🧬 **Largest-ever ancient DNA study on a medieval cemetery reveals 1,000 years of genetic history in the Low Countries**
“_Remarkably, it also uncovered the first direct evidence of the plague in medieval Flanders, at a time when no written sources from the town make mention of the disease._”
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #Research #News #Ancient #DNA #Palaeogenomics #LowCountries #Medieval #Migration #Plague #Flanders @archaeodons
the modern dedication to pretending the weather doesn't exist makes me sad.
'but what if it rains?'
then you get wet. welcome to the #LowCountries.
'but what if the weather is so so so bad that it's not safe to be outside?'
then you stay indoors, and ponder why #capitalism wants you to commute through a deadly tempest.
This week I discovered that the Dutch are all fluent in the Beaufort scale. One of them will say something like "the wind's only gonna be at 6 today" and all the others will know exactly what that means (and exactly how hard it is to bike against it on a single-speed). #SocialAnthropology #LowCountries
"While the genre paintings of Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer, and Jan Steen are forever relegated to the 1600s, Bruegel and Avercamp painted views that, until recently, remained a common sight in every Dutch and Belgian village."
Low Country Climate Canvasses of Little Ice Age
https://daily.jstor.org/climate-canvasses-of-the-little-ice-age/ via JSTOR Daily
Original image: Hendrick Avercamp, "Winter Landscape with Skaters near a Town" via PubHist
#LittleIceAge #Art #Renaissance #LowCountries #LowCountry #Climate #Winter
Here's an example of a record from it. I think this was my 11xg-granddad, revealing an approximate date of birth for him. I haven't been able to find any baptisms for children of Secretary William Fowler. #Soldiers #Travel #17thCentury #SeventeenthCentury #BritishHistory #LowCountries #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #FMP #FindMyPast #Histodon #Histodons
Found in #FindMyPast "Registers Of Licences To Pass Beyond The Seas 1573-1677" (UK National Archives E 157) for soldiers going to serve overseas, especially in the Low Countries. Images and indexes. Includes soldier ages so I now have an approximate birth date for the soldier son of the royal secretary I'm writing a journal paper about. #Soldiers #Travel #17thCentury #SeventeenthCentury #BritishHistory #LowCountries #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #FMP #Histodon #Histodons
We (Yannick and me) did a podcast (in #Dutch) on our book on the #prehistory of the #LowCountries. It turned out very nice.
WHOA!!! The Plantin Moretus Museum, aka: The Best Museum In The World is featured on Google Arts. It includes lovely creaking floorboards in this gorgeous #earlymodern print shop.
#bookhistory #histodons #earlymodons #LowCountries
https://artsandculture.google.com/story/qgXxWnOI--kkPg?fbclid=IwAR0nWoJOSLD5ZwDZ90c4QpkNlcuyWayPFbPYS1YWlUPDjiiV_z_1FaTv9e0&zx=48csqsw2nwj2
Our 1st #LowCountries seminar of 2023 is this Friday when Joris van den Tol will speak about 'Networks of Petitions and Trade: The Anglo-Dutch Atlantic in the seventeenth century'
13 Jan, 5:30 (UK time), hybrid: https://www.history.ac.uk/events/networks-petitions-and-trade-anglo-dutch-atlantic-seventeenth-century
#AngloDutch #earlymodern #earlymodons #histodons #PowerOfPetitioning
New term, new #LowCountries delights! We've got a stellar line-up, hoping to see many of you, either in person or on zoom!
Sign up for zoom links: https://history.ac.uk/seminars/low-countries-history
#HistoDons
These final months of #2022, I am publishing some popular #science writing.
Last Month, the 2nd volume of a global #history of the #Netherlands appeared. As in the first volume, I contribute the first chapter, with colleagues Yannick Raczynski-Henk and Luc Amkreutz.
In the 2nd volume we discuss the earliest occupation of the #LowCountries and the most important #archaeological site that no-one here knows.
Hey! #Histodons! It's Johan Huizinga's 150th birthday on 7 December! Get ready for a #HoeraHuizinga party? 🎂
We did a virtual reading group at the centenary of the Autumntide of the Middle Ages. Maybe we all share some snippets on the 7th of December?
@christinekooi Hurrah! Great a Dutch translation is forthcoming! Then my dad will finally get what I'm talking about :) (He's a historian, he loves reading all the history books, but his generation had more French and German language training than English)
#earlymodons #LowCountries
Ha! I called you 'mastodons', not #histodons! Clearly still getting used to the new lingo.
But now I have an excuse to share the screenshot of the second term as well. We've got #earlymodern #histgender #EnvironmentalHistory #GlobalHistory #PowerOfPetitioning etc, all through the lens of the #LowCountries
Sign up for zoom links here: https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/low-countries-history
Hi #Mastodons of the #LowCountries persuasion! We've got a great, interdisciplinary seminar for you! #earlymodern Art, #reformazing history, archaeology: it's all here.
We'll be hybrid, so you can sign up for in person as well as zoom attendance (apart from the December one, that's only on zoom)! All info and links here:
https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/low-countries-history
