A little late for International Women’s Day but I’m enjoying some of the chapter titles in this interesting looking book, including ‘Of Lynx and Ladies ‘ and ‘Freyja, Frigg, and the Ladybird Beetle‘ #medievalsky
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Reposting for the afternoon crowd, especially those in search of a new podcast!
Check out the latest Early Medieval Europe podcast, in which I interviewed Christina Lee and Holly Miller about their recent article, in a terrific conversation about medicine, magic and pigs (many, many pigs)! #medievalsky
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You can find their wonderful article here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Check out the latest Early Medieval Europe podcast, in which I interviewed Christina Lee and Holly Miller about their recent article, in a terrific conversation about medicine, magic and pigs (many, many pigs)! #medievalsky
rss.com/podcasts/ear...
the most annoying shift in my academic career
The latest "Early Medieval Europe" podcast is out now! Catch @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social talking to Holly Miller and Christina Lee about their new article on animals and early medieval medicine: rss.com/podcasts/ear...
All the best oracle are saying, Donald, if you invade PERSIA, a great empire will fall! We love our ORACLES, especially as regards to Delphi and Future! thank you for your attention to this matter!
Thank you for this well-written piece!
Anyone who works in the field of history will be in awe of what Kathleen Wood-Legh achieved despite her blindness.
There are recordings of this Cambridge: City of Scholars, City of Refuge (1933-1945) conference you mention.
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I hadn’t realised they were recorded! Thank you so much for pointing me to them!
I very much enjoyed writing this a couple of years ago. Kathleen Wood-Leigh was an extraordinary woman and scholar. #medievalsky
Please circulate this widely, especially among Francophone colleagues. University of Ottawa has reneged its earlier decision not to suspend its Greek & Roman studies programme. The only one won taught in French in the most populous Canadian province. @otavano.bsky.social elaborates in this piece.
As I’ve learned to my cost with medieval manuscript, Roman numerals are particularly vulnerable to this, it being so easy to accidentally write something like VI instead of VII.
A find photograph of a small, rectangular lead plaque, Torksey find DB 1620, from the Great Army camp at Torksey, Lincolnshire.
It's Viking Camps #FindsFriday! I've had a few weeks away, with both the Jorvik Festival and half term, so we'll get back to it today... and in honour of yesterday's World Book Day (heavily norse-themed in this household) I thought we'd look at a find with some writing.
This is Torksey DB 1620. /1
inscribed slate
The slate of Carrio (Asturias), c. 900, which contained a charm against storms: discussed in a just-published article on early medieval storm makers, by Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez.
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Further, what constitutes international law can be disputed but it’s much less ambiguous than what constitutes moral behaviour. I don’t want whatever’s left of the Iranian government to be free to act according to its own morality because I find what it considers moral horrifying.
I’m not sure about this. A regime that follows international law is a predictable one that can be trusted to stand by its commitments, even if it acts less morally than we’d like. By all means condemn the morality of the war, but the legal bit also matters.
*Flees the oncoming angry but incredibly harmonious sounds of wrath.*
Just three months after the ex-Reform leader for Wales was convicted of taking Russian money, the former advisor to the Labour Secretary of State for Wales has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China. This is shocking! How long has Wales been known for leeks?
JFC...We have absolutely no shame whatsoever.
National Strategic Reserve of Shame...empty. Can't even borrow any shame from someone, apparently.
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A man working a plow in a field - carried by a small elephant. This detail is from Sebastian Münster's Cosmographiae uniuersalis, vol. 6, 1550.
In 1550, one Elephant Power (EP) was the equivalent of 10 Horse Power (HP).
I think this summarises Arcane as a tv show. Everything about it, including the music, but also the visuals, was several notches better than it had to be. Watching it was an experience of delighted bafflement for me.
Dr. Jeremy Swist @MetalClassicist I still think they should have called themselves De Grill. Traduci post ALT De Gruyter Brill @degruyter_brill • 8h De Gruyter Brill begins here. Today De Gruyter and Brill will continue as one company: De Gruyter Brill, the leading publisher in the humanities.
New! Tracks in the Field - "Byzantine Animals: Forgotten Citizens of a 'Forgotten' Empire" by Przemysław Marciniak online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/2/1
Delighted that my study of "Archbishop Hraban Maurus, King Lothar II and the Roman Army" is now published in the Festschrift for Geneviève Bührer-Thierry, alongside many other (much better) contributions!
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You’re just Takin the piss now!
Raytheon Executive: I know you’re skeptical about buying American again. But hear me out. The MIM-104 Patriot is the only surface to air missile system with a proven track record of success against the US Air Force.
Danish Defense Minister: Continue.
Is this a pigeon meme with the person labeled Bluesky, the butterfly an is statement and captioned is this an ought?
Not insulting enough but:
Picture from A Knight’s Tale with shattered lances depicted with broken spaghetti
I know he had some interesting politics, but a decent chunk of the Keats I’ve read came as a result encountering and loving Dan Simmons‘ Hyperion Cantos. I may have to dig out my copies.
