‘If the reading revolution represented the greatest transfer of knowledge to ordinary men and women in history, the screen revolution represents the greatest theft of knowledge from ordinary people in history’.
When Bulgar khan Boris sent Pope Nicholas a list of questions about Christianity in 866, he asked if it was sinful for Christians to wear pants (breeches). Nicholas replied that he couldn't care less, as long as we 'spiritually wear pants' against carnal hijinks (spiritaliter induimur femoralibus) 🩳
A lost old world. Two 12th-century candelabra featuring three allegorical figures representing the three continents and their respective attributes: Africa-Scientia (Science, Knowledge); Europa-Bellum (War); Asia-Divitie (Wealth). Possibly Liège, 12th century
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Cuthbert looks like a real version of Franz Marc´s paintings!
Now in open access! Also with a contribution on medicine and cannibalism in Early Medieval Iberia...🧐
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ascendet (sic)
"Ubi bestia ascendit de terra" (Beato de Valcavado)
Près de 500 000 Espagnols fuirent en France en janvier-février 1939.
Les hommes furent « accueillis » dans des camps et les autorités firent leur possible pour qu’ils quittent la France. En dépit de cela, des milliers participèrent à la Résistance.
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"in order that the happiness of the saints may be more delightful to them and that they may render more copious thanks to God for it, they are allowed to see perfectly the sufferings of the damned" www.newadvent.org/summa/5094.htm
Always "Les Rois Thaumaturgues", now on a plastic postmodern version. No miracles here
"A Idade Media non inventou a pena de morte, un procedemento que xa existía no mundo romano e que perviviu ata non hai tanto en Europa occidental".
Así nolo conta o investigador da @usc.gal @abeldelorenzo.bsky.social para @es.theconversation.com.
International "toxo"
If your "personal Jesus" is Antinous
Richard Sennett, Flesh and Stone, 1994
Appel à contribution – Ouverture de la revue « Cahiers de civilisation médiévale » aux articles en langues étrangères et élargissement des bornes de la revue
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And with our leader Cuthbert the brave saint! 🐾😇
A successful non-missionary expedition to Inchcolm to preach the seagulls, the seals and puffins!
Francisco Goya, "Tristes presentimientos de lo que ha de acontecer" ("Sad forebodings of what is going to happen"), first plate from the Disasters of War series, published 1863 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
Blooming
"We have no servants: we have no dominion over men, who are just like we are. Besides, it is cruel to press a man into slavery whom nature has decreed to be our brother, and who has been created by the same heavenly father as we are." -apocryphal reply of Dindimus the Brahmin to Alexander the Great
How a 13th century list of books in a monastery can give information on walled up women...
"Another thick Psalter which was the one given to the emparedida"
No one wants to be a peasant, even though they were the main social group and, by far, the largest and most importante workforce for millennia. Unfortunately, no one wants to be part of the crowd
Le retour du roi
A barbarian goes to Rome, where priests of a 2000 year old religion have been doing exegesis of every possible aspect of it for centuries.
Expecting to somehow reinvent the antichrist wheel already re-invented 1000 times.
Parution en ligne des actes d'une journée d'étude (2024) sur les échanges de textes entre les péninsules ibérique et italienne dans le haut Moyen Âge, à l'occasion du centenaire de la naissance de Manuel Díaz y Díaz.
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Parece que os arcebispos de Santiago eran, dende Xelmírez, expertos en xogar ás agachadas post-mortem
