Jonathan Herold
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Jonathan Herold
@jonathan-r-herold.bsky.social
Historian (focusing on various aspects of European/North Atlantic developments during the Early Middle Ages), university instructor, dog lover and film buff.
New research analyzing evidence of climatological conditions along Rome's middle-Danube limes and their possible impact on settlement and agricultural developments during the 1 - 4th century CE. Bear in mind: the past is prologue. . .
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Climate variability and Germanic settlement dynamics in the Middle Danube region during the Roman Period (1st–4th Century CE)
Climatic variability inevitably impacted past societies and acted as a driver of change. The combined analyses of the archaeological record and written documentary sources, together with high-resoluti...
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July 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Reports of the discovery of a 19th-century runestone in northern Ontario have caught the attention of the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/world/canada/canada-runestone-ontario.html
June 27, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Sad new this morning from Nova Scotia: RIP, Birgitta Wallace Ferguson.

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Birgitta Ferguson Obituary - Halifax, NS
Celebrate the life of Birgitta Ferguson, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information care of JA Snow Funeral Home.
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May 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
This new online DB from the Swedish National Heritage Board looks like a -very good- resource indeed:

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www.gotlandicpicturestones.se/s/index/page...
Startpage · Gotlandic Picture Stones - The Online Edition · Gotlands Museum
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May 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Here's news of an upcoming two-day online colloquium sponsored by the Dictionary of Old English. Registration information is available via the webpage that I've linked to below:

epinal-erfurt.artsci.utoronto.ca/index.php/ea...

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Early Latin-Old English Glossaries Colloquium (May 30-31, 2025)
epinal-erfurt.artsci.utoronto.ca
May 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Newly published research provides new evidence for a 'mini Ice Age' in the 6th-century CE: granite from Greenland that likely "rafted" on icebergs to Iceland and deposited in a datable layer. Here's a link to the recent article in -Geology-:

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Greenlandic debris in Iceland likely tied to Bond event 1 ice rafting in the Dark Ages | Geology | GeoScienceWorld
We report the discovery of exotic igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary cobbles in raised beach deposits near Breiðavík, northern Iceland. These deposits
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April 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Interesting computer modeling suggests that Bronze-age Norse boats would have been capable of crossing the Skagerrak strait between Denmark and Norway out of sight of land: new research published in PLOS One.

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Seafaring and navigation in the Nordic Bronze Age: The application of an ocean voyage tool and boat performance data for comparing direct open water crossings with sheltered coastal routes
This study presents an “ocean voyaging tool” that combines predicted vessel performance data with agent-based simulations. This tool offers a new way to assess navigation and seafaring abilities in pr...
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April 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Reposted by Jonathan Herold
Publication – Paul Bertrand, « Forger le faux. Les usages de l’écrit au Moyen Âge »

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Publication – Paul Bertrand, « Forger le faux. Les usages de l’écrit au Moyen Âge »
Si les concepts de fake news et post-vérité semblent définir notre monde contemporain, le Moyen Âge n’était-il pas déjà l’empire du faux ? De la fausse donation de Constantin aux évangiles apocryph…
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January 31, 2025 at 6:25 AM