Alexander D'Alisera
@dalisera.bsky.social
history professor | medieval speleologist | caves, religion, stone | Boston, MA
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The cover of my forthcoming book, out in February/March. #dogs #Roman-Britain #animalturm #archaeology
November 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The cover of my forthcoming book, out in February/March. #dogs #Roman-Britain #animalturm #archaeology
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Just out and open access: Rethinking Grand Narratives: Mobility, Diet, and Health in a Small Corner of Early Medieval Hampshire | Speculum: Vol 100, No 3 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Rethinking Grand Narratives: Mobility, Diet, and Health in a Small Corner of Early Medieval Hampshire | Speculum: Vol 100, No 3
www.journals.uchicago.edu
July 1, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Just out and open access: Rethinking Grand Narratives: Mobility, Diet, and Health in a Small Corner of Early Medieval Hampshire | Speculum: Vol 100, No 3 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Check out @dalisera.bsky.social’s new article on the Book of Durrow’s evangelical symbols & his approach to Pictish iconographic influence!
A good read for folks interested in Christian apocrypha, gospel reception, Irenaeus, and Pictish/Columban imagery
clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.ph...
A good read for folks interested in Christian apocrypha, gospel reception, Irenaeus, and Pictish/Columban imagery
clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.ph...
View of Durrow’s lion: Irenaeus, Pictish stonescapes, and the Book of Durrow’s non-Hieronymian evangelical symbols
clog.glasgow.ac.uk
June 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Check out @dalisera.bsky.social’s new article on the Book of Durrow’s evangelical symbols & his approach to Pictish iconographic influence!
A good read for folks interested in Christian apocrypha, gospel reception, Irenaeus, and Pictish/Columban imagery
clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.ph...
A good read for folks interested in Christian apocrypha, gospel reception, Irenaeus, and Pictish/Columban imagery
clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.ph...
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Excited this is out - lots of Columban loveliness from myself (on island monasteries), and papers by Heather Pulliam Gilbert Markus Victoria Thompson and many others clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.ph... OPEN ACCESS
June 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Excited this is out - lots of Columban loveliness from myself (on island monasteries), and papers by Heather Pulliam Gilbert Markus Victoria Thompson and many others clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.ph... OPEN ACCESS
An apocalyptic scene: people hide in caves, as the sun goes dark, the moon reddens, and the stars fall to the earth (Cf. Revelation 6:12-17).
From a mid-10th century Iberian illumination of Beatus’s late-8th century “Commentary on the Apocalypse,” Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.644, fol. 112r.
From a mid-10th century Iberian illumination of Beatus’s late-8th century “Commentary on the Apocalypse,” Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.644, fol. 112r.
December 13, 2024 at 11:24 PM
An apocalyptic scene: people hide in caves, as the sun goes dark, the moon reddens, and the stars fall to the earth (Cf. Revelation 6:12-17).
From a mid-10th century Iberian illumination of Beatus’s late-8th century “Commentary on the Apocalypse,” Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.644, fol. 112r.
From a mid-10th century Iberian illumination of Beatus’s late-8th century “Commentary on the Apocalypse,” Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.644, fol. 112r.
Such an honor to publish with postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social !
read our latest article at /postmedieval/, where @dalisera.bsky.social takes us into the cave of the old english legend of the seven sleepers, exploring real-life caves in medieval britain, their materiality, and relevance to the text's doctrinal message 👇
Speluncar slumber and the medieval time traveler: Unearthing the imagined cave of the Old English Seven Sleepers - postmedieval
The anonymous Old English Legend of the Seven Sleepers retells a late ancient narrative in which seven Christian youths escape Roman imperial persecution through a centuries-long slumber in a nearby c...
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October 7, 2024 at 7:20 PM
Such an honor to publish with postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social !
If you are in Rome (🇮🇹) for #EAA2024 (🏺) this week, come check out our Friday afternoon session on premodern stone——a sequel to last year’s daylong session in Belfast:
“#643, The Experience of Stone II: Sculpting Comparative Phenomenologies.”
@celticist.bsky.social
#medievalsky
“#643, The Experience of Stone II: Sculpting Comparative Phenomenologies.”
@celticist.bsky.social
#medievalsky
August 26, 2024 at 4:59 PM
If you are in Rome (🇮🇹) for #EAA2024 (🏺) this week, come check out our Friday afternoon session on premodern stone——a sequel to last year’s daylong session in Belfast:
“#643, The Experience of Stone II: Sculpting Comparative Phenomenologies.”
@celticist.bsky.social
#medievalsky
“#643, The Experience of Stone II: Sculpting Comparative Phenomenologies.”
@celticist.bsky.social
#medievalsky
Our stone panel at EAA2023 in Belfast was such a success that we are offering a sequel session at EAA2024 in Rome: "The Experience of Stone II: Sculpting Comparative Phenomenologies." Folks in history & archaeology are especially encouraged to submit abstracts!
@celticist.bsky.social 🏺 #medievalsky
@celticist.bsky.social 🏺 #medievalsky
December 29, 2023 at 8:58 PM
Our stone panel at EAA2023 in Belfast was such a success that we are offering a sequel session at EAA2024 in Rome: "The Experience of Stone II: Sculpting Comparative Phenomenologies." Folks in history & archaeology are especially encouraged to submit abstracts!
@celticist.bsky.social 🏺 #medievalsky
@celticist.bsky.social 🏺 #medievalsky
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I'm a bit slow to the game (Lindisfarne called) but we had a super all-day session at the EAA. Massive thanks to my co-organiser @dalisera.bsky.social. Alexander & I will be working with colleagues from Queens Uni Belfast to get our papers jointly published by Springer in an edited vol. Stay tuned!
The schedule is finally set for our daylong (!) panel at EAA2023 in Belfast: “The Experience of Stone.” 24 papers, with global scope and a vast chronology from prehistory to the medieval. (Subjects include: caves, high crosses, death rituals, sacred stones, temples, volcanic seascapes, and more…)
September 19, 2023 at 3:23 PM
I'm a bit slow to the game (Lindisfarne called) but we had a super all-day session at the EAA. Massive thanks to my co-organiser @dalisera.bsky.social. Alexander & I will be working with colleagues from Queens Uni Belfast to get our papers jointly published by Springer in an edited vol. Stay tuned!
The schedule is finally set for our daylong (!) panel at EAA2023 in Belfast: “The Experience of Stone.” 24 papers, with global scope and a vast chronology from prehistory to the medieval. (Subjects include: caves, high crosses, death rituals, sacred stones, temples, volcanic seascapes, and more…)
August 19, 2023 at 5:41 PM
The schedule is finally set for our daylong (!) panel at EAA2023 in Belfast: “The Experience of Stone.” 24 papers, with global scope and a vast chronology from prehistory to the medieval. (Subjects include: caves, high crosses, death rituals, sacred stones, temples, volcanic seascapes, and more…)