Saw THE BEEKEEPER (2024) last night. I, of course, loved this movie. I will watch anything with Jason Statham (I'm not the only one as it turned out after the movie was over last night. 😆).
I also got a kick out of the movie as a medievalist. Apparently, there is a secret society of assassins called Beekeepers, who protect human civilization based on the idea that it is like a beehive.
Appel à contributions !
"Montrer les collections médiévales" -> on attend vos réflexions sur la façon d'exposer les œuvres du Moyen Âge, sur les discours induits par les expositions, les collections des œuvres de la période, etc.
I know about a thimble full of facts about the European Middle Ages but me scoffing at a faux Middle Ages 'soldier' (in a TV drama) referring to himself - and his band of bandits - as 'Soldiers of Fortune' led Boyf to look up the phrase and apparently it's origins date back to the early 1600's !
Still a massive anachronism, but we both learned a thing 👍🏾 😉
Archaeologists search for King John’s lost treasure after 800 years
Archaeologists are gearing up to search for King John’s legendary lost treasure.
The saga of King John’s treasure traces back to 1216 when, amid the chaos of war, his baggage train carrying the English Crown Jewels was swallowed by the unpredictable tides of Wash Bay in Norfolk...
Loek Luiten focusses on Italian #emdiplomacy from the other end of time making them both the perfect match! Luiten has done his PhD Oxford University on the Farnese Family in the 15th century. We can recommend his article “Friends and family, fruit and fish: the gift in Quattrocento Farnese cultural politics”. What a great title! (4/11)
The #MiddleAges were a dark time when people considered the Earth to be flat, when the church suppressed enlightenment and when science stagnated as a result of conflict with religious beliefs.
The European Middle Ages to non-medievalists: knights, damsels, castles, jousts, vikings, and stories about dragons!
The European Middle Ages to medievalists: land charters, church councils, Latin manuscripts, corroded remnants of farming implements, and counting the animal bones in excavations of middens.
(p.s. Knights were mostly a**holes, and the Crusades were mass war crimes.)
Small update: 🤖⚔️ #ParzivAI - our #GenAI language model specialized in translating #MiddleHighGerman into modern #German, and explaining the #MiddleAges to students - is halfway done with another round of training...
Morgen ist Torsten Hiltmann zu Gast in der #DigitalHumanities Brown Bag Lunch Series des Max-Planck-Instituts für Wissenschaftsgeschichte mit einem Vortrag zu:
@GhostOnTheHalfShell
I was hesitant to write it.
The interview was more than an hour.
I'd probably need a half a day-1 d to refute it.
Alas, don't have that time.
It would be interesting, though.
After that much time, I'd want to write an article.
And from the time I see the PhD students invest in their's, we are talking weeks.
The bottom line is: many of the mechanisms he claims did not exist had existed before. Also: the #MiddleAges are not called the #DarkAges for nothing...
I just finished Spear, by Nicola Griffith. It's an Arthurian retelling set in Wales about the knight Percival (rendered as the more obscure Peretur Paladr Hir) with a queer and feminist twist.
I love Griffith's attention to detail, the main character's interaction with her environment, and how the story veers from the expected "hero's journey."
It's a short work, showing the mastery exhibited in her other work set in early medieval times, Hild (which I loved). You can sense the research that undergirds her presentation of the characters and their surroundings and see with what care she makes her literary choices.
"It aims to extend the study of the dissemination of plainchant from localized research focused mostly on Europe and the Middle Ages to global research tracing transmission to other continents through to the modern era. "
🙏 @sapiens Such interesting questions from this project!
"Do you own a chant fragment or do you know someone who does? What do you know about its history and travels?"
"The project ‘The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages’ will show the importance of medieval reading culture as a European movement by bringing together (digitised) manuscripts produced between c. 500 and c. 1550 from across Europe, unlocking their educational potential by curational and editorial enrichment, using innovative ways for displaying and handling digital objects in an educational context."