never change, John Chrysostom

In a country that took the humanities seriously, way more of the medievalists you’re seeking out to explain Avignon would have actual academic jobs.

since posting this it sounds like we're getting an avignon papacy and the latin patriarch of jerusalem has been denied access to the holy sepulchre

Sure, why not threaten the papacy with *checks notes* imperial military. It’s not like it does not have 2000 years of experience in dealing with it.

I really enjoyed recording this podcast! Listen on to learn how to use a pig‘s bladder in early medieval medicine! #medievalsky

Last day of free download! 😱

One of the greats, and among her many other accomplishments, author of what imho remain two of the greatest introductory books available to anyone wanting to learn about the late Roman world (namely, "The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity" and "The Later Roman Empire").

As we mourn the great Averil Cameron, I point you to her autobiographical talk from 2017: on being working class and female in Ancient History wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2017/05/22/s...

“go back to the moon but this time we have really good cameras” was a fantastic idea

I want a t-shirt with that quote

Yes! Let the ancient source be exactly as weird as it is!

There's a thing where modern translators try to smooth out the oddities of ancient sources---like, a source repeats a phrase a bunch of times, but the modern translator tries to get creative with it, to make it sound less repetitive or just to add spice

I don’t know, stop using AI to write your papers?

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

I'll be giving a press conference just after midday.

It was great fun working on this with @calthalas.bsky.social @realhistoryguy.bsky.social @jmharland.bsky.social @dl-arch.bsky.social @vickymanolopoulou.bsky.social @sypianski.bsky.social @nikulinaav.bsky.social and others

Very happy to see this paper out, in which we explain that historians, just like scientists, have research methodologies which *must* be followed in order to do convincing palaeoclimate research using historical texts … link.springer.com/article/10.1... #environmentalhistory #environmentalscience

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History without historians is doomed to fail. With an interdisciplinary team of scholars we show how the purported link between late Roman conflicts and drought has been misunderstood. We also outline a path forward in the use of sources in paleoclimatic research. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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

I am pleased to share that I have signed a contract with Cambridge University Press to write “The End of Roman Britain and the Arrival of the Saxons,” which I have been approached to write by the editors of their series “Cambridge Elements in the Late Antique World”.

have you downloaded your *free* PDF yet? get on it, only 10 days left!!!

Whoever will be left in academia when the current storm is over will have an enormous task. Reconstruction of all this will require massive resources.

Does anybody have access to The General Councils of the Eastern Christian Churches (Corpus Christianorvum Conciliorum oecumenicorum Generaliumque decreta) V/2 (Tournhout 2023) in any digitised form?

Does anybody have access to The General Councils of the Eastern Christian Churches (Corpus Christianorvum Conciliorum oecumenicorum Generaliumque decreta) V/2 (Tournhout 2023) in any digitised form?

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

Alright monasticism & early Christianity folks! Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities has announced the discovery of a late antique (A 400-499 CE) monastic, Coptic guesthouse at Al-Qalāyā, Roman Egypt, in the Nile Delta. www.facebook.com/share/1CZA5p... Monasteries were not just in Upper Egypt.

🗣️ new Element in Religion in Late Antiquity! 🗣️ @monikaamsler.bsky.social's EDUCATION IN RELIGIOUS CONTEXTS OF LATE ANTIQUITY ⚡⚡⚡ free through April 8! ⚡⚡⚡ www.cambridge.org/core/element...

I was waiting for this! Grab it while you can, it is a must read!

🧯Hot off the press: Education in Religious Contexts of Late Antiquity (Cambridge Element) > free download until April 8! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

The mackerel 🐟 and sardine garum is garuming! Are we gonna take bets on how many of my students will actually try it? 🎣

i see "blessed" and "martyrdom" so i'll call it a day

The most amazing feature of the current technological turn is that people want more text, less connectivity, more tactile experience, and ultimately, more involvement in the process. Sounds counterintuitive but governments should bet on brick-and-mortar education and "involved economy".

Over 100 updates last week in the #PleiadesGazetteer, plus new records for few settlements, a villa, a mountain, some temples, a small Roman province, the agora of Messene, and the legendary "Wall of Romulus". #ancientGeography #ancientHistory #archaeology #HGIS

medieval #proofs 👯‍♀️

Mamdani: Next question! Yes, Amy. Journalist: Mr. Mayor, do you think cities maintained their political and social centrality despite their loss of Roman-style monumentality? Mamdani: Great question. Let me start by mentioning recent excavations in Aphrodisias…

And now he is dropping late antique references? And correctly on top of that?

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...

The „historical“ argument in this is just *chef‘s kiss*. I assure whoever this billionaire is that people did have the idea of self before 1910s.

A Roman governor, a bunch of monks, and two bishops (one of them dead) walk into a bar in Edessa in April 449. If you want to know what happened after, here is an open access article on the Syriac Acts of Ephesus II and the politics of late antique cities. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia

I’m delighted to see ‘The Caliph and the Falcons’ take to the skies at Early Medieval Europe! I had a blast writing this with @medivalist.bsky.social as we followed the extraordinary journey of falcons from Scandinavia all the way to Baghdad. #medievalsky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Congrats to Marianna Cerno for publishing a new ps. Clementine text she identified recently, for which she suggests a date of composition in the fourth century! Basically, new apocryphon just dropped. You can find a discussion of her book here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmQe...

Looking at the rhetoric of the US administration right now and a) every media outlet should talk to a premodern historian right this minute; b) they lost their minds

fyi, i have a podcast and it's really great and fun. and there are a lot of super-smart people who've been on to talk about not just the Middle Ages but how and why it's studied here in the USA. please give it a listen. AmericanMedieval.com

So apparently Greece is sending ships to shield Cyprus from the Persians. This is not the start of 478 BC that we all expected but here we are www.politico.eu/article/gree...

Want to know the date of the Tremulous Hand of Worcester, or why medieval documentary ‘forgery’ is, more properly, imaginative fiction? My book is now available in paperback! 🥳 www.arc-humanities.org/978180270086...

The only surviving original Carolingian "littera formata", like a passport for a priest. Issued in Lucca, now in Pavia. archiviodigitale-icar.cultura.gov.it/it/185/ricer...

There used to be a joke in the East Block. Dear Radio Yerevan, will there be a World War III? No, but there will be such a struggle for peace that nothing will be left standing.