but what if she needs to clear her sinus

Dame Averil Cameron obituary Historian whose sparky, innovative Byzantines challenged the stereotype of a stagnant society with nothing new to offer

And Dame Averil Cameron (1940-2026), historian of the Byzantine empire bit.ly/4ex8POD #Skystorians

No amount of AI literacy can protect us because the problem isn’t knowledge, or how to use the system, it’s that the system exists in a culture that has been radically structured around white supremacy and patriarchy and your precious autocomplete incorporates it into its operations.

I really should not be playing this much Stardew Valley but on the other hand ... escapism.

Medieval Masterclass Express — Danièle Cybulskie 4+ Hours of Video Content

Want to bring your medieval world to life? The Medieval Masterclass Express from @5minmedievalist.bsky.social offers practical insights into everyday life in the Middle Ages—perfect for writers, artists, and history enthusiasts.
Check it out: www.danielecybulskie.com/medieval-mas... #medieval

Yup, bright green and purple for me too... weird.

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Ever since Diogenes used a featherless chicken to attack Plato's definition of "human", we have been busy logicking our way into ever more convoluted ways to describe things that seemed so very logical at first.

This is, of course, a good thing. And also never not funny.

Scholarship is like 1% inspiration, 2% perspiration I guess, and 97% just redefining terminology.

*ahem* "RETHINKING terminology" of course.

illustrated scroll in nagari with hand to size

the same

tiiiiny scroll!

Offre d’emploi – Vertretung einer Professur für Mittelalterliche Geschichte (Früh- und Hochmittelalter), Universität Hamburg Einrichtung : Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften, Fachbereich Geschichte Wertigkeit : Pauschale angelehnt an W2 Arbeitsbeginn 01.10.2026, befristet auf der Grundlage des Teilzeit- und Befristungsge…

Offre d’emploi – Vertretung einer Professur für Mittelalterliche Geschichte (Früh- und Hochmittelalter), Universität Hamburg

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Publication – Thégan, « La Bonté de l’empereur Louis », trad. Philippe Depreux Le règne de Louis le Pieux (814-840) a tout d’un drame : commencé en fanfare en célébrant la justice et l’unanimité, il tourne au fiasco, avec son lot de trahisons allant jusqu’à la déposition de l…

Publication – Thégan, « La Bonté de l’empereur Louis », trad. Philippe Depreux

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4 PhD funded positions at Swansea University on history, heritage, archives and museums.
#PublicHistory #Museums #Archives #Heritage

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This is also a good reminder that the obsession about finishing one's studies on time - a favourite mania of many Norwegian politicians - is unhelpful & unhealthy. So much talent is wasted because students are not allowed time to mature.

Dillinger Four - Farts Are Jazz To Assholes YouTube video by TheClash57

Vaguely related: the title of this punkrock classic has lived in my head (rent optional) ever since I first heard it in 1999.

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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:

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After nearly a year of planning, today’s the day! Kicking off “Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages” with a walking tour of Oxford and the Jewry, designed by Natasha Jenman and Naomi Reiter.

Screenshot of a PDF of the published article. Title: "The tie that binds us? Challenging the primacy of DNA in kinship studies and re-centring community in defining human connections across time"

DNA is not the same as kinship.

Our perspective paper argues that treating genetics as the ultimate proof of identity or family can:

• erase community-defined relationships
• reinforce Western biases
• and even cause real harm in policy + research

Special Issue: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I've ranted about LLM "AI" elsewhere, and in replies, but to reiterate it in a thread that I can pin now:

One of the fundamentals of computer science is "Garbage In, Garbage Out". I learned this as a child, learning to program, over 40 years ago.

You cannot put bad data in, and get good data out.

This is a long, excellent thread on the current AI grift.

It also touches on one of my pet peeves: By using terms such as "hallucinations" for results that are factually incorrect, the AI generators are given agency that they do not & will never have.

Partial to Luke 23:34 myself:

"And Jesus said: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. But they, dividing his garments, cast lots".

So much going on in so few words.

Drought, Conflict and the Use of Historical Data and Methodologies in Interdisciplinary Palaeoclimatic Research - Climatic Change Climatic Change - A major challenge in the interdisciplinary study of past climates is ensuring that evidence and data relating to different disciplines are analysed effectively using appropriate...

An article last year claimed that tree-ring data shows a link between drought and late Roman conflicts such as the "Barbarian Conspiracy" of 367. We show problems with such claims and appeal for interdisciplinary palaeoclimatic research to respect historical method.
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(Not) Around a Fire

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

Just home from a lovely workshop on Monastic Leadership. The sort of workshop that involves a campfire. A good workshop.

Sint-Nicolaaskapel, Nijmegen, probably built around 1000 on the site of the Carolingian palace and inspired by the palatial chapel in Aachen. One of the Netherlands’ oldest extant buildings. Very cool!

Q: "But master, didn't the prescribed allotment of bread and wine mean that Benedict's size would increase exponentially?"

A: "Certainly my young apprentice. And so it was that he would be referred to as the Chunky Monky"

Henceforth when discussing the relationship between Gregory the Great and Benedict of Nursia (as implied by the Dialogues, book 2), I will refer to them as Ben & Jerry.

Dit is het geworden. Delen wordt gewaardeerd. hiddebouwmeester.nl/hoe-mark-rut...

Third International History of Knowledge Conference The History of Knowledge Conference brings together scholars from a variety of backgrounds to further develop the field and its impact on other disciplines and society. The theme of this year’s confer...

📣Join us for the 3rd History of Knowledge Conference, "Decentering the History of Knowledge"! The event will take place in Utrecht on 25-27 August 2027.

📝A call for papers will follow in Fall 2026. For more information:
1) Register with "hokconference27@uu.nl"
2) Visit: www.uu.nl/en/news/thir....