Plan of the Holy Sepulchre, originally drawn by Arculf, today Paris, BNF, Ms. Lat. 13048, fol. 4v, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10533305c/f16.item
AotW: Vera Kreutzmann, 674–685: Observations of the Frankish Pilgrim Arculf in Jerusalem and Damascus, in: TMH 2.1 (2020), doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
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The Siege of Damietta 1218/19 as depicted in a manuscript of Matthew Paris’ Chronica Maiora (II), c. 1240–55, today Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library, MS 16II, fol. 59v.
AotW: Richard Knorr/Daniel G. König/Theresa Jäckh, 1221: al-Ṣafadī on the Display of Ayyubid Power in the Presence of the Crusaders of Damiette, in: TMH 2.2 (2020), doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
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Adam and Eve, so-called 'Escorial Beatus', probably San Millán de la Cogolla (10th cent.), today Madrid, Escorial, Biblioteca Monasterio, Cod. & II. 5, fol. 18.
AotW: Tim Knoche, 1192: Manumission of a Muslim Slave by a Female Mozarabic Testatrix in Toledo, Transmediterranean History 2.2 (2020), doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
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Adelard of Bath teaching students, illumination by the so-called 'Virgil Master' in a manuscript (France, ca. 1400) of Adelard’s 'Regulae abaci', today Leiden, University Libraries, SCA 1, fol. 1, https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/view/item/1805678#page/5/mode/1up.
AotW: Friederike Pfister, 1107–1137: Adelard of Bath's Questiones naturales Promote "the Studies of the Arabs", TMH 2.2 (2020), doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
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Probably the earliest surviving manuscript of the Gesta Francorum, 12th century, today Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Reg. lat. 572, fols 1v–64v, here fol. 1v.
AotW: T. Rudolph, 1098: The Anonymous Crusading Account of the Gesta Francorum Describes the Muslim Mother of Kürbuġa as Counsellor, Scholar, and Prophetess, TMH 2.2 (2020), doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
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Giuseppe Patania, La consegna di Palermo da parte dei musulmani (c. 1830), fresco in the 'Sala Gialla' of the Palazzo dei Normanni, Palermo
AotW: Theresa Jäckh, 1071–1072: William of Apulia on the Norman Conquest of Palermo, in: TMH 2.2 (2020), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
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Out now – Resilience and its Limits: The Banū ʿĪsā and the Making of the Kingdom of Valencia, 1244–1278, in: Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies (2026), www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Chronicon Anianense, late eleventh / early twelfth cent. manuscript, today Paris, BNF, Ms. lat. 5941, fol. 2r, URL: https://gallica.bnf.fr/view3if/ga/ark:/12148/btv1b8562475p/f1.
AotW: Till Kalkbrenner, 719–759: The Chronicon Anianense on the Beginning and End of Muslim Rule over Septimania, in: TMH 2.2 (2020), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
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Statue of Charles I of Anjou, by Arnolfo di Cambio, c. 1277, today Capitoline Museums, Rome
AotW: Richard Engl, 1269: Submission of the Muslims of Southern Italy to Charles I of Anjou, in: TMH 3.1 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
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My review of a newly edited primary source from Mudéjar Iberia is out now: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Bronze lion statue, Norman Italy, c. 1100, today MET, New York
AotW: John Aspinwall / Theresa Jäckh, 1091: A Charter of Roger I for the Reorganisation of Sicily, in: TMH 3.1 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
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Twelfth-century copy of Gerbert d’Aurillac’s „Isagoge Geometriae,“ today Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection of Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Philadelphia (PA), Ms LJS 194, fol. 12v
AotW: Samer S. Qandil / Daniel G. König, 984: Some Letters by Gerbert d’Aurillac Dealing with “Arabic” Mathematics and Astronomy, in: TMH 3.1 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
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![So-called Maestro de Becerril, Martirio de San Pelayo [The Martyrdom of St. Pelagius], oil on canvas, 57 x 41,5 cm, Palencia 1520.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lhu277gq7s3nbs2eprw7fezp/bafkreiaekavkbylskqrm2n43n6745r5kkgdex6h6t6j2vcqjoclydr4asa)
So-called Maestro de Becerril, Martirio de San Pelayo [The Martyrdom of St. Pelagius], oil on canvas, 57 x 41,5 cm, Palencia 1520.
AotW: Alicia Münch, 955: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim on the Galician Hostage Pelagius at the Court of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān III, in: TMH 3.1 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
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Manuscript of al-Nuwayrī’s Nihāyat al-arab fī funūn al-adab, volume 7, Aleppo 738/1337, today Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Ms Wetzstein II 1, fol. 2r, URL: https://www.qalamos.net/receive/DE1Book_manuscript_00022427
AotW: Theresa Jäckh, 827: al-Nuwayrī on the Beginning of the Muslim Conquest of Sicily, in: TMH 3.1 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
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Illuminated initial B from a manuscript of Cassiodorus' Expositio in psalterium, Saint-Denis, c. 800–850, today Paris, BNF, Ms lat. 2195, fol. 9v
AotW: Till Kalkbrenner, 797–802: Notker's Gesta Karoli Magni on the Exchange of Envoys between Charlemagne and Hārūn al-Rašīd, in: TMH 3.1 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
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Ibn Rushd (Latinised Averroes), painted by Andrea di Bonaiuto, „Triunfo de Santo Tomás“, Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 1365–1369
AotW: Al. Reindl / D. König, 1527: Calo Calonymos’s Latin Translation of Ibn Rušd / Averroes Testifies to the Multilayered and Multilingual Reception of Aristotle, in: TMH 3.2 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
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Letter from al-Azraq to the Queen of Aragon (1250), Barcelona, Arxiu de la Corona d’Aragó, Cartas árabes, Nr. 154 (recto)
Letter from al-Azraq to the Queen of Aragon (1250), Barcelona, Arxiu de la Corona d’Aragó, Cartas árabes, Nr. 154 (verso)
AotW: Eric Böhme, 1250: A Letter from the Regional Ruler al-Azraq to the Queen of Aragon, in: Transmediterranean History 3.2 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
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Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada’s cenotaph, Monastery of Santa María, Huerta
AotW: Dominic Scheim, 1243–1245: Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada's Polemic Preface to the Historia Arabum, in: Transmediterranean History 3.2 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
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Main entrance of Cervera castle (2017), by Juan Emilio Prades Bel, https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castillo_de_Cervera#/media/Archivo:Portalada_principal_d'accés_a_l'interior_del_Castell_de_Cervera_(Cervera_del_Maestrat).jpg
AotW: Eric Böhme, 1233: The Hospitallers in the Crown of Aragón Guarantee the Muslims of Cervera the Right to Remain, in: Transmediterranean History 3.2 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
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plan of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Adomanàn’s De locis santis (9th century), today Vienna, ÖNB, cod. 458, fol. 4v.
AotW: Johannes G. Stolk and Theresa Jäckh, 1009: Adémar of Chabannes on the Destruction of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, in: Transmediterranean History 3.2 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
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Codex epistolaris dictus Carolinus, Cologne, between 870–889, today Vienna, ÖNB, Cod. 449, fol. 1
AotW: Daniel G. König, 785–791: Pope Hadrian I Criticises a Decline in Christian Dogma and Practice in Muslim al-Andalus, in: TMH 3.2 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
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![Map of the inhabited world, from al-Qazwīnī’s cosmography ‘Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharā’ib al-mawjūdāt [Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing], Ms. probably from western India, 16th cent., today U.S. National Library of Medicine. MS P 1, fol. 71b-72a](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lhu277gq7s3nbs2eprw7fezp/bafkreibjb7vxzgrmvj2ywmsectdrxxnyg5zszidonv227tdkgyi35lhsay)
Map of the inhabited world, from al-Qazwīnī’s cosmography ‘Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharā’ib al-mawjūdāt [Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing], Ms. probably from western India, 16th cent., today U.S. National Library of Medicine. MS P 1, fol. 71b-72a
AotW: Juan Rothenhäusler, 1258–1283: al-Qazwīnī Reports from Iraq on Schleswig or Haithabu, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
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Conquest of Damietta, 1249: Jean de Joinville entering the town before Louis IX, miniature from a fourteenth-century manuscript of his 'Histoire de Saint Louis', today Paris, BNF, Français 5716.
AotW: Daniel G. König, 1250: Jean de Joinville Listens to the Story of a Renegade in Egypt, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
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Pejorative depiction of Frederick II as seventh and largest head of the dragon of the Apocalypse, next to Herod, Nero and Saladin. The dragon's tail encircles Franciscan monks. Giovanni Villani, Chronica, 14th century, today Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Codex Vat. Lat. 3822, fol. 5r
AotW: Niklas Hann von Weyhern, 1245: Matthaeus Parisiensis on the Defense of Frederick II at the Council of Lyon, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
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Investiture of ʿAlī at the Ghadir Khumm, 16 March 632, in: Kitāb al-āthār al-bāqiya ʿan al-qurūn al-khāliya, copy by Ibn al-Kutubī, Ilkhanid Iraq/Iran, 1307–1308, today Edinburgh, University Library, MS Arab 161, fol. 162r.
AotW: Luke Yarbrough, 1014–1043: Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr on Christian Love for ʿAlī, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
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Coronation of John Tzimiskes (969), from: John Skylitzes, Synopsis of Histories, Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, Vitr. 26-2, fol. 159r (12th century; the famous 'Madrid Skylitzes‘)
AotW: Sebastiano Arona, 971: The 'Decretum Venetorum de abrogando Saracenorum commercie' Prohibits Venetians from Trading with Muslims, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
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Iron restraints 11th/12th cent., Neu Nieköhr, Zdenek Vana, przedmowa Jerzy Gąssowski - Świat dawnych Słowian, 1985, Artia, PA Interpress
AotW: Daniel G. König, 903–906: The Raffelstetten Customs Regulation and the Export of Slavic Slaves to the Islamic Sphere, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
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Xàtiva drawn by Anton van den Wijngaerde in 1563, today Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. Min 41, fol. 70r
AotW: Eric Böhme, 1244: King James I of Aragón Reports on the Capitulation of Xàtiva, in: TMH 4.2 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
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James II of Aragon (r. 1291–1327), Usatici et Constitutiones Cataloniae, Paris, BNF, Latin 4670 A (c. 1315–1325)
AotW: Bogdan C. Smarandache, 1293: An Aragonese–Mamlūk Agreement from al-Qalqašandī’s Ṣubḥ al-aʿšā, in: TMH 4.2 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
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