Cyril Achcar

Prev. @StAndrewsHist, now @McGillGradStudy, studying Byz. Greek & Classical Arabic, interested: 14thc geography & Latin-Turk views. Curious of “Eurasian” M.A.

[Cyril Achcar @cyril_a]

@Athanasius_45 Herodotus also mentions how influenced Pythagoras was by Egyptian philosophy, namely the immortality of the soul, and “rebirth” of the soul in new bodies. Of the pre-Socratics, him and Heraclitus are fascinating. Much more than a simple mathematician!

[Florian Louis @flr_louis]

Hadrien Collet - L’An mil en Afrique de l'Ouest

À paraître en septembre aux Puf

[Cyril Achcar @cyril_a]

@AkbashEfendi Have you encountered "corps of Franks" elsewhere?

[Medievalists.net @Medievalists]

New Medieval Books: Global Ships https://t.co/Ndu03unjgh #GlobalShips

[Cyril Achcar @cyril_a]

@Athanasius_45 I could easily be misremembering but doesn’t Herodotus use the term “Libya” instead of “Africa”? I also don’t recall him calling Palestine/Syria as a part of Africa, when he discusses the dimensions of Egypt.

[Cyril Achcar @cyril_a]

@AGROS_edu Ørberg's LLPSI uses the same image - I remember encountering it when reading Familia Romana. Great idea for immersion.

[Cyril Achcar @cyril_a]

Terrible, terrible news. What a shame.

[Sean W. Anthony @shahanSean]

A sad farewell to the Library of Arabic Literature from Chip Rosetti, Washing Off the Rosewater Tint - The Markaz Review https://t.co/EfpUhMWioE

[Cyril Achcar @cyril_a]

@red_loeb @GallicaBnF Thank you! It has definitely been a while since I've read Jeremiah. Funny how it of course can be translated to a Medieval Italian context.

[Sean Mathews @SeanPmathews]

In the footsteps of Egypt’s Khedive, Chateaubriand and Lawrence Durrell I traveled to Rhodes. But I skipped the Pasha and found a 18th century library stashed with Persian, ottoman and Arabic manuscripts. 🧵

[Cyril Achcar @cyril_a]

Ancient Greek: ἃλις (halis)
Latin: lassus
French: hélas
Arabic: خلاص (khalas)

I can't find anything confirming this, but are these not cognates or at least borrowings, meaning in aggregate "enough (of) sth."? Not so sure about the latin connection though.

[Cyril Achcar @cyril_a]

Link to the article itself: https://t.co/H9wvx76BML

[Cyril Achcar @cyril_a]

Very interesting comparative econ. work on grain prices in the Ottoman East Mediterannean compared to other European trends. Space x time effects on pre-modern pricing, especially of essential commodities is always revealing of economic integration when we don't have other data.

[Alp Buğdaycı @alp_bugdayci]

Osmanlı’nın diğer Avrupa ülkeleriyle karşılaştırıldığında iç pazar entegrasyonunu gösteren oldukça önemli bir grafik. İç pazar entegrasyonunu ölçmek için kullanılan temel gösterge, farklı şehirlerdeki fiyatların kovaryansıdır (yani fiyatların birlikte hareket edip etmediği). Grafik, 1900 yılına gelindiğinde bile Osmanlı’da entegre bir iç pazardan söz etmenin oldukça güç olduğunu ortaya koyuyor.

Üstelik 1580 gibi erken bir tarihte bile Britanya ve Fransa, iç pazar entegrasyonu konusunda Osmanlı’nın önündeymiş ve Osmanlı’daki iç pazarın oluşumu konusunda, 1600 ile 1900 arasında pek bir somut gelişme yaşanmamış.

[Marinos Sariyannis (sariyannis.bsky.social) @sariyannis]

Hitaynâme, tr. by Kaveh Hemmat, John Curry, and Hyunhee Park. A book to be expected!
https://t.co/2QWWiWFkV7

[David Lloyd Dusenbury @DusenburyDavid]

Fernand Braudel on how 10th-century Chinese fashion made its way to the 15th-century French court.

#china #europe

[Cyril Achcar @cyril_a]

@bucephalus424 This isn’t Duolingo, is it?

[Magnus Pharao @MagnusPharao]

Homer was translated into Syriac by Theophilus ibn Tuma in the 8th century and Ḥunayn bin Isḥaq translated it into Arabic in the 9th. So yes they were indeed preserved in Arbic translation prior to any non-Greek Europeans reading the text. Wilson does not say "only preserved".

[miche-quiche @LMichk]

En accès libre
https://t.co/ea7Nr9HTUs

[Cyril Achcar @cyril_a]

@HistorianZhang Come to think of it, I had tried asking the hotel concierge to help book tickets, they said the museum had no more availabilities, but showing up anyway, I had no problem entering.

[Cyril Achcar @cyril_a]

@HistorianZhang I haven't been to Beijing in a while, but I was told to book tickets for the Guangdong museum in Guangzhou, but wasn't able to do so, as what you said. Ended up showing up there anyway, and had no problem entering, even with the museum already packed. Is it stricter in Beijing?