I came up with an acronym that I hope will be useful for helping students to build AI literacy. SOUP: Symmetry, Opposite, Uncertainty, Peer review. See my post in Medium for the full explanation and an example. medium.com/p/using-ai-f...
La revista Philologia Hispalensis acaba de publicar un monográfico sobre Humanidades Digitales. Aún no figura en la web de la revista, pero por los doi se puede acceder a los artículos. #HHDD
An illustration of a cat licking itself in the margins of a medieval manuscript.
A cat pawprint left in the ink of a medieval manuscript.
The best historical artefacts are the accidental ones that freeze a moment in time forever.
I thought I’d try to find all the times pets have ruined their owner's day and recorded that instant for all of history.
A manuscript page with writing in two columns and numerous marginal notes and scribbles, as well as a red library stamp.
This single manuscript page has writing on it spanning over 1400 years. The base text is 6th century and there are notes from the 13th, 15th, 18th and 19th centuries. There are few objects that remained interactive for longer than medieval manuscripts.
BNF Latin 2630, f1r
La beauté de l'art italien projetée sur le vieux pont à Florence
Le Ponte Vecchio « Vieux Pont » est un pont bâti de Florence, en Italie. Édifié au XIVe siècle, il est à la fois la galerie marchande, la rue piétonne et le pont le plus ancien, le plus célèbre et le plus touristique de la ville
The grandeur of the court in 16th c. Brussels. For the marriage between Alexander Farnese and Maria of Portugal in 1565 a city with inhabitants all made of fine sugar was created by the Coudenberg Palace's chefs.
As we approach the Winter Solstice, here's what Stonehenge looked like in the 16th century.
BL Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r
How do geohumanities scholars and digital mapmakers deal with uncertainty, with respect to their historical counterparts? In our recently published Special Issue, Dr. Rombert Stapel reflects on the necessary steps to bridge knowledge gaps: journalhistoryknowledge.org/article/view...
“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”
Commonly used for eye examinations and imaging teeth, Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) can also be used to examine heritage objects. David Mills from @qmul.ac.uk Dentistry Lab paid us a visit to analyse some of the sacred books in the @hips-project.bsky.social project (HiPS)
A bronze statue of a man with a beard and a flowing hair. His hand is in his jacket. He knows who has been nice and who was not. He is here to seize the means of production.
Christmas plays an important role in German tradition. Some cities even honor it by erecting bronze statues of Santa Claus.
Our #medieval lecture for 2025 will be given by Dr Natasha Hodgson (Nottingham Trent University) on the lives and travels of medieval women.
Join us in person (London) or online on Friday 7 February at 6:30pm GMT. All welcome.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1112882945...
Gate of the columns, Alcazaba of Malaga. Andalusi gate ( 11th century) where Roman columns were reused, probably from the nearby theater.
Elizabeth Pierrepont, Countess of Kellie has a parrot climbing up her dress in 1619. She insisted, against the best advice of painter Paul van Somer, whose day is today.
Very grateful to the wonderful editing skills of @johannastrong.bsky.social and @amysaunders.bsky.social on this cluster and very much enjoyed contributing a short piece to it, but mostly reading all the exciting work that other people are doing in this area
Call for applications for a research grant in Paleography
Call for applications for a research grant in Paleography at the University of Roma Tre, within the project CLASSICS - Codices Latini Antiquiores' Supplements: Scripts In-depth through Computer
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-app...
How is it possible that this #OpenAccess volume of essays on #MarcoPolo appeared in June yet I'm only finding out about it today? publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/handle... #MedievalSky #skystorians
I'm excited to attend @imc-leeds.bsky.social for the first time. My paper title: "Sugar, Emeralds, and Unicorn Horn: Merchants and Spicers as Agents of Medicinal Knowledge Transfer in the Late Middle Ages." Also participating in a roundtable: "Teaching Premodern Europe in the American Southwest."
