Ella Kirsh

Deadline for nominations for Chancellor @cambridgeup.bsky.social has now passed. Old Schools will reveal full slate of candidates idc. Already clear that Sandi Toksvig offers necessary/unique blend of brains, comms skills, energy, inclusion & strong Cambridge links #Sandi4Chancellor109

Classics showing its working | Blog post | Mary Beard The big discovery for me this week (or at least it has only recently been published) was a papyrus, containing more than 100 lines of Greek text, which

A newly published Roman legal papyrus from Judaea. I try to give a flavour here, and to capture the immense hard work that goes into making sense of these discoveries. tinyurl.com/57eb3a88

journal cover

New volume of The Journal of Roman Studies Vol. 114 (2024) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @theromansoc.bsky.social
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Congratulations! Such a fantastic piece

My review article for JRS, "The Problem(s) of Empire," is finally out.

It's sort of a hybrid: part long review of *The Oxford World History of Empire* and part "think piece" on empires, comparative history, and empire as such.

Let me know if you don't have access to JRS; happy to send a PDF.

Check out @ellakirsh.bsky.social 's fantastic article on the teaching of shorthand writing to often enslaved people in the later Roman empire - just published open access in the latest issue of the Journal of Roman Studies
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Thanks so much, Julia! Excited to see it out

A large Sainsbury’s Store Front with the signs for the other shops laid out underneath. They are Argos Habitat Tu. sounds a bit Latin dunnit. lol eh The fact they left out Specsavers leads me to think they knew what they were doing, and I’m probably just explaining their own joke to them

Oooh, look at Sainsbury’s, with their fancy new Latin motto like they’re bleedin hogwarts

Grow up

John Stuart Mill on Federation, Civilization, and Empire This article explores John Stuart Mill’s career-long interest in federal models of politics. Demonstrating how Mill’s multi-faceted account was shaped by his understanding of civilization and of empir...

Forthcoming article:

Duncan Bell, "John Stuart Mill on Federation, Civilization, and Empire," History of Political Thought (2025)

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www.academia.edu/110100929/Jo... via @academia

Such a treat to talk with you and learn about the amazing work this research group is doing!

It was great to talk to Ella Kirsch @ellakirsh.bsky.social and Hope Williard yesterday about enslaved stenographers and how we might access the intellectual and literary culture of the non-elite.

Visions of the Desert in Atlantic Iberia: The Enigmas of Paschasius of Dumium’s Liber geronticon The apophthegmata patrum or “sayings of the desert fathers” were an essential resource for Late Antique monastics. Compiled in Greek, they quickly circulated in an array of languages, including Cop...

Very happy to see my new article on Paschasius of Dumium and the Iberian translation of the Apophthegmata patrum published (open access) in Al-Masaq. Features Atlantic-Mediterranean connectivity, Evagrius Ponticus, and a crocodile. doi.org/10.1080/0950...

Extremely difficult to read document in cursive script. Actually this is a charter of lady Clotilde, Paris AN/K//2/10, from 673

My therapist: Don’t worry, Merovingian cursive is not real, it can’t hurt you

Merovingian cursive:

I found it automatically enabled in mine, and deactivated it. As you say, unlikely to be all users - but probably some other unwitting ones like me!

That's wonderful to hear, thanks so much!

Thank you!

Wow, thank you so much!

Thanks, Jeremy!

That's very kind, thanks so much!

Thanks, Arthur!

First article, first post! Thrilled that my article on Greek shorthand in late antiquity has just been published by the Journal of Roman Studies, expertly ed. Myles Lavan.

What do London taxi drivers have to do with late antique shorthand textbooks? Find out here: shorturl.at/6QERy