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...

saturation with Tolkien spinoffs has somehow not prepared our culture for the arrival of dark lords bearing a gift that everyone becomes convinced they can wield to accomplish great things but just makes them dependent and start whispering about preciouses if you suggest just throwing it away

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! 😁

Looking forward to teaching a short course on digital approaches to (medieval) history in the autumn. Does anyone have any favourite things they'd recommend the students read?

This is an excellent thread which also points to one very important basic aspect of persecutions: They have to be manufactured & prepared. The frequent narrative of innate hatred or existing tensions often ignore how long it takes to generate the kind of hatred that flourishes into violence.

So, jetzt mal Reposts hochjazzen ... HALLO BUCHVERLOSUNG! "Zeiten haben" für umme. Wo gibt's das schon?! Zwei Hauptgewinne in der Lostrommel! Alle Reposts nehmen teil, die bis 4. Juli 2025, 21.00 Uhr MEZ eingehen. Und - ich muss bekloppt sein - es gibt noch einen formschönen Recycling-Kuli dazu!

My student Tatiana Petrukhina defended her dissertation "Custom in the Long Twelfth Century" on Friday the 13th. Seen here with her examination committee. It is a powerfully and elegantly argued thesis about practical reasoning about custom.

Any Medievalists want a copy of the newest edition of Debating #Medieval Europe - The central and later Middle Ages - for... free? Our DME books serve as an entry point for understanding the distinctive historiography of their periods. Hit repost and we'll add you to the giveaway 📗👇 #booksky

We are seeking a last-minute entry to the #leeds #IMC2025 hybrid panel "Women's Experiential and Intellectual Paradigms of Awareness"! Please send abstracts to [email protected] BEFORE JUNE 4. Details of panel at the following link: imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2025/pre...

Exciting and practical house designs coming out of Scandinavia

Blir sprø av argumentene «folk har mistet jobbene sine på grunn av utvikling før, det er ikke noe nytt med KI» og «det er bakstreversk å jobbe mot ny teknologi» kommer fra samme leir, som om ikke det er bakstreversk å tviholde på at det ikke går an å gjøre noe annerledes eller velge en annen fremtid

The Worker’s May-Pole, Walter Crane, 1894.

Which leads us to the *reason* why these headlines like “The Medieval Peasant Worked Less Than You!” keep on appearing. It’s because a nostalgia for an imagined past is used to excuse the mistakes of the present. 8/

Advice that applies to both bodybuilding and art history: part one. Eat protein forward meals. They help to build muscle and provide slow release energy needed for long days in the museum.

Transphobia is evil, & a tool for evil. Nunc et semper.

You know why European countries are so quiet about the El Salvador situation? Because they started the normalisation of extraterritorial detention of migrants and asylum seekers, often without any due process. The UK’s Rwanda plan. Italy’s attempted plan with Albania. And some still want to do it.