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Privatdozent @ University of Konstanz | Medieval and Islamic Studies | Mediterranean and Global History | Crown of Aragon, Sicily, Crusades | العربية
https://uni-konstanz.academia.edu/EricBöhme
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Eric Böhme @e-boeh.bsky.social · Aug 13
Out now: Eric Böhme, The Agency of the Conquered: Muslim Communities in the Emergence of Norman Sicily and the Kingdom of Valencia (Macht und Herrschaft 18), Göttingen 2025

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AotW: Dominic Scheim, 1243–1245: Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada's Polemic Preface to the Historia Arabum, in: Transmediterranean History 3.2 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada’s cenotaph, Monastery of Santa María, Huerta
December 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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AotW: Eric Böhme, 1233: The Hospitallers in the Crown of Aragón Guarantee the Muslims of Cervera the Right to Remain, in: Transmediterranean History 3.2 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Main entrance of Cervera castle (2017), by Juan Emilio Prades Bel, https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castillo_de_Cervera#/media/Archivo:Portalada_principal_d'accés_a_l'interior_del_Castell_de_Cervera_(Cervera_del_Maestrat).jpg
December 1, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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AotW: Johannes G. Stolk and Theresa Jäckh, 1009: Adémar of Chabannes on the Destruction of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, in: Transmediterranean History 3.2 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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plan of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Adomanàn’s De locis santis (9th century), today Vienna, ÖNB, cod. 458, fol. 4v.
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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AotW: Daniel G. König, 785–791: Pope Hadrian I Criticises a Decline in Christian Dogma and Practice in Muslim al-Andalus, in: TMH 3.2 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Codex epistolaris dictus Carolinus, Cologne, between 870–889, today Vienna, ÖNB, Cod. 449, fol. 1
November 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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AotW: Juan Rothenhäusler, 1258–1283: al-Qazwīnī Reports from Iraq on Schleswig or Haithabu, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Map of the inhabited world, from al-Qazwīnī’s cosmography ‘Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharā’ib al-mawjūdāt [Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing], Ms. probably from western India, 16th cent., today U.S. National Library of Medicine. MS P 1, fol. 71b-72a
November 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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AotW: Daniel G. König, 1250: Jean de Joinville Listens to the Story of a Renegade in Egypt, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Conquest of Damietta, 1249: Jean de Joinville entering the town before Louis IX, miniature from a fourteenth-century manuscript of his 'Histoire de Saint Louis', today Paris, BNF, Français 5716.
November 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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AotW: Niklas Hann von Weyhern, 1245: Matthaeus Parisiensis on the Defense of Frederick II at the Council of Lyon, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Pejorative depiction of Frederick II as seventh and largest head of the dragon of the Apocalypse, next to Herod, Nero and Saladin. The dragon's tail encircles Franciscan monks. Giovanni Villani, Chronica, 14th century, today Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Codex Vat. Lat. 3822, fol. 5r
October 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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AotW: Luke Yarbrough, 1014–1043: Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr on Christian Love for ʿAlī, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Investiture of ʿAlī at the Ghadir Khumm, 16 March 632, in: Kitāb al-āthār al-bāqiya ʿan al-qurūn al-khāliya, copy by Ibn al-Kutubī, Ilkhanid Iraq/Iran, 1307–1308, today Edinburgh, University Library, MS Arab 161, fol. 162r.
October 20, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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October 13, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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AotW: Sebastiano Arona, 971: The 'Decretum Venetorum de abrogando Saracenorum commercie' Prohibits Venetians from Trading with Muslims, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Coronation of John Tzimiskes (969), from: John Skylitzes, Synopsis of Histories, Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, Vitr. 26-2, fol. 159r (12th century; the famous 'Madrid Skylitzes‘)
October 13, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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AotW: Daniel G. König, 903–906: The Raffelstetten Customs Regulation and the Export of Slavic Slaves to the Islamic Sphere, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Iron restraints 11th/12th cent., Neu Nieköhr, Zdenek Vana, przedmowa Jerzy Gąssowski - Świat dawnych Słowian, 1985, Artia, PA Interpress
October 6, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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AotW: Eric Böhme, 1244: King James I of Aragón Reports on the Capitulation of Xàtiva, in: TMH 4.2 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Xàtiva drawn by Anton van den Wijngaerde in 1563, today Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. Min 41, fol. 70r
September 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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AotW: Bogdan C. Smarandache, 1293: An Aragonese–Mamlūk Agreement from al-Qalqašandī’s Ṣubḥ al-aʿšā, in: TMH 4.2 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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James II of Aragon (r. 1291–1327), Usatici et Constitutiones Cataloniae, Paris, BNF, Latin 4670 A (c. 1315–1325)
September 22, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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AotW: Eric Böhme, 1174: A Letter of Condolence from Saladin to Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, in: TMH 4.2 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Saladin "rex Aegypti" styled as a knight, 15th century manuscript
September 15, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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AotW: Eva Salmonat, 1095–1104: King Coloman of Hungary’s Legislation against Islam, in: TMH 4.2 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Coloman’s Coronation in 1095, as imagined in the fourteenth-century Hungarian Chronicon Pictum, fol. 101 (today National Széchényi Library, Budapest).
September 8, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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AotW: Mohamed Qassiti, 1010‒1028: First Reference to an Astrolabe in Lorraine by Radulf of Liège, in: TMH 4.2 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Planispheric astrolabe, North Africa, 9th cent., today part of the Khalili Collections
August 25, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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AotW: Daniel G. König, 942–956: Ibn Ḥayyān on Hungarian Raids and the Battle of Lechfeld, in: TMH 4.2 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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The Battle of Lechfeld in the Sächsische Weltchronik, c. 1270, Gotha, Forschungs- und Landesbibliothek, Ms. Memb. I 90, fol. 87v.
August 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Out now: Eric Böhme, The Agency of the Conquered: Muslim Communities in the Emergence of Norman Sicily and the Kingdom of Valencia (Macht und Herrschaft 18), Göttingen 2025

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August 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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AotW: Dominic Scheim, 1597: Bernardo de Brito Writes Down the Legend of the Abducted Moor Fatima, in: TMH 5.1 (2023), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Oil painting of Frei Bernardo de Brito, c. 1600–1650, today Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Colecção de Pintura, URL: https://purl.pt/22984.
August 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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AotW: Dominic Scheim, 1498: The Roteiro on the Confrontation of Vasco da Gama with Muslim Merchants in Calicut, in: TMH 5.1 (2023), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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First page of the "Roteiro da Viagem de Vasco da Gama à Índia," Casa do Infante, Porto.
July 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Establishing Communication Patterns in a Frontier Zone: The Jewish Communities in the Early Kingdom of Valencia, now available online: doi.org/10.1080/0950...
Establishing Communication Patterns in a Frontier Zone: The Jewish Communities in the Early Kingdom of Valencia
The conquest of eastern al-Andalus and its transformation into the Kingdom of Valencia in the first half of the thirteenth century mark a turning point in the history of the Crown of Aragon. Into a...
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July 22, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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AotW: Daniel G. König, 1412: al-Qalqašandī Historicises the Crusades, in: TMH 5.1 (2023), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Copy of al-Qalqashandī’s Ṣubḥ al-aʿshā, AH 1193, private library, Southern Lebanon
July 21, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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AotW: James Wilson, 1116–1126: Ibn al-ʿAdīm on Christian–Muslim Crop Sharing (munāṣafa) Treaties, in: TMH 5.1 (2023), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Front page of a Ms of Ibn al-ʿAdīm’s Zubdat al-ḥalab min taʾrīḫ Ḥalab, with a note by Silvestre de Sacy (1758–1838), Paris, BNF 1666
July 15, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Nächste Woche: Interdisziplinäre Tagung "Mehrsprachigkeit. Kommunikationsformen in der Stadt und am Hof (ca. 1200-1600)" @wiko-greifswald.bsky.social
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Plakat der Tagung "Mehrsprachigkeit. Kommunikationsformen in der Stadt und am Hof". Das Motiv zeigt einen Ausschnitt aus dem Rigafahrerstühl der Nikolaikirche Stralsund, das eine mehrsprachige Kommunikationssituation darstellt.
July 12, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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AotW: Daniel G. König, 906: Bertha of Tuscany’s Correspondence with al-Muktafī bi-llāh in the Version of Ibn al-Zubayr, in: TMH 5.1 (2023), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Gold dinar of al-Muktafi, Baghdad, 292 AH / 904–905 CE
July 6, 2025 at 10:40 AM