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Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez @abeldelorenzo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

How preserve a library in 12th century (maybe with some tips for our institutions and academies) 📚 "In this monastery of Vendôme, it was the custom until now that whenever any books needed to be bound, the cellarer and the chamberlain would provide the expenses;

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The 12th-c. mosaic of San Savino in Piacenza, which Emanuele Conte argues expresses hostility to the trial by battle. Note the early chess game!

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Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez @abeldelorenzo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Gestures for Monday Versions of parts of Genesis, Exodus, and Daniel, etc. (the 'Caedmon manuscript.'), 11th century, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

For those Hispanophones interested in corporal punishment...

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Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez @abeldelorenzo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Palace of the Marquesa de Camarasa. Wooden Plow" by Ruth Matilda Anderson (1924)

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Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez @abeldelorenzo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Supuestamente las escuelas historiográficas del pasado son menos ambiguas. Mientras, un cronograma de finales del siglo XIX: "Gran divergencia hay entre los autores..."

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Biblioteca da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela @buscusc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

#DíaDoEmoji Os emojis teñen antepasados. Moito antes dos móbiles, os manuscritos iluminados xa enriquecían o texto con pequenas imaxes e símbolos. No noso fondo, conservamos un magnífico exemplo xa coñecido por vós: 📖🕑🫅🦁 Sabedes cal é?

Miniatura pertencente ao 📖🕑🫅🦁 dun personaxe deitado sobre o texto.

Miniatura pertencente ao 📖🕑🫅🦁 dun personaxe pendurando dunha barra horizontal.

Miniatura pertencente ao 📖🕑🫅🦁 dun personaxe visiblemente canso coa cabeza apoiada nunha letra C.

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

A CfP for #IMC2027.

CfP:
Manuscripts, History, Rulers and Popes:
Sessions in Memory of Rosamond McKitterick
Leeds IMC, 5-8 July 2027

This set of sessions at the IMC in 2027 honours Rosamond McKitterick (1949–2026) and her work through the lens of four of her monographs: The Carolingians and the Written Word (1989), History and Memory in the Carolingian World (2004), Charlemagne (2008) and Rome and the Invention of the Papacy (2020).
We invite papers that engage with the themes Rosamond McKitterick explored in these books, including early medieval manuscript culture, the role of history-writing in shaping Frankish memory and community, early medieval Frankish rulership and the history of the early medieval papacy.
Talks should be 15-20 minutes long and can be delivered either in person or online.
Please send an abstract of no more than 200 words, along with a title, by 20 August 2026, to
• Claire Burridge, c.p.s.burridge@iakh.uio.no
• Charles West, Charles.West@ed.ac.uk

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

With impeccable timing, on the first day of #IMC2026, the latest issue of Early Medieval Europe is out! Featuring articles by, amongst others, @katefalardeau.bsky.social and @medievaljon.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680254...

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Early Medieval Europe: Vol 34, No 3

Early Medieval Europe is an interdisciplinary medieval studies journal covering European history from the fall of the Roman Empire up until the 11th century.

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Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez @abeldelorenzo.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Next Monday, Leeds! @imc-leeds.bsky.social "Take the Money and Run Away? Forced Sales and Purchases in Early Medieval Northern Iberia, 10th-11th Centuries"

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Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez @abeldelorenzo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The most charming neighbour you could imagine on the outskirts of Edinburgh

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Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez @abeldelorenzo.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

A group of little dogs playing in a medieval tomb (Sé de Lisboa)

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The false prophet, in the St-Sever Beatus (c. 1050) gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

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Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez @abeldelorenzo.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

"Riservato alle signore". Ladies first Aula Magna, Università di Bologna

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Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez @abeldelorenzo.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Great congress in Bologna on the nature and property of Nature in the Middle Ages. Looking for a continuity with the Medieval masters in the city.

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A vision of hell from Chauvigny, c. 1100.

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Mickaël Wilmart @mickaelwilmart.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Carlo Ginzburg est mort, annonce la presse italienne. Immense historien, il a su construire une oeuvre originale entre micro-histoire et anthropologie historique qui a considérablement renouvelé la discipline. www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...

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Carlo Ginzburg è morto, addio al grande storico italiano

Aveva 87 anni. Era famoso in tutto il mondo per le sue ricerche sulla stregoneria e le credenze popolari

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Levi Roach @proflroach.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Absolutely stunned to hear of the passing of Rosamond McKitterick, who did me (like many others) a number of good turns at crucial points in my career. My thoughts are with her family and her many devoted students. May she rest in peace and rise in glory. #MedievalSky #Skystorians

A screenshot of an X-post announcing the passing of Rosamond McKitterick.

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Society for the Medieval Mediterranean (SMM) @socmedimedit.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

SMM 2026 Lisbon (22–25 June) Conference Programme (version 5_final_final) #medievalsky tinyurl.com/4dyukw53

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Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez @abeldelorenzo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Definición en "Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers" (1751-1772)

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Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez @abeldelorenzo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Definición de Galicia no "Larousse du XXe siècle" (1928)

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Amine Xhakoni @aminexhakoni.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

UseFool ( www.usefool.eu ) is glad to announce the International Conference 'The Science of Natural Properties', which will take place on June 17–19 in Bologna and online. To request the online participation link, please contact us at: filo.scienceofnaturalproperties@unibo.it

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Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez @abeldelorenzo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Next week in Bologna with: "Pearls, Cinnamon, and Deer Heart Bones. The Emerging Salernitan Recipes and Medical Properties in Twelfth century Iberia"

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Zoomed-in version from the digital manuscript digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/4a0c...

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I promise to stop going on about this soon, but my list of moving queens 900-1150 is now up to 122 women 👸 blogs.ed.ac.uk/cwest3/2026/... There are probably still errors/omissions (tell me if you spot one!), but thanks to everyone who's made suggestions on here or by email❤️

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Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez @abeldelorenzo.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Nobody cares your age, but your work. A peasant in the Early Middle Ages: "I don't know how old I was; however, I know that I was already working well in the field" (Nescio quot annorum eram; scio tamen quia iam bene laborabam in campo)

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Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez @abeldelorenzo.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

"Desde abajo (from below), es una perspectiva que, aplicada históricamente sigue cambiando los objetos de estudio, tanto como quien, encontrándose en un pozo, lo observase cómodamente desde su borde superior o desde su húmeda profundidad...

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