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Historian of Late Antiquity. British Academy Postdoc at University of Liverpool. Hispanophile, Leodensian. https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/david-addison
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Good news for medievalists ... But on a serious note, is there any good work from pre-modern historians engaging with Varoufakis's "Technofeudalism" etc?

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

A reminder about the EME/BSR fellowship: a month's stay in Rome for someone doing/recently finished a PhD on early medieval European history. Deadline 31st January. bsr.ac.uk/second-bsr-e...

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

It's clear that there are particularly acute issues in funding for the humanities and arts, but I've also always found it eye-opening to speak to scientists about how bad things are getting in their disciplines. A general crisis.

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

Really interesting long essay on Netflix & the streamers. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

submitted 70 days ago • 53 comments

About a 10th of the number of Ukrainian refugee children state schools took in without any panicked coverage. Such nonsense.

submitted 73 days ago • 35 comments

I'm slightly surprised by the negative response from academics to Labour's axing of the Latin programme in certain states schools. What's a good reason to teach Lati to children, besides a hazy nostalgia for the bad old days of grammar schools and the cultural canon they cultivated?

submitted 77 days ago • 2 comments

Well this forthcoming book looks perfectly delightful from a great scholar: "Gardens in Northern Iberia in the Early Middle Ages: Practice, Product, and Sale" by Wendy Davies: academic.oup.com/book/58984

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Very happy to see my new article on Paschasius of Dumium and the Iberian translation of the Apophthegmata patrum published (open access) in Al-Masaq. Features Atlantic-Mediterranean connectivity, Evagrius Ponticus, and a crocodile. doi.org/10.1080/0950...

submitted 111 days ago • 2 comments

Very happy to see my new article on Paschasius of Dumium and the Iberian translation of the Apophthegmata patrum published (open access) in Al-Masaq. Features Atlantic-Mediterranean connectivity, Evagrius Ponticus, and a crocodile. doi.org/10.1080/0950...

submitted 111 days ago • 2 comments

Re: being culpable, what's so unnerving about this line of argument is that it partakes in exactly the same demand for direct relevance that government and industry increasingly and (often) unreflectively make of universities.

submitted 114 days ago • 1 comment