How ‘Abracadabra’ Became a Magical Word in the Medieval World

https://www.medievalists.net/2025/03/abracadabra-magical-medieval/

The Kidnapping Scandal at Amesbury Priory https://www.medievalists.net/2025/03/kidnapping-scandalamesbury-priory/ #MedievalHistory

In the most random events I got two usually expensive books about foreigners and foreign goods in the Tang Dynasty for dirt cheap. I fucking love used bookstores cause you never know what you'll find.

I especially am excited for the mummy book cause when I skimmed it had a lot about immigrant clothing in Tang China.

#amreading @histodons @histodon @medievodons #china #history #asianmastadon #medievalhistory

100 Medieval Words That Meant Something Totally Different

https://www.medievalists.net/2025/02/100-medieval-words/

This morning I woke up with a realization, my MMC for this novel is a Tang soldier and while I have tons of books and articles on merchants, frontier poetry and Chang'An. I have nothing on military structure, organization and life. #histodons and #ChineseHistory enthusiasts, what are some good books and articles in English and Chinese on the Tang military?

@histodon @medievodons #history @bookstodon #medieval #medievalhistory #AsianMastadon

I'm working on a medieval stag for hand washing (not yet fired). This device is called an aquamanile. He can be filled with water through the hole in its back and the tiny hole in its nose is the spout. The original (fourth image) is from 1300-1399 and resides in the V&A museum. Parts of the antlers and both hind legs are missing.
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#medievalpottery #aquamanile #medievalhygiene #reenactment #livinghistory #medievalhistory #atelierable

New from Cambridge University Press, and free to read and download until Xmas eve:

Health and the Body in Early Medieval England

https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/health-and-the-body-in-early-medieval-england/CABCA35CCA25F94CB42D5133FB9BA550

1,065 Unique Dog Names from the Middle Ages

https://www.medievalists.net/2024/11/dog-names-middle-ages/

How can we use #QuantitativeMethods to automatically classify medieval hagiographic manuscripts & analyse their internal structure, their origins and relations? Sébastien de Valeriola (ULB, Brussels) explores this question in this week's #DigitalHistoryOFK by examining manuscripts that exhibit a particular internal organisation: per circulum anni. Not to be missed!

Open to all!

Wed, 10 July, 4-6 pm, Zoom
https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/8104

#MedievalHistory #DigitalHistory @histodons

#MedievalHistory / #Medieval picks of the day:

@MedievalArchives - Website & podcast dedicated to medieval history

@medievalists - A different website & podcast on medieval history

@OxMedStud - Interdisciplinary platform for medieval studies across Oxford University

@yvonne - Historian of medieval women, professor at SUNY Geneseo

@medievaldeathtrip - Host of Medieval Death Trip, podcast about weirdness of medieval texts

@dailymedievalcats - Cats from medieval manuscripts

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Nächste Woche startet wieder das #DigitalHistoryOFK

Wir freuen uns, auch für das SoSe 24 wieder ein vielfältiges Programm präsentieren zu dürfen.
Mit dabei sind Vorträge zu #NFDI4Memory, #DataFeminism, #NER mit #LLMs, #MedievalHistory, #DataLiteracy, #MediaHistory & vielem mehr!

Zum Programm: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/digital-history-forschungskolloquium/programm-sommersemester-2024

Das Kolloquium findet via Zoom statt & ist offen für alle, die sich für #DigitalHistory & #DigitalHumanities interessieren.

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@histodons #digiGW

Medieval #Illumination / #Illuminations picks of the day:

@MerlyBlack - Creates illuminations and works of calligraphy, as well as drawing and watercolours. Creates own paints using medieval recipes.

@kleavens - Illustrator, calligrapher, creates medieval-style illuminations.

@dailymedievalcats - Pictures of cats on medieval manuscripts

@medieval_illuminations - Bot posting medieval book illuminations

Devil's Historians: How Modern Extremists Abuse the Medieval Past

Myths about the medieval world have been used for centuries to justify some of the most toxic ideologies and the worst human rights abuses in history. In this book, Amy S. Kaufman and Paul B. Sturtevant examine the long, dark history of "The Devil's Historians"--people who manipulate and use myths about the medieval past to promote discrimination, oppression, and murder.

@bookstodon
#extremism
#MedievalHistory
#nonfiction

Next week, an international #symposium of the #UrbanROOTS subcluster will focus on »Places of Worship and Pilgrimage as a Matrix of the Urban«. It explores perception, imaginary, and atmosphere of these places. More information: https://www.cluster-roots.uni-kiel.de/en/calendar-events/conferences-workshops/international-symposium-places-of-worship-and-pilgrimage-as-a-matrix-of-the-urban
#history @histodons #urbanhistory #pilgrimage #medievalhistory #earlymodernhistory

I'd like to invite you all to our lecture series (which will be held via Zoom and in German) on "Manga, Film und Instagram - Klöster und Klerus in medialer Vielfalt". We will explore the depiction of #monks , #nuns and religious orders in various media, including movies, manga, and social media. If you are interested, you will find all information here: https://tud.link/xzj2

#FOVOG #Histodons @histodons #MedievalHistory #PublicHistory