#AI crawling is straining research infrastructure Zenodo.org has been slow for several days, notifying that the reason is automated traffic bots and AI crawlers Today, Google Books has been down for several hours. Not sure if related, but it's a good guess. 1/2

My new favourite medieval bishop: Wocho (or Bocho, Vocco, Wokke or Bokk) of Seckau (1317-1334) Wocho did not plot against his Emperor, wage endless wars against his neighbours or end up in huge debts. Wocho simply took care of his diocese. Be like Wocho #MedievalSky de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wocho

Wocho – Wikipedia

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Congrats! Strong recommendation for Empire of AI

Penguin Press@penguinpress.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Congratulations, @karenhao.bsky.social! This weekend Empire of AI won the @latimes.com Book Prize for Science and Technology. www.latimes.com/about/pressr...

"Of whom should the Vicar of Christ be afraid, even if the whole world were against him?" #Pope Urban VI, 1378-89, according to Raimondo da Capua Our surprisingly actual book on the Great Western Schism soon out! @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social #MedievalSky boydellandbrewer.com/book/rome-an...

Pope "weak on crime"? You want a pope "strong on crime"? Gregory IX nominated the first papal inquisitors. Quite strong on crime. He also excommunicated Emperor Frederic II and released his subjects from all oaths of fealty. Twice. Giorgio Vasari's fresco (16th cent.) of Gregory IX.

Dear world, "Fuck the faithful, fuck the committed, the dedicated, the true believers; fuck all the sure and certain people prepared to maim and kill whoever got in their way; fuck every cause that ended in a murder and a child screaming" Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background

KKO-pyörsi alempien oikeusasteiden linjan ja tuomitsi Päivi Räsäsen kiihottamisesta kansanryhmää vastaan. En ole kohtuuttoman yllättynyt, että tässä kävi näin. Hankala tapaus, ja linjan veti lopulta KKO. Päätös on myös voitto eläköityneelle valtakunnansyyttäjä Raija Toiviaiselle.

Tuomas Äystö@tuomasaysto.eurosky.social · 7mo ago

Yritän ehtiä lukea ja kommentoida Räsäsen KKO-tuomiota myöhemmin tänään, mutta nopea reaktio on se, että on aina merkittävää kun KKO tekee täyskäännöksen aiempiin tuomioihin ja linjaa näin vahvasti jonkin lain soveltamisesta. Tämä tulee saamaan myös valtavasti kansainvälistä huomiota.

#MedievalSky I love the determination of medieval doctors of theology in pursuing #heresy. Faculty of Theology (Vienna) on 20 June 1413: "The truth of the faith cannot be abandoned on account of anyone's insistence." But wait. It is June after all...

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

Minkä alan osaajille oli kovin kysyntä 1580-luvun koulumaailmassa? No kreikan ja heprean tietysti! Kirjoitin 800 tarinaa Turun historiasta -blogisarjaan katedraalikoulun uusista tuulista ja Turun kirkkoherran opintomatkasta Saksaan. blogit.utu.fi/turku800/202... @turku.fi @utu.fi #Turku800

When you're too proud to get what you want. In April 1404, three masters of theology at the University of Vienna accused the Carmelite friar Arnold von Seehausen of preaching something of questionable content. A few days later, the Dean approached one of the instigators, Peter von Pulkau.

#MedievalSky Have you wondered how medieval inquisitors gathered the names of suspected heretics? We have some answers based on a quantitative study of the Stettin inquisition (1393-94). News on DISSINET home page: dissinet.cz/news/article... Link to the research article: doi.org/10.1093/llc/...

How inquisitive was medieval inquisition?

Kaarel Sikk, David Zbíral, and Reima Välimäki have published a new study in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities that examines how Peter Zwicker's inquisition in Stettin (1393–94) utilised informatio...

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Extremely relevant find for #disabilityhistory! bbc.com/news/article... This is further evidence of the practical approach to deafness by premodern churches. Jenni Kuuliala and I argued this in a 2020 article (research.utu.fi/converis/por...)

Leicester Cathedral reveals sign language wedding held in 1576

Cathedral bosses believe the signed service could have been one of the first in England.

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The latest issue of Mirator, a multidisciplinary journal for medieval studies, is out! It's a thematic issue on #Science and #Magic in the Middle Ages. #MedievalSky journal.fi/mirator/issu...

Mirator Vol 25 Nro 2 (2025): Between Science and Magic

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Suutarin lapset ja kengät, leopardit ja naamat, mitä näitä nyt on

With Adam Poznański, we discovered a previously unknown treatise against Waldensians in a Wrocław manuscript. The edition is now out: doi.org/10.31743/ams... #MedievalSky #Heresy #Waldensians

Voin vain kuvitella sitä itkupotkuraivaria, joka suomalaisessa somessa ja mediassa syntyisi, jos täällä jokin yliopisto saisi 21 vuoden (!) rahoituksen arabiankielisen Vanhan Testamentin käännös- ja editointiprojektiin: biblia-arabica.com/news/new-aca...

Creating structured data out of #medieval heresies almost instantly becomes a scholastic endeavour in itself: If a soul is in Purgatory, is Purgatory a location in the database? Or should one classify it as a (spiritual) condition? Either way, one is taking a stance in a BIG medieval debate

My redating of the Stettin inquisitions got assigned to an issue of the Church History journal! Still open access, of course! #MedievaSky

American Society of Church History@aschurchhistory.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Looking for a good read to kick off your week? Check out "Stettin Revised: Redating a Major Medieval Inquisition of Heresy," by Reima Välimäki in the March 2025 issue of Church History! @universitypress.cambridge.org @reimavalimaki.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Yesterday, I almost forgot to pick up my kids from daycare and school because I was thinking about the Great Western Schism. Can happen to the best of us #MedievalSky

Obviously, the author hasn't watched #Babylon5

The European Union was designed for peace – it is never going to be a war machine | Anand Menon

Reacting to the Russian military threat would require the bloc to be agile and decisive. It is many great things, but it is not that, says Anand Menon, director of UK in a Changing Europe

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Timber reuse in Medieval Churches in Finland A new #OpenAccess article, with Franziska Dalheimer as lead author. I contributed a section about the regulation of the reuse of consecrated timber. #CircularEconomy goes medieval #MedievalSky brill.com/view/journal...

I love the smell of EU Funding & Tenders Portal in the middle of the night, the day before the grant application deadline.

Olen kirjoittanut ensyklopedia-artikkelia Suomen keskiajasta. Pitää summata kansainväliselle lukijalle keskeisiä tutkimuksen debatteja. Häv juu ever höörd about Pähkinäsaaren rauhan raja?

@utu.fi on tänäkin vuonna Turku Priden kumppani www.utu.fi/fi/ajankohta... Näinä aikoina erittäin tärkeä viesti, olen niin ylpeä yliopistostamme ja rehtoristamme!

Turun yliopisto on tänäkin vuonna Turku Priden kumppani

Seksuaali- ja sukupuolivähemmistöjen ihmisoikeuksia juhlivaa Turku Pride -viikkoa vietetään 25.­–31.8. Yliopistoyhteisö järjestää useita sateenkaarevia tapahtumia.

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Yhdysvaltalaiset tutkijat ehdottavat tiedeyhteisölle vaihtoehtoisten, hallinnon disinformaatiota haastavien organisaatoiden perustamista - käytännössä siis toimintaa, jota USA aikanaan tuki Neuvostoliitossa www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Scientists’ role in defending democracy

The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...

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Historian poliittinen käyttö trendaa jälleen

The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · last yr.

⚡️ Putin to present Trump with 'historical materials' framing Ukraine as artificial state, Kyiv claims. The package includes geographical maps intended to justify Russia's territorial claims and ongoing military aggression, Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation claimed.

#MedievalSky #Inquisition #Heresy #MiddleAges It's out! Almost two years ago, I realised that the Stettin inquisition against the German Waldensians had been misdated. There were no two process stages, with almost a year break between them. 1/3 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Happy Feast of Visitation! A medieval addition to the liturgical calendar, installed by Urban VI in 1389 during the Great Western Schism. As a strange plot twist of history, the liturgy was written by Cardinal Adam Easton, whom Urban had tortured just a couple of years earlier. #MedievalSky

The Trump administration is shutting down government agencies' access to Nature because of "woke science". Replace the words with "Jewish physics" and you have...nazis

Max Kozlov@maxkozlov.bsky.social · last yr.

Nazi Germany did literally ban Nature: "Articles are often published in the London weekly scientific journal Nature containing outrageous and vile attacks on German science and the national socialist state. The journal must therefore be excluded from general use in the scientific libraries."