Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez

The death penalty is pointless and cruel, and yeah, we are in 21st century!

Tell me where Dante places you in his Divine Comedy, and I’ll tell you who you are (and what sort of person you are)

The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern...

"The Caliph and the Falcons": just out, by @medivalist.bsky.social and @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social
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Tomorrow @alexisawilkin.bsky.social in PadEx seminars @usaloficial.bsky.social
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Fiero monstruo! (Fierced monster!)
Francisco de Goya, Desastres de la guerra, 1810-1815

"Castile" could be more accurate than Spain, north

Going for walkies

BL Add MS 11695; Beatus of Liébana, Commentary on the Apocalypse; 1091 CE-1109 CE; Spain, North (Santo Domingo de Silos); f.199v
@blmedieval.bsky.social

that drawing goes hard

The painter Paolo Uccello had a problem/obsession with cheese that anticipates so much Menocchio's cheese-cosmology (see Carlo Ginzburg)
Text. Vasari's Lives of the Artist

A very long-term belief in the north of Spain, like Galicia, as George Borrow commented in "The Bible in Spain" on storm-makers or "nuveiros"

Interview avec Lester K. Little Précurseur, dès les années 1970, de l’histoire sociale états-unienne du Moyen Âge, Lester K. Little a accepté de revenir sur ses travaux et sur son expérience d’historien médiéviste dans cet entret...

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Lester K. Little (Smith College, 1993. Photograph Jim Gipe). The maledictory text projected is from an eleventh-century gospel book from the Norman monastery of Jumièges (Rouen, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. A 239, f. 148v°).

Potemkin churches

Las encontraron en Toledo, en 2018, al rehabilitar un edificio cercano a la catedral. Son 35 maravillosas tablas medievales, policromadas que, ahora, una vez restauradas, podemos disfrutar de algunas de ellas en el MAN. 🤩

Bermés, Deza, Galicia (ca. 1930)

Somehow, an 8th-c. English liturgical manuscript ended up in Mount Sinai (where it was palimpsested and written over by a Christian Arabic scribe). For more info: Michelle Brown, austriaca.at/0xc1aa5572%2...

The only surviving original Carolingian "littera formata", like a passport for a priest. Issued in Lucca, now in Pavia. archiviodigitale-icar.cultura.gov.it/it/185/ricer...

Cando cruza a fronteira de Portugal a Extremadura, George Borrow volve atopar xente que fala de Galicia. Neste caso un pastor contoulle o ataque dunha muller-lobo e como comeron a un amigo seu até deixar case nada del
PD: Borrow aínda non visitara Galicia e imaxínome a súa idea...

Nice AI-image-generating tool, but it will never be as great an artist as Onfim, a child who lived in the Novgorod Republic in the mid-1200s and who scribbled these drawings and schoolwork writings on birch bark at the age of 6 or 7.

#sundayreading #UmbertoEco

Cenotafio, San Vicente de Ávila,ca. 1150-1200

‘We can see that courage’: Greece recovers long-lost photos of Nazis’ May Day executions Culture ministry hails ‘exceptional historical importance’ of prints that show resistance fighters’ final moments

‘We can see that courage’: Greece recovers long-lost photos of Nazis’ May Day executions

"La muerte que no cesa. Cuerpo y representación de la pena capital entre el Medievo y la Modernidad", El cuerpo humano entre la Antigüedad y el Barroco, ed. Irune Valderrábano y Xavier de Donato, Santiago de Compostela: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2026, pp. 88 y ss.

New Chapter / Novo capítulo / Nuevo capítulo:
"A morte que non cesa. Corpo e representación da pena capital entre o Medioevo e a Modernidade", O corpo humano entre a Antigüidade e o Barroco, eds. Valderrábano, De Donato, Santiago de Compostela: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2026, 88 e ss.

"How does it happen, dearest friend,
that you should wish to venture to the mountainous sea,
to test the measure of the sea-currents, deprived of wealth,
seeking a ship across the cold cliffs?
You have nothing to comfort you on the ocean-street,
no bite of bread nor pure drink as befits you"
Andreas

Terrific news for fans of Deutsches Archiv.

Édition GB de Foucault en 1974. Un petit côté Star Wars de la philosophie.

📢 New online seminar
On 11 March, Alexis Wilkin (ULB) will give a lecture entitled "Peasants, economic exchanges and take-off in North-Western Europe (11th-12th c.). Around some recent debates".

"Olofernus", s. XII-XVI

It reminds me The Ladies of Zamora by Peter Linehan, but with no sex, (apparently)