Matt Gabriele
@profgabriele.com
Professor, medievalist, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), BETWEEN PROPHECY & APOCALYPSE (2024), & OATHBREAKERS (2024) nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him.
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so the news is that i have done the unthinkable and... started a podcast.
"American Medieval" - because if we've never been fully modern, maybe it's because we've always been a little bit medieval.
the trailer has now dropped! please have a listen -->
patreon.com/americanmedieval
"American Medieval" - because if we've never been fully modern, maybe it's because we've always been a little bit medieval.
the trailer has now dropped! please have a listen -->
patreon.com/americanmedieval
Anyone who says this to a colleague should walk into the sea
Fun morning being told to my face I’m a fine “public intellectual” but not a “real researcher.”
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Anyone who says this to a colleague should walk into the sea
It me!
In this week's episode of How Is This Better, @profgabriele.com talks to @akilahhughes.com about how Trump's rise encouraged White Christian Nationalists in their efforts to erase the line between Church and State. Watch the full episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vE5...
November 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
It me!
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Oh this sounds awesome. I will have to subscribe to this on friday when i get paid
super excited to be part of the @multitude.productions collective and their amazing team.
the idea is really simple: let's talk about not just the middle ages themselves, but how americans specifically think about and remember the Middle Ages.
patreon.com/americanmedieval
the idea is really simple: let's talk about not just the middle ages themselves, but how americans specifically think about and remember the Middle Ages.
patreon.com/americanmedieval
American Medieval | Patreon
If we've never been modern, we've always been medieval.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Oh this sounds awesome. I will have to subscribe to this on friday when i get paid
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I got to talk to @akilahhughes.com alongside amazing people like @profgabriele.com and Heather Weaver of the ACLU about Christian authoritarianism and the plot to force it on this country. Check it out: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
The Plot to Force Evangelical Christianity on Everyone
Podcast Episode · How Is This Better? · 11/07/2025 · 30m
podcasts.apple.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I got to talk to @akilahhughes.com alongside amazing people like @profgabriele.com and Heather Weaver of the ACLU about Christian authoritarianism and the plot to force it on this country. Check it out: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
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From today's Chronicle of Higher Ed briefing. I am *never* an advocate of cutting programs. But I am curious to see if there will be the same type of "students aren't majoring in this, so let's cut the program" discourse around computer science as there always is for the arts and humanities.
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
From today's Chronicle of Higher Ed briefing. I am *never* an advocate of cutting programs. But I am curious to see if there will be the same type of "students aren't majoring in this, so let's cut the program" discourse around computer science as there always is for the arts and humanities.
Got a late start start on this one but an update from me & @lollardfish.bsky.social on our recent UK book tour.* Our visit to the supposed birthplace of Alfred the Great and how the local community talks about the medieval past #medievalsky
Free to read —>
*1 stop
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Free to read —>
*1 stop
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Alfred the Great Slept Here (as a baby)
A few weeks ago, we (Matt and David!) traveled to Wantage, a small but thriving town not far Oxford, to take part in their annual literary festival. We’ve...
buttondown.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Got a late start start on this one but an update from me & @lollardfish.bsky.social on our recent UK book tour.* Our visit to the supposed birthplace of Alfred the Great and how the local community talks about the medieval past #medievalsky
Free to read —>
*1 stop
buttondown.com/ModernMediev...
Free to read —>
*1 stop
buttondown.com/ModernMediev...
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New Post from me and @profgabriele.com's newsletter - King Alfred Slept Here. We had a great time in Wantage, UK, especially when taken around the town by two local historians.
Subscribe for free!
Subscribe for free!
Alfred the Great Slept Here (as a baby)
A few weeks ago, we (Matt and David!) traveled to Wantage, a small but thriving town not far Oxford, to take part in their annual literary festival. We’ve...
buttondown.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
New Post from me and @profgabriele.com's newsletter - King Alfred Slept Here. We had a great time in Wantage, UK, especially when taken around the town by two local historians.
Subscribe for free!
Subscribe for free!
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This week this week this week this week
welcome to AMERICAN MEDIEVAL! Sorry, didn't mean to shout but I'm excited!!!
this is a podcast about the Middle Ages, but with an American twist. Each week, @profgabriele.com will be joined by expert guests to explore either...
this is a podcast about the Middle Ages, but with an American twist. Each week, @profgabriele.com will be joined by expert guests to explore either...
November 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This week this week this week this week
Anyway
one of the most depressing things of the last decade or so is realizing how many friends/ colleagues/ leaders are (a) actually sympathetic to bad faith fascistic attacks (on public goods, education, vulnerable peoples, etc.), or (b) just simply not up to the moment we find ourselves in
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Anyway
People really want a parliamentary system where one doesn’t exist
Let’s be clear: Chuck Schumer is the one ending this shutdown, no matter how the votes read.
Chuck Schumer is claiming that he’s voting no, while letting other Senators (Fetterman, Kaine, King, etc) do HIS dirty work.
He must be removed from his leadership & primaried for the sake of this country
Chuck Schumer is claiming that he’s voting no, while letting other Senators (Fetterman, Kaine, King, etc) do HIS dirty work.
He must be removed from his leadership & primaried for the sake of this country
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 AM
People really want a parliamentary system where one doesn’t exist
One of the things you did in the Middle Ages to establish flailing legitimacy as a king was seize the mint and put your dumb face on a coin
November 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
One of the things you did in the Middle Ages to establish flailing legitimacy as a king was seize the mint and put your dumb face on a coin
All these trend pieces are super interesting - another one today #medievalsky
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/s...
November 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
All these trend pieces are super interesting - another one today #medievalsky
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/s...
Guys you will be SHOCKED at what the literal Gospels say about Jesus and sex workers
James Talarico, a Texas Democrat running for U.S. Senate who has put his faith at the forefront of his campaign, follows several adult film performers, escorts and OnlyFans models on Instagram, according to an Axios review.
Faith-forward Texas Senate candidate follows porn actors, escorts online
James Talarico has become a sensation in Texas politics by talking about how his Christianity is the basis for his progressive politics.
www.axios.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Guys you will be SHOCKED at what the literal Gospels say about Jesus and sex workers
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Hey @profgabriele.com and I are going to do a Chicago book event on 12/11. RSVP below! @jarvissquarebooks.bsky.social is hosting us. I haven’t been back in years.
Oathbreakers Paperback Launch | Jarvis Square Books
Historians Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry discuss a ninth-century "real-life Game of Thrones"
www.jarvissquarebooks.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Hey @profgabriele.com and I are going to do a Chicago book event on 12/11. RSVP below! @jarvissquarebooks.bsky.social is hosting us. I haven’t been back in years.
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I’m getting raise-the-roof vibes from @profgabriele.com and 6-7 vibes from @lollardfish.bsky.social .
Are you a palms in or palms out historian. @profgabriele.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I’m getting raise-the-roof vibes from @profgabriele.com and 6-7 vibes from @lollardfish.bsky.social .
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Are you a palms in or palms out historian. @profgabriele.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Are you a palms in or palms out historian. @profgabriele.com
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I saw the Washington Post editorial on redistricting today and this is my official response.
November 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Guy with a sandwich: “Fuck you armed agent of the state.”
Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”
Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”
Breaking News: Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would restore hundreds of millions in funding to the university. It's expected to pay a $30 million fine to the government and to invest $30 million in agriculture and farming programs.
Cornell Reaches Deal with Trump Administration to Restore Research Funds
The Ivy League university had warned of layoffs after the Trump administration stripped it of funds this year. The cuts were among the deepest in higher education.
nyti.ms
November 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Guy with a sandwich: “Fuck you armed agent of the state.”
Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”
Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
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Ivy Leaguers: stop trying to reinvent racism. Challenge level: impossible.
bro are you fucking kidding me
November 7, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Ivy Leaguers: stop trying to reinvent racism. Challenge level: impossible.
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Not just any filmmaker, but his filmmaking partner… that he was dating
November 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Not just any filmmaker, but his filmmaking partner… that he was dating
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Like a lot of elite academics, what Jason Stanley actually values is his comfort and his ability to use his position at a premiere college to parlay into a plum gig as a part of the commentariat class.
November 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Like a lot of elite academics, what Jason Stanley actually values is his comfort and his ability to use his position at a premiere college to parlay into a plum gig as a part of the commentariat class.
Jesus this is fucked up
Instead of Bernie Moreno creepily following us to the cars we use to get to work in the Capitol and writing down their VIN numbers, I'd suggest he use his time in more productive ways …
November 7, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Jesus this is fucked up