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Francesca Tinti
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Ikerbasque Research Professor of Medieval History at University of Basque Country UPV/EHU - Coordinating Editor of Early Medieval Europe - Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge (2025-2026)
The Leper Chapel, Cambridge, 12th century
November 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
It seems that the shelf underneath the current section on Charlemagne in the Cambridge University Library has been prudently left empty for likely future expansion
November 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
November 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Back to Todas las Almas for lunch
October 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Excited and very grateful to be starting as a Visiting Fellow at
‪@clarehallcambridge.bsky.social ‬today! The photo (from the college website) makes the UL look far off in the distance, but in reality it’s just a short walk away… so really no excuse not to get the work done...
October 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I had some time to kill while in Madrid and entered the Lázaro Galdiano museum expecting to find El Greco and Goya as its major attractions but it seems that this private collector did not disdain some Visigothic bling either
July 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
End of the day conference excursion and aperitif
July 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Clemens has just shown us a recent “photograph” of Anastasius bibliothecarius
July 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
And Clemens Gantner is now about to start his talk which promises to be very interesting
July 16, 2025 at 10:09 AM
And we now move on to @ecroberts.bsky.social
July 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
About to start our second day at the Estella conference on Languages and Identities in the Early Middle Ages. Herewith Ramon Martí introducing the brilliant Magali Coumert
July 16, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Another early medieval winner at Kalamazoo! Congratulations to Graham Barrett for winning La Coronica book award for his recent monograph
May 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Maya Maskarinec has discussed, among other things, documents on stone, like this one inscribed on the floor in front of the altar and on a column of the church of Sant’Antimo in Tuscany
May 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
And we are now on to session 2 with a first paper by Deanna Forsman on Sidonius Apollinaris’s Letters
May 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
And this one, from England, rather than bounding glass or precious materials, contains a walnut shell
May 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
She has found over 500 of them as shown in this distribution map
May 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
And we have now moved on to Genevra Kornbluth who is speaking about Roman bound pendants in early medieval graves
May 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The second paper is by Hope Willard and focuses on exchanges of textiles in Merovingian hagiography
May 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The first session sponsored by Early Medieval Europe at Kalamazoo starts off with a paper by May Peterson on this intriguing image contained in BnF Lat 4787, a Carolingian collection of law codes
May 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Bob Berkhofer announcing the winner of the 2025 Otto Gründler Book Prize: Rory Naismith. Congratulations @rorynaismith.bsky.social !!
May 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Apparently someone at this coffee shop chain thought this was a good marketing idea
May 7, 2025 at 6:22 AM
The best part of our day trip to Favignana was undoubtedly the blue of the sea but the old Florio fishery now turned into a museum was also pretty good. This is where, allegedly, canned tuna was invented.
April 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
A day between Trapani and Erice
April 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Wishful thinking in Trapani cathedral?
April 29, 2025 at 7:58 AM
La costa agrigentina nei pressi della Scala dei Turchi
April 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM