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🔴 **Recycling and Recontextualisation in Medieval and Early Modern Icelandic Palimpsests**
_“While parchment recycling was common in Iceland both in the medieval and early modern period, it was most productive in the century following the introduction of the Icelandic Reformation when palimpsested parchment from Latin Catholic books was frequently used for religious and legal manuscripts as a cheaper and more readily available alternative to paper. ”_
Lorenz, T. (2024a) 'Endurvinnsla og endurnýting í íslenskum uppskafningum frá miðöldum og á árnýöld,' Gripla, 35. https://doi.org/10.33112/gripla.35.1.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Medieval #Medievodons #EarlyModern #Iceland #Recycling #Prints #Mauscripts #Academia #Academic @earlymodern @medievodons
🔴 🎥 **This open problem taught me what topology is**
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#Video length: twenty-seven minutes and twenty-five seconds.
@mookie This toot took me back to a cinema hall in the late 1980s.
An immense amount of wealth can be generated by war and the misery of others. If you want to know one of the primary reasons why the world is the way it is, just follow the money trail.
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Invent Monopoly, do not collect $200...
Lizzie Maggie's "Landlord's Game" and how an anti-capitalist board game invented by a woman became an uber-capitalist game that profited a man: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-landlords-game/
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In totally unexpected and surprising turn of events #ChatGPT search is vulnerable to simple prompt injection. Never trust AI tools for critical decisions. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/24/chatgpt-search-tool-vulnerable-to-manipulation-and-deception-tests-show
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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