Comic: Types of Board Game. [Each panel has a person, a person with a ponytail, a person with shoulder-length hair, and a person with a white hat seated around a table with different board game and pieces on top. (1) Boring: PERSON 3: Each turn, roll a die and move your token. Turns proceed clockwise around the table until we all get tired and go home. (2) Abstract: PERSON 1: Each turn, you can place any number of red triangles or blue squares on a hexagon, or move any hexagon to a... (3) Hyperspecific Theme: PERSON 2: It’s October 2, 1814. The Congress of Vienna convenes. You are each in charge of distributing and lighting candles for the opening ball, which was held at these three locations... (4) Overcomplicated: PERSON 4: It’s a cross between *Twilight Imperium* and *Cones of Dunshhire*, but implemented entirely in category theory. Every cone is a monad, and... (5) Cooperative: PERSON 3: We’re working together to sort these decks of cards using only hand gestures. After that, we’ll silently organize my junk drawer. (6) Branded: PERSON 1: You can play as Phoebe, Chandler, Monica, Rachel, Ross, Joey, or, due to an ill-advised tie-in, Goku. (7) Party: PERSON 2: Each of the cards in your hand has a bad word on it. On the count of three, yell the... (8) Social Deduction: PERSON 3: Remember, per our *find the secret murderer* house rules from last week, discovering that a player has committed a real-life murder does *not* count.

Types of Board Game

xkcd.com/3235/

Cool stuff, what a great opportunity! Not just a fully funded PhD project, but one in conjunction with CNRS!

VIEWS Summer seminars 2026 We are delighted to announce an exciting programme of seminars for the coming term, taking place in May and June 2026. The first two seminars are in-person/hybrid, the second two online only &#8211…

VIEWS Summer seminars 2026 (online and hybrid) @viewsproject.bsky.social viewsproject.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/v... @pierskelly.bsky.social

Brittany to Auxerre: Networks of Knowledge along the Loire and Beyond : Find an Expert : The University of Melbourne <p> Christianity dominates the intellectual and literary culture of the early medieval Latin West, and central to this culture are the biblical commentaries, glosses, and glossaries that facilitated the study and interpretation of scripture. Long dismissed as mere patchworks of patristic sources, these works, both anonymous and attributed, are now recognised as creative and innovative contributions to an interconnected tradition of scholarship — and as invaluable witnesses to the intellectual activity of their times and places of production. This project will investigate the networks of knowledge that connected the major religious and intellectual centres of ninth- and tenth-century Francia, with a particular focus on the Loire and Burgundy regions, home to celebrated houses such as Fleury, Auxerre, Tours, Orléans, and Reims. </p> <p> The successful candidate will take as their starting point the <em>Glossae Floriacenses (currently being edited by the primary supervisor),</em> attested at Fleury and Reims and containing Old Breton and Old English glosses. This work provides compelling early evidence of the regional connections under investigation. The candidate will focus on Genesis as a biblical book that attracted an especially substantial and varied corpus of commentary and glosses, thus making it an ideal case study for identifying textual relationships and moments of creative intervention. In addition to this compilation, the project will survey a wide range of published, in-progress, and as-yet-unstudied exegetical compilations to trace the transmission, adaptation, and innovation of material across this geographically and intellectually rich landscape. </p> <p> The candidates should have a strong knowledge of Latin, and knowledge of palaeography, medieval textual culture, and textual transmission would be an advantage. </p> <p> <strong>Notes to interested applicant</strong>: please attach a statement of interest to your CV document when submitting your Expression of Interest. </p>

TWO #FUNDED #MEDIEVAL #LATIN #PHD OPPORTUNITIES

Co-supervised by myself and Franck Cinato, with time @cnrs.fr and @unimelb.edu.au

#Scholarship includes tuition fees, living allowance, health insurance, and relocation support

Get in touch!

Project 1: go.unimelb.edu.au/85t2
Project 2:

I have a papyrology joke bu[t ca. 15 ].

Theatre in the Greek and Roman world: What three decades of archaeological excavations in Paphos in Cyprus can tell us about ancient performance Discover the ancient theatre of Nea Paphos—its Greek origins, Roman transformation, long life, and what research reveals about theatre in the Classical city.

Free Public Lecture:

Theatre in the Greek and Roman world: What three decades of archaeological excavations in Paphos in Cyprus can tell us about ancient performance
By Dr Craig Barker (University of Sydney)

Sat, 23 May, 6:30pm - 8pm AEST, University of Melbourne

Postponed due to unforeseen circumstances - new date to be announced. Many apologies!

New Medieval Books: Flattening the Medieval Earth - Medievalists.net When did the myth that medieval people believed the Earth was flat begin? This book explores how that idea emerged around the year 1600. To be clear, people in the Middle Ages did not believe the…

New Medieval Books: Flattening the Medieval Earth, published by @routledgehistory.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2026/04/new-... #flatearth #history #medievalmyths

Brittany to Auxerre: Networks of Knowledge along the Loire and Beyond : Find an Expert : The University of Melbourne <p> Christianity dominates the intellectual and literary culture of the early medieval Latin West, and central to this culture are the biblical commentaries, glosses, and glossaries that facilitated the study and interpretation of scripture. Long dismissed as mere patchworks of patristic sources, these works, both anonymous and attributed, are now recognised as creative and innovative contributions to an interconnected tradition of scholarship — and as invaluable witnesses to the intellectual activity of their times and places of production. This project will investigate the networks of knowledge that connected the major religious and intellectual centres of ninth- and tenth-century Francia, with a particular focus on the Loire and Burgundy regions, home to celebrated houses such as Fleury, Auxerre, Tours, Orléans, and Reims. </p> <p> The successful candidate will take as their starting point the <em>Glossae Floriacenses (currently being edited by the primary supervisor),</em> attested at Fleury and Reims and containing Old Breton and Old English glosses. This work provides compelling early evidence of the regional connections under investigation. The candidate will focus on Genesis as a biblical book that attracted an especially substantial and varied corpus of commentary and glosses, thus making it an ideal case study for identifying textual relationships and moments of creative intervention. In addition to this compilation, the project will survey a wide range of published, in-progress, and as-yet-unstudied exegetical compilations to trace the transmission, adaptation, and innovation of material across this geographically and intellectually rich landscape. </p> <p> The candidates should have a strong knowledge of Latin, and knowledge of palaeography, medieval textual culture, and textual transmission would be an advantage. </p> <p> <strong>Notes to interested applicant</strong>: please attach a statement of interest to your CV document when submitting your Expression of Interest. </p>

TWO #FUNDED #MEDIEVAL #LATIN #PHD OPPORTUNITIES

Co-supervised by myself and Franck Cinato, with time @cnrs.fr and @unimelb.edu.au

#Scholarship includes tuition fees, living allowance, health insurance, and relocation support

Get in touch!

Project 1: go.unimelb.edu.au/85t2
Project 2:

Ancient #Greece

Delos, house of the dolphins, detailed view of the eponymous #mosaic from the 2nd century BCE (📸 Ancient Hellas).

#MosaicMonday

#Art #Archaeology #History

2026 Joseph Burke Lecture In Art History Trinity College, University of Melbourne, and the Australian Institute of Art History invites you to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Joseph...

Looking forward to this!

2026 Joseph Burke Lecture in Art History

Alicia Walker, Professor at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania on

'Medieval Art of the Eastern Mediterranean: Global Networks in a Pre-Global World?'

6:30pm, Thursday 30 April 2026, at Trinity College, Parkville

Double rainbow day! #TinyJoys

Greek vase depicting scenes from Oedipus.

Sculpture of the winged goddess Iris.

Relief sculpture featuring Clytemnestra.

Model wearing ancient golden funerary crown.

Can’t recommend the Rituals exhibit at the Hellenic Museum Melbourne highly enough!

www.hellenic.org.au/exhibitions/...

Pics below from OTHER exhibits also ongoing… A really wonderful space to explore!

Just finished reading this cracker of an article, but needed most of all to share this utterly wonderful set of keywords:

St. Brigit, hagiography, Broccán's hymn, immram, UNDERWATER MONASTERY, liturgical practices, Church reform

Presenter Abstracts 2026 Destiny in a Language: How the Fortuna of Female Pilgrims Became Literary FamaAlessandra Adornato – University of Barcelona, Portugal Abstract: This study investigates the dialectic between F…

Presenter abstracts for our upcoming online conference Fame and Fortune 25-26 April are now live! Thanks to everyone for their submissions! Register now to attend—full agenda to follow shortly. Please share widely #ancientsky #medievalsky #earlymodernsky ceraejournal.com/presenter-ab...

hands holding a small, folded up comic, titled Marginalia with a medieval dragon-snail creature on its cover.

Today's my birthday and I'd like to share a new comic with you, it's called Marginalia. It's a love letter to all the weirdness of medieval manuscripts, and you can read it by unfolding a single sheet of paper!
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a close up of a man wearing a helmet and headphones . Alt: A close up of a man wearing a headset. It’s Keanu Reeves in the movie Speed, trying to decide what to do.

You have $20, what do you?! WHAT DO YOU DO?!

Just arrived: Drew Jones' 2-volume edition and translation with extensive commentary of Odo of Cluny's tenth-century epic poem, The Occupatio. Over 1000 pages in length, this is a towering work of scholarship, comparable to Giles Constable's 1967 edition of the Letters of Peter the Venerable.

your moment of calm: bun contemplates eternity

‘Across the self-help texts of the 1200s and 1300s I have discovered two approaches to procrastination: one is destructive, but the other is inspiring, even life-affirming. And the difference depends on how, in those wasted moments, we engage our hearts.’

Management consultants are ruining UK universities Relentless off-the-peg commercial rewiring has undermined British higher education

Management consultants are ruining UK universities ft.trib.al/0LelZP9 | opinion

“Copy Moon joy” #Artemis

Fragmentary papyrus leaf with Uncial script

Fragmentary papyrus leaf with Uncial script

Today is the feast of Isidore of Seville! Several MSS to share of the 1000+ that survive; I'll put them in separate posts. St. Gall 226 consists of surviving leaves of a *papyrus* codex from later 7th-c. southern France! This is the only papyrus MS in the St. Gall Stiftsbibliothek. 🧵#medievalsky

Title: Hunting for Easter eggs with Werner Herzog Panel one: Werner goes out looking for eggs saying “I despise this idiotic sanitized ritual, and yet I am unwilling to return home eggless” Panel two: Werner stands before an egg on the ground “The joy of discovery rings hollow against the monumental indifference of the universe” Panel three: Werner carries an egg “what, other than regret, can hatch from this empty chocolate vessel”

Happy Easter!

The most Yorkshire pudding of all! 😍

Perfect for Easter, EGGO is a two piece construction toy by Duncan Shotten*. www.instagram.com/p/C5NZFg8M4s0/

Bookmark! Read! Share with the students and mentees in your life!

Coin finds from Aquae Sulis presented in the Roman baths in Bath. #FindsFriday

A large concrete rabbit which has iron rod whiskers and is quite geometric. It is some sort of play house for kids, with a door and windows.

Our annual viewing of the Brutalist Easter Bunny in Jyväskylä, Finland.

www3.jkl.fi/taidemuseo/v...