Julia Escher

Found a small bookstore today, nestled among the touristy souvenir shops that are lined up along the harbor of Chania (Crete) and decided to check it out (and gain some relief from the unpleasantly windy and rainy weather). Well, let's say my personal library got some nice additions. 😅

30.04.2025 15:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The link is not working for me...

06.04.2025 08:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I quite like Northern Zhou 😅

14.03.2025 10:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Friends, fellow late antiquity fans! The news are out! We are starting a new journal together with the amazing team at LUP. We want to foster interdisciplinary and exciting articles in essay form as well as peer-reviewed editions and translations of texts. Extremely excited about this!

11.12.2024 10:55 — 👍 123    🔁 43    💬 7    📌 4

A little medieval infographics in two columns. On the left drawings of the phases of the moon in black and red, on the right their descriptions in Greek (in Latin characters).

Phases of the moon described in Latin transliteration of the Greek terms, together with the corresponding emojis.

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St Gallen 184, 9th century

11.12.2024 07:08 — 👍 205    🔁 51    💬 1    📌 6

Sorry that was me😬😅 if he puts those huge speakers in our living room, where can I put my plants? Compromise of married life I guess 😁

23.11.2024 16:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks for creating the list! Could you add me? :)

16.11.2024 13:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That sounds fascinating! Out of curiosity, where was this folktale recorded? I imagine probably in a collection of stories like Taiping guangji?

14.11.2024 19:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Tolkien and his Medieval Sources Study a selection of Tolkien’s works in concert with his earlier medieval sources, trace the transformation of medieval texts in the popular modern imagination, and emphasize their relevance to…

Explore how Tolkien’s works connect to medieval history, literature, and mythology—join our course now! https://medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/tolkien #Tolkien #middleearth #education #onlinecourses

14.11.2024 12:05 — 👍 35    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

You see Abraham Gorlaeus or his brother David, both being born around mid sixteenth-century, in Haarlem. The man in the engraving is sitting at his desk in the year 1580.

You see Abraham Gorlaeus or his brother David, both being born around mid sixteenth-century, in Haarlem. The man in the engraving is sitting at his desk in the year 1580. Highlighted are details of the image that the thread explains.

The story of communication with paper artifacts includes a big chapter on storing, dear #skystorians. A thread or those enjoying #paperhistory and #bookhistory alike.

You see Abraham Gorlaeus (or his brother David), both being born around mid sixteenth-century, sitting at a desk in #Haarlem.

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13.11.2024 06:49 — 👍 110    🔁 24    💬 4    📌 6

It’s time for a timeline cleanse

A #Roman pot with ears and a funny little face (it looks like Shaun the Sheep).

Found in a burial in the necropolis of Giubiasco, Switzerland 2nd century AD.

Photo: Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum

🏺 AncientBluesky #Archaeology

08.11.2024 10:43 — 👍 336    🔁 80    💬 14    📌 10

My millenial teenage years perfectly summarized, except for the Tony hawk thing, I was really into Anno 1602 and 1503. RATM is still going strong in this household 😎

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