1521: First circumnavigator by language—Malacca, Kochi, Malindi, Cape of Good Hope, Lisbon, Seville, Rio, Patagonia, Strait, Pacific, Guam, Cebu …
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I attended the funeral of Chris Wickham today. He was the greatest medieval historian since Marc Bloch. He was a man of enormous kindness and generosity, without whose support I would never have had an academic job or published anything. I was not his student. He owed me nothing. My doctoral viva was pretty brutal because I was being a bit too controversial for my examiners, but he had heard of my thesis, read it, and said how much he liked it and volunteered to write for me for jobs. I am still here thanks to Chris (for good or ill).
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In 1593, King Satha I of Cambodia asked Spain to send a military force from the Philippines to protect the country from invasion by the Siamese (Thailand); this request was accepted, and three ships and 120 troops, as well a donkey as a present for the King !!!, were dispatched.
ALT Source:Archivo General de Indias
"What should have been a short jaunt in their 20-foot skiff became a three-month, 3,000-plus-mile odyssey that left four…dead. He and the other survivors were rescued in the island nation of Kiribati …"
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The Historiography and Memory of the Crusades in the Modern Arab World
eds. Amar S. Baadj, Ahmed M. Sheir, Trivent Pub 2025
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Nearly 600 Medieval Manuscripts from German Monasteries Now Online medievalists.net/2026/09/600… #digitizedmanuscripts
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No se puede entender la forja del capitalismo sin el desarrollo de la trata esclavista y de la esclavitud. En el mundo británico (S.XVIII), las interconexiones entre esclavistas en Europa, en África y en los puertos americanos han sido analizadas brillantemente por N. Radburn.
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Chinese pottery discovered in Great Zimbabwe reveals medieval African empire's vast connections spanning thousands of miles
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Benteng Rum, yang dibangun oleh bangsa Spanyol, berfungsi sebagai benteng pertahanan bagi satu-satunya pelabuhan perairan dalam di Pulau Tidore. Benteng ini hancur akibat pembangunan jalan lingkar. Dari pelabuhan inilah pasukan Spanyol terakhir meninggalkan Maluku pada tahun 1663
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Kitab-ı Bahriye, (Book on Navigation) by Ottoman cartographer Piri Reis (1465-1555) 🗺️
Map of the City of Alexandria
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In SILVER LORDS OF NAGASAKI, Timothy R. Romans reveals how pirates, merchants, and political ambitions shaped Japan’s place in a region where Europe, China, and Korea vied for influence during the Tokugawa period.
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An update from Brewster Kahle on today's outage.
ALT Internet Archive ops staff were heroes last night. PHP vulnerability announced, soon saw attacks, isolated the vulnerability, used Claude to make fixes for our older php versions, used local models to run simulated attacks, deployed. reinforced WAF and other guards. Offline briefly, Back on new versions and running! Given the severity, there are heroes in many many orgs from last night. Could have been no lights, no traffic signals, real problems. Heroes. Thank you all.
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La esclavitud indígena no fue un elemento menor en el desarrollo de la conquista española del Caribe. De acuerdo con Erin Stone, un mínimo de 250.000 indígenas fueron esclavizados en la región entre 1493-1542. Unos 70.000 fueron mandados a España como esclavos.
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در مقاله ای به تفصیل نقش ظروف چینی را در تعامل فرهنگی چین و ایران مطرح کرده ام:
درسهای تاریخی برای احیای نقش ایران در راه جدید ابریشم
لینک: sharghdaily.com/fa/tiny/news…
شناخت هر پدیده تاریخی نیازمند بازنگری دقیق در مبانی و موانع تاریخ بشر
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A video of Japanese conservators carefully removing papers that were recently discovered inside of a Buddhist statue dating back to the late Kamakura period (1280's-1330's).
A fascinating discovery inside a late-Kamakura-period Buddhist statue:
During the restoration of the Jūichimen Kannon 十一面観世音菩薩 at Shōjuin 正寿院 in Ujitawara, Kyoto Prefecture, conservators found 95 sheets of paper within the image. 94 of which bore stamped images of Kannon and one containing a handwritten text in ink.
The statue, approximately 60 cm tall, is the temple’s principal image and is normally kept concealed as a hibutsu 秘仏 ("secret Buddha"). In announcing the discovery, the temple described the Kannon images' function to magically protect the written document.
The contents and date of the document have yet to be established. It will be fascinating to learn what it reveals about the statue’s history and the people who placed these materials inside it.
Images below, and a short Japanese news report here:
asahi.co.jp/webnews/pages/ab…
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Copy editing done - just waiting for the proofs: it is only at that stage it really starts to feel like a book…
"De Bry collection of voyages": Initiated in 1590, it would run until 1634, and comprise twenty-five folio volumes of European travel accounts to America, Africa, and Asia. One [engraving] captured the moment Columbus first set foot in ...
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Empire of Books
Constantinople, the Library of Abū Bakr al-Širwānī (d. 1135/1723), and the Ottoman Archive of Arabic Literatures
Boris Liebrenz , BRill, 2026
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This week’s ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 15th century, BnF Français 22531, f. 324r
