Reading myself

It is an expensive habit.

Versión de 1608 de "como en Galicia no se come" (felices como "perdices") Carta ó conde de Gondomar

Marisa Rey-Henningsen, one of the leading anthropologists of 20th-century Galician culture has passed away. Her work alongside Gustav Henningsen has been among the finest in the field.

Many congratulations from @royalhistsoc.org and we are very pleased you have joined us as a Fellow. We look forward to working with you.

I am delighted to announce that I have just been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society! @royalhistsoc.org

Walter Benjamin aspired to be “the foremost critic of German literature.” A new biography refuses to reduce him to allegory, instead dwelling in his faith, friendship, and startling prescience, Anahid Nersessian writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/OtJ9U7

I wonder if there is a musical version of one of the few hymns composed to remember the death of a king in the High Middle Ages in Iberia, in this case Ferdinand II of Galicia and León (1188). "Nec Martis horror terruit..."

Ya está abierta la matrícula para el próximo curso de verano (13-15 de julio) en la UNED - Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia sobre "El sexo en el arte y la cultura medieval".

Following the places of Scott and Bruce Abbotsford-Melrose

The writing is on the wall.

Angelus Novus 11th century Beneventan manuscript in Coimbra / Paul Klee

Ivory in ivory. An ivory plaque depicting a horseman and three men on foot carrying a large elephant tusk. San Millán de la Cogolla, Castile. San Millán casket (11th century), ivory plaque, destroyed in II World War.

e-codices Newsletter No. 63 (Spring 2026) webapps.unifr.ch/newsletter/a... @fragmentarium.bsky.social

A new study based on the bibliographic tool Regesta Imperii Opac, @regestaimperii.bsky.social, which reveals that the international field of medieval history has been growing steadily by about 2.5% a year, doubling every 27.5 years. If you sometimes feel you can't keep up - yep, you can't.

Coming soon

Prochaine lecture : la nouvelle biographie de Marc Bloch par @pschottler.bsky.social bientôt en librairie 😍

A bookcase speaks (11th century)

The evangelist in the mirror or the dangers of being a bull in a Twelfth-century manuscript

Medieval (not-angry) birds Hugh of Fouilloy, De avibus, Coimbra, Portugal, Early 13th century (Santa Cruz 34)

Próximamente en @uneduniv.bsky.social "El sexo en el arte y la cultura medieval" extension.uned.es/actividad/50...

"but God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall lie open to one another"

‘If the reading revolution represented the greatest transfer of knowledge to ordinary men and women in history, the screen revolution represents the greatest theft of knowledge from ordinary people in history’.

When Bulgar khan Boris sent Pope Nicholas a list of questions about Christianity in 866, he asked if it was sinful for Christians to wear pants (breeches). Nicholas replied that he couldn't care less, as long as we 'spiritually wear pants' against carnal hijinks (spiritaliter induimur femoralibus) 🩳

A lost old world. Two 12th-century candelabra featuring three allegorical figures representing the three continents and their respective attributes: Africa-Scientia (Science, Knowledge); Europa-Bellum (War); Asia-Divitie (Wealth). Possibly Liège, 12th century dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/arti...

Now in open access! Also with a contribution on medicine and cannibalism in Early Medieval Iberia...🧐 peterlang.com/document/129...

"Ubi bestia ascendit de terra" (Beato de Valcavado)

Près de 500 000 Espagnols fuirent en France en janvier-février 1939. Les hommes furent « accueillis » dans des camps et les autorités firent leur possible pour qu’ils quittent la France. En dépit de cela, des milliers participèrent à la Résistance. www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...

"in order that the happiness of the saints may be more delightful to them and that they may render more copious thanks to God for it, they are allowed to see perfectly the sufferings of the damned" www.newadvent.org/summa/5094.htm

Always "Les Rois Thaumaturgues", now on a plastic postmodern version. No miracles here

"A Idade Media non inventou a pena de morte, un procedemento que xa existía no mundo romano e que perviviu ata non hai tanto en Europa occidental". Así nolo conta o investigador da @usc.gal @abeldelorenzo.bsky.social para @es.theconversation.com.

innovatingknowledge.nl A great database on Isidore Etymologiae in Early Medieval Europe

International "toxo"

Brueghel & Martín Gaite t.co/kXLqUNPdeP

If your "personal Jesus" is Antinous Richard Sennett, Flesh and Stone, 1994

Appel à contribution – Ouverture de la revue « Cahiers de civilisation médiévale » aux articles en langues étrangères et élargissement des bornes de la revue rmblf.be/2026/04/06/a...

A successful non-missionary expedition to Inchcolm to preach the seagulls, the seals and puffins!

Francisco Goya, "Tristes presentimientos de lo que ha de acontecer" ("Sad forebodings of what is going to happen"), first plate from the Disasters of War series, published 1863 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Blooming

"We have no servants: we have no dominion over men, who are just like we are. Besides, it is cruel to press a man into slavery whom nature has decreed to be our brother, and who has been created by the same heavenly father as we are." -apocryphal reply of Dindimus the Brahmin to Alexander the Great

How a 13th century list of books in a monastery can give information on walled up women... "Another thick Psalter which was the one given to the emparedida"

No one wants to be a peasant, even though they were the main social group and, by far, the largest and most importante workforce for millennia. Unfortunately, no one wants to be part of the crowd

Le retour du roi

A barbarian goes to Rome, where priests of a 2000 year old religion have been doing exegesis of every possible aspect of it for centuries. Expecting to somehow reinvent the antichrist wheel already re-invented 1000 times.

Parution en ligne des actes d'une journée d'étude (2024) sur les échanges de textes entre les péninsules ibérique et italienne dans le haut Moyen Âge, à l'occasion du centenaire de la naissance de Manuel Díaz y Díaz. www.mirabileweb.it/edgalluzzo/m...

Parece que os arcebispos de Santiago eran, dende Xelmírez, expertos en xogar ás agachadas post-mortem

Crab-tholicism (always fascinated by the semiotics of old masters paintings)