Sehr schöne Rezension von Prof. Werner E. Gerabek zu: Claire Burridge, Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice, c. 775–900. New Approaches to Recipe Literature. Brill 2024. data.mgh.de/databases/da... Das Buch gibt es Open Access hier: brill.com/display/titl... #histmed #medievalsky

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I'm using this Tuesday to promote my article "The functions of religion and science in utopian thinking in the middle ages and the early modern period", published open access in the Belgrade Philosophical Annual: scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/035....

Leute reden drüber, was an den Unis gestrichen wird, wenn die AfD an die Macht kommt, aber dass jetzt schon seit einiger Zeit Studiengänge gestrichen und Institute aufgelöst werden, darüber können wir ruhig auch sprechen.

Og Der! møttes norsk 17. mai og den internasjonale dagen mot homo- og transfobi! Det er vakkert, dere

Vikingtidsmuseet får 135 millioner til rehabilitering av den gamle delen av museet. Et skritt i riktig retning. www.uniforum.uio.no/nyheter/2026...

Vital thread for historians, other researchers who use digitized historical archives, and teachers. AI is altering docs via transcript and summary, and it’s radically changing them in dangerous ways:

Multimillionär vergisst bei seinen Aufforderungen, dass alle den Gürtel enger schnallen müssen, mysteriöserweise immer Multimillionäre www.der-postillon.com/2026/05/guer...

Blir bare progressivt mer rasende jo lenger ned i saken jeg leser.

Colleagues at the museum, who are working on the site now, inform that thus far 4300 silver coins have been found, well-preserved, deposited some time around the mid-11th century.

Hey there fellow syllabus-makers! Having sunk hours into finding student-friendly chapters on basic aspects of medieval history, I figured I'd sink several more into putting them in a handy list so I can quickly find them again—and so can you! Drop-down contents lists included for quick comparison.

This is a really exciting find, especially because it sheds much needed light on C11 Norway: www.sciencenorway.no/archaeology-.... This was a period when the infrastructure to support a more centralised royal authority was being established, as well as that of the nascent church organisation. (1/n)

Today's highlight in Norway: News shared about the discovery of the largest coin hoard from the Viking Age Norway. Exciting times for colleagues @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social and elsewhere! www.sciencenorway.no/archaeology-...

I’m delighted to see ‘The Caliph and the Falcons’ take to the skies at Early Medieval Europe! I had a blast writing this with @medivalist.bsky.social as we followed the extraordinary journey of falcons from Scandinavia all the way to Baghdad. #medievalsky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Puzzle Binding! Tricky! These are almost as rare as hen's teeth, and we just... Had One??? And, it includes HOW Many Books? (Five from Germany c. 1601 and a blank one at last count...) #Vexierbuch #DosADos @newberrylibrary.bsky.social (Case C 823 .966)

Promotionsstipendium an der Uni Frankfurt - gestiftet von Marie-Luise Recker, offen für Arbeiten in den Historischen Geisteswissenschaften! Bewerbungsschluss ist der 24.3.2026 www.hsozkult.de/grant/id/sti...

"Das Bild, das derzeit von Europa als Hort der Demokratie und internationalen Kooperation, als liberaler Gegenpart den USA unter Trump entgegengehalten wird, ist aber ein Mythos."

Som kontrast til nettsiden til Nasjonalbiblioteket, der knappen "Spør biblioteket" *ikke* tar deg til en chatbot, men derimot til en side der du kan avtale en telefonsamtale med et ekte menneske.

Dette er så hårreisende idiotisk at det er vanskelig å tro. Enda verre blir det faktisk om man følger lenken om tips og råd.

Tusen takk til Hilde Henriksen Waage for utmerket formidling denne uka. Denne var ny for meg: Rød-Larsen har kuppa arkivet etter Osloprosessen. At UD har godtatt dette er en skandale. www.dn.no/innlegg/fred...

Man streicht die Kurse, zu denen man die Leute verpflichtet, verhindert die Integration, deren Mangel man beklagt. Und morgen wirft man den Betroffenen wahrscheinlich wieder Mangel an Dankbarkeit vor. www.fr.de/politik/inte...

Es hat Gründe, dass in den Epstein Files ein großer Teil der damals führenden KI Forscher auftaucht. Nicht nur weil sie Creeps sind (das auch!) sondern weil es dort und zu Leuten wie Peter Thiel massive ideologische Überschneidungen gibt.

“Die Parallelen zu Deutschland sind erschreckend und offensichtlich. Nahezu gar nicht wird über die Verflechtungen der Union mit der Heritage Foundation, die hinter #Project 2025 steht, berichtet. Wir hören stattdessen, wie JournalistInnen besprechen, ob sie (2)

Congratulations to Nikhil Malik, who successfully defended his thesis "Manufacturing Utopia: Refugees, Labour, and the Making of the New Industrial Township Faridabad, 1947-1960" for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD) @UiO - Det humanistiske fakultet.

A great journey reaches a milestone. www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english...

🌟💀MORÐ lanseres 4. mars! 💀🌟 Før det kan du forhåndsbestille boka, attpåtil signert og med personlig hilsen, og jeg har fått beskjed om at det beste stedet å gjøre det er her: bok.norli.no/mord

An interesting PhD opportunity (i.e. job!) at Oslo on the project POLYCHROME: "Candidates should propose a research project that examines, in one form or another, historical sources that shed light on changing attitudes to medieval objects after the Reformations in the Scandinavian countries."

This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Gavene er åpnet, og du har sikkert fått mange nye bøker. Men hva skal du gjøre når alle er lest? Frykt ikke! Nå kan du forhåndsbestille boka hvor jeg tar dere med tilbake til 1400-tallet og forteller om hva som skjer når vanlige norske bønder må løse en mordgåte. kagge.no/produkt/sakp...

Oh, it goes deeper than that. The Christmas tree is actually a folk memory of the two trees of Valinor, whose pure light was captured in the Silmarils (Silmaril -> ilmaril -> irmarel -> ermarel -> ornamel > ornament)

a lot of people don't realize that Christmas carols and traditions are actually folk memories of suppressed pre-Christian events, namely the end of the Third Age and the Fall of Sauron.

There's lots of ongoing work as we're preparing for the new Museum of the Viking Age to open in Oslo. Our museum, @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social is now hiring an Associate Professor in Nordic archaeology, with expertise in the Viking Age. www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still... #Vikingtidsmuseet

Earlier this year, I took over as the editor-in-chief of the Norwegian scholarly journal Collegium Medievale, which publishes articles in both English & Scandinavian languages. This year's ordinary issue has just been published, & is open access: ojs.novus.no/index.php/CM....

This is a terrific article by Tim, with fascinating implications for people interested in manuscripts, magic and beekeeping 🐝 #medievalsky

There is actually an English announcement: Open (salaried) PhD-position in Bodø: "Norway 1030: Regionalism, Representations and Narrative in the North" www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Ledig PhD-stilling i Bodø: "Norge 1030: Regionalisme, representasjoner og narrativ i nord" stilling.forskning.no/nord-univers...

Mit fehlen die Worte. "Der Bundestag stimmte für eine Gesetzesänderung, durch die ein sogenannter Pflichtanwalt entfällt. () Der CSU-Politiker argumentierte, Ziel sei es, die Zahl der Abschiebungen zu steigern." www.deutschlandfunk.de/abschiebehae...

Orange Idol #medievalsky #ShameOnFIFA The Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.751, f. 29v

This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is. The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

The way the AI con is presented in the public discourse, it is very easy to lose track of the material imprint of digital technology. These are some excellent reminders.

Each year I help some students in the fine art of article writing, and every now and then one makes it to print! Very proud of Tim Hertogh (Oslo/MINiTEXTS) and his article 'The Lorscher Bienensegen is an Amulet: Using Manuscript Margins to Make Amulets' #MedievalSky mtc-journal.org/index.php/mt...

Das ist übrigens Eugenik. Wenn du einmal beginnst zu selektieren, wem du hilfst und wem nicht, dann gehst du einen Weg, der nicht aufzuhalten ist. Streeck ist Mediziner und weiß das natürlich. Das macht es so perfide. Vor allem, weil er zwei rhetorische Tricks verwendet:

this seems bad boss futurism.com/ai-browser-h... brave.com/blog/comet-p...

Really exciting book news out of Norway. And while the article focusses on the sealskin binding, I'm even more excited by the fact that these neumes are not square, which suggests a date well before 1200.

Vom Straßenbild zum Stadtbild, von den Nazis über AfD zu CSU/CDU, von Juden über Flüchtlinge zu Migranten und zu Menschen mit Migrationsgeschichte. Und dann? Wie viele Warnsignale brauchen wir noch? Was müssen sie noch alles sagen, bis wir endlich begreifen, was sie in Wahrheit meinen?

It's Michaelmas, so it's also the anniversary of the battle of Auray (1364), which marked the beginning of the end of the Breton War of Succession begun 23 years earlier. And you know what? Let's mark it with a 🚨BOOK GIVEAWAY🚨 this time! (Charles de Blois has never had a stranger memorial...)

Im Namen der #Demokratie wird Herrschaft ausgeübt — und zurückgewiesen. #Marx bringt so die grundlegende Ambivalenz von Demokratie auf den Punkt. Wir freuen uns über Alex Demirovićs Buch: »Marx als Demokrat oder: Das Ende der Politik« — und verlosen zur Feier unserer Neuerscheinung 1 Exemplar 👇 /1

And Open Access, too! 😁