New perspectives on James VI & I: coming up tomorrow, Tuesday 4 March, 5:30 with @nicolemaceira.bsky.social, Steven Reid, Clare Jackson and @kuroshmeshkat.bsky.social

Online booking below! #earlymodern

@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Marsh 196 is an #Ottoman genealogical #manuscript in the form of a 40+ ft scroll, probably from the early half of the 1500s. It's unique in its inclusion not only of the Old Testament prophets, but also the Old Persian kings and -- as seen here -- the Chinggisids.

A heavenly letter, in German: "Himmels-Brief".

This is a broadside print of eighteenth-century Germany, including a handcolored woodcut, offering protection to the bearer. Pass it on for protection, #earlymodern #bookhistory

Arnaldus Alexander Durand Baro de Mazabrat, Design for an underwater suit, 1720. Ink on paper; 41.5 × 28.2 cm, Archivo General de Indias, Seville

Alright *cracks knuckles* let's do this!

Today I'm inaugurating an episodic Monday series titled History of Islamic Art in 100 Objects. But we have to ask the most important question first:

What is Islamic art? Also, why is this even a question? 🧵 #IslamicArt100Objects

Today I’m teaching storytelling in the medieval Islamic world (or more specifically, one of its most consequential urban epicenters from the 13th-16th centuries, Mamluk Cairo). Here’s the problem with how most medievalists teach it…

Hey,

I am Nora, a sinologist interested in Digital Humanities and Digital history.

I curate the Modern China Biographical Database, which covers over 170,000 individuals who lived in the Late Qing and the Republican era. You can check out the link if you want to.

#digitalhumanities

My book is about Spanish Hispaniola and the importance of smuggling in the colony in the long 17th century, how they did business, and how these smugglers managed to co-opt the power of local and imperial institutions to enrich themselves and their networks. www.amazon.com/Islanders-Em...

In 1402, King David II of Solomonic Ethiopia sent an ambassadorial gift of 4 live leopards from the Horn of Africa to the Republic of Venice.

The Venetians were pleased, but also slightly panicked, when confronted with the reality of transporting the animals around in Italy.

Nov. 21, 1665: Armenian bishop Uscanus Theodorus and his brother Avedick Theodorus make up their will in Amsterdam. Joseph Antonio - “Grieck of nation and speaking the Tukish and Dutch languages” - is present as interpreter. #OTD #Amsterdam #migrantcity #portcity #Armeniandiaspora

After 40 years trying to get unruly words on the page, I offer writing tips. Tip #1: as I write a book, I bury myself in a brilliant work of fiction about the same time period, to fill my mind with its literary power. As I wrote *The Fearless Benjamin Lay* I read Barry Unsworth's *Sacred Hunger.*

Very excited to announce the publication of my book in Italian, "L'Invenzione della storia dei papi" (The Invention of Papal History), which was published in Florence yesterday. www.nerbini.it/prodotto/lin...