Just published! Go read (or browse!) Wolfram Kinzig's A History of Early Christian Creeds. A true opus magnum! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

„Aufgaben, die wir für schwierig hielten, wie zum Beispiel Schachspielen, sind für Maschinen relativ gut lösbar. Aber Fähigkeiten, die jedes sechsjährige Kind beherrscht, sind für Roboter extrem schwer. …In einfachen Tätigkeiten steckt eben doch viel mehr Intelligenz, als wir lange dachten.“

On advance access: "Lordship in the Later Middle Ages: A Round Table Discussion" Ft: Frederik Buylaert, Sandro Carocci, Thijs Lambrecht, Christian D Liddy, Alice Rio Tristan W Sharp, Alice Taylor, Chris Wickham #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

How did gender shape who was seen and treated as a criminal in Late Antiquity? Read up on Julia Hillner's project. For an overview of all research projects, see the new Dependent: buff.ly/gi1LMwh @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Looking forward to presenting tomorrow with the inestimable Maja Keller on our journey from the analogue "Tour of Roman Bonn" to Maja's digital heritage trail. Each step is the result of reflections on how to empower people to access knowlegde & what this means for our own power as researchers

And finally, please note that the Clerical Exile Project mines many of the late antique letters noted above and has better network analysis for late antique clerics. www.clericalexile.org

We are thrilled that the important research carried out by Julia Hillner, Pia Wiegmink and Jamie Wood is making waves!🥳 www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/048-...

And another press release from @unibonn.bsky.social, this time on our new project funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de The Nameless in History ...and in English www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/048-... @woodjamie.bsky.social

Probably Diocletian‘s wife. Nobilissima femina is attested as a title for other wives and daughters of tetrarchs (Fausta, Valeria Maximilla), and also later fourth century imperial female relatives. So much for the invisibility of the women of the tetrarchy!

I have recently joined the editorial board of the journal Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum, which has also just become fully open access for all future issues. If you are doing research on ancient Christianity, please consider sending submissions our way! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

More on the new digital heritage trail around Roman Bonn from @unibonn.bsky.social 's press release (sadly, in German only) www.uni-bonn.de/de/neues/dig...

Job alert! Three late antiquity postdoc positions on an ERC funded project GREEKWEST here at Liverpool - come join an amazing department! #medievalsky

Last week, I attended the opening of the exhibition Amazônia at Bundeskunsthalle. It includes artist Jaider Esbell who brings together indigenous art and the (misleading) European idea of universal art. Some late antique works deemed “universal” also got a make-over www.bundeskunsthalle.de/amazonia

My wonderful colleague Maja Keller has just been interviewed for our local TV (WDR Lokalzeit Bonn) about the fantastic digital heritage trail on Roman Bonn 👇🏻 that she developed together with her students www.ardmediathek.de/sendung/loka...

Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Julia Hillner, and our best wishes for her new role at the Department of History. We are immensely proud of her tireless contributions to our Cluster. She will continue to serve as Co-Speaker and Principal Investigator at BCDSS and help shape our second funding phase.

As of 1 March I've changed institutions within my university, from @dependencybonn.de to the Department of History, where I am now a Professor of Ancient History (the first woman in this role @unibonn.bsky.social). Looking forward to returning to UG teaching! www.igw.uni-bonn.de/de/institut/...

Greatest honour of my career so far. As founding editor I'm proud to announce @edinburghup.bsky.social Studies in Late Roman History. The world's first book series exclusively dedicated to the core domain of Late Antiquity. Like to discuss proposals or manuscripts? Reach out! tinyurl.com/dujjeuth

How did ancient slavery function outside the shadow of the Atlantic trade? Do not miss this upcoming #JCMM lecture with Noel Lenski! 🗓️ 16 March 2026 ⏱️16:15 CET ❕Hybrid event: Niebuhrstr. 5 or via Zoom 👉For more info, visit: buff.ly/0UrzhQ2 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Great news—We remain the most successful German University of Excellence! With eight Clusters of Excellence and funding secured until 2033, we’re moving closer to our goal of establishing our Uni permanently among the best universities in the world: www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/040-... © VL/Uni Bonn

And @unibonn.bsky.social is one of them! Congratulations to us all!

Catherine Steel and I are thrilled to announce the publication of our edited volume 'Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic': www.cambridge.org/core/books/w... @universitypress.cambridge.org #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics

„The controversy highlights a broader tension between mainstream celebrity culture and the high arts“ I regularly go to the opera in Bonn on a *11€ ticket*. For a pop concert I’d have to pay ten times+. Celebrity culture is enriching a tiny group of people that opera is simply not.

Proofs! Soon available in open access at the Bullettin of the Institute of Classical Studies - as soon as I have sorted out image permissions with the Soprintendenza in Rome...

Kicking off our project on The Nameless in History with Pia Wiegmink and @woodjamie.bsky.social in the beautiful surroundings of Schloss Herrenhausen @volkswagenstiftung.de

The Forum of Nerva in Rome, c. 850.

Publication – « A Companion to Rome (c. 400–c. 1050) », éd. Caroline Goodson, Julia Hillner rmblf.be/2026/03/01/p...

People in Manchester voted in the first green MP ever in the North of England (knowing my city, this came at no suprise to me!). Why does @zeit.de spend the first 1 1/2 pages of a 2-page- report on this event talking almost exclusively about Reform? www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

We are hiring .... Because John Nightingale is retiring... for a Tutorial Fellowship in European History 400-1000... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQP650/t...

More on Máirín MacCarron's and my recent chapter on social network analysis, Roman prosopography, and late Roman and early medieval sources at @ucc.ie's Department of Digital Humanities www.ucc.ie/en/dah/news/...

There are so many strange things about this initiative of anthropomorphing plants, but to me the most fascinating is the drive to give plants human names, apparently the only way to learn not about nature but "from and with it" (in reality of course we "learn" from a LLM) www.bbc.com/news/article...

Travelling home today from amazing Japan: so grateful to my generous host Yukiko Kawamoto from Nagoya University for inviting me to discuss classics, digital humanities and LLM, Roman law, and gender, and to get to know this wonderful country (impressions from Tokyo in pics).

Web – Mise en ligne en open-access des éditions du Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (volumes antérieurs à 2010) rmblf.be/2026/02/14/w...

Continuing my journey around Japan - a huge thanks to the Kyoto University Ancient History Seminar for hosting me and my paper on late Roman emperors’ marriage strategies!

An excavation led by my wonderful colleague Sabine Feist @unibonn.bsky.social

Such an honour to be at Nagoya University for this fabulous event, talking about a project I am conducting @dependencybonn.de using data from Connecting Late Antiquities

I've been so disgusted by everything that's come out about Epstein that I can only handle it in small portions, but this article is such a good survey of the times we live in. It's really worth reading www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Our great thanks to Professor Charles West for his excellent Society lecture yesterday evening: ‘”Alike in Appearance but not in Scope”: Queens and the Making of Medieval Europe’ bit.ly/4tluezd The recording of Charles's lecture will be available shortly. @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social #Skystorians

Actually, the main news story should be how a large group of men abused women and girls over many years while everyone was looking away. Because by making this about current Uk politics, Peter Mandelson or whatever, we are still looking away. As Marina Hyde says. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Explore Roman Bonn through the eyes of Bassiana, a free Ubian woman living near the legionary camp of Bonna. Our new self-guided digital heritage trail is now online via the free app – with places, stories, and small challenges along the way. More: buff.ly/4QtrLc9 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

A big welcome to Anita Kporkpor Pobi, who joins the BCDSS as a Predoctoral Fellow! We are excited to have Anita’s important perspective at our Cluster! 👉 To learn more about her work, visit: buff.ly/U8k9TAd @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

The rebuilt foundations of three buildings that formed part of the settlement (vicus) that developed around the Roman fort at Manchester (Mamucium). The foundations and reconstructed North Gate are located in the Castlefield area of the city. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday

This 👇 took me at least 4 solid working days, several library trips and ILL, and 6 pages of response. Each of the comments forced me to rethink, rephrase, and find new evidence to support my points, even where at times I felt annoyed by them. The revised ms is infinitely better. ❤️peer review.

"The problem of the lack of papyrus [after c.1000] forced a receptiveness to new forms of papal government which the high medieval 'reformers' were able to move into and exploit from about 1050"... Absolutely enthralling new article by @cjg70.bsky.social and Ben Savill (Open Access). #medievalsky

Final call for the @bsrome.bsky.social and Early Medieval Europe early career fellowship, for a month's stay in Rome plus some travel costs to get there. Deadline tomorrow. bsr.ac.uk/awards-resid...

New book: Susan Ashbrook Harvey. Ministries of Song: Women's Voices in Ancient Syriac Christianity (University of California Press, 2025) ttps://maryjahariscenter.org/blog/ministries-of-song-womens-voices-in-ancient-syriac-christianity

#TombTuesday the Weiden Roman #tomb is today one of the best-preserved and most impressive burial sites from #Roman times north of the Alps. It shows a large part of its original furnishings - pure antiquity. 🧵 (1/2) 📸 A Thünker #Archaeology #History #RomanArchaeology

NEW 🙌 'A Companion to Rome c. 400-c. 1050' edited by Caroline Goodson and Julia Hillner. A new urban history of late antique and early medieval Rome - the result of over seven years' scholarship by 32 contributors from across Europe and America. 🔗 brill.com/display/titl...

We are happy to welcome Jakob D. Jung, who has joined the Bonn BCDSS as a Predoctoral Fellow! 👉 To learn more about Jakob's work, visit: buff.ly/7duWJtn @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

CFP for a Special Issue of Gender & History on childhood and crises to be edited by Katie Barclay and Emily Ward. Abstracts due 31 May 2026; then hybrid workshop; full articles due 31 Jan. 2027. Please share widely. #Skystorians #GenderHistory #HistChild 🗃️

We had a blast yesterday launching A Companion to Rome (c. 400-1050) into the world. Thank you to our kind hosts, the KFG Religion & Urbanity, Jörg Rüpke and Susanne Rau, our respondents Mateusz Fafinski and Cinnamon Ducasse, and the audience. And our authors and further collaborators, of course!!