Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Female Agency in Manuscript Cultures, ed. Eike Grossmann, in OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1515/9783...doi.org 000
Reposted by Divna ManolovaMary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture @mjcbac.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Join us on September 23 for Baukje van den Berg's lecture: Why Read Homer? Byzantine Scholars on the Value of Ancient Literature. 12:00 ET on Zoom. Register: maryjahariscenter.org/events/why-r... 011
Reposted by Divna ManolovaMiddle East Medievalists @mideastmedieval.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Assistant Professor in Islamic Philosophy University of Cambridge - Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSW593/a...jobs.ac.ukAssistant Professor in Islamic Philosophy at University of CambridgeDiscover an exciting academic career path as a Assistant Professor in Islamic Philosophy at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today! 043
Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Next week, next Friday 💜! We are going to showcase and discuss the importance of strengthening the history of science within Byzantine Studies and, reversely, the key role of Byzantium for the history of science. See you in Vienna! @aieb-byzantium.bsky.social #ICBS2026 #histsci 020
Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Getting ready: www.medievalists.net/2026/08/worl...medievalists.netWorld’s Largest Byzantine Studies Congress Coming to Vienna - Medievalists.netThe world’s largest Byzantine studies congress comes to Vienna this August, bringing together scholars from more than 50 countries. 082
Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Chasing labyrinths in Belgium led to the discovery of two in Mechelen: one in the Basilica of Our Lady of Hanswijk and another one in front of St Catherine's. It takes 1:43 mins to walk the first one once you identify the entry point. The second is slightly easier to solve😍🙃 @sgessner.bsky.social 201
Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Preparing for both the heatwave and my paper @cosmopoet.bsky.social 110
Reposted by Divna ManolovaCOSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 04/06/2026This was long in the making, mostly as I walked around Ghent and thought about it, and also in this space. We will give it a try tomorrow 🤩 💫✨ More updates soon! Including the map and the zine in digital form. Of course some of it will remain ephemeral. As it should be. 011
Reposted by Divna ManolovaCOSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Despite the meltdown of the trains in Belgium, the #OIKOS Crash Course in #Greek #Palaeography hosted by @unileiden.bsky.social was a true and rare delight: an armillary sphere: a 9C Handy Tables and a very happy @dulila.bsky.social 😍🤩✨✨💫💫 #starwalks 0113
Reposted by Divna ManolovaCOSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Accidental #starwalk finds in Brugge: a gnomon (www.patrimoine-horloge.fr/ha-bruges.html) and Simon Stevin's "beads" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_S...) ✨🤩💫 011
Reposted by Divna ManolovaCOSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 20/05/2026I hope I get to do a little recap of the Multigraphic Written Artefacts second workshop soon, but for now an entry into my #starwalks from a beloved Butte aux Cailles where the entrance of metro Corvisart sports four terrestrial spheres with a zodiac, two at each gate 🤩🤩✨✨💫💫 021
Reposted by Divna ManolovaSietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Wonderful days in Cambridge with Visualizing the Unknown @huygensknaw.bsky.social and Visualizing Science @bhmpi.bsky.social teams to explore collections and exchange with scholars working on Visual Culture and Natural History. @Fitzwilliammuseum @hpscambridge.bsky.social @whipplemuseum.bsky.social 1207
Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · 08/05/2026www.biblhertz.it/en/cfp-lacun...biblhertz.itCall for PapersLacuna. Conservation, Law, and the Ethics of the Incomplete 000
Reposted by Divna ManolovaCOSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 05/05/2026I 💜 @astra-mpiwg.bsky.social "10 Questions for the Historian of Science". To the point and utterly enjoyable 😊 Here is the latest installment with Luís Campos Ribeiro (another EIDA contributor✨🌐✍🏻 & historian of astrology): www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/feature-stor...mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de10 Questions for the Historian of Science: Luís Campos Ribeiro | MPIWG 141
Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · 04/05/2026ejournals.uni-muenster.de/byzrev/artic...ejournals.uni-muenster.de ByzRev 08.2026.024: Georgi Kapriev, Byzantine Philosophy: A Systematic Perspective: (Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters 138). Leiden – Boston: Brill 2025. | The Byzanti... 010
Reposted by Divna ManolovaIrina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social · 06/11/2024Doorbell just rang. A package from Australia. The bookseller Nicholas Pounder sent me a small press print of my Times Literary Supplement poem, "Criseyde." It's a private, gift copy, and it has brought tears to my eyes this morning, for so many reasons. 29839174
Reposted by Divna ManolovaCOSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 29/04/2026A planetary diagram by 10-yo Leonora Carrington positioning the planet Starvinsky, a cosmological diagram that came later, a windrose without directional labels, and the world as an egg with celestial circles inscribed. @Musée du Luxembourg #cosmopoetinlove #diagrams personal #cosmologies 262
Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · 18/04/2026On a more personal note, I brought back with me the labyrinths we built on our last evening in a tiny place on Rue Daguerre. I am so happy to have found colleagues and friends with whom I can do this ❤️ 000
Reposted by Divna ManolovaCOSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 18/04/2026This week dedicated to #diagrams is now over, but the work continues towards the publication of our results and the next phase in the life of the #EIDA community. Huge thanks to @obs-paris-psl.bsky.social for hosting us and for sharing it's beautiful secrets with us! #msca #histsci 043
Reposted by Divna ManolovaCOSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 12/04/2026A four-year-long collaboration with EIDA-Editing and analysing hIstorical astronomical Diagrams with Artificial intelligence reaches a crucial milestone in Paris next week: eida.hypotheses.org/a-global-his... 🤩✨ @obs-paris-psl.bsky.social #histsci #diagrams #manuscriptseida.hypotheses.orgConference 2026A Global History of diagrams in Astral Sciences Practical aspects Observatoire de Paris, Salle du Conseil, 14 – 16 April, 2026 It will be possible to attend the conference in remotely using this link ... 032
Reposted by Divna ManolovaCOSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Thrilled to have COSMOPOET represented as part of the celebrations for 30 years of MSCA at UGent yesterday! 🎉✨ Here’s to many more years of curiosity, collaboration, and discovery! 🚀💫 #MSCA30 #MSCA #ResearchLife #UGent 021
Reposted by Divna ManolovaCOSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 31/03/2026🎉 Happy 30 Years to #MSCA, a programme that has helped researchers explore new frontiers and build independent careers! COSMOPOET will have a stand at the networking event this afternoon — come meet @dulila.bsky.social and join the celebration! event.ugent.be/registration...event.ugent.beEvent Registration 021
Reposted by Divna ManolovaCOSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 28/03/2026#starrywalks in #ghent continue with a chance discovery on Korenlei, a corner I have taken multiple times before. I guess today the light was just right for me to notice this beauty 😍 #armillary #sphere 121
Reposted by Divna ManolovaCOSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 25/03/2026🧵🧵Spring brought more daylight and Cosmopoet's second guest author, fellow stargazer 🤩💫and skywalker 🌌👣: Davide Massimo (@davidemax.bsky.social) is this month's Cosmopoet, and he brings us an example of an epigram concerned with the 'image of the sky': 162
Reposted by Divna ManolovaCOSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 09/03/2026This Thursday, 12 March 2026, Emmylou Haffner and Nadia Podzemskaia organise a truly cool event, across arts and sciences, on the topic of points and lines. COSMOPOET will be present with achromatic lines and cosmological diagrams. The program is available here: www.item.ens.fr/points-et-li...item.ens.frItem – [Journée d’étude] Points et lignes en arts et sciences 021
Reposted by Divna ManolovaMary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture @mjcbac.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Join us on March 4 Fotini Kondyli's lecture "Spindle Whorls and Women’s Work: Reframing Middle Byzantine Lives in the Athenian Agora." 12:00 pm on Zoom. Register: maryjahariscenter.org/events/spind... 021
Reposted by Divna ManolovaU of T Centre for Medieval Studies @uoftcms.bsky.social · 18/02/2026"The Early Illustrated 'Apollonius of Tyre' Studies of a Sinai Palimpsest" by Head of Research of the Old Books New Science Lab / CMS Alum, Jessica Lockhart, with Michelle P. Brown, is now available from Barkhuis Publishing. 📖 www.barkhuis.nl/product/the-... 086
Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Thinking of diagrams: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeLU...youtube.comPenn Library's LJS 175 - Figure de sistemi del mondo d'Aristotile, Copernico... (Video Orientation)YouTube video by SchoenbergInstitute 073
Reposted by Divna ManolovaCOSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 05/02/2026 OIKOS Course Byzantium in the Global Middle Ages at UGent 📅 2–3 February 2026📍Ghent University The biennial OIKOS course on Byzantine Culture brought together ReMA and PhD students from Belgium and the Netherlands for an intensive exploration of the theme of Byzantium in the Global Middle Ages. 122
Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · 14/01/2026A reading recommendation: zenodo.org/records/1823..., which led to this other web place www.worldswritingsystems.org and I am loving it 😍zenodo.orgTen annoying things about digitizing under-resourced and under-represented languages (And what might help fixing them)Outcomes of a writing sprint during the workshop OCR/HTR for Under Researched and Under Represented Languages in DH held at the Central European University, Vienna, on October 3–4, 2025. 000
Reposted by Divna ManolovaCOSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 19/11/2025This Friday, 21 November, COSMOPOET will present at the lunch seminar of Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies: www.ugent.be/pirenne/en/n... This is an in-person event. All are welcome!ugent.beLunch Lecture Session with Qianyu Wang & Dr. Divna ManolovaFirst duo lunch lecture session of the Medieval Seminar Series 2025-2026 031
Reposted by Divna ManolovaMedieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · 05/11/2025University of Vienna - Professorship in Jewish literary, cultural, and religious history (from 1040): memorients.com/news/univers...memorients.comUniversity of Vienna - Professorship in Jewish literary, cultural, and religious history (from 1040) | MEMOsUniversity of Vienna, Tenure Track Professorship in Jewish literary, cultural, and religious history (from 1040) 048
Reposted by Divna ManolovaMary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture @mjcbac.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Funding opportunity: NEH Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations Grants, 2026–2027. Applications due December 3, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/neh-sch...maryjahariscenter.orgNEH Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations Grants, 2026–2027 | Mary Jaharis Center 021
Reposted by Divna ManolovaMary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture @mjcbac.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Attend: Byzantine Learning in Ottoman Service: Manuscripts, Scholars, and Ideology (1450–1500), lecture by Samet Budak (Princeton University), Princeton University, November 10, 2025, 4:30–6:00 pm maryjahariscenter.org/blog/byzanti...maryjahariscenter.orgByzantine Learning in Ottoman Service: Manuscripts, Scholars, and Ideology (1450–1500) | Mary Jaharis Center 033
Reposted by Divna ManolovaYale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 26/10/2025New volume of Cahiers du Centre d’Études Chypriotes Vol. 55 (2025) journals.openedition.org/cchyp/1857 #openaccess @openedition.bsky.social Chypre, de l’Antiquité tardive à la fin de l’époque médiévale (LA3M, Aix-en-Provence)journals.openedition.org55 | 2025 Journée d’étude « Chypre, de l’Antiquité tardive à la fi...Revue consacrée à l’histoire et la culture de Chypre, des origines à l’époque contemporaine - Journal devoted to the history and culture of Cyprus, from its origins to the contemporary era 091
Reposted by Divna ManolovaCOSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 23/10/2025My starry walks around Ghent continue. 💫💫This time with the discovery of this celestial globe (no stars, just celestial circles but still) - part of the sculptural composition of the rococo pulpit in St Bavo's cathedral designed by Laurent Delvaux. 🤩🌐✨🌌 021
Reposted by Divna ManolovaCOSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 14/10/2025🧵🧵In the very first instalment of this guest author and fellow stargazer 🤩💫and skywalker 🌌👣series, it is my pleasure to introduce Stamatina Mastorakou (@smasto.bsky.social), the October Cosmopoet! Here's what she had to share about her chosen poem:isaw.nyu.eduByzantine Silver Plate Depicting Aratus and UraniaThis Byzantine silver plate is on view at the Institute as part of the exhibition "Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity". 275
Reposted by Divna ManolovaCOSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 13/10/2025🧵🧵As much as I find the research I am doing for this project fascinating and fun for me to do, I have been thinking that I am missing the collaborative community-building and fostering element that is usually not at the core of individual postdoc projects. 111
Reposted by Divna ManolovaMax Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social · 13/10/2025The first talk of our Institute's Colloquium series 2025/26 "Rethinking #Time in the History of Science": @helgejojo.bsky.social and François Hartog on "Unsettling the Historiographic Operation." 🗃 🗓️ Nov 18, 2025 (14:00 CET) 📍 MPIWG 🔗 bit.ly/3IApzqX #HistSci #CulturalHistory @ehess.fr 0175
Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Not so random because I knew it was there: an unassuming, nothing-to-write-home-about sundial in Brussels, just above La Pharmacie Delacre 🤔😏🤩https://monument.heritage.brussels/fr/Bruxelles_Pentagone/Coudenberg/62/30083 @cosmopoet.bsky.social 120
Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · 10/10/2025A casual walk in Ghent and bam! - an armillary sphere ! 🤩🌌💫 @cosmopoet.bsky.social 161
Reposted by Divna ManolovaCOSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 01/10/2025🧵🧵The first year of COSMOPOET is now over, and while another year remains, it is already clear that cosmopoetics and the role of poetry and verse in the astral sciences are a large iceberg and we are only seeing its tip for now. 111
Reposted by Divna Manolovasamuel gessner @sgessner.bsky.social · 20/09/2025This is a wonderful moment of preparation of the upcoming EIDA workshop. I am most grateful for this support, and look very much forward to see the instruments in action! (Even if, as a consequence, we figure out that we got it all wrong with our reconstruction of this arcane instrument…) 162
Reposted by Divna ManolovaCOSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 20/09/2025It is a Saturday and what better activity than building planicelia together with @sgessner.bsky.social and Florence Somer in preparation for Celestial Scripts on Monday! 142
Reposted by Divna ManolovaStephen Johnston @stephenaj.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Just two weeks to go until the #Oxford #astrolabe study day on Saturday 27 September! Learn the making and use of this most iconic scientific instrument – with the bonus that everyone attending gets to assemble and take home their own modern laser-cut astrolabe. 214421
Reposted by Divna ManolovaCOSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Neophytos the Recluse, the Monk Gabriel, Máximos Planudes: manuscripts, authors and Byzantinists and the beautiful Edinburgh! Huge thanks to the organisers and to both libraries: @natlibscot.bsky.social and University of Edinburgh's Main Library! 041
Reposted by Divna ManolovaCOSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 13/06/2025The penultimate stop on COSMOPOET's tour before the summer: Edinburgh and a workshop on 'Byzantine authorial manuscripts: Typology, terminology, methodisation'. More details and the program are available here: hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even...hca.ed.ac.uk'Byzantine authorial manuscripts: Typology, terminology, methodisation'This workshop takes its cue from two authorial/autograph manuscripts in Edinburgh’s small but fine collection of medieval Greek (Byzantine) manuscripts. 115
