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The Lady of Las Huelgas https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2022/11/the-lady-of-las-huelgas.html #manuscripts #medieval #history #portugal

Source: https://twitter.com/BLMedieval/status/1597380569326882817?s=20&t=Z5e-1SfKJQnxUQiQI_1H2g

Máire Ní Mhaonaigh & Elizabeth M. Tyler (2021) The language of history-writing in the ninth century: an entangled approach, Journal of Medieval History, 47:4-5, 451-471, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03044181.2021.1972692 #openaccess #article #history #medieval #writing #latin #england #wales #ireland

A Pinned Thread on Threading and Pinning

While different, threading in Mastodon is actually pretty good. People are familiar with Twitter threads that link one post to the next in chronological order. You can do this on Mastodon too, but it’s a little less polished.

Read more of this thread on How To Thread by expanding this post…

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55% of the world's population lives in this circle, within 4,000 kilometers of Yuxi, China
http://statsmapsnpix.com/2022/02/the-yuxi-circle.html

Europe’s first paper age may have started with trade imports but a separate way of producing paper developed, starting in the early thirteenth century on the Iberian Peninsula and in Italy. Around 1300 a few mills produced European paper. Fancy more: https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004424005/BP000010.xml

The 300 years later imagined paper using scene might be correct. Writers living in Oxford, Paris or Cologne did have access to the paper flows provided by the paper trade. Paper markets were a thing around 1300.

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Today, the painting that imagined a typical working scene of a celebrity scientist that was educated in Oxford, lived in Paris and died in Cologne, can be found here:

https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/d361c90c-1cdd-441f-b207-f83a6a5e6472/#

So what paper could he possibly have used around 1300 in Oxford, Paris or Cologne? We know that the artefact 'paper' was introduced and produced in Europe first by Arab papermakers and via Arab trade contacts from the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
#PaperHistory #BookHistory

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The man copying a few lines from an open book onto a fresh sheet of paper was a well-known Franciscan friar: John Duns Scotus who lived between 1265-1308. The paper user on this painting is one of the important philosopher-theologians of Europe, dear #histodons.

But what paper was available around 1300 in Europe? Is the paper usage imagined on this painting that was done about 300 years after his death. Follow me for more...

A thread for those interested in #PaperHistory #BookHistory

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As a newbie, one of the most helpful #feditips I have received so far is that we make our own algorithms. The more you use Mastodon, the better it gets if you follow hashtags, boost toots, and proactively seek out your own herd.

27 Nov 1652: John Locke future #philosopher & political theorist matriculates #otd at Christ Church #Oxford