Crossing the world without an interpreter - Arabic studies in England 1550-1640, by Alastair Hamilton and Samantha Brown
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Crossing the world without an interpreter - Arabic studies in England 1550-1640, by Alastair Hamilton and Samantha Brown
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My colleagues at the Warburg Institute are organising some brilliant courses around languages in the Renaissance that I am very excited about:
Learning Latin the Renaissance Way, by Nathaniel Hess
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Call for expressions of interest to apply for a MSCA PDF on medieval antiheretical hate speech. Deadline March 16.
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#CfA 📢 LECTIO Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027, KU Leuven
Visiting fellowships at the KU Leuven Institute for the Study and Transmission of Texts, Ideas and Images in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
⏰6 March 2026
🔗 www.kuleuven.be/lectio/visit...
@lectio-institute.bsky.social
My (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources.
Please share and give feedback!
xeirographa.com
"Hiring committees can’t solve the structural or financial crises facing the humanities in the UK but they can recognise and redress their role in aggravating them."
Have you applied, or are you thinking of applying, for a PhD at the Warburg Institute?
Explore our scholarship opportunities for students starting in October 2026.
Deadline for the Rubinstein Scholarship and the JB Trapp Scholarship: 5pm, Friday 20 March
In 2026, colleges must teach students that this is not the end of the world. We must teach hope. Current undergraduates can barely remember a time before the threats of climate change and authoritarianism loomed to catastrophic scale. Since 2010, the future depicted in TV, books, and games has been dystopian or apocalyptic, so for our current students the end of the world feels more familiar and realistic than a future with hope. Now we are asking them to choose majors and life paths when the desirability, indeed the very existence, of whole sectors of employment are in question, due to the overwhelming promises of LLMs and machine learning. As young people hear daily that vocation after vocation may vanish into automation’s maw, and that democracy, liberty, land, sea, and sky are all in jeopardy, despair is growing. Despair is very emotionally tempting. It means freedom from the responsibility to shape the future. This is a terrifying turning point, but many generations before us have faced such turning points, and met them. We can offer our students perspective. Only a few dozen institutions on Earth are more than 900 years old, and the vast majority are universities. The university system is not a house of straw to buckle in this storm: We are the rocks that have sheltered the knowledge, hope, and truth through tumults which have toppled kingdoms while classrooms endured. We can endure this, and be a guiding light through it, but only by recentering, by teaching citizens, not workers; power, not PowerPoint; aspiration, not apocalypse. Despair is how we lose. The classroom is where we battle it. All other battles flow from here. Ada Palmer is an associate professor of history at the University of Chicago.
This, from Ada Palmer as part of The Chronicle's survey of 11 scholars on the future of higher ed, is what I needed to end the week.
Do not join academia.edu
If you did in the past, then just leave.
Screenshot of the Knowledge Commons homepage
Another day, another report of a for-profit academic website exploiting user data 🙄😫
Create an account on Knowledge Commons (hcommons.org)! We're a nonprofit where users can create websites, upload works to our open access repository, and so much more. And guess what? We don't sell your data! 💖
Shocking news. Obviously one doesn't know the ins and outs, but it's hard to comprehend how such a large and weathy university as UCL finds itself unable to support a cutting-edge humanities research institute. Solidarity with everyone affected. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
François Soyer, "Imperfect Sodomy: The Lisbon Inquisition and the Repression of Heterosexual Anal Intercourse in Portugal, 1580–1800." Journal of the History of Sexuality 35, no. 1 (2026), pp. 1-27. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...
The cover of the book shows various textiles in bright colors from the medieval period on a blue background.
If you don't have any plans for this weekend, how about a trip to the Berlinale?
If you'd rather stay at home, we recommend the recently published book ‘Textiles in Manuscripts’, which offers a burst of colour to brighten the grey winter
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
#berlinale #medievalsky
Join us next Thursday 26 Feb at 10 AM CET for a paper by Maria S. Thomas (UniVie) on the manuscript production of the Syriac Orthodox monastery of Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem in the twelfth century!
If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social
Am I the only one who thinks micro-credentials and lifelong learning is, the way it is being done and for the most part, the gigification of higher education?
📄 New paper:
Pre-Editorial Normalization for Automatically Transcribed Medieval Manuscripts in Old French and Latin
Thibault Clérice, @rachelbawden.bsky.social , Anthony Glaise, Ariane Pinche, @dasmiq.bsky.social (2026) arxiv.org/abs/2602.13905
We introduce Pre-Editorial Normalization (PEN).
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Job in my department, one year renewable for three, early modern Iberian Atlantic world. I’m on the committee, happy to have a conversation/answer questions as far as is appropriate. March 15 deadline. apply.interfolio.com/181565?utm_s...
www.mediterraneanseminar.org/summer-skill...
June 22-25 - Medieval Mediterranean Coinage (Intro.)
June 29 - July 2 - Mediterranean Magic (Intro.)
June 2 9 - July 2 - Reading Armenian Manuscripts (NEW)
July 6-9 - Sephardic Culture: An Introduction
July 13-16 - The Archivo General de Simancas (Intro.)
August 3-6 - Reading Medieval Catalan
Mediterranean Seminar Summer Skills Seminars for 2026
May 18-21 - Reading Archival Latin
May 18-21 - Reading Medieval Greek Manuscripts
June 15-18 - Reading Ottoman Turkish
June 15-18 - The Archivo General de Indias: A Global Archive (NEW)
June 22-25 - Medieval & Early Modern Cartography
La primera gramática de hebreo escrita en suelo americano (en el sentido formulado por Bad Bunny) se redactó en español en la Ciudad de México en la década de 1650. Es un libro muy divertido e ingenioso y lo escribió un cristiano para cristianos. Voy a hablar sobre varios aspectos del libro desde la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México el próximo lunes, 24 de febrero, a las 5 de la tarde hora de México. Habrá una opción remota. Si gustan y les interesa, me dará mucho gusto verlos conectados.
Todo lo que quiso saber sobre el hebreo y no se atrevió a preguntar (México, 1650): régimen de verdad y ficción en un texto técnico novohispano
24 febrero 17.00 CDMX, medianoche España, 18.00 Colombia, 20.00 Argentina y Chile
Zoom: unam.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#EarlyModern #HistoriaIndiana
As Google Books starts to sink, it's worth remembering how Google organised a separate class of employees to do the actual labour of the book scanning, and kept them in a separate building on the Google campus with none of the privileges of regular Google staff.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0RT...
Assuming it's 'in forma folii' I believe it just indicates the size of the paper.
[also, this is why building your own digital archive of secondary literature is very important!]
It was good while it lasted.
We often think of book censorship as denying access to texts. Dr. Matthew Z. Heintzelman consider cases where censorship of information was used as a way to preserve access to books, altered to hide their affiliation with Martin Luther: hmml.org/stories/series-books-sandwiching-a-forbidden-text
Since I first listened to Noel talk about Llull years ago, I've been waiting for this book to come out. Very excited it's here!
Coming to a bookstore near you this summer! Thanks to everyone who made this possible. [Link in comments 👇]
Palampore (India); cotton; H x W: 289.6 x 137.2 cm (114 x 54 in.) Repeat H x W: 40.6 x 78.7 cm (16 x 31 in.); Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund; 1959-146-1; Cooper Hewitt Museum. Public Domain.
Make sure to join us online on Monday 2 February for @amaterialworld.bsky.social talk 'Experiencing Chintz in Early Modern Japan: Global Textile Encounters and Local Printing Practices'
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#MaterialCulture #History
