1st November is All Saints' Day BnF MS Latin 1141; Sacramentarium of Charles the Bald (?); 9th century, c.869-870; ff.5v, 6r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

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Now available at the Asia-Pacific EcHR, six new research articles exploring the engagement of Australian & New Zealand women with the historical economy and financial system. Organized by the inimitable Cath Bishop! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Late inspiration for a Halloween costume Just incredible mosaic work in the Basilica San Marco

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I’m enjoying Simon Armitage’s poetic retelling of the story depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, some of which I remember from the 2005 Radio 4 dramatisation. The Bayeux Tapestry is full of ambiguity and is open to interpretation, scholarly and otherwise, so it’s refreshing to read a poet’s perspective.

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The Dutch setting isn't incidental - commercial tolerance may have shaped the content too. Grotius's natural law as applicable to trading parties, Spinoza's case for toleration: both fit a republic where heterodoxy needed to be justified to coexist, not just permitted.

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