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YouTube video by Centrum Ceraneum Colloquia Ceranea VI, session 5, 10 May 2024

I also found out the session I participated in with Claire Burridge and Leonie Böttiger (@leonieboettiger.bsky.social) at the 2024 Colloquia Cerenea has been posted: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gixC.... While it's never a pleasure hearing yourself speak, I'm happy there's a recording!

YouTube video by Centrum Ceraneum Colloquia Ceranea VII: Prof. Joanita Vroom, The Archaeology of Food and Consumption in Byzantium

For those interested in Food History and/or Eastern Roman history, TIL that the Centrum Ceraneum at the University of Łódź has been uploading its recent keynotes, lectures and conference sessions. Prof. Joanita Vroom's recent lecture definitely seems worth the watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IHl...

Echoing what others said: it's a pretty easy bus or cab from the airport to Leeds. Only issue I've ever had was when Leeds coincided with a bank holiday or something and the lines for security got really crazy. Still made the flight, tho.

The Common Good: Military Service as Community Organisation in the Carolingian World The Carolingian empire under Charlemagne (768–814) and Louis the Pious (814– 840) was a polity deeply shaped by war, or, more specifically, the organisation of warfare. Taking the – for its time – ...

Did you ever wonder how the Early Medieval state worked? (And what it was ...?) - Here is my take on it. doi.org/10.1080/0304...

Cover of the book 'Priests, Books, and Compilatory Practices in the Carolingian Period'

Can't get enough of local priests? I hope not, because my book 'Pastoral Works. Priests, Books, and Compilatory Practices in the Carolingian Period' has just been published by Brepols (doi.org/10.1484/M.US...). You can read the book's introduction on my website (libripendis.eu/posts/26past...).

Great! Something to dig into later today!

"Turn of the 9th century" can also mean late 9th, early 10th. I've always found the phrase annoyingly ambiguous.

A magical text written in the 16th century on the previously blank margin of an earlier liturgical manuscript. Part of the original liturgical text can be seen at the bottom of the leaf. The leaf would originally have been part of the outer margin of a large leaf but has been rotated 90 degrees clockwise.

Just found out about this amazing example of #manuscript #recycling . The whole manuscript is made up from the margins of an earlier liturgical manuscript, cut out and rearranged (hence the unusual format), the (mostly) blank margins then used to copy various magical texts in the mid 16th century.

Image of front cover of BICS Journal Issue, Orosius Through the Ages

Image of Table of Contents of BICS Special Issue Orosius Through the Ages

The Special Issue of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Orosius Through the Ages, is out!!

Co-edited with Elisabeth Manzo & Cameron Wachowich, on the boil since 2019, we're so pleased with the final output. Both Dr M. & Dr W. have completed their PhDs since then too!

Happy to report that our book 'Local Priests in the Latin West, 900-1050' has been published! It is Open Access, so you can read (or download) it here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Local Priests in the Latin West, 900–1050 Cambridge Core - European Studies - Local Priests in the Latin West, 900–1050

Five years, four authors, one book. Out now (fully open access), our new book on local priests in the tenth century 🌟 www.cambridge.org/core/books/l... @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social

New book on early medieval medicine coming down the line: boydellandbrewer.com/book/early-m...

Congratulations, Charles! The Utrecht-Nijmegen medieval history book club will be reading/discussing it at the end of this academic year!

Hurrah! My new book, Europe in the Eleventh Century: Beyond Revolution and Reform is officially published today by Oxford University Press. 1/5 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Early Medieval Europe: Vol 33, No 4 Early Medieval Europe is an interdisciplinary medieval studies journal covering European history from the fall of the Roman Empire up until the 11th century.

Need cheering up on a gloomy October afternoon? The new issue of Early Medieval Europe is out!
Articles on justice in Bavaria, tolls in Italy, women in 10th-c. Rome, Carolingian kingship, and child slavery: mostly available Open Access 😎https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680254/2025/33/4

In incredibly Dutch fashion, I cycled the Elfstedentocht with my grand-parents when I was 11 or so (camping, over the course of a week).

It's a Dutch city rights thing: IJlst, historically has city rights and is thus a city, regardless of size. It's one of the eleven Frisian cities that people ice skate through for the "Elfstedentocht", the Netherlands' most famous natural ice skating tour (when we still got thick enough ice).

Just an excuse to award a medal for them to study in the future ;)

I will back up Sam in saying that since I've been quietly following this discussion, several very questionable and slanderous comments have been deleted from under the main post to which Sam is responding. Some were latching onto insinuations in the main post, others took ugly turns of their own.

A 17th century letter on paper by Dutch historian/poet/playwright P.C. Hooft

And now for something completely different: the Text Object Research Network at the Radboud Institute for Culture and History had its first date with a manuscript of the academic year. I found myself reading a 17th c. letter by famous Dutch historian/poet/playwright P.C. Hooft. Not my usual fare!

Another (quite exciting looking!) book from Tübingen!!

Sure you wonder (like me) what the bishops were doing/thinking in 829. - Well, here's the answer! publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/handle...

Paul the Deacon's Roman History (Book One) From Rome's origins to the first sack of Rome

An interesting new blog series by @ajaltamimi.bsky.social translating the Roman History of Paul the Deacon. #medievalsky

www.aymennaltamimi.com/p/paul-the-d...

The elephant rides again! 🐘 Join us on a journey from the palaces of Baghdad, through the streets of Córdoba and all the way to the forests of Aachen #medievalsky

Begraafplaats vol schatten gevonden uit vroege middeleeuwen in Nijmegen Op het grafveld lagen volgens de onderzoekers mannen, vrouwen en kinderen begraven. De menselijke resten zijn volledig vergaan, maar in de grond zaten veel objecten.

New early medieval grave field in Nijmegen!

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Net afgestudeerd in de vroege middeleeuwen? Manuscripten-fanaat? Paleografie en Latijn? We hebben een part-time baan voor een Nederlandstalige getalenteerde duizendpoot: vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterda...
Wie vragen heeft: emailen mag. En deel dit vooral. @irenevanrenswoude.bsky.social

You're doing all the hits!

Can highly recommend this volume as a holiday gift --as an added bonus you can even read my article within it about the judicial experiences of vulnerable groups in the Carolingian empire.

Judith of France : Leighton, Margaret, 1922-1976 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 281 pages : 22 cm

TIL that someone wrote a children's novel about Charles the Bald's daughter, Judith of Flanders: archive.org/details/judi...

Collectio CCCC capitulorum, The Collection in 400 Chapters - CUAPress Surviving in three ninth-century manuscripts, the collection of canon law known as the Collectio 400 capitulorum is a remarkable and understudied witness to...

I have yet to see the book myself, but the
‪@cua-press.bsky.social‬ website assures me that my edition of the Collectio CCCC capitulorum is now out! This early medieval collection of canon law has been with me for a very long and I am happy to see it published www.cuapress.org/978081323847... 1/2