David Parnell
@byzantineprof.bsky.social
Historian of the Romans (including the Byzantine Empire). Author of Belisarius & Antonina. Professor at Indiana University Northwest.
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I am at beautiful High Point University, to give 3 talks in 3 days:
1. The Destruction of Italy in Late Antiquity: How, Why, and Who?
2. The Practice and Challenge of Researching Ancient and Medieval History.
3. Byzantium and the First Crusade: Opportunities Realized and Lost.
1. The Destruction of Italy in Late Antiquity: How, Why, and Who?
2. The Practice and Challenge of Researching Ancient and Medieval History.
3. Byzantium and the First Crusade: Opportunities Realized and Lost.
November 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I am at beautiful High Point University, to give 3 talks in 3 days:
1. The Destruction of Italy in Late Antiquity: How, Why, and Who?
2. The Practice and Challenge of Researching Ancient and Medieval History.
3. Byzantium and the First Crusade: Opportunities Realized and Lost.
1. The Destruction of Italy in Late Antiquity: How, Why, and Who?
2. The Practice and Challenge of Researching Ancient and Medieval History.
3. Byzantium and the First Crusade: Opportunities Realized and Lost.
"I understand we are surrounded, by both Blues and Greens we're hounded, oh the tumult from inside the Hippodrome!
This purple shroud is mine to lose, but dear, it's also the color, I'll wear no other, it's also the color of a bruise."
Lyrics from new, original music about Theodora. 👀
This purple shroud is mine to lose, but dear, it's also the color, I'll wear no other, it's also the color of a bruise."
Lyrics from new, original music about Theodora. 👀
October 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"I understand we are surrounded, by both Blues and Greens we're hounded, oh the tumult from inside the Hippodrome!
This purple shroud is mine to lose, but dear, it's also the color, I'll wear no other, it's also the color of a bruise."
Lyrics from new, original music about Theodora. 👀
This purple shroud is mine to lose, but dear, it's also the color, I'll wear no other, it's also the color of a bruise."
Lyrics from new, original music about Theodora. 👀
The AHR is doing a special issue on pre-modern history. Worth flagging up because so many of us are frustrated that AHR in particular and AHA in general have become so focused on modern history. I hope some of my very clever colleagues will submit for this.
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Special Issue Submissions - AHA
Natural light and processed MSI images of the HMML Palimpsest Project Methods for Archival Silence in Early History The American Historical Review seeks proposals for a special issue illustrating a ra...
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August 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The AHR is doing a special issue on pre-modern history. Worth flagging up because so many of us are frustrated that AHR in particular and AHA in general have become so focused on modern history. I hope some of my very clever colleagues will submit for this.
www.historians.org/news-publica...
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Belisarius & Antonina: Love and War in the Age of Justinian. By David Alan Parnell. New York: Oxford University Press. 2023. 260 pp. £19.99. ISBN 9780197574706. - Kennedy - 2025 - Early Medieval Europe - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Belisarius & Antonina: Love and War in the Age of Justinian. By David Alan Parnell. New York: Oxford University Press. 2023. 260 pp. £19.99. ISBN 9780197574706.
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July 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Belisarius & Antonina: Love and War in the Age of Justinian. By David Alan Parnell. New York: Oxford University Press. 2023. 260 pp. £19.99. ISBN 9780197574706. - Kennedy - 2025 - Early Medieval Europe - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I am making the pilgrimage to Leeds next week to speak about a topic to which I have given a lot of thought lately: that at least some in formerly Roman North Africa and Italy *wanted* Justinian's restoration, and that modern scholars too often ignore them. I expect debate!
July 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I am making the pilgrimage to Leeds next week to speak about a topic to which I have given a lot of thought lately: that at least some in formerly Roman North Africa and Italy *wanted* Justinian's restoration, and that modern scholars too often ignore them. I expect debate!
Colleagues, the inimitable Leonora Neville has written a short book on the name of the "Byzantine Empire" with the evocative title "Sailing Away from Byzantium toward East Roman History." Currently open access and free to download!
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Sailing Away from Byzantium Toward East Roman History
Cambridge Core - European History 1000-1450 - Sailing Away from Byzantium Toward East Roman History
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June 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Colleagues, the inimitable Leonora Neville has written a short book on the name of the "Byzantine Empire" with the evocative title "Sailing Away from Byzantium toward East Roman History." Currently open access and free to download!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Unboxing the paperback of Belisarius & Antonina! On sale now. Particularly proud of this one because it's my first book ever to come out as a paperback. 🥹
May 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Unboxing the paperback of Belisarius & Antonina! On sale now. Particularly proud of this one because it's my first book ever to come out as a paperback. 🥹
When I get this kind of email from Quality Matters, of all organizations, I know the end is nigh for us. Kind of speechless, actually. Use AI to generate our course content, QM? Really?
May 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
When I get this kind of email from Quality Matters, of all organizations, I know the end is nigh for us. Kind of speechless, actually. Use AI to generate our course content, QM? Really?
Belisarius & Antonina is getting a paperback edition! Release date is May 15th. Priced at $19.99. Here's a sneak peak of the new back cover with some praise for the book.
May 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Belisarius & Antonina is getting a paperback edition! Release date is May 15th. Priced at $19.99. Here's a sneak peak of the new back cover with some praise for the book.
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Wouldn’t be LEGIONS of Metal without a couple (late) Roman Empire experts rocking out & talking shop. @byzantineprof.bsky.social
May 4, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Wouldn’t be LEGIONS of Metal without a couple (late) Roman Empire experts rocking out & talking shop. @byzantineprof.bsky.social
This Friday the inimitable Florin Curta will be speaking on Zoom. Title is "Imperial borderlands to the north and to the west of the Black Sea, 6th to early 7th centuries." Michael Decker and yours truly will offer comments. Join us!
February 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This Friday the inimitable Florin Curta will be speaking on Zoom. Title is "Imperial borderlands to the north and to the west of the Black Sea, 6th to early 7th centuries." Michael Decker and yours truly will offer comments. Join us!
JOB ALERT! My department at Indiana University Northwest is hiring a tenure-track, Assistant Professor of American History. I realize most of my mutuals here are medievalists and classicists, but please pass the news on to any Americanist colleagues you have.
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Assistant Professor of History - IU Northwest is located in Gary, Indiana, approximately 30 miles southeast of Chicago job with Indiana University Northwest | 37789466
The Assistant Professor of History will be an experienced scholar/teacher of Modern American History.
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February 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
JOB ALERT! My department at Indiana University Northwest is hiring a tenure-track, Assistant Professor of American History. I realize most of my mutuals here are medievalists and classicists, but please pass the news on to any Americanist colleagues you have.
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37789466...
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37789466...
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A year after the original acceptance of publication in a different venue, it looks like this will finally see the light of day!
January 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
A year after the original acceptance of publication in a different venue, it looks like this will finally see the light of day!
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My new popular history book Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome will be published in exactly 3 months! It's available to pre-order now 📚
January 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
My new popular history book Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome will be published in exactly 3 months! It's available to pre-order now 📚
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#AncientSiteSunday - The 6th-century AD Byzantine fortress in Ammaedara in North Africa (Haïdra, Tunisia), built during the rule of Justinian. It is the largest Byzantine fort in the Maghreb, measuring c. 195x125m with 10m-high walls, several towers & a wall walk running along the top of the walls.
January 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
#AncientSiteSunday - The 6th-century AD Byzantine fortress in Ammaedara in North Africa (Haïdra, Tunisia), built during the rule of Justinian. It is the largest Byzantine fort in the Maghreb, measuring c. 195x125m with 10m-high walls, several towers & a wall walk running along the top of the walls.
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New volume of Classica Cracoviensia Vol. 27 (2024) journals.akademicka.pl/cc/issue/vie... #openaccess @byzantineprof.bsky.social @conorwhately.bsky.social
January 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
New volume of Classica Cracoviensia Vol. 27 (2024) journals.akademicka.pl/cc/issue/vie... #openaccess @byzantineprof.bsky.social @conorwhately.bsky.social
Let me add here a shout-out to the editors of Classica Cracoviensia. They run a very efficient journal! I submitted this to them in July 2024, it went through peer review, editorial review, page setting, and was published by the end of 2024. Incredible speed.
My New Year's gift to all: my newest article (open access!) in Classica Cracoviensia. I make an argument that the sixth-century historian Procopius resented the power and success of Belisarius' wife Antonina.
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The Rivalry of Procopius of Caesarea and Antonina the Patrician
| Classica Cracoviensia
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January 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Let me add here a shout-out to the editors of Classica Cracoviensia. They run a very efficient journal! I submitted this to them in July 2024, it went through peer review, editorial review, page setting, and was published by the end of 2024. Incredible speed.
Reposted by David Parnell
My New Year's gift to all: my newest article (open access!) in Classica Cracoviensia. I make an argument that the sixth-century historian Procopius resented the power and success of Belisarius' wife Antonina.
journals.akademicka.pl/cc/article/v...
journals.akademicka.pl/cc/article/v...
The Rivalry of Procopius of Caesarea and Antonina the Patrician
| Classica Cracoviensia
journals.akademicka.pl
January 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My New Year's gift to all: my newest article (open access!) in Classica Cracoviensia. I make an argument that the sixth-century historian Procopius resented the power and success of Belisarius' wife Antonina.
journals.akademicka.pl/cc/article/v...
journals.akademicka.pl/cc/article/v...
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Hi everyone, the Society for Military History is pleased to be here and contribute to this space. Join us as we work to advance the study of military history! www.smh-hq.org
Welcome to the Society for Military History
Home page of the Society for Military History
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December 31, 2024 at 8:06 PM
Hi everyone, the Society for Military History is pleased to be here and contribute to this space. Join us as we work to advance the study of military history! www.smh-hq.org
My New Year's gift to all: my newest article (open access!) in Classica Cracoviensia. I make an argument that the sixth-century historian Procopius resented the power and success of Belisarius' wife Antonina.
journals.akademicka.pl/cc/article/v...
journals.akademicka.pl/cc/article/v...
The Rivalry of Procopius of Caesarea and Antonina the Patrician
| Classica Cracoviensia
journals.akademicka.pl
January 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My New Year's gift to all: my newest article (open access!) in Classica Cracoviensia. I make an argument that the sixth-century historian Procopius resented the power and success of Belisarius' wife Antonina.
journals.akademicka.pl/cc/article/v...
journals.akademicka.pl/cc/article/v...
"Alexander at the Tomb of Cyrus the Great" by Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes. Spotted today at @artinstitutechi.bsky.social.
December 30, 2024 at 8:32 PM
"Alexander at the Tomb of Cyrus the Great" by Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes. Spotted today at @artinstitutechi.bsky.social.
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Belisarius & Antonina: a book that’s been on my list for months, finally in my collection! Merry Christmas folks!
December 25, 2024 at 9:00 PM
Belisarius & Antonina: a book that’s been on my list for months, finally in my collection! Merry Christmas folks!