Josef Ženka
@mozkyt.bsky.social
Historian: Nasrid Granada, Manuscripts and Documents.
Nejlepším dnešním zážitkem byla cirka čtvrthodinka rozhovoru s bývalou superstar české a československé basketbalové ligy. Tolik životních mouder a razneho pristupu by jeden pohledal. Z fleku by mohl učit na univerzitě. Nasmali jsme se dost.
Mezi prací a fakultou je nutné vždy najít čas na ty opravdu zásadní věci
In The Discovery of Ottoman Greece (@harvardpress.bsky.social, 2025), Richard Calis offers a portrait of Martin Crusius, an early modern scholar who never set foot in Greece yet dedicated his life to the study of Greek history. Paul Csillag reviews the book. ceureviewofbooks.com/review/ottom...
Ottoman Greece from a study in Tübingen - CEU Review of Books
In The Discovery of Ottoman Greece (Harvard University Press, 2025), Richard Calis offers a richly documented portrait of Martin Crusius, an early modern scholar who never set foot in Greece yet dedic...
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Someone spray-painted a swastika on the statue of the great medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides in Córdoba, his place of birth. www.jpost.com/diaspora/ant...
Rambam statue vandalized with swastika graffiti in Cordoba, Spain | The Jerusalem Post
The graffiti was painted over the base of the statue, located in the heart of the Jewish quarters of Cordoba, in the Tiberiades plaza, with local authorities condemning the antisemitic attack.
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{New book} Jewish Refugees in Amsterdam: "Questions by a Christian Cleric from Rouen, France, and Answers by the Excellent, Eminent, and Wise Saul Levi Mortera" www.arc-humanities.org/978180270466...
Archaeologists have discovered 7000-year-old fishing traps in the inland mountains of southern Norway. Predating the introduction of farming, they indicate Mesolithic hunter-gatherers were already actively managing their environments. 🏺 #AntiquityThread 1/13 🧵
This is a great example of how certain agricultural practices retain their basic forms for millennia. The moving of river trout into mountain lakes & tarns was practiced widely in the twentieth century, & which is why this lake in my home village - Skarevatnet (Ravine Lake) - is a fishing lake.
Antiquity Journal@antiquity.ac.uk · 3d agoArchaeologists have discovered 7000-year-old fishing traps in the inland mountains of southern Norway. Predating the introduction of farming, they indicate Mesolithic hunter-gatherers were already actively managing their environments. 🏺 #AntiquityThread 1/13 🧵
Kvetnatec archeruv kousek pod Medvědí boudou v Krkonoších. Naživo vypadá jak z nějakého postapokalyptickeho seriálu.
Paris copy of the 1516 polyglot Genoa Psalter, in which a sixteenth-century reader has added the Lord’s Prayer and Sūrah al-Fātiḥah in Arabic and Latin, both copied from Guillaume Postel’s Grammatica Arabica (ca. 1538). BnF - Arsenal FOL-T-188
Iran is home to one of the largest Middle Eastern Jewish communities outside of Israel, numbering around 10,000 people today. Jewish Iran by Daniel Amir explores the 20th C history of Iranian Jews as they grappled with global political movements & Iranian national identity https://ow.ly/B52E50ZtB2W
“Harvard paid McKinsey & Company at least $250,000 to consult on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ staff restructuring efforts, according to internal documents obtained by The Crimson.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Harvard Paid McKinsey $250,000 For FAS Consultation, Internal Documents Show | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard paid McKinsey & Company at least $250,000 to consult on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ staff restructuring efforts, according to internal documents obtained by The Crimson.
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sakura christmas@prof-christmas.bsky.social · 7d agoUnsurprising that all these cuts being made to #Harvard —from the Office of Student Services to the Writing Center to now the Dudley Co-op—are happening with input from McKinsey, a firm made up of The Second Worst People I knew in college there
How does @petertarras.bsky.social keep finding so much cool stuff? I mean just look at that initial ﮬ medisi.hypotheses.org/9011
"The Story of the Judge & the Thief," a story about a trickster, was evidently very popular in West Africa: HMML preserves digital copies of 40+ manuscripts containing this story, located across 11 libraries in #Mali. Read a translation by Dr. Ali Diakite & Dr. Paul Naylor: https://bit.ly/4y2dBLo
Arabian Nights in Timbuktu: The Story of the Judge and the Thief
“The Story of the Judge and the Thief, a story about a trickster, was evidently very popular...”
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Fakulta reorganizuje způsobem, který vyjevuje, co si o akademických pracovnících myslí: my (od ledna možná beze mě) roztáčíme kolesa kapitalismu, aby se děkanát měl dobře. Nepočítá se se mnou, PROTOŽE mám excelentní výsledky, ale ty nejlepší uznávám za AV. Tj. nezajímá je, že studenty učí excelentní
Výborný pracovní mail z Maroka: Posíláme poslrdni info k projektu. Rádi bychom upozornili, že pres leto nepracujeme, takže nashledanou v září, kdy pošleme zbytek.
Broňa Ostransky je poslední český opravdu super vzdělaný islamolog, jehož hloubku pochopení islámského světa si stoji za to vždy poslechnout.
Tři roky na to koukám z lehátka a teda nakonec jsem ten památkový turismus zvládl poslední den #Gonia
Tak jsem ho dočetl a konečně se můžu po návratu vrhnout na všechna pokračování, co jsem kdysi nahodou v Praze v antikvariatu a cilene v Chicagu sehnal. Naprosto výborné.
Josef Ženka@mozkyt.bsky.social · 3w agoTak snad to konečně po 15 letech dočtu.
New open-access book for #MedievalSky on Jewish craftspeople in the European Middle Ages, with chapters on weavers, book binders, metal workers, and more: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #HistSTM @dgb-mem.bsky.social
Digitization & cataloging are complete for 243 Islamic manuscripts in the Franciscan Library in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Dated objects range from an Arabic manuscript on law and logic, copied in Ankara in 1387 CE to an Arabic legal text copied in 1873 CE. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4oL8rzl
“Le dernier jour du monde”: late seventeenth-century glosses, in Turkish and French, from a Paris copy of al-Zamakhsharī’s Muqaddimat al-adab, annotated by Louis de Byzance, priest of the Oratoire. BnF, ms Supplément Persan 449
Koupil jsem za dvacku v antikvariátu fascinující překladovy výbor soudních případů z 18. století. Nemůžu se od toho odtrhnout a taky jsem zjistil, od koho je slovo Pitaval.
Kolegyně mi píše, že kvuli zaplacení par autorum open accesu u korporatniho vydavatele nejsou peníze na korektury knihy. A tento zvraceny podnikatelsky model se bere jako etalon hodnocení vědy a úspěchu.
Řidič osmičky na Štrosmajeraku zahlasi: "Karlinem nepojedeme, jedeme na Výstaviště, na Hercovku a pak na Palmovku." Čím dál lepší ta emhádé.
A doodle with the tongue out - must be a particularly noteworthy section? Or someone got bored! Marginal notes in our 1503 copy of Cardinal Bessarion's defence of Plato, printed in Venice by Aldo Manuzio #MondayMarginalia #Readers #Doodles
Opuštění virtuálního světa a návrat ke knihám. To by nám teď všem hodně pomohlo. Rok... dva... pět... navždy...
Díváte se na více než dvě stě let starou pekárnu v Poniklé. Před rokem a půl tu začali znovu péct v původní peci chleba a jiné jemné pečivo.
