Last Tuesday, I spoke at the event "Land and Power in the Later Roman World" in Tübingen about debt and land disputes in Late Antiquity. The event brought together scholars from diverse academic backgrounds to discuss land in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. It was a great experience!

A brief appreciation thread for some of my colleagues in Classics at Exeter, who the University of Exeter have put at risk of redundancy @exeter.ac.uk. A few are on here, most are not, but I'm going to say nice things about them anyway.

Yesterday I attended a great conference in Rio de Janeiro that brought together historians and economists to discuss the issue of financial crises. I had the privilege of being invited to speak on the crisis of the 3rd century and its consequences for public and private finances in Late Antiquity.

Admittedly competing with Augustine may be quite intimidating, especially since he is able to release new publications nearly 1600 years after his death.

"Poverty Dynamics in the Long Late Antiquity, AD 300-800" #Conference 📆 22 to 23 July 2026 📍 In-person: Room S4, Swallowgate, School of Classics, University of St Andrews 💻️ Online: MS Teams 🔗 View programme and register: bit.ly/4uRIBvq

"Poverty Dynamics in the Long Late Antiquity, AD 300-800" #Conference 📆 22 to 23 July 2026 📍 In-person: Room S4, Swallowgate, School of Classics, University of St Andrews 💻️ Online: MS Teams 🔗 View programme and register: bit.ly/4uRIBvq

"Land and Power in the Later Roman World " #Conference 📆 29 June to 1 July 2026 📍 Tübingen 🔗 View details: bit.ly/4tsST40 Please send enquiries to Dr Giordana Franceschini, [email protected] #AllWelcome

Associate #lectureships: Join us #tomorrow for information sessions at 8am and 4.15pm UK time. Get meeting links: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

🧶 Meu livro "Império Romano", da Editora Contexto, saiu esta semana. Neste fio, deixo a vocês um trechinho que dá bem a ideia da proposta:

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

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

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

For all those interested in the early Middle Ages, economy, money, etc. Even more affordable now!

Save the date! Join us for five inaugural lectures by our colleagues who were recently made professor: Prof Emma Buckley, Prof Alice König, Prof Myles Lavan, Prof Alex Long, and Prof Carlos Machado. ⏰️ 1 April 2026 at 4pm. 📍 Buchanan lecture theatre, St Andrews. #AllWelcome #InauguralLecture

Lançamento no final de março! Para quem quiser já garantir seu exemplar, o livro está em pré-venda no site da Editora Contexto e em outras livrarias!

Lecturer in Ancient History and Classics at Birkbeck, University of London www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQN461/l...

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

When did humans start using drills? “A new study reveals that Egyptians were using a mechanically sophisticated drilling tool far earlier than previously suggested” (about 3250 BCE). It’s the oldest known rotary drill 🔩 you guys! www.austriaca.at?arp=0x0041300e

Save the dates! The Centre for Late Antique Studies begins an exciting schedule of seminars on 11 March, with papers from Timothy Greenwood and Becca Grose. 🔗 View schedule: bit.ly/4cexztV

More Research Training from the IHR . The term 2 calendar is now live. www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

Three rare 4th c. gold coins found in Aquileia – The History Blog www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/74629

I'm glad to be awarded this bursary by the @echistsoc.bsky.social This will be immensely valuable for this final stage of my PhD!

Chris Wickham's 'Framing the early Middle Ages, Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800' (2005) is widely seen as a milestone in early medieval studies. New research published by Robert Portass, Peter Sarris and Caroline Goodson (@cjg70.bsky.social) now offers a critical response to Wickham’s ideas ⬇️

Now available Open Access! academic.oup.com/past/advance...

Yesterday, I had the great pleasure to be back at the Institute of History of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to present a conference entitled "The other side of the coin: credit in the late-antique taxation system" in a event full of great researchers. Loved it!

Imagina você prometer uma argumentação densa e no meio dela a gente descobre que o Ratatouille debaixo da sua peruca é o Marcos do Val rs

É exatamente isso que o Fux está dizendo.

Meu texto na @folha.com sobre o voto do Fux. Me ofereci pra fazer de graça. www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/cels...

Se quiserem mudar de assunto e me ouvirem falar de boatos, acho que esta entrevista para o podcast Estudos Medievais ficou bem legal

O voto de Fux hoje só me faz lembrar da mensagem de Moro para Dallagnol no caso da Lava Jato: "In Fux we trust". Nada novo sob o sol!

'Le #végétarisme avant le « végétarisme ». Méthode de l’anachronisme contrôlé et #historiographie' par Cecilia Muratori (Pavie) À travers l'histoire d'un mot et d'un concept, une réflexion majeure sur l' #anachronisme et ses possibles usages historiens. 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...

Any UK-based PhDs working on medieval women interested in giving a lighting talk to this seminar? It'd be good to get some premodern representation.

The reasons to kill the Humanities are political: The humanities teach students to THINK CRITICALLY about time, space, and power. As such, they pose a direct threats to capitalism, fascism, and authoritarianism

OUP's Women in Antiquity is such a good idea - with recent additions on Balthild, Radegund and Theodora. global.oup.com/academic/con...

A (very short) look at some of what I’m working on during my fellowship at St John’s: www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/res...

Minhas amigas e meus amigos. É com grande orgulho e imensa alegria que informo: O Brasil está fora do mapa da fome, mais uma vez. O anúncio foi feito hoje (28) pela FAO/ONU. Isso significa que reduzimos a insegurança alimentar grave e a subnutrição para menos de 2,5% da população.

Tornozeleira ainda é pouco e esse desgraçado nem vai ser punido pelas milhares de mortes na pandemia, mas já é um começo

We're excited to welcome delegates to #StAndrews for #CA2025 on such a fabulous morning! The day starts with registration and a welcome address at the Younger Hall. ca2025.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/programme

#Today starting at 10am: "St Andrews Interdisciplinary Postgraduate #Workshop in Late Antique and Early Medieval Studies." Speakers are Deanna Cunningham, Shannon McMillan, Freja Stamper, Niels Arends, Alex Lombardo, and Ian Bonze. Rebecca Sweetman will give the keynote.

If anyone likes medieval podcasts by the way "All You Ever Wanted to Know about the #Merovingians" came out on History Extra last week with me chatting about my book "Merovingian Worlds" (Cambridge UP 2024)! (This is the Apple link but it's on Spotify and a load of other places...) #medievalsky

Tomorrow I'll be presenting a paper in the First St Andrews Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Workshop in Late Antique and Early Medieval Studies at the @staclassics.bsky.social I'm looking forward to this great initiative!

NEW from the Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine... our handlist of the 198(!!!) pre-1000 manuscripts with medical texts not included in the standard catalogues. It's been a productive first phase for the project... but a lot of work still to do! #medievalsky

"Sharing Perspectives on Late Antiquity" Granada-St Andrews International Meeting 📅27 June, 10am – 12:30pm 📌Room S3 – Swallowgate, St Andrews 💻Microsoft Teams 🔗Get meeting link: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/06/16/s... Enquiries to [email protected] #ClassicsBluesky #ThisWeek #Friday

Classical Association Conference, 11-13 July 2025, @uniofstandrews.bsky.social Daily agenda and abstracts are now available: www.eventsforce.net/standrews/23... Enquiries to: [email protected] ca2025.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk #CA2025 #ClassicalAssociation #Conference

"Sharing Perspectives on Late Antiquity" Granada-St Andrews International Meeting 📅27 June, 10am – 12:30pm 📌Room S3 – ground floor, Swallowgate, St Andrews 💻Microsoft Teams 🔗View programme: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/06/16/s... Enquiries to [email protected] #ClassicsBluesky #LateAntiquity

For anyone who is interested, the open-access version of this is now available: www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...