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This sounds like useful academic-related AI: JSTOR doing automated transcripts of handwritten archival material as part of their digital stewardship services: about.jstor.org/news/jstor-s...
JSTOR Seeklight adds transcript generation for text-based materials - News - About JSTOR
JSTOR Seeklight now generates transcripts, boosting discoverability, accessibility, and research impact for digital collections.
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October 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This sounds like useful academic-related AI: JSTOR doing automated transcripts of handwritten archival material as part of their digital stewardship services: about.jstor.org/news/jstor-s...
Of interest to anyone in UK thinking about jobs in historic libraries/archives: Lambeth Palace Library Careers Open Day 30th October: www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/careers-open...
Careers Open Day – Lambeth Palace Library
www.lambethpalacelibrary.info
October 9, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Of interest to anyone in UK thinking about jobs in historic libraries/archives: Lambeth Palace Library Careers Open Day 30th October: www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/careers-open...
Interesting comparative paper for those working on medieval queenship: Paula Sabloff: "The Political Agency of Royal Women: A Comparative Analysis of Eight Premodern States According to Societal Rules and Roles"
link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Suggests a lot of structural similarities.
link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Suggests a lot of structural similarities.
The Political Agency of Royal Women: A Comparative Analysis of Eight Premodern States According to Societal Rules and Roles - Journal of Archaeological Research
Comparative analysis of women rulers and main wives of kings in eight premodern states around the globe reveals similar patterns of political agency, or the opportunity and ability to take political action. Queen rulers, regents, and main wives substituting for their husbands in their absence made policy, but they had somewhat less political agency than male rulers. Main wives’ political agency took the forms of influencing policy and people’s behavior (sometimes through their role as patron to others), interceding between their kin and their husbands, advocating for one party or the other, spying, and conspiring. Therefore, women’s political agency ought to be part of any political study. This study builds on the anthropological/archaeological study of agency by drawing attention to royal women’s political agency and showing how the analysis of structural rules and the roles of kings, queen rulers, and main wives illuminates the societal structure in which agency is embedded. By analyzing premodern societies this way, we learn that there is remarkable similarity of agency behaviors among royal women in the eight sample societies, even though the societies emerged independently of one another.
link.springer.com
October 6, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Interesting comparative paper for those working on medieval queenship: Paula Sabloff: "The Political Agency of Royal Women: A Comparative Analysis of Eight Premodern States According to Societal Rules and Roles"
link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Suggests a lot of structural similarities.
link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Suggests a lot of structural similarities.
Today's @imc-leeds.bsky.social catch-up: paper 142a from @taylorcowdery.bsky.social on dodgy sexual goings-on by London embroiderers (who sound rather like Terry Pratchett's Seamstresses' Guild)
September 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Today's @imc-leeds.bsky.social catch-up: paper 142a from @taylorcowdery.bsky.social on dodgy sexual goings-on by London embroiderers (who sound rather like Terry Pratchett's Seamstresses' Guild)
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If you have a VERY large room, Lambeth Palace Library is selling off its old bookshelves.
www.lassco.co.uk/product/the-...
www.lassco.co.uk/product/the-...
The vast Lambeth Palace Library Bookcase - LASSCO - England's prime resource for Architectural Antiques, Salvage Curiosities
The vast Lambeth Palace Library Bookcase originally by Edward Blore c.1830, later reformatted c.1945
www.lassco.co.uk
September 12, 2025 at 10:14 AM
If you have a VERY large room, Lambeth Palace Library is selling off its old bookshelves.
www.lassco.co.uk/product/the-...
www.lassco.co.uk/product/the-...
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You know him for
/Against the Christians/,
/Homeric Questions/,
/On the Cave of the Nymphs/,
the /Isagoge/,
and /On Not Eating Animals/.
More from Porphyry coming soon! Like the Pearlsong, this volume will be available as an open-access PDF and a beautiful hard copy.
/Against the Christians/,
/Homeric Questions/,
/On the Cave of the Nymphs/,
the /Isagoge/,
and /On Not Eating Animals/.
More from Porphyry coming soon! Like the Pearlsong, this volume will be available as an open-access PDF and a beautiful hard copy.
This week I finished typesetting the next 4T book, Fabien Muller on Porphyry's Letter to Anebo & Philosophy from Oracles: Greek & Latin fragments, Eng. translations, glossaries, and short commentary.
Stay tuned if you're interested in gods and daemons, theurgy, and oracles in dactylic hexameter!
Stay tuned if you're interested in gods and daemons, theurgy, and oracles in dactylic hexameter!
September 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
You know him for
/Against the Christians/,
/Homeric Questions/,
/On the Cave of the Nymphs/,
the /Isagoge/,
and /On Not Eating Animals/.
More from Porphyry coming soon! Like the Pearlsong, this volume will be available as an open-access PDF and a beautiful hard copy.
/Against the Christians/,
/Homeric Questions/,
/On the Cave of the Nymphs/,
the /Isagoge/,
and /On Not Eating Animals/.
More from Porphyry coming soon! Like the Pearlsong, this volume will be available as an open-access PDF and a beautiful hard copy.
Hadn't realised that the Connecting People book is OA as a pdf - have grabbed it from trivent-publishing.eu/home/197-369....
September 4, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Hadn't realised that the Connecting People book is OA as a pdf - have grabbed it from trivent-publishing.eu/home/197-369....
TIL that someone wrote a children's novel about Charles the Bald's daughter, Judith of Flanders: archive.org/details/judi...
Judith of France : Leighton, Margaret, 1922-1976 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
281 pages : 22 cm
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September 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
TIL that someone wrote a children's novel about Charles the Bald's daughter, Judith of Flanders: archive.org/details/judi...
Today's @imc-leeds.bsky.social catch-up, where in #s511 Daniela Rywiková has a rather more assertive Czech Death than I remember from Terry Pratchett...
August 29, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Today's @imc-leeds.bsky.social catch-up, where in #s511 Daniela Rywiková has a rather more assertive Czech Death than I remember from Terry Pratchett...
Any UK-based PhDs working on medieval women interested in giving a lighting talk to this seminar? It'd be good to get some premodern representation.
@ihr.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Any UK-based PhDs working on medieval women interested in giving a lighting talk to this seminar? It'd be good to get some premodern representation.
Having just seen @rorynaismith.bsky.social on #IMC2025 catchup, I now want the Libellus Æthelwoldi Tales, in which the scheming abbot and bishop try and do down poor Aelfwold of Mardleybury and his family among others. Lots of scheming in beautiful rural locations.
Still sad that Nicaea: the movie never came into fruition.
What super bureaucratic episodes in history would you like to see dramatised?
I want a six part epic on Domesday survey.
What super bureaucratic episodes in history would you like to see dramatised?
I want a six part epic on Domesday survey.
August 25, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Having just seen @rorynaismith.bsky.social on #IMC2025 catchup, I now want the Libellus Æthelwoldi Tales, in which the scheming abbot and bishop try and do down poor Aelfwold of Mardleybury and his family among others. Lots of scheming in beautiful rural locations.
Today's gem from 2025 catch-up sessions from @imc-leeds.bsky.social. A vernacular charm against worms from C15 Italian witch trials from Paolo Nanni in #s721. There are early medieval Latin anti-worm charms as well: maybe we need a long-duree study?
August 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Today's gem from 2025 catch-up sessions from @imc-leeds.bsky.social. A vernacular charm against worms from C15 Italian witch trials from Paolo Nanni in #s721. There are early medieval Latin anti-worm charms as well: maybe we need a long-duree study?
More @imc-leeds.bsky.social catch-up today, including another unfortunate medieval name (from paper by Adrian Jobson #s1107). When many of the charter witnesses are called John and you're the one no-one likes...
August 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
More @imc-leeds.bsky.social catch-up today, including another unfortunate medieval name (from paper by Adrian Jobson #s1107). When many of the charter witnesses are called John and you're the one no-one likes...
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This is obviously serious, and solidarity to my fellow Unison members here, but they will need to take precautions that management doesn’t just list the strike action as a historic re-enactment attraction.
August 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This is obviously serious, and solidarity to my fellow Unison members here, but they will need to take precautions that management doesn’t just list the strike action as a historic re-enactment attraction.
@imc-leeds.bsky.social paper inspired blog post on how notorious sinners destroyed the moral authority of Carolingian assemblies: magistraetmater.wordpress.com/2025/07/31/i...
IMC 2025: Carolingian moral authority and notorious sinners
Generic picture of speaker at IMC I had to cancel going to the International Medieval Congress 2025 in person at the last minute because of health problems, but I did at least get to attend virtual…
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August 7, 2025 at 6:30 AM
@imc-leeds.bsky.social paper inspired blog post on how notorious sinners destroyed the moral authority of Carolingian assemblies: magistraetmater.wordpress.com/2025/07/31/i...
When your medieval parents name you after a Merovingian saint, but the scribe's rubbish at spelling (from nppm.ub.uni-tuebingen.de/gast/einzelb...)
August 4, 2025 at 10:36 AM
When your medieval parents name you after a Merovingian saint, but the scribe's rubbish at spelling (from nppm.ub.uni-tuebingen.de/gast/einzelb...)
Recently published: OA translation by @shahansean.bsky.social and Stephen Shoemaker of Strategius of Mar Saba, "The Capture of Jerusalem by the Persians in 614 CE" (isac.uchicago.edu/research/pub...) #MedievalSky
LAMINE 5. The Capture of Jerusalem by the Persians in 614 CE by Strategius of Mar Saba | Institute for the Study of Ancient CulturesLAMINE 5. The Capture of Jerusalem by the Persians in 614 CE by Stra...
Sean W. Anthony and Stephen J. Shoemaker Series Editors: Antoine Borrut and Fred M. Donner
isac.uchicago.edu
July 29, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Recently published: OA translation by @shahansean.bsky.social and Stephen Shoemaker of Strategius of Mar Saba, "The Capture of Jerusalem by the Persians in 614 CE" (isac.uchicago.edu/research/pub...) #MedievalSky
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Michelle C. Wang and Ryan R. Overbey (ed.s). Beyond the Silk and Book Roads. Rethinking Networks of Exchange and Material Culture. @degruyterbrill.bsky.social #AAS2025 #chinesestudies #history #silkroad #books
July 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Michelle C. Wang and Ryan R. Overbey (ed.s). Beyond the Silk and Book Roads. Rethinking Networks of Exchange and Material Culture. @degruyterbrill.bsky.social #AAS2025 #chinesestudies #history #silkroad #books
Anyone interested in premodern India should check out sheldonpollock.org which has a lot of OA stuff, including comparative work on China. #MedievalSky
July 28, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Anyone interested in premodern India should check out sheldonpollock.org which has a lot of OA stuff, including comparative work on China. #MedievalSky
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Thanks to ecclesiastical estates & monks' account management, there is more quantitative information about farms in the high middle ages than any time until a modern census is taken. (below England, from Broadberry et al)
July 9, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Thanks to ecclesiastical estates & monks' account management, there is more quantitative information about farms in the high middle ages than any time until a modern census is taken. (below England, from Broadberry et al)
@IMC-Leeds.bsky.app Reminder for all those not saddened/disgusted/feeling betrayed by #Session116 on Carolingian moral sentiments at #IMC2025, there is even more Carolingian emotion in #Session1003 and #Session1103 on Carolingian hope and despair. Don't know whether to look forward or not...
July 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
@IMC-Leeds.bsky.app Reminder for all those not saddened/disgusted/feeling betrayed by #Session116 on Carolingian moral sentiments at #IMC2025, there is even more Carolingian emotion in #Session1003 and #Session1103 on Carolingian hope and despair. Don't know whether to look forward or not...
New blogpost in which I try to trace as many of Jinty Nelson's PhD students as possible: magistraetmater.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/a...
A prosopography of Jinty Nelson’s PhD students
My PhD supervisor and friend Janet (Jinty) Nelson died in October last year. There have been a lot of events to commemorate her, many of which I’ve taken part in. I’ve also written a ob…
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June 19, 2025 at 9:51 AM
New blogpost in which I try to trace as many of Jinty Nelson's PhD students as possible: magistraetmater.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/a...
Interesting OA books from Firenze UP: Navigating the Mediterranean Through the Chinese Lens (books.fupress.com/catalogue/na...), Local Societies and Peasantry Agencies in Medieval Iberia (books.fupress.com/catalogue/lo...), Carolingian Frontiers: Italy and Beyond (books.fupress.com/catalogue/ca...)
Navigating the Mediterranean Through the Chinese Lens
In the postnational era, as scholars investigating the circulation of reciprocal knowledge between China and foreign countries, we are called to reconsider the relevance of national borders in our own...
books.fupress.com
June 9, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Interesting OA books from Firenze UP: Navigating the Mediterranean Through the Chinese Lens (books.fupress.com/catalogue/na...), Local Societies and Peasantry Agencies in Medieval Iberia (books.fupress.com/catalogue/lo...), Carolingian Frontiers: Italy and Beyond (books.fupress.com/catalogue/ca...)
Interesting looking (but expensive) new book on The Civilian Legacy of the Roman Army brill.com/display/titl...
The Civilian Legacy of the Roman Army
"The Civilian Legacy of the Roman Army" published on 24 Jun 2024 by Brill.
brill.com
April 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Interesting looking (but expensive) new book on The Civilian Legacy of the Roman Army brill.com/display/titl...
Looks interesting: OA Handbook of New Institutional Economics (link.springer.com/referencewor...), including chapters by Joel Mokyr and Jared Rubin.
Handbook of New Institutional Economics
This Open Access Handbook provides a timely overview of recent developments and broad orientations in new institutional economics.
link.springer.com
April 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Looks interesting: OA Handbook of New Institutional Economics (link.springer.com/referencewor...), including chapters by Joel Mokyr and Jared Rubin.