From mid-February 2026, the MGH is able to make all articles from the DA and NA available in digital form, fully searchable and open access! #medievalsky mgh.de/en/publicati...

Diving into medieval #hospital books - an essay on #reuse of #objects in 14th century Florence is on its way based on a wide range of #archivalrecords from the still-operating hospital of #SantaMariaNuova. Thanks to @artandinequality.bsky.social and @glasgow.ac.uk for the support! #medievalsky

#MedievalSky Have you wondered how medieval inquisitors gathered the names of suspected heretics? We have some answers based on a quantitative study of the Stettin inquisition (1393-94). News on DISSINET home page: dissinet.cz/news/article... Link to the research article: doi.org/10.1093/llc/...

A review of two recent books on communications in the #earlymodern era on by Rachel Midura (@rmidura.bsky.social) and Joad Raymond Wren.

Return of the snow...

I'm pretty sure I know. They aren't. We're not going to really be able to make a lot of progress in dealing with the implications of this tech unless and until we get rid of all this "woo-woo" talk about LLMs. Anthropic pushing this line is PR, unserious.

The latest post in my series of overlooked medieval historians. This is the medieval social and economic historian Elena Skržinskaja. She studied the history of Italian merchants in the Black Sea during the late medieval period and also taught Latin paleography. #medievalsky

PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏 The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes. www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

I'm really hoping this @lrb.co.uk mousepad comes back in stock! Every time it reappears in the store I miss out.

The @echistsocreview.bsky.social has just published an online virtual issue in honour of Joel Mokyr, featuring a very nice introduction by @mdrelichman.bsky.social, available here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... #econhist

I've always wanted to visit Trieste. I first became aware of the city because it was the home of Joyce for so many years, but now I'm more interested in it as the port city of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Excited to see Maurits den Hollander’s Court, Credit, and Capital in print with Studies in Legal History at CUP. Court, Credit, and Capital uncovers how Amsterdam’s 17th-century insolvency court transformed insolvency law—from punishment to rehabilitation 1/3

In praise of Aldus Manutius, who died OTD in 1515. I did not know or had forgotten that he was tutor to two nephews of Pico della Mirandola before he set up shop as a Venetian printer: www.lindahall.org/about/news/s... #MedievalSky #BookHistory

Weekly reminder at @booksky.club #HistoryMatters @neglectedbooks.com If you haven't already - explore our story of War, Love and Survival in Indochina in the 1970's and 80's. Available audiobook, digital and paperback: THE LAST HELICOPTER: Two lives in Indochina.

Two 18th century bills of lading provide an interesting comparative analysis of these often overlooked commercial documents. The first in English, drawn up in the Port of Chichester on 19 December 1733, for a shipment wheat, textiles (mats), and wood bound for Genoa. #earlymodern

I must confess 'stoolball' was a new one on me. About June 1604 Agnes Grove of Biddlesden died; she had recently been widowed when her husband died 'with a surfet at stoolebale'; he headed off after she had given birth, 'played at Stoolebale & strayned & dyed'. #earlymodern

It's a full house tonight at Hart House at @utoronto.ca for the keynote lecture by @timothysnyder.bsky.social on "Ukrainian History as a World Story" #skystorians

I just recently caught up with this book as well after having read many pronouncements by Clive James over the past few decades regarding its greatness. It's a very powerful and sobering memoir about the dashed hopes and resiliency of these remarkable women. I'll definitely pick up the sequel!

I know that these things generally make little difference, but I would advise medievalists to sign the petition to save Classics and Medieval Studies at the University of Calgary. #medievalsky c.org/gGvyrHcwYt

A very useful bibliographic resource by @rogerpearse.bsky.social which provides descriptive links to all 161 volumes of the Patrologia Graeca available online. www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/patro... #medievalsky

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: Algebra I Algebra II Physics I Calculus I Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (these were my first year courses)

An important talk by Turkish journalist Can Dündar for those concerned about the continued creep of authoritarianism worldwide.

my latest in @theglobeandmail.com on how Trump is working to make the World Cup into a showcase for MAGA fascism, why a boycott is unlikely, and how the tournament will represent an important and volatile battleground over America’s & the world's future www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

It's nice to see that the new version of @zotero.org now has DOI fields for almost all item types, not just journal articles, along with numerous other features #academicsky #dh #digitalhumanities www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-8/

Great to see that John Henderson's lecture on Imagining the Pox in Renaissance Italy (delivered at The Medici Archive Project) is now available to watch online www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gN1...

Project 2029.

This looks to be a very promising resource. Researchers in computational humanities at @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social have created CoMMA, a large corpus of more than 32000 manuscripts from ca. 800 to 1600. www.inria.fr/en/comma-med... #medievalsky #earlymodern #dh #digitalhumanities

1/7: “Transmediterranean History” is a commented anthology of primary sources that aims at facilitating access to transmediterranean themes and their documentation roughly in the period between 600 and 1650. The anthology is published as a trilingual open access journal in German, English, Arabic.

A couple of new open-access titles of possible interest to scholars of medieval Europe -- this one on merchants, legal pluralism, and predictability in commerce: www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde... #MedievalSky

It's Holocaust Remembrance Day, so I'm taking a minute to repost this item on the medieval social and economic historian Łucja Charewiczowa, murdered in Auschwitz on 17 December 1943. #medievalsky

The Internet Archive (@archive.org) has digitized 42 volumes of the Medioevo Latino annotated bibliography, an important reference and research tool for medieval studies. #medievalsky archive.org/details/pub_...

📅 #Workshop: 'Linking Data and Digitizations for Medieval Manuscripts' | 3./4. Februar 2026, @unifr.bsky.social #medievalsky @fragmentarium.bsky.social

I did not know about this! Looks like a powerful research tool for social and family history.

The thoughts I encountered while spending far too much time completing my PhD thesis... ( inspired by @ncrenic.bsky.social ) #academicsky

Fantastic work by @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy to preserve and extend this important historical data! electricarchaeology.ca/2026/01/26/a...

The Internet Medieval Sourcebook is 30 year old today. with an inception date of 26th January 1996. It turns out that although not in any sense breaking new scholarship, it remains my most longstanding contribution to the republic of letters. sourcebooks.fordham.edu/sbook.asp

Liberty and Justice for All

RIP David Abulafia... one of the great scholars of the medieval Mediterranean #medievalsky

I am very sorry to hear of the passing of my PhD supervisor at Cambridge Professor David Abulafia. A very talented historian as well as a great supervisor and mentor who gave me sound career advice when I needed it. May his memory be a blessing. www.cai.cam.ac.uk/news/david-a...

In 2000 95% of Poland's electricity was from coal. Today it is 51%. Total coal generation in TWh dropped by 36%. Source is new @ember-energy.org European Electricity Review.

Every problem has a solution...

This data must be preserved and archived, and the government needs to release the dataset. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Law courts on tour! In times of plague, the central law courts could move from Westminster Hall. This lovely 16th Cent plan of Hertford Castle shows where the Courts of Requests, Wards, Common Pleas, King's Bench, and Exchequer were based when there. TNA MPF 1/161

Very useful online resource: Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources, which clears up a lot of confusion when trying to parse personal and familial names, particularly from Latin sources dmnes.org #medievalsky #earlymodern

Terrible news of the death of Stephen Baxter, superb historian and kind colleague. www.spc.ox.ac.uk/news/in-memo...

For @nybooks.com, I wrote about the transformation of the world economy since the 80’s, as beautifully told in Ian Kumekawa’s Empty Vessel (with a very brief shoutout to the city where I grew up) www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Les Annales ont la douleur d'annoncer le décès d'André Burguière, membre du comité de la revue de 1969 à 2022 et membre de son Conseil Scientifique. Ancien secrétaire de rédaction de la revue, André a joué un rôle décisif pour promouvoir l'anthropologie historique et l'histoire des mentalités. 1/4

Congratulations Craig. I'm looking forward to reading this!

How do you transform a fragile book into carefully maintained digital images & provide free, round-the-clock access for anyone, anywhere in the world? On January 28 at 11am (CT), join us for “The Extraordinary, Ordinary Work of Building a Digital Library,” a free, virtual program: hmml.org/events

Late medieval Latin verb of the day: exbligo, -are: to defend, to protect from harassment; an alternate form of the more commonly seen disbligo, -are, (or sometimes disbrigo, -are) which is often encountered in the "promittens" clause of medieval notarial contracts. #medievalsky