Medieval historian and charismatic megafauna enthusiast at the University of Tübingen. Blogs at https://salutemmundo.wordpress.com/
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Where's Peter Brown when you need him? #medievalsky
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I enjoyed this post by Jonathan Jarrett, thinking both about the history of charter studies and about the ability of current historians’ to correct people in the medieval past when they talk about their own world. #medievalsky
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Incidentally, if anyone would like some thoughts on Diderot, also featuring Doctor Who and a small child who almost deserved it getting stabbed by a halberd.
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I’ll take it. www.theodramatist.com/early-modern...
(Note: this post was all ready to go on Sunday night when I drifted onto Academia.edu for no very good reason and found an exactly relevant article that seriously affected some of what was here. If…
"king of the Franks"
Among the wurst puns I've seen
Sam Ottewill-Soulsby
Sam Ottewill-Soulsby
Sam Ottewill-Soulsby
Hercules and Nessus, by Giambologna, 1599
Why did Charlemagne fail to integrate the Avars? A new piece by Helmut Reimitz: doi.org/10.1017/S006...
…Scholars and professional researchers, on the other hand, have to actually make a considerable effort to remain so ignorant. David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History …
School: Public place where one teaches Languages, Humanities, Sciences, Arts, etc. This word comes from the Latin schola, which means discipline and correction. Encyclopédie, Vol. 5 (1755) p. 303. …
Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement.
Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences.
Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else.
Enough.
Hat tip to @jeanneologist.bsky.social for sharing this with me! #medievalsky #elephant
How the East Became the East: Triumphal Rulership, and the Failure of Integration in Carolingian Central Europe
