It would have been very hard for me not to answer e) for this when I was younger!

The first edition was an exceptional read and my introduction to world environmental history. Its nice to see a new edition!

Ginger and Tiger enjoying a relaxing Saturday afternoon.

I raise you one cat!

Analysis of medieval burials from Ibiza reveals genetic and pathogenic diversity during the Islamic period - Nature Communications Ibiza, an island in present-day Spain, was under Islamic rule between the 10th and 13th centuries CE. Here, the authors analyse the remains of thirteen individuals from medieval Islamic burials in Ibi...

#GlobalMiddleAges #MedievalSky #aDNA Paleogenomic study on Islamic Ibiza. 2 individuals suggest Sub-Saharan origins (Senegambia & southern Chad), "providing direct evidence of trans-Saharan connections via military & slave networks." #OpenAccess www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I would also recommend @tropy.bsky.social for organizing your archival materials. It really comes in handy when your image count starts getting into the thousands.

Anti nazi slogan and a Swastika hanging from a gallows in a simple line drawing

Graphic Design for Antifascists:

In 1936, the Gestapo encountered this flyer smuggled into Germany by the ISK, an anti-Nazi network.

The Gestapo noted that the image was a calling card of this underground group.

Behind it lay some clever design thinking 🧵 1/

This looks like a good conference! #medievalsky

That's amazing Helen! I've read the play several times (it's a masterpiece) but I've never seen it performed.

I would recommend The Medieval Economy of Salvation: Charity, Commerce, and the Rise of the Hospital by Adam Davis. It situates the rise of hospitals alongside evolving ideas of ecclesiastical and civic charity in the late medieval period.

This looks like a great tool that should work well with other late medieval early modern European currencies, most of which were in the £sd form. #medievalsky #earlymodern

Blutarsky did become a senator, after all... perhaps a bit of foreshadowing to what we're seeing now.

Congratulations Jon!

The last chapter Bidding farewell to the Washington Post’s Book World

A lament for the loss (yet again) of a once-great weekend books section... app.the-tls.com/216347/conte...

Neal Ascherson · Soup at La Marmite: Communards in Exile Solidarity with Commune veterans on the part of British working-class movements was usually more symbolic than active....

‘For many, perhaps most, of the refugees the outbreak of the Commune had been a blinding moment in which they felt transfigured. The mountains walling in humanity turned out to be made of plasterboard.’

Neal Ascherson on the Paris Commune in Britain.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

#earlymodern

Congratulations @mabelwinter.bsky.social ! I look forward to reading this. I was unaware of the links between goldsmiths and banking and wonder if this was solely a British phenomenon or if it extended to other polities.

The 'old market' in nineteenth-century Florence. It is a bustling scene with numerous stalls and tables occupied by men and women merchants selling a variety of goods. There are many people in the street, along with several carts, and there appears to be a boy or man singing and playing a musical instrument.

"Il Mercato Vecchio a Firenze" (1882), one of numerous paintings of the Florentine marketplace he made during the 1880s.

A street scene from the Jewish Ghetto in Florence, with the narrow stone street flanked on both sides by four-story structures. There are many men dressed in black, a woman and her children sit on the left side of the street and appear to be selling some type of vegetable goods. Behind them an woman and her son/grandson walk out of a produce stall.

"Il ghetto di Firenze" (1882), capturing a view of the bustling Jewish Ghetto in Florence just a few years before it was abolished.

A street scene from Riomaggiore (perhaps the Via Colombo) showing groups of men and women with baskets of fruit and other goods. The cobblestone street is flanked by four-story residential buildings on both sides, with the ubiquitous green shutters that are still predominant in Ligurian towns and cities. The mountains rise immediately in the background, illustrating the typical topography of Ligurian port cities.

Here are a few of my favourites: "A riposo a Riomaggiore" (1894), capturing the vitality of this Cinqueterre town before it became a tourist destination.

I've been enjoying the art of Telemaco Signorini recently. Unlike his peers in the Italian Macchiaioli and French Impressionist movements, who generally favoured pastoral themes, his work on outdoor landscapes captured the vibrant urban character of nineteenth-century Italian cities.

Der Umschlag der ersten Ausgabe, man sieht rechts und links Häuser und in der Mitte gehen als dunkele Gestalten zwei Personen

Thomas Manns Gesellschaftsroman
Buddenbrooks wird 1901 wie von Mann gewünscht in zwei Bänden vom S. Fischer Verlag veröffentlicht.
1929 erhält der Autor für dieses Buch den Literaturnobelpreis



This is very interesting! Do you have any idea where the paper was manufactured?

This letter, addressed to a spice merchant in Montpellier, is dated to the 1250s and written mostly in medieval Occitan. The most compelling part to me is that it's written on paper rather than parchment. Remarkably early example of paper in this region, especially among merchants! #medievalsky

"The Long Sixth Century "

From mid-February 2026, the MGH is able to make all articles from the DA and NA available in digital form, fully searchable and open access! #medievalsky

mgh.de/en/publicati...

handwritten list/index on parchment, numbered and in latin. Dark brown ink on paper

Diving into medieval #hospital books - an essay on #reuse of #objects in 14th century Florence is on its way based on a wide range of #archivalrecords from the still-operating hospital of #SantaMariaNuova. Thanks to @artandinequality.bsky.social and @glasgow.ac.uk for the support!

#medievalsky

That's a lot of contracts for a single day!

Congratulations David!

How inquisitive was medieval inquisition? Kaarel Sikk, David Zbíral, and Reima Välimäki have published a new study in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities that examines how Peter Zwicker's inquisition in Stettin (1393–94) utilised informatio...

#MedievalSky

Have you wondered how medieval inquisitors gathered the names of suspected heretics?

We have some answers based on a quantitative study of the Stettin inquisition (1393-94).

News on DISSINET home page:
dissinet.cz/news/article...

Link to the research article: doi.org/10.1093/llc/...

A review of two recent books on communications in the #earlymodern era on by Rachel Midura (@rmidura.bsky.social) and Joad Raymond Wren.