Veritas Lecture - Just and Holy War: From Augustine to the Twenty-First Century - examines the development of Christian reflection on war from late antiquity to the present, focusing on the distinction between ‘just war’ and ‘holy war’.

The penis evolved to be noticed – but the artful fig leaf has hidden it for centuries theconversation.com/the-penis-ev...

New issue of the Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association Vol. 20, No. 2 (2024) search.informit.org/toc/jaema/20/2 @jaema.bsky.social

Trump won’t rule out force to take Greenland – a country with a complex colonial history theconversation.com/trump-wont-r...

Our Books for Review list is out - as usual, members of the Association get a first look in, but we will be opening it up in due time. I personally (@chriswhitewrites.bsky.social) have done two recently, but there are definitely some tempting texts on the list...

The Australian Early Medieval Association's conference this year (our 20th!) is looking for papers discussing tempestuous times - whether real tempests or allegorical ones - from Late Antiquity, the Early Medieval, or the Medieval world: youtu.be/KuA4PG78cF0?...

In case you missed it, here is Laura Gathagan talking to us about her book The #Queenship of #MathildaofFlanders: Embodying Conquest. youtu.be/IEq3Phy8qJE?... #MedievalSky ##MedievalHistory #WomensHistory #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #Embodiment #Bodies #Flanders

By invoking the heritage of Leo XIII, Leo XIV has set the compass of his papacy. It points toward a Church intellectually serious, socially committed and pastorally close.

Anna Jagiellon got elected Queen in 1575.

Pagan loaves, Christian bread, a secular treat: a brief history of hot cross buns theconversation.com/pagan-loaves...

Who will the next pope be? Here are some top contenders theconversation.com/who-will-the...

Meet Maria Clementina Sobieska, the defiant queen who pulled off a jailbreak to secure the Jacobite legacy theconversation.com/meet-maria-c...

Who really was Mona Lisa? More than 500 years on, there’s good reason to think we got it wrong theconversation.com/who-really-w...

A problematic history of obsessing over royal women’s looks, from Camilla to the ‘ugly’ Elizabeth of Austria theconversation.com/a-problemati...

Nobleman, soldier, revolutionary, humanist – who was Tadeusz Kościuszko, the man behind the mountain? theconversation.com/nobleman-sol...