Prof. Dr. Sabine Schlegelmilch, seit kurzem ganz offiziell Lehrstuhlinhaberin für Geschichte der Medizin in Würzburg, zu ihrer Arbeit - auch mit KI: idw-online.de/en/news861333 #histmed #bookhistory

Once upon a time in a university near you, in-person teaching was a thing, as you can see in this image of 1612. Young people with hats came together, regularly and voluntarily, prepared for classes, and enjoying a lively learning situation of *checks notes*, a 90 minutes monolog of someone else ...

Some #lichen and #fungi from trees near the Baltic Sea

A much more exciting week brought 76 #Manuscripts online at the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Includes a glossed Priscian, a bunch of 17th C Barberini stuff, a pile more Ge'ez, many Cicero, Iñigo de Mendoça's Spanish _Vita Christiana_, and MORE #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Anyone got a spare £million? Asking for.... Well, asking for me news.artnet.com/art-world/me...

Am Meer gehen die Uhren anders: die eine vor, die andere nach und der Zug fährt eigentlich schon seit längerem um 34 nach ab...

3-year postdoc with CODICUM project for a medievalist placed in Odense, Denmark! Special focus on Latin, palaeography & Dominican text and book history 📖😍🕵️ tinyurl.com/yrt4x8y3

I learned there are #lichen fans in bluesky, here are two from Austria:

Didn't someone make a political commercial about that?

A wonderful beard lichen in a tree in central Finland. Eine wunderbare Bartflechte an einem Baum in Mittelfinnland. Die Autokorrektur macht aus beard lichen Beats Kuchen, das muss ich nicht verstehen ...

Mal was fürs Herz.🫶 Diese Bilder entstanden in Sassari auf Sardinen und zeigen tausende Stare. Murmuration nennt sich das und dient in erster Linie dazu Fressfeinde zu verwirren. Natur kann schon echt geil sein.

New manuscript pages have recently been published. Check capitularia.uni-koeln.de/en/blog/neue... to find out more. #medievalsky #capitularia #manuscripts

I had a great time speaking with Matilda Siebrecht about medieval manuscripts, European mss in North America, and of course my favorite manuscript (#Voynich)! Here's part 1 of our conversation: open.spotify.com/episode/60q1...

Even the fires of a world war could not destroy this magnificent mandrake. Kassel, 2° Ms. phys. et hist. nat. 10, 9th c.: orka.bibliothek.uni-kassel.de/viewer/image... #histmed #bookhistory #medievalsky

The Special Issue of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Orosius Through the Ages, is out!! Co-edited with Elisabeth Manzo & Cameron Wachowich, on the boil since 2019, we're so pleased with the final output. Both Dr M. & Dr W. have completed their PhDs since then too!

Unusually lavish for a medical manuscript. Florence, BML, Plut. 73.16, f.181v and f.182r, c. 1250: tecabml.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll... #histmed #bookhistory #medievalsky

This little manuscript contains a treatise on cosmography that describes and illustrates the Ptolemaic model of a spherical earth at the center of the concentric spheres of the universe, and includes diagrams of eclipses and an astrolabe (UPenn LJS 26) #medievalsky 🔗: https://bit.ly/41EAKFa

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Furry seal skin AND tiny Icelandic manuscripts! www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his... www.icelandreview.com/news/rare-15...

Dioskurides-Fragment aus dem 9. Jahrhundert entdeckt. Wenn's um Feigen geht, dann ist es das Ende des 1. Buches der "Materia medica". www.forschung-und-lehre.de/forschung/un... #histmed #medievalsky #bookhistory

Very exciting news for those interested in early medieval England: a hugely important new volume on crops and food supply (by Helena Hamerow, Mark McKerracher & the FeedSax team) is now available Open Access academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...

New book on early medieval medicine coming down the line: boydellandbrewer.com/book/early-m...

After a zeitgeisty Halloween costume? Look no further than the back of your wardrobe

CFPs History of Health in the Maghreb The organizers invite submissions for a workshop on the history of public health in the Maghreb region, to be hosted by the University of Maryland. #histmed #medhumanities

#medievalsky #histmed #CostantinetheAfrican

𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗜𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘆 Edited by Sandra Cavallo & John Henderson 𝘚𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘈𝘷𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 More info: bit.ly/3JjQ5VN #History #Medicine #Italy #Disease #Pharmacy #PublicHealth #Historysky #Science

Fresh from the press: "A potion for prolonged life? Germes’ recipe, a secret handwritten note from an 18th-century Swedish physician." ethnobiomed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #histmed

Back by popular demand, Introduction to Latin Palaeography will run online in February 2026 #MedievalSky 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Kalendermacher produzierten für spez. Zielgruppen. Das #ObjectOfTheWeek der Jahresausstellung der Forschungsbibliothek @unierfurt.bsky.social zum GOTHA ist der Allgemeine Bauern-Calender auf das Jahr 1791 von Johann Georg Stumpf, einem einflussreichen Ökonomen und Landwirt des späten 18. Jhs. (1/2)

Publikationshinweis: Philippe Depreux, Gouverner l'Empire en Occident. Des Carolingiens au règne de Conrad II (737-1039). Symbolique du pouvoir et pratiques sociales, Les Belles Lettres, Paris 2025. www.lesbelleslettres.com/livre/978225...

We will be completing the fifth year of the Gotha Manuscript Talks this fall with four exciting lectures! This Wednesday, Tal Hever-Chybowski @unihalle.bsky.social speaks about the Yiddish book collection assembled by the bookseller, furniture maker, and animation filmmaker Betsalel Frenkel. (1/3)

Die Wienbibliothek sucht Freiwillige, die Kurrent und andere historische Schriftarten lesen und transkribieren können. Und das sind nicht wir, sondern die wissenschaftliche Bibliothek im Rathaus! wien.orf.at/stories/3326...

Medievalists - think about coming to Leeds early just before @imc-leeds.bsky.social. Would be really great to have plenty of early material at the @sshmedicine.bsky.social conference next summer #medieval #medievalmedicine

I'm usually pretty meh about the provenance of manuscripts, and in general about 16th C printed books... But Ott.lat.1902 is the copy of Copernicus that was owned, read, an annotated by Tycho Brahe, and has his notes about orbital mechanics bound in at the end. digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ott...

A magnificent exhibition: "Nürnberg Global, 1300-1600," showcasing stunning #MedievalSky & #EarlyModern objects—paintings, engravings, goldsmithing & scientific objects, woodcuts, books (of hours), architectural models, sculptures, armor, textiles, coins. It's SO good! 🗃️ #HistSci #ArtHistory 🏛️

AotW: Sebastiano Arona, 971: The 'Decretum Venetorum de abrogando Saracenorum commercie' Prohibits Venetians from Trading with Muslims, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky

#SaveTheDate Im Rahmen des Begleitprogramms zur Ausstellung ADEL MACHT STAAT lädt die Forschungsbibliothek Gotha @unierfurt.bsky.social am 15.10. um 18.15 Uhr zum Vortrag von Dr. des. Kristina Kandler über "Zwillingsbrüder der Almanachkultur". Details und Anmeldung: www.uni-erfurt.de/forschungsbi...

Today we take a look at one of our favorites - and the oldest codex in Philadelphia! LJS 101 is a 9th and 11th century translation of Aristotle's De interpretatione (by Boethius) with some additional texts. #medievalsky 🔗: https://bit.ly/43ayh61

📣 Förderpreis des Fachverbands Medizingeschichte: fachverband-medizingeschichte.de/foerderpreis/ Eingereicht werden können Buchbeiträge oder Artikel, die 2024 und 2025 veröffentlicht wurden. Deadline: 28.02.2026 #histmed

The anatomy lesson: painted by Rembrandt in 1632, depicting annual dissection at Amsterdam Guild of Surgeons, conducted by celebrated City Anatomist & later Mayor of Amsterdam, Dr Nicolaes Tulp, born #OTD 1593. Mauritshuis, den Haag

New in open access #medievalsky: Bede's Medical Books! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Keepin' it Old School this time

𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗱'𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝟳𝟰/𝟮-𝟭𝟵𝟯, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 Plus d'Infos: bit.ly/42sQKuy #ScienceHistory #Science #Technology

Many congratulations @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social on this superb new book - I look forward very much to reading it!

This fragment from book 3 of Aristotle's Metaphysica in the Latin translation by Michael Scot is one of the new items in version 6.7 of my Supplementa tertia to Aristoteles Latinus Codices that was released today! (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 1258) www5.kb.dk/manus/vmanus...

NEW Phd thesis "1167 vor Rom. Studien zum Krankheitsausbruch auf dem vierten Italienzug Kaiser Friedrichs I. Barbarossa" (1167 before Rome. Studies on the outbreak of disease during Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa's fourth Italian campaign). www.peterlang.com/document/159... #histmed #medievalsky

Guten Morgen Bluesky! Mein Name ist Matthis und ich bin Medizinhistoriker und -ethiker an der @hhu.de in Düsseldorf. In dieser Woche möchte ich euch einen kleinen Einblick in das Fach und meine Arbeit geben und freue mich auf Nachfragen und Interaktionen mit euch!

We've updated our three BlueSky starter packs for historians. Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd Please let us know if there are gaps. #Skystorians 1/2

Hwæt! 🐉 Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English? #NationalPoetryDay

Next Wednesday 8th October, 12.30-1.30: Jiří Vnouček on "A Tale of Two Parchments" - insular and continental parchment preparation. In person: @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Weston Library, Lecture Theatre Or livestreamed. Free: book here visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/oct25/...

Nothing to see here only a #foodhistory dream job at the Smithsonian... 🥦🍎🍾 trustcareers.si.edu/en/postings/...