Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez

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)

Enhanced image of palimpsested page, original writing in red; a large illuminated 'E' can be seen in bottom right quadrant.

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...

An oblong sheet of written parchment, formerly sealed.

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
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Onfim’s drawing of himself on horseback as a warrior defeating an enemy.

Two of Onfim’s works. On the left is a copy of a passage from the Book of Psalms he did for schoolwork. On the right is an apparently autobiographical depiction of a monster labeled with “I am a wild beast.”

Some more spelling practice by Onfim with some human figures who have round heads and varying numbers of fingers on their big hands.

Onfim’s writing practice accompanied by 7 little people in his particular drawing style, who tend to have very big hands with many fingers.

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.

Couverture de The order of things

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".

📢 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)

This World Whale Day, I’d like to shoutout Porphyrios the whale, who during the 500s AD terrorized ships in the Bosporus Strait off of Constantinople for half a century, sinking many of them. Possibly a sperm whale or orca, Justinian the Great was frustrated at not being able to stop the unit.

Australian anthropologist Allan Pease took to the streets of Park Lane in London along with Esther Rantzen to see if they could identify upper class people by their body language. Clip taken from… 1986: How to spot the upper class | BBC Archive

1986: How to spot the upper class | BBC Archive

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Domenico Piola

Aristotle arrives in Galicia to write against women: "He arrived at a place, on an island, called Galicia. He stayed there and made a great book in which he wrote about the remarkable cunning of beautiful disloyal woman, and how she has inflicted pain on many a man in life and limb."

Aristoteles und Phyllis (s. XIII), ed. Grubmüller (n. 24), 534–541: "er kam gevarn in eine stat, in ein insel, hiez Galiciâ. dâ beleip er unde machte dâ ein michel buoch und schreip daran, waz wunderlîche liste..."

Aristóteles chega a Galicia (para escribir contra as mulleres): "El chegou a un lugar, nunha illa, chamada Galicia. Estivo alí e fixo un grande libro no que escribiu sobre o notable inxenio da muller desleal e como provocou dor a moitos homes na vida e no corpo"

Queens and the Making of Medieval Europe: lecture recordings now available - RHS On Friday 6 February the Society hosted the first lecture in its 2026 programme. Our great thanks to Professor Charles West (University of Edinburgh) who spoke on: ‘"Alike in Appearance but not in Sco...

Video and audio recordings are now available of the Society's latest lecture (6 February):

‘Alike in Appearance but not in Scope’: Queens and the Making of Medieval Europe' with Professor Charles West (University of Edinburgh) bit.ly/46j42f5

@pseudo-isidore.bsky.social #Skystorians

May I pick your brain? Local minds as living cadastres in a Portuguese eleventh‐century lawsuit In the context of a dispute with the monastery of Lorvão, in the late eleventh century, the monks of Vacariça, near Coimbra (modern Portugal), carried out a field enquiry in the village of Recardães....

How did large-scale landowning work on the ground, in a society without centralized landownership records? A brand-new article by Julio Escalona suggests it's about 'Dense Local Knowledge': onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I have never expected to read "testiculos" and "testatus" in the same document (1201, Pleas of the Crown)

Amazing, quite similar with a Catholic "Credo"