Steven Teasdale
@steventeasdale.bsky.social
Former Postdoc at UniGenova | alumnus UToronto | First Gen + ASD | studies Mediterranean economic history 1350–1750, focusing on slavery, commerce, networks, notarial contracts, law, and business | also digital humanities, semantic data and environment.
I'm glad to hear that you're on your way to recovery Judith!
November 24, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I'm glad to hear that you're on your way to recovery Judith!
I'm goin' to Wichita, far from this opera forevermore...
November 22, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I'm goin' to Wichita, far from this opera forevermore...
Oligarches eunt domus ??
November 22, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Oligarches eunt domus ??
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This has been quite a long route from marginal text missing from a photograph to connections to the "slow pandemic" that was leprosy in the Middle Ages (constantinusafricanus.com/2025/01/26/l...). But that's how #histmed works in an interdisciplinary mode. Thanks to all who have contributed!
Leprosy in the Global Middle Ages: A Slow Pandemic
In August 2024, Jordan became the first country to officially eliminate leprosy.1 Countries participating in the World Health Organization (WHO)2 have committed not simply to bringing percentages o…
constantinusafricanus.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:39 AM
This has been quite a long route from marginal text missing from a photograph to connections to the "slow pandemic" that was leprosy in the Middle Ages (constantinusafricanus.com/2025/01/26/l...). But that's how #histmed works in an interdisciplinary mode. Thanks to all who have contributed!
These messages are all quite appalling, aren't they? But I doubt that anything will come of it, unfortunately.
November 13, 2025 at 8:24 PM
These messages are all quite appalling, aren't they? But I doubt that anything will come of it, unfortunately.
I had the chance to see Madeleine discuss the book at a Toronto Public Library event this summer with my daughter Celeste: a budding writer herself who was delighted to meet Madeleine and have her copy of book signed!
November 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I had the chance to see Madeleine discuss the book at a Toronto Public Library event this summer with my daughter Celeste: a budding writer herself who was delighted to meet Madeleine and have her copy of book signed!
This is an intertwining story of four exiles (the eighth-century poet Du Fu; early modern philosopher Baruch Spinoza; twentieth-century philosopher Hannah Arendt, and a group of fictional exiles in the future) that connect across time and space.
November 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
This is an intertwining story of four exiles (the eighth-century poet Du Fu; early modern philosopher Baruch Spinoza; twentieth-century philosopher Hannah Arendt, and a group of fictional exiles in the future) that connect across time and space.
Brepols has a Studies in European Urban History (1100–1800) series. Here is the link: www.brepols.net/series/SEUH
Brepols - Series - Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800)
Brepols is an international academic publisher of works in the humanities, with a particular focus in history, archaeology, history of the arts, language and literature, and critical editions of histo...
www.brepols.net
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Brepols has a Studies in European Urban History (1100–1800) series. Here is the link: www.brepols.net/series/SEUH
Is this some kind of new "feature" that they are applying to all their ebooks? If so, it's not a promising one!
November 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Is this some kind of new "feature" that they are applying to all their ebooks? If so, it's not a promising one!
2 and 3 are Brill and Brepols. I don't know 1 without cheating!
November 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
2 and 3 are Brill and Brepols. I don't know 1 without cheating!
It doesn't work from Canada either. Is there a reason why it is blocked? (I'm guessing copyright concerns?). Nevertheless, the resource sounds fascinating!
October 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
It doesn't work from Canada either. Is there a reason why it is blocked? (I'm guessing copyright concerns?). Nevertheless, the resource sounds fascinating!
I've always thought the same thing... the positive feedback problem may transform the current diminishing returns of AI to future negative returns.
October 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I've always thought the same thing... the positive feedback problem may transform the current diminishing returns of AI to future negative returns.
I recently heard "the physical texts we consume...". Can't they just say "the books we read..."? The use of this verb with regard to books is especially disturbing when you consider its root in the Latin consumo, -ere.
October 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I recently heard "the physical texts we consume...". Can't they just say "the books we read..."? The use of this verb with regard to books is especially disturbing when you consider its root in the Latin consumo, -ere.