Francisco Cintrón Mattei
@franciscocintron.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Medieval Studies at Notre Dame. Historian of Al-Andalus and the Mediterranean. Writing on laws in translation and societies in transition | 🇵🇷
With an exciting contribution on the Arabic Orosius (Kitāb Hurūshiyūsh) from Al-Andalus and its broad reach in the Islamic historical tradition 📚
Read the latest issue of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies on Orosius Through The Ages academic.oup.com/bics/issue/6...
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
With an exciting contribution on the Arabic Orosius (Kitāb Hurūshiyūsh) from Al-Andalus and its broad reach in the Islamic historical tradition 📚
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Explore the clash of faiths and rising kingdoms in medieval Spain—sign up today! medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/beco... #MedievalSpain
Becoming Spain: an Introduction to the Spanish Middle Ages
An introduction to medieval Spain and what shaped this country, up to becoming a powerful empire. We learn about the religious and cultural tensions, never-ending battles, crusading, and slow…
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November 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Explore the clash of faiths and rising kingdoms in medieval Spain—sign up today! medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/beco... #MedievalSpain
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AotW: Daniel G. König, 785–791: Pope Hadrian I Criticises a Decline in Christian Dogma and Practice in Muslim al-Andalus, in: TMH 3.2 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
*We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !*
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November 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
AotW: Daniel G. König, 785–791: Pope Hadrian I Criticises a Decline in Christian Dogma and Practice in Muslim al-Andalus, in: TMH 3.2 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
*We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !*
#medievalists #medievalsky
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#medievalists #medievalsky
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A much more exciting week brought 76 #Manuscripts online at the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes a glossed Priscian, a bunch of 17th C Barberini stuff, a pile more Ge'ez, many Cicero, Iñigo de Mendoça's Spanish _Vita Christiana_, and MORE
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Includes a glossed Priscian, a bunch of 17th C Barberini stuff, a pile more Ge'ez, many Cicero, Iñigo de Mendoça's Spanish _Vita Christiana_, and MORE
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 45 of 2025
A total of seventy-six manuscripts were digitized this past week. Barb.lat, with twenty-nine, and Ott.lat with twenty-eight, contributed the majority of the volumes, following recent patterns. A full ...
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November 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
A much more exciting week brought 76 #Manuscripts online at the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes a glossed Priscian, a bunch of 17th C Barberini stuff, a pile more Ge'ez, many Cicero, Iñigo de Mendoça's Spanish _Vita Christiana_, and MORE
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Includes a glossed Priscian, a bunch of 17th C Barberini stuff, a pile more Ge'ez, many Cicero, Iñigo de Mendoça's Spanish _Vita Christiana_, and MORE
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
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Yay! I just noticed that my book is available for preorder. Use the code PUP30 for 30% off. Share with your librarian! Will ship on Jan 20, 2026 just in time for uhhhhh someone's birthday? Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt | Princeton University Press press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt
A new global history of the slave trade, the lives of enslaved people, and the role of slavery in the formation of Jewish and Arab-Islamic culture in the medieval Middle East
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November 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Yay! I just noticed that my book is available for preorder. Use the code PUP30 for 30% off. Share with your librarian! Will ship on Jan 20, 2026 just in time for uhhhhh someone's birthday? Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt | Princeton University Press press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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📬 In our November blog post, Jamie Wood, former BCDSS Guest Researcher and Prof. of History and Education at Lincoln University (UK), shares insights into the research he conducted during his stay in Bonn: buff.ly/XBlQiLo
#Intermediaries #Christianity #Visigoths
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#Intermediaries #Christianity #Visigoths
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November 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM
📬 In our November blog post, Jamie Wood, former BCDSS Guest Researcher and Prof. of History and Education at Lincoln University (UK), shares insights into the research he conducted during his stay in Bonn: buff.ly/XBlQiLo
#Intermediaries #Christianity #Visigoths
@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de
#Intermediaries #Christianity #Visigoths
@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de
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Happy to report that our book 'Local Priests in the Latin West, 900-1050' has been published! It is Open Access, so you can read (or download) it here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Happy to report that our book 'Local Priests in the Latin West, 900-1050' has been published! It is Open Access, so you can read (or download) it here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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Behold! A new prize of £500 for early career scholars of medieval church history (incl Crusades)
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October 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Behold! A new prize of £500 for early career scholars of medieval church history (incl Crusades)
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Just published in open access: Early Modern Narratives of Islam across Europe: A Connected Memory: brill.com/display/titl...
October 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Just published in open access: Early Modern Narratives of Islam across Europe: A Connected Memory: brill.com/display/titl...
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AotW: Luke Yarbrough, 1014–1043: Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr on Christian Love for ʿAlī, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
*We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !*
#medievalists #medievalsky
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#medievalists #medievalsky
October 20, 2025 at 7:38 AM
AotW: Luke Yarbrough, 1014–1043: Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr on Christian Love for ʿAlī, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
*We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !*
#medievalists #medievalsky
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#medievalists #medievalsky
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Mind-numbing how many layers of history there can be to a single manuscript page: Syriac upper text (10th c.), Armenian undertext (pre-10th c.), Arabic material used for binding (11-12th c.?), Coptic foliation in the margin (date?), modern foliation at the bottom. Image: Leiden UL Or. 14236, link ⬇️
October 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Mind-numbing how many layers of history there can be to a single manuscript page: Syriac upper text (10th c.), Armenian undertext (pre-10th c.), Arabic material used for binding (11-12th c.?), Coptic foliation in the margin (date?), modern foliation at the bottom. Image: Leiden UL Or. 14236, link ⬇️
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Colleagues @lmumuenchen.bsky.social are hosting a workshop about medieval Arabic documents this November. Our advisory board member Prof Geoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge) will be teaching - it promises to be a fascinating time!
bit.ly/ArabicDocumentsWorkshop
#Arabic #documents #medievalsky
bit.ly/ArabicDocumentsWorkshop
#Arabic #documents #medievalsky
October 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Colleagues @lmumuenchen.bsky.social are hosting a workshop about medieval Arabic documents this November. Our advisory board member Prof Geoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge) will be teaching - it promises to be a fascinating time!
bit.ly/ArabicDocumentsWorkshop
#Arabic #documents #medievalsky
bit.ly/ArabicDocumentsWorkshop
#Arabic #documents #medievalsky
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AotW: Sebastiano Arona, 971: The 'Decretum Venetorum de abrogando Saracenorum commercie' Prohibits Venetians from Trading with Muslims, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
*We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !*
#medievalists #medievalsky
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#medievalists #medievalsky
October 13, 2025 at 6:41 AM
AotW: Sebastiano Arona, 971: The 'Decretum Venetorum de abrogando Saracenorum commercie' Prohibits Venetians from Trading with Muslims, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
*We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !*
#medievalists #medievalsky
*We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !*
#medievalists #medievalsky
Two exciting new publications on Jewish theology in medieval Castile by Notre Dame’s own Jeremy Brown: ‘A World of Piety: The Aims of Castilian Kabbalah’ and ‘Light is Sown: The Cultivation of Kabbalah in Medieval Castile’ (with Avishai Bar-Asher). Can’t wait to read!
October 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Two exciting new publications on Jewish theology in medieval Castile by Notre Dame’s own Jeremy Brown: ‘A World of Piety: The Aims of Castilian Kabbalah’ and ‘Light is Sown: The Cultivation of Kabbalah in Medieval Castile’ (with Avishai Bar-Asher). Can’t wait to read!
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The Princeton Companion to Jewish Studies is an authoritative guide to Jewish studies, reflecting the latest research in a diverse and flourishing field.
Available Oct 14 (9 Dec UK pub). Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#JewishStudies
Available Oct 14 (9 Dec UK pub). Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#JewishStudies
October 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The Princeton Companion to Jewish Studies is an authoritative guide to Jewish studies, reflecting the latest research in a diverse and flourishing field.
Available Oct 14 (9 Dec UK pub). Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#JewishStudies
Available Oct 14 (9 Dec UK pub). Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#JewishStudies
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#MosaicMonday
The Madaba Map is part of a floor mosaic in the early #Byzantine church of Saint George in Madaba, #Jordan.
The Madaba #Map is of the Middle East, and it contains the oldest surviving original cartographic depiction of the Holy Land.
#Archaeology #History #art
The Madaba Map is part of a floor mosaic in the early #Byzantine church of Saint George in Madaba, #Jordan.
The Madaba #Map is of the Middle East, and it contains the oldest surviving original cartographic depiction of the Holy Land.
#Archaeology #History #art
September 15, 2025 at 6:31 AM
#MosaicMonday
The Madaba Map is part of a floor mosaic in the early #Byzantine church of Saint George in Madaba, #Jordan.
The Madaba #Map is of the Middle East, and it contains the oldest surviving original cartographic depiction of the Holy Land.
#Archaeology #History #art
The Madaba Map is part of a floor mosaic in the early #Byzantine church of Saint George in Madaba, #Jordan.
The Madaba #Map is of the Middle East, and it contains the oldest surviving original cartographic depiction of the Holy Land.
#Archaeology #History #art
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📢New release!
📜 John Healey presents a re-edition and translation of 3rd-century #Syriac legal parchments from Upper Mesopotamia, with extensive commentary. These documents constitute our earliest significant evidence of the Syriac language and script.
🔗 brill.com/display/titl...
#acrel #Aramaic
📜 John Healey presents a re-edition and translation of 3rd-century #Syriac legal parchments from Upper Mesopotamia, with extensive commentary. These documents constitute our earliest significant evidence of the Syriac language and script.
🔗 brill.com/display/titl...
#acrel #Aramaic
September 1, 2025 at 8:48 AM
📢New release!
📜 John Healey presents a re-edition and translation of 3rd-century #Syriac legal parchments from Upper Mesopotamia, with extensive commentary. These documents constitute our earliest significant evidence of the Syriac language and script.
🔗 brill.com/display/titl...
#acrel #Aramaic
📜 John Healey presents a re-edition and translation of 3rd-century #Syriac legal parchments from Upper Mesopotamia, with extensive commentary. These documents constitute our earliest significant evidence of the Syriac language and script.
🔗 brill.com/display/titl...
#acrel #Aramaic
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Our number one in-house medievalist! New necromancer's journal content coming soon, stay tuned.
Sneak peak at exciting upcoming @bodleian.ox.ac.uk content, I always have a blast with our magic social media team! 📜🪄
August 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Our number one in-house medievalist! New necromancer's journal content coming soon, stay tuned.
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I have yet to see the book myself, but the
@cua-press.bsky.social website assures me that my edition of the Collectio CCCC capitulorum is now out! This early medieval collection of canon law has been with me for a very long and I am happy to see it published www.cuapress.org/978081323847... 1/2
@cua-press.bsky.social website assures me that my edition of the Collectio CCCC capitulorum is now out! This early medieval collection of canon law has been with me for a very long and I am happy to see it published www.cuapress.org/978081323847... 1/2
Collectio CCCC capitulorum, The Collection in 400 Chapters - CUAPress
Surviving in three ninth-century manuscripts, the collection of canon law known as the Collectio 400 capitulorum is a remarkable and understudied witness to...
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August 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I have yet to see the book myself, but the
@cua-press.bsky.social website assures me that my edition of the Collectio CCCC capitulorum is now out! This early medieval collection of canon law has been with me for a very long and I am happy to see it published www.cuapress.org/978081323847... 1/2
@cua-press.bsky.social website assures me that my edition of the Collectio CCCC capitulorum is now out! This early medieval collection of canon law has been with me for a very long and I am happy to see it published www.cuapress.org/978081323847... 1/2
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Digitization & cataloging is complete for a subset of manuscripts, mostly in Arabic-script, at the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina in #Sarajevo. Further cataloging, generally of manuscripts in Cyrillic and Roman scripts, is ongoing.
Learn more: hmml.org/collections/...
Learn more: hmml.org/collections/...
August 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Digitization & cataloging is complete for a subset of manuscripts, mostly in Arabic-script, at the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina in #Sarajevo. Further cataloging, generally of manuscripts in Cyrillic and Roman scripts, is ongoing.
Learn more: hmml.org/collections/...
Learn more: hmml.org/collections/...
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What's wrong with 'legal pluralism'? Danica Summerlin and @ajt55.bsky.social explain: doi.org/10.1080/0144...
Law Beyond the Legal Renaissance: Rethinking Jurisdiction in the European central Middle Ages
The introduction to this special issue lays out its approach to the phenomenon of jurisdiction during the European central Middle Ages. Rethinking jurisdiction, we argue, is key to understanding th...
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August 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
What's wrong with 'legal pluralism'? Danica Summerlin and @ajt55.bsky.social explain: doi.org/10.1080/0144...
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New issue of Studies in Late Antiquity Vol. 9, No. 3 (2025) online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/9/3 @drewjakeprof.bsky.social @simchagross.bsky.social @annetteyreed.bsky.social @akjp89.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social The Ways that Never Parted: A Roundtable & more
Volume 9 Issue 3 | Studies in Late Antiquity | University of California Press
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August 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
New issue of Studies in Late Antiquity Vol. 9, No. 3 (2025) online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/9/3 @drewjakeprof.bsky.social @simchagross.bsky.social @annetteyreed.bsky.social @akjp89.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social The Ways that Never Parted: A Roundtable & more
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🧵(1) A full-page depiction of a date palm in a copy of al-Jazūlī’s "Dalāʼil al-khayrāt," containing Sīrah literature and prayers for the Prophet Muhammad, in the collection of Aboubacar Ben Said Library, Timbuktu, Mali. (SAV ABS 06752: www.vhmml.org/readingRoom/...)
July 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
🧵(1) A full-page depiction of a date palm in a copy of al-Jazūlī’s "Dalāʼil al-khayrāt," containing Sīrah literature and prayers for the Prophet Muhammad, in the collection of Aboubacar Ben Said Library, Timbuktu, Mali. (SAV ABS 06752: www.vhmml.org/readingRoom/...)
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Also in the exhibition, a talismanic shirt with the complete Quran, 16th-century.
July 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Also in the exhibition, a talismanic shirt with the complete Quran, 16th-century.
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Scribes, Not Just Authors: New Study Uncovers Editorial Brilliance in Medieval Syriac Manuscripts www.medievalists.net/2025/04/scri... #medieval
Scribes, Not Just Authors: New Study Uncovers Editorial Brilliance in Medieval Syriac Manuscripts - Medievalists.net
A new study analyzes nearly 1,000 Syriac manuscripts using digital tools to reveal how scribes shaped literary culture through excerpting—introducing a new metric, Excerpts Per Manuscript (EPM), to…
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July 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Scribes, Not Just Authors: New Study Uncovers Editorial Brilliance in Medieval Syriac Manuscripts www.medievalists.net/2025/04/scri... #medieval