In der aktuellen "Zeitschrift für Phytotherapie" (Heft 3/2026): Was räuchert Uta-napišti nach der Sintflut? Warum im Gilgamesch-Epos keine Myrrhe verbrannt wird DOI: 10.1055/a-2664-4131 www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejo...

Had to laugh at a documentary that began with "The Iron Age, a time of brutal rituals and bizarre beliefs." Oh yeah, what a great description of that era, so you're telling me the Iron Age was pretty much the same as every other age ever? Good to know.

Leontopodium nivale. BL Add MS 41623, fol. 35v, c. 1420. Erlangen MS 2386, fol. 157v, c. 1560.

Valeriana celtica. Atlas der Alpenflora, 1882. Die Alpenpflanzen nach der Natur gemalt, 1879.

So I went and wrote a thing, then talked a bit about charters and monasteries and now I got habilitated.

Andrea Shaw, the woman who was just indicted on 2 accounts of murder for the deaths of her toddlers, claims vaccines killed them. She's the key plaintiff for Children's Health Defense in their lawsuit against AAP. And it was clear from the first day that investigators thought she killed her kids.

A gray birb gazes up from the bottom margin of Ms. Codex 724 f. 327r, a 13th century illuminated Bible. #medievalsky 🔗: https://bit.ly/4deNkzU

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Hey Bayeux Tapestry fans have I made the platform game for you? I’m sure someone else will have done this before but well now I have too… bayeuxgo.live

Since I am unmoored from any single university (and since academia./edu went full dystopia), I’ve put together a site where all my academic ‘stuff’ can live for the foreseeable future. Books, articles, blog posts, some slideshows and lectures - all in one place and freely accessible. nickposegay.com

In 890, an army led by Gaelegher brothers beat an invading French force at the coastal town of Wanderwell. Over the centuries misspellings cast this as Wanderwall and then Wonderwall.

Profiles of seven well-established medicinal plants: • Artichoke • Valerian • Ivy • St. John’s wort • Chamomile • Lavender • Thyme www.koop-phyto.org/wp-content/u...

Bitte auf keinen Fall diesen Kommentar lesen. Dieter Nuhr möchte das nicht.

Es gibt so Formulierungen, die würde man am liebsten mal als Titel für eine Publikation verwenden. Aus: www.jstor.org/stable/26580...

You've godsped your last black emperor.

🧠🪱 Brain worms Yes, Beth Mole’s latest 😊 This is a “60-year-old man in Spain”, but you can’t help being reminded of RFK Jr, who claimed “a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died,” (according to NYT).

Harald Blauzahn genießt 960 en erfrischendes Bad, nachdem er die Bluetooth-Technologie erfunden hat. Ein Mönch stört ihn dabei, das war ein echter Poppo. (Ja, ansonsten geht es mir ganz gut.)

A dragon just flew by. Is that normal? BL Burney (!) MS 257, f. 169v #medievalsky

Eben todesmutig vor der Türe gewesen. Das Thermometer zeigte nur 38 °C, was stimmt mit dem nicht?

Nachrichten mit einer so unerwarteten Abfolge von Wörtern, dass kein LLM darauf käme, schreibe ich besonders gern.

Der #NDR meldet: Hamburger Universitätsbibliothek: Kein Geld für neue Bücher Der Hamburger Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Carl von Ossietzky (StaBi) fehlt es an Geld, um Bücher zu kaufen. Sie hat den Nutzerinnen und Nutzern mitgeteilt, dass sie ihren Kernauftrag momentan nicht erfüllen könne:

One of my favorite weird moments of history! boingboing.net/2026/06/25/i...

Screams in historian. Why do people that pretend to care so much about knowledge don't read? www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

An academic tribute to Rosamond McKitterick, published by Reti Medievali. www.rm.unina.it?p=554

19th century replicas of the “Plague Doctor’s Mask” in Ingolstadt and Berlin. But did they ever really exist? pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #histmed #medievalsky

Wenn die Geisteswissenschaften abgeschafft worden sind, können wir in Kleingruppen bei mir zu Hause historisch-philologische Methode und Interpretationstheorie machen. Ich stelle schonmal Getränke kalt.

Begone, demon! BL Sloane 4016, c. 1440.

Me, visiting the Reflecting Pool.

Hab vor Jahren mal diese Collage gemacht... 🌈 #bloomscrolling #phytoAbisZ

"Sehen Sie selbst, was für ein unsäglicher Müll über Jahrhunderte in Bibliotheken aufbewahrt wurde. Der Menschheit geht durch die fachgerechte Entsorgung nichts verloren." (Handschriften der Naturkunde Hildegards, Wolfenbüttel und Florenz, beide um 1300.)

"Das KI-Unternehmen hat mit Gewinnen aus dem letzten Monat die Handschriftenabteilung der Vatikanischen Bibliothek gekauft, um ihr Handschriftenerkennungstool zu trainieren. Die gesundheitsschädlichen alten Lederlappen wurden danach fachgerecht entsorgt."

Unlike the phoenix, I hate the heat and it certainly doesn't rejuvinate me! 🥵 BL Harley 4751; Bestiary; 13th century; England, S.; f.45r @blmedieval.bsky.social

On this hot June day, let us remember the balsam garden of Cairo (Fustat), with its seven pools of water and jars to catch the balsam. BL Sloane 4016; Herbal; c.1440; Italy, N. (Lombardy); f.10v @blmedieval.bsky.social

Prominent Germans signed an 'open letter' in support of homeopathy and anthroposophic medicine Allow me to congratulate all of them for producing what possibly is the finest piece of health-related BS of 2026! edzardernst.com/2026/06/prom...

We do love some open access myth-busting about Achilles’ vulnerable anatomy in BICS.🦵 “Yet the absence of any clear evidence for a specifically vulnerable heel in ancient sources has attracted surprisingly little scholarly attention. Roman sources…allude to a different anatomical region: the ankle.”

British politics be like

An @sefarad.bsky.social

Jetzt mal eine Fassung mit einem Glossar ...

Melittis melissophyllum. Plantarum indigenarum et exoticarum icones ad vivum coloratae, 1788.

Apium graveolens. Flora Batava, Volume 4, 1822.

Random ginger of the day. Michał Piotr Boym: Flora Sinensis, 1656.

Holy crazy nun, pefferkrut is hard enough but what is vîchwrz and what is vîchbôna? Not to talk about humela, plionia, weith ...

queck, queck, queck BL Add 49622, f.190v @blmedieval.bsky.social

Schaut mal, wie hübsch so ne Schafgarbenblüte aus der Nähe ist😍 🌱

Oh dear, Hildegard! I need to work on the plant names in her natural history text once more. About 25 percent are still not entirely certain. My manuscript now runs to around 65,000 characters.

It! Is! Here! Open Access (and already hoovered up by the scrapers no doubt such is our world) UK/EU paper copies will be available eventually but until then, EVERYONE now has free access! press.library.concordia.ca/projects/ill...

Nasturtium Sylvestre, valentinum = Vella Linn. H. Cliff. Nasturtium Silvestre, capsulis cristatis = Nasturzio Salvatico = Cresson. Sisymbrium aquaticum, vulgo Crescion Coesalpino = Nasturtium Aquaticum supinum = Crescione, e Nasturciso aquatico = Cresson de fontaine. Hortus Romanus, 1772.

Been trying to figure out why I'm so obsessed with this story. I think it's because it symbolizes how this administration disregards expertise, whether that's scientists, historians, engineers, public health officials, electricians, plumbers, everybody. It's all about the grift.