A ghost keeps haunting me and all that helps is blogging about him: in a series of posts I'm documenting new biographical material on the manuscript hunter, dealer, and collector Friedrich Grote. medisi.hypotheses.org/5244

Am Sonntag hat @paulita.bsky.social#ArbeitInDerWiss Newsletter aufgeschrieben: 1 Plädoyer dafür, Absagen in Academia zu normalisieren, & gegen das Sich-Selber-Treten, um alles durchzuziehen.

Pre-ordered the new book by Roberta Mazza as soon as I saw it announced. Yesterday, my copy was in the mail and I look very much forward to diving into it!

At the beginning of November, we have two events upcoming with Maya Shatzmiller (University of Western Ontario). In a public lecture and a workshop, Prof Shatzmiller will address questions concerning "The Use and Abuse of the Geniza Documents": www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/news/

The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized and Available Online www.openculture.com/2024/09/the-...

The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized and Available Online

If you know nothing else about medieval European illuminated manuscripts, you surely know the Book of Kells. “One of Ireland’s greatest cultural treasures” comments Medievalists.net, “it is set apart ...

This is a reminder why the pre-1500 periods of #GlobalHistory are essential in teaching curricula: all longitudes of the Earth had been traversed before Columbus. Humans have been "global" for a very long time.

The second post in this #MembraDispersaSinaiticamedisi.hypotheses.org/4134

Our article about the “Fonds Draguet” is now online in Open access! doi.org/10.14428/bab... The “Fonds Draguet” contains reproductions of over 500 manuscripts (spread over some 1,300 microfilms), mainly in Greek and Syriac.

#NewPublication

MRjacculturelmu.bsky.socialSep 20, 2024 10:01am

This new "History of the Arabic World" was published today by our Munich colleague Andreas Kaplony. The thick volume offers valuable contributions from specialists, including our own Ronny Vollandt on the Arabisation of Jewish and Samaritan communities. shorturl.at/qHPR2

Our members Teresa Bernheimer and Anna Busa will present their research at the conference "Local Knowledge Production and Translocal Connectedness – Sephardic/Mizrahi Entanglements of Movement and Space" in Halle next week. Check out the programme here: shorturl.at/mCOik