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The Medieval Foremothers Society invites proposals for two hybrid sessions honoring Sharon Kinoshita (UC Santa Cruz) at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI in May 2026. Full CFP below!👇✨

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Really wonderful post from Noam Sienna on recent @footprints-heb.bsky.social. Come for the books, stay for the snarky comments by a Sultan about the Spanish Inquisition not letting Jews in:

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NYPL fellowship to use their Islamic Studies/Middle East/N. Africa-related collections:
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YouTube video by Olot Televisió Mac Exprés: Edició 18 juliol 2025

In June, while gathered @ the Medieval Modernities seminar in Olot, we visited the Arxiu Comarcal de la Garrotxa.The local TV station wanted to know what had brought us there & what it was like to study & teach medieval Catalan culture & its modern legacies in the US. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmAc...

5 copies of 'The Illustrated Cairo Genizah', by Nick Posegay and Melonie Schmierer-Lee, stacked on a light brown tabletop. The books' spines are facing the camera. The book is large and the covers are dark red, with the title and authors' names in white. The cover also has a grid of 21 square images each cut out from a different medieval manuscript.

Good news if you like history, manuscripts, or nice books! 'The Illustrated Cairo Genizah' is now available at *greatly* reduced shipping costs via @theul.bsky.social (UK) and Amazon (worldwide) from this link: linktr.ee/nposegay. There's also a free sample file there with the entire first chapter.

For #FindsFriday the unique and remarkable Khazar coin inscribed "Moses is God's messenger", from the huge Spillings hoard found on Gotland in 1999. The coin (dated c. 837) is the only physical proof that Khazars converted to Judaism. From the Gotlands Museum book "The Spillings Hoard"

@aktange.bsky.social more of this please

Tras 3 años de trabajo, primeras pruebas de imprenta! brill.com/display/titl...

𝗥𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗢𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿
𝗟𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
Edited by Augustine Thompson, O.P.

More info: bit.ly/3GSKCE1

#Medievalsky #Liturgy #Dominicans #ChurchHistory #ChurchMusic #Medievalists

@monicacolominas.bsky.social excellent book now open access!

The Book of Disputation: A Mudejar Religious-Philosophical Treatise against Christians and Jews "The Book of Disputation: A Mudejar Religious-Philosophical Treatise against Christians and Jews" published on 17 Jun 2024 by Brill.

#OpenAccess The Book of Disputation: A Mudejar Religious-Philosophical Treatise against Christians and Jews: A Study and Accompanying Text Edition

Series: The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, Volume 84
Author: @monicacolominas.bsky.social Mònica Colominas Aparicio

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{New Book} That Jews abducted and murdered Christian children for alleged ritual purposes or in order to consume their blood during Passover, from the 12h century onward, has been a staple of extreme antisemitic discourse seeking to dehumanize Jews... www.arc-humanities.org/978180270180...

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the Torah portion Balak (בָּלָק) with Balaam gazing at the heavens with an astrolabe:

"A star has gone forth from Jacob"
#ParashahPictures
Bodleian Library MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, NW Spain f.90r @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

Public Monuments and the Colonial Legacies of the ‘Tongue of Cervantes’ This article examines the ideological and colonial legacies embedded in the phrase ‘la lengua de Cervantes’ and its material manifestations through public monuments. It argues that the global monum...

My new article on "La lengua de Cervantes" is now out in Romance Studies!

18th-century Italian map of Northwest Coast

Detail of drawing by José Cardero, 1791, showing Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) people in canoes and on land in Port Mulgrave, Yakutat Bay, Alaska

Museum storage lined with pots, masks, and figurines

Traces of the Pacific Northwest in the storage vaults of the Museo de América, Madrid

#NewPublication
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"This is a Classicists List not a political one."

A field of study is doomed when it surrenders its claim to be relevant to the real world, to how we live our lives in relation to other human beings, & cultivate mutual understanding. Isn't that the very point of the humanities?

YouTube video by The Hyperpolyglot Activist Introducing Estreyika Perez: The First-Ever Ladino Chatbot!

The first-ever Ladino chatbot: Estreyika! Learn about her development and interact with Estreyika for free here! youtu.be/ECWAAmWf_Ng?...

First slide of my presentation with the paper title ‘Knights of the New World: Cortés, Spanishness, & Late Medieval Iberia’s Chivalric Renaissance. The slide features a woodcut from an early printed edition of sergas de Esplandián, a continuation of Amadís de Gaula

Nervous and excited to share that I’ll be presenting some of my research tomorrow at the Society for Renaissance Studies Conference in Bristol! Catch me yapping about Cortés and dusty books in Panel 4.2 📚

Dear Scholars, Delete Your Account At Academia.Edu As for-profit platforms like Academia.edu look to monetize the dissemination of scholarly writing even further, academics across the globe must now consider alternatives to proprietary companies which...

For all of you now finding out that academia(dot)edu is AI trash, I wrote this for Forbes many years ago. www.forbes.com/sites/drsara... Dear Scholars, Delete Your Account At Academia.Edu

Vol. 52.1 is now available. Featuring essays by Jones, Pearce, Savo, Patton, Duque, Mahler, Blanco Mourelle, Romero, Blackmore, and Franke. For TOC see lcclacoronica.org/journal/volu...

Planning syllabi for Fall term?

Check out our collection of open access teaching units on premodern Iberian and Latin American texts (Castilian, Catalan, Arabic, Galician-Portuguese, Aljamiado, Latin). Free to download, modify, copy, and distribute. openiberiaamerica.hcommons.org

New book: Marc M. Epstein, "People of the Image: Jews and Art," (Penn State University Press, 2025).
#jewishstudies
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The Blood Libel in Medieval Antisemitism by François Soyer www.arc-humanities.org/978180270180...

Title page of 'Alabanças de Santidad' (Amsterdam 1671)

Spanish gift inscription: Este libro hermoso fue dado por el ilustrísimo Señor Ferare, Grand Rabin de la Comunidad Portuguesa-Española a la Haye (Flandas)........ Abraham Isa. a su pasage en la Haye: el día 2 de Mayo 18??

Hebrew gift inscription

Signature of Dr. Ishak Orobio de Castro

Found a copy of 'Alabanças de Santidad' (Amsterdam 1671) in the U Oregon Knight Library Special Collections including what *might* be Isaac Orobio de Castro's signature..... Any help deciphering the Hebrew inscription most welcome.

Teaching Fellow- Global Medieval History at University of Leeds An academic position as a Teaching Fellow- Global Medieval History is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

Teaching Fellow in Global (and they mean it) Medieval History at Leeds www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNP726/t...

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...

It's official. MIT brain scientists find that Gen AI makes you dumb: "Brain-only participants exhibited the strongest, most distributed networks....LLM users displayed the weakest connectivity. Cognitive activity scaled down in relation to external tool use." arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

Prof Pablo Dreizik (U Buenos Aires) reseña mi libro 'Double Diáspora in Sephardic Literature' (2015) en Radio Sefarad (en castellano) www.radiosefarad.com/doble-diaspo...