Honored to be among such an exciting group of Rome Prize winners.
I’ll spend next year in Rome wrapping up my dissertation on the Christians of Al-Andalus, adding in material from eastern Christian-Arabic manuscripts.
#medievalsky
Call for Papers: Entangled Christianities 2 - this conference in Crete is back this November. We are helping out in organizing it, and the venue is great. Get the details at entangled-networks-hub.lovable.app #medievalstudies #historians #Christianity
École d’été – Diplomatique comparée. L’écrit du bassin méditerranéen au Moyen Âge
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One highlight of the collection is an Armenian Gospel dating to 1338 CE (AODA 00033, pictured). An example of the Van Monastic School’s color, patterns, and artistry, the manuscript includes miniatures that illuminate episodes from the Gospels and the life of Christ. Originating from Arckē (modern-day Adilcevaz, Turkey), the manuscript was safeguarded and carried to Aleppo by survivors of the Armenian Genocide in 1919–1920, a testament to both its sacred significance and enduring historical legacy.
Digitization & cataloging is complete for the collection of the Armenian Church, Diocese of Aleppo: 174 manuscripts relocated from the Armenian Holy Forty Martyr’s Church in Aleppo. A rare survival from one of the most volatile centers of #Armenian Christianity.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/49V9yXa
New episode now up! We chat with Dr. Manolis Ulbricht about Byzantine polemic, medieval Islam, and studying Arabic in Syria.
Listen on all major platforms, or via this link: open.spotify.com/episode/78sh...
#medieval #history #podcast
It's quite rare to discover an unknown medieval chronicle - check out the news on this find! www.medievalists.net/2026/02/prev... #medieval #history #medievalists
"A Fatimid Interoffice Memo about the Franks, May God Forsake Them" by Marina Rustow, Alan Elbaum, and Paul M. Cobb
Call for Papers - EABS 2026: Biblical Reception in Eastern Christian Traditions.
We welcome papers on manuscripts, margins, scribes, biblical traditions, and more.
Abstracts can be submitted until 31 January 2026: eabs.my.site.com/s/research-u...
We have just published a newly discovered 1493 Arabic letter written by Boabdil, the last sultan of Granada, addressed to the Catholic Monarchs. It is the only known Arabic letter produced after the fall of Granada and documents his attempt to renegotiate the terms of his departure to North Africa.
Another beer post for the evening: In 1241, Pope Gregory IX informed Archbishop Sigurd Eindridesson (r.1231-52) that children who are baptised in beer can not be considered to have been properly baptised.
A composite of six top down photos of six of the seven bird mosaics. From left to right, top to bottom they display a parrot, gallinule, a damaged tile with an unidentified bird, peacock, duck, and dove.
A candid photo of conservator Ewa Parandowska cleaning the bird mosaics with a fine paintbrush-like tool. She sits on a sheet of cardboard and a cushion to avoid damaging the mosaics.
A top down photo of a panther mosaic being gently cleaned with a wet sponge. An unidentified hand reaches into the frame from the top with a sponge in hand.
A photo of the villa's three mosaics after conservation. The bird mosaics occupy the center of the photograph with a mosaic displaying a geometric floral motif visible in the foreground and the panther mosaic barely visible in the background. Wooden walkways for easy viewing are visible in the background and to the right, providing access to visitors without harming the mosaics.
The Villa of the Birds located in Alexandria, Egypt hosts a stunning array of Early Roman mosaics conserved by five transnational agencies between 1998-2000.
View more photos documenting the conservation process through the UCLA Library International Digital Ephemera Project: ucla.in/4nNOgOT
The Digital Lab for Islamic Visual Culture & Collections has announced an online training session introducing the Islamic art, architecture, and history of al-Andalus, taking place between 1- 4 December 2025.
digitallabivcc.com/intro-to-al-...
With an exciting contribution on the Arabic Orosius (Kitāb Hurūshiyūsh) from Al-Andalus and its broad reach in the Islamic historical tradition 📚
Explore the clash of faiths and rising kingdoms in medieval Spain—sign up today! medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/beco... #MedievalSpain
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....
*We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !*
#medievalists #medievalsky
A much more exciting week brought 76 #Manuscripts online at the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes a glossed Priscian, a bunch of 17th C Barberini stuff, a pile more Ge'ez, many Cicero, Iñigo de Mendoça's Spanish _Vita Christiana_, and MORE
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Yay! I just noticed that my book is available for preorder. Use the code PUP30 for 30% off. Share with your librarian! Will ship on Jan 20, 2026 just in time for uhhhhh someone's birthday? Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt | Princeton University Press press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
📬 In our November blog post, Jamie Wood, former BCDSS Guest Researcher and Prof. of History and Education at Lincoln University (UK), shares insights into the research he conducted during his stay in Bonn: buff.ly/XBlQiLo
#Intermediaries #Christianity #Visigoths
@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de
Happy to report that our book 'Local Priests in the Latin West, 900-1050' has been published! It is Open Access, so you can read (or download) it here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Behold! A new prize of £500 for early career scholars of medieval church history (incl Crusades)
@medievalists.bsky.social @imc-leeds.bsky.social @nicmorton.bsky.social
Just published in open access: Early Modern Narratives of Islam across Europe: A Connected Memory: brill.com/display/titl...
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....
*We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !*
#medievalists #medievalsky
Opened palimpsest codex (Leiden UL Or. 14236) with Syriac upper text and Armenian undertext. The upper text is written in black and red ink and decorated braided band patterns. There's also a fragment with Arabic on it between the two pages of the opened codex.
Mind-numbing how many layers of history there can be to a single manuscript page: Syriac upper text (10th c.), Armenian undertext (pre-10th c.), Arabic material used for binding (11-12th c.?), Coptic foliation in the margin (date?), modern foliation at the bottom. Image: Leiden UL Or. 14236, link ⬇️
Colleagues @lmumuenchen.bsky.social are hosting a workshop about medieval Arabic documents this November. Our advisory board member Prof Geoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge) will be teaching - it promises to be a fascinating time!
bit.ly/ArabicDocumentsWorkshop
#Arabic #documents #medievalsky
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....
*We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !*
#medievalists #medievalsky
Two exciting new publications on Jewish theology in medieval Castile by Notre Dame’s own Jeremy Brown: ‘A World of Piety: The Aims of Castilian Kabbalah’ and ‘Light is Sown: The Cultivation of Kabbalah in Medieval Castile’ (with Avishai Bar-Asher). Can’t wait to read!
The Princeton Companion to Jewish Studies edited by Leora Batnitzky, Eve Krakowski, and Steven Weitzman. An authoritative guide to Jewish studies, reflecting the latest research in a diverse and flourishing field
The Princeton Companion to Jewish Studies is an authoritative guide to Jewish studies, reflecting the latest research in a diverse and flourishing field.
Available Oct 14 (9 Dec UK pub). Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#JewishStudies
Nicopolis (Greek: NIKOOAIE); Beth.: CAOIOA); Jericho (Greek: lepıyw); Modiim (Greek: MOAEEIM); Lydda (Greek: AOAH); Bethoron (Greek: Belwpwv); Gibeon (Greek: TABAQN); Rama (Greek: PAMA); Coreae (Greek: KOPEOYZ); Maresha (Greek: MOPAZO); Azotos Paralos (Ashdod-Coast)
#MosaicMonday
The Madaba Map is part of a floor mosaic in the early #Byzantine church of Saint George in Madaba, #Jordan.
The Madaba #Map is of the Middle East, and it contains the oldest surviving original cartographic depiction of the Holy Land.
#Archaeology #History #art
The Syriac Legal Documents of the 3rd Century CE. By John F. Healey. Series: Supplement to Aramaic Studies, volume 20. Brill. 2025.
📢New release!
📜 John Healey presents a re-edition and translation of 3rd-century #Syriac legal parchments from Upper Mesopotamia, with extensive commentary. These documents constitute our earliest significant evidence of the Syriac language and script.
🔗 brill.com/display/titl...
#acrel #Aramaic