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  1. 23 Nov 2021

    ✨JOB!✨ CFA for a research assistant of the fabulous Dr Andrea Achi for the exhibition "Africa and Byzantium", Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC 2021-24! Applications to Dr Achi, please DM for email address.

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  2. 7 May 2020

    Looking at Ghūrid coins today, sharing bc they’re a good example of . The Ghūrids ruled Afghanistan in the 12-13th centuries, famous for minaret of Jam, which has the entire Qurʾanic chapter of Maryam on it, and this Qurʾan w/ interlinear Persian translations.

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  3. Jan 15

    Archangel Michael in a purple robe and with a proto-manbun. A wall-painting from the Faras cathedral in Nubia, 9th century Warsaw MN 234043

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  4. 15 Jan 2020

    Marginal note in Arabic manuscript reads, “Physicians of [ancient] India, Romans, & Persians are in agreement that all illnesses are symptomatic of hunger, late night liquid intake, eating after satiety, oversleeping, withholding urine, & overindulgence in sex.”

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  5. 8 May 2021

    This has made me very happy - out now in Vietnamese.

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  6. 10 Jan 2021

    I love the patterns and colours on this c. 1190 CE, Frontispice by Siméon de Mîdo Qastra from a New Testament ✝️🥰

    Photo: BnF
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  7. 8 Apr 2021

    Mark your calendar: The Art of Medieval Nubia organized by Meseret Oldjira - Friday 16 April 2021 - 8:30 am – 12:00 pm EST (2:30 pm – 6:00 pm CET)

    Archangel Michael Fresco, Faras Cathedral
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  8. Jan 6

    What did camphor mean in medieval Persian poetry?

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  9. Mar 19

    Oh WOW! indeed!

    The digital edition of Fra Mauro’s world map created by our museum in collaboration with the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice and the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has been launched today at the Venetian institution. 👉
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  10. 27 Mar 2021

    A little Aztec jaguar bowl for your c.1350-1520, north/central Mexico Nr. 78.275

    stone bowl in the shape of a jaguar
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  11. 10 Jun 2019

    3-year Research Fellowship in Global Medieval History at St Andrews! The position is part of the “Identifying the Blocks that Build Global History in the Middle Ages” project funded by the British Academy

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  12. Mar 29

    SPOTLIGHT ON PREVIOUS ISSUES/4 If you're interested in the , you have to read on early medieval commerce between and , in our 2018 issue! Find it here: & don't forget our is open until June 30th!

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  13. 18 Oct 2021

    Another amazing talk alert! "Silk Road Textiles in Korea and Japan: A History of Collecting" by Kyunghee Pyun! 🌏 October 30, 4:30pm IST (9 AM PDT, 12pm EDT, 1am JST [10/31])

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  14. 29 Nov 2021

    Those who read scholarship in languages others than English and are interested in the meanwhile can look forward to this 1100 p.-Behemoth of the Grand Master of a global approach long before the recent hype in UK & US, Michael Borgolte, forthcoming March 2022😀

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  15. 7 Apr 2018

    I’m trying to write about textile manufacture Europe, Asia, NAfrica and S America in the 10th-13thC - just look at this Moche Huari beauty (from modern Peru)

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  16. 18 Nov 2021

    Works by Jacques Le Goff (1924-2014) in translation, all published in recent years.

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  17. 8 Oct 2019

    A large hoard of over 200 Arabic coins from the 8th and 9th centuries found in Strzelinko in North Poland, close to the Baltic Sea. Interestingly, it also contains two Sassanid coins from the early 7th century.

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  18. 14 Oct 2021

    We're so excited to have a truly global audience for today's Riggsby Lecture by ! We've got folks tuning in from the US, Italy, Australia, Algeria, Japan, Switzerland, Canada, Austria, and more!

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  19. 17 Apr 2019

    Medieval Friends please see myself and Jitske Jasperse Call for Papers: “Small Things of Greater Importance: Exploring the Sensory Relationship of Medieval People and Objects”, a special issue of the journal Das Mittelalter

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  20. 30 Sep 2019

    Glorious images, c.1330, of the Tartar Khan & his musicians at a feast (Cocharelli Codex from Genoa, BL Add 27695)

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