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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

And source for the database? English language texts from Project Gutenberg...

agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I guess @calthalas.bsky.social will like another example of the economist writing stupid stuff on history, this time wit LLM help www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~wwwecon/rep...

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Let us hope so, while Digizeitschfriften was not the best (OCR was seriously lacking...) it still was the best resource for the German publications...

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

The End of www.digizeitschriften.de means that Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters is no longer available online... @monumenta.bsky.social

digizeitschriften.de

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

A realy nice looking and simple page - something that many of the "digital humanities" projects could/should follow.

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I read that as you taught 96 year olds and wondered how well they look in the photos considering their age.

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

It looks like all AUP's catalogue is made available in paperbacks now. Somewhat unexpected development

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Thanks Wikipedia talk page for informing me about this beauty of absurd. Leaving aside the fact that there is nothing implying John's homoseuxality... including him on a list is that - it seems was to be "positive" is intriguing...

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I wondered from where came the idea that Liupdrand of Cremona wrote that John XII died of apoplexy... argh, I guess I might edit wikipedia once...

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Never was. Russia since 1990s repeatedly noted that they have nuclear rockets aimed at Poland.

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I'd say that on this side of Atlantic we also have "impressive" hot takes

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Classicists adore abbreviations. Everywhere. I guess it is ment to highlight that people were shorter then than they are now.

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Considering THE Profesor looks at history in such simplistic way, I really don't see a reason to "cirticise" the reviewer's qualifications.

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I've seen some reviews that would make hallucinating chat GPT an improvement - but still, it shows how the whole system is falling apart.

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Still on, still waiting for the abstracts but the time flies, only slighlty more than two weeks left!

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Knowing more than one language? In field of Medieval Studies? Preposterous idea! Perish the thought!

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Oh, ok, a French "scholar" wrote it, they tend to fantasize about great Russia and all that.

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

And a link to a pdf file: www.academia.edu/143302000/Hi...

academia.edu

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

A CfP for the next year @imc-leeds.bsky.social. A fun stuff about #cistercians and #history. #medieval #middleages #IMC2025 - spread and share to all interested parties

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Looking at some fellow medievalists... Yes it does with later desecration of the corpse.

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

~300 tanks would like a word with you

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

So BBC wants bascially kill the best thing in radio, which is that you are not in control of what you listen and might discover something new you never knew needed/wanted. Great idea.

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Part of being in academia is constantly hearing stupid things said about academia by people who left it decades ago and believe that their grieviances are still relevant.

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Is Enigma by @biblissima.bsky.social dead? It was a great service when reading manuscripts but for some time the webpage is not accessible... ciham-digital.huma-num.fr/enigma/

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

From my experience numbers of words read in a minute can differ highly, while the characters remain stable (but I'm aware that to certain exten the word vs. characters is a cultural thing - in Poland everything is character counted [or derivatives of it], so it is more natural thing).

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I'd say that it is good to check how many characters you read in a minute and compare it to the length of the text. Some will read 900 characters per minute and others 700 or so. (characters are more "universal" than words in such situations).

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

f anyone would like to moderate a s session at the upcoming International Medieval Congress in Leeds (Thursday death spot) please let me know. Some plans did not work according to the plan. #imc #imc2025 #medieval @imc-leeds.bsky.social

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

That depends on various regulations, but afaik, the "receiver" has to pay, as the "receiver" is the one who "imports" the goods. Thus, it is not that the publisher is stingy (they are), but most of the time they just can't pay the customs (or VAT - which is also possible).

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

There is also Devonshire but only if you like to walk, walk, walk, walk.

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

So it would be clear, RHG has lengthy passages that are nowhere to be found in Veterum and from what I see they never explain it. It is possible these passages exist in manuscript as they seem to be based on Robert of Auxerre's chronicle ("original" is William Godell) t.co/LKjCYkFgAj t.co/mSxFX57O2K

t.co

https://archive.org/details/VeterumScriptorumEtMonumentorum5/page/n523/mode/2up?view=theater&q=Urbani

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I don't have strength and time to go onto another rabbit hole but... Chronicon Turonense from Rerum Gallicarum et Francicarum scriptores is supposedly a repring of Veterum scriptorum text... so how this came to be:

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

It looks quite safe, e.g. the glass is not melting

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The difference between the editorial rules and the articles published is always fascinating. The rules: "write everything in Roman numerals!" the articles: half in Roman numerals and half in Arabic...

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

They once had 5th edition, but from what I see it was deleted...

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Is this it? (from IA: archive.org/details/bibl...)

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

In conclusion, a long historiographical tradition has emerged from one scene, yet the question of whether Henry was anointed remains unanswered. What is clear is that Widukind wrote the account in a particular way to achieve a specific image—not to describe the past as it was.

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

In fact, it seems the story points to Arnulf being identified as such.

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

The idea that this vision refers to anointment is not stated explicitly in the text itself—this connection originates from Thietmar. Furthermore, medieval readers of the Life of Udalric were unclear about who the ensis sine capulo (sword without a hilt) represented.

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agrabowski.bsky.social @agrabowski.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

The context of the story is crucial. First, the text recounts how Arnulf of Bavaria destroyed churches and behaved as a bad Christian, and only afterward does the vision of the two swords appear. One sword had a hilt (symbolizing a good Christian following bishops), while the other did not.

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