Should Be Writing · @DontMindMe
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ISciences · @ISciences
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are present across much of southern , with in reaching 109 degrees Fahrenheit on July 18th. In an effort to cope with the region’s extreme , communities have started using a network of historic canals, which were built by the Moors, a Muslim population that resided in the during the . Read more:

isciences.com/blog/2023/07/27/

#heatwaves #europe #temperatures #Spain #heat #spanish #irrigation #iberianpeninsula #MiddleAges

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Starchy Compliment · @starchydish
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"A show of manuscripts at the Getty Center depicting medieval puzzles, games and jousts reveals diversions that, like chess, span our radically different lives and times."

'Play & Pastimes in Middle Ages' Review: Winning Look at History

wsj.com/articles/play-and-past via WSJ
Photo: Getty Museum via WSJ

#MiddleAges #darkages #medieval #games #pastimes #play

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Squirrel News · @squirrelnews_en
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Prato, , has been a textile hub since the & has wool for some 200yrs. The tradition was born out of economic necessity, but old-fashioned fabric can pave the way of future of .

euronews.com/green/2023/07/18/

#italy #MiddleAges #recycled #recycling #sustainable #fashion

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Should Be Writing · @DontMindMe
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Barbara Genova · @callgenova
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"For the better part of a decade now, we've been living in a swampy time of professors and academics debasing themselves on social media for what I can only assume is clout and getting strangers to agree with them, yell at them or both. Are there bigger incentives at play I can't fully grasp because I'm not a Dr. Prof. ? The last thing I would want is to become Jordan Peterson."

AND HERE COMES THE ANSWER. I love it.

barbaragenova.substack.com/p/r

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Should Be Writing · @DontMindMe
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Online Workshop: “Armenian Society under Caliphal Rule”
7–8 December 2023
Proposals due 31 May 2023

Topics may include, but are not limited to, social hierarchies, government, church structures, labour relations, urbanism, taxation, civic architecture, etc

aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forsc


@historikerinnen
 @histodons @medievodons

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Should Be Writing · @DontMindMe
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Michael Meckler · @michaelmeckler
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Online symposium: Play in the Middle Ages/Les jeux au Moyen Âge

(from Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Toronto): We invite you to join us for a rich event that will explore various fascinating subjects, such as performance, materiality, and rules of games.

Participation is free, and there are no registration fees.

Papers will be given in English and French.

More info: dafnani@post.bgu.ac.il

Registration (with programme): forms.gle/FPo9eaLr775rrLfe9

@medievodons

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Should Be Writing · @DontMindMe
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So, is there going to be an official hashtag on Mastodon this year?

@medievodons

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Should Be Writing · @DontMindMe
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Call for Sessions: Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 7th Forum Medieval Art/Forum des Mittelalters, Jena, September 25–28, 2024.

The theme for the Forum is Light: , and Science in the

Applications will be accepted until May 29, 2023.

maryjahariscenter.org/sponsore

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#kunst #art #metaphysics #MiddleAges #histodons #history #geschichte #histoire #medievalstudies #medievalists

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Michael Meckler · @michaelmeckler
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CFP: Latin Epic conference in Nuremberg

EPOS 2024, Epic in the Latin West (4th-15th Centuries) will take place 25-28 September 2024.

Conference is under the aegis of the International Medieval Latin Committee and is organised by Michele Ferrari (FAU, Erlangen-Nuremberg).

Languages: German, English, French, Italian, Latin and Spanish

Proposals to kongress-epos2024@fau.de with subject 'Vortrag Epos 2024' by 1 March 2024.

More info: bit.ly/421xUYY

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Should Be Writing · @DontMindMe
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Should Be Writing · @DontMindMe
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An interesting project I just discovered: "Modal pathways over an extra-long period of time: the diachrony of modality in the Latin language (WoPoss)"

Basically, mapping usage of modal verbs in .

woposs.unine.ch/index.html

#latin #histodons #history #geschichte #histoire #medievalstudies #medievalists #MiddleAges #AncientReligions #religiousstudies #ancienthistory #antiquity #Antike

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