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Digging through Mediterranean history. We love it all: the plow, the fishing net, the bandit's knife and the wedding contract. A little music as well.
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crusaderproject.bsky.social
This is an amazing read.

@alanallport.bsky.social
Too little, too late: Indian Entertainment in the Mediterranean
Or try running a 35mm film on a 16mm projector!
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November 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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cplaisant.bsky.social
A must-read : "The paradox is that [Turkish] opposition victories now generate intensified repression rather than systemic openings. In such a context, electoral triumphs risk becoming pyrrhic, producing symbolic validation without enabling substantive change"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Opposition’s paradox of victory: electoral success and authoritarian retrenchment in Turkey
This study examines the transformation of Turkey’s opposition politics between the May 2023 presidential and parliamentary elections and the 2024 local elections. Following the ruling party’s victo...
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November 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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rachelschine.bsky.social
This paper is fascinating and I'm *not* just saying that bc it cites me (though, that's nice....)

www.academia.edu/145087922/Wh...
What Do Sources Say about Agricultural Slavery (and Why Don't They Say More)? A Study on Legal Sources for Early Islamic Ifrīqiya
This study examines the evidence for agricultural slavery in early Islamic Ifrīqiya and relates it to the existing historiography on the topic. It argues that legal texts, which are used more than oth...
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November 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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opcitpodcast.bsky.social
Pour la carte blanche, @costanzalugnani.bsky.social, doctorante à l'IHMC vient nous parler du Musée d'Histoire de Marseille.
Un épisode présenté par Johanne Perrin.
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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¿Sabías que Málaga fue la capital de un califato?
En este episodio explico la historia del Califato hammudí, el califato más desconocido y olvidado de al-Ándalus, desarrollado en la transición del Califato de Córdoba de los omeyas y los reinos de taifas.

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El CALIFATO de al-Ándalus del que NADIE HABLA | Califato hammudí (1016-1056)
YouTube video by La Historia de España - Memorias Hispánicas
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November 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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sofhia.bsky.social
Un peu de mis à jour historiographique en ce jour férié? Charlotte Vorms parle des résistances et protestations sous le franquisme à la Vie des Idées: laviedesidees.fr/Resistances-...
Résistances et protestations sous le franquisme - Entretien avec Charlotte Vorms
La répression qui a sévi sous Franco explique en grande partie la longévité de son régime. Les protestations furent cependant nombreuses, et les formes de résistance très variées. Charlotte Vorms est ...
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May 8, 2024 at 11:07 AM
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stefanbauer.bsky.social
On Thursday, 27 Nov 2025, 5:30pm London time, Antonio Pattori (Oxford) will speak about ‘An Early Modern Strategy of Tension? Conspiring with the Ottomans in Mid-Sixteenth Century Italy’. Via Zoom & IHR London
All welcome - Please share invitation
To register: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
An Early Modern Strategy of Tension? Conspiring with the Ottomans in Mid-Sixteenth Century Italy
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November 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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adribrulotesgr.bsky.social
¡NUEVO PROGRAMA!

En el programa de hoy, analizamos la primera revolución cretense.

Esta primera revolución es muy importante conocerla, ya que nos permite entender la magnitud que, con el tiempo, acabaría llegando a tener el irredentismo griego como consecuencia de la Gran Idea.
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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thierryaaron.bsky.social
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'

#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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caperry.bsky.social
Wonderful experience this week with my students as the Vega String Quartet hosted us in their rehearsal hall and performed music inspired by the history and musical cultures of the Middle East.

Here is a playlist with some of the works they played ... 1/2

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Music for Introduction to the Middle East recital with the Vega Quartet
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November 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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hchachia.bsky.social
My new article "‘Powerful Moriscos’ in Tunisia" has been selected to appear in the Brill Showcase on Kudos 😇
link.growkudos.com/1p1qu6tj0u8
‘Powerful Moriscos’ in Tunisia during the Seventeenth Century
This work focuses on the roles of what I term “the powerful Moriscos”—the leaders of the Morisco community in 17th-century Tunisia, including the Ašrāf, Sufis, and wealthy elites. It explores how thes...
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June 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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vedph.bsky.social
Reminder: the seminar is today at 5 PM CEST!
Join us in the VeDPH LAB or connect online via the link: unive.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
vedph.bsky.social VeDPH @vedph.bsky.social · 13d
The Digital Analysis of Ten Years of a Medici Agent's Correspondence

Join Sara Mansutti (UCC) to see how AI & digital methods, applied to 1,200+ handwritten letters, reveal how Cosimo Bartoli gathered, verified, and shared news in Venice (1562–1572)

🔗 www.unive.it/data/33113/2...
November 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
bluehistory.bsky.social
Some good news is always worth grabbing to these days
November 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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surlechampfr.bsky.social
L'été dernier, nous avons mené une expérience. En attendant que nous produisions une analyse des résultats et une vidéo les présentant, voici une petite bande annonce avec des images qui donnent une idée de ce que nous avons vécu. (c'est facile mais bon, les images le réclament)
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Teaser Expérience Hoplitique
YouTube video by Sur le champ
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November 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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brianromanchuk.bsky.social
Latest article is something different. Playing Europa Universalis 5 raised some interesting economic modelling questions, but to understand it, I needed to make a detour into the decline of the Western Roman Empire. This is the first part of a three part series.

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EU5 And Economics: Part I, Historical Backstory
The fifth installation of the video game Europa Universalis (hereafter EU5) just came out, and it had some interesting economic modelling issues.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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euroopanrajalla.bsky.social
Turkey was number 10 in the latest Global Organised Crime Index. Instead of taking measures against organised crimes, Turkey goes to offensive against the network behind the Index, and claims they are Gülenists.
www.birgun.net/haber/turkiy...
Türkiye suç endeksinde 10'uncu olmuştu: İletişim Başkanlığı raporu FETÖ'ye bağladı
Cumhurbaşkanlığı İletişim Başkanlığı Dezenformasyonla Mücadele Merkezi, Türkiye'nin Küresel Organize Suç Endeksi'nde 10'uncu olmasına ilişkin açıklama yayımladı. Açıklamada, raporu yayımlayan derneğin...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
bluehistory.bsky.social
I've found my daily read for tomorrow!
guel-sen.bsky.social Dr Gul Sen @guel-sen.bsky.social · 7d
❓How did the Ottoman state organize unfree labor - among others: captives, enslaved people, and convicts - to power its early modern navy?

I explore this question in my “Between Two Spaces: Enslavement and Labor in the Early Modern Ottoman Navy.” 1/2

#MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory #OpenAccess
This is the first page of Gul Sen's book chapter "Between Two Spaces: Enslavement and Labor in the Early Modern Ottoman Navy" in the edited volume Comparative and Global Framing of Enslavement, edited by Stephan Conermann, Youval Rotman, Ehud Toledano, and Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, pp. 133–166. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023.
November 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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paulchopelin.bsky.social
Première plainte, à ma connaissance, contre une IA sur ce motif.
Qu'est-ce qui a rendu un tel résultat possible ? Qui est responsable ?
En tout cas, un bon exemple pour illustrer le danger, scientifique et éthique, d'une IA non maîtrisée, à la fois par ses concepteurs et par ses utilisateurs.
ldh.fr LDH France @ldh.fr · 8d
La #LDH porte plainte contre la publication de #Grok, l’intelligence artificielle du réseau social X, pour contestation de crimes contre l’humanité.
November 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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antiquity.ac.uk
Similar are these bone and stone dice from the Grand Harbour of Malta, where the Knights of St John docked their galleys in the 17th & 18th centuries. Likely made by the captives that rowed the ships, they indicate the captives socialised and played games on board.

(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Several handmade dice of different sizes, some bone, some stone.
November 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
bluehistory.bsky.social
Always cool to see the Tulunids getting some love
caperry.bsky.social Craig Perry @caperry.bsky.social · 7d
For those who will be at MESA this weekend and next week. I am on a panel about slavery in the medieval Middle East on Sunday at 11am. Abstracts in images and alt text below. Please come join us!
"Perspectives on Slavery in the Medieval Middle East": The study of slavery in the field of early and medieval Islamic history has long lay in the shadows. In recent years, however, its pace has accelerated with the appearance of several key monographs and a series of research articles, notably those that rely on letters and other documents, mainly from second/eighth and third/ninth-century Egypt but also Palestine and Khurasan. This suggests at least an important departure from what appears to have been a long-standing taboo in the field. That same taboo has held up close and detailed study of what was, after all, a significant example in global history of reliance upon slave trading, a slaving economy, and the labor of enslaved and freed persons, particularly in urban settings. Historians of slavery in other fields (eg. medieval Europe and Byzantium) have long acknowledged the significant role of slave trading, for example, in the history of Mediterranean and North-South relations across medieval history. The proposed panel – “Perspectives on Slavery in the Medieval Middle East” – seeks to advance the study of Middle Eastern and Islamic-era slavery while also underscoring the point that the topic is long overdue for sustained scholarship. It is composed of four papers on disparate sub-topics of the history of slavery. The four papers are joined, firstly, by their exploration of underutilized sources, whether written texts that have been largely neglected by modern scholarship; documentary material that offers immediate, on-the-ground insights into characteristics of slave practice in Middle Eastern society; or physical objects (eg. ceramics, coins) that depict enslaved and freed persons in a variety of settings. The papers are also joined by significant questions of how slavery – be it the slave trade, the treatment of enslaved bodies, or the question of social mobility on the part of enslaved and freed persons – have been addressed to the present day... Abstracts for Matthew Gordon's paper "The Tulunid Household and its Unfree Members" and Craig Perry's paper "Modern Memory and the Violence of Medieval Slavery: a View from Nubia." Abstracts for Kristina Richardson's paper "Identifying the Medieval Swahili Slaving Port Town of Qanbalu" and Lamia Balafrej's paper "On Jawari's Mediation: Enslavement, Gender, and the Image in Medieval Islam."
November 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
bluehistory.bsky.social
Interesting subject
homophonous.bsky.social S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 7d
This year’s “el taller reads together” pick is Dr. Almudena Ariza Armada’s recently-published Historia de los Reyes de Taifas (Editorial Dilema, 2025).

Register to attend the author conversation on Zoom or in person: tinyurl.com/eltallerread....
November 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
bluehistory.bsky.social
Gotta love it!
prendente.bsky.social Prendente @prendente.bsky.social · 7d
Al margen de la noticia en sí, he de decir que la utilización del término "mameluco" como sinónimo de "felación" me parece simplemente maravillosa
November 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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princetonupress.bsky.social
How late medieval Middle Eastern peasants adopted Arab cultural identities and formed village clans.

Becoming Arab by Yossef Rapoport is now available (13 Jan UK pub).

Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#History
Becoming Arab: The Formation of Arab Identity in the Medieval Middle East by Yossef Rapoport
November 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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monicamedhist.bsky.social
Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.
Breslau Codex (Wrocław, Stadtbibliothek, MS 1302, s. xii ex./xiii in.), f. 82ra, showing tear in the page but only the very edge of the text in the inner gutter.
November 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Syrie: le premier procès des crimes du régime de Bachar el-Assad s'ouvre à Alep
Syrie: le premier procès des crimes du régime de Bachar el-Assad s'ouvre à Alep
Le premier procès destiné à juger les crimes du régime de Bachar el-Assad s'ouvre au palais de justice d’Alep, ce mardi 18 novembre. Mais si l'événement est historique, il n'est en rien représentatif de la justice transitionnelle qui peine à se mettre en place dans une Syrie morcelée par 14 années de guerre civile, situation qui contribue à alimenter les violences intercommunautaires et les actes de revanche extra-judiciaires.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:16 AM