open window - creates a warm and inviting environment. Bonus: your cat will like it. #catcontent
October 13, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Combining direct lighting - as Mark the Evangelist is demonstrating by using the illuminating dove - is great for targeted tasks and emphasizing details at your desk, while indirect lighting - see the open window - creates a warm and inviting environment. Bonus: your cat will like it. #catcontent
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This ad about the importance of using the best lightning solutions for your workspace is brought to you from 1530 Wittenberg. The desk user M.L. recommends the illuminating dove to help you stay on task. #skystorians #academicchatter
October 13, 2025 at 6:59 AM
This ad about the importance of using the best lightning solutions for your workspace is brought to you from 1530 Wittenberg. The desk user M.L. recommends the illuminating dove to help you stay on task. #skystorians #academicchatter
Memory on wood: Image of the Virgin with Child donated by Konrad von Strauchwitz Land Commander of the Bailiwick of Austria of the Teutonic Order (1487-1500), Headquarter of the Teutonic Order in Vienna
October 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Memory on wood: Image of the Virgin with Child donated by Konrad von Strauchwitz Land Commander of the Bailiwick of Austria of the Teutonic Order (1487-1500), Headquarter of the Teutonic Order in Vienna
Memory on stone: Tomb of Nicolaus Senftenberg, priest, from 1408 in St Elisabeth Church, Headquarter of the Teutonic Order in Vienna
October 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Memory on stone: Tomb of Nicolaus Senftenberg, priest, from 1408 in St Elisabeth Church, Headquarter of the Teutonic Order in Vienna
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Are any ex libris fans in the blue skies? What is your favourite? #skystorians
October 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Are any ex libris fans in the blue skies? What is your favourite? #skystorians
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Notker the Stammerer: The Monk Who Shaped Charlemagne’s Musical Legacy www.medievalists.net/2025/07/notk... #medievalmusic
Notker the Stammerer: The Monk Who Shaped Charlemagne’s Musical Legacy - Medievalists.net
Discover how Notker the Stammerer, a monk of St. Gall, helped shape Charlemagne’s musical legacy through his writings, chant compositions, and lasting influence on medieval liturgy.
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October 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Notker the Stammerer: The Monk Who Shaped Charlemagne’s Musical Legacy www.medievalists.net/2025/07/notk... #medievalmusic
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In 1996, Brewster Kahle wrote "Preserving the Internet" for Scientific American. Nearly 30 years later, it’s striking how many of his predictions about digital preservation came true—and how many challenges remain.
Let’s compare 1996 vs 2025 🧵
Let’s compare 1996 vs 2025 🧵
October 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
In 1996, Brewster Kahle wrote "Preserving the Internet" for Scientific American. Nearly 30 years later, it’s striking how many of his predictions about digital preservation came true—and how many challenges remain.
Let’s compare 1996 vs 2025 🧵
Let’s compare 1996 vs 2025 🧵
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New Medieval Books: The Birth of the Anglo-Saxons (aka The Mercian Chronicles) www.medievalists.net/2025/10/new-... #books #EnglishHistory #MedievalEngland
New Medieval Books: The Birth of the Anglo-Saxons - Medievalists.net
This book explores the rise of the Kingdom of Mercia, focusing on the reigns of Æthelbald (716–757) and Offa (757–796). It shows how Mercia became a dominant power in early medieval Britain, laying…
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October 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
New Medieval Books: The Birth of the Anglo-Saxons (aka The Mercian Chronicles) www.medievalists.net/2025/10/new-... #books #EnglishHistory #MedievalEngland
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The Leo Baeck Institute London is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to explore intersections between German-Jewish and British history, including the history of the British Empire.
www.lbilondon.ac.uk/vacancies
www.lbilondon.ac.uk/vacancies
October 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The Leo Baeck Institute London is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to explore intersections between German-Jewish and British history, including the history of the British Empire.
www.lbilondon.ac.uk/vacancies
www.lbilondon.ac.uk/vacancies
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This fragment from book 3 of Aristotle's Metaphysica in the Latin translation by Michael Scot is one of the new items in version 6.7 of my Supplementa tertia to Aristoteles Latinus Codices that was released today! (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 1258)
www5.kb.dk/manus/vmanus...
www5.kb.dk/manus/vmanus...
October 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
This fragment from book 3 of Aristotle's Metaphysica in the Latin translation by Michael Scot is one of the new items in version 6.7 of my Supplementa tertia to Aristoteles Latinus Codices that was released today! (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 1258)
www5.kb.dk/manus/vmanus...
www5.kb.dk/manus/vmanus...
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Hi, Yoda says.
October 1, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Hi, Yoda says.
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Time for a snack
BnF MS Latin 14267; Petrus Lombardus , in epistolis s. Pauli ; 12th century; Abbaye de Saint-Victor de Paris; f.6r
@gallicabnf.bsky.social
BnF MS Latin 14267; Petrus Lombardus , in epistolis s. Pauli ; 12th century; Abbaye de Saint-Victor de Paris; f.6r
@gallicabnf.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Time for a snack
BnF MS Latin 14267; Petrus Lombardus , in epistolis s. Pauli ; 12th century; Abbaye de Saint-Victor de Paris; f.6r
@gallicabnf.bsky.social
BnF MS Latin 14267; Petrus Lombardus , in epistolis s. Pauli ; 12th century; Abbaye de Saint-Victor de Paris; f.6r
@gallicabnf.bsky.social
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It's the #AutumnalEquinox today at 18.20 GMT! This 16th-century paper machine, called a volvelle, helps explain how the sun moves through the sky from equinox to solstice throughout the year. Find a full explainer video on our exhibition website: history.rcp.ac.uk/exhibitions/... #BodyofKnowledge
September 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
It's the #AutumnalEquinox today at 18.20 GMT! This 16th-century paper machine, called a volvelle, helps explain how the sun moves through the sky from equinox to solstice throughout the year. Find a full explainer video on our exhibition website: history.rcp.ac.uk/exhibitions/... #BodyofKnowledge
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"Domine exaudi orationem meam
Et clamor meus ad te veniat." Psalm 101
BL Add MS 36929; The 'Psalter of Cormac'; 2nd half of the 12th century; Ireland; f.122r
Et clamor meus ad te veniat." Psalm 101
BL Add MS 36929; The 'Psalter of Cormac'; 2nd half of the 12th century; Ireland; f.122r
September 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
"Domine exaudi orationem meam
Et clamor meus ad te veniat." Psalm 101
BL Add MS 36929; The 'Psalter of Cormac'; 2nd half of the 12th century; Ireland; f.122r
Et clamor meus ad te veniat." Psalm 101
BL Add MS 36929; The 'Psalter of Cormac'; 2nd half of the 12th century; Ireland; f.122r
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When AI people dream of PhD level performances, this is what they have in mind: a heavenly connected, winged writing hand.
![A detail from a Schreibmeister book of c17 Germany. The emblematic print shows a hand with wings and a quill writing a book. In the left of the framing ornament is an ink pot, and on the right is a pounce pot. On the top of the frame is a Chewie like head holding a quill in its teeth. Source: Kunstrichtige Schreibart Allerhand Versalie[n] oder AnfangsBuchstabe[n] Der Teütschen, Lateinischen und Italianischen Schrifften : aus unterschiedlichen Meistern der Edlen Schreibkunst zusammen getragen (1655).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wwym6cglvbd5odxfkykn2uh2/bafkreiakxuahypn25bkhv2zjyl66itjirnhoyqo6qr2rnyeuq3vze376hy@jpeg)
August 8, 2025 at 7:56 AM
When AI people dream of PhD level performances, this is what they have in mind: a heavenly connected, winged writing hand.
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PirnaTV hat dem Sächsischen Klosterbuch, das wir morgen, 19 Uhr, im StadtMuseum Pirna vorstellen werden, einen Beitrag gewidmet, in dem auch die Herausgeber zu Wort kommen:
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Sächsisches Klosterbuch blickt tief in Pirnas Geschichte | PIRNA TV
Pirna TV - Lokalfernsehen in Pirna. Videos aus Politik, Kultur, Sport und Gesellschaft.
www.pirna-tv.de
September 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
PirnaTV hat dem Sächsischen Klosterbuch, das wir morgen, 19 Uhr, im StadtMuseum Pirna vorstellen werden, einen Beitrag gewidmet, in dem auch die Herausgeber zu Wort kommen:
www.pirna-tv.de/2025/09/10/s...
www.pirna-tv.de/2025/09/10/s...
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Earliest extant portrait of an English king: Aethelstan (r. 924–927) with St Cuthbert from the Parker Library copy of Bede's two Lives of St Cuthbert (CCCC MS 183)
Prof David Woodman of @camhistory.bsky.social highlights Aethelstan's impact on England's history
www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/new...
Prof David Woodman of @camhistory.bsky.social highlights Aethelstan's impact on England's history
www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/new...
September 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Earliest extant portrait of an English king: Aethelstan (r. 924–927) with St Cuthbert from the Parker Library copy of Bede's two Lives of St Cuthbert (CCCC MS 183)
Prof David Woodman of @camhistory.bsky.social highlights Aethelstan's impact on England's history
www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/new...
Prof David Woodman of @camhistory.bsky.social highlights Aethelstan's impact on England's history
www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/new...
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Helen's new book, 'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots, 1489-1541', is currently available free to read in full via the CUP website, until 30 September: bit.ly/3JJsCgH.
For more on the Society's Camden Series of primary editions, please see: bit.ly/469UEJw #Skystorians
For more on the Society's Camden Series of primary editions, please see: bit.ly/469UEJw #Skystorians
September 7, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Helen's new book, 'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots, 1489-1541', is currently available free to read in full via the CUP website, until 30 September: bit.ly/3JJsCgH.
For more on the Society's Camden Series of primary editions, please see: bit.ly/469UEJw #Skystorians
For more on the Society's Camden Series of primary editions, please see: bit.ly/469UEJw #Skystorians
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Publication – Robert A.H. Evans, « God and History in the Early Medieval West. The Theology of Carolingian Historians »
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Publication – Robert A.H. Evans, « God and History in the Early Medieval West. The Theology of Carolingian Historians »
While virtually all early medieval historians wrote about God, they did not do so in the same way. Rather than taking their comments about God at face value then, as has been the case in much work …
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September 3, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Publication – Robert A.H. Evans, « God and History in the Early Medieval West. The Theology of Carolingian Historians »
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