Any university that does not threaten to dump their LMS unless it blocks shit like this should lose its accreditation.
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Any university that does not threaten to dump their LMS unless it blocks shit like this should lose its accreditation.
https://www.stadt-koeln.de/politik-und-verwaltung/presse/mitteilungen/28168/index.html?fbclid=IwdGRleAPo0f9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeM6lR1l1jw2j-H-IlJkLsiKy8F2N7Nvrs7SuvFMWpdb5S3BL5WdesziRcfYE_aem_CzxeJCiy645UVAlM5bH7Dg
🚨 In Cologne (Germany), archaeologists have discovered a wooden Roman harbor bank protection structure on the Rhine side. 🪵 www.stadt-koeln.de/politik-und-...
Ah - total across 4 courses! 225 of those are in a big art history survey, 200 in an architectural history survey.
Fortunately, I have a whole bunch of TAs for those courses, so actually no grading for those 425 students believe it or not. Still, it is going to be an... interesting semester
Currently at 495 students for the coming semester and there is a part of me that wants another 5 to sign up to make it a round number
#MosaicMonday - The stunning portrait of Helen as she departs from Sparta to Troy with Paris, whose hand holds her wrist. From the triclinium mosaics of the Roman Villa at Noheda: ca. 4th Century AD. #Archaeology 🏺
Image: Villa Romana de Noheda. Link - cultura.castillalamancha.es/patrimonio/y...
The cover image is the 16th c. chapel at Bradgate House (Leicestershire) - it's not mentioned in the article, but in some good news the chapel was restored last year, and a wider project to restore and reopen the rest of the site is set to finish early this year!
huge W
THE SCREAM I LET OUT, JESUS WEPT
in retrospect, it was amazing how much power people like Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell had at their fingertips in the pre-social media era. They could write an airport book claiming potato chips killed more people than all historical wars combined and it would become universal received wisdom
'The find, which dates to the 6th or 7th century, comes with extraordinary grave goods such as swords and shields, while the horse burial is remarkably similar to the one found at Sutton Hoo’s Mound 17.' A day's ride from Sutton Hoo... Exciting stuff from @cotswoldarch.bsky.social.
visenyaism on tumblr: "Honestly fuck A1 for making me have to go on and on defending the dignity of toil like I'm some kind of protestant"
Actually Derby-Wrexham yesterday! Just posting late haha
Confirmation needed but JFC
Kicking off the new year as God intended by freezing my ass off at a mediocre-quality EFL game
what on earth
Global Medieval Studies Is a Failure Michelle C. Wang PDF PDF PLUS Full Text More than twenty years on, now no longer a novelty, global medieval studies is due for a reappraisal, a clear-eyed look at its successes and, more importantly, at its failures. My essay contributes to this ongoing evaluation from the perspective of the engagement or lack thereof between global medieval studies and area studies. Global medieval studies emerged in a highly specific historical moment and geopolitical context. The opening of medieval studies from western Europe to the Islamic world began to pick up pace in the 1990s.1 Following this, the promise of a truly global medieval studies was born out of a desire on the part of medievalists based in the United States to address distortions of crusader imagery in the aftermath of 9/11 and develop an interconnected approach to the premodern world with the potential to transcend what were assumed to be the limitations of area studies programs.2 Medievalists also acknowledged historical connections between Europe and other world regions, exploring those possibilities in order to counteract the eurocentrism of the field.3
Read this absolute banger of an article by Michelle Wang in the new issue of Speculum!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Coming soon! We are excited to share our first issue in just a few months.
We are also accepting submissions for issue 2 onwards! Feel free to send any questions or ideas to @calthalas.bsky.social @sihonglin.bsky.social or me on here, or with the editors via email tinyurl.com/tph5wvmd
A tune so ancient, it's positively prehistoric.
#CursedCarols
Coming soon! We are excited to share our first issue in just a few months.
We are also accepting submissions for issue 2 onwards! Feel free to send any questions or ideas to @calthalas.bsky.social @sihonglin.bsky.social or me on here, or with the editors via email tinyurl.com/tph5wvmd
The first issue is shaping up nicely already, look out for more news in 2026 and an appearance from the team at the Leeds International Medieval Congress!
Gabled panel with gold ground shows the saint flanked by three scenes on each side and a pair of angels at the top. It's mounted on the wall above a side altar.
Upper left showing Francis holding a book with hands bearing the stigmata. The scene of the stigmatization is at the top of the three scenes on the left.
At the base of the image, below and around Francis's feet, bearing the stigmata, we see the date of 1235 in Roman numerals, and the painter's name
And there it is, the Pescia altar panel, signed by Bonaventura Berlinghieri, and dated 1235, just a decade after St Francis's death. Our earliest example of a panel with scenes of his life and posthumous miracles. Well-displayed in San Francesco, Pescia, its proper home.
Believe it or not, this is even worse than it sounds. Unmissable.
An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
REPEAT AFTER ME (but really, after Neil Kraus):
Wage stagnation and underemployment are not problems that education can fix. We cannot "upskill" students into well-paying jobs that do. not. exist.
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
My new article has now been published in the 2025 volume of Traditio. I use a little examined episode on the lower Rhine in the late 350s with the aid of agricultural archaeology to reveal fiscal dependency relations between the Empire & Barbaricum, & the consequences of their rupture. #medievalsky
Figurative Norman fonts in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Unwrapped.
The mosaic was found only quite recently (in 2021) and it really is a stunner www.bbc.com/news/uk-engl...
Troy Story: The Ketton Mosaic, Aeschylus, and Greek Mythography in Late Roman Britain | Britannia | Cambridge Core
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
