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To quote the inimitable France Gall: "ELLA elle l'a"

Michael Eber gives us the first ever English translation of the Latin vita of St Marinus (Marina) the Monk, making this key text on the history of transmonasticism available to both researchers and students. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

Just wondering: does anyone know anything about the monastery of San Nicolà della Cicogna? The rabbit hole is either too deep or a dead end so I figured I'd ask.

Ah that glorious time of year when you have to look yourself up in the #IMC2026 programme to remember what sort of paper you proposed again.

I am once again begging universities to realise that staff - academic, professional services, estates, all of them - are the product they are trying to sell. Without staff there is nothing to sell. No amount of flashy buildings will replace staff in universities. UKHE is in freefall.

Each uni has a consultancy in that tells them how to run a degree cheaply. They all simply say 'mega lectures' (LOL, infrastructure) & 'generic modules staff is interchangeable on'. It's pitched as rationalising, creating a 'sustainable' portfolio. But its destroying what university actually is.

Publication – Elena Koroleva, « Alexandre le Grand et l’histoire de la Macédoine dans les chroniques universelles du nord de la France (XIIIe-XVe siècle) » rmblf.be/2026/06/24/p...

Offre d’emploi – Post-doctoral Research Associate in Latin linguistics (King’s College London) rmblf.be/2026/06/24/o...

My first journal article has just been published!

Laptops don’t improve outcomes. iPads don’t improve outcomes. AI doesn’t improve outcomes. What improves outcomes? More and better trained teachers!! Smaller classrooms! We’ve KNOWN this FOREVER

Offre d’emploi – One-Year postdoctoral fellowship: Relations between Frisia, Britain, Ireland, and Scandinavia (400-1100) rmblf.be/2026/06/23/o...

Very little. The Holy See is (adjusted for inflation) the single biggest funder of astronomical research in history. As for Galileo, he was found guilty of suspicion of heresy, spent one day in gaol, and the rest of his life living in a palace, and continued to publish heliocentrism around Europe.

Goeieavond iedereen! Ik ben Jeroen Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social en deze week mag ik jullie onderhouden over de geschiedenis van het Laat-Romeinse rijk, mijn hoofdlabaratorium. Als historicus werk ik in het algemeen rond het Oude Rome, de vroege Middeleeuwen in het westen en Byzantium.

The Starmer government has done actually evil things to trans people, to refugees, and to the wider migrant population. It has colluded with genocidal evil, and banned protest as terrorism. Unless a Burnham government reverses those overtly evil policy choices, it too will be an evil government.

I remember watching the British elections in the Old Bar at the #IMC2024. Oh how we laughed, oh how we celebrated when the results came in.

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

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Many many silly answers I could give (I would LOVE to see a Muppets Paradise Lost) but I'm gonna go for the dark horse favorite: Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost.

In het kader van 25 jaar Nederlandse Wikipedia heb ik vandaag een project afgerond, waar ik al een jaartje mee bezig was: het artikel over de geschiedenis van de Efteling

CALL FOR PAPERS: Insular Encounters in Early Medieval Europe, Zürich 3–6 March 2027

Waarom zou de krant potentieel een rol hebben gespeeld bij de verspreiding van het Standaardnederlands? Uit cultuurhistorisch onderzoek is gebleken dat kranten, die vanaf 1618 in Nederland verschenen, een vast onderdeel vormden van het dagelijks leven in de Republiek. ... (1/5)

Went to the _Huis van het Boek_ in Den Haag today, and got treated to this lovely 6c Bible fragment in a lovely Italian (?) Uncial. It might not look like much but it's a lot. rijksmuseummeermanno.nl/collecties/h...

The Carolingian South is now out! This new edited volume approaches the Franks from a new direction. To celebrate @manchesterup.bsky.social sat me and @graemeyward.bsky.social to ask us some questions about the book: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/06... #medievalsky

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The "hydration break" really is a perfect American capitalist innovation: a nakedly commercial play to insert more ad revenue into a game that doesn't have ads anywhere else in the world, all under the guise of some humanitarian interest in the players' wellbeing.

I know everyone is all about his micro-historical works, but for me, nothing beats his straight-up methodological pieces. "Clues: Roots of an Evidential Paradigm" (found in this book archive.org/details/clue...) has informed my thinking about history more than almost anything else.

I feel very proud to release the programme of a conference I have co-organised with @yanivfox.bsky.social and @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social funded by the @dfg.de on the intersection between Narratology and Temporality on 29-31 July in Tübingen. We have an incredible lineup - I can't wait!

Carlo Ginzburg est mort, annonce la presse italienne. Immense historien, il a su construire une oeuvre originale entre micro-histoire et anthropologie historique qui a considérablement renouvelé la discipline. www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...

The AI rollout is an incredible test case for the power of capital to overrule everything in its way. An overwhelmingly stupid, obscenely polluting, and wildly dangerous set of technologies are being brute-forced into every part of our lives because money says so.

Rehabilitating Wilfrid! New from Peter Darby in @ihr.bsky.social Historical Research. 'The 2 Wilfridian petitions provide evidence that a sophisticated & learned community, inc skilled administrators... was fostered by Wilfrid [which]... endured across at least 3 decades...' doi.org/10.1093/hisr...

What happens when a codex is made out of fragments and then stops being a codex? Do fragments come back from the dead? Manuscripts in the digital world are often looking for their narrative and for fragments this can be a wild ride! A paper on loss and digital memory: muse.jhu.edu/article/940700

Shocked and saddened to hear of the death of Rosamond McKitterick. One of four outstanding women- with Jinty Nelson, Mayke de Jong and Regine Le Jan -who transformed our view of the Carolingians through their work & the students they trained & nurtured. Thro’ that work & students she will live on.

Wieder eine traurige Nachricht: Rosamond McKitterick ist gestorben - eine grosse Mediävistin und beeindruckende Person. In memoriam...

A long interview with the early medieval historian Rosamond McKitterick, reflecting on her life and work, ably conducted by Richard Pollard youtu.be/pvBdJyUAwyY?...

Het herhalen van eenvoudige handelingen kan houvast bieden, helpen gedachten te ordenen en herinneringen te verankeren, ook voor wie niet religieus is. De 15 𝘔𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪ë𝘯 𝘷𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘻𝘦𝘯𝘬𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴 zijn van 11 juli t/m 25 oktober 2026 te zien in 𝘏𝘦𝘵 𝘕𝘰𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘮. ©Lucid

Attention early medievalists! This workshop on coastal communities organised by Marco Panato & Irene Bavuso is being held in Nottingham (hybrid format via Teams) on 20/21 June. All welcome.

Extended deadline is tomorrow (Friday 12 June) I've had a small but promising collection of proposals come through - but would welcome any more #medievalsky

The joys of medieval research: "Hey there's miracle stories of Saint Nicholas in this manuscript!" The realities of medieval research: [said miracle stories are in the bit circled in red]

I'm trying to verify something but it is not on the internet. The absolute gall. How dare.

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Job Opportunity! Assistant Professor in European and or Global History (pre-1800) University of Limerick - School of History and Geography www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRU993/a...

In Nijmegen waren veeeel meer tegendemonstranten (vluchtelingen welkom!) dan bij de extreemrechtse haatmars. Met geweldige speeches van verschillende oud-vluchtelingen uit verschillende landen van herkomst, die zich allemaal thuis voelen in Nijmegen. Wanneer worden zij gehoord?

"One of the special objects is a gold ring from the third or fourth century AD... In addition to the gold ring, the archaeologists also came across an... Ottonian fibula... The pin probably dates from the tenth or eleventh century AD" Neat. www.rtvdrenthe.nl/nieuws/18524...

I AM NOT SAYING that academia runs on similar principles, but I might be saying that I saw quite some similarities between this article and the ruthlessness with which our esteemed dean and (faculty) board (C.S.) run roughshod over what little transparency there is at our noble university.

It took me until today to learn that Saint Mathias (he who replaced Judas) had the wackiest adventures. Also Andreas, if the many many many manuscripts are to be believed (which they most assuredly should not).

US can never be allowed to host an international sporting event again. I'm sad about that, but we've proven you cannot under any circumstances trust us.

This is exactly it. The work is the point.

Je studenten verbieden AI te gebruiken bij het schrijven van essays kun je vergelijken met krachttraining. Daar wordt je sterker van. Dat is ouderwets ja, want je kunt gewichten ook optillen met een heftruck. Alleen word je daar niet sterker van. Het gaat om het oefenen met tegenkracht en weerstand.

Easily the Best Soundtrack / Worst Movie combination youtu.be/El7GVPUl-r0?...