Includes a 15th C Petrarch, Dati's La Sfera (with the Tower), a 16th C Arabic Diatessaron, many song books from Chigi, a 16th C Ge'ez Gospel, some early Greek, a Maronite Office... and more! @medievodons@bookhistodons#Medieval#Medievodons
“This video looks at the history of writing amongst the Mongols and other nomadic peoples, with special focus on the writing of Mongolian during the days of the Mongol Empire.”
#Video length: twenty two minutes and forty one seconds.
“This video looks at the history of writing amongst the Mongols and other nomadic peoples, with special focus on the writing of Mongolian during the days of the Mongol Empire.”
#Video length: twenty two minutes and forty one seconds.
“In the 890s, having recently converted to Orthodox Christianity, Boris ensured his church would be independent from the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Although interested in their religion, he was clearly concerned with curtailing Byzantine influence in his newly Christianised state. The alphabet offered an opportunity: by adopting it, Boris could ensure that Byzantine culture could not arrive in Bulgaria unmediated.”
“In the 890s, having recently converted to Orthodox Christianity, Boris ensured his church would be independent from the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Although interested in their religion, he was clearly concerned with curtailing Byzantine influence in his newly Christianised state. The alphabet offered an opportunity: by adopting it, Boris could ensure that Byzantine culture could not arrive in Bulgaria unmediated.”
From the manuscript to you: How Old Norse manuscripts are read and edited
"A case-study in how a page from an Old Norse manuscript (in this case the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda) is edited for publication in a modern-day book. Manuscript images from the Árni Magnússon Institute at the University of Iceland (handrit.is)."
#Video length: Thirty minutes and fifteen seconds.
Is anyone putting together a #Medieval academy panel on saints or Books of Hours? I've got a paper to propose, but it's always easier with a group #MAA2025 @medievodons#Medievodons
Because I fixed a bug in the code, 115 #Manuscripts were tracked as new from the #Vatican this week https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2024/week18.html
The load time for the Vat.lat page had exceeded my timeout for the last 7 weeks, this has been fixed! There's a lot of papal history, including several Scrutini, sermons, commentary, satirical poems, Thomas Aquinas in Terza Rima, Beneventan music, coins and more! #Medieval#Medievodons@bookhistodons@medievodons
"These eight cities were not necessarily the largest in terms of land area or even population in some cases, but they were large in their sense of importance to the medieval era."
"Incense spheres discovered in Tang hoards, which are the earliest artefacts found to date, reveal multicultural origins upon close examination. Persian and Sogdian silversmith elements, Buddhist ideas and Syriac Christian liturgical practices, may all have left their traces on the making of the object."
Fang, F. X. (2024). Scent, Art and Astronomy: New Light on Tang Incense Spheres and Their Global Connections. The Medieval History Journal, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09719458231226000