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Charles West
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Charles West (1816–1898) was a British physician, specialized in pediatrics and obstetrics, especially known as the founder of the first children's hospital in Great Britain, the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street, London. .. more

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Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez @abeldelorenzo.bsky.social · 13h
"Lapidabatur a populo: Stoning as Collective Execution and Exile in Early Medieval Iberia (Fifth–Twelfth Centuries)", Exile and Execution in Medieval and Early Modern, eds. Larissa Tracy, Gila Aloni, Brill, 61-83
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social @dgb-history.bsky.social
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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 13h
I'm writing a textbook for the study of medieval manuscripts in the 21st century & am developing a framework that will be referenced throughout the book: ten touchpoints for medieval book history in Europe with six drivers of change. Here's how it will play out... (image: Codex Amiatinus) 🧵

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 1d
Cuthbert, who has taken to playing pooh sticks, waits impatiently for the tennis ball to reappear.
Spaniel, stream, tunnel

Reposted by Charles West, Neil Gregor

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 1d
This is so problematic. Creating big-money grants (7m EUR!) is such a travesty. Instead of funding 1 researcher, why not fund 25 with smaller grants? It would create more ideas, secure more careers, and create so much more innovative knowledge. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...
ERC’s new €7m Plus Grants open to researchers at any career stage - Research Professional News
European Research Council president describes scheme as part attempt to lure US talent
www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 1d
Fascinating to see which publishers are most active in medieval history.
nruffini.bsky.social Nicolas Ruffini-Ronzani @nruffini.bsky.social · 7d
Je viens de réaliser pour @lemoyenage.bsky.social une veille bibliographique dans le domaine des études médiévales pour les six derniers mois (relevé quasi exhaustif de 450 ouvrages).

Pour éviter que d'autres ne répètent ce gros travail, je partage le fichier : docs.google.com/document/d/1...
RMÂ – Veille novembre 2025.docx
AMSTERDAM UP Nautical Rutters and New Bodies of Knowledge in the Age of the First Globalization, 1400-1600: https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048572786/nautical-rutters-and-new-bodies-of-knowledge-in-the...
docs.google.com

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 1d
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.

Reposted by Charles West, Margot C. Finn

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Robert Suits @robertsuits.bsky.social · 2d
I regret to inform you that I am going to start promoting my book on here. I do not regret to inform you that the press has given it a stunning cover.

The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants -- out next summer with Princeton University Press.

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Hobo
A panoramic history of America’s first climate migrants
press.princeton.edu

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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 2d
"Let no one dare to kill another’s female slave or half-slave as if she were a witch..."

So ordered the Lombard king Rothari. Our new blog post examines his edict as well as an extract from Gregory of Tours about an enslaved woman burned at the stake.

Read more here: tinyurl.com/y7976pjs

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 2d
And only in Rome itself, is that right?

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Niamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social · 2d
The brilliant Prof. Alex Woolf @standrewshist.bsky.social is back on the podcast to tell us what the Scandinavian diaspora got up to in the Middle Ages & why 'The Vikings' is a problematic concept. @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3ljZ...
Spotify – Web Player
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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 2d
For #FindsFriday a denier of Lothar II (855-869) from Cologne, found at Valkhof in Nijmegen. The mangled forms of the king's name (which is written backwards) and the mint-name led to these coins long being unidentified. 📷 Collection Valkhof Museum

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.bsky.social · 2d
But Badenoch is *totally* wrong, as the idea that the poor deserved special care and attention was essentially a Christian idea, adopted by the state after Constantine’s conversion.

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 2d
well, I don't think I'd call it a welfare system. "Organized charity in the sense of institutionalized care for the poor was
unknown in Graeco-Roman antiquity": van der Horst www.academia.edu/129269982/Or...
Organized Charity in the Ancient World: Pagan, Jewish, Christian
In the early sixties of the 4th century CE, the Emperor Julian wrote in a letter to Arsacius, one of his pagan high priests in Asia Minor, that considerable amounts of corn and wine should be distribu...
www.academia.edu

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d
Also the Romans literally had a welfare system that included cash transfers for poor children. (And subsidised grain for low income workers...).
stephenkb.bsky.social Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?

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Voetnoot -Mark Ponte @voetnoot.bsky.social · 2d
The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Craig Lambert @medievalmariner.bsky.social · 2d
The Maritime Britain project has recently teamed up with the Lloyd's Register Foundation to map its first Register Book and make it searchable. You can find the site here maritimebritain.org/english_merc...
Maritime Britain - Search Lloyds Register
maritimebritain.org

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Mirela Ivanova @mirela.bsky.social · 2d
Tomorrow at 3pm: David Edgar's brilliant play, the New Real, airs on Radio 4. It offers an origin story of far right populism set in Eastern Europe.

It was a joy and privelege to play a small part in this project by doing some translation.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, The New Real
David Edgar’s sharp political drama explores the faultlines threatening modern democracy.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Cambridge Digital Library @camdiglib.bsky.social · 2d
We've got some HUGE news! We've DOUBLED in size overnight! Not only have we added "some" more Cairo Genizah fragments, but "ALL" of them @theul.bsky.social !!!
This now brings the total number of items in Cambridge Digital Library to OVER 160,000!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

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Christoph Haack @christoph-haack.bsky.social · 2d
Did you ever wonder how the Early Medieval state worked? (And what it was ...?) - Here is my take on it. doi.org/10.1080/0304...
The Common Good: Military Service as Community Organisation in the Carolingian World
The Carolingian empire under Charlemagne (768–814) and Louis the Pious (814– 840) was a polity deeply shaped by war, or, more specifically, the organisation of warfare. Taking the – for its time – ...
doi.org

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 2d
Will check

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Parergon Journal @parergon.bsky.social · 3d
Issue 42.2 is upon us! As some of you have noted, our book reviews are already available. Alongside the contents page for our special issue on England and the external world, and our frankly fabulous cover. Check out our website, articles available on Project Muse soon.

parergon.org/index.php/pa...

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 3d
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation
Study finds that a week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken three years
www.theguardian.com

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 3d
This is powerful.
An Autobiographical Essay by Caroline Walker Bynum.
'That very summer, with unpacked boxes all around me, I wrote the article that became the title essay of Jesus as Mother and I filed papers to adopt a child as a single parent.'
www.ias.edu/sites/defaul...

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 3d
Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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Al-generated content has surpassed human-written articles Graph

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 3d
I wonder if the UK will eventually follow suit. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
France to introduce voluntary military service amid threat from Russia
Macron says plan to introduce 10 months’ service among 18- and 19-year-olds will help France respond to ‘accelerating threats’
www.theguardian.com

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 3d
Thanks! Yes, I am perennially impressed too!

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 3d
I don't! I arranged for training the first time I did this, but none of the students actually availed themselves of it. I think they're just pretty savvy at this kind of thing.

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 3d
yes i think so! (But the students made the infographic, not me!)

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 3d
Another year, another end-of-semester infographic presentation from my students. Here's a map showing Alcuin's letter network.
Map showing Alcuin's letter network (based on Allott)

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 3d
Ever get a tricky question you don't know how to answer?
plashingvole.bsky.social Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 3d
One of my colleagues went to a seminar at Berkeley and when someone asked a question Derrida brushed it off saying ‘what you ask may be important but it is not interesting’.
sanho.bsky.social Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 4d
This path leads to chaos.