Steven Teasdale
@steventeasdale.bsky.social
Former Postdoc at UniGenova | alumnus UToronto | First Gen+ASD | studies Mediterranean socioeconomic history 1350–1750, focusing on Genoa, slavery, commerce, networks, notarial contracts, and law | also digital humanities, semantic data and environment.
Highlights from the @maeasamproject.bsky.social team’s workshop "Constructing Heritage Databases" at ASAPA 2026 in Mpumalanga, South Africa last month, which included an overview of the Arches platform.
MAEASaM@maeasamproject.bsky.social · 3w agoLast week, our workshop on Constructing Heritage Databases from conceptualisation to implementation was held at ASAPA 2026 in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Thanks to all participants who joined on the day! #Workshop #AfricanHeritage #Databases #ASAPA2026
Congratulations Gregory! I'm looking forward to its publication.
Gregory A. Hargreaves@bordergroves.bsky.social · yesterdaySo proud of this forthcoming book! I spearheaded the project, but it was a labor of love for a whole team of talented scholars.
Congratulations Ramona! I'm looking forward to reading this upon publication. #earlymodern
Ramona Negrón@ramonanegron.bsky.social · yesterdayExcited to see my forthcoming book (PhD dissertation) on @routledgebooks.bsky.social: Silver, Spices, and the Slave Trade. The Coymans Family and Dutch Entrepreneurship in the Spanish Americas (1580-1700). It will be published in December 2026. www.routledge.com/Silver-Spice...
My latest paper "Commercial Networks, Colonialism, and Acculturation: The Genoese Lomellini Family in Lisbon, Madeira and the Canary Islands, 1420s–1550s" was published earlier this year in "Atlantic Italies: Economic Entanglements between the Americas, Africa, and the Mediterranean" #earlymodern
Third and final day at the Third World Congress of Business History at the University of Toronto (conclusion). My second session was titled "Legally Speaking: Implications of Regulations and Contracts." chaired by Grietjie Verhoef (University of Johannesburg)
Today I discovered that a letter attributed to a man was actually written by Ann Bathurst, the 17th-century visionary woman I’m researching. 🤩 Archival work might be slow and painstaking but it’s totally thrilling to be going in search of lost voices from the past and finding them! 📚
further proof that Trump's America is simply a mediocre remake of Berlusconi's Italy, only even more racist and with nuclear weapons www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/b...
More Young College Graduates Are Living At Home. Is That a Bad Thing?
More young adults are living with their parents. The development suggests that they face a weak job market, but also that fewer face stigma in returning to the roost.
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Today on my last new @cfrcradio.bsky.social Dark Glasses before I take my usual August break till Labour Day, we go pop via jazz interpretations of rock standards: featured artists include Deborah Silver, Blair Crimmins, Karen Souza, Sarah Menescal, Olivia Keast, and Al Di Meola.
Jessica Minieri@jessicaminieri.bsky.social · 3d agoHad an amazing time talking about all things Louis of Toulouse and relic theft with @loren325.bsky.social of the Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast ( @medievalacademy.bsky.social ) 🥳 Click the link to learn more about the global history of the relics of Louis and his place within the Iberian world:
Wealth and income are two different stories now. Don’t worry about data saying how much tax the top 1% of income earners are paying now compared to a few decades ago. Relative tax paid by net wealth would be interesting but is of course hard to come by.
Third and final day at the Third World Congress of Business History at @utoronto.ca (Part I). My first session was titled "Knowledge: Knowledge Flows, Production, and Commerce".
Absolutely fascinating marginalia! #earlymodern
Paul Babinski@paulbabinski.bsky.social · 4d agoParis 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
My second day at the Third World Congress of Business History at the University of Toronto (Part II). Session 4 was a workshop on "Rethinking Business History and Archives for Small Business".
It's the start of the long weekend so we're preparing the re-watch the film version of The Odyssey for the fourth time.
We dropped my daughter's friend off at Union Station today and afterwards we took a quick moment to visit a few nearby landmarks including The Vault and The Berczy Park Dog Fountain.
‘These are stories of miraculous escapes, but also of suffering, deceit and betrayal. Buruma tries to answer the question the world asked after the war: how much did Berliners, or Germans in general, know about what was happening to the Jews?’ Neal Ascherson: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Neal Ascherson · Dancing on a Volcano: Wartime Berliners
As a British wartime child living near secret things and sites, I can remember easily respecting the instruction: ‘...
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And a few more! Ahead of the Caribbean Carnival Grand Parade tomorrow, we're looking back at a collection of parade scenes, from the mid-1970s to 1990s, as documented by visual artist Janos Buda: https://ow.ly/wyvR50Zs4St
My first two sessions at the Third World Congress of Business History at University of Toronto. The first session was "Business History in a Slave-Holding Society: Rio de Janeiro in the 19th Century" chaired by Christian Roblez-Baez (@stanford.edu)
What happens when an economy exists outside of official records? #AHAPerspectives summer columnist Becca Aponte explores how women street vendors in Dakar today connect to a longer history of economics and colonialism.
Capitalism at Ground Level – AHA
A graduate student explores how ordinary Africans transformed Dakar into a cosmopolitan city through informal economies beyond colonial control.
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Just published! A new book that "examines the medieval debate on the role of money and credit in the Islamic and Western Christian worlds." #medievalsky
Economic thought@economicthought.bsky.social · 5d agoNew book: The Medieval Debate on Money and Interest, by Guido Tortorella Esposito & Stefano Figuera amzn.to/4w0gzh7
In case you missed it, Bernard Meehan’s lecture on the Cutbercht Gospels (the 2026 Coffin lecture in Palaeography) is now online. #MedievalSky #Manuscripts #palaeography www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ker9...
The John Coffin Memorial Lecture in Palaeography 2026
YouTube video by SchAdvStudy
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This looks interesting... the loggia was the location of many notarial tables and an important urban node for commerce in the late medieval communes.
Brepols@brepols.net · last wk.𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝗴𝗴𝗶𝗮 𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘀 By Kim Sexton More Info:https://bit.ly/4pQ7V3E #Medievalsky #Architecture #Italy #MiddleAges #Medieval
Cocktail reception for the Third World Congress of Business at Hart House (@harthouseuoft.bsky.social at the University of Toronto) hosted by the Canadian Business History Association.
Sessions 4 and 5 at Day 1 of the Third Word Congress of Business History, "Culture and the Practice of History 30 Years On." First, Daniel Robinson (Western) talks about studying with Paul Rutherford at U of T and of cultural historical methods as a "cross-disciplinary lingua franca"
First day at the Third Word Congress of Business History. My first panel was The Global History of Warehouse Finance. I've studied warehousing and credit in the late medieval Mediterranean context, but had not heard about the the idea of "warehouse financing."
