**Violent, dark, and dirty: What Americans think about the Middle Ages**

“_Americans are likely to have favorable views of castles and chivalry, but not the Crusades or the Inquisition_”

https://today.yougov.com/entertainment/articles/51889-violent-dark-dirty-americans-middle-ages

#Data #DataViz #Poll #History #MiddleAges #DarkAges #Medieval #Medievodons @medievodons

Another stunning tale of #medieval #manuscript bindings. #medievodons #kingarthur
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250324-the-magical-medieval-tale-revealed-by-a-100000-dollar-camera

(finally!) Last week the #Vatican added 85 #Manuscripts, including some on Saturday and Sunday https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week11.html
They include more Sistine diaries, more 17th C papal letters, an interesting Martyrology/Rule in Bari-type Beneventan, a pile of Ge'ez liturgy, many Humanist classics, incl. Bruni translations and more!
@medievodons @bookhistodons #Medieval #Medievodons

**Trendy, Pointy Shoes From the Middle Ages Confirm the Old Adage That Beauty—or at Least Fashion—Is Pain**

https://mymodernmet.com/poulaine-medieval-pointy-shoe/

#History #Histodon #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons #Culture #Fashion @histodon @histodons @medievodons

**The Real Magna Carta**

_“Less famous than its 1215 predecessor, the Magna Carta of 1225 held the true power.”_

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/real-magna-carta

#History #Histodon #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons #England #MagnaCarta @histodon @histodons @medievodons

Does anyone recognize a “beati Eurici” listed in an Italian (possibly Sienese) calendar on June 10?
#Medieval #Medievodons @medievodons

Sometimes correcting a scribal error just takes a few dots. Like this dittographed "ac potius" at the beginning of a lovely Humanist Ovid _Epistulae ad familiares_, #Vatican Vat.lat.11492
#Medieval #Medievodons

Forty #manuscripts from the #Vatican digitized in the past week https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week9.html
Includes a lot more 17th C Barberini stuff, 2 Sistine diaries, a 12th C Priscian, and several classical works. There were also 8 more Ge'ez MSS, which are now identified!
#Medieval #Medievodons @bookhistodons @medievodons

@mariam_al_masri_author
Did we mention Hildegard von Bingen, (1098-1179) , already ?
Thanks Mastodon I came across her name rather soon when registering in 2022.
Where else ?

Living most of her life in a monastry, her Spiritual insights , knowledge , visions covering science, music, biology , astronomy and much more is ...Stunning !

Still inspiring 1000 years later.

https://thesciencesurvey.com/arts-entertainment/2024/03/12/the-life-vision-and-music-of-hildegard-von-bingen/

Only 36 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week7.html
Includes a ton more 17th C papal letters 'n stuff, a nice 15th C Alexander, a few more Sistine, 4 undescribed (hopefully soon) Ethiopic manuscripts, and a poignant Acts of Chalcedon from the end of the Stoudios Monastery. It was nearly 1000 years old when this was copied in 1446.
#Medievodons #Medieval @bookhistodons @medievodons

Nächste Woche Mittwoch, 19. Februar um 17 Uhr (CET) ist unsere @CCeH Kollegin Hannah Busch (@cesare_blanc) virtuell zu Gast an der Newcastle University und wird dort im Rahmen der ATNU Virtual Speaker Series einen Vortrag zu "Matching Medieval Manuscripts with Machine Learning" halten.

All welcome! Zur Anmeldung geht es hier entlang: https://research.ncl.ac.uk/atnu/news/atnuvirtualspeakerseries-hannahbusch-2025-02-19.html

**A Brilliantly Detailed Map Of Medieval Trade Routes & Networks**

_“...an incredibly detailed map of Medieval Trade Routes & Networks in Eurasia an Africa during the 11th-12th century.”_

https://brilliantmaps.com/medieval-trade-routes/

#Map #Maps #Cartography #History #Histodon #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons #Trade @histodon @histodons @medievodons

38 #Manuscripts digitized by the #Vatican this week
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week4.html
Includes _more_ Cappella Pontificia diaries, copies of papal letters, some classical authors like Vegetius, Virgil and Livy, and one lone copy of Aquinas
#Medieval #Medievodons @bookhistodons @medievodons

In nomine – Name und Benennung im Mittelalter. 20. Symposium des @mediaevisten | 23.–26. Februar, Universität Salzburg. In der Sektion 'Namen und digitale Korpora' sprechen wir über Namen und Personen im Kontext des #Handschriftenportal.

Programm https://izmf-salzburg.at/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/In-nomine_Programm_final.pdf

**High-resolution genomic history of early medieval Europe**

_“We reveal evidence of the southward and/or eastward expansion of individuals who probably spoke Germanic languages and who had Scandinavian-related ancestry in the first half of the first millennium ce. We note that ‘Scandinavian-related’ in this context relates to the ancient genomes available, and so it is entirely possible that these processes were driven, for example, from regions in northern-central Europe. This could be consistent with the attraction of the greater wealth, which tended to build up among Rome’s immediate neighbours and may have played a major role in vectors of migration internal to communities in Europe who lived beyond the Roman frontier52.”_

Speidel, L., Silva, M., Booth, T. et al. High-resolution genomic history of early medieval Europe. Nature 637, 118–126 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08275-2

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Genomics #Genetics #Science #History #Medieval #Medievodons #Scandinavia #Europe #Migration #Migrants #Academia #Academics @science @medievodons @archaeodons

**Recycling and Recontextualisation in Medieval and Early Modern Icelandic Palimpsests**

_“While parchment recycling was common in Iceland both in the medieval and early modern period, it was most productive in the century following the introduction of the Icelandic Reformation when palimpsested parchment from Latin Catholic books was frequently used for religious and legal manuscripts as a cheaper and more readily available alternative to paper. ”_

Lorenz, T. (2024a) 'Endurvinnsla og endurnýting í íslenskum uppskafningum frá miðöldum og á árnýöld,' Gripla, 35. https://doi.org/10.33112/gripla.35.1.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Medieval #Medievodons #EarlyModern #Iceland #Recycling #Prints #Mauscripts #Academia #Academic @earlymodern @medievodons

79 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican, perhaps the last batch of the year
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2024/week51.html
Includes a TON of Pontifical Choir Diari, a papal ordo Missae, a devotional work in Turkish, an Ethiopic gospel, and some Sire junk
#Medieval #Medievodons @bookhistodons @medievodons

Unser Datenangebot wächst weiter

Neu hinzugekommen sind mit Release v3.2.0 u. a. über 2.000 Signaturen und Digitalisate der Codices Palatini latini (UB Heidelberg/Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana), ca. 900 Beschreibungen und 160 Digitalisate der @bsbmuenchen sowie neue Daten aus @ublmu, Russischer Staatsbibliothek, #UBErfurt, #ULBHalle und Stadtbibliothek Nürnberg.

https://handschriftenportal.de/info/release-notes

@histodons @medievodons

**A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea**

_“The work meticulously explores the inception, evolution, and profound impact of the Spanish Inquisition, an institution pivotal in shaping Spain's history and, by extension, influencing the broader civilized world.”_

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43296

#History #Medieval #Medievodons #Religion #Christianity #Catholicism #Church #Spain #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #ProjectGutenberg @bookstodon @medievodons

**The cradle of British Christianity BURNED by Vikings**

#Video length: two minutes and nine seconds.

https://youtu.be/hgkac4abS1c

#Religion #Christianity #Vikings #Scotland #England #Britain #Europe #History #HIstodon #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons #MiddleAges @histodon @histodons @medievodons