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Page proofs have arrived! East Asian Medievalisms: Poetry, Media, Manga (Cambridge UP), coming soon.

So excited to contribute to the Cambridge Elements series in the #GlobalMiddleAges and to create more dialogue across #AsianAmericanStudies and #AsianStudies.

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ID: Printout of proofs of a book cover with a separate printout of a title page. The book cover is solid black with a partial image of a medieval Arabic astrolabe, and the text reads Cambridge Elements: The Global Middle Ages. East Asian Medievalisms, Jonathan Hsy. The title page reads: Cambridge Elements, Elements in the Global Middle Ages, edited by Geraldine Heng, University of Texas at Austin; Lynn Ramey, Vanderbilt University. East Asian Medievalisms: Poetry, Media, Manga. Jonathan Hsy, George Washington University. Cambridge University Press.
September 29, 2026 at 12:13 AM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
#GlobalMiddleAges #MedievalSky #TengriSky A crucial addition to your teaching files: Traveling to the “Tartars”: Three Missions to the Mongols, 1245–1248, Translated, Introduced, and Annotated by Alfred J. Andrea. Supersedes Dawson's 1955 Mission to Asia. hackettpublishing.com/traveling-to... 🗃️
Cover of Alfred J. Andrea, trans., Traveling to the 'Tartars': Three Missions to the Mongols, 1245-1248, published by Hackett (2026)
September 19, 2026 at 2:05 AM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
This needs to go to the top of your #GlobalMiddleAges reading list: Nicholas Matheou, "Commercial Revolution in the Central Eurasian Middle Ages: Tribute, Capital & Nomadic Aristocracy." #OpenAccess here: jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/iss.... #MedievalSky #TengriSky
Title and Abstract for Nicholas S. M. Matheou, "Commercial Revolution in the Central Eurasian Middle Ages: Tribute, Capital & Nomadic Aristocracy," Journal of World-Systems Research 32, no. 2 (2026), 534-570, https://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/issue/view/90.
September 6, 2026 at 3:07 PM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
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tommazanec.bsky.social Tom Mazanec @tommazanec.bsky.social · Jul 24
Broadly enough defined that it could include Asian Art History
September 6, 2026 at 11:17 AM
medievalmiddleeast.bsky.social
I don't believe #GlobalMiddleAges has a future as long as Europe is the unstated default. We should absolutely study medieval Europe! But we can do that without erasing other parts of the world.
August 18, 2026 at 11:05 PM
mqassiti.bsky.social
#medievalsky #GlobalMiddleAges
August 9, 2026 at 10:20 AM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
Oh, and a reminder: if you teach the Mansa Musa story about the price of gold in Cairo, be sure you pull out Warren Schultz's deconstruction of that story, just to get the facts straight: www.academia.edu/81562385/Man... #MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges #AfricanHistory 🗃️
Mansa Musa's Gold in Mamluk Cairo: A Reappraisal of a World Civilizations Anecdote
Mansa Musa's Gold in Mamluk Cairo: A Reappraisal of a World Civilizations Anecdote
www.academia.edu
August 4, 2026 at 2:44 AM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
I needed something really smart to read tonight. Here's something neat for folks doing #GlobalMiddleAges work: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #Trans-SaharanTrade #MedievalSky #AfricanHistory
An excerpt from de Palaminy et al. 2026 on the sources of Fatimid gold coins found in the Caesarea hoard: "The number of Early Islamic single gold coins and hoards discovered in excavations over the past decades has grown exponentially, particular those minted during the Fatimid period (10th-11th c.) [65]. As a result, numismatic research has made impressive advances with publication of a detailed corpus of these coins [66,67]. In 2015, a hoard of 2,668 gold coins of this period, one of the largest hoard of its kind ever discovered in the Eastern Mediterranean (weighing 7.5 kg), was found in a shipwreck in the ancient harbor of Caesarea, Israel [68]. Now housed in the Coin Department of the Israel Antiquities Authority in Jerusalem, this assemblage offers a rare and valuable case study for gold provenance research. It presents two major advantages: it is both “sourced” and “sealed.” First, its archaeological context is securely known—unlike coins in most numismatic collections, which mostly derive from undocumented donations. Second, having remained underwater for nearly a millennium, the hoard has not been subject to post-depositional processes such as reminting, recycling, or forgery, nor chemical cleaning, preserving the original metallurgical composition of the coins."
August 4, 2026 at 1:57 AM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
Colleagues: if you do #GlobalMiddleAges work, this is an urgent case where you can use your expertise to support cultural conservation & Indigenous peoples. If you don't know Chaco Canyon, look it up. But do so quickly. The Comment period ends 29 July. #MedievalSky
kellylynnedang.bsky.social Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · Jul 16
Please blow up the public comment (included below):

BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development
July 16, 2026 at 1:25 PM
mqassiti.bsky.social
I've mentioned this here before, but @jaema.bsky.social is posting such a great series of posts here on the #medieval history of the countries participating in the #WorldCup26.
You can see how much work he puts into it.
Check it out!
#medievalsky #GlobalMiddleAges
jaema.bsky.social Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association @jaema.bsky.social · Jul 4
#PARvsFRA

In the mid 9th century, Viking raiders turned their attention to France, taking advantage of early medieval Carolingian infighting

In 845 a 120 ship fleet, carrying 5000+ men, sailed up the Seine and sacked both Rouen and Paris. They returned in 885, besieging Paris, only to be repulsed.
Archaeologists working in the forecourt of Notre Dame cathedral following the devastating fire of 2019. In June of this year, a number of intact pottery jugs and early medieval graves were discovered.
July 4, 2026 at 10:43 PM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
aDNA analysis of human genetic diversity in medieval Sicily: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti.... "the data indicate nuanced and unappreciated demographic shifts." #MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges
Genetic histories of individuals from multi-faith medieval Sicily
Medieval Sicily, located at the intersection of Europe, North Africa and the Near East, experienced successive political and religious transitions under Byzantine, Aghlabid, Fatimid, Norman, and Swabi...
journals.plos.org
June 25, 2026 at 5:57 PM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
Here's the link to MMA podcast webpage: www.multiculturalmiddleages.com/post/the-glo.... I'm looking forward to listening to this, b/c the trade in & lore about hunting birds offers a super opportunity to explore #GlobalMiddleAges questions. #MedievalSky
June 25, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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June 13, 2026 at 11:47 PM
mqassiti.bsky.social
In Wuppertal, we have a project in cooperation with Peking University on the contacts between the Papacy and the Far East and the role of the mendicant orders in this context.
The only #GlobalMiddleAges project at our university so far, lol.
gepris.dfg.de/gepris/proje...
DFG - GEPRIS - Latin church in special form? Communication system and knowledge formation between Latin Europe and the Far East in the 13th and 14th Centuries
The project investigates early contacts between Latin Europe and the Far East in the 13th and 14th centuries, which was initiated after the Mongol invasion ...
gepris.dfg.de
May 28, 2026 at 2:36 PM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
#MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges Get this while it's FREE, FREE, FREE. Nancy Wu is doing the best work in teaching us about these global interactions. (See also her amazing 2024 study of John of Marignolli's horse: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...)
May 28, 2026 at 1:31 PM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
More #GlobalMiddleAges news grounded on aDNA work: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #MedievalSky
Ancient DNA reveals a family ossuary and long-distance migration on the Pacific coast before the Inca Empire - Nature Communications
Here, the authors present genome-wide aDNA from 21 individuals who lived in the Chincha Valley (Peru) between the 13th and 16th centuries. These data reveal close-knit communities as well as long-dist...
www.nature.com
May 22, 2026 at 6:58 PM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
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May 15, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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docuracy.co.uk Stephen Gadd @docuracy.co.uk · May 1
✉️ Explore 145,000 medieval merchant letters as a live map: the correspondence network of Francesco di Marco Datini (c.1363–1412), spanning Florence to Barcelona to North Africa.
Visualise routes, travel times & seasonality.
docuracy.github.io/datini/

#DigitalHumanities #MedievalHistory
A dark-themed interactive map of the medieval western Mediterranean showing 14th-century merchant letter routes as curved arcs coloured from cyan (fast, 0–5 days) through yellow to red (30+ days). Short land routes between Tuscan cities glow cyan; longer sea routes to Barcelona and Majorca burn orange and red, revealing the unpredictability of medieval maritime travel. (299 characters) Long (accessible description for screen readers / figure caption): Screenshot of the Datini Letters Geospatial Explorer in Travel Time mode. A dark basemap of the western Mediterranean is overlaid with curved arc lines connecting pairs of cities in the Datini merchant network. Arc colour encodes average letter delivery time on a gradient from cyan (near-instant, 0–5 days) through green and yellow (one to two weeks) to orange and deep red-magenta (more than 30 days). Dense clusters of fast cyan arcs radiate from Florence and Pisa across Tuscany, reflecting the reliable day-or-two land post. Arcs reaching westward to Barcelona, Valencia, and Palma de Majorca shift to orange and red, capturing the slower and far more variable sea routes that could take anywhere from a week to several months. City nodes are shown as circles: pink for the main Datini fondacos (Pisa, Florence, Barcelona, Genoa, Valencia, Majorca) and blue for correspondent cities. A sidebar on the left shows the Travel Time mode is selected, with a cyan-to-red colour legend and a filter slider for minimum letters per route.
May 3, 2026 at 1:36 AM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
Separately (w/ no overlap in personnel that I can see), we have this out from *Cell*: www.cell.com/current-biol.... Some implications for #GlobalMiddleAges
The shared genomic history of Middle- to Late-Holocene populations from the Southern Cone of South America
Through genomic data from 52 ancient individuals in Argentina and Uruguay, Krettek et al. reconstruct demographic history in the Southern Cone over 6,000 years. They detect ancestry shifts and interco...
www.cell.com
April 23, 2026 at 1:53 AM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
#histmed #GlobalMiddleAges
antiquity.ac.uk Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Apr 17
Illustration of an Orù (pitcher) from c. AD 1456–1661 Orile-Owu, Nigeria.

Orù were mainly used for fetching water and preparing medicinal herbs. Burnt herb residue in the pitcher sheds light on medical practices in historic West Africa.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

#HerbalistDay 🏺 #Archaeology
Drawing of a globular ceramic vessel, some sections decorated with geometric patterns.
April 17, 2026 at 9:35 AM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
#GlobalMiddleAges #MedievalSky #aDNA Paleogenomic study on Islamic Ibiza. 2 individuals suggest Sub-Saharan origins (Senegambia & southern Chad), "providing direct evidence of trans-Saharan connections via military & slave networks." #OpenAccess www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Analysis of medieval burials from Ibiza reveals genetic and pathogenic diversity during the Islamic period - Nature Communications
Ibiza, an island in present-day Spain, was under Islamic rule between the 10th and 13th centuries CE. Here, the authors analyse the remains of thirteen individuals from medieval Islamic burials in Ibi...
www.nature.com
March 29, 2026 at 12:59 PM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
Why I do this. And why it's #OpenAccess. #GlobalMiddleAges
An excerpt from “Pandemic in the Medieval World: Teaching a New Black Death Narrative in the 21st Century,” a podcast with Monica H. Green, Lucy Barnhouse, Winston Black, and Will Beattie, The Multicultural Middle Ages, Season 5, Episode 1, 25 March 2026, https://www.multiculturalmiddleages.com/post/pandemic-in-the-medieval-world-teaching-a-new-black-death-narrative-in-the-21st-century-green-bar. 31:23 Here’s a case where we can look at a pandemic that is far enough distant from us that we can look at it with some equanimity and bring those critical skills into play and ask: How did this happen? What is going on? What element of this is simply biology? What element is climate? What element is war? Other kinds of contexts. And pull those different strings out and DO THE WORK THAT WE’RE SUPPOSED TO DO AS ACADEMICS! To actually figure out how the world works, and how it has worked in the past. … I think we should be having a global debate about this, about these questions, and about pandemics. And again, all the more so urgently because of what we’ve all been through in the past almost six years. Ad for Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast, Season 5, episode 1: "Pandemic in the Medieval World: Teaching a New Black Death Narrative in the 21st Century." Against a yellow background, there is an image from a later 14th-century manuscript showing a crowded cemetery scene.
March 27, 2026 at 8:14 AM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
Reposting for the evening crowd. #MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges #EarlyModern 🗃️ 🧪 @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @mideastmedieval.bsky.social
mmapod.bsky.social The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast @mmapod.bsky.social · Mar 25
SEASON 5 IS LIVE!

In this episode, learn how scholars are bringing historical sourcework into conversation with scientific data in the study of the Black Death.
March 26, 2026 at 12:06 AM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
Parrots. aDNA. #GlobalMiddleAges. What a fascinating research project! This link leads to a sumary: www.earth.com/news/parrot-...
Parrot DNA reveals ancient trade route across the Andes
Ancient DNA from parrot feathers reveals that live Amazonian parrots were transported across the Andes through long-distance trade networks.
www.earth.com
March 11, 2026 at 5:02 PM
dgb-mem.bsky.social
The newest volume in our series Sense, Matter, and Medium: Visual Culture in Medieval Syriac Traditions. From North Africa to China, this volume showcases the breadth of Syriac Christian art and material culture.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...:
#MedievalSky #MedievalArt #GlobalMiddleAges
Cover. It shows an insight into a cloister vault.
February 24, 2026 at 9:45 AM