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historian of medieval south and southeast asia (epigraphy nerd)| assistant professor @ amherst college | tennis watcher and sci fi reader
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Great to see the actual color of lac! This pigment was a major commodity traded from India to Yemen and Egypt. One of the Geniza merchants who dealt in dyes and dyed cloth was known as al-Urjuwānī, "the purple dealer" Some of the Geniza documents about lac --> geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents...
Show PostOn 17 Oct 1132, Avraham Ibn Yijū manumitted a Tuḷuva woman Ashū, who converted to Judaism. We know he married and had children with her, but her name never appears again. Or so we thought. PGL researcher Alan Elbaum writes about the second-ever reference to Ashū www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
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Show Post#medievalsky @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social has put together a virtual issue featuring Chris Wickham's work for the journal academic.oup.com/past/pages/c...
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