As a result of this, the descendants of that early Granada now live mainly in the Pyrenees and Zaragoza; although the Muslim population – the one that remained intact – still had several more centuries of glory, and they built most of what you can see now…

Happy Pride Month! We suggest you read "Speculative Relations" by @[email protected], "Spoiled" by @summerkimlee.bksy.social and "Torn" by @storti.bsky.social. buff.ly/VkG62Pv.

Celebrating Allen Ginsberg on his centennial 👑🎂 photo taken at Fantasy Records in Berkeley CA, 1950s

CYCLE OF HATE and then the pic is this

Just out in newest HTR!! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (As always, happy to send a PDF to anyone w/o institutional access)

Surely there is a long German word for that unshakable late-stage anxiety when you’re in final revisions of a publication and suddenly find yourself wondering “did a German orientalist already publish on roughly this same idea 150 years ago?”

So I had one of those days that was technically useless in that I didn’t write anything BUT omg I read so many cool archival things. Willing myself not to let the utterly anti intellectual culture of productivity in academia ruin that feeling.

Out today in PMLA: my essay on the affordances of the maritime as an analytical category & citational system (rather than ecorepresentative motif). Beyond thrilled that poets like Camilo Pessanha, Fernando Sylvan and Yao Feng will now have their day in PMLA alongside Mallarmé, Pessoa, & Camões 🌊

Pois dupla vida é o que vive o poeta: entendimento e amor, duplo perigo.

Anne Carson, Plainwater

Now in #paperback, Francisco Bethencourt's Strangers Within provides the first comprehensive history of New Christians, the descendants of Jews forced to convert to Catholicism in late medieval Spain and Portugal. Read a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #History

AIPAC saying that its critics are discredited by receiving funding from George Soros is, unfortunately, the logical endpoint to the current discourse of "antisemitism and anti-Zionism are synonymous" espoused by the American right.

CFP: Together and Apart: Muslims, Jews, and Christians in Medieval Spain (In-Person) PAMLA, Seattle, November 12-15, 2026 Contact: Matthew Warshawsky, University of Portland ([email protected]) Organizers are still seeking submissions for this panel. Abstracts may be submitted until June 30th.

A bowl from the early 11th century, produced in Cordoba, depicting a woman sitting on a mattress while drinking. She has kohl—a type of powder eyeliner—on, and we see on her cheek a curled sidelock a hairstyle of Abbasid origins. 🧵 [1/4]

coffee: the bean juice

Um minuto de silêncio pela internet

An organization like FIRE is going to look at this and conclude the problem is with faculty, who are insufficiently heterodox, and not with the fact that one political party has made it their goal to dismantle my profession and everything I do. Why would we vote for those who openly hate us?

Free event at the Weston Library in collaboration with @ochjs.bsky.social and part of Jewish Culture Month. A talk featuring two case studies of Jewish and Christian scholarly collaboration in past centuries by Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger and Dr César Merchán-Hamann.

Desire, a lightning strike By Galician poet Pilar Pallarés, tr. Maurice Harmon Desire, a lightning strike lifted us as one towards a blood-red sky torn by a bolt.

Quantas pessoas jogaram o texto da nova encíclica papal no chatgpt pra resumir?

A list of things Kierkegaard said in his notebooks.

Fifty-five years ago! Happy Birthday Bob Dylan Peanuts cartoon!!*

preparing my weekly anecdote to the decadence of a professional class that constantly chases novel gustatory experiences

good afternoon Camilo Pessanha

Eugénio de Andrade nasceu a 19 de Janeiro de 1923.

Dear committee members, I am writing to apply for the position of Assistant Professor of English Nostalgic Cattle Ranching at the Ivy League University at State Campus. I am a medievalist specializing in the literary history of Anglo-Norman and Latin pastoral lyric poetry of the thirteenth and fourt

Good morning with Portuguese poet Herberto Helder on the dangers of poetic harmony of poet and object. Translated by the always great Alexis Levitin. Don't put your hands on objects close to you. Harmony burns.

🧵 on grade inflation as a practical issue rather than a moral problem.

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

La corónica is pleased to announce that Adán Ramírez-Figueroa (Harvard Univ.) has received the 2026 Nancy Marino Prize for his paper, “’Las del buen amor son rraçones encobiertas’: On the Provenance of Manuscript T of the Libro de Buen Amor.” lcclacoronica.org/journal/2025...

Such a fabulous article — and an equally fabulous special issue!

I'm hiring for a funded PhD in 'global' medieval history or trans-Mediterranean entanglements at my chair in Bochum, Germany, from 1 Oct 2026 — 3 yrs, your own project, 3 hrs/week teaching in the History Department, at 65 %of TVL-13 (~€2050/month after tax). Apply by 31 May — or please share 👇

Some Sunday melancholy with Portuguese poet Eugénio de Andrade. The hands (My translation) Such useless melancholy these hands not even flowers offering themselves: when open they are just abandonment closed, they are immense eyelids heavy with sleep.

What would baffle Chaucer more: the concept of copyright itself or this usage of "y" for "þ"?

Walt Whitman

rtbrasil.com/noticias/379... ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

If you are confusing courtly love and Courtney Love you probably need more than a Wikipedia redirect to set you straight, but appreciate this clarification!

Good morning to the aubade poets

made a thing — IN THE DISTANCE, SIRENS. — limited edition, hand-stitched zine. part political pamphlet, part survival manual, part bedtime reading for incurable doomscrollers. order now before the sirens get any closer: buymeacoffee.com/carrozo/e/53...

Dia 21 de maio publicamos uma entrevista com Sam the Kid, Samuel Mira, rapper e produtor, voz do hip hop português desde os anos 1990, criador da Tv Chelas, e acérrimo defensor de Chelas, de onde é natural. 📩 Subscreve para a receberes no email: fumaca.pt/subscrever/?...

Love seeing this in print! Thank you to @mlnjournal.bsky.social @becquer.bsky.social and especially @victoriajane.bsky.social for getting this out into the world

Conversations with a Madeira caffinch 💫

for the foreseeable future, every llm has enough puppyplay chat and fan fiction in its training that you can jailbreak them by finding new and different ways to allude to treating them like dogs

Instructive for those of us still harboring the fantasy that an election or two will "return things to normal" (i.e. rid us of the fascists).

"Grad school teaches us to narrow our idea of who we are and what we do. But we remain whole people. We tell our students that the training we provide isn’t about the content, but habits of mind to enable lifelong learning. It’s true! And [with] public writing we can put that into practice."

My old flat

If you missed seeing the alphabetized Hebrew Psalms live, you can watch the recording now! youtu.be/2WwkKau-tm0

Archaic word of the day: cordwainer - a shoemaker; a worker in cordovan leather (first recorded in 1150; Middle English cordewaner) #englishlanguage #history #medievalsky