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nrhopwood.bsky.social
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
October 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
nrhopwood.bsky.social
Only two weeks left to submit your abstracts!
#medievalsky #medieval #earlymodern #lateantique
nrhopwood.bsky.social Natalie Hopwood @nrhopwood.bsky.social · Oct 30
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
November 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
helengittos.bsky.social
The complexity of the finest #lateantique art! A diagram of how this early sixth-century disc brooch is constructed. From Matthias Friedrich's 'Image & Ornament in the Early Medieval West'. Images: Archäologische Staatssammlung Munich.
September 8, 2026 at 9:40 AM
thelongmiddleages.bsky.social
Two more weeks to get us your abstracts for the Autumn 2026 run of #thelongmiddleages!

#medievalsky #earlymodern #lateantique
thelongmiddleages.bsky.social The Long Middle Ages @thelongmiddleages.bsky.social · Jul 13
The Long Middle Ages is back for another seminar series in Autumn 2026 at @leedsims.bsky.social !

If you are interested in participating, please send us an abstract (250 words) and a short bio to thelongmiddlesages@gmail.com by Monday 17th August!

#medievalsky #thelongmiddleages
We are excited to announce that the Long Middle Ages, a seminar series for postgraduate students and early career researchers working on the Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern Periods, will be returning for a second series in Autumn 2026! We welcome submissions of 30 minute papers from postgraduates and early career researchers working in any discipline and on any topic related to the late antique, medieval and early modern periods. Papers will be followed by time for questions and further discussion. Seminars will commence in October 2026 and run on a fortnightly basis until mid-December. If you are interested in presenting a seminar, please send an abstract of no more than 250 words as well as a short biography to the organisers at thelongmiddleages@gmail.com by Monday 17 August 2026. All seminars will take place online. If you have any further questions, please do get in touch. We look forward to receiving your proposals!
August 3, 2026 at 10:18 AM
thelongmiddleages.bsky.social
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
January 6, 2026 at 1:51 PM
welwynarchsoc.bsky.social
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
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.
April 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
thelongmiddleages.bsky.social
ONE WEEK left to go to submit an abstract!

#lateantique #medievalsky #earlymodern #thelongmiddleages
thelongmiddleages.bsky.social The Long Middle Ages @thelongmiddleages.bsky.social · Jul 13
The Long Middle Ages is back for another seminar series in Autumn 2026 at @leedsims.bsky.social !

If you are interested in participating, please send us an abstract (250 words) and a short bio to thelongmiddlesages@gmail.com by Monday 17th August!

#medievalsky #thelongmiddleages
We are excited to announce that the Long Middle Ages, a seminar series for postgraduate students and early career researchers working on the Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern Periods, will be returning for a second series in Autumn 2026! We welcome submissions of 30 minute papers from postgraduates and early career researchers working in any discipline and on any topic related to the late antique, medieval and early modern periods. Papers will be followed by time for questions and further discussion. Seminars will commence in October 2026 and run on a fortnightly basis until mid-December. If you are interested in presenting a seminar, please send an abstract of no more than 250 words as well as a short biography to the organisers at thelongmiddleages@gmail.com by Monday 17 August 2026. All seminars will take place online. If you have any further questions, please do get in touch. We look forward to receiving your proposals!
August 10, 2026 at 9:46 AM
ebwood.bsky.social
FYI #MedievalSky

(Is there a #LateAntique list/feed on here?)
ebwood.bsky.social Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · Sep 6
Speaking of colleagues:

Come be mine at Mount Holyoke!

Job: TT Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies with a focus on the late antique and medieval Mediterranean world

Deadline: 1 December 2024
Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies
Job no: R-0000001388 Position Title: Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies Work Type: Faculty Full time In-Person Start Date: 07/01/2025 Job Description: The Mount Holyoke Colle...
mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com
September 6, 2024 at 8:12 PM
empressofbyzantium.bsky.social
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
January 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
amalasuentha.bsky.social
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
amalasuentha.bsky.social Dr Tiggy McLaughlin @amalasuentha.bsky.social · Nov 25
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
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
lamps-edinburgh.bsky.social
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
Cfp: 3rd Online Athens-Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival
The 3rd Online Athens-Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival will occur 30-31 May. The deadline for submissions is 6 April, 2025.
hca.ed.ac.uk
February 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
beorwines-corner.bsky.social
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...
Dress like a #Roman soldier from the 4th century #LateRoman #romanmilitary
YouTube video by Beorwines Heathen corner
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March 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
thelongmiddleages.bsky.social
Our call for abstracts is now closed! Thank you to everyone who has submitted! Now our convenors will be looking over everything and will be reaching out with our decisions by the end of the month 😊

#medievalsky #lateantique #earlymodern #thelongmiddleages
August 18, 2026 at 11:06 AM
anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
#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 🏺
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.
April 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
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 🏺
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).
February 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
ebwood.bsky.social
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
Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies
Job no: R-0000001388 Position Title: Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies Work Type: Faculty Full time In-Person Start Date: 07/01/2025 Job Description: The Mount Holyoke Colle...
mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com
September 11, 2024 at 1:00 AM
perurealfonso.bsky.social
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
Gli ebrei nell'Italia antica - Carocci editore
La storia ebraica non è solo la storia degli ebrei, ma anche una parte della storia dei paesi nei quali si sono stabiliti dopo la diaspora. Nel caso dell’Italia, la... Read more »
www.carocci.it
July 28, 2025 at 12:50 AM
thelongmiddleages.bsky.social
New and improved term card! The Long Middle Ages is now sponsored by the White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities (AHRC-UKRI) 🥳
#medievalsky #earlymodern #lateantique #postgraduate #seminarseries
January 15, 2026 at 10:51 AM
rana-mikati.bsky.social
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)
November 22, 2024 at 6:49 PM
acarabia.bsky.social
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...
January 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
amalasuentha.bsky.social
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
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
brepols.net
Late Antique #villae in the #Balkans (3rd–7th c. AD):
Current Research Questions and Perspectives
HAEMUS Companion to the #LateAntique Balkans 1

Edited by Orsolya Heinrich-Tamáska et al

Info: bit.ly/41QHdMY

#ClassicsSky #Archaeology #Classics #ArchaeologySky #LateAntiquity #Antiquity
April 23, 2026 at 7:54 AM