Richard C. Schlag

photo of two book covers, one called "Princely Power in Late Medieval France: Jeanne de Penthièvre and the War for Brittany", and one called "Gendered Reputations and Aristocratic Partnership: Re-Presenting the Breton Civil War from the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries", both by Erika Graham-Goering. Princely Power has a green cover with a picture of a medieval document and green wax seal, while Gendered Reputations has a grey cover with a medieval drawing of a crowd of people raising their hands to a man and woman couple.

It's Michaelmas, so it's also the anniversary of the battle of Auray (1364), which marked the beginning of the end of the Breton War of Succession begun 23 years earlier. And you know what? Let's mark it with a 🚨BOOK GIVEAWAY🚨 this time! (Charles de Blois has never had a stranger memorial...)

"The IEA estimates that datacentres’ total electricity consumption could double from 2022 levels to 1K TWh in 2026, approximately Japan’s level of electricity demand"

What little progress we make to stem the tide of climate change is being squandered on AI. The whole enterprise should be dismantled

Google’s huge new Essex datacentre to emit 570,000 tonnes of CO2 a year Exclusive: Planning documents show impact of Thurrock ‘hyperscale’ unit as UK attempts to ramp up AI capacity

What is there to do but despair. What does it matter if I turn off my light switch if corporate ChatGPT is being rolled out to every company worldwide?

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

14:05 Uhr Campus & Karriere Das Bildungsmagazin Wie viele Kürzungen an den Hochschulen können wir uns leisten? Bei „Campus & Karriere" fragten wir: Wie wirken sich die angekündigten Kürzungen aus? Welche Hochschulen und Fächer sind besonders betroffen? Droht ein inhaltlicher Kahlschlag des Studienangebots? Welche Maßnahmen sind sinnvoll und nachvollziehbar - und welche gefährden möglicherweise Wissenschaftsfreiheit und Demokratie? Gäste: Geraldine Rauch, Präsidentin der TU Berlin Amrei Bahr, Juniorprofessorin für Philosophie, Universität Stuttgart Tabea Herbst, Vorständin beim freien zusammenschluss der student*innenschaften (fzs) Am Mikrofon: Armin Himmelrath Horertelefon: : 00800 - 4464 4464 campus@deutschlandfunk.de WhatsApp: an 0173 - 535 8089 142 Millionen Euro im laufenden Jahr in Berlin, eine Milliarde Euro in Hessen innerhalb von sechs Jahren, pauschal 5 Prozent weniger in NRW ab dem kommenden Jahr: Etliche Bundesländer haben deutliche Kürzungen bei der Hoch-schulfinanzierung angekündigt. Die Finanzlage und zurückgehende Studierendenzahlen ließen keine andere Wahl - so rechtfertigt die Politik die Kürzungen. Gleichzeitig gibt es in etlichen Bundesländern Proteste gegen diese Pläne.

📻 Morgen um 14.05 Uhr bin ich live im DLF & diskutiere mit über Kürzungen an Hochschulen — gerade jetzt, wo 1 resiliente Wissenschaft besonders wichtig ist, drohen deshalb fatale Folgen! Leidtragende: Beschäftigte (v.a. #IchBinHanna), Studierende, Wissenschaft & Demokratie. Schaltet ein, ruft an! ⬇️

Only time I have felt in real danger, was on my own late at night on the streets of Naples. was def not going to ask the groups of local guys staring as I walked by for help, so I found an elderly African in colourful clothes. He couldn’t speak English but he got me to safety. Hurray for immigrants

Join Professor Hugh Kennedy (School of Oriental and African Studies, London) and Professor Frederik Buylaert (Ghent University) for the launch of SHOC member Dr. John Latham-Sprinkle's book, 'The North Caucasian Kingdom of Alania, 850-1240'.

Do you work on the Hispanic Middle Ages? If so, a CFP from the Society for Iberian Global Art on the theme "Women in Action: Women's Artistic Practices in the Hispanic Middle Ages".

A 500 word proposal is due 8 Sept. See the link below for more details!

bsky.app/profile/siga...

this sounds very topical!

Richard’s sister Margaret was residing in Mechelen in the Burgundian Netherlands where she turned her court into an anti-Tudor hub (which often clashed with the policy of her step-daughter Mary and step-grandson Philip)

Delighted that my article, ‘The Circle of the World: The Global Diplomacy of Caliph al-Manṣūr’, is now out OA with BSOAS. Come for a journey stretching from the Atlantic to China, tracing how the caliph brought the world to Baghdad:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges

der-lokalbote.de/rheydt/news-... Ich freue mich sehr, dass ein Bericht über meinem Vortrag im Schloss Rheydt jetzt auch online erschienen ist. Vielen Dank noch einmal an die Otto von Bylandt-Gesellschaft für die Einladung und die tolle Organisation!

New #blog post by former GHIL scholarship holder Felix Wessel (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) on ‘The End of the Guilds in Syria’.

His PhD research challenges prevailing Orientalist historiographical narratives on Ottoman craft guilds in Syria.
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Hidden Above a Trap Door, 17th-Century Frescoes Come to Light (Gift Article) While inspecting a sumptuous villa in Rome, an electrician stumbled across long lost works by the Baroque painter Carlo Maratta.

Unknown frescoes by Carlo Maratta discovered by an electrician in the attic of Villa Farnesina, Rome #arthistory #baroque #earlymodern 🎁

Reader looking at an open book on a cushion on a white table with bookshelves in the background.

📢 An exciting opportunity for conservators & archivists!

UCD Library is seeking a Book and Paper Conservator to establish a Conservation Laboratory, part of a new Cultural Heritage Centre to be developed in the James Joyce Library.

Full job description➡️ buff.ly/IqKpdP6 Apply by 19 May
#jobfairy

Really delighted to be included in this fantastic line-up of speakers!

Gerade veröffentlicht:

AP Headline: USDA ends program that helped schools serve food from local farmers

Bad for school kids, bad for farmers, and sure as hell won’t “make America healthy again.”

And, y'know, the *three* popes forced out of office† in 1415!

†To be precise, Gregory XII resigned voluntarily, while John XXIII and Benedict XIII were deposed by the Council of Constance.

Am Mittwoch, den 23. April werde ich im Schloss Rheydt einen Vortrag zum Thema "550 Jahre Belagerung von Neuss: Der Niederrhein im Mittelpunkt der europäischen und Reichspolitik" halten. Der Eintritt ist frei, alle Interessierten sind herzlich eingeladen!

Trump Laid Off Nearly All the Federal Workers Who Investigate Firefighter Deaths The cuts, which are part of Trump’s slashing of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, will also halt a first-of-its-kind study of the causes of thousands of firefighters’ cancer c...

Trump laid off almost everyone who investigates firefighter deaths.

Seven out of eight workers assigned to look into the deaths of firefighters were fired as two-thirds of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health were suddenly let go.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

#SedeVacante it is. What’s the best story about electing a new Pope that you know of? #skystorians

🌍✈️ Calling all scholars of Spanish art and material culture!

The Custard Institute for Spanish Art and Culture at the Meadows Museum offers a $2,000 fellowship to support research & study in Spain!
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At least 140,000 children and 67,000
adults have died as a result of Musk, the orange, and Rubio terminating USAID support to healthcare and food aid. The lag effects of HIV/AIDs, TB and malnutrition will soon start increasing the toll more rapidly.

"The Librarian"

An early example of abstract art.

(Giuseppe Arcimboldo, c. 1566)

i really need cis folks to get this through your heads.

no, they don't want me in the women's bathroom. or the men's bathroom. they don't want gender-neutral bathrooms or special "trans only" bathrooms (like some will claim). they want me to simply not exist.

This is Brigadier General William A. Beiderlinden who in April 1945 defied an explicit order to shell the city and university of Heidelberg.
Beiderlinden had never attended Heidelberg university. But he felt strongly that destroying a storied academic institution, even in war, should be avoided.1/2

Charles II, Count of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen - Wikipedia

Ernst Georg von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen stirbt mit 60. J am 19 April 1625. Verheiratet, 2 Kinder.
Er ist Sohn von Graf Karl II. von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen und Bruder von Kardinal Eitel Friedrich von Hohenzollern, Bischof von Osnabrück.
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whales wrecking ship

sea serpent wrecking ship

gigantic whale spooking ship

whale being attacked by ship

Details from the medieval map Carta Marina by Olaus Magnus. Sea Monsters real or mythological represented not just real dangers for sailors but also the unknown, uncertain dangers of uncharted waters. "Here Be Dragons" #medievalsky #medievalart #medieval #medievalmap #seamonsters #herebedragons