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Eric Böhme

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Privatdozent @ University of Konstanz | Medieval and Islamic Studies | Mediterranean and Global History | Crown of Aragon, Sicily, Crusades | العربية uni-konstanz.academia.edu/EricBöhme

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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 20h
AotW: Daniel G. König, 996: Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd al-Anṭākī on a Pogrom against Foreign Christian Traders in Old Cairo, in: Transmediterranean History 8.1 (2026), doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Cairo in the Fatimid Era, Raymond 2000, p. 32
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
AotW: Suleiman A. Mourad, 1340–1345: Ibn Qayyim al-Ǧawziyya on the Question of Permanent Truce, in: Transmediterranean History 8.1 (2026), doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Sultan al-Kāmil and Frederick II agree on the peaceful surrender of Jerusalem in 1229 (symbolised here by the Dome of the Rock), Giovanni Villani, Chronica, 14th c., today Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rom Cod. Chigi L VIII 296, fol. 75r
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
AotW: Eric Böhme / Robert Friedrich, 1231: The Muslims of Menorca Submit to the Crown of Aragon in the Treaty of Capdepera, in: Transmediterranean History 8.1 (2026), doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
James I of Aragon and his magnates agreeing on the conquest of Majorca in Tarragona (28 August 1229), oldest known manuscript of the 'Llibre dels fets', 1343. Universitat de Barcelona, Biblioteca de Reserva, MS 1, fol. 27r.
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
AotW: Daniel G. König, 621: Isidore of Seville on the Origins of the Term “Saracens”, in: Transmediterranean History 1/1 (2019), doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Isidor of Seville, Etymologiae: Bishop Braulio of Zaragoza and the author himself, Ottoman illuminated manuscript from the second half of the tenth century, Einsiedeln Abbey, Cod. 167
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
AotW: Daniel G. König, 570: Contacts with the Pre-Islamic Arab World in the Pilgrimage Report of Antoninus Placentinus, in: Transmediterranean History 1/1 (2019), doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Jerusalem and its surroundings on the Madaba Map, St. George, Madaba, Jordan, after 542.
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
AotW: Theresa Jäckh, 848: The Decision to Expel the Muslims from the Langobard Duchies, in: TMH 1/2 (2019), doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Denarius minted in the name of Radelchis I, Duke of Beneventum, 839–851
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
AotW: Theresa Jäckh, 827: The Chronicon Salernitanum on the Muslim Conquest of Sicily, in: TMH 1/2 (2019), doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
The Muslim conquest of Syracuse, John Skylitzes, Synopsis Historion, 13th cent., today Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España, fol. 100v.
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
AotW: Daniel G. König, 694: The Accusation of Jewish Collaboration in the Records of the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, in: TMH 1/2 (2019), doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
King Egica (r. 630–701/3) as depicted in the ninth-century Codex Vigilanus, Madrid, El Escorial, D.I.2, fol. 428.
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
AotW: Daniel G. König, 653: In a Letter, Pope Martin I Denies Having Collaborated with the Expanding Saracens, in: TMH 1/2 (2019), doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Modern statue of Martin I (sed. 649–53), Santa Maria della Consolazione, Todi
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Mohamed Qassiti @mqassiti.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
New review: Theresa Bachhuber: Rezension zu Eric Böhme, The Agency of the Conquered. Muslim Communities in the Emergence of Norman Sicily and the Kingdom of Valencia. In: Das Mittelalter 2026, 31(1), 245–246. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing. doi.org/10.17885/hei... #medievalsky
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Eric Böhme: The Agency of the Conquered | Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
AotW: Daniel G. König, 600: Pope Gregory the Great Intervenes in Favour of the Exiled Ǧafnid Ruler al-Munḏir b. al-Ḥāriṯ, in: TMH 1/2 (2019), doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Ivory relief from the cover of a sacramentary depicting Saint Gregory inspired by the Holy Spirit (symbolized by a dove), with his scribes below; 10th century; today in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
AotW: Daniel G. König, 575: A Hispano-Roman Visitor from the Visigoth Kingdom Observes Arab-Byzantine Relations, in: TMH 1/2 (2019), doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
John of Biclaro, Chronicle, editio princeps by Henricus Canisius, 1600
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
AotW: Daniel G. König, 1270: Ibn Ḫaldūn on the Events Leading to Louis IX’s Tunisian Crusade, in: TMH 2/1 (2020), doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Louis IX ill in bed, the queen touching his head with a double cross symbolizing his crusader vow; Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora (13th c.), Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Ms. 16, fol. 182
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
AotW: Theresa Jäckh, 973: Ibn Ḥawqal on Christian-Muslim Marriages in Sicily, in: TMH 2/1 (2020), doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
World map from Ibn Ḥawqal’s Kitāb ṣūrat al-arḍ, oriented with south at the top, 470/1085, today Istanbul, Topkapi Saray Museum, Ahmet 3346, fol. 3v-4r
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
AotW: Daniel G. König, 815: A Constitutio of Louis the Pious on Hispani Settled in the Frankish Realm, in: TMH 2/1 (2020), doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Louis the Pious as soldier of Christ, with a poem by Rabanus Maurus in a manuscript of his 'De laudibus sanctae crucis' (831), today Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica, Cod. Reg. lat 124, fol. 4v
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Eric Böhme @e-boeh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Out now – Eric Böhme / Robert Friedrich, 1231: The Muslims of Menorca Submit to the Crown of Aragon in the Treaty of Capdepera, in: Transmediterranean History 8/1 (2026), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
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1231: The Muslims of Menorca Submit to the Crown of Aragon in the Treaty of Capdepera | Transmediterranean History
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
AotW: Daniel G. König, 812: An Instruction from Charlemagne Concerning Immigrant Hispani, in: TMH 2/1 (2020), doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
The Spanish march and surrounding regions, c. 814, CC BY 4.0
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/index.php/tmh/en/about
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
AotW: Daniel G. König, 713: The Treaty of Tudmir as a Testimony to the Muslim Subjection of the Iberian Peninsula, in: TMH 2/1 (2020), doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Treaty of Tudmir as transcribed by al-Ḍabbī, Kitāb Buġyat al-multamis (13th cent.),  today Madrid, Biblioteca de El Escorial, ms 1676, fol. 84v
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
AotW: Vera Kreutzmann, 674–685: Observations of the Frankish Pilgrim Arculf in Jerusalem and Damascus, in: TMH 2.1 (2020), doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Plan of the Holy Sepulchre, originally drawn by Arculf, today Paris, BNF, Ms. Lat. 13048, fol. 4v, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10533305c/f16.item
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
AotW: Richard Knorr/Daniel G. König/Theresa Jäckh, 1221: al-Ṣafadī on the Display of Ayyubid Power in the Presence of the Crusaders of Damiette, in: TMH 2.2 (2020), doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
The Siege of Damietta 1218/19 as depicted in a manuscript of Matthew Paris’ Chronica Maiora (II), c. 1240–55, today Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library, MS 16II, fol. 59v.
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
AotW: Tim Knoche, 1192: Manumission of a Muslim Slave by a Female Mozarabic Testatrix in Toledo, Transmediterranean History 2.2 (2020), doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Adam and Eve, so-called 'Escorial Beatus', probably San Millán de la Cogolla (10th cent.), today Madrid, Escorial, Biblioteca Monasterio, Cod. & II. 5, fol. 18.
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
AotW: Friederike Pfister, 1107–1137: Adelard of Bath's Questiones naturales Promote "the Studies of the Arabs", TMH 2.2 (2020), doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Adelard of Bath teaching students, illumination by the so-called 'Virgil Master' in a manuscript (France, ca. 1400) of Adelard’s 'Regulae abaci', today Leiden, University Libraries, SCA 1, fol. 1, https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/view/item/1805678#page/5/mode/1up.
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
AotW: T. Rudolph, 1098: The Anonymous Crusading Account of the Gesta Francorum Describes the Muslim Mother of Kürbuġa as Counsellor, Scholar, and Prophetess, TMH 2.2 (2020), doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Probably the earliest surviving manuscript of the Gesta Francorum, 12th century, today Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Reg. lat. 572, fols 1v–64v, here fol. 1v.
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
AotW: Theresa Jäckh, 1071–1072: William of Apulia on the Norman Conquest of Palermo, in: TMH 2.2 (2020), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Giuseppe Patania, La consegna di Palermo da parte dei musulmani (c. 1830), fresco in the 'Sala Gialla' of the Palazzo dei Normanni, Palermo
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Eric Böhme @e-boeh.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Out now – Resilience and its Limits: The Banū ʿĪsā and the Making of the Kingdom of Valencia, 1244–1278, in: Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies (2026), www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Resilience and its limits: the Banū ʿĪsā and the making of the Kingdom of Valencia, 1244–1278
In the 1220s, eastern (Sharq) al-Andalus was plunged into upheaval following the collapse of Almohad central authority, leaving countless Muslim communities vulnerable to the expansionist ambitions...
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
AotW: Till Kalkbrenner, 719–759: The Chronicon Anianense on the Beginning and End of Muslim Rule over Septimania, in: TMH 2.2 (2020), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Chronicon Anianense, late eleventh / early twelfth cent. manuscript, today Paris, BNF, Ms. lat. 5941, fol. 2r, URL: https://gallica.bnf.fr/view3if/ga/ark:/12148/btv1b8562475p/f1.
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
AotW: Richard Engl, 1269: Submission of the Muslims of Southern Italy to Charles I of Anjou, in: TMH 3.1 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Statue of Charles I of Anjou, by Arnolfo di Cambio, c. 1277, today Capitoline Museums, Rome
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Eric Böhme @e-boeh.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
My review of a newly edited primary source from Mudéjar Iberia is out now: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Book of Disputation: A Mudejar Religious-Philosophical Treatise Against Christians and Jews. A Study and Accompanying Text Edition
Published in Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
AotW: John Aspinwall / Theresa Jäckh, 1091: A Charter of Roger I for the Reorganisation of Sicily, in: TMH 3.1 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Bronze lion statue, Norman Italy, c. 1100, today MET, New York
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
AotW: Samer S. Qandil / Daniel G. König, 984: Some Letters by Gerbert d’Aurillac Dealing with “Arabic” Mathematics and Astronomy, in: TMH 3.1 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Twelfth-century copy of Gerbert d’Aurillac’s „Isagoge Geometriae,“ today Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection of Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Philadelphia (PA), Ms LJS 194, fol. 12v
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
AotW: Alicia Münch, 955: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim on the Galician Hostage Pelagius at the Court of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān III, in: TMH 3.1 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
So-called Maestro de Becerril, Martirio de San Pelayo [The Martyrdom of St. Pelagius], oil on canvas, 57 x 41,5 cm, Palencia 1520.
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
AotW: Theresa Jäckh, 827: al-Nuwayrī on the Beginning of the Muslim Conquest of Sicily, in: TMH 3.1 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Manuscript of al-Nuwayrī’s Nihāyat al-arab fī
funūn al-adab, volume 7, Aleppo 738/1337, today Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Ms Wetzstein II 1, fol. 2r, URL: https://www.qalamos.net/receive/DE1Book_manuscript_00022427
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
AotW: Till Kalkbrenner, 797–802: Notker's Gesta Karoli Magni on the Exchange of Envoys between Charlemagne and Hārūn al-Rašīd, in: TMH 3.1 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *Contribute: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Illuminated initial B from a manuscript of Cassiodorus' Expositio in psalterium, Saint-Denis, c. 800–850, today Paris, BNF, Ms lat. 2195, fol. 9v
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
AotW: Al. Reindl / D. König, 1527: Calo Calonymos’s Latin Translation of Ibn Rušd / Averroes Testifies to the Multilayered and Multilingual Reception of Aristotle, in: TMH 3.2 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *Contribute: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Ibn Rushd (Latinised Averroes), painted by Andrea di Bonaiuto, „Triunfo de Santo Tomás“, Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 1365–1369
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
AotW: Eric Böhme, 1250: A Letter from the Regional Ruler al-Azraq to the Queen of Aragon, in: Transmediterranean History 3.2 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Letter from al-Azraq to the Queen of Aragon (1250), Barcelona, Arxiu de la Corona d’Aragó, Cartas árabes, Nr. 154 (recto)Letter from al-Azraq to the Queen of Aragon (1250), Barcelona, Arxiu de la Corona d’Aragó, Cartas árabes, Nr. 154 (verso)
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
AotW: Dominic Scheim, 1243–1245: Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada's Polemic Preface to the Historia Arabum, in: Transmediterranean History 3.2 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada’s cenotaph, Monastery of Santa María, Huerta
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
AotW: Eric Böhme, 1233: The Hospitallers in the Crown of Aragón Guarantee the Muslims of Cervera the Right to Remain, in: Transmediterranean History 3.2 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Main entrance of Cervera castle (2017), by Juan Emilio Prades Bel, https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castillo_de_Cervera#/media/Archivo:Portalada_principal_d'accés_a_l'interior_del_Castell_de_Cervera_(Cervera_del_Maestrat).jpg
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
AotW: Johannes G. Stolk and Theresa Jäckh, 1009: Adémar of Chabannes on the Destruction of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, in: Transmediterranean History 3.2 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
plan of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Adomanàn’s De locis santis (9th century), today Vienna, ÖNB, cod. 458, fol. 4v.
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
AotW: Daniel G. König, 785–791: Pope Hadrian I Criticises a Decline in Christian Dogma and Practice in Muslim al-Andalus, in: TMH 3.2 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Codex epistolaris dictus Carolinus, Cologne, between 870–889, today Vienna, ÖNB, Cod. 449, fol. 1
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
AotW: Juan Rothenhäusler, 1258–1283: al-Qazwīnī Reports from Iraq on Schleswig or Haithabu, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Map of the inhabited world, from al-Qazwīnī’s cosmography ‘Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharā’ib al-mawjūdāt [Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing], Ms. probably from western India, 16th cent., today U.S. National Library of Medicine. MS P 1, fol. 71b-72a
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
AotW: Daniel G. König, 1250: Jean de Joinville Listens to the Story of a Renegade in Egypt, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Conquest of Damietta, 1249: Jean de Joinville entering the town before Louis IX, miniature from a fourteenth-century manuscript of his 'Histoire de Saint Louis', today Paris, BNF, Français 5716.
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
AotW: Niklas Hann von Weyhern, 1245: Matthaeus Parisiensis on the Defense of Frederick II at the Council of Lyon, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Pejorative depiction of Frederick II as seventh and largest head of the dragon of the Apocalypse, next to Herod, Nero and Saladin. The dragon's tail encircles Franciscan monks. Giovanni Villani, Chronica, 14th century, today Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Codex Vat. Lat. 3822, fol. 5r
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
AotW: Luke Yarbrough, 1014–1043: Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr on Christian Love for ʿAlī, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Investiture of ʿAlī at the Ghadir Khumm, 16 March 632, in: Kitāb al-āthār al-bāqiya ʿan al-qurūn al-khāliya, copy by Ibn al-Kutubī, Ilkhanid Iraq/Iran, 1307–1308, today Edinburgh, University Library, MS Arab 161, fol. 162r.
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
AotW: Sebastiano Arona, 971: The 'Decretum Venetorum de abrogando Saracenorum commercie' Prohibits Venetians from Trading with Muslims, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Coronation of John Tzimiskes (969), from: John Skylitzes, Synopsis of Histories, Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, Vitr. 26-2, fol. 159r (12th century; the famous 'Madrid Skylitzes‘)
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
AotW: Daniel G. König, 903–906: The Raffelstetten Customs Regulation and the Export of Slavic Slaves to the Islamic Sphere, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Iron restraints 11th/12th cent., Neu Nieköhr, Zdenek Vana, przedmowa Jerzy Gąssowski - Świat dawnych Słowian, 1985, Artia, PA Interpress
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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
AotW: Eric Böhme, 1244: King James I of Aragón Reports on the Capitulation of Xàtiva, in: TMH 4.2 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky
Xàtiva drawn by Anton van den Wijngaerde in 1563, today Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. Min 41, fol. 70r
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