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John Theibault

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Thirty Years War. Digital Humanities. Other Stuff.

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John Theibault@jtheibault.bsky.social · yesterday

Looks like all the Digitale Sammlungen at SuUB Bremen are offline. A DDoS attack? I don't know of a mirror. I hope they come back soon.

vor400 (1626)@vor400.bsky.social · yesterday

* seit 1-2 Tagen hat brema.suub.uni-bremen.de wieder Probleme, und ich komme nicht an meine Zeitungen vom 3. Okt 1626 ... (Ordinarii Dienstag Journal) Kennt jemand einen Mirror? Ich finde keinen - Frischmann damals war etwas praktischer mit dem Runterladen ganzer Ausgaben für so Fälle ...

John Theibault@jtheibault.bsky.social · 3d ago

I think I missed this fun thread on paleography when it first appeared. I remember when I first started in the archives being happy when a document in Latin turned up because I could at least make out the words. It does take a while to get the rhythm of old handwriting.

Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 2y ago

It’s #HandwritingDay so I thought I’d share a thread about Renaissance handwritten documents I worked with in the research that led to “Inventing the Renaissance,” and the best and worst scripts I’ve ever seen. 1/? (Continuing countdown to the release of my *absurdly fat* *absurdly orange* book!)

Detail of some handwritten Latin. A note written in the bottom left margin of a book is in smaller, paler text than the bolder letters visible in the top right corner where the main text of the book is. At the top one can read a word which begins "Ne" and then has a bizarre squiggle, The next word is clearly "pro" then a strange line. The following words, to an expert eye, can be read as "sustitudine veterii alterum requirit ut neque hoc neque illud primus Cicero usus est sine altorum" but most of hte words are very hard to make out, many have omitted letters assuming you'll recognize the abbreviation, and only the word "Cicero" is really recognizable to a modern eye.
Lisa Smith@historybeagle.bsky.social · 5d ago

The #EarlyModern Recipes Online Collective annual transcribathon, w/ @wellcomecollection.bsky.social & @rcpmuseum.bsky.social, is 13 Nov. Guest speakers on old age and domestic care are @emmamarshall.bsky.social and Lynn Botelho. Hope you can join us! Details here: emroc.hypotheses.org/5254 #HistMed

2026 Transcribathon Schedule Announced

Recipes through the Ages Friday, November 13, 2026 Join EMROC, Wellcome Collection, and theRoyal College of Physicians for a day of transcribing, virtual chatting, and live talks.  This year we are ex...

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John Theibault@jtheibault.bsky.social · 6d ago

A nice series of posts from Anhalt’s diary about what it was like to visit Frederick and Elisabeth in exile in the Netherlands. (In Arnhem rather than their main hangout in The Hague.)

vor400 (1626)@vor400.bsky.social · last wk.

Fr ♀ 15.⁄25. Sept. 1626 #Anhalt400 mit meiner freündtlichen herzliebst gemahlin (samt ihren 2 Jungfern und 4 vom Adel) Arnheim gefahren. 6 M Haüptstadt in Gelderlandt. Dort sind gerade auch Jhre Königliche Mayestät von Böhmen ["Winterkönig" Friedrich] vnd die Princessin von Oranien ...

alter Stadtplan Arnheim
Doctor Science ❌👑@doctorscience.bsky.social · 7d ago

If you want to learn more in an Ana-like way, poke around @monicamedhist.bsky.social 's plague bibliography (continuously updated): "The Mother of All Pandemics" docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The Mother of All Pandemics The State of Black Death Research in the Era of Covid-19 - Bibliography 05152020 - migrated 03032021.docx

This is a comprehensive bibliography on the science and history of the 2nd Plague Pandemic, focusing on scholarship of the past 20 years or so. It is regularly updated. An appendix covers the 1st Plag...

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Ian Petrie@icpetrie.bsky.social · last wk.

“Noguchi to Asawa: Designing Postwar America” examines six renowned Japanese American artists whose work defined modern American art and design in the mid to late 20th century — all of whom were severely impacted by mass incarceration."

The painful, complicated roots of American mid-century design trace back to Japanese American concentration camps

Nakashima, Noguchi, and Asawa are artists who changed the way Americans thought of design. A Barnes exhibit wants to showcase their art without forgetting their trauma.

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vor400 (1626)@vor400.bsky.social · last wk.

Regensburg, 24. Sept 1626 Es wird die Holsteinsche Niederlage bestätigt, als auch die Bayrische bei Riedt, von den Bauern geschlagen worden. Die Bauern zuerst gewichen, und die Bayern vermeint, sie hätten den Sieg in den Händen - darauf die Bauern wieder gewendet und solche niedergeschlagen ... 1/3

vor400 (1626)@vor400.bsky.social · last wk.

Leipzig, 25. Sept 1626 Zu Hall [Halle] sterben täglich 30-40 Personen. Letzte Woche hat man 2 Stunden am Tag weder Lebende noch Tote aus der Stadt gelassen. Man geb dann den Soldaten von jeder Leich ein halben Reichstaler (?) Wenn die Verhaffte, auch andere Bürger, nicht 50.000 Taler bezahlen, ...

Hall in Sachsen, von Merian 1653
vor400 (1626)@vor400.bsky.social · 2w ago

Aus dem Ländlein(!) Ob der Ens, 22. Sept 1626 Die Bauern haben sich nach Hause begeben - außer im obern Viertel, wo 30.000 um Ried bis an die Donau liegen. Darauf den 9.9. Obrist Lindlo mit 6.000 in der Bauern Quartier eingefallen, die aber ihren Vorteil gesehen ... 1/5

Jason M. Kelly Ph.D. FSA FRHistS (he/him)@jasonmkelly.bsky.social · 2w ago

Here's an introduction that @ianmilligan1.bsky.social and I put together to teach students how to use Git with Github. We hope you find it useful. jasonmkelly.com/jason-m-kell... #digitalhumanities #dh #digitalhistory

Introduction to Git and Github — Jason M. Kelly

This guide introduces how to use Git on your computer and how to sync repositories with GitHub. It covers installation, basic configuration, common commands, creating and cloning repositories, committ...

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vor400 (1626)@vor400.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Anno 1626 den 19 September bin ich als Furstl. Holsteinischer Leutnant von denen rebellischen Bawren im Land ob der Ens in Neinkirchen tödlichen und mit zerbrochenen Arm und verwundtem Kopf bei Wesen Ufer in Kleidem durch die Donaw geschwimmet."

John Theibault@jtheibault.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Was waiting for the peasant revolt to emerge in the news. Have I posted this link to a 1640 inscription by Lorentz Otto von Ottersbach explaining how he escaped the peasants by swimming across the Danube after being shot by them? (This was from an auction catalog a couple of years ago.)

Album page with water-color of man in 17th-century clothes swimming. Text: "Anno 1626 den 19 September bin ich als Furstl. Holsteinischer Leutnant von denen rebellischen Bawren im Land ob der Ens in Neinkirchen tödlichen und mit zerbrochenen Arm und verwundtem Kopf bei Wesen Ufer in Kleidem durch die Donaw geschwimmet."
John Theibault@jtheibault.bsky.social · 2w ago

Back at the bad old place I used to note the passing of the great postwar generation of modern German historians. Jarausch was another major figure. RIP. (Wikipedia tells me his long time colleague Gerhard Weinberg still lives.)

Wayne E. Lee@milhistlee.bsky.social · 2w ago

Konrad Jarausch passed earlier this month. He was an extraordinary scholar of mod. Germany. I was on many diss. committees with him, and I greatly respected his intellect and his keen insight into helping students progress. UNC is lesser without him. obits.endswellfuneralhome.com/konrad-jarau...

Lisa Rosner@burkeandhare.bsky.social · 2w ago

The first trace of a future Burke and Hare victim in the Edinburgh archives: Sex, Edinburgh Style, or, Life in -- and out of --the Asylum burkeandhare.substack.com/p/sex-edinbu...

Sex, Edinburgh Style, or, Life in -- and out of --the Asylum

Caledonian Mercury, 15 January 1825; Jowita Thor, "Mary Magdalene and the "Fallen" Sisters" in Kloes and Mair, Social Christianity and Beyond, 1800-2000 (Edinburgh University Press, 2025), pp. 115-132

burkeandhare.substack.com