Ott. Lat. 1746, or the time there was a cherub popping out from the C of C. Iulii Caesaris.
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It's a wrap! What a wonderful conference and precious conversation I am bringing home. I am grateful to have been part of the panel on female letter writers and addressees in Graeco-Roman antiquity, organised by @janjasoldo.bsky.social and @gavinkellylatin.bsky.social I learnt so much!
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Wonderful news!
13.03.2025 08:51 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This Friday in Edinburgh. Do come along if you are around and you have a thing for letter collections!
19.02.2025 12:05 β π 9 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Book cover image of Fuseli, The Nightmare painting. The book title is Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination. Author: Jennifer Barry
Professional news: Cover reveal! The official publication date with UC Press is September 23, 2025
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Fighting initial 'A'(rma) at the beginning of Virgil's Aeneid
BnF MS Latin 16236; Publius Vergilius Maro: Eglogae, Georgicae, Aeneis cum glossa; 11th century; France; f.61r
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Wait... I know this author! @janjasoldo.bsky.social
29.01.2025 16:29 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
More than 300 Codices Vossiani Latini now available in open access!
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
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@EdinburghUP informed me that my Sidonius: Letters Book 5, Part 1 is now available to pre-order in paperback! Claim 30% discount ordering from EUP using the code PAPER30.
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A faint writing, the text is in Latin and it reads: Domina magistra felhin date mihi licenciam in hac nocte vigilare cum magistra adalu et ego vobis ambabus manibus confirmo atque iuro ut per totam noctem declinare volo aut legere aut pro seniore nostro cantare Valete et ut peto facite. (Abbreviations have been resolved in this transcription).
Sometimes working with manuscripts gets us really, really close to the people from the past allowing us to hear their voices. This is a story of a letter from a schoolgirl to her teacher, written probably sometime at the end of the 9th or the beginning of the 10th century. A thread 𧡠#medievalsky /1
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A lovely gift from @giuliamarolla.bsky.social!
19.12.2024 08:37 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
I just read Andreas Abele's thoughtful and generous review of my book in the latest issue of Journal of Late Antiquity. You'll also find my review of Michele R. Salzman's The Falls of Rome in the same issue!
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New publication for those who might be interested in the topic. madalinatoca.com/2024/12/10/a...
12.12.2024 13:04 β π 13 π 4 π¬ 0 π 1
Home on the Peutinger map: Natiolum!
10.12.2024 19:46 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Impressive Tacitus in the recently digitised Ott. lat. 1422. Available here! digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ott.lβ¦
09.12.2024 22:17 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Gavin Kelly (Edinburgh), Reinterpreting Ammianus Marcellinus: a new translation and a new edition. At Warsaw Late Antique Seminar, this Thursday at 4.45 p.m. In person and online, as usual.
02.12.2024 08:25 β π 11 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
The hilarious graffiti in #MontyPython'sLifeofBrian are way better than THIS. Really, Ridley?
(I did not watch #Gladiator2 and I suspect I never will).
26.11.2024 23:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Self-portrait of the German nun Guda, scribe and illuminator:
"Guda peccatrix mulier scripsitque pinxit hunc librum."
Frankfurt, Stadtund UniversitΓ€tbibl. Ms. Barth. 42; 12th century; f.110v
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π¨π¨75% off @edinburghup.bsky.social ebooks to celebrate their 75th birthday! No excuse to download from a certain must-not-be-named-library π΄ββ οΈ this time... π #EUP75
17.09.2024 15:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"Imago pictoris et illuminatoris huius operis"
07.09.2024 21:58 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
ππBookworm goals: Γsterreichische NationalbibliothekβοΈ
06.09.2024 19:23 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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New issue of Mnemosyne Vol. 77, No. 5 (2024) brill.com/view/journal... @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
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