New and improved term card! The Long Middle Ages is now sponsored by the White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities (AHRC-UKRI) 🥳
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We now have a Bluesky! Our programme is on the way for Spring 2026, in the meanwhile, join our mailing list by emailing thelongmiddleages@gmail.com to get updates on what's coming.
We're excited for a semester of great talks!
#medievalsky #lateantique #earlymodern #seminar
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PSA for everyone who uses the MGH and is looking for a software to handle their ginormous PDFs: PDF XChange has a free version that handles them better than Adobe Pro! #medievalists #medieval #lateantique
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Need help from a medievalist: what do we do with these obscenely large PDFs from the MGH? How do you search them? How do you make them smaller? Venantius Fortunatus poems are 1000MB!! Please help! #medieval #medievalsky #lateantique
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Only two weeks left to submit your abstracts!
#medievalsky #medieval #earlymodern #lateantique
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Spread the word! A new postgraduate and early career researcher seminar series at @universityofleeds.bsky.social! For those studying the Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern periods. We look forward to reading your proposals! #medievalsky #earlymodern #lateantique
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Giancarlo Lacerenza, Gli ebrei nell’#ItaliaAntica. Dalla diaspora all'età cristiana, forthcoming in September from Carocci Editore www.carocci.it/prodotto/gli... #JewishHistory #Antiquity #LateAntique
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SARCOPHAGUS OF THE LAMBS, C5. PRATO DI S. VITALE, RAVENNA Between 1910 and 1919, excavations carried out in front of the façade of the church of S. Agnese in Ravenna revealed a monumental graveyard with huge stone sarcophagi. These were first moved to the archaeological museum in the monastery of S. Romualdo, but were subsequently used as decoration for the city. Several were placed here in the field around S. Vitale. This one is typical of Ravenna's late-antique sarcophagi: a huge marble box with a tall heavy lid, difficult to rob. These lids characterise "Ravenna-style" sarcophagi, along with a near total renunciation of the classic vocabulary of funerary reliefwork. The most we get here are two pilasters at the corners. Otherwise the form of the sarcophagus front is similar to the two Erotes holding a clipeus of the deceased, except that the clipeus is a laurel wreath containing the chrismon flanked by sheep standing on the ground. Two flowers float over the backs of the sheep.
#SarcophagusSaturday takes us to the park around the #lateantique #basilica of #SanVitale in #Ravenna, where a series of impressive #sarcophagi line the paths toward the so-called #mausoleum of #GallaPlacidia. #AncientBluesky 🏺
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Mosaic showing a curved line of people watching the chariot race. In the middle, someone is selling refreshments (perhaps pies?). The barrier in front consists of multicoloured stripes.
One for #mosaicmonday The "two apses" room at Piazza Armerina is the entrance of the palace's bath suite. The design shows the Circus Maximus in Rome with a chariot race. This detail shows some of the audience watching the races. #sicily #piazzaamerina #romanarchaeology #lateantique #chariot
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The first in a series on me demoing #LateAntique clothing. This one focuses on a pretty basic recruit in the #RomanMilitary circa roughly the 4th century CE. youtube.com/shorts/HnLgX...
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CALL FOR PAPERS: The Third Online Athens-Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival (30-31 May 2025).
This is an exciting opportunity for authors to share recently published books on on any area of #LateAntique and #ByzantineStudies (AD ca.300–ca.1500)!
hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even...
#byzantium
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![MARBLE BLOCK, C1 CE, REUSED AS STANDARD MEASURE, C. 450 CE. BATHS OF DIOCLETIAN
One of the most ancient towns on the Lazio coast south of Ostia was Laurentum, built, as its name implies, in a forest of laurels. The ancient via Laurentina connected it to Rome; its name gave us the names Laurentius/ Lorenzo/ Laurent/ Lawrence, and Laura. It was destroyed in the C3 BCE by the Romans, and refounded by Augustus as Vicus Augustanus Laurentium, with a forum and grand public buildings serving an increasingly populous shoreline now largely covered by the presidential estate of Castelporziano. With the decline of the empire in the C4 and the devastations of the C5, evidently at least one marble building was so ruined that a block could be taken from it and hollowed out as a standard measure for wine or grain. The badly worn inscription identifies the reuser as [Flavius Rufus] Opilio, urban prefect in 450. He was later Consul of the West in 453. This block was found at Castelporziano in the 1870s, so we know that even in decline the ancient centre of Laurentum had mercantile life in the C5. The text of the inscription reads "Opilio v(ir) c(larissimo) et inl(ustris) / pr(a)ef(ectus) urb(i)s adque (!) / [p]atric(iu)s fecit" (CIL XIV, 2046).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y2ps7or6drwz3yuvelv6glai/bafkreihd2ov3kpg2kca6zss2txy6dt4evsddv46iqglzsnp4z5mivf4evm)
MARBLE BLOCK, C1 CE, REUSED AS STANDARD MEASURE, C. 450 CE. BATHS OF DIOCLETIAN One of the most ancient towns on the Lazio coast south of Ostia was Laurentum, built, as its name implies, in a forest of laurels. The ancient via Laurentina connected it to Rome; its name gave us the names Laurentius/ Lorenzo/ Laurent/ Lawrence, and Laura. It was destroyed in the C3 BCE by the Romans, and refounded by Augustus as Vicus Augustanus Laurentium, with a forum and grand public buildings serving an increasingly populous shoreline now largely covered by the presidential estate of Castelporziano. With the decline of the empire in the C4 and the devastations of the C5, evidently at least one marble building was so ruined that a block could be taken from it and hollowed out as a standard measure for wine or grain. The badly worn inscription identifies the reuser as [Flavius Rufus] Opilio, urban prefect in 450. He was later Consul of the West in 453. This block was found at Castelporziano in the 1870s, so we know that even in decline the ancient centre of Laurentum had mercantile life in the C5. The text of the inscription reads "Opilio v(ir) c(larissimo) et inl(ustris) / pr(a)ef(ectus) urb(i)s adque (!) / [p]atric(iu)s fecit" (CIL XIV, 2046).
For #SpoliaSunday I didn't have much to go on for this obvious standard measure in the entrance garden of the #BathsofDiocletian in #Rome. No label, just some #lateantique #epigraphy. What I found, to my surprise, was a thread reaching back into the dawn of #Roman history. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺
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Great talk tonight at the #Oxford #LateAntique and #Byzantine seminar by my (brilliant) undergrad tutor & MPhil supervisor Phil Booth about John of Ephesus. Considering him as a member of a marginalised group of bishops operating “on the edge” in the 6th/7th c. So fascinating. #byzantinebluesky
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Looking forward to today's Accordia Early Career Talk, where Sarah Defiant and I will present our new research: "In their bones: ‘new’ methods to unearth #LateAntique Ligurian societies".
#Archaeology #FuneraryArchaeology #Bioarchaeology
More info here:
www.accordia-research.org/early-career...
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Fellow historians , #warfare folks - whether #lateantique or #medieval- are there out there articles/books that deal with the different values and characteristics attributed to various weapons (sword/javelin, etc)
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Know someone who works on the art & architecture of the late antique and/or medieval Mediterranean and is looking for a teaching position?
Mount Holyoke is hiring a TT Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies in that area!
Deadline 1 December.
#MedievalSky #LateAntique
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FYI #MedievalSky
(Is there a #LateAntique list/feed on here?)
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