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We're very pleased to announce that the Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie goes #openaccess via S20 in 2025! It's also open for submission, more info here: www.degruyter.com/jo...

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Is the result of the election in Germany great? No. But we are still a functioning democracy. And even though both Putin and Trump wanted fascists to win, we can still say: not today, losers.

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Pliny writing in his study overlooking a landscape of great diversity. BL Harley 2677; Pliny the Elder, Historia naturalis; Italy, Central (Rome); c.1457-1458; f.1r

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Just a bit of saint today, with a nice hat. Here's Peter Damian in Dante's Paradiso in @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Holkham misc. 48, p. 140, an illustrated copy of the Divina Commedia from the 3rd quarter of the 14th c. Whole MS is here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/1097... #medievalsky

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The Theodosian Code is about the size of a 1.5 year old, in case we are looking for a new, cuter book metric.

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Calling yourself a king doesn't make you a king. Burying your flesh, your bones and your heart in different places does.

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Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions theonion.com/historians-p...

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Just heard the very sad news about Francis Newton, an expert in the manuscripts of Monte Cassino. He was very kind to me as a PhD student and beyond. It truly was a blessing to know him and learn from him -- both about Beneventan palaeography and how to be generous with knowledge. Requiescat in pace

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"Epidemic cholera claimed the lives of almost half a million people in Germany between 1831 and 1895 ..." www.ehes.org/wp/EHES_273.... #histmed

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Viruses exist. They are NOT exosomes. This claim is misinformation that ignores decades of virology, cell biology, and molecular biology. Yet, this claim of "viruses do not exist" or are exosomes your body makes to "detoxify" is frequently encountered. Let’s look at it. 🧵👇 1/9

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Zur Arzneipflanze des Jahres 2025: www.uni-muenster.de/Chemie.pb/in...

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It's 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗶𝗿𝗹𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲. I only know because this is being shared a lot across all platforms.

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Teaching on the Ghent Altarpiece (1432) and it is a painting full of books, words and literary associations - which is perhaps one of the reasons why I, and so many others, can never get enough of it! There is always something new to investigate! 📚

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Hello #MedievalSky Does anybody have easy access to Theodore Rivers, Trans. (1987) "Laws of the Salian and Ripuarian Franks", ...and, if yes, could you send me photos of Titles §55 and §88 from the Ripuarian laws (i.e. with the laws on despoiling dead bodies/graves)? Many thanks!!

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#BookHistory the four books in the series are OA!

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Disembowelment. #medievalsky The Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.74, f. 199r

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Meine ‚Einführung in die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters‘ jetzt im #OpenAccess literaturgeschichten.de/bibliothek/e... #Literatur #Mittelalter

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Die Gründungsgeschichte der Abtei Brauweiler liegt erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung vor. Meine Rezension dazu ist heute in der Historischen Zeitschrift erschienen: doi.org/10.1515/hzhz... #medievalsky

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Die Artischocke ist die Arzneipflanze des Jahres 2025 in Österreich. In Deutschland war sie das bereits 2003.

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Everyone of European ancestry is a descendant of Charlemagne. Do the maths.

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"Experimentelle Therapien", aha. "Udo Böttcher fordert Geld für AfD-Millionenspende zurück": www.spiegel.de/politik/deut... #MediBubble

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It's me! #medievalsky @britishlibrary.bsky.social Harley MS 4425, f. 133r

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