Scott G. Bruce

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Medieval History / Fordham University / editor of Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought, and Religion / Canadian / chaotic good

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 3d

The first in-depth account of the lives and careers of educated slaves and freedmen in ancient Rome.

Intellectual Property by Harriet I. Flower is now available (2 Dec UK pub).

Read a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#AncientRome #AncientHistory

Intellectual Property: Learned Slaves and Educated Freedmen in Republican Rome by Harriet I. Flower

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Matthew Holford @matthewholford.bsky.social · 4d

Just found out about this amazing example of #manuscript #recycling . The whole manuscript is made up from the margins of an earlier liturgical manuscript, cut out and rearranged (hence the unusual format), the (mostly) blank margins then used to copy various magical texts in the mid 16th century.

A magical text written in the 16th century on the previously blank margin of an earlier liturgical manuscript. Part of the original liturgical text can be seen at the bottom of the leaf. The leaf would originally have been part of the outer margin of a large leaf but has been rotated 90 degrees clockwise.

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 6d

New issue of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Vol. 68, No. 1 (2025) academic.oup.com/bics/issue/6... @ics.bsky.social @tigerlilyrocks.bsky.social @camwachowich.bsky.social @graemeyward.bsky.social

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 8d

Five years, four authors, one book. Out now (fully open access), our new book on local priests in the tenth century 🌟 www.cambridge.org/core/books/l... @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social

Local Priests in the Latin West, 900–1050

Cambridge Core - European Studies - Local Priests in the Latin West, 900–1050

www.cambridge.org

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · Oct 7

Assistant Professorship in Early Medieval Literatures and Cultures, Fordham University:
memorients.com/news/assista...

Assistant Professorship in Early Medieval Literatures and Cultures, Fordham University | MEMOs

Early Modern Literatures and Culture, Fordham University (NYC)

memorients.com

Scott G. Bruce @xuthal.bsky.social · Sep 29

I'm very excited to share the cover of my forthcoming collection of fourteen essays on Cluniac monasticism, which Cornell UP will publish in January 2026. The cover image is from fol. 1v of Angers BM 820, an eleventh-century compilation of texts related to the cult of Abbot Maiolus of Cluny.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · Sep 27

October is the time for knocking down acorns for swine to eat.
#medievalcalendar
Bodleian Library MS. Auct. D. 2. 6; c.1140 CE; England (St. Albans); f.6r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Ed Roberts @ecroberts.bsky.social · Sep 25

Excited to learn that Drew Jones's new edition & translation of Odo of Cluny's Occupatio, one of the tenth century's most intriguing but little-known Latin works, is coming out very soon: www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

Brepols - The Occupatio by Odo of Cluny

Brepols is an international academic publisher of works in the humanities, with a particular focus in history, archaeology, history of the arts, language and literature, and critical editions of histo...

www.brepols.net

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · Sep 12

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
Journal of Late Antiquity
Volume 18, Number 2, Fall 2025
#S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE
tinyurl.com/58uf6c74

CONTRIBUTORS
Sabine R. Huebner
Marion Kruse
J.-Michel Reaux Colvin
Maria Pavlou
Chengzuo Yao
Gail Tatham
Andrew Paul Wood
Gabriele Castiglia
Seth M. Stadel
and more!

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
Journal of Late Antiquity
Volume 18, Number 2, Fall 2025
#S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE

CONTRIBUTORS
Sabine R. Huebner
Marion Kruse
J.-Michel Reaux Colvin
Maria Pavlou
Chengzuo Yao
Gail Tatham
Andrew Paul Wood
Gabriele Castiglia
Seth M. Stadel
Goudarzi
Chance E. Bonar
Mateusz Fafinski
Anna Bonnell Freidin
Michael Kulikowski
Christopher Kelly
Lea Niccolai
Scott G. Bruce
Becky Walker

Scott G. Bruce @xuthal.bsky.social · Sep 3

Is there a TOC online?

Scott G. Bruce @xuthal.bsky.social · Aug 27

NIN in Baltimore.

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · Jul 31

St Paul is here to write letters and kick ass. And he has just written his last letter.

Musée de Cluny, Cl.1505, c. 1030, Echternach

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Isabel Köster @iotasubscript.bsky.social · Jul 30

So excited that my book has a cover. Michigan's design people have outdone themselves in their styling of Mr. Murder Mittens (a massive Roman temple key from Switzerland). Full details here (the e-version will be open access come the publication date): press.umich.edu/Books/S/Stea...

Scott G. Bruce @xuthal.bsky.social · Jul 30

New in CHR: “Fragments of Greek Patristics in Eusebius’s Historia ecclesiastica and Their Readers in the Latin West.”

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · Jul 8

The goddess Diana giving herbs to Chiron the centaur who named them after her.

BL Sloane 1975; Medical & herbal collection; 12th century; f.17v

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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · Jul 8

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Why snappy dogs, scratchy cats, and hungry worms were part of a medieval woman’s vision of the afterlife

Over the course of three nights in 1422, the woman had visions of aggressive pets and insatiable worms tormenting a beloved friend.

theconversation.com

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Classics, University of Galway @galwayclassics.bsky.social · Jun 25

Jacopo Bisagni's new article on the Sun’s night journey and its cosmic battle with a tide-making sea monster (sometimes called Leviathan) has just been published in JML. This narrative is found in De cursu solis in nocte, a text which Jacopo discovered in the ninth-century manuscript Laon MS 422.

Where is the Sun at Night? New Evidence from Laon, Médiathèque Suzanne Martinet, MS 422: The Journal of Medieval Latin: Vol 35

The article explores early medieval cosmological narratives concerning the Sun’s night journey and its cosmic battle with a tide-making sea monster (sometimes called Leviathan), focussing on a text di...

www.brepolsonline.net

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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · May 14

New Medieval Books: The Medieval Clergy, 800-1250 www.medievalists.net/2024/05/new-... #BookSky

New Medieval Books: The Medieval Clergy, 800-1250 - Medievalists.net

More than 70 sources are translated here to offer readers a look into the lives of priests, bishops and other clergy in the Middle Ages. It is a wide-ranging book, covering topics from how to do…

www.medievalists.net

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · May 13

A CRUSADER'S DEATH AND LIFE IN ACRE by Anne E. Lester & Laura K. Morreale offers a glimpse into #crusader life through the death inventory of Eudes of Nevers in 1266.

From knights' wages to crusade poems, this is an exploration of #medieval Outremer.

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

A Crusader's Death and Life in Acre by Anne E. Lester and Laura K. Morreale | Paperback | Cornell University Press

A Crusader's Death and Life in Acre uses five parchment rolls that inventoried the possessions of Eudes of Nevers, son of the duke of Burgundy, at his death in Acre in 1266 to open out a panorama of.....

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu

Scott G. Bruce @xuthal.bsky.social · May 13

I like it very much and look forward to reading it!

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · Apr 18

For Good Friday, a glorious mid-9th century Carolingian rock crystal engraving of the crucifixion. Originally from St Denis and now in the British Museum. www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · Apr 10

'The relationship between mankind and demon-kind is always a point of contention.'

Aida Amoako: When mankind encounters demons

The Penguin Book of Demons (Scott G. Bruce, editor) | Book review

www.the-tls.co.uk

Scott G. Bruce @xuthal.bsky.social · Apr 1

Hello beautiful.

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · Mar 31

New volume of Traditio Vol. 79 (2024) muse.jhu.edu/issue/54478 @projectmuse.bsky.social

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Internet Archive @archive.org · Mar 26

If you missed our recent screening of the hilarious HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940), you can enjoy a Public Domain Movie Night in your own home!

📽️ Watch the full film ➡️ archive.org/details/his-...

#PublicDomain #ClassicFilm #Comedy #InternetArchive

Scott G. Bruce @xuthal.bsky.social · Mar 17

“Changesonebruce”. Forthcoming in January 2026.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · Mar 15

The Fall of the Angels

BnF MSS NAF 15939; Vincent de Beauvais, Speculum historiale, French translation by Jean de Vignay, under the title Miroir historial, Vol I (Bks I-VII); 14th century (towards 1379 CE-1380 CE); Paris; f.11r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

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Oxford Medieval Studies @oxmedstud.bsky.social · Feb 27

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Professor in Latin Palaeography

The Faculty of History and @wadhamcollege.bsky.social are seeking an outstanding palaeographer to join the team of medieval historians. Applications are welcome from candidates at all post-doctoral career stages, including at professorial level.

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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · Feb 23

Coming this August from @brepols.bsky.social

Discipline, Authority, and Text in Late Ancient Religion

Nineteen essays to honor David Brakke written by his former students, his grad school friends, and various other co-conspirators

www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

Brepols - Discipline, Authority, and Text in Late Ancient Religion

www.brepols.net

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · Feb 21

An interesting article by Thomas Burman on the earliest Latin quotations from the Quran, in a Carolingian-period manuscript:
digital.csic.es/bitstream/10...

digital.csic.es

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