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When it rains, it pours! More medieval disease history today. @gi-anna97.bsky.social has just brought out her FIRST BOOK! Leprosy in the Mediterranean Medical Literature: The Kitāb al-Malakī and Related Texts. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... De Gruyter/Brill are having a sale. #MedievalSky

As a little treat for you, here's an #ArabicBible Advent calendar 🧵. Every day I'll post a verse from the Christmas story from one of the oldest Arabic Gospel lectionaries, Sinai ar. 72, dated 897 CE (and a few other texts in between). [2nd attempt, I won't be offended if you point out my nonsense.]

𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐍 𝐃𝐘𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐂𝐒: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡-𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 David Mesquita To register for this lecture: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/.../uncertai... #CSMBR #OnlineLecture #Diagnosis #Semiotics

CSMBR-ATLOMY Conference TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE IN HUMAN HISTORY After an enthusiastic beginning, yesterday, a second day of insightful presentations and discussions awaits our attendees. #CSMBR #Atlomy #Anatomy #3Dreconstruction

S/he explains why it can be necessary to *induce* vomiting sometimes, & that is when a woman is laboring from a dead fetus in her uterus. The plaster described is to be laid on her belly, & then immediately removed once the fetus is expelled. This circumstance is never mentioned by any male authors!

Reminder 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 Online Registration: 20 November Interested in the interaction between Classical Knowledge, Ancient Anatomy and 3D reconstruction? Please don't look any further (but check the programme!) csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/confe... #CSMBR #ATLOMY

Congratulations to Muhammed Omar & Nahyan Fancy (@fancynahyan.bsky.social) for the global press coverage they're getting on their new piece on the "trickster tales" at the heart of Black Death narratives. General bibliography on the whole pandemic here (#OpenAccess): docs.google.com/document/d/1...

So enthusiastic that I can now see star trek on social media

Reminder 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐭' 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞! csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin... #CSMBR #OnlineLectures #CompoundMedicamentes #ConstantinetheAphrican