Jon Dell Isola

Unemployment

I would need to try to find it (who knows if I could) but I feel like I've seen that in a charter maybe?

MAGA Voter Claims She Loves High Gas Prices

MAGA Voter Claims She Loves High Gas Prices https://theonion.com/maga-voter-claims-she-loves-high-gas-prices/

Do you know somebody who needs to learn Latin from scratch or improve their Latin to PhD standard? CMS Toronto's summer Latin program is now entirely online and a remarkable bargain for the intensity and quality of instruction. Details here: www.medieval.utoronto.ca/latin/summer...

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The Radical Spanish Empire — Harvard University Press A groundbreaking history of political struggle in the Spanish New World, where commoners and elites alike challenged the social order through the remarkable power of paperwork.As Spanish conquistadors...

this looks interesting

Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic Cambridge Core - Ancient History - Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic

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Gonna roll this one out when people whine about the cost of converting the electric grid to renewables

Klingt spannend!👇

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My great mistake in life has been operating under the delusion that it is good to know things.

This is such a cool idea #medievalsky

Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies.

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Remember the last time gas prices were super high and places started tacking on "delivery fees" that never went away? Can't wait to see round 2 of that

Few people know that MGH really stands for M(e)G(a)H(ip)!

I need to make sure everyone nearby knows how cool I am, naturally

Photo of Benjamin Dreyer's book, "Dreyer's English: an Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style." It is resting on my lap on top of a tote bag

Can't wait to open this up!

Seeing ppl circulate projects whose NEH grants were canceled by DOGE reaffirms my argument about AI as a permission structure. Some grants were canceled w/o a “no” from the generated summary. DOGE had a mandate to slash humanities funding & AI gave them the veneer of a rationale for their actions.

This reminds me that I need to really start my "Historian's Closet" where historians come and talk to me about the books that were most informative to them

Its one of the best parts I think!

This is where I'm at. I think we need to more clearly distinguish computational approaches from the Magic Google Box

When we did writing workshops for grad students I often found it more useful when something was more unpolished. Its way easier to engage with it at that stage than a "finished" project

"college isn't right for everyone" I see deployed all the time to shift blame away from defunding higher ed

History is just about how evildoers toppled those great empires, clearly

the emphasis on "order then chaos then order again" also seems to be doing some rhetorical work here

Needs to be stated: this isn't how it works.

What is an Academic Field? Some Positive Reflections Hello! I received my PhD in Medieval History in May 2025 and am using my expertise to educate interested people in the Middle Ages and the process of creating history. Subscribing as either a free or ...

Things in the academic world (and elsewhere) are pretty grim currently. I wanted to write something a bit more positive, and personal, about what an academic field can be. Partially inspired by a moment of existential terror when I opened a journal and didn't recognize any of the names. #medievalsky

There is so much great looking stuff, it is both a blessing and a curse that I find all periods of history fascinating

This looks good, gonna treat myself by ordering it from my local bookstore

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Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire Abstract. Man is part of nature, we say, and perhaps for most of us nature includes all that exists (at least in a tangible way—i.e. if we want to exclude

My latest book, on open access!

Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire url: academic.oup.com/book/61617