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Alexander Courtney @dralexcourtney.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

New perspectives on James VI & I: coming up tomorrow, Tuesday 4 March, 5:30 with @nicolemaceira.bsky.social, Steven Reid, Clare Jackson and @kuroshmeshkat.bsky.social Online booking below! #earlymodern

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Niko Kontovas @nikokontovas.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Marsh 196 is an #Ottoman genealogical #manuscript in the form of a 40+ ft scroll, probably from the early half of the 1500s. It's unique in its inclusion not only of the Old Testament prophets, but also the Old Persian kings and -- as seen here -- the Chinggisids.

Part of an Ottoman genealogical tree showing Chinggiz Khan and his descendants.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

A heavenly letter, in German: "Himmels-Brief". This is a broadside print of eighteenth-century Germany, including a handcolored woodcut, offering protection to the bearer. Pass it on for protection, #earlymodern #bookhistory

Himmels-Brief welcher mit güldenen Buchstaben, geschrieben und ist zu sehen in der Michaelis Kirche zu St. German, wird genannt Gredoria, allwo der Brief über der Taufe schwebt (1720)

http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?PPN895407833

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Arnaldus Alexander Durand Baro de Mazabrat, Design for an underwater suit, 1720. Ink on paper; 41.5 × 28.2 cm, Archivo General de Indias, Seville

"A drawing produced to show off his new apparatus depicts a man enclosed within a leather shell reinforced with iron bars. Vest, sleeves, and britches protect what seems to be a muscled physique. A bulbous hood and a plug seal the suit, the latter protruding from where we should imagine a human mouth. The manuscript page carefully describes this outfit and its function, using an alphabetic key to identify each piece of the diving suit. It tells us, among other things, that the curlicue-ing tubes and futuristic switches ensure a man can breathe even as the weighted device sinks him into the sea, up to a depth of twelve brazas (or roughly twenty meters). Breathing underwater, of course, would not be enough. Protuberances on the helmet, labeled “F,” represent glass lenses." -Aaron Hyman and Dana Leibsohn, “Lost and Found at Sea, or a Shipwreck’s Art History” West 86th, 28.1 (Spring-Summer 2021): 43-74.

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Dr. Stephennie Mulder @stephenniem.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Alright *cracks knuckles* let's do this! Today I'm inaugurating an episodic Monday series titled History of Islamic Art in 100 Objects. But we have to ask the most important question first: What is Islamic art? Also, why is this even a question? 🧵 #IslamicArt100Objects

A horizontally-aligned panel consisting of four images of works of Islamic art: a page of black calligraphy on a peach-colored ground, a red and gold textile with a pattern of wavy vines and leaves, a manuscript painting featuring birds in a blue, green, and gold landscape with a gold sky, and a manuscript page with a central radiating medallion painted in intricate geometric and floral patterns in blue, gold, and red. Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/collection-areas/islamic-art

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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Today I’m teaching storytelling in the medieval Islamic world (or more specifically, one of its most consequential urban epicenters from the 13th-16th centuries, Mamluk Cairo). Here’s the problem with how most medievalists teach it…

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Nora Van den Bosch @nvdb.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Hey, I am Nora, a sinologist interested in Digital Humanities and Digital history. I curate the Modern China Biographical Database, which covers over 170,000 individuals who lived in the Late Qing and the Republican era. You can check out the link if you want to. #digitalhumanities

heurist.huma-num.fr

Modern China Biographical Database

MCBD is a freely accessible relational database that aims at recording all the historical actors who were active in China in the Late Qing and Republican periods (1830–1949). Based on the Heurist web ...

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Juan José Ponce Vázquez @jjponcevazquez.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

My book is about Spanish Hispaniola and the importance of smuggling in the colony in the long 17th century, how they did business, and how these smugglers managed to co-opt the power of local and imperial institutions to enrich themselves and their networks. www.amazon.com/Islanders-Em...

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Islanders and Empire (Cambridge Latin American Studies, Series Number 121)

Amazon.com: Islanders and Empire (Cambridge Latin American Studies, Series Number 121): 9781108702485: Ponce Vázquez, Juan José: Books

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Dr. Verena Krebs @krebsverena.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

In 1402, King David II of Solomonic Ethiopia sent an ambassadorial gift of 4 live leopards from the Horn of Africa to the Republic of Venice. The Venetians were pleased, but also slightly panicked, when confronted with the reality of transporting the animals around in Italy.

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Voetnoot -Mark Ponte @voetnoot.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Nov. 21, 1665: Armenian bishop Uscanus Theodorus and his brother Avedick Theodorus make up their will in Amsterdam. Joseph Antonio - “Grieck of nation and speaking the Tukish and Dutch languages” - is present as interpreter. #OTD #Amsterdam #migrantcity #portcity #Armeniandiaspora

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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

After 40 years trying to get unruly words on the page, I offer writing tips. Tip #1: as I write a book, I bury myself in a brilliant work of fiction about the same time period, to fill my mind with its literary power. As I wrote *The Fearless Benjamin Lay* I read Barry Unsworth's *Sacred Hunger.*

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Stefan Bauer @stefanbauer.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Very excited to announce the publication of my book in Italian, "L'Invenzione della storia dei papi" (The Invention of Papal History), which was published in Florence yesterday. www.nerbini.it/prodotto/lin...

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