David Defries

La carte archéologique de la Gaule entièrement numérisée et accessible sur Gallica, volume par volume ou avec la carte interactive par région! Grâce au partenariat #AIBL et #BnF

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Poster for a talk at 'Midgard Talks 2025' on Thursday 14 August: Text: Christian Cooijmans - Postdoc, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo. 'The Endless Viking Age: Global Perspectives on a Premodern Past' Abstract: The Viking Age fascinates globally, often romanticised or politicised. Yet few studies explore its worldwide perception. Drawing on the Great Viking Survey with over 10,000 responses, this talk reveals new insights into how Vikings are viewed and reimagined today, showing their enduring cultural impact across diverse modern audiences. For more information and ticket prices visit our website: Midgardvikingsenter.no'

This week, our project member Chris Cooijmans will be revealing some initial results from the Great Viking Survey as part of the Midgard Talks series in Borre. Do come along if you find yourself in the area, especially if you're already at Midgardsblot next door!

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Despite OP's valid point, credit to the reporters of the news article for explicitly making the point about the burial practices signalling community inclusion, an important retort of people's efforts to impose modern assumptions onto past behaviours.

medieval illumination of a figure blowing a trumpet

We're Hiring! The Department of Classics and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto invite applications for a full-time, tenure-stream position in Late Antiquity.
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A day spent in Rouen today where I’ve been acting as tour guide to some of the crew. We visited the cathedral, where Rollo and William Longsword have effigies and where there is a relic of Saint Olaf. We also went to the new Viking Cité Immersive experience which was interesting #Saga25 #MedievalSky

In the US, humanities students' tuitions get siphoned off to fund scientific research. In other words, states subsidize corporations with special taxes on humanities students.

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The Dane saga of Breda: A Late Medieval Account of Viking Endeavour and Vernacular Devotion: The Medieval Low Countries: Vol 11 Found in the municipal archives of Breda (present-day North Brabant, Netherlands) is a conspicuous but ill-studied late fifteenth or early sixteenth-century codex, whose contents are deemed to have been composed within the late medieval town. Although characterised as a local cross legend, the Middle Dutch work is customarily referred to by its modern moniker of Denensage (i.e. Dane saga) due to the presence and pursuits of ‘viking’ mariners over the course of its verse narrative. By imparting how a group of Danes found their way to Breda and established a stronghold there – refashioning a prominent local tree into a cross in the process – the work occupies a distinct confluence of historiographical, devotional, and literary authorship. Situating the Dane saga in its sociocultural context, this article explores the wide-ranging narrative influences underpinning it, whilst determining its potential authorship and intended audience(s). Lastly, as well as furnishing a new edition of the manuscript, it offers the first English translation of this important, idiosyncratic text.

Beyond excited that my study of the medieval 'Dane saga' of Breda is finally out (OA 🔓) alongside a first English translation! This anachronistic oddity of devotional/literary storytelling posits how a group of 'vikings' arrived and troubled the city for years.

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Monogram of king Zwentibald, taken from a charter D Z 20, for Trier dated to May 13th, 898. https://urkundenrepositorium.uni-marburg.de/entities/urkunde/d1f9d9d6-a062-4040-a295-1d0d62842602

Hadn't registered how wild Zwentibald's monogram is, they really had no clue what to do with his name #medievalsky

Just because you all need more archaeological finds and sites in your feed. The stone tower at Bastrup, west of Farum on Zealand, Denmark, was constructed around 1100 AD with stones from small travertine quarries around Roskilde. The tower has a diameter of 21 m. The walls are about 6 m wide.

I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.

Today I start my research trip sailing down the River Seine from Paris to Honfleur (via a few stops) in a reconstruction of the Klåstad cargo ship built in 998. It’s the penultimate stage in the ship’s journey from Rome to London throughout the summer. I’ll post updates as we go #Saga25 #MedievalSky

Glad to hear it. There's nothing worse than getting trapped in the endless phone tag that is now "customer service".

Will they automatically charge you?

If ships were less polluting, I'd seriously think about taking one to and from Europe just to avoid flying.

Two facing parchment pages of the 8th-century manuscript written in an Karolingian script and with miniatures on the right

Opening parchment pages of the 8th-century manuscript written in an Karolingian script and a large opening initial letter P on the right

First page in a volume of the Chroniques by Jean Froissart. A book handwritten on parchment with a half-page miniature depicting a contemporary scene and decorated illuminated borders.

Last folio in a volume of the Chroniques by Jean Froissart. A book handwritten on parchment.

Two exceptional manuscripts from the collection of Museum Plantin-Moretus are officially recognized as Flemish Masterpieces! These rare and irreplaceable works now receive special protection from the Flemish government. 🎉 /1

#earlymodern #rarebooks #medievalmanuscript #bookhistory 💙📚📜

Thought for the day: AI is not a plagiarism machine. Instead, it is a primitive accumulation machine. It seizes wealth like an early modern English lord, a settler colonialist and other flavors of capitalist bums.

The more I think about it, the more insane it is that the entire climate movement isn't mobilizing against data centers. They are clearly a way to continue, if not expand, fossil fuel use, they are extremely water intensive, they prey on desperate communities without creating many long-term jobs 1/

I’m about ready to spring for a good spinning one (that doesn’t kill cats). Automatic rake one didn’t work. Can’t stand smell from open one. Open one is stainless steel, which matters.

YouTube video by JORVIK Viking Centre JORVIK Viking Centre at 40

Great to see the film marking JORVIK’s 40th anniversary available on YouTube - featuring various interviews with the original project team. I was fortunate to be at the premiere back in February, and can wholeheartedly recommend. Congrats to @christuckley.bsky.social and
@jorvikviking.bsky.social!

#viking #Scandinavia I need a "quick fact" to provide scale in a conference paper introduction. When did regular contacts between Scandinavia and western Europe begin? The Bronze Age? 2000 BCE? The paper is about when Scandinavians joined western European political and religious systems. Thanks.

This is great. I've long wondered who explained Nietzsche to Trump.

How Mediterranean Economies Were Shaped in the Early Middle Ages The clichéd image of the premodern Mediterranean economy is stagnation until the twin forces of capitalism and Industrial Revolution kick-started growth an

My review article, "How Mediterranean Economies Were Shaped in the Early Middle Ages" in the American Historical Review is out. This was a lot of fun and I try to make sense of 500+ years of recent economic histories. Find it: doi.org/10.1093/ahr/.... 1/

You’re joking, right? I thought Obama got rid of those regulations.

Any #medievalsky members heading to the Leeds International Medieval Congress take care about emails from Global Travel Experts (ops@gtravelhost.com) asking you to 'confirm your booking.' Seems to be an elaborate scam & has targeted other international conferences: www.faops2024.org/gnuboard/bbs...

A typically astute idea from Dr Govan AKA @hornesupremacy.bsky.social

Count me in, for sure

Fantastic thread:

A symposium organised by UCLouvain and Lyon 2 University will explore an aspect of the #History of #relics: the threats and desecrations they suffered in early modern times. I'll talk on the role played by the town of #Mons as a refuge for these sacred treasures between 1550 and 1700
#religion

I've been reading Ada Palmer's "Inventing the Renaissance." It's been very good but slow going - which has both nothing and something to do with Dr. Palmer.

"Nothing" because it is a good book well written.

"Something" because it is (un)fortunately so well written I'm going through it with my 8yo.