Classicist and early medievalist at Oxford. Currently working on: Archaeological and textual evidence for female patronage in the late Roman and early medieval west; epigraphy in Roman + Visigothic Iberia. Sometimes I make Roman recipes :) ♾️
Dr Carolyn La Rocco 🏺🍃
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I had such a great time at the conference on ‘The Concept of Paganism and the Construction of Christian Identity and Alterity in the Early Medieval Mediterranean’ at the Villa Vigoni by Lake Como! ☺️ I learned a lot, and spoke about weather magic in late Roman and early medieval Iberia and Gaul.
I always find it very odd that hiring committees have a habit of treating late antiquity, a period span of c. half a century, as a period which can be done on the side by either ancient or medieval historians rather than a time frame that requires specialists in its own right.
The digitalisation of historical records used to be a net positive. But with the rise of AI, digitalised records now run the risk of being scraped, which leads to misinterpretations and erasure of key information. You cannot replace historical analysis with a machine.
VII.3.11 Pompeii. 1867 drawing by Schulz of lararium painting in the kitchen, now destroyed.
Dr Carolyn La Rocco 🏺🍃
#MosaicMonday plunges us under the cathedral of #Florence, to discover the #palaeochristian pavement of the first cathedral, S. #Reparata, from the early C5 CE, still very much part of the classical tradition, with a #mosaic floor of complex #geometric patterns. #AncientBluesky 🏺
Really looking forward to this! :)
trying to identify a past owner (i think) of a manuscript but this name is leading me nowhere - P. Comby, Combey, Cornby, Combeq, Cornbeg, etc etc etc... if anyone has any thoughts I'd be pleased to hear them
Just use footnotes. No one likes checking references at a later page.
Help, #MedievalSky!
There's an opening on our #IMC2026 Panel on Abbatial Identities within and without the Cloister. Do you like abbots/abbesses or another kind of 'monastic leader', and are you having second thoughts about skipping the IMC this year? Let me know and we might have a session for you!
