Coming up May 5 -
Female Prophecy in Early Modern European Religion
Speaker: Eleonora Cappuccilli
Organizer: The Norwegian Institute in Rome, University of Oslo
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Promotional poster for the international conference "Jesuit Missions in Northern Abyssinia (1557–1632): A Comprehensive Approach," held 4–5 May 2026, under the Progetto di Ateneo 2023 JeMiNA
I'll be presenting in two weeks at a conference at L'Orientale that I feel genuinely excited about! Somewhat unexpectedly, I have managed to put something together on Ethiopian and European prophecies, connecting past and current research. Come say hello if you're in Naples this 4-5 May!
Coming from Gəʽəz class and wishing there was a Lingua Aethiopica Per Se Illustrata. Verbal morphology of Semitic languages go brrrr.
Biblioteca Angelica photo dump: random sanguigne, a schedone listing Natalie Zemon Davis checking the same ms., and an (to me) unexpected witness of the De hermaphrodito
„The only remaining way to mitigate this situation is to reduce the number of applications.“
They’ve tried nothing and are all out of ideas? Whether this is good or bad, it is unjustified. There is no impact analysis, no engagement with research on funding procedures. Government by vibes
The year is 2035. All scientists now spend all their time either applying for grants or reviewing grants. No science is conducted.
Dream positions: 3 (!!) PhD placements at the Prize Papers with emphasis on finding students with the following language skills: French, Spanish, Dutch, and Scandinavian languages. (Of course, I emphasize the Dutch language!)
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Took me more time I'm glad to admit to track this, and it upset me that a collection of this scale exists in such a precarious state. But also: the transcriptions provided by Graça Barreto do not list the source/shelfmark.
The Jesuit passed some photocopies of it to Jean Aubin, who then passed it to Luís Filipe Thomaz. The Bonn copy, as far as I could is nowhere to be found, unsurprisingly after the closure of the Jesuit library in Bonn.
They were three before: Leite de Faria writes in 1977 that the director of the Imprensa Nacional, where Graça Barreto worked since age 15(!), destroyed their copy. Again, the Jesuits from the Bibliotheca Missionum register the passing of a copy from typesetter Dias Coelho to p. G. Schurhammer SJ.
A footnote from La Civiltà Cattolica in 1934 adds context: humidy destroyed all copies but two, which are missing some pages. This becomes more clear in 1951 thanks to the Jesuits from the Bibliotheca Missionum, who not only provide the actual title but the location of the surviving copies!
From reading that descriptions I infer the quotes from Basset must be of volume 3, but I cannot find any copy of it. Naturally, there are more authors that cite Graça Barreto's Documenta, but no shelfmark, nothing.
This, informally known as Documenta Habessinica, was Graça Barreto's planned 2,000-document collection on Portuguese-Ethiopian history, from the first Portuguese push into Abyssinia in the 15th century through João V's attempt to restore the patriarchate in the 18th. century. A landmark project.
After a minute, I realise it's this old volume of sources I had, Graça Barreto's appendix to the Bullario do padroado ultramarino focusing on Ethiopia. But the volume (n.b. Tomus II) does not list documents by number. And it was the first the come out, and in fact the only one.
Reading René Basset's" Deux lettres éthiopiennes du XVIe siècle" (1889) (a French translation of a memoria by Portuguese Ethiopianist Esteves Pereira and I start reading quotes from a collection of sources "Documenta Habessinica"...
What can we learn from the Ottoman collection of the British Library about provincial manuscript production in Rumelia, the Aegean, southern or eastern Anatolia, and northern Mesopotamia?
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In his upcoming Gotha Manuscript Talk, Michael Erdman @britishlibrary.bsky.social explores the British Library's regional Ottoman manuscripts.
🗓️ Wednesday 15 April, 6:15 CET.
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The Red Historia Venezuela website has added a collection of indexes and guides for the Venezuela documents within the Archivo General de Indias. A huge undertaking in which @gonzalezsilen.bsky.social has played a very important role. You can find it here: redhistoriave.org/real-audienc...
![ሂሩት በቀለ እና ዳህላክ ባንድ Hirut Bekele & Dahlak Band - ዓይን ዓይንን ቀጠፈ [Ethiopia - Ethio-Jazz] (1981)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wv2gr2o7ax7r3ns5yjcyckgm/bafkreietk7ycpo5y4qqm3ndtmwvdmaipyzcajwdasadmt4rsw4yo3mudve)
ሂሩት በቀለ እና ዳህላክ ባንድ Hirut Bekele & Dahlak Band - ዓይን ዓይንን ቀጠፈ [Ethiopia - Ethio-Jazz] (1981)
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Join us on May 22nd for a workshop on early modern North Africa and the Iberian Atlantic. Online and in person!
📢 Next Early Modern #Hellenism Colloquium: Nicole Kuropka will talk about 'Philipp Melanchthon: Rhetoric, Exegesis, and St Paul'
📅 16 April, 15:00 CET (Zoom)
✨ All welcome! To register, click here www.hf.uio.no/dnir/english...
#Hellenism #ClassicalReception #Reformizing #Skystorians #Greek
#Skystorians it is not too late to book for this in person summer school course, in London 8-12 June, where we cover the basics of working with medieval manuscripts. Ideal for graduate students, #librarians, or anyone with an interest in medieval books.
I have had to have four different meetings to be allowed to run python on my work computer. And I'm still waiting after 7 months to see if they allow me to install some non-Microsoft software... I don't know how lucky could I get with such a thing 🙁
This is the first time something like this has really excited me. Proper butterflies. Aristotle writes that Empedocles claims a universal law against killing living creatures, & Cicero says he argues for the same legal standing for humans & animals. But their sources are lost. Will these be them?
The English High Court of Admiralty’s archive contains a vast number of sources for global, colonial, and maritime history c.1550-c.1850 that have seen limited by researchers. This one-day workshop will provide attendees with the skills to locate and use these challenging records,
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Book cover of "War, Revolt and Sacred Space Cambrai and the Southern Netherlands, 1566–c.1621"
Just published by Brill. A long-awaited, important work on reformation, revolt and the material culture of religion in the Low Countries by a distinguished scholar.
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Please do spread the word about the @srsrensoc.bsky.social Scholars of Colour MA Scholarship Awards -- two pots of £4,000 each, and an optional mentoring opportunity. I've very much enjoyed being a mentor to a fantastic scholar through this scheme!
The bursary application deadline for this is 7 April 👇 #MedievalSky
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