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Academic Job Discourseᵀᴹ is back (it’s never gone).Tl;dr: There are no jobs.Headline: Commodification of academia has decoupled the value of research from the chance of employability.Long read: Research and teaching
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In 2006 a book was found in a Tipperary bog. It turned out to be a psalter from the early 9th century with a global story. The cover of the
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To India! We go together with one of the most original minds of the late antique and early medieval world: Cosmas Indicopleustes. Cosmas thought that the world was a box.
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You know, I‘m going to talk a bit more about that St Augustine quote that @JoeBiden used today.What constitutes „a people“ in this passage tells us a lot about late
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Here we go again. Blatant factual errors, vilification of historians, and the customary oversimplification of the past. The coverage of 'cliometrics' continues to disappoint. As much as it might be
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Azizos, son of Agrippa, moved 3500 km from a village of Kaprozabadaion near Apamea in Syria to Trier in what is now Germany where he died and was buried at
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Not letting this go. This is riddled with factual errors, peddles dangerous stereotypes about the medieval Church and, most importantly, exonerates an elusive beast called „Western modernity“ as based on
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Crap about history gets published. Historians freak out. Why do we care about Wodan weddings in England? It's not like someone is publishing misleading articles about science, right?It matters. It
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Ok, so two things. Humanities: Exist. But like clockwork the call for inventing new disciplines that will teach us about the past/critical thinking/truth/the meaning of life* comes and at the
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The Albi mappa mundi: the oldest surviving medieval map of the world. Preserved in a ms produced in the 8th c. in Southern France or Spain it is an extraordinary
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Some of you have asked if this fragment, Darmstadt HS-4262, could have been written by Bede. While this seems to be unlikely there is a fascinating story to be told
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It's time for a periodic reminder:stop using the misrepresentation of medieval past to excuse our deeply-flawed present. It's the cheapest of tricks to brand the failure to create a just,
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