Juan Sagredo. Traducción de Francisco de Olivares Murillo (1684). Memorias Históricas de los Monarcas Otomanos (Libros III y IV). Edición de Fernando Fernández Lanza. Actualización versiculada de Emilio Sola: www.archivodelafrontera.com/bibliografia...

In 2025 the central Mediterrenean remained one of the deadliest borders in the world. In the last 12 months at least 1,184 people have died or are missing while attempting to cross the sea between Libya, Tunisia and Italy.

En 2026 se vienen cositas espaciales.

The proof was in the pudding all along. RED-COATS, people, RED-effing-COATS. It's so obvious, ain't it?

1 year ago, today, a legendary Egyptian performer passed away. Although I never met Ahmad Adawiya, I felt like I knew him. In this essay for New Lines Magazine, which later appeared in Arabic in Egypt, I reflect upon the challenges Adawiya faced, and why his music meant so much to so many.

Sa Crabarissa di Austis / La triste leggenda di un amore sfortunato Il paese di Austis si trova nella Barbagia di Ollolai ed il suo territorio è, da sempre, un luogo di passaggio per le greggi durante il periodo della transumanza.

"Although Ankara will remain a major player in the regional order, and a dominant one in Syria, it will not be able to turn back the clock to the time when it was the single dominant force in the Middle East" www.foreignaffairs.com/turkey/erdog...

New book — Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Medieval Mediterranean, ed. Jessalyn L. Bird and Rita George-Tvrtković #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/20072

"Es gehört übrigens besonderes Geschick dazu, Maccaroni zu essen ...", Brockhaus 1839. Artikel "Maccaroni" meine beste Lektüre heute.

Anónimo griego: Crónica de los emperadores, sultanes y patriarcas de Constantinopla (1391-1517). Introducción, edición y traducción de Daniel Ayora y José Manuel Floristán: www.archivodelafrontera.com/bibliografia... Una edición bilingüe y cuidada de una crónica griega de mediados del siglo XVI...

Hanukkah special reading list on the history of energy and fuel in the Mediterranean basin. (sorry for the delay, I did not have access to my computer) #4 Malanima (2016) Energy consumption in England and Italy, 1560–1913.Two pathways toward energy transition www.academia.edu/26111377/Ene...

We're going to end up with a two-tier world. One ever faster, overflowing with AI and near-zero trust and one using snail mail, hard copies and face-to-face meetings because that's where trust can be assumed.

"Quelles limites fixer au désir de figer dans le temps les liens représentatifs de modes de vie passés ?" Jean-Louis Jeannelle, @lemonde.fr

La mala sangre que estoy haciendo con este libro. Demasiado Patrimonio Histórico destruido por especuladores, caciques y estúpidos.

Fabio De Ninno - L'Italia sul mare La politica di difesa dalla NATO al Mediterraneo allargato À paraître en janvier chez Laterza

📬 Issue #286! With comments by Soner Çağaptay, Hasan Ünal and more. Inside: 1. Erdoğan seeks S-400 refund 2. Interview with an EU skeptic 3. Arrest spotlights AKP ‘civil war’ 4. Domestic and diplomatic wraps 5. Tigris River foaming at the mouth

most interesting (specially considering the link with the energy revolution slowing gaining pace in Spain at the time)

2025’s final lecture focused on the early period of Islamic political thought (from its beginnings to al-Farabi). It was, in fact,an online guest lecture at Istanbul University. This gave me the opportunity to read some relatively recent publications on the socio-economic context. 3 wonderful reads:

"The Polisario Front is set to file a new appeal at the European Court by the end of the year, challenging the EU-Morocco agricultural and fisheries agreement": maghrebi.org?sdm_process_...

« L’embouchure du Var, une aire protégée littorale dans un espace méditerranéen anthropisé » un format court par Clara Loïzzo #LittorauxFrance #environnements Illustration : cliché de Paul Martin, décembre 2025. geoconfluences.ens-lyon.fr/informations...

Hanukkah special reading list on the history of energy and fuel in the Mediterranean basin. #4 Fabre (2021) Commerce et marchandisation du bois à Toulouse à la fin du Moyen Âge classiques-garnier.com/commerce-et-...

#Lire 📖 🏛️ 40 ans après la disparition de Fernand Braudel, Yves David Hugo revient sur ce penseur du capitalisme, figure des sciences sociales. Un article @laviedesidees.bsky.social à l'occasion du colloque "Les mondes de Fernand Braudel" de la @fondationmsh.bsky.social 👉 https://urlr.me/xFGA5Z

A Santorin, les séismes étaient bien d’origine magmatique

Erdogan is eating humble borek.

Oh wow!!! Can't wait. And I'm super excited by what seems to be a massive effort on the set design. Palestine appears not as a desert populated by a few Beduins but as a bustling and reasonably prosperous agrarian country. It's the sort of image necessary to destroy an old zionist myth.

Andrea's good at his job

I couldn't get home on time today to light on the candle but my 5yo daughter reassured me over the phone with a metaphore I would not have expected from the most inspired of rabbis : "In my heart, there is a little pocket in which there is the world's largest candle, and it never goes off."

Hanukkah special reading list on the history of energy and fuel in the Mediterranean basin. #3 Barak (2020) Powering Empire. How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization www.ucpress.edu/books/poweri... Powering Empire is the perfect book for a reading list. It's opinionated,

Libyan authorities reported that Ahmed Oumar al-Fitouri al-Dabbashi, a militia leader long associated with large-scale migrant trafficking across the Mediterranean, was killed during a security raid: maghrebi.org?sdm_process_...

En muchas ciudades del Occidente medieval había burdeles donde la prostitución era legal; sin embargo, fuera seguía estando perseguida. En todas las cuentas hay una sección de multas dedicada a "fembres públiques, errades, cantoneres e altres àvols de lurs cossos". ⏬⏬⏬

La génétique révolutionne notre compréhension des migrations et des identités au Moyen Âge, en intégrant des données biologiques, archéologiques et historiques. Découvrez-en plus ici :

🎅December Will of the Month!🎅 This merchant from the Republic of Ragusa made reference to the altarpiece he commissioned ✝️ 300 silk stockings🧦400 pairs of stirrups🐴, and a parrot 🦜. #EarlyModern 🗃️ sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... @leverhulme.ac.uk @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social

La Tragantía es una mujer-serpiente que aterroriza a los cazorleños en la noche de San Juan... pero su leyenda va MUCHO más allá de lo que suele contarse. De ello trata el artículo con el que tengo el honor de participar en la gran Revista de Folklore 👇👇 shorturl.at/KUtjU

Acabamos de publicar completos y en abierto los tres «Libros de Cámara del Concejo. Actas Municipales de Vitoria» que nuestros colegas medievalistas llevan investigados y escritos, uno por año. Aquí te dejamos portadas y autores. Los libros están en #HILAME ⬇️ www.hilame.info/estudios/

Turns out Ohran Pamuk is also a gifted painter. I'm not fully onboard but I can't deny the poetry is there.

December 16, 1631, the most violent & destructive eruption in the recent history of Vesuvius, Italy, starts. In the first 24 hours, the eruption generated a series of ash-fall events & pyroclastic flows, destroying villages on the flanks of the mountain ...

Wooden structures atop a more robust building is my favorite architectural feature.

preach!

Hanukkah special reading list on the history of energy and fuel in the Mediterranean basin. #2 Bartolomé Rodríguez & González-Mariscal (2021) The Domestic Consumption of Firewood in Preindustrial Seville, 1518. An Intensive Bias Driven by the Mediterranean Diet academic.oup.com/ereh/article...

It gives me great pleasure to announce that I have just been awarded a Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust to conduct a three-year research project at Nottingham Trent Uni. The project is entitled "Professional mobility at the time of the Crusades, 1099-1291." @leverhulme.ac.uk

uuuuuh I'm so excited! Somehow Turkish music never disappoints!

—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter —Infanta? —No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly

that looks fascinating

The hanukkah energy in Mediterranean history reading list thread:

I love reading lists. Selecting entries is such a challenging and though-provoking task - and a joyful one because it's the occasion of much banter. So, for Hanukkah, I wanted to draw a list of history books and articles related to one of the subjects evoked by the holyday. Energy felt topical

Hanukkah special reading list on the history of energy and fuel in the Mediterranean basin. #1 Mahmud Makal (1950) Bizim Köy [English trans. Our Village, 1954] It's an athropological work based on the daily observations of a school teacher in a morbidly poor landlocked village of central Anatolia.

Oh maaaaaan!

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