Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez
@abeldelorenzo.bsky.social
Medievalist - Punishments & Crimes
Post-doc researcher at @usc.gal & @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Chercheur associé LaMOP (Paris 1)
See more in: https://usc-es.academia.edu/AbelLorenzoRodriguez
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Author of "La horca y el fuego"
Post-doc researcher at @usc.gal & @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Chercheur associé LaMOP (Paris 1)
See more in: https://usc-es.academia.edu/AbelLorenzoRodriguez
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Author of "La horca y el fuego"
Pinned
New book / Nuevo libro: 💀
La horca y el fuego. Una historia social de la pena de muerte en Hispania (700-1200), Granada, Editorial Comares, 2025
👉 www.comares.com/libro/la-hor...
La horca y el fuego. Una historia social de la pena de muerte en Hispania (700-1200), Granada, Editorial Comares, 2025
👉 www.comares.com/libro/la-hor...
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This World Whale Day, I’d like to shoutout Porphyrios the whale, who during the 500s AD terrorized ships in the Bosporus Strait off of Constantinople for half a century, sinking many of them. Possibly a sperm whale or orca, Justinian the Great was frustrated at not being able to stop the unit.
February 15, 2026 at 3:51 PM
This World Whale Day, I’d like to shoutout Porphyrios the whale, who during the 500s AD terrorized ships in the Bosporus Strait off of Constantinople for half a century, sinking many of them. Possibly a sperm whale or orca, Justinian the Great was frustrated at not being able to stop the unit.
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Domenico Piola
February 13, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Domenico Piola
Aristóteles chega a Galicia (para escribir contra as mulleres): "El chegou a un lugar, nunha illa, chamada Galicia. Estivo alí e fixo un grande libro no que escribiu sobre o notable inxenio da muller desleal e como provocou dor a moitos homes na vida e no corpo"
February 13, 2026 at 10:03 AM
Aristóteles chega a Galicia (para escribir contra as mulleres): "El chegou a un lugar, nunha illa, chamada Galicia. Estivo alí e fixo un grande libro no que escribiu sobre o notable inxenio da muller desleal e como provocou dor a moitos homes na vida e no corpo"
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Video and audio recordings are now available of the Society's latest lecture (6 February):
‘Alike in Appearance but not in Scope’: Queens and the Making of Medieval Europe' with Professor Charles West (University of Edinburgh) bit.ly/46j42f5
@pseudo-isidore.bsky.social #Skystorians
‘Alike in Appearance but not in Scope’: Queens and the Making of Medieval Europe' with Professor Charles West (University of Edinburgh) bit.ly/46j42f5
@pseudo-isidore.bsky.social #Skystorians
Queens and the Making of Medieval Europe: lecture recordings now available - RHS
On Friday 6 February the Society hosted the first lecture in its 2026 programme. Our great thanks to Professor Charles West (University of Edinburgh) who spoke on: ‘"Alike in Appearance but not in Sco...
bit.ly
February 10, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Video and audio recordings are now available of the Society's latest lecture (6 February):
‘Alike in Appearance but not in Scope’: Queens and the Making of Medieval Europe' with Professor Charles West (University of Edinburgh) bit.ly/46j42f5
@pseudo-isidore.bsky.social #Skystorians
‘Alike in Appearance but not in Scope’: Queens and the Making of Medieval Europe' with Professor Charles West (University of Edinburgh) bit.ly/46j42f5
@pseudo-isidore.bsky.social #Skystorians
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How did large-scale landowning work on the ground, in a society without centralized landownership records? A brand-new article by Julio Escalona suggests it's about 'Dense Local Knowledge': onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
May I pick your brain? Local minds as living cadastres in a Portuguese eleventh‐century lawsuit
In the context of a dispute with the monastery of Lorvão, in the late eleventh century, the monks of Vacariça, near Coimbra (modern Portugal), carried out a field enquiry in the village of Recardães....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:31 PM
How did large-scale landowning work on the ground, in a society without centralized landownership records? A brand-new article by Julio Escalona suggests it's about 'Dense Local Knowledge': onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I have never expected to read "testiculos" and "testatus" in the same document (1201, Pleas of the Crown)
February 10, 2026 at 9:45 AM
I have never expected to read "testiculos" and "testatus" in the same document (1201, Pleas of the Crown)
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📖 ENTREVISTA | @abeldelorenzo.bsky.social: "A partir dos castigos tamén se poden rastrexar as formas de identidade e cultura"
"O poder nunca tivo tantos recursos para controlar os comportamentos coma hoxe", destaca o investigador da @usc.gal praza.gal/cultura/a-pa...
"O poder nunca tivo tantos recursos para controlar os comportamentos coma hoxe", destaca o investigador da @usc.gal praza.gal/cultura/a-pa...
"A partir dos castigos tamén se poden rastrexar as formas de identidade e cultura" - Praza Pública
"O poder nunca tivo tantos recursos para controlar os comportamentos coma hoxe", destaca o historiador Abel de Lorenzo, investigador da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, que publica o libro La h...
praza.gal
February 8, 2026 at 3:29 PM
📖 ENTREVISTA | @abeldelorenzo.bsky.social: "A partir dos castigos tamén se poden rastrexar as formas de identidade e cultura"
"O poder nunca tivo tantos recursos para controlar os comportamentos coma hoxe", destaca o investigador da @usc.gal praza.gal/cultura/a-pa...
"O poder nunca tivo tantos recursos para controlar os comportamentos coma hoxe", destaca o investigador da @usc.gal praza.gal/cultura/a-pa...
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February 8, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the beginning of Torah portion Mishpatim (מִּשְׁפָּטִים) with this image of captivity. #ParashahPictures
BodleianLibrary, MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.47r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
BodleianLibrary, MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.47r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
February 8, 2026 at 9:13 AM
Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the beginning of Torah portion Mishpatim (מִּשְׁפָּטִים) with this image of captivity. #ParashahPictures
BodleianLibrary, MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.47r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
BodleianLibrary, MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.47r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Cando un foráneo chegaba a Villa Seca, os do lugar falábanlle galego como cortesía. A única lingua diferente ó castelan que coñecían grazas ós galegos emigrados na Meseta.
Nos recordos de George Borrow en The Bible in Spain (1843)
Nos recordos de George Borrow en The Bible in Spain (1843)
February 8, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Cando un foráneo chegaba a Villa Seca, os do lugar falábanlle galego como cortesía. A única lingua diferente ó castelan que coñecían grazas ós galegos emigrados na Meseta.
Nos recordos de George Borrow en The Bible in Spain (1843)
Nos recordos de George Borrow en The Bible in Spain (1843)
A place in the evening
February 7, 2026 at 6:55 PM
A place in the evening
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#OtD 7 Feb 2008 Pilar Molina Beneyto, Spanish historian, writer, filmmaker, revolutionary and feminist died aged 68. Leaving school at 14, she joined the @CNTsindicato union, fought for women's rights and helped record civil war anti-fascist history stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1070...
February 7, 2026 at 2:40 PM
#OtD 7 Feb 2008 Pilar Molina Beneyto, Spanish historian, writer, filmmaker, revolutionary and feminist died aged 68. Leaving school at 14, she joined the @CNTsindicato union, fought for women's rights and helped record civil war anti-fascist history stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1070...
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Christophe Colomb a donc "découvert les États-Unis en 1492"...
Voilà voilà. Bien bien bien.
C'est bien sûr grotesque. C'est la même erreur méthodologique que de croire que Clovis aurait "fondé la France" : une lecture téléologique au service d'un roman national.
Voilà voilà. Bien bien bien.
C'est bien sûr grotesque. C'est la même erreur méthodologique que de croire que Clovis aurait "fondé la France" : une lecture téléologique au service d'un roman national.
February 7, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Christophe Colomb a donc "découvert les États-Unis en 1492"...
Voilà voilà. Bien bien bien.
C'est bien sûr grotesque. C'est la même erreur méthodologique que de croire que Clovis aurait "fondé la France" : une lecture téléologique au service d'un roman national.
Voilà voilà. Bien bien bien.
C'est bien sûr grotesque. C'est la même erreur méthodologique que de croire que Clovis aurait "fondé la France" : une lecture téléologique au service d'un roman national.
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ENTREVISTA | Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez: "A partir dos castigos tamén se poden rastrexar as formas de identidade e cultura"
praza.gal/cultura/a-pa...
praza.gal/cultura/a-pa...
"A partir dos castigos tamén se poden rastrexar as formas de identidade e cultura" - Praza Pública
"O poder nunca tivo tantos recursos para controlar os comportamentos coma hoxe", destaca o historiador Abel de Lorenzo, investigador da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, que publica o libro La h...
praza.gal
February 6, 2026 at 7:02 PM
ENTREVISTA | Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez: "A partir dos castigos tamén se poden rastrexar as formas de identidade e cultura"
praza.gal/cultura/a-pa...
praza.gal/cultura/a-pa...
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It looks like Wandlebury Hill near Cambridge might have been used as an execution site in the ninth century #medievalsky
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
Students unearth remains in possible execution pit on training dig
The discovery was made at Wandlebury Country Park near Cambridge
www.independent.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 11:29 AM
It looks like Wandlebury Hill near Cambridge might have been used as an execution site in the ninth century #medievalsky
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
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Divisio topicorum: Victory with palm branches in both hands and a crown on her head
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 855; Grammatica, De rhetorica, Institutiones II, De natura rerum, Miscellaneous; middle of the 9th century; St. Gall; p.260
(www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 855; Grammatica, De rhetorica, Institutiones II, De natura rerum, Miscellaneous; middle of the 9th century; St. Gall; p.260
(www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
February 2, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Divisio topicorum: Victory with palm branches in both hands and a crown on her head
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 855; Grammatica, De rhetorica, Institutiones II, De natura rerum, Miscellaneous; middle of the 9th century; St. Gall; p.260
(www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 855; Grammatica, De rhetorica, Institutiones II, De natura rerum, Miscellaneous; middle of the 9th century; St. Gall; p.260
(www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
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#apocalyptic menagerie. Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072. BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 198r.
#medieval #medievalart
#medieval #medievalart
January 31, 2026 at 6:00 AM
#apocalyptic menagerie. Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072. BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 198r.
#medieval #medievalart
#medieval #medievalart
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Do the Visigothic kings Recceswinth and Wamba need a state funeral? (answer: no, no they do not)
January 29, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Do the Visigothic kings Recceswinth and Wamba need a state funeral? (answer: no, no they do not)
Hoxe no xornal da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela @ihus-usc.bsky.social @facultadexh.bsky.social @usc.gal
www.usc.gal/gl/xornal/no...
www.usc.gal/gl/xornal/no...
Identifican as principais formas da pena de morte no noroeste ibérico entre os séculos VIII e XIII | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
O investigador da Facultade de Historia e do Instituto de Investigación de Humanidades da USC Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez desenvolveu durante o seu período doutoral unha investigación na que explica que...
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January 29, 2026 at 12:05 PM
Hoxe no xornal da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela @ihus-usc.bsky.social @facultadexh.bsky.social @usc.gal
www.usc.gal/gl/xornal/no...
www.usc.gal/gl/xornal/no...
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Final call for the @bsrome.bsky.social and Early Medieval Europe early career fellowship, for a month's stay in Rome plus some travel costs to get there. Deadline tomorrow.
bsr.ac.uk/awards-resid...
bsr.ac.uk/awards-resid...
January 29, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Final call for the @bsrome.bsky.social and Early Medieval Europe early career fellowship, for a month's stay in Rome plus some travel costs to get there. Deadline tomorrow.
bsr.ac.uk/awards-resid...
bsr.ac.uk/awards-resid...