Enamel plaque, St Paul and his Disciples | English(?), ca. 1160-80 | On display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
On AJR
Book Note: The Life of Saint Helia: Critical Edition, Translation, Introduction, and Commentary (edited by Virginia Burrus and Marco Conti; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)
Perkins: "Naturally, one's appreciation of the Latin prose will be a matter of taste. However, the editors' incisive and varied commentary makes it very evident that the text is a treasury worthy of excavation. It is quite rare that scholars gain access to a "new" text from antiquity that is as rich and promising as the Life of Saint Helia. Burrus and Conti's recovery of this text from obscurity is a gift in that sense, and I look forward to seeing what scholarship its publication will inspire."
Articles and News
- Sarah Bond examines the late antique Dura Europos 'Shield' map.
- Michael Satlow reports on the recent conference focused on the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif.
- Beginnings of new digital humanities initiative to recollate the Palmyrene Aramaic inscription corpus.
- On micrography and the embellishment of medieval Jewish manuscripts.
- Multispectral imaging reveals letter from the Negev ca. 600BCE about supply exchange.
- Discussion of what makes an object religious (or otherwise) in interaction with the Ashmolean Museum collections.
- Naomi Seidman on the word 'Jew' and how attention to a word can shape approaches to its object.
- Announcement of prospective launch of the Digital Latin Library, a series of digital critical editions of Latin texts.
- Public Medievalist's anti-Semitism series continues with a two-part discussion here and here about how anti-Jewish sentiment can function in the absence of Jews.
Racked and stacked annotations in Gretser's Greek grammar (Rome, 1599). #MarginaliaMonday pic.twitter.com/0HBczmwUGc
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The first Jewish museum of the world was founded in 1899 in Vienna. #heritageMW #MuseumWeek @MuseumWeek #jmw #museumhistory pic.twitter.com/6iUCJJngvK
— Jewish Museum Vienna (@jewishmuseumVIE) 25 June 2017
Sunken #Byzantine Basilica, Only 100 miles from Istanbul, the ancient city of #Nicaea. The remains of basilica dated to the 5th century. pic.twitter.com/RkUoWLLNew
— Hagia Sophia (@hagiasophiatr) 25 June 2017