Oh I keep forgetting about this social media, but I just came quickly to say that a few days ago, after a very motivating viva, I successfully defended my doctoral thesis. I'd like to thank everyone here who has shared this journey and supported me in any way 💖
Thank you so much!!
Hi everyone! I know I rarely use this platform but I wanted to share that I was recently awarded the Alfonso Caso medal, the highest distinction for Pg studied. I completed my masters in classics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 2019. Thanks to everyone who has supported me 💖
Damn I am just doing that rn (at an airport)
Naaaah, I think it is the moment to press harder to make it become cool in a way he gets to hate it
Exciting PhD Opportunity! Come join @memsunikent.bsky.social for a CHASE-funded collaborative doctoral award with Westminster Abbey to investigate the manuscript fragments held in the Abbey’s Archives. Learn more at the link below, deadline to apply 17 Feb 2025 📜🎉
research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
I love Harajuku, it is the second best place on Earth, just after Akihabara 💖
Due to its early origins, this text offers us a very rich view of the culture of the early Middle Ages in Sweden, and of the perception of "paganism" aftee the Viking Age there. Definitely one of my favourite texts, it's a bit sad having to stop writing, but other saints' deserve attention too!
To convert. Then Botvid warns everyone to give others what God had given them for free. He is soon after martyred by a Slavic man whom he had freed, and who had promised to go and Christianise his own region.
He worked but one miracle during his earthly life: after being refused permission to fish on another (non-Christian) man's lake, the fish followed him to his own, where everyone was able to fill their ships. The guy who refused worked all night to no avail, until he went to Botvid and promised...
His "Vita" informs us that he was a young merchant and "still a pagan" who on a business trip to England, was received by a priest. He was so impressed by the priest's good customs that he asked to be baptised. He then returned to Sweden and started his own missionary efforts!
A picture of saint Botvid in yellow, holding a fish on his left hand and an axe on his right hand against a red background
Today, I'm trying to wrap up my sub-section on Botvid, one of my favourite saints out there. He is the earliest-known autochthounous Swedish (self-appointed) missionary, and one of th apostles of Södermanland. His hagiography is probably the earliest Latin text produced in Sweden
I will be posting interesting stuff I find during my final writing-up period ❤️
Hello! I am a final-year PhD at the ASNC department (Cambridge) researching the shaping and reshaping of the memory of the Christianisation of Sweden throughout the Middle Ages. I would love to reconnect with the medievalist community which was taken away along with Twitter 😢