We had a blast yesterday launching A Companion to Rome (c. 400-1050) into the world. Thank you to our kind hosts, the KFG Religion & Urbanity, Jörg Rüpke and Susanne Rau, our respondents Mateusz Fafinski and Cinnamon Ducasse, and the audience. And our authors and further collaborators, of course!!

I have just deleted my entire inbox. I'm not sure how much I want to retrieve it..... it might be a good start to the year?

Castrum Caetani, Via Appia, 13th century (@profbernard.bsky.social bored by medieval masonry, admires ancient bits lying around)

Caserma dei Vigili del Fuoco, Via Marmorata 15 (1929)

Come to Rome! with @quidamabo.bsky.social

Apply for the American Academy in Rome summer school, June/July 2025! aarome.org/apply/2025-c...

Brick-faced concrete ruins, pine trees

Rome, yesterday. Baths of Caracalla.

rome beauty apples, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1896

rome beauty apples, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1896

Come to Rome! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Outstandingly fun summer school here:
bsr.ac.uk/now-open-fun...

A group of people standing in front of an ancient Roman city gate and walls. A road continues behind to a farm and church.

Extremely happy to announce that we are once again offering a *FULLY FUNDED* student placement with the @ics.bsky.social/BSR excavations at Falerii Novi.
Thanks to the generosity of the Roman Society! 👏🎉

Happy to answer queries. Pls share.
Info+Eligibility 👉 www.romansociety.org/Grants-Prize...

Christmas gifts from @effinbirds.com birds just placed -- UK buyers are still in time to place an order!

Solar panels are up! www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Come join us in Cambridge as the Mellon Professor of American History: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43935/

An outstanding caffè napoletano in Cambridge! Grazie @fernandag !

black and white photo of brick walls and tower

380 towers in the late antique walls of Rome, I think.. having just drawn them all in on a map.... (here's a nice pic of an obscure one at the Castra Pretoria)

call me old-fashioned. I like paper and pages!

wonderful news (and not surprising at all!)

End of a weeklong workshop on ‘Routes of Glass’ in the Early Medieval Mediterranean, at Fondation Les Treilles…perhaps the most delightful place to have a conference, ever.

Same in our house.

Indeed, this looks seriously cool.

Exciting! Kiln-building and lustre-ware firing in Cambridge at the Fitz this November 15-17 www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/build... (thanks to the efforts of the amazing Mariam Rosser Owen (www.instagram.com/mrosserowen/)

Delighted to see one of my favourites from the other place is here now:

Might mean we ought to be quite careful setting essay topics on Aethelred.....

I too was curious (about my books, not yours) but not curious enough to navigate my institutional access to The Atlantic….

Professorship of Medieval and Renaissance English. Closing date: 30 November 2023. www.hr.admin.cam.ac.uk/files/mediev...

Just came back from this delightful evening of short nature films-- www.oceanfilmfestival.co.uk/ and feel, once again, that Cambridge is pretty far inland.

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A good opportunity to work with Andy Seaman and Charles Insley on the 'Making the March' project, www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DCX385/r...

Last couple of days to submit a proposal for Leeds IMC 2024 for our strand of sessions on 'Early medieval moral economies - c.700-c.1100'. Please do consider it!

Yikes, the pressure!