Because I fixed a bug in the code, 115 #Manuscripts were tracked as new from the #Vatican this week https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2024/week18.html
The load time for the Vat.lat page had exceeded my timeout for the last 7 weeks, this has been fixed! There's a lot of papal history, including several Scrutini, sermons, commentary, satirical poems, Thomas Aquinas in Terza Rima, Beneventan music, coins and more! #Medieval#Medievodons@bookhistodons@medievodons
Kintzinger, Martin • Rexroth, Frank • Rogge, Jörg (ed.), Gewalt und Widerstand in der politischen Kultur des späten Mittelalters (Vorträge und Forschungen 80), Ostfildern 2015.
#otd 1198 died Sophia of Minsk. As the wife of her first husband Valdemar I she was Queen of Denmark, as the wife of her second husband Louis III she was Landgravine of Thuringia. She was buried in St. Bendt's Church in Ringsted. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pics: WC
#otd 1472 the troops of the House of Lancaster were crushed in the Battle of Twekesbury. Many prominent Lancastrian nobles were killed during the battle or executed shortly afterwards. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Ms: Besançon, BM, 1168, f 4v
#otd 1481 Mehmet II ,the Conqueror' died. He was buried in the Fatih Mosque complex he built. His tomb is presented like this today. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons
#otd 1250 died Al-Malik al-Mu'azzam Turan Shah, the seventh sultan of the Ayyubids in Egypt. The circumstances vary, here: He is simply stabbed to death. On the right, the captured Louis IX. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons MS: BNF, Français 5716, f. 127v.
"These eight cities were not necessarily the largest in terms of land area or even population in some cases, but they were large in their sense of importance to the medieval era."
Werlich, Ralf-Gunnar / Spieß, Karl-Heinz (ed.), Ausbildung und Verbreitung des Lehnwesens im Reich und in Italien im 12. und 13. Jahrhundert (Vorträge und Forschungen 76), Ostfildern 2013.
#otd 1308 King Albert I was murdered by a group around his nephew John. Almost 200 years later, the act was depicted in this drawing. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons MS: Chronicle of the 95 dominions of Austria, Burgerbibliothek Bern, Cod. A45, f. 97r
"Incense spheres discovered in Tang hoards, which are the earliest artefacts found to date, reveal multicultural origins upon close examination. Persian and Sogdian silversmith elements, Buddhist ideas and Syriac Christian liturgical practices, may all have left their traces on the making of the object."
Fang, F. X. (2024). Scent, Art and Astronomy: New Light on Tang Incense Spheres and Their Global Connections. The Medieval History Journal, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09719458231226000
#otd 1315 Enguerrand de Marigny, chamberlain to Philip IV of France, was hanged at Montfaucon. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Hs.: BNF Français 2606 f. 361v