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
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
Memory in stone: Tomb monument of Isabelle de Bourbon (+ 1465), second wife of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, today in Our Lady's Church in Antwerp, originally in St Michael's Abbey. The monument from marble was commissioned by her daughter Mary of Burgundy in 1475.
August 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Memory in stone: Tomb monument of Isabelle de Bourbon (+ 1465), second wife of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, today in Our Lady's Church in Antwerp, originally in St Michael's Abbey. The monument from marble was commissioned by her daughter Mary of Burgundy in 1475.
Memory on stone: Dated decoration at the ceiling of the aisle of Our Lady's Church at Antwerp, dated 1475, during the construction of the nave.
August 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Memory on stone: Dated decoration at the ceiling of the aisle of Our Lady's Church at Antwerp, dated 1475, during the construction of the nave.
Memory on wood: the earliest surviving image of a group of 17 guardsmen (including the painter on the upper right) of a militia from Amsterdam from 1529 by Dirck Jacobsz (c. 1497-1567). Oil on panel, Amsterdam Rijksmuseum.
August 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Memory on wood: the earliest surviving image of a group of 17 guardsmen (including the painter on the upper right) of a militia from Amsterdam from 1529 by Dirck Jacobsz (c. 1497-1567). Oil on panel, Amsterdam Rijksmuseum.
Memory on wood: the Lords of Montfoort, collective memory for four members of the De Rover Family of Montfoort, with their coats of arms and their patron saint of St. George, the first of the three died 1345 in the battle of Warns. Oil on panel c. 1400, Amsterdam Rijksmuseum
August 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Memory on wood: the Lords of Montfoort, collective memory for four members of the De Rover Family of Montfoort, with their coats of arms and their patron saint of St. George, the first of the three died 1345 in the battle of Warns. Oil on panel c. 1400, Amsterdam Rijksmuseum
Forthcoming conference in Würzburg: Sources and editions for the history of the military orders, 17-18th September 2025.
August 8, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Forthcoming conference in Würzburg: Sources and editions for the history of the military orders, 17-18th September 2025.
Memory on brass: tomb of Hildebrand Ferber (1457-1532) brother to Bishop Mauritius Ferber of Warmia, in the parish church of the episcopal seat, Heilsberg (Lidzbark Warminski, Poland)
August 3, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Memory on brass: tomb of Hildebrand Ferber (1457-1532) brother to Bishop Mauritius Ferber of Warmia, in the parish church of the episcopal seat, Heilsberg (Lidzbark Warminski, Poland)
Memory on stone, though fading: image of a ship (perhaps about 1380), below a younger crucifix. Church of the Assumption of Our Lady, Torun, Poland
August 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Memory on stone, though fading: image of a ship (perhaps about 1380), below a younger crucifix. Church of the Assumption of Our Lady, Torun, Poland