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Brb, just deleting every "Indeed, ..." that my former self wrote

Me submitting a paper to an editor vs. that same paper coming back to haunt me after a couple months

Zo snapte ik wel meer punten niet. Misschien ligt het aan mij, maar ik vond het vooral erg veel woorden om een aantal stropoppen te aan te vallen🫠

Precies! En alsof hervertellingen het origineel zouden moeten vervangen. Ze gaan juist de dialoog aan waardoor ook het origineel weer relevant wordt in een nieuwe tijd.

An golden enamel plaque showing a man on the back of a blue-ish camel. The camel wears a bell around his neck

An Old Testament (?) figure riding a camel. Meuse valley, c. 1160. London, V&A.

Wat goed dat ze de ervaring van het neuzen door een (slecht gesorteerde) open opstelling willen nabootsen nu die overal meer en meer verdwijnen!

Ik zou zeggen late twaalfde/vroege dertiende eeuw. Sowieso na 1150.

#medievalsky Does anyone know where the idea that something can be both entertaining and educational at the same time comes from? It's probably something very obvious but I only know it from a Dutch proverb (ter leering ende vermaeck) so any clues would be helpful!

Vooral geïntrigeerd door het verschil tussen Γaul en Gaul. Waar komt die Griekse Γ opeens vandaan? (Dat die tweede Gaul op een gekke plek staat, laten we maar even voor wat het is.)

Today's the day! If you're at #IMC2025 and you're up for some medieval classical reception stuff, there are four panels waiting for you!

Hey kids! First time at the #IMC2025 @imc-leeds.bsky.social?

Here are some of Old Man Kramer's Hot Tips!

#medievalsky

Thanks again! I found out that my library has access so I downloaded the chapter for my reading list. It looks very promising!

Oh wow! Strangely enough I never made the connection between those tombs and automata (I've worked on Byzantine/Abbasid ones for a small side project), but of course there is!
Also I just noticed that you discuss Amphiraus's chariot, which will also feature in my book. Thanks for bringing this up!

(Paris, BnF fr. 782, fol. 116)
A sharper image can be accessed here: portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/4309...

Preparing my talk for #IMC2025 I came across this fascinating depiction of Hector's tomb in a 14th-c manuscript of the Roman de Troie. If you are at @imc-leeds.bsky.social and want to hear more about this, drop by on Wednesday when we will host not one, but four full sessions on classical reception!

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Am I the only one who didn't know you need to apply for an Electronic Travel Authorization to travel to the UK these days? Fortunately, I just applied using the app and was approved in about 15 seconds! If you're going to @imc-leeds.bsky.social next week, don't forget to apply! www.gov.uk/eta

Look at this ✨️fabulous✨️ rendition of the prophet Isaiah!
(Souillac, France)

De kruistochten (2/2) Middeleeuwen · Episode

KRUISTOCHTEN | Ook het tweede deel met dr. Ivo Wolsing (@ivowolsing.bsky.social) over de kruistochten staat nu online! Van de kruistochten tot het nachleben en gebruik van die term, tot op de dag van vandaag.

➡️ Deze aflevering is nu overal te beluisteren 🎧

#podcast #geschiedenis #Middeleeuwen

Een half jaar geleden schreef ik een blogpost over Cleopatra. Wat ik toen nog niet wist, is dat die blogpost uiteindelijk de basis zou vormen voor de volgende publicatie: doi.org/10.5117/LAM2...
(Helaas de eerste twee jaar achter een betaalmuur voor niet-abonnees)

Een paar maanden geleden was ik te gast bij de @middeleeuwen.bsky.social om over de Kruistochten te praten. Dat was erg leuk om eens te doen! (Al heb ik het nog niet aangedurfd om mezelf terug te luisteren.)

Een paar maanden geleden was ik te gast bij de @middeleeuwen.bsky.social om over de Kruistochten te praten. Dat was erg leuk om eens te doen! (Al heb ik het nog niet aangedurfd om mezelf terug te luisteren.)

Wonderful news, congratulations!

Hosting a "tips and tricks" for your first ever (or second, third ...) @imc-leeds.bsky.social session for colleagues here at Leiden this afternoon. Any last-minute suggestions as to what to incorporate?

On strike today, against the demolition of higher education in the Netherlands.

The paperwork is signed, that means I can now announce that I'll be starting a new job as lecturer in Medieval History at @humanitiesuu.bsky.social from April onwards!

#medievalsky Is there anyone who could help me to a copy of the following article?
Schonhardt, M. 2016. "Scientific Renewal and Reformed Religious Life: The Case of the Arnstein Bible" Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies 5, 43-60.

Ancient historians/Classicists!

I'm trying to trace the history of racial theories of the fall of the Roman Empire – i.e. that Rome's expansion led to too much 'race mixing' which undermined the state's supposed racial foundations.

I know about Tenney Frank, but did anyone suggest this before him?

Maybe not exactly what you are looking for, but it's a very common line of thought in Roman historiography that expansion led to the influx of 'foreigners' which undermined 'traditional Roman' values. See for instance Benjamin Isaac, The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity.

Can't risk mixing up your fallen angels!

A fantastic image of Satan and his demons in a Beatus manuscript from southern France, late eleventh century.
BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 145v.