Gabriele Passabì
@gabpassabi.bsky.social
Medievalist. Manuscripts enthusiast.
Film addict.
PhD | University of Cambridge
Research fellowships at PIMS (Toronto), SISMEL (Florence), and Trier University (Germany).
Film addict.
PhD | University of Cambridge
Research fellowships at PIMS (Toronto), SISMEL (Florence), and Trier University (Germany).
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Gabriele Passabì
@gabpassabi.bsky.social
· Sep 23
The much-anticipated news is now here. I am very excited to announce that my book, soon out with York Medieval Press, is now available for pre-order! Hats off to @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social and the awesome Mont-Saint-Michel design team for the cover!
boydellandbrewer.com/book/robert-...
boydellandbrewer.com/book/robert-...
So… I just learned that the Vlad III Țepeș, also known to later legend as Dracula, may be buried in Naples, Italy.
1) Is this true or clickbait?
2) Should I be worried for Neapolitans?
A short🧵 between history and fiction.
1) Is this true or clickbait?
2) Should I be worried for Neapolitans?
A short🧵 between history and fiction.
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
So… I just learned that the Vlad III Țepeș, also known to later legend as Dracula, may be buried in Naples, Italy.
1) Is this true or clickbait?
2) Should I be worried for Neapolitans?
A short🧵 between history and fiction.
1) Is this true or clickbait?
2) Should I be worried for Neapolitans?
A short🧵 between history and fiction.
What a piece. One of the best proofs that Cato was right when he said 'Rem tene verba sequentur'.
Also, next time they tell me that AI must be integrated into literally everything, I'll say that this is a "bathetically unscholarly corporate-sponsored piece of risible chaff".
Also, next time they tell me that AI must be integrated into literally everything, I'll say that this is a "bathetically unscholarly corporate-sponsored piece of risible chaff".
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
What a piece. One of the best proofs that Cato was right when he said 'Rem tene verba sequentur'.
Also, next time they tell me that AI must be integrated into literally everything, I'll say that this is a "bathetically unscholarly corporate-sponsored piece of risible chaff".
Also, next time they tell me that AI must be integrated into literally everything, I'll say that this is a "bathetically unscholarly corporate-sponsored piece of risible chaff".
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We're delighted to digitally contribute to @theul.bsky.social Curious Cures project
Curator James Freeman highlights some of way Middle English medical writings have survived to us:
specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=30906
One more month to catch the physcial exhibition, do not miss it!
Curator James Freeman highlights some of way Middle English medical writings have survived to us:
specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=30906
One more month to catch the physcial exhibition, do not miss it!
In their own words: medical writings in Middle English – Cambridge University Library Special Collections
specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
We're delighted to digitally contribute to @theul.bsky.social Curious Cures project
Curator James Freeman highlights some of way Middle English medical writings have survived to us:
specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=30906
One more month to catch the physcial exhibition, do not miss it!
Curator James Freeman highlights some of way Middle English medical writings have survived to us:
specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=30906
One more month to catch the physcial exhibition, do not miss it!
Proofs done. Book imminent. Panic level: yes.
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Proofs done. Book imminent. Panic level: yes.
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Nothing to see here? Well, this is a slow moving 🧵 for #skystorians and others about #eyeglasses of the past, about how to read in the past, where to buy eyeglasses, and how to do with them in general. The hashtag is #HowToDoWithGlassesInThePast
Let's roll.
Let's roll.
October 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Nothing to see here? Well, this is a slow moving 🧵 for #skystorians and others about #eyeglasses of the past, about how to read in the past, where to buy eyeglasses, and how to do with them in general. The hashtag is #HowToDoWithGlassesInThePast
Let's roll.
Let's roll.
Can something be equally exciting and terrifying to watch? Yes.
Here's a video of the Bayeux Tapestry being carefully removed from its case and packed away. I had my heart in my mouth while watching. And yes, I do have nightmares about it crossing the channel! I had my heart in my mouth just watching this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7ys...
Extraction de la TAPISSERIE DE BAYEUX - 18 09 2025
YouTube video by Bayeux Museum
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October 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Can something be equally exciting and terrifying to watch? Yes.
What a way to launch Project DEGE at UBC with a three-day deep dive into the digital edition of the Generale Historia in stunning Granada! Here are a few glimpses from the Gothic cathedral and the UNESCO-listed Albaycín, the maze-like old Arab quarters of Granada.
October 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
What a way to launch Project DEGE at UBC with a three-day deep dive into the digital edition of the Generale Historia in stunning Granada! Here are a few glimpses from the Gothic cathedral and the UNESCO-listed Albaycín, the maze-like old Arab quarters of Granada.
Peter Thiel discusses One Piece and the Antichrist, thereby single-handedly enraging both One Piece and Christian eschatology experts. That's quite impressive.
October 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Peter Thiel discusses One Piece and the Antichrist, thereby single-handedly enraging both One Piece and Christian eschatology experts. That's quite impressive.
László Krasznahorkai wins a long overdue Nobel for Literature. Rosenbaum essay on Sátántangó is a great analysis of how the novel and Bela Tarr's 1994 film test how history, its moral implications, and the exp. of time can be told. Controversial opinion, but difficulty can be its own form of beauty.
Sátántangó (Film and Novel) as Faulknerian Reverie | Jonathan Rosenbaum
jonathanrosenbaum.net
October 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
László Krasznahorkai wins a long overdue Nobel for Literature. Rosenbaum essay on Sátántangó is a great analysis of how the novel and Bela Tarr's 1994 film test how history, its moral implications, and the exp. of time can be told. Controversial opinion, but difficulty can be its own form of beauty.
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MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Today is the feast of St Francis, one of the most celebrated figures of the Christian tradition and a turning point in the medieval West. A radical and poet, a mystic yet deeply engaged with his society, now patron saint of Italy and of ecology. Here’s a look at some of the MSS associated with him.
October 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Today is the feast of St Francis, one of the most celebrated figures of the Christian tradition and a turning point in the medieval West. A radical and poet, a mystic yet deeply engaged with his society, now patron saint of Italy and of ecology. Here’s a look at some of the MSS associated with him.
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We've updated our three BlueSky starter packs for historians.
Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd
Please let us know if there are gaps.
#Skystorians 1/2
Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd
Please let us know if there are gaps.
#Skystorians 1/2
October 3, 2025 at 8:37 AM
We've updated our three BlueSky starter packs for historians.
Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd
Please let us know if there are gaps.
#Skystorians 1/2
Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd
Please let us know if there are gaps.
#Skystorians 1/2
"If anything made her a little intimidating in later life, it was her absolute, uncompromising refusal to pretend to be anything she was not, or to like anything that she did not, for the sake of pleasing others. She was entirely unapologetic about being herself and about what mattered to her".
Dame Janet L. Nelson (28 March 1942 – 14 October 2024)
by Alice Rio (All Souls College, University of Oxford)
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by Alice Rio (All Souls College, University of Oxford)
doi.org/10.1093/past...
Dame Janet L. Nelson (28 March 1942 – 14 October 2024)*
Jinty Nelson left a strong mark of her presence in every institution that she was ever a part of, and there is none which does not regard its association w
doi.org
October 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
"If anything made her a little intimidating in later life, it was her absolute, uncompromising refusal to pretend to be anything she was not, or to like anything that she did not, for the sake of pleasing others. She was entirely unapologetic about being herself and about what mattered to her".
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Hwæt! 🐉
Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English?
#NationalPoetryDay
Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English?
#NationalPoetryDay
October 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Hwæt! 🐉
Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English?
#NationalPoetryDay
Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English?
#NationalPoetryDay
This year marks 1000 years since the foundation of the Abbey of Cava dei Tirreni (1025)! Holy Trinity at Cava was one of southern Italy’s most important Benedictine abbeys in the 11th–12th centuries and home of one of the largest libraries in the region. A millennium history deserves some 🎉
October 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
This year marks 1000 years since the foundation of the Abbey of Cava dei Tirreni (1025)! Holy Trinity at Cava was one of southern Italy’s most important Benedictine abbeys in the 11th–12th centuries and home of one of the largest libraries in the region. A millennium history deserves some 🎉
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My book is now £14.99 with this discount! Cheaper than a cheeky Nandos!
A ground-breaking interdisciplinary approach to the medieval manor pre- and post-Conquest. Save 40% on the paperback of Authority, Gender and Space in the Anglo-Norman World, 900-1200 with code PB40! Ends 29 Sept 2025.
Buy the book > buff.ly/TEwPJ6m @kateweikert.bsky.social #medievalsky
Buy the book > buff.ly/TEwPJ6m @kateweikert.bsky.social #medievalsky
September 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
My book is now £14.99 with this discount! Cheaper than a cheeky Nandos!
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Here we Goooo! I haven’t been able to post about this until we went live, so today I’m posting highlights from the Les Enluminures Text Manuscripts Fall Update! This is our annual Big September Issue.
September 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Here we Goooo! I haven’t been able to post about this until we went live, so today I’m posting highlights from the Les Enluminures Text Manuscripts Fall Update! This is our annual Big September Issue.
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Now in #paperback, The Emperor and the Elephant by @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social is a new history of Christian-Muslim relations in the #Carolingian period that provides a fresh account of events by drawing on Arabic as well as western sources.
Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
September 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Now in #paperback, The Emperor and the Elephant by @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social is a new history of Christian-Muslim relations in the #Carolingian period that provides a fresh account of events by drawing on Arabic as well as western sources.
Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Marc Bloch will be admitted to the Pantheon in Paris! The date for the "Panthéonisation" is set for 16 June 2026. Meanwhile, @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social has launched a website to keep track of the many conferences to celebrate the event. Some of them start this month.
marcbloch.pantheonsorbonne.fr
marcbloch.pantheonsorbonne.fr
Marc Bloch | Marc Bloch
marcbloch.pantheonsorbonne.fr
September 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Marc Bloch will be admitted to the Pantheon in Paris! The date for the "Panthéonisation" is set for 16 June 2026. Meanwhile, @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social has launched a website to keep track of the many conferences to celebrate the event. Some of them start this month.
marcbloch.pantheonsorbonne.fr
marcbloch.pantheonsorbonne.fr
The much-anticipated news is now here. I am very excited to announce that my book, soon out with York Medieval Press, is now available for pre-order! Hats off to @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social and the awesome Mont-Saint-Michel design team for the cover!
boydellandbrewer.com/book/robert-...
boydellandbrewer.com/book/robert-...
September 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The much-anticipated news is now here. I am very excited to announce that my book, soon out with York Medieval Press, is now available for pre-order! Hats off to @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social and the awesome Mont-Saint-Michel design team for the cover!
boydellandbrewer.com/book/robert-...
boydellandbrewer.com/book/robert-...
Why am I not surprised that a medievalist managed to write the most ambitious megadungeon in D&D history? It's a over 1,100 pages long adventure set in Byzantium (where else?)
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...
The Halls of Arden Vul Complete - Expeditious Retreat Press | Old-School Gaming | DriveThruRPG
Prepare to Beard the Halls of Arden Vul!
Arden Vul is the most ambitious megadungeon ever created, with over 1,100 Pages of Incredible Adventure. This First Edition compatible fully-bookmarked PDF pro...
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September 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Why am I not surprised that a medievalist managed to write the most ambitious megadungeon in D&D history? It's a over 1,100 pages long adventure set in Byzantium (where else?)
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...
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More manuscripts are coming to the British Library's online site www.bl.uk/collection/d...
And, erm, how can I say this nicely? If you have a cheeky script that downloads images from the site, please build in some delays so that you don't kill the servers. Play nice, innit!
And, erm, how can I say this nicely? If you have a cheeky script that downloads images from the site, please build in some delays so that you don't kill the servers. Play nice, innit!
Digitised manuscripts and archives - British Library
View more than 2,000 of our digitised manuscripts and archival documents, including the Sherborne Missal and Octateuch, Four Gospels and Synodicon.
www.bl.uk
September 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
More manuscripts are coming to the British Library's online site www.bl.uk/collection/d...
And, erm, how can I say this nicely? If you have a cheeky script that downloads images from the site, please build in some delays so that you don't kill the servers. Play nice, innit!
And, erm, how can I say this nicely? If you have a cheeky script that downloads images from the site, please build in some delays so that you don't kill the servers. Play nice, innit!
To all academics, please read the licence terms of the platforms and online services you use most.
I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
September 18, 2025 at 8:15 AM
To all academics, please read the licence terms of the platforms and online services you use most.
After eons of silence, I’ve finally escaped the X swamp which had become inhospitable to the point I stopped interacting. Anyways, I'm here, I'm back (which may be read with Schwarzenegger's voice in Terminator), and I bring news. More to follow soon.
September 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
After eons of silence, I’ve finally escaped the X swamp which had become inhospitable to the point I stopped interacting. Anyways, I'm here, I'm back (which may be read with Schwarzenegger's voice in Terminator), and I bring news. More to follow soon.