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On a recent trip to Italy, my @… app provedt to be far superior to the Google maps app, especially in ancient medieval cities like Venice where the streets are narrow and mobile reception patchy.
https://functional.cafe/@arianvp/116295171993320229
arianvp@functional.cafe - Google Maps also stopped showing connections that involve walks longer than 500 meters.   It'll just be like "no its impossible to reach the other end of Berlin in half an hour by public transport. You need to change 6 times". Because it refuses to let me cross a bridge to another busstation because US brained people dont believe in legs.

Congratulations to YDS Professor Volker Leppin, who is receiving an honorary degree from United Lutheran Seminary on May 23! Hard to imagine a more worthy recipient given his biography of Martin Luther ("Martin Luther: A Late Medieval Life") and his essays on Luther and mysticism, not to mention the fact he is a pastor in the ELCA.

One of my favorite features in my primary Mastodon client (Mona) - that it has a counter showing me how many posts are left until I get caught up (also, ofc that it remembers where I was)

Medieval Sex According To Eleanor Janega by History Hit
#history

Badass of history and one of its most interesting characters IMHO.
@… https://medievalarchives.social/@MedievalArc…

Medieval Archives (@MedievalArchives@medievalarchives.social)
Attached: 1 image Born #OTD in 1340: John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster; fourth son of King Edward III and father of King Henry IV. #medieval #England

Galileo's Handwritten Notes Discovered in a Medieval Astronomy Text - Slashdot
https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/02/28/0419233/galileos-handwritten-notes-discovered-in-a-medieval-astronomy-text

There are a couple of good quotes in this blog post. Like
"The protocol fight is interesting the way medieval siege warfare is interesting — I'm glad someone's into it, but it has no bearing on my life."
https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fedi…

YouTube has a collection of Yale Courses lectures by medieval historian Paul Freedman, and I have become quite addicted. But the lectern in his classroom has remnants of a sticker not properly removed, and it's driving me absolutely nuts.

The #Medieval Genealogy is one of the most useful portals to Medieval historical resources. Now with its 114th update. https://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/updates/update.shtml…

Datini Letters. Geospatial Explorer
Francesco di Marco Datini's merchant correspondence network
#history

Upcoming field trips with The Geologists' Association!
geologistsassociation.org.uk/ukfield/
19 April, 'Quaternary Berkshire'
16 May, 'Medieval building stones of Strata Florida Abbey & St Padarn's Church, Llanbadarn Fawr, Aberystwyth'
6 June, 'White Cliffs of Kingsgate, Isle of Thanet'
5 July, 'Llandudno: ‘A walk through the Visean...’
7 -9 July, 'Edinburgh - James Hutton Tercentenary Field Meeting, Siccar Poin…

Extremely active Sun from 1190 to 1220 in the Medieval Period - intercomparison of historical records and tree-ring carbon-14: #SpaceWeather: https://www.oist.jp/news-center/news/2026/4/10/medieval-japanese-poetry-and-buried-trees-help-elucidate-volatile-space-weather - combining carbon-14 measurements taken at the highest level of precision with historical literature lays a new foundation for studying unpredictable and hazardous solar proton events.

The islanders were taking part in an annual masked celebration called
Mid-Lent, or “Mi-Carême” in French,
visiting houses, bars and community centers with the goal of not being recognized.
A tradition rooted in medieval France,
it survives today in a handful of French-speaking corners of Canada.
They include a few small islands in the middle of the St. Lawrence River, like L’Isle-aux-Coudres in Quebec, which is accessible from the mainland only by ferry.

Halfway Through Lent, a Small Quebec Island Celebrates With Masks and Jigs
Few islanders still observe Lent, but they cling to a tradition once seen as defying the all-powerful Roman Catholic Church.

King Wenceslaus IV, shown wearing his mother's bra into battle, was NOT the GOOD King W known from Xmas carols. He was a pretty good soldier, we'll leave it at that.
#Medieval #History #WarIsHell

Bookmarked: Translucens — Bleed-through Removal for Manuscript Scans #Handschriften #IIIF

Translucens — Bleed-through Removal for Manuscript Scans
Translucens removes ink bleed-through and show-through from medieval manuscript folio scans using custom image processing pipeline.

UVA Wise Medieval/Renaissance, Sept. 17-19, 2026 (Undergrad) (proposals by June 26, 2026)
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just hanging around
#church #masonry #carving

Dolceacqua, a preserved medieval hill town with tunnel-like streets.

Aragorn's Tax Policy and Other Weird Shibboleths - Reactor https://reactormag.com/aragorns-tax-policy-and-other-weird-shibboleths/

Aragorn's Tax Policy and Other Weird Shibboleths - Reactor
Finally, a helpful explanation of why medieval rulers and modern tax policies don't mix...

2/2 follow up, also #StarWars displays were present, which were enjoyed by all ages. And enough love shown for the #LordoftheRings fans

What if werewolves were just medieval furries

and a kind of magical technique was adopted from the medieval period involving the use of foxes as spirit familiars

"The protocol fight is interesting the way medieval siege warfare is interesting — I'm glad someone's into it, but it has no bearing on my life."
-- @…
I so feel that!
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Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse
I have never been an "online community first" person. The internet is how I stay in touch with people I met in real life. I'm not a "tweet comments at celebrities" guy. I was never funny enough to be the funniest person on Twitter. So when Twitter was accidentally purchased

#CFP: Conatus: Between Visible & Invisible Worlds: Medieval Forms of Mediation
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#CFP: Conatus: Between Visible & Invisible Worlds: Medieval Forms of Mediation
Conatus: Between Visible & Invisible Worlds: Medieval Forms of Mediation

out to dinner

Yes, I was one of the very few folks that DIDN'T cosplay at this year's Renfair. Spent entirely too much money but it was great to be back, showing my kid some medieval fun & eating sticky toffee pudding & drinking mead after more than 25yrs though!
#renfair #SoCal

#corbel #masonry #medieval #carving

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Return to Forever:
🎵 Medieval Overture
#ReturntoForever
https://open.spotify.com/track/1wt87z7ipHD4uhCJLA2p4N

CFP: Conference "Old Ideas in New Minds: Strategies of 'Autonomy' from Antiquity to the Renaissance,” Jena (29.03.2026)
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CFP: Conference "Old Ideas in New Minds: Strategies of 'Autonomy' from Antiquity to the Renaissance,” Jena (29.03.2026)
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CFP: Conference "Old Ideas in New Minds: Strategies of 'Autonomy' from Antiquity to the Renaissance,” Jena (29.03.2026) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20141563/call-abstracts-conference-old-ideas…

CFP: Conference "Old Ideas in New Minds: Strategies of 'Autonomy' from Antiquity to the Renaissance,” Jena (29.03.2026)
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Slave subjectivities in the Iberian Worlds (15th- 20th centuries) Date: October 31,…
via Input 4 RELCFP

CFP: Conference "Old Ideas in New Minds: Strategies of 'Autonomy' from Antiquity to the Renaissance,” Jena (29.03.2026) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20141563/call-abstracts-conference-old-ideas…

CFP: Conference "Old Ideas in New Minds: Strategies of 'Autonomy' from Antiquity to the Renaissance,” Jena (29.03.2026) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20141563/call-abstracts-conference-old-ideas…