HASTAC Commons | Benjamin Tilghman | Group Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/bctilghman/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Benjamin Tilghman is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:50:37 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 6b9b290a5f87ad05f29a647500f27fae Matthew Kidd started the topic Participate in a survey on generative AI and archival research practices in the forum Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/environmental-humanities/forum/topic/participate-in-a-survey-on-generative-ai-and-archival-research-practices-8/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:18:45 +0000 Dear all,

We would like to invite you to take part in an anonymous online survey exploring how the growing use of generative AI tools (including ChatGPT) is reshaping user practices and expectations in relation to searching, discovering, and interpreting digitised and born-digital archival records.

The survey forms part of a research project…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f677f5f43a64e6d9c920bbeb430e7e3 José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Evolutionary thought in the forum Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/environmental-humanities/forum/topic/evolutionary-thought/#post-98478 Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:18:01 +0000 Bibliography on COMPLEXITY: https://bibliojagl.blogspot.com/2026/01/complejidad.html

]]> 0 958103c8fcb760614062be84e3f05940 Morée Research Project started the topic New York Dada Research — NEW in the forum Art History https://hcommons.org/groups/art-history/forum/topic/new-york-dada-research-new-2/ Sat, 29 Nov 2025 01:30:10 +0000 Thanks to everyone who downloaded my recent book. I’m gathering brief impressions for a future revision — any thoughts welcome.
https://doi.org/10.17613/pt8e0-r9y91

]]> 0 395354d416b02d659e93ac5676d3fc73 Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group Environmental Humanities: Climate stability is a matter of forests. Opinion essay in […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1930737/ Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:28:34 +0000 Climate stability is a matter of forests. Opinion essay in The Ecologist (UK). https://theecologist.org/2025/oct/10/sovereign-forests

]]> 0 66003655a945bc3f81893a035fa3bed2 Barbara Franchi replied to the topic CFP; The Blue Humanities in the forum Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/environmental-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-the-blue-humanities/#post-94102 Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:40:14 +0000 This looks fantastic, I have saved and shared it.

]]> 0 1862c1362e2b97e0067eeec141f347d2 Serpil Oppermann started the topic CFP; The Blue Humanities in the forum Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/environmental-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-the-blue-humanities/ Sun, 28 Sep 2025 15:00:34 +0000 <p class=”p1″><b>Call for Papers: 4th International Environmental Humanities Conference — “The Blue Humanities”</b></p>
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>We are pleased to announce the </span><b>4th International Environmental Humanities Conference</b><span class=”s1″>, to be held </span><b>20–23 May 2026</b><span class=”s1″>at </sp…[Read more]

]]> 0 5d9bc3988896844c50ad272a694c5766 José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Economy & Organization in the forum Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/environmental-humanities/forum/topic/economy-organization/ Fri, 26 Sep 2025 08:52:09 +0000 Bibliography on AGRICULTURE: https://bibliojagl.blogspot.com/2025/09/agricultura.html

]]> 0 23a929a12fceb97d5d6d57330719bedc Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group Environmental Humanities: I'm pleased to announce the publication of my new book, […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1924444/ Sat, 02 Aug 2025 14:48:25 +0000 I’m pleased to announce the publication of my new book, Forest Sovereignty: Wildlife Sustainability and Ethics (Oxford: Peter Lang). Please ask your library to order a copy. https://sites.google.com/site/gftague/forest-sovereignty/

]]> 0 3775ad37e61875e596f47707206149a5 Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group Environmental Humanities: Darwin and the Art of Botany. Read my review on Leonardo, […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1917606/ Sat, 03 May 2025 16:26:27 +0000 Darwin and the Art of Botany. Read my review on Leonardo, here: https://leonardo.info/review/2025/05/darwin-and-the-art-of-botany-observations-on-the-curious-world-of-plants

]]> 0 b7750bf65541e1caa4c0e960e7ccd3e7 Dora Apel created the doc Chapter on "Art" for The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1913514/ Sun, 09 Mar 2025 16:34:10 +0000 0 8d05f2d5d0c76bda4548d3157ef701ef Vivien Jiaqian Zhu started the topic CFP 2026 MLA Convention in the forum Art History https://hcommons.org/groups/art-history/forum/topic/cfp-2026-mla-convention-4/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:31:03 +0000 Dear All,

 

I’m pleased to share with you the Call for Paper for the Working Group/Seminar session for the upcoming MLA Convention in Toronto. See https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Paper29934.html.

 

Best wishes,

Vivien Jiaqian Zhu

]]> 0 36dfc5594fb1959173f0f39f2a6edd1a Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group Environmental Humanities: Humanity's language and nature, an opinion essay. […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1908094/ Mon, 06 Jan 2025 21:28:54 +0000 Humanity’s language and nature, an opinion essay. https://www.asebl.net/2025/01/humanitys-language-meditation-on-nature.html

]]> 0 85b554bca8926a549eeddb01306aff4d Rainer Schreg deposited Assessing Settlement Dynamics in Medieval Central and Western Europe in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902275/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 03:00:03 +0000 Medieval rural settlements have seen a variety of transformations from dispersed to nucleated settlements, from shifting settlements to permanent villages. There are regional developments as well as general trends. In many landscapes in Central and Western Europe these processes resulted in the formation of the late medieval village nucleated…[Read more]

]]> 0 7a78841f86eb65bc16a639617ad1b93e Nick Posegay deposited From the Battlefield of Books: Essays Celebrating 50 Years of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902155/ Sun, 20 Oct 2024 03:00:49 +0000 This collection of essays celebrates 50 years since the founding of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library. Three generations of scholars contributed their research and memories from their time at the GRU, stretching back to 1974. Their work comprises 18 articles on medieval Jewish History, Hebrew and Arabic…[Read more]

]]> 0 b3a6cc7bc849d1e5ed887e4226be0c81 Marco Heiles deposited The Origins of the Modern Calendar in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901186/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:03:51 +0000 AI generated conversation on the origins of the modern calendar created with NotebookLM (Audio Overview) on the basis of:
Marco Heiles, Die Entstehung des modernen Kalenders. Zur ungeschriebenen Medien- und Literaturgeschichte der deutschsprachigen Kalender von den Anfängen bis um 1600, in: Mittelalter. Interdisziplinäre Forschung und R…[Read more]

]]> 0 90eafdabb5a6fe607ae0ea405c74f168 Anne Pasek deposited DIY Methods 2024 in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901183/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:03:32 +0000 As the past years have proven, the methods for conducting and distributing research that we’ve inherited from our disciplinary traditions can be remarkably brittle in the face of rapidly changing social and mobility norms. The ways we work and the ways we meet are questions newly opened for practical and theoretical inquiry; we both need to s…[Read more]

]]> 0 cf33b99ebf7f94989bdcddc153710a36 Marianna Charitonidou deposited Towards Non-Eurocentric Historiographies: Challenging Europe’s Position in the Formation of Architectural Histories in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901092/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 03:01:26 +0000 The point of departure for this paper is the idea that Europe as a concept is related to the project of thinking and accomplishing universality. It represents the potential for an enlightened resistance in a world that is progressively becoming dominated by the mono-perspectivism of globalism. In this sense, Eurocentrism is specifiable only within…[Read more]

]]> 0 9e9c886d88264e5f56c08009e9edba9e Nick Posegay deposited The Illustrated Cairo Genizah in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900712/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:00:56 +0000 Almost one thousand years ago, the Jews of Old Cairo began to place their worn-out books and scrolls into a hidden storage room – a genizah – of their synagogue. Over the years, they added all sorts of writings to the pile, sacred and secular texts alike. When the chamber was emptied at the end of the 19th century, it held hundreds of tho…[Read more]

]]> 0 563131cd96785b6981b715c407cb2f6b Edmond Malaj deposited MARRËVESHJE DHE ÇËSHTJE TË TJERA NDËRMJET RAGUZËS DHE FISNIKËVE ARBËRORË in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900701/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:00:27 +0000 This article provides information about the diplomatic relations between the Republic of Ragusa and some important Albanian noble families in the Middle Ages. The paper aims to introduce the most important diplomas and agreements these families have made with the state of Ragusa. The agreements are mostly economic and are mainly related to the…[Read more]

]]> 0 0ec981b677f9aeca5313961701e659e8 Marianna Charitonidou deposited Marianna Charitonidou, “Constantinos A. Doxiadis and Adriano Olivetti’s Conception of Urbanism and Urban Public Space”, in Rosa Tamborrino, ed., Città che si adattano?/Adaptive Cities? Volume 1 (Turin: AISU International, 2024), 508-521. in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900346/ Tue, 01 Oct 2024 03:00:39 +0000 This paper sheds light on the complex relationship between the Cold War policies including the European Recovery Program (ERP), and urban public space. Its main objective is to provide a precise and deep understanding of how the Marshall plan politics, contributed to the formation of national identity in Greece and Italy. The paper focuses on two…[Read more]

]]> 0 a4d40499ec9873e919eb78ed1043374a Lloyd Graham deposited “Unhappily ever after…”: Three tales with dystopian endings from the Schools’ Collection in Ireland’s National Folklore Collection in the group Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900150/ Mon, 30 Sep 2024 03:00:10 +0000 Three folktales with unhappy endings were identified via targeted browsing of the NFC Schools’ Collection. The first two stories have here been translated (for the first time) from Irish, while the third – the only one present in two versions – was recorded in English. The first tale is a poignant tragedy; the second has an abrupt and defla…[Read more]

]]> 0 40305c2fe4718926ad2f9f8bb39bcbb0 Lloyd Graham deposited “Paper shoes and thick milk socks:” Some distinctively Irish types of oral colophon used to end folktales in the group Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900149/ Mon, 30 Sep 2024 03:00:06 +0000 This paper presents three distinctively Irish formulae that a seanchaí (story-teller) can use to signal the end of a folktale. Colophons 1 and 2 are in Irish, Colophon 3 in English; there is little evidence of any of these paradigms jumping the language barrier. Colophon 1, which is a sober and defensive, is strongly associated with Munster.…[Read more]

]]> 0 8eae1539bc8304977d0dec836092537e Lloyd Graham deposited A magical Irish-language folktale: A first translation and analysis in the group Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900148/ Mon, 30 Sep 2024 03:00:02 +0000 This paper provides a translation, structural analysis and commentary for an Irish-language wonder-tale in Ireland’s National Folklore Collection; the story describes the marvel-laden adventures of Neart (“Strength”), the only son of a southern Irish king. The complex yet coherent tale consists of eight largely independent narrative modules split…[Read more]

]]> 0 d0bfbf3fe582e9144881d48b4c397a62 Manfred Engel deposited Making - or Not Making - Sense of Dreams / Trouver - ou non - un sens au rêve. Ed. by Bernard Dieterle, Manfred Engel and Laura Vordermayer. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2024 (Cultural Dream Studies; 9) — Contents and Preface in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1898534/ Thu, 12 Sep 2024 03:01:17 +0000 Dreams frighten and attract us because of their ›otherness‹, their manifold deviations from the world we know when we are awake. One of the most consistently used techniques of coming to terms with this otherness has been the attempt to ›make sense‹ of dreams, to consider and portray them as messages which can and have to be deciphered. On the oth…[Read more]

]]> 0 d433dec0d3fda1163d4011033ebccbf0 Aleksandra Fostikov deposited Metoh manastira Konče kroz prizmu povelje cara Uroša i Končanskog praktika – prilog ubikaciji poseda in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897886/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:01:17 +0000 Metoh manastira Konče nalazio se u dolini Krive Lakavice, u neposrednoj okolini samog manastira posvećenog Svetom Stefanu. Podatke o metohu donose svega dva dokumenta. Prvi je povelja cara Uroša, kojom potvrđuje dar velikog vojvode Nikole Stanjevića Hilandaru iz 1366. godine, a u kojoj se poimenice navodi 14 sela. Končanski praktik, to jest popis…[Read more]

]]> 0 bd2829f55def18fd3bc7e00f469c0c1d Aleksandra Fostikov deposited Метох манастира Конче кроз призму повеље цара Уроша и Кончанског практика – прилог убикацији поседа in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897884/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:01:11 +0000 Метох манaстира Конче налазио се у долини Криве Лакавице, у непосредној околини самог манастира посвећеног Светом Стефану. Податке о метоху доносе свега два документа. Први је повеља цара Уроша, којом потврђује дар великог војводе
Николе Стањевића Хиландару из 1366. године, а у којој се поименице наводи 14 села. Кончански практик, то јест п…[Read more]

]]> 0 e27fe28590c88f7fac0eef0195fce27a Ana Dumitran deposited Ecclesia super omnia in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897876/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:00:59 +0000 The volume includes some of the papers presented in the Museikon section of the Annual Scientific Conference organised in 2023 by the Alba Iulia National Museum of the Great Union (Romania). The studies cover topics such as: the pious behavior of women in the Transylvanian Middle Ages, the possession of slaves and gypsies by the Wallachian…[Read more]

]]> 0 020521ac12371a6906767a68858af5b6 André Francisco Pilon deposited "The Party of the Dead": Join or Die, a Tale that Repeats Itself in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897478/ Thu, 29 Aug 2024 03:00:41 +0000 In this essay the author discusses the condition of man in today's world, overwhelmed by a huge political, economical and cultural machinery, which entangle people in surreptitious and shrewd ways, encompassing different aspects of the individual and collective project of life. Brutally affected by wars, disasters and scourges, mankind have only…[Read more]

]]> 0 fa6a0b84bcdc9f32881d08afdd7fc58c José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Pandemic literature in the forum Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/environmental-humanities/forum/topic/pandemic-literature-2/#post-88819 Wed, 21 Aug 2024 12:54:50 +0000 El alarmismo pandémico de la Covid-19: Una bibliografía https://www.academia.edu/62127938/

]]> 0 189c0c468f38ac6b789a5d837e286522 Ana Dumitran deposited The Icons of Alexander Ponekhalsky. Jertfa di la mine zugrău Alexa cel păcătos in the group Digital Art History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895891/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:01:06 +0000 This editorial project capitalizes on a first sample of the religious art of Maramureș, carefully and meticulously inventoried by Alexandru Baboș alongside the study of the architecture of the wooden churches of Maramureș. Since they alone account for almost half of all preserved icons from Maramureș, Alexander Ponekhalskyi’s icons have been sep…[Read more]

]]> 0 fb3a7e4699aa2517f6d482b4a1cc3dd5 Lloyd Graham deposited Rainbow serpents, dragons and dragon-slayers: Global traits, ancient Egyptian particulars, and alchemical echoes in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895888/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:46 +0000 Robert Blust has recently established that – globally – dragons evolved from rainbow serpents, which in turn represent a prehistoric understanding of rainbows. The present paper explores the “dragon-scape” of ancient Egypt in search of traits that may have survived from these earlier stages. The cryptic pD.tyw Sw and Iaau of Coffin Text 698 mig…[Read more]

]]> 0 1d665c4cd1aced1fadab66623df55066 Lloyd Graham deposited False friends among the disease-demons? On the Egyptian nsy/nsyt and Latin/Slavic nessia/nežit in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895883/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:25 +0000 In ancient Egyptian medicine, the most common disease-causing demon is called nsy or nsyt. These names are phonetically close to those of a leading disease-causing demonic agent in medieval and early modern Europe, called nessia in Latin and nežit in Slavic languages. The demons of both regions were believed to invade the patient’s body to ca…[Read more]

]]> 0 12583d0af11ed0b00567c95db05520cf Marianna Charitonidou deposited Takis Zenetos and High-Tech Architecture: Electronic Urbanism vis-à-vis Autonomous Ecological Living Units in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895814/ Fri, 09 Aug 2024 03:00:14 +0000 At the core of Takis Zenetos’s understanding of high-tech architecture and urbanism were the ways in which technology can have a positive impact on how citizens inhabit space. This paper analyses Zenetos’s project entitled ‘Electronic Urbanism’, which concerned the design of housing units adapted to the conditions of working from home. Zenetos…[Read more]

]]> 0 13a261eaebccb0680eb411745f7355a1 Evina Stein(ova) deposited Freising (Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project) in the group Writing Systems https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895619/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 03:00:43 +0000 This article was prepared for the Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project in 2016. It surveys the development of Carolingian minuscule, a Latin script used in the earlier Middle Ages, at Freising in Bavaria. The article provides an overview of manuscripts copied, corrected, or annotated in Carolingian minuscule at Freising and summarises the…[Read more]

]]> 0 b5fc2dd9073e941bc7c83764e98aec16 Evina Stein(ova) deposited Freising (Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project) in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895616/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 03:00:24 +0000 This article was prepared for the Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project in 2016. It surveys the development of Carolingian minuscule, a Latin script used in the earlier Middle Ages, at Freising in Bavaria. The article provides an overview of manuscripts copied, corrected, or annotated in Carolingian minuscule at Freising and summarises the…[Read more]

]]> 0 2320cf2b082480ddf886dbe90c0a5b48 Evina Stein(ova) deposited Freising (Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project) in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895615/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 03:00:03 +0000 This article was prepared for the Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project in 2016. It surveys the development of Carolingian minuscule, a Latin script used in the earlier Middle Ages, at Freising in Bavaria. The article provides an overview of manuscripts copied, corrected, or annotated in Carolingian minuscule at Freising and summarises the…[Read more]

]]> 0 58b05dcd7b07b2e6c796be7cb435656f Timothy Cooper deposited ‘That Awful Night in October’: Sensory Experiences of Britain’s 1987 Hurricane in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894817/ Sun, 28 Jul 2024 03:01:17 +0000 This article explores sensory experiences of the 1987 ‘Hurricane’ in Britain. Through mass observers’ testimonies, we examine the impact of sensory disruption to domestic ‘sensoria’. We examine in turn disturbing noises; the anxieties circulating around windows; the loss of power to heat and light domestic environments, and, finally, the kinetic p…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b60fb77ae106385acd255f9a881a5a2 Anna-Marie Kroupová replied to the topic CFP: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? in the forum Art History https://hcommons.org/groups/art-history/forum/topic/cfp-iron-curtains-or-artistic-gates-5/#post-88123 Fri, 26 Jul 2024 10:58:08 +0000 Workshop: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? Communism and Cultural Diplomacy in the Global South (1945–1991 and Beyond)

19–20 September 2024

 

Upper Belvedere

Prinz-Eugen-Straße 27, 1030 Vienna, Austria

 

Organizers: Anna-Marie Kroupová & Noémie Étienne (University of Vienna)

 

This workshop challenges traditional East-West Cold War narra…[Read more]

]]> 0 dccdb42b5fd8871ca89f36e72867c8d2 Nick Posegay deposited Five Qur’anic Papyri from the Michaelides Collection at the Cambridge University Library in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891764/ Mon, 15 Jul 2024 03:00:11 +0000 The Michaelides manuscript collection at the Cambridge University Library contains approximately 700 papyrus fragments collected by George Michaelides in Egypt in the middle of the twentieth century. While a preliminary handlist exists for this collection, most of the papyri have not been fully described. Among them are five Qur’anic papyri that h…[Read more]

]]> 0 b8b1b44f374c9fc3aed5e21ae38c8d09 Nick Posegay deposited Five Qur’anic Papyri from the Michaelides Collection at the Cambridge University Library in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891763/ Mon, 15 Jul 2024 03:00:10 +0000 The Michaelides manuscript collection at the Cambridge University Library contains approximately 700 papyrus fragments collected by George Michaelides in Egypt in the middle of the twentieth century. While a preliminary handlist exists for this collection, most of the papyri have not been fully described. Among them are five Qur’anic papyri that h…[Read more]

]]> 0 e1ee71077847229433afaca0fd1b1f23 Francesco Luzzini deposited Going (More) Historical: On Environment, Science, and Discourse in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891450/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:00:07 +0000 In: “Storia e Filosofia della Scienza: una nuova alleanza?”, ed. F. Minazzi, Milan, Mimesis, 2024, pp. 175-182.

]]> 0 0a091293b655a6f810b947ec6c3b7fce Francesco Luzzini deposited Going (More) Historical: On Environment, Science, and Discourse in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891449/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:00:06 +0000 In: “Storia e Filosofia della Scienza: una nuova alleanza?”, ed. F. Minazzi, Milan, Mimesis, 2024, pp. 175-182.

]]> 0 df5ac9ab48dfeebd31b826848ee948a2 Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group Environmental Humanities: Is there a faculty member at a US institution who is willing […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891134/ Sat, 06 Jul 2024 20:49:05 +0000 Is there a faculty member at a US institution who is willing to host a conference on Environmental Humanities: East-West Perspectives? I’m asking for a friend/colleague of mine in India. I can send a fact sheet if there’s any interest. Contact me at ebibliotekos@gmail.com

]]> 0 ed452bb93790263630ea2839ac5aa90a Rosanna Cantavella deposited Inventari dels rims acordants i diccionals en Jordi de Sant Jordi in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889655/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:01:18 +0000 This .ods spreadsheet collects all acordant and diccional rhymes of the preserved poetry of Jordi de Sant Jordi. This inventory has been udertaken by Rosanna Cantavella (Universitat de València-Clare Hall University of Cambridge), and interpreted as a paper for the symposion “‘Tots jorns aprench e desaprench ensemps’: 600 anys de Jordi de Sant…[Read more]

]]> 0 de983778c2266f332ebc5bd0c2a9dc7b Matthew Firth deposited What’s in a Name? Tracing the Origins of Alfred’s ‘the Great’ in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889290/ Sat, 15 Jun 2024 03:00:50 +0000 King Alfred (r. 871–99) is the only native-born English ruler to have gained the byname ‘the Great’. This was not a contemporary sobriquet, but is often considered to have been bestowed in the Elizabethan era by Reformation scholars who increasingly cast Alfred in the role of the founder of the English nation. The acknowledged exception is a refer…[Read more]

]]> 0 d021c1a72c3d8c14b86aa5e394a9d0b1 Matthew Firth deposited What’s in a Name? Tracing the Origins of Alfred’s ‘the Great’ in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889289/ Sat, 15 Jun 2024 03:00:27 +0000 King Alfred (r. 871–99) is the only native-born English ruler to have gained the byname ‘the Great’. This was not a contemporary sobriquet, but is often considered to have been bestowed in the Elizabethan era by Reformation scholars who increasingly cast Alfred in the role of the founder of the English nation. The acknowledged exception is a refer…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f25905d78a6ae3d72c9ec662e0d9999 Nick Posegay deposited An Early Arabic Translation of Exodus 15 from a Palestinian Melkite Psalter in the Cairo Genizah in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888911/ Tue, 11 Jun 2024 03:00:18 +0000 This article presents an Arabic translation of Exodus 15 from the Cairo Genizah, preserved in two fragments of a Christian psalter (MSS CUL T-S NS 305.198 and T-S NS 305.210). The style of the psalter’s Arabic script suggests that it was copied by a well-trained scribe in the late 9th or early 10th century. Such a date makes it the oldest…[Read more]

]]> 0 133846c6dfd2bf35198848da4ace28a6 Katrina Grant deposited Collaboration, flexibility, skill-sharing: The future of museum and cultural heritage work in the age of digital transformation in Australia in the group Digital Art History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888684/ Sat, 08 Jun 2024 03:00:03 +0000 The COVID-19 pandemic created huge challenges for the galleries, libraries, archives and museum (GLAM) sector as institutions were shut and travel and tourism became almost non-existent. Globally, cultural institutions large and small suddenly had to rely almost entirely on digital platforms to engage their missing audiences. Digital…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e66d51a609437f913892778b9f6501c James Robert Burns started the topic New Group: History of Slavery and Unfreedom in the discussion Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/groups/early-medieval/forum/topic/new-group-history-of-slavery-and-unfreedom-3/ Sat, 01 Jun 2024 22:07:02 +0000 Welcome to the ‘History of Slavery and Unfreedom’

So far as I am aware, this is the first and only Humanities Commons group dedicated to the study of slavery.*

The past decade has seen a large number of publications that address slavery in a range of historical societies (e.g., The Cambridge World History; The Palgrave Handbook; On Human…[Read more]

]]> 0 1708fd67f133506905bc78ac6a0ee7ab James Robert Burns deposited ‘Slaves’ and ‘Slave Owners’ or ‘Enslaved People’ and ‘Enslavers’? in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887766/ Sat, 01 Jun 2024 03:00:19 +0000 Studies of slavery increasingly refer to ‘enslaved people’ rather than ‘slaves’, and, to a lesser extent, to ‘enslavers’ rather than ‘slave owners’. This trend began with scholarship in the United States on plantation slavery but has spread to other academic publications. Yet ‘slave’ continues to be widely used, indicating not everyone is aware o…[Read more]

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