Emperor Andronikos I Komnenos died #otd 1185. An angry mob is said to have maltreated him for days. Among other things, his hand was cut off, his teeth were knocked out and his eyes were gouged out. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

Ms.: BNF MS FR 68, fol. 392r

Question for the digital scholarly editions in #XML folks:
We have 40 000 medieval diplomas/letters encoded in XML and have published them as #OpenData. But they're in one ginormous XML-file that is difficult to even open on most computers.

Should we chunk them up? If so in what way? By time period? Language they're written in?

Or should we perhaps go so far to export each letter as its own little XML-file and ZIP them all up?

#Medieval #OpenScience #DigitalHumanities

14 Medieval Sayings: ‘These are beautiful words to understand’ https://www.medievalists.net/2023/09/14-medieval-sayings/ #medieval #history

On the Paths of Hugues de Berzé: A Repentant Crusader Knight https://www.medievalists.net/2023/09/on-the-paths-of-hugues-de-berze-a-repentant-crusader-knight/ #medieval #religion

🇮🇹 Alessandro Carlucci (2020) How Did Italians Communicate When There Was No Italian? Italo-Romance Intercomprehension in the Late Middle Ages, The Italianist, 40:1, 19-43, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2020.1748328 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #Italy #Italian #Language #Linguistics #Medieval #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @linguistics @medievodons

Sitting.

Ms: BNF, Français 1450, f. 3r. (15th c.). #medievalcat #medieval @medievodons

#otd 1375 died Frederick II of Bülow, Bishop of Schwerin. This double brass tomb slab in the cathedral there shows him to the right of his great-uncle, who as Gottfried I was also Bishop of Schwerin. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

Pic: Wikipedia Commons

Este libro es realmente espeluznante

Y no porque tenga imágenes explícitas, si no por el contenido y el uso que se le dió en el pasado

El Malleus Maleficarum, o Martillo de Brujas fue utilizado entre los siglos XV y XVII en Europa para detectar prácticas de brujería y hechicería y fue la guía práctica para obtener confesión bajo torturas terroríficas

#books #bookstodon #booktodon #libros #medieval #literadon #literaverso #mastobooks #medievalbooks

#openaccessmiddleages

Matthias Becher: Eid und Herrschaft. Untersuchungen zum Herrscherethos Karls des Großen (Vorträge u. Forschungen. SB 39), Sigmaringen 1993.

Link: https://doi.org/10.11588/vuf-sb.1993.39

#medieval @medievodons

Okay, wow, I found a place where the #medieval #Syriac author Ishaq #Shbadnaya misinterpreted the dictionary of Bar Bahlul.

Shbadnaya uses the term Peutah (ܦܘܛܗ), which he glosses as "Matthew the Evangelist." The relationship between the two was opaque even after I looked up the entry in Bar Bahlul's dictionary (pictured).

In the 1860s Robert Payne-Smith published an early Syriac lexicon, based in part on Bar Bahlul's dictionary. Payne-Smith helpfully identified Greek words for as many of Bar Bahlul's entries as he could. Payne-Smith's entry is pictured as well.

So Bar Bahlul included the Greek word πότε in his dictionary, defined correctly as "when?" But Shbadnaya incorrectly interpreted the question "when?" as the name Matthew (one letter off in #Syriac, the exact same letters in #Arabic), and specified that he meant Matthew the Evangelist...

A misunderstanding over five hundred years ago.

#Applications open at California Institute of Technology for a postdoctoral instructor in medieval history.

See flyer attachment for more information. Application online through:

https://applications.caltech.edu/jobs/medievalhistory

#postdoc #medieval #opportunity

The Woman Who Ruled the Papacy https://www.medievalists.net/2023/09/woman-who-ruled-papacy/ #medieval

The Templars wanted peace in the West – but if that was not possible, they could turn moral outrage into money for the defence of the East. https://www.medievalists.net/2023/09/templars-murder-becket/ #medieval #history

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Ms: Abbeville, Bibliotheque Municipale, MS 0016, f 11r (15th c.). #medievalcat #medieval @medievodons @histodons

Some more “#medieval fun” at the Wallraf-Richartz #Museum in #Cologne 😅
#MedievalArt

#otd 1419: John the Fearless is slain during negotiations on a bridge in Montereau. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

Ms.: Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Chronique, Universitätsbibliothek Leiden F 2, fol 184v (c. 1495).

The great #medieval fair at #Stourbridge outside #Cambridge (https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-800-year-old-story-of-stourbridge-fair) was commemorated last weekend at the #LeperChapel with dancing, singing, storytelling & craft stalls.

The #14thCentury accounts of the #LadyOfClare record purchases there over the years: salt, often; also furs & lambskins; smoked herring, cod & stockfish; rice & almonds. #Almonds were bought in great quantity, used by the pastry chef from Paris & to indulge the pet #parrots.

@medievodons @histodons

#openaccessmiddleages

Rainer Christoph Schwinges: Rektorwahlen. Ein Beitrag zur Verfassungs, Sozial- und Universitätsgeschichte des alten Reiches im 15. Jahrhunder [...] (Vorträge u. Forschungen. SB 38), Sigmaringen 1992.

Link: https://doi.org/10.11588/vuf-sb.1989.38

#medieval @medievodons

Text corpus search makes identifying medieval quotations a whole lot easier. When I started the edition I'm currently working on, I would have had to read every source quoted (there are dozens) to find what might be referred to. Now I can do a text search and get most of them.
#medieval #Syriac #DH

“#Medieval fun”, seen in the Wallraf-Richartz #Museum in #Cologne.
#MedievalArt