Professor | PhD, Yale History | Specialist in the Middle Ages + World History | Manuscript collector | Taking each day 24 hours at a time.
Shahrouz, PhD
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Look, Mom! They’re making comics about medievalists! #medievalsky
Napoleon famously embraced the *brand new* smallpox vaccine (Edward Jenner had developed the vaccine only a few years before Napoleon first rose to power) and tried to mobilize widespread vaccination for both the citizenry and his troops.
Archaeologists uncovered a medieval notebook from a latrine in the city of Paderborn, W-Germany. The 700 to 800 year old notebook consists of wooden tablets coated in wax and is enclosed within a leather binding decorated with embossed lily motifs
📷LWL/ S. Brentführer
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This letter, addressed to a spice merchant in Montpellier, is dated to the 1250s and written mostly in medieval Occitan. The most compelling part to me is that it's written on paper rather than parchment. Remarkably early example of paper in this region, especially among merchants! #medievalsky
Looking for help. I'm having trouble with the word in the image.
"Per se p...am presentem et sequentem."
The ending is "am," following "ecclesiam" in the next line, but I can't piece together something sensible from the rest.
"Per se patrimoniam"? The lower stroke in "a" is missing elsewhere.
Students of history will see the parallels between Reza Pahlavi and Napoleon III. Pahlavi might be far less connected, less capable, and less canny than any Bonaparte, but his claim that he'll "step forward" to "lead this transition" via referendum echoes 1848/1852, down to the royalist backsliding.
New semester, same tricks.
Except I'm adding more banned phrases. (Yes, the worst political climate for me to be banning speech, but an informal poll of me and me alone revealed that phrases like "since the dawn of time" are heinous.)
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