An interview with the prominent medievalist Maribel Fierro, in which she advocates including Arabic and Islam as a more central part of the academic study of the Middle Ages. Unfortunately this is still a fairly radical and controversial position:
El árabe se debería enseñar en los departamentos de Historia Medieval
More in a non-written format from two more senior luminaries in my field:
The Qur'ān and the Discovery of Writing
On what constitutes linguistic normalcy for writers in diglossic situations:
I'm Not Interested in Preserving the Beauty of the Language
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Next, lovely pictures of mostly medieval books:
A Bible with Curtains
Creatures of the Medieval Mind
Specs inside the cover!
And detritus in the cover:
Medieval Flower Time Travels (probably used as bookmark)
And roughly relatedly (and I can't believe I missed this when it first appeared), using damage to pages to study zoology:
Holes in Art Prints Help Map Beetle Populations in Europe
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And finally, some digital resources:Cambridge Digital Library
Documents from Colonial Mexico
(The link is to one document in particular that deals with accusations of Judaizing.)
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