Irina Dumitrescu

My new article has now been published in the 2025 volume of Traditio. I use a little examined episode on the lower Rhine in the late 350s with the aid of agricultural archaeology to reveal fiscal dependency relations between the Empire & Barbaricum, & the consequences of their rupture. #medievalsky

I have not! But I must read this immediately. Thank you so much for the tip.

IDEAS Schedule for December 2025 | CBC Radio Highlights include: a special week-long series to mark IDEAS 60th anniversary; learning about farming in the north and Indigenous food sovereignty; IDEAS contributors share their recommendations on wh...

Canadian friends, I will be on CBC Ideas on December 10, talking about a nonfiction book I'm absolutely obsessed with right now!

www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...

The Louvre puts on its first fashion show High fashion meets fine art for the first time in an exhibition at the Paris museum. With so much to see, it‘s hard to know where to look

‘My eyes, exhausted with beauty, didn’t know where to look any more. Yet I couldn’t stop’ – Irina Dumitrescu visits the couture show at the Louvre, now on at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and finds a surfeit of riches

Just read this over breakfast, and am now touching the rim of my Stetson in your direction and giving you a slight, but meaningful, nod.

Next time I'm trying to write and it's not coming along, I will simply write, "unluckily, it was a heap of dead rabbits." After that, you can only go up.

A totally devastating and really thoroughly reported piece.

It has great functions but for me its main use is psychological. It doesn't feel as "published" as Word, so much easier to draft in. But also just very good for bundling the different parts of a project.

(no title) CEMA

📢 #CfP #medievalsky #OldEnglish
📜Beowulf & Circulations Conference
📲Details: cemasorbonne.org
🏫Centre d’Études Médiévales Anglaises (Sorbonne Université)
🗣️Keynotes: Irina Dumitrescu (Universität Bonn) & Francis Leneghan (Oxford University).
📅March 13-14, 2026
⏰Submission deadline: 10 January, 2026‼️

Last chance to book for 2 online workshops happening very soon.

This Sunday 23rd as part of our workshop series, we are exploring Rhythm and The Ballad. Join us!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-...

Sometimes I think if I could go back to 2008 and tell grad student Irina about my creative life today, there's nothing about it she'd have an easy time believing.

That would be incredibly generous. In the meantime, I'll do some more hunting and experimenting

Oooh in person or online?

I love Scrivener, it's my main drafting program these days

Thank you. Will watch!

Have just ordered the original! How cool!

Does anyone I know use Obsidian (or an app like it) to put together the pieces of a book or other large written project? Would be grateful for any tips or process notes you are in the mood to share.

(no title) CEMA

📢 #CfP #medievalsky #OldEnglish
📜Beowulf & Circulations Conference
📲Details: cemasorbonne.org
🏫Centre d’Études Médiévales Anglaises (Sorbonne Université)
🗣️Keynotes: Irina Dumitrescu (Universität Bonn) & Francis Leneghan (Oxford University).
📅March 13-14, 2026
⏰Submission deadline: 10 January, 2026‼️

How did I not know about the Wiggins book! That is so my kind of thing.

Get medieval on your haters: lessons from Beowulf and Chaucer | Psyche Ideas When your reputation is at stake, get medieval on your haters: lessons from Beowulf, Margery Kempe and Geoffrey Chaucer

The medieval mystics have been coming up a lot for me this week. Im re-reading Dr Carmel
Bendon’s fabulous novel w/ historical medieval reference to Julian of Norwich w/ modern day mystery based in Sydney & now @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social article incl.mystic Margery Kempe psyche.co/ideas/get-me...

WOW. Just WOW

I loved this too! Very smart and witty.

I would like to know about your favourite modern novels in verse, please! Mainly interested in English but also curious about other languages.

Yes! We just got a subscription to the @szde.bsky.social. Delivered in the mornings. Wild how exciting it is. Part of the idea is to leave it around so the kid starts to notice there are other ways of finding out what's going on in the world than what's on screens. The writing is great too.

Get medieval on your haters: lessons from Beowulf and Chaucer | Psyche Ideas When your reputation is at stake, get medieval on your haters: lessons from Beowulf, Margery Kempe and Geoffrey Chaucer

I had a lot of fun writing this piece for @psyche.co, which just reminded me that people have always had to deal with criticism from others -- and the key is to be creative about how you deal with your haters.

psyche.co/ideas/get-me...

YouTube video by Smoky Joe Helge Schneider - Bonbon aus Wurst

www.youtube.com/watch?v=j554...

Do you know the restaurant way of roasting them? I do this now all the time and we fight over them at dinner.

No one could ever make me eat Brussels Sprouts as a kid - I would sit at the dinner table until hell froze over before I’d take a bite (now I like them).