Jake Stattel
@jakestattel.bsky.social
Medieval Historian, Postdoc Fellow at Cambridge | Vikings, the Danelaw, Legal History | https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-jake-stattel
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New #OnHistory blog, IHR Fellow Chris Lewis writes about new publication, "Making Domesday: Intelligent Power in Conquered England" by Stephen Baxter, Julia Crick, and C. P. Lewis, and Domesday scholarship in the IHR.
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Domesday at the IHR - On History
IHR Fellow, Chris Lewis, writes about new publication, 'Making Domesday'.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
New #OnHistory blog, IHR Fellow Chris Lewis writes about new publication, "Making Domesday: Intelligent Power in Conquered England" by Stephen Baxter, Julia Crick, and C. P. Lewis, and Domesday scholarship in the IHR.
blog.history.ac.uk/2025/10/dome...
blog.history.ac.uk/2025/10/dome...
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NEW Were the Picts of northern Scotland wiped out by Viking conquest? New radiocarbon dates from the 1st millennium AD settlement of Buckquoy, Orkney paint a more complex picture of cultural interaction in the Northern Isles.
#AntiquityThread 1/15 🧵
@northernpicts.bsky.social🏺 #Archaeology
#AntiquityThread 1/15 🧵
@northernpicts.bsky.social🏺 #Archaeology
November 7, 2025 at 8:13 AM
NEW Were the Picts of northern Scotland wiped out by Viking conquest? New radiocarbon dates from the 1st millennium AD settlement of Buckquoy, Orkney paint a more complex picture of cultural interaction in the Northern Isles.
#AntiquityThread 1/15 🧵
@northernpicts.bsky.social🏺 #Archaeology
#AntiquityThread 1/15 🧵
@northernpicts.bsky.social🏺 #Archaeology
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The next talk in the @uclioabmmedieval.bsky.social Medieval Archaeology Seminar Series will be given by @samleggs22.bsky.social on 'Migrations into early medieval England: integrating isotopes and aDNA.'
🗓️ : 27 Jan 2026, 6:15-7:15pm
📍 : UCL
More info: buff.ly/eQyGGI1
#HSResearch #NHSFMembers
🗓️ : 27 Jan 2026, 6:15-7:15pm
📍 : UCL
More info: buff.ly/eQyGGI1
#HSResearch #NHSFMembers
Migrations into early medieval England: integrating isotopes and aDNA
The next event in the 2025-26 UCL Institute of Archaeology/British Museum Medieval Seminar Series, will be given by Sam Leggett (University of Edinburgh) on 27 January.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The next talk in the @uclioabmmedieval.bsky.social Medieval Archaeology Seminar Series will be given by @samleggs22.bsky.social on 'Migrations into early medieval England: integrating isotopes and aDNA.'
🗓️ : 27 Jan 2026, 6:15-7:15pm
📍 : UCL
More info: buff.ly/eQyGGI1
#HSResearch #NHSFMembers
🗓️ : 27 Jan 2026, 6:15-7:15pm
📍 : UCL
More info: buff.ly/eQyGGI1
#HSResearch #NHSFMembers
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The piece where I get to say everything that's bugging me about the world of detecting & archaeology & ask - why are we not more concerned about this?
(Thank you to everyone who read through drafts & offered thoughts, advice and ideas.)
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺
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(Thank you to everyone who read through drafts & offered thoughts, advice and ideas.)
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺
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The system is broken, so why are we not more concerned?
by Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] Abstract The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) – the detectorist-facing branch of archaeology – whic…
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October 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The piece where I get to say everything that's bugging me about the world of detecting & archaeology & ask - why are we not more concerned about this?
(Thank you to everyone who read through drafts & offered thoughts, advice and ideas.)
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/10/27/t...
(Thank you to everyone who read through drafts & offered thoughts, advice and ideas.)
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/10/27/t...
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📰 'More than just jewellery': new insights into #Viking miniature metal figurines
#AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @uniofleicester.bsky.social
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#AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @uniofleicester.bsky.social
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Viking figurines were ‘more than just jewellery’, and were used and handled in a variety of ways, including long-term curation, 'decapitation', and attached to Christian artefacts | News | University of Leicester
In Viking archaeology, the study of miniature metal figurines -- possibly depicting Norse gods and mythological beings -- have been central to...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
📰 'More than just jewellery': new insights into #Viking miniature metal figurines
#AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @uniofleicester.bsky.social
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#AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @uniofleicester.bsky.social
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Very exciting news for those interested in early medieval England: a hugely important new volume on crops and food supply (by Helena Hamerow, Mark McKerracher & the FeedSax team) is now available Open Access academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...
Feeding Medieval England: A Long ‘Agricultural Revolution’, 700–1300
Abstract. As in the rest of Europe, the population of medieval England grew steeply, especially between the tenth and thirteenth centuries. This volume inv
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October 31, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Very exciting news for those interested in early medieval England: a hugely important new volume on crops and food supply (by Helena Hamerow, Mark McKerracher & the FeedSax team) is now available Open Access academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...
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‘For every genuine relic-bearing cleric, however, there was a peddler of fake goods. What were authorities to do in cases where crowds seemed to legitimise miscreants?’
Pablo Scheffer on the early medieval crowd regime:
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Pablo Scheffer on the early medieval crowd regime:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Pablo Scheffer · Among the Rabble: Early Medieval Crowds
Along with their terminology, the Romans had passed down to early medieval Europe the belief that crowds were an...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
‘For every genuine relic-bearing cleric, however, there was a peddler of fake goods. What were authorities to do in cases where crowds seemed to legitimise miscreants?’
Pablo Scheffer on the early medieval crowd regime:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Pablo Scheffer on the early medieval crowd regime:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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An important article challenging the views of earlier archaeologists about 'Pictish cellular' vs. 'Norse rectangular' building styles. The authors could also have challenged more clearly the earlier view that they mention, namely that 'the early Viking conquest' took place 'around AD 800'. 🧵1/6
A new consideration of the chronology of the key settlement of Buckquoy, Orkney - shows that the buildings here belong firmly in the Pictish tradition. This leads to a wider consideration of the timings and character of the Viking Age in the Northern Isles.
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Buckquoy, Orkney: addressing the Pictish-Viking transition in northern Scotland | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Buckquoy, Orkney: addressing the Pictish-Viking transition in northern Scotland
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October 31, 2025 at 8:38 AM
An important article challenging the views of earlier archaeologists about 'Pictish cellular' vs. 'Norse rectangular' building styles. The authors could also have challenged more clearly the earlier view that they mention, namely that 'the early Viking conquest' took place 'around AD 800'. 🧵1/6
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October 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Chris Wickham's 'Framing the early Middle Ages, Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800' (2005) is widely seen as a milestone in early medieval studies.
New research published by Robert Portass, Peter Sarris and Caroline Goodson (@cjg70.bsky.social) now offers a critical response to Wickham’s ideas ⬇️
New research published by Robert Portass, Peter Sarris and Caroline Goodson (@cjg70.bsky.social) now offers a critical response to Wickham’s ideas ⬇️
Vol. 43 Núm. 2 (2025): El modo de producción campesino: un replanteamiento de la sociedad rural de la Europa altomedieval | Studia Historica. Historia Medieval
Con la colaboración de la Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología | Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades.
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October 23, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Chris Wickham's 'Framing the early Middle Ages, Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800' (2005) is widely seen as a milestone in early medieval studies.
New research published by Robert Portass, Peter Sarris and Caroline Goodson (@cjg70.bsky.social) now offers a critical response to Wickham’s ideas ⬇️
New research published by Robert Portass, Peter Sarris and Caroline Goodson (@cjg70.bsky.social) now offers a critical response to Wickham’s ideas ⬇️
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I'm currently in the strange situation of living in Tokyo as a JSPS fellow to do my research on Anglo-Saxon law. Why? Well, just look here! ingridfiv.github.io/ingridsblog/...
Felix Liebermann’s library in Tokyo, Part I
Who is Felix Liebermann and how did his library end up in Tokyo?
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October 16, 2025 at 8:48 AM
I'm currently in the strange situation of living in Tokyo as a JSPS fellow to do my research on Anglo-Saxon law. Why? Well, just look here! ingridfiv.github.io/ingridsblog/...
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For the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, 1066, here is thread on why 'who was the rightful king?' is the wrong question to ask, why we don't know the complete story and why that makes things more interesting. 1/ #medievalsky #skystorians #historyedu #historyteachers
October 14, 2024 at 9:30 AM
For the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, 1066, here is thread on why 'who was the rightful king?' is the wrong question to ask, why we don't know the complete story and why that makes things more interesting. 1/ #medievalsky #skystorians #historyedu #historyteachers
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THIS WEEK: Please join us and @uclioabmmedieval.bsky.social for the Sir David Wilson lecture, with @rorynaismith.bsky.social on 'From Mesoamerica to Early Medieval England: Money, Materiality and Society'. Weds 8 Oct, 6.15pm, Archaeology Lecture Theatre G6. All welcome! www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
The Sir David Wilson Lecture in Medieval Studies 2025
The Sir David Wilson Lecture, the first event in the 2025-26 UCL Institute of Archaeology/British Museum Medieval Seminar Series, will be given by Rory Naismith (University of Cambridge) on 8 October.
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October 6, 2025 at 8:39 AM
THIS WEEK: Please join us and @uclioabmmedieval.bsky.social for the Sir David Wilson lecture, with @rorynaismith.bsky.social on 'From Mesoamerica to Early Medieval England: Money, Materiality and Society'. Weds 8 Oct, 6.15pm, Archaeology Lecture Theatre G6. All welcome! www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
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Apardjón Journal for Scandinavian Studies is pleased to present its THIRD volume. This volume contains two articles and a note, and is accompanied by five book reviews. We would like to thank all of our authors for contributing to this volume.
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March 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Apardjón Journal for Scandinavian Studies is pleased to present its THIRD volume. This volume contains two articles and a note, and is accompanied by five book reviews. We would like to thank all of our authors for contributing to this volume.
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The biggest misunderstanding people make about the humanities is that they’re unscientific. The fact is that we have a good understanding of how an early medieval language sounded when spoken, and that’s because of philologists following what can only be described as scientific methods.
Hwæt! 🐉
Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English?
#NationalPoetryDay
Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English?
#NationalPoetryDay
October 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The biggest misunderstanding people make about the humanities is that they’re unscientific. The fact is that we have a good understanding of how an early medieval language sounded when spoken, and that’s because of philologists following what can only be described as scientific methods.
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📣 The Earlier Middle Ages seminar @ihr.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! Here's our autumn term schedule. First up is @rorynaismith.bsky.social on 8 October, giving the annual David Wilson Lecture (with @uclarchaeology.bsky.social). All welcome! Please sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
September 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
📣 The Earlier Middle Ages seminar @ihr.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! Here's our autumn term schedule. First up is @rorynaismith.bsky.social on 8 October, giving the annual David Wilson Lecture (with @uclarchaeology.bsky.social). All welcome! Please sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Knowledge Commons upload 'A context for the Birka grave Bj581? Women and military leadership in the tenth century' (2024 but previously published in German) #medievalsky #archaeology #history #gender
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September 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Knowledge Commons upload 'A context for the Birka grave Bj581? Women and military leadership in the tenth century' (2024 but previously published in German) #medievalsky #archaeology #history #gender
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I think we'll spend the next few weeks looking at weapons for our Viking camps #FindsFriday posts: for all our talk of the 'Great Army', there are surprisingly few weapons from the sites.
We'll start with these two pieces - Torksey finds DB 130 and 804. Both are broken ferrules from sword grips. /1
We'll start with these two pieces - Torksey finds DB 130 and 804. Both are broken ferrules from sword grips. /1
September 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I think we'll spend the next few weeks looking at weapons for our Viking camps #FindsFriday posts: for all our talk of the 'Great Army', there are surprisingly few weapons from the sites.
We'll start with these two pieces - Torksey finds DB 130 and 804. Both are broken ferrules from sword grips. /1
We'll start with these two pieces - Torksey finds DB 130 and 804. Both are broken ferrules from sword grips. /1
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A fabulous looking new book from Tonicha Upham exploring all the Arabic and Persian evidence on Rus burials and sacrifices, complete with translations! #medievalsky #vikings
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Death Rituals
Cambridge Core - Global History - Death Rituals
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September 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
A fabulous looking new book from Tonicha Upham exploring all the Arabic and Persian evidence on Rus burials and sacrifices, complete with translations! #medievalsky #vikings
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Do go and check out Judith’s new book! Then listen to our chat with her…
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September 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Do go and check out Judith’s new book! Then listen to our chat with her…
vikingology.substack.com/p/the-saga-o...
vikingology.substack.com/p/the-saga-o...
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Coming next spring ... yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Offa
An authoritative biography of Offa of Mercia, revealing his importance as the king who stood at the turning point of Anglo-Saxon history Offa ruled the Merci...
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September 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Coming next spring ... yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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Congratulations to Dr Ben Guy, who has been awarded an AHRC standard grant to fund a major collaborative project on the early Welsh charters and their boundaries!
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Congratulations: Dr Ben Guy awarded an AHRC Standard Grant for project on early Welsh charters | Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic
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September 11, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Congratulations to Dr Ben Guy, who has been awarded an AHRC standard grant to fund a major collaborative project on the early Welsh charters and their boundaries!
www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/news/2025/09...
www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/news/2025/09...
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From traders to magicians and allies, the Saami appear across medieval Nordic sagas.
Solveig Marie Wang explores how these stories reveal an Indigenous presence at the centre of the Middle Ages — and why remembering it matters today.
Solveig Marie Wang explores how these stories reveal an Indigenous presence at the centre of the Middle Ages — and why remembering it matters today.
Reclaiming the Medieval Saami Past
Explore Saami history and its representation in medieval sources, challenging the myth of a purely White Middle Ages.
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August 21, 2025 at 10:53 AM
From traders to magicians and allies, the Saami appear across medieval Nordic sagas.
Solveig Marie Wang explores how these stories reveal an Indigenous presence at the centre of the Middle Ages — and why remembering it matters today.
Solveig Marie Wang explores how these stories reveal an Indigenous presence at the centre of the Middle Ages — and why remembering it matters today.
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You might assume “Anglo-Saxons” is a simple phrase with a simple meaning, but it’s meant various things during the past centuries. This is a brilliant open-access summary of those evolutions by Prof Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social
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The Anglo-Saxons: Myth and History | Early Medieval England and its Neighbours | Cambridge Core
The Anglo-Saxons: Myth and History - Volume 51
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September 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
You might assume “Anglo-Saxons” is a simple phrase with a simple meaning, but it’s meant various things during the past centuries. This is a brilliant open-access summary of those evolutions by Prof Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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I'm excited to announce that I'll be sharing some findings of my PhD research at an online talk for UHI's Institute for Northern Studies on November 27, titled 'Families, Networks and Informants: The Making of Orkneyinga saga'. Click the link below to register!
We're thrilled to announce our fantastic series of free @thinkuhi.bsky.social online and in-person seminars, conferences, and symposia for 2025-26! Discover the full line-up on our website and secure your place today!
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September 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I'm excited to announce that I'll be sharing some findings of my PhD research at an online talk for UHI's Institute for Northern Studies on November 27, titled 'Families, Networks and Informants: The Making of Orkneyinga saga'. Click the link below to register!