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Ancient historians/Classicists! I'm trying to trace the history of racial theories of the fall of the Roman Empire – i.e. that Rome's expansion led to too much 'race mixing' which undermined the state's supposed racial foundations. I know about Tenney Frank, but did anyone suggest this before him?

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A fantastic image of Satan and his demons in a Beatus manuscript from southern France, late eleventh century. BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 145v.

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#medievalsky This is a very specific question, but I'm looking for manuscripts (pre-1200) that combine some sort of time reckoning (e.g. computus) with T-O maps. I know they exist, but until now it's like searching for a needle in a haystack. For instance: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/cca3...

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Zojuist was ik te gast bij de nieuwe podcast van @timoepping.bsky.social om over de Kruistochten te praten. Best spannend om te doen! We hebben uiteindelijk genoeg materiaal opgenomen om twee afleveringen te vullen. Vanaf april/mei te beluisteren op je favoriete podcastapp!

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Voor mijn onderzoek kom ik geregeld in aanraking met manuscripten. Gelukkig zijn er nu veel gedigitaliseerd, wat het makkelijk maakt om ze op afstand te bekijken. Zo kwam ik net dit prachtige chronologische schema tegen, met in het midden, heel prominent, een portret van Homerus!

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Volgens de trendwatchers New York Times worden de Middeleeuwen weer hip in 2025. Ze noemen als voorbeeld Chappell Roan, die tijdens de VMA's van 2024 als een moderne Jeanne d'Arc in een volledig ridderharnas optrad. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/s...

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Never mind woke Marxism, I can't even indoctrinate my students into formatting a bibliography consistently. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Dit is één van de vragen die centraal stond in mijn promotieonderzoek. Mijn proefschrift ging over hoe men in Europa dacht over het Midden-Oosten in de 'lange twaalfde eeuw' (ca. 1050-1250). De belangrijkste conclusie was dat het niet zo zwart-wit is als soms gedacht wordt.

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Ik ben deze week te gast op @historicivertellen.bsky.social om over mijn onderzoek en andere werkzaamheden als historicus te vertellen!

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This looks very interesting!

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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Me, a medievalist: there is probably a nineteenth-century German scholar who has already done so before me.

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The results are in:

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Whoa, we’re halfway there Whoa, we’re halfway there Whoa, we’re halfway there Whoa, we’re halfway there Whoa, we’re halfway there Whoa, we’re halfway there Whoa, we’re halfway there Whoa, we’re halfway there Zeno’s Karaoke

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That's a new one: I just received an email from a pred journal offering me a waiver for a submission. But what's being waived? The peer review process? I'm so confused.

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New Year’s resolution: try out at least one new recipe every week. Starting the year off well with three fermentation experiments. In the making from left to right: hot sauce, water kefir, and kombucha.

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The Middle Ages

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Together with my colleagues from the @relicsresearch.bsky.social research group, I'm organising a conference on premodern transnational literature. See the call for papers here: literatureswithoutborders.com/2024/12/05/c...

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Moedig voorwaarts. Maar waarheen?

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Call for Papers for a Roundtable on Gender in Latin Studies. RELICS is organizing a digital roundtable on the topic of gender in Latin Studies on March 11, 2025. Proposals for impulse talks of 5 minutes should be sent to [email protected] by January 13. More info:👇 relicsresearch.com/2024/12/10/c...

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Als je de Nederlandse wetenschap wil afbranden, mag je hopen dat er daarna niets meer in de fik gaat. #DoeHetNiet

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Comme je l'écrivais ailleurs : dire que "sarrasin" signifie "païen" et non "musulman" "𝘁𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗮𝘂 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝘂 𝗠𝗼𝘆𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗴𝗲" me paraît très discutable. Les voyageurs occidentaux dans l'Empire mongol qui emploient le mot le font sans équivoque pour désigner les musulmans. 1/10 #mongolsky #tengri

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She's not the sharpest tool in the shed, but we love her all the more for it

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What has Cleopatra to do with the Crusades? Find out in my latest contribution to the Leiden Medievalists Blog! 👇 www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/wha...

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What has Cleopatra to do with the Crusades? Find out in my latest contribution to the Leiden Medievalists Blog! 👇 www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/wha...

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Together with my colleagues from the @relicsresearch.bsky.social research group, I'm organising a conference on premodern transnational literature. See the call for papers here: literatureswithoutborders.com/2024/12/05/c...

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The Ark of Noah, or, morning commute. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 4939, fol 8v.

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It's the last Friday of November, which means that the IMC acceptance emails have been sent. This year's came with a special celebratory card. I'm organising four panels on classical reception this year, covering the whole Wednesday. Looking forward to seeing what everyone's plans are! #medievalsky

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So weird to be reviewing a book by a Big Name in your field. Like, who am I to have a critical opinion about their work? I haven't even finished writing my first book yet!

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Sloopkogel Eppo #woinactie

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On my way to The Hague to demonstrate against the budget cuts threatening Dutch academia. Trying my best to stay positive, but as an ECR on a temporary contract, these cynical 850-year old verses sometimes resonate more with me. (Translation in reply.)

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Actie!

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Seeing a lot of 'invalid handles' today, as far as I can tell mostly from people who have been on here some time already. Could it have something to do with the recent influx coming from the Bad Place?

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This is how I imagine I look while grading my students' essays this week. (It's OK, they're still learning)

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Om 13.00u bij het Moreelsepark! Wie zie ik daar?

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