Everyday writings, often following no fixed plan, are likely to account for the majority of all handwritten production in human history. The new volume of Studies in Manuscript Cultures explores how the practice of taking notes shapes written artefacts and vice versa. Open access! uhh.de/csmc-notes

This probably counts as shameless self-advertisement, but here is an interview about my ERC project.

We’re celebrating a milestone today: 50 volumes of ‘Studies in Manuscript Cultures’! Join us for a look back at the series’ history and a glimpse into the newest volumes: uhh.de/csmc-smc-jub... Hybrid event, all welcome! Almost all volumes are open access – plenty to read for the holiday season!

11. The history discipline venerates the single authored work too much and often discourages collaboration

Glad my graduate alma mater cut 60 degree programs in subjects that require people to think so that they could offer this. Looking forward to living in a world full of Prompt Engineers.

Apparently National Taiwan Museum is having a exhibit called "Kublai Khan and His Era" through October 12. #MongolSky

2026 will mark the fourth consecutive year that the study of Mongol Eurasia has been presented in separate panels at @imc-leeds.bsky.social. Here is the call for papers. Spread the word and come along! #mongolsky #tengri #medievalsky www.academia.edu/143008741/Ca...

The Digitales Turfan Archiv, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademische der Wissenschaften, has digistised collections of the various materials found in Turfan, including Mongolian and Uyghur materials of the Mongol Empire. #Mongolsky #tengri #mongolempire

📢 The latest 'Document of the Month' is available now at invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk. Mateen Arghandehpour writes on a land sale deed in Old Uyghur. 🔍 Find this - and nearly 300 new #documents - in the third release on www.invisible-east.org! #digitalhumanities #olduyghur #medievalsky #skystorians

Hâte d'y être !

Should be out this coming Spring: Documents géographiques de Dunhuang. Guides et traités illustrés, topographies et recueils du Moyen Âge chinois. Paris: Collège de France, 2005

So this is really cool: a stamp impression from the library of the Ilkhanid vizier Rashid al-Din (d. 1318). It reads “pious endowment [waqf] of the Rashidiyya library,” & it may have been inspired by Chinese prints/stamps. Stamped waqf notices are totally unheard of for this time!

The fabulous, if, yes, somewhat idiosyncratic, 1979 Hungarian movie poster for “Star Wars: A New Hope”, by András Felvidéki.

I gave the @fallofcivspod.bsky.social some assistance on this project. It's an impressive six hours long overview of the Mongol Empire; I am excited to see how he brought it all together and recommend you check it out as well! youtu.be/YyqS9V7yHQA?...

I just created a feed for all posts tagged with these two hashtags. It also responds to #mongolempire and #innerasia. Feel free to suggest other (more convenient?) ones. It is, of course, still quite empty for now, but with time and your participation, it may grow. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Simon started to organise our tümen!