We had a blast yesterday launching A Companion to Rome (c. 400-1050) into the world. Thank you to our kind hosts, the KFG Religion & Urbanity, Jörg Rüpke and Susanne Rau, our respondents Mateusz Fafinski and Cinnamon Ducasse, and the audience. And our authors and further collaborators, of course!!
22.01.2026 08:14 — 👍 34 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
I have just deleted my entire inbox. I'm not sure how much I want to retrieve it..... it might be a good start to the year?
05.01.2025 17:45 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Castrum Caetani, Via Appia, 13th century (@profbernard.bsky.social bored by medieval masonry, admires ancient bits lying around)
28.11.2024 11:29 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Caserma dei Vigili del Fuoco, Via Marmorata 15 (1929)
28.11.2024 11:10 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Come to Rome! with @quidamabo.bsky.social
28.11.2024 11:08 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Brick-faced concrete ruins, pine trees
Rome, yesterday. Baths of Caracalla.
17.11.2024 13:51 — 👍 23 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
rome beauty apples, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1896
rome beauty apples, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1896
16.11.2024 11:18 — 👍 41 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Outstandingly fun summer school here:
bsr.ac.uk/now-open-fun...
22.03.2024 14:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A group of people standing in front of an ancient Roman city gate and walls. A road continues behind to a farm and church.
Extremely happy to announce that we are once again offering a *FULLY FUNDED* student placement with the @ics.bsky.social/BSR excavations at Falerii Novi.
Thanks to the generosity of the Roman Society! 👏🎉
Happy to answer queries. Pls share.
Info+Eligibility 👉 www.romansociety.org/Grants-Prize...
08.01.2024 17:25 — 👍 23 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 2
Christmas gifts from @effinbirds.com birds just placed -- UK buyers are still in time to place an order!
29.11.2023 11:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Solar panels are up! www.theguardian.com/education/20...
29.11.2023 11:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Come join us in Cambridge as the Mellon Professor of American History: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43935/
12.11.2023 11:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An outstanding caffè napoletano in Cambridge! Grazie @fernandag !
08.11.2023 22:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
black and white photo of brick walls and tower
380 towers in the late antique walls of Rome, I think.. having just drawn them all in on a map.... (here's a nice pic of an obscure one at the Castra Pretoria)
07.11.2023 14:06 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
call me old-fashioned. I like paper and pages!
18.10.2023 19:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
wonderful news (and not surprising at all!)
18.10.2023 19:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
End of a weeklong workshop on ‘Routes of Glass’ in the Early Medieval Mediterranean, at Fondation Les Treilles…perhaps the most delightful place to have a conference, ever.
13.10.2023 16:07 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Same in our house.
08.10.2023 19:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Indeed, this looks seriously cool.
05.10.2023 19:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Delighted to see one of my favourites from the other place is here now:
29.09.2023 09:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Might mean we ought to be quite careful setting essay topics on Aethelred.....
28.09.2023 13:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I too was curious (about my books, not yours) but not curious enough to navigate my institutional access to The Atlantic….
27.09.2023 22:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Professorship of Medieval and Renaissance English. Closing date: 30 November 2023. www.hr.admin.cam.ac.uk/files/mediev...
26.09.2023 09:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just came back from this delightful evening of short nature films-- www.oceanfilmfestival.co.uk/ and feel, once again, that Cambridge is pretty far inland.
25.09.2023 22:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Last couple of days to submit a proposal for Leeds IMC 2024 for our strand of sessions on 'Early medieval moral economies - c.700-c.1100'. Please do consider it!
21.09.2023 09:21 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Yikes, the pressure!
20.09.2023 18:03 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Callipygian statues 👍🏛🍑
'Cheeky, Witty, Funny' - The Bookseller;
'Crude' - Daily Express 🤣
(curated by @thehistoryboy.bsky.social & @jackshoulder.bsky.social)
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Professor of Medical Anthropology (St Andrews) researching and writing on zoonoses, plague, epidemics, history of colonial medicine, animal studies, and visual culture
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Romanist who has just left the empire, prof at U of Toronto
Museum of Looted Antiquities is a virtual gallery that collects, displays and studies looted antiquities that have been repatriated since 1950 – and the trafficking networks behind them.
MuseumOfLoot.org
Art History & Museum Studies Prof. Ancient Rome, object biography, epistemology, museums, display, looting, provenance, forgery.
Not all views my own. I disagree with lots of views.
I study Roman imperialism and first millennium BCE Italian archaeology. I teach at UMich. I direct the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.
I am originally from Roma.
Pronouns: is/eum (he/him)
Environmental historian of post-Roman Britain and Merovingian Gaul.
PhD Candidate at Georgetown University researching plague, climate, rebel nuns, and disaster.
Philly sports fan and weird rescue animal enthusiast by night.
rachelbsinger.com
Historian / early medieval canon law / Radboud University / Utrecht
Assistant Professor of History, Oklahoma State University.
PhD, Princeton University
Middle Ages & Late Antiquity | Pandemics & Plague | Environmental
Podcast: Infectious Historians @ infectioushistorians.com
Also: Arsenal | Mets | Vikings | UConnWBB
| :: Visigothic script :: | Mss Studies
PI ERC funded project #PeopleAndWriting
Universidad de Salamanca
"an already elusive subject is considered here from a variety of oblique angles"
Ancient historian and failed optimist, always looking for somewhere to procrastinate
We are a century-old organization of members who completed a Rome Prize fellowship or residency at the American Academy in Rome
https://linktr.ee/SocietyofFellows
Scholar of literature, cinema, gastronomy and Mexico. Post about that plus dogs.
Occasional Words: ignaciosanchezprado.substack.com
researcher @dhiroma.bsky.social | early medieval southern Italy | Christian-Muslim relations | Mediterranean
H-Sicily is a network focused on the history of southern Italy (Naples, Sardinia, Sicily, etc.) from circa 200 to 1800 CE.
Find us on H-Net: https://networks.h-net.org/h-sicily
Ikerbasque Research Professor of Medieval History at University of Basque Country UPV/EHU - Coordinating Editor of Early Medieval Europe - Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge (2025-2026)
Living on Lunaapahkiing, faculty at IAS, servant of two cats and sometimes one dog.
