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Jonathan Seyfried @jonathanseyfried.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

One of my favorite things about my current podcast and website project is that sometimes I can reunite an outgoing letter with its chancery copy, after six centuries of separation. jonathanseyfried.net/historians-n... #medievalsky #medievalists @medievalists.bsky.social @la-coronica.bsky.social

The outgoing letter, dated May 28, 1387. Note the worm damage pattern that came from the document being stored folded up. Source: website of the Fondo Histórico de Aragón, Archival Reference: ACA, R, Cartas Reales, Juan I, No.75, f75r (https://fondohistoricodearagon.fundacionibercaja.es/ficha/241110)

The wax seal stain is visible and the probata information still readable underneath it. Source: website of the Fondo Histórico de Aragón, Archival Reference: ACA, R, Cartas Reales, Juan I, No.75, f75v (https://fondohistoricodearagon.fundacionibercaja.es/ficha/241110)

This is the first part of the chancery copy of this document. Source: PARES website, Archival Reference ACA, CR, R1751 f63r (https://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas20/catalogo/show/4801766)

This is the second part, which, intriguingly, ends without a probata. Source: PARES website, Archival Reference ACA, CR, R1751 f63v (https://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas20/catalogo/show/4801766)

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Jonathan Seyfried @jonathanseyfried.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I came up with an acronym that I hope will be useful for helping students to build AI literacy. SOUP: Symmetry, Opposite, Uncertainty, Peer review. See my post in Medium for the full explanation and an example. medium.com/p/using-ai-f...

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Using AI for research? SOUP it up

Symmetry, Opposite, Uncertainty, Peer review — these are the key habits of mind for tackling confirmation bias.

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Jose M. Fradejas @jmfradejas.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

La revista Philologia Hispalensis acaba de publicar un monográfico sobre Humanidades Digitales. Aún no figura en la web de la revista, pero por los doi se puede acceder a los artículos. #HHDD

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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 03/01/2025

The best historical artefacts are the accidental ones that freeze a moment in time forever. I thought I’d try to find all the times pets have ruined their owner's day and recorded that instant for all of history.

An illustration of a cat licking itself in the margins of a medieval manuscript.

A cat pawprint left in the ink of a medieval manuscript.

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

This single manuscript page has writing on it spanning over 1400 years. The base text is 6th century and there are notes from the 13th, 15th, 18th and 19th centuries. There are few objects that remained interactive for longer than medieval manuscripts. BNF Latin 2630, f1r

A manuscript page with writing in two columns and numerous marginal notes and scribbles, as well as a red library stamp.

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Dr Dan Spencer @gunpowderdan.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Some fine fifteenth century seals from my most recent trip to The National Archives #medievalsky

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Annabel-Lee 🐜 @nekatea.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

La beauté de l'art italien projetée sur le vieux pont à Florence Le Ponte Vecchio « Vieux Pont » est un pont bâti de Florence, en Italie. Édifié au XIVe siècle, il est à la fois la galerie marchande, la rue piétonne et le pont le plus ancien, le plus célèbre et le plus touristique de la ville

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Vincenzo DM @vincenzodm.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

The grandeur of the court in 16th c. Brussels. For the marriage between Alexander Farnese and Maria of Portugal in 1565 a city with inhabitants all made of fine sugar was created by the Coudenberg Palace's chefs.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

As we approach the Winter Solstice, here's what Stonehenge looked like in the 16th century. BL Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r

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jhokjournal.bsky.social @jhokjournal.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

How do geohumanities scholars and digital mapmakers deal with uncertainty, with respect to their historical counterparts? In our recently published Special Issue, Dr. Rombert Stapel reflects on the necessary steps to bridge knowledge gaps: journalhistoryknowledge.org/article/view...

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

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Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher

Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Commonly used for eye examinations and imaging teeth, Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) can also be used to examine heritage objects. David Mills from @qmul.ac.uk Dentistry Lab paid us a visit to analyse some of the sacred books in the @hips-project.bsky.social project (HiPS)

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Christmas plays an important role in German tradition. Some cities even honor it by erecting bronze statues of Santa Claus.

A bronze statue of a man with a beard and a flowing hair. His hand is in his jacket. He knows who has been nice and who was not. He is here to seize the means of production.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 19/12/2024

Our #medieval lecture for 2025 will be given by Dr Natasha Hodgson (Nottingham Trent University) on the lives and travels of medieval women. Join us in person (London) or online on Friday 7 February at 6:30pm GMT. All welcome. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1112882945...

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Javi Albarrán 🍉 @jalbarran.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Gate of the columns, Alcazaba of Malaga. Andalusi gate ( 11th century) where Roman columns were reused, probably from the nearby theater.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Elizabeth Pierrepont, Countess of Kellie has a parrot climbing up her dress in 1619. She insisted, against the best advice of painter Paul van Somer, whose day is today.

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Sarah Betts @wromantichistry.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Very grateful to the wonderful editing skills of @johannastrong.bsky.social and @amysaunders.bsky.social on this cluster and very much enjoyed contributing a short piece to it, but mostly reading all the exciting work that other people are doing in this area

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The Medieval Academy of America @medievalacademy.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Call for applications for a research grant in Paleography Call for applications for a research grant in Paleography at the University of Roma Tre, within the project CLASSICS - Codices Latini Antiquiores' Supplements: Scripts In-depth through Computer www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-app...

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

How is it possible that this #OpenAccess volume of essays on #MarcoPolo appeared in June yet I'm only finding out about it today? publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/handle... #MedievalSky #skystorians

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Marco Polo Research: Past, Present, Future

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Jonathan Seyfried @jonathanseyfried.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I'm excited to attend @imc-leeds.bsky.social for the first time. My paper title: "Sugar, Emeralds, and Unicorn Horn: Merchants and Spicers as Agents of Medicinal Knowledge Transfer in the Late Middle Ages." Also participating in a roundtable: "Teaching Premodern Europe in the American Southwest."

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