perpetuar y perpetrar son dos palabras muy cercanas

From Oglala Lakota poet Layli Long Soldier’s poem ‘Diction,’ a fragmented account of the massacre at Wounded Knee that communicates the immeasurable loss.

Rose Walker on The Aftermath of Liturgical Reform in Twelfth-Century Iberia. The first @ihr.bsky.social 25/26 History of Liturgy Seminar Monday 27 October. Do join us! In person audiences esp welcome but you'll also be able to register for the livestream soon: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

After a rewarding & inspiring conference, it is time to sit back & ponder some of the really deep & important questions. Such as why the fuck did I wake up half past 8 on a Saturday.

I see that vapid theological takes are very à la mode these days, so I hereby declare that not providing me with cheese will hasten the coming of the antichrist. Your move, people.

De boeken van de zusters van Soeterbeeck zijn eeuwenlang intensief gebruikt. Nu hebben ze onze zorg nodig. Draag bij aan het behoud van de boeken van Soeterbeeck! radbouduniversiteit.voorradboudfonds.nl/project/soet...

It's been an intense two days of conference activities in Bergen. Now for some research.

My book is now £14.99 with this discount! Cheaper than a cheeky Nandos!

BSB Clm 15812 is online here: portail.biblissima.fr/fr/ark:/4309...

This is the feast of Rupert of Salzburg, d. 710, missionary to the Bavarians. Here's Big Rupert receiving (and in) a copy of Augustine's De Genesi ad litteram from little Abp. Eberhard I of Salzburg (d. 1164). This MS, BSB Clm 15812, was made in Eberhard's lifetime, so mid-12c. #medievalsky

Is there an uncanny valley for fragments? Something that seems to be full of detail but isn't, in the same way that some things appear to be human but are not? This fragment points to yes.

There are several fragments that seem almost taunting in the way their information is barely attainable, where the wear & tear of ink & parchment seem to promise possibilities of deciphering that they are not going to provide in the end. This one is among them. [Sveriges Riksarkiv Fr 25641]

Tonight's walk with the dog was concluded with a daring heist at a local pear tree that yielded a pretty solid haul. Turns out stolen* pears taste great. *with the permission of the owners

It would be nice if the rapture were a real phenomenon & not a piece of theological bullshit invented in the nineteenth century, because then I would not have to deal with some of my most annoying co-religionists.

This is true. Moreover, it does not have to be a sausage, it can be anything.

The much-anticipated news is now here. I am very excited to announce that my book, soon out with York Medieval Press, is now available for pre-order! Hats off to @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social and the awesome Mont-Saint-Michel design team for the cover! boydellandbrewer.com/book/robert-...

From today's first walk with the dog. The crispness of autumn has finally arrived, & the peace of high tide was underlined by the sounds of cormorants & mergansers.

Today is the day! Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination is now widely available. I will be giving my first book talk at the University of Pittsburgh, with a specific focus on domestic violence. press.edu/books/gender-violence-in-late-antiquity/hardcover

As I'm preparing for an upcoming talk, I have been reminded of my brief & unsuccessful attempt to identify the feasts indicated in this calendar fragment. It can be done, but it would require a lot of time & grey hairs. [Sveriges Riksarkiv Fr 5739]

I'm giving a paper on Thursday. Today - half past midnight - I managed to formulate the main question of my presentation. I'm getting quicker.

Today is the feast of Sadalberga, aka Salaberga, d. ca. 670. She was a protégée of the abbot of Luxeuil and founded an abbey at Laon. Her Vita has been dated by modern scholars to the late 7/early 8c, though afaik it survives only in MSS of the 12c. and later, so no Merovingian script for you today.

This detail from a Danish hymnal from c.1200 serves to illustrate today's varied tasks for a medievalists in the fjords. As I'm putting together a presentation for an upcoming conference, I have also helped getting the boat out of the fjord & into winter storage. [Sveriges Riksarkiv Fr 25548]

How did Christianity spark the rise of written Georgian culture? In our PhD Research Series, Sandro Tskhvedadze explores the evolution of Georgian Gospel lectionaries and the pivotal legacy of George the Athonite in shaping liturgical traditions: uhh.de/csmc-tskhved...

Call for abstracts! Special issue of the journal Arv – Yearbook of Nordic Folklore. We invite articles that study changes in the interaction patterns between human beings and beings that are more than human. #folklore #academicsky #monsterstudies

Good grief, the sheep are loose again!

Today is the feast St Mauritius, the officer of the Theban Legion. He was martyred with his 6666 men at Agaunum in the upper Rhône valley c.286-7 for refusing to sacrifice to the gods. His cult flourished due to the 10th-century eastward expansion of the Ottonians. [1/n]

As I'm scrambling to finish things before their various deadlines, I have now reached a point where I can leave an article draft for a couple of days & just let my mind breathe. What blessed relief.

Som nynorskbrukar med eit gamaldags tilsnitt og dialektale innskot er dette noko eg merkar ekstra tydeleg, og som gjer det heilt uaktuelt å lite på stavekontrollprogram. Variasjonen i det norske språket gjer at vi eigentleg berre kan lite på oss sjølve og ordboka.

Ponte guapa Pontevedra.

Celebrating the 2nd anniv. of my monograph on poetic reading and Old Norse poetry published with Peter Lang Oxford. Don't think I'll ever get over my excitement.😊 www.peterlang.com/document/118...

As I am back to writing about the Compostelan cult of Saint James the Elder, here's one of many late-medieval examples of how far afield the pilgrim iconography caught on. [Vada Church, Vallentuna, Sweden; Statens Historiska Museer 93976]

Today, my father & I felled an ash back home on the farm. We had great weather for tree-felling after we had finished.

The vast majority of people are suffering the consequences of a handful of overprivileged idiots not being able to deal with reality.

En la Puerta de las Cadenas de la Catedral de Ciudad Rodrigo #Salamanca, se colocaron unas esculturas tardorromanicas. Se encuentran sobre la portada, entre el guardapolvos y el arco de descarga. Aparece en medio Cristo, flanqueado por cuatro Apóstoles, San Juan, San Pedro, San Pablo y Santiago.

Det er fredag! Da spanderer vi et lite eventyr som Jørgen Moe omtalte som "Eventyret er forskjellig og meget humoristisk, men lader sig ikke gjenfortelle" (gjett hvorfor). Det er en variant av "Mannen som skulle stelle hjemme", skrevet ned i Hardanger i 1846. Moes eget manuskript gjengitt her:

Writing is a craft. Writing well is a finely tuned skill that a lot of people depreciate because they find it harder than they would like. Generative AI makes a lot of people lazy because it provides an excuse to think of themselves as writers despite their failure to understand what this entails.

I'll preface this by saying that it's been a day of travel so I'm grumpier than usual, but this evening I'm reminded of how difficult it is to get out of an intellectual rut caused by worse-than-useless feedback.

In light of recent changes to academia.edu, I have deleted my account. It used to be a good way for an early career scholar to be relatively visible across various overlapping fields, but I do not want to contribute to its harvesting of data for commercial purposes.

Trondheim cathedral seen last Sunday.

This map is a great example of why I dislike the food discourse. Food is about emotional connections. As a Western Norwegian, I would have to choose A because I'd rather miss out on all the other things than homemade bread, venison stew & blueberry cordial, to mention just a few things.

I'm tracking down the texts that provided the source material to the lessons from an abbreviated office in honour of Saint Swithun. I have been writing "Eggs!" several places in a huge PDF file, because there is a miracle about how Swithun restored some broken eggs.

Today, my work day has begun with me spending the better part of an hour formulating concise scenarios to explain the genesis of a particular text, only to have all the guesswork rendered useless by consulting a source I should have used from the get-go.

The whole point of reducing words to numbers and statistical prediction (chatbots/ai) is to erase historical & cultural context.

Want to support my work? Special announcement to come *SOON* for @resistanceschool.bsky.social students and those on the waitlist. If you haven't signed up for my class on Race, Media and International Affairs, do so before spots close! www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

I have been saying this publicly since at least January 2024 (when I mentioned it during a lecture). Others have said it earlier. This state of affairs has been obvious, & the widespread denial remains a disgrace.

Should you happen to be in Kirkwall on Saturday the 25th of October, do come and say hello in the Orcadian Bookshop!

Another gem from the exhibition Ivory of the sea in Trondheim. This box, dated to the late eleventh century, shows that Romanesque decor extended to all available media. [British Museum no. 1870,0811.1; currently at NTNU University Museum]

This week’s astonishing artifact is an Indigenous map of the heavens that tells the story of the Skiri Pawnee. 🏺🧪

I am a fan of Karen's work & a subscriber to her podcast. This development is a troubling benchmark of how things have evolved in the US, & Karen's voice is one of the best we have for making sense of the situation.

In Trondheim, I went to the exhibition on walrus ivory in the Middle Ages at the University Museum. One item was a pair of walrus tusks found at Rømmen, one of which has a runic inscription that has been interpreted as 'Ketil', the owner's name. [NTNU University Museum]