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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)

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.

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

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…

UVA Wise Medieval/Renaissance, Sept. 17-19, 2026 (Undergrad) (proposals by June 26, 2026)
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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.

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.

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.

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

just hanging around
#church #masonry #carving

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...

"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

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

Big "Refugees welcome" demonstration in Utrecht, just now. A counterweight to the 'spontaneous local' violent protests against asylum seekers organised by the extreme right, and used by their politicians to claim that 'the people' are against taking up refugees.

Epic rizz... medieval player. 😜
#smooth #huzzah

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

What if werewolves were just medieval furries

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.

About to give a talk on #LOD in #Neolatin Studies at the Centre for Medieval Studies in Prague. This presentation was great fun to prepare. Slides as usual at http://

out to dinner

#Fensterfreitag #FensterFriday Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire

PAMLA 2026 CFP (Extended Deadline) - Translation and Temporality: Rewriting Ancient and Medieval Texts for the (Post)Modern World
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Bookmarked: DBMNT #Digital_Editions #Nubisch Database of Medieval Nubian Texts

In the beginning was Chaos.
So...what's new? Longer legs?
Magnum Chaos design, as shown in a 16th-century design in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo, Italy
#Religion #Chaos #Philosophy

PAMLA 2026 CFP (Extended Deadline) - Together and Apart: Muslims, Jews, and Christians in Medieval Spain
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#corbel #masonry #medieval #carving

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

PAMLA 2026 CFP (Extended Deadline) - Together and Apart: Muslims, Jews, and Christians in Medieval Spain
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Online Seminar: Nora Berend - Crossing Borders in the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary: Enemies, Friends, and Immigrants
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Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies 8.1 is now available Intellect is happy to…
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Return to Forever:
🎵 Medieval Overture
#ReturntoForever
https://open.spotify.com/track/1wt87z7ipHD4uhCJLA2p4N

Online Seminar - Nora Berend - Crossing Borders in the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary: Enemies, Friends, and Immigrants
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Third Symposium on Dance, Music, and Performing Arts of the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia,…
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Online Seminar - Nora Berend - Crossing Borders in the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary: Enemies, Friends, and Immigrants
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Third Symposium on Dance, Music, and Performing Arts of the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia,…
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