Leonardo Costantini
@lcostantini89.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol. Interested in manuscripts, literature, movies and (good) TV-series. Opinions are my own.
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Hear ye, hear ye! Very exciting news! 🎉Our PGRs have now released the call for papers for their annual CMS PGR conference (the longest-running PGR medieval conference in the UK!)
We'd be so grateful if you could share this with anyone who may be interested!
#medievalsky #skystorians
We'd be so grateful if you could share this with anyone who may be interested!
#medievalsky #skystorians
We are VERY excited to announce the call for papers for our 2026 conference! 🎉🎉🎉 This year, we invite paper and poster proposals on the themes of power and/or performance!
All proposals to be sent to cms-conference-enquiries@bristol.ac.uk by 17:00 on Friday 9th January.
#medievalsky #skystorians
All proposals to be sent to cms-conference-enquiries@bristol.ac.uk by 17:00 on Friday 9th January.
#medievalsky #skystorians
November 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Hear ye, hear ye! Very exciting news! 🎉Our PGRs have now released the call for papers for their annual CMS PGR conference (the longest-running PGR medieval conference in the UK!)
We'd be so grateful if you could share this with anyone who may be interested!
#medievalsky #skystorians
We'd be so grateful if you could share this with anyone who may be interested!
#medievalsky #skystorians
Delighted to announce that more than 80 MS fragments from Gubbio, dating to s. XI-XII, have just been published online, thanks to the hard work of my PhD student, Laura Rogari.
You can access them on @fragmentarium.bsky.social: fragmentarium.ms/search?sQuer...
You can access them on @fragmentarium.bsky.social: fragmentarium.ms/search?sQuer...
Fragmentarium
Fragmentarium - Digital Laboratory for Medieval Manuscript Fragments. Fragmentarium enables libraries, collectors, researchers and students to publish images of medieval manuscript fragments, allowing...
fragmentarium.ms
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Delighted to announce that more than 80 MS fragments from Gubbio, dating to s. XI-XII, have just been published online, thanks to the hard work of my PhD student, Laura Rogari.
You can access them on @fragmentarium.bsky.social: fragmentarium.ms/search?sQuer...
You can access them on @fragmentarium.bsky.social: fragmentarium.ms/search?sQuer...
Tell you what, both Roofman (an excellent drama, despite the silly poster) and The Smashing Machine should also be on everyone's watch-list. These films won't not save cinemas, esp. in a disastrous box office year like 2025, but they show that movies are alive and kicking.
November 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Tell you what, both Roofman (an excellent drama, despite the silly poster) and The Smashing Machine should also be on everyone's watch-list. These films won't not save cinemas, esp. in a disastrous box office year like 2025, but they show that movies are alive and kicking.
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Big thanks to the folks at Industrial Light & Magic Vancouver for making me feel so welcome this week.
And to the amazing people I had the fortune to interview for my upcoming article.
And to the amazing people I had the fortune to interview for my upcoming article.
November 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Big thanks to the folks at Industrial Light & Magic Vancouver for making me feel so welcome this week.
And to the amazing people I had the fortune to interview for my upcoming article.
And to the amazing people I had the fortune to interview for my upcoming article.
If you enjoyed The Ballad of Wallis Island, then maybe Good Fortune is worth a try. Keanu Reeves does a pretty bad Johnny Depp impression throughout, and the finale is weak, but I'd still recommend it.
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
If you enjoyed The Ballad of Wallis Island, then maybe Good Fortune is worth a try. Keanu Reeves does a pretty bad Johnny Depp impression throughout, and the finale is weak, but I'd still recommend it.
I missed my train this evening and, as it was late, I bought a pasty from West Cornwall Pasty inside Temple Meads station. The last time I bought a pasty from them, in 2014, it was ca. £4.50. Now it's £7.59. That's an increase of about 68.7%.
Happy inflation, everybody!
Happy inflation, everybody!
November 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I missed my train this evening and, as it was late, I bought a pasty from West Cornwall Pasty inside Temple Meads station. The last time I bought a pasty from them, in 2014, it was ca. £4.50. Now it's £7.59. That's an increase of about 68.7%.
Happy inflation, everybody!
Happy inflation, everybody!
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Objectively the best Medieval Summer School out there 😉 Please consider sharing and, even better, applying! 🙂
We are SO excited to announce that applications are now open for this year's Medieval Studies Summer School! 🎉 Please do pass this information on to anyone you think might be interested!
We'll be sharing some highlights of last year's programme over the next few weeks!
#medievalsky #skystorians
We'll be sharing some highlights of last year's programme over the next few weeks!
#medievalsky #skystorians
October 23, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Objectively the best Medieval Summer School out there 😉 Please consider sharing and, even better, applying! 🙂
If you liked, as I did, The Baltimorons, then chances are you're really going to enjoy The Ballad of Wallis Island.
October 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
If you liked, as I did, The Baltimorons, then chances are you're really going to enjoy The Ballad of Wallis Island.
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Now equivalent to 3 US credit-hours, so go fill an elective with some intense medieval studies in this 3-week short-course!
We are SO excited to announce that applications are now open for this year's Medieval Studies Summer School! 🎉 Please do pass this information on to anyone you think might be interested!
We'll be sharing some highlights of last year's programme over the next few weeks!
#medievalsky #skystorians
We'll be sharing some highlights of last year's programme over the next few weeks!
#medievalsky #skystorians
October 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Now equivalent to 3 US credit-hours, so go fill an elective with some intense medieval studies in this 3-week short-course!
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We can't wait to watch this!
📺 Prof Ronald Hutton (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) joins Rylan Clark & @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on #WitchesOfEssex to investigate the truth behind the British witch trials of the 16th & 17th centuries
Watch the full three-part series on Sky History & Now 👉 bit.ly/47l3e8X
Watch the full three-part series on Sky History & Now 👉 bit.ly/47l3e8X
October 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
We can't wait to watch this!
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We hope that everyone is having a wonderful reading week! Here's a sneak peek at some of the CMS Research Seminars we can look forward to in the second half of the semester!
#medievalsky #skystorians
#medievalsky #skystorians
October 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
We hope that everyone is having a wonderful reading week! Here's a sneak peek at some of the CMS Research Seminars we can look forward to in the second half of the semester!
#medievalsky #skystorians
#medievalsky #skystorians
Delighted to run this summer school again! Please, take a look at our new site and share this with colleagues and students who may be interested.
www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s...
www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s...
October 23, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Delighted to run this summer school again! Please, take a look at our new site and share this with colleagues and students who may be interested.
www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s...
www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s...
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Our brilliant PGRs are at it again! After last year's inaugural and highly-successful brat symposium (organised by CMS PGRs Shauna Roach, Sarah Collinson, Harry Lewis, and Isla Dawson), this year's committee is once again inviting Bristol PGRs to consider how 'brat' connects with their own research.
October 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Our brilliant PGRs are at it again! After last year's inaugural and highly-successful brat symposium (organised by CMS PGRs Shauna Roach, Sarah Collinson, Harry Lewis, and Isla Dawson), this year's committee is once again inviting Bristol PGRs to consider how 'brat' connects with their own research.
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We absolutely loved having you -- come back and see us soon! 🥰
I had the best time speaking @bristolcms.bsky.social last week! The loveliest and warmest community, thank you so much for having me. And what a full-circle moment to be introduced by Ian Wei, who I heard speak at UCL when I first started studying medieval universities!
Yesterday, we were lucky enough to hear about Dr Elena Rossi’s (@elenarossi.bsky.social) work on female employment in medieval universities. A HUGE thank you to Elena for sharing such a fascinating paper with us all: we really hope to welcome you back to Bristol soon! 🥰 #medievalsky #skystorians
October 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
We absolutely loved having you -- come back and see us soon! 🥰
The Baltimorons is a truly lovely film. I wholeheartedly recommend it and wish more movies like this got made these days. Give it a chance, and you won't regret it.
October 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The Baltimorons is a truly lovely film. I wholeheartedly recommend it and wish more movies like this got made these days. Give it a chance, and you won't regret it.
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Hwæt is this wonderful scene of creative chaos? Could it be the very successful first week of Old English AND Old Norse Reading Group?! #medievalsky #skystorians
October 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Hwæt is this wonderful scene of creative chaos? Could it be the very successful first week of Old English AND Old Norse Reading Group?! #medievalsky #skystorians
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Are Labour unlucky (or are they just rubbish)?
YouTube video by Garys Economics
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October 5, 2025 at 9:10 AM
A great review of an excellent documentary, which is a lot of fun to watch! I'd also strongly recommend the interview with the director, Jon Spira, on Jamie Benning's podcast channel: @filmumentaries.bsky.social.
"brings back to life an actor who would happily have seen his horror past stay buried": @videojon.bsky.social’s documentary feature THE LIFE AND DEATHS OF CHRISTOPHER LEE (2024)
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The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee (2024) - Projected Figures
Jon Spira's doc THE LIFE AND DEATHS OF CHRISTOPHER LEE brings back to life an actor who would happily have seen his horror past stay buried
projectedfigures.com
October 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
A great review of an excellent documentary, which is a lot of fun to watch! I'd also strongly recommend the interview with the director, Jon Spira, on Jamie Benning's podcast channel: @filmumentaries.bsky.social.
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Call for Papers! Symposium in honour of our much-missed colleague Prof. Malcolm Heath, Leeds, 21-2 May 2026. Paper proposals of no more than 500 words to be sent by 1 December to Prof. Emma Stafford (e.j.stafford@leeds.ac.uk)
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Rhetoric, drama and their critics: celebrating the work of Malcolm Heath
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October 4, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Call for Papers! Symposium in honour of our much-missed colleague Prof. Malcolm Heath, Leeds, 21-2 May 2026. Paper proposals of no more than 500 words to be sent by 1 December to Prof. Emma Stafford (e.j.stafford@leeds.ac.uk)
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/r...
fb.me/e/3B3AY9ZZZ
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/r...
fb.me/e/3B3AY9ZZZ
Just arrived!
September 30, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Just arrived!
Book review just published! Send me an email if you’re interested in a copy: doi.org/10.1111/1468...
Cicero: The Man and His Works. By Andrew R. Dyck. Cambridge University Press, 2025. 1117 pp. £150.
Click on the article title to read more.
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September 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Book review just published! Send me an email if you’re interested in a copy: doi.org/10.1111/1468...
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👏With huge thanks to @lcostantini89.bsky.social our annual CUCD statistics report is up at:
cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2025/0...
📣Highlights include: overall increase in UG students, an increase in students taking Greek ab initio, and higher PGT student numbers! Read more for details.
cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2025/0...
📣Highlights include: overall increase in UG students, an increase in students taking Greek ab initio, and higher PGT student numbers! Read more for details.
cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk
September 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
👏With huge thanks to @lcostantini89.bsky.social our annual CUCD statistics report is up at:
cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2025/0...
📣Highlights include: overall increase in UG students, an increase in students taking Greek ab initio, and higher PGT student numbers! Read more for details.
cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2025/0...
📣Highlights include: overall increase in UG students, an increase in students taking Greek ab initio, and higher PGT student numbers! Read more for details.
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We need to tax wealth not work.
Why? Because usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets.
Someone made a game to show this:
therichdont.work
Why? Because usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets.
Someone made a game to show this:
therichdont.work
Idle — The Wealth Race
Can your hard work beat The Rich? Play and find out!
therichdont.work
September 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
We need to tax wealth not work.
Why? Because usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets.
Someone made a game to show this:
therichdont.work
Why? Because usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets.
Someone made a game to show this:
therichdont.work
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Want to work with the FitMA-team? Here is your chance! Join our great project and get paid for it! Two postdoc positions open! #classicsky #medievalsky #philsky
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2 postdoctoral fellows for the ERC-project ‘Fluidity in the Medieval Aristotle. Readers and Readings of the Greek-Latin Translations’ (FitMA)
Intrigued by the Medieval Aristotle? Join our research group!
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August 28, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Want to work with the FitMA-team? Here is your chance! Join our great project and get paid for it! Two postdoc positions open! #classicsky #medievalsky #philsky
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
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Fragments from classical authors are rare! MS of Seneca's Letters 64 & 65 (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 2855). The connection with Fragm. 1622 was not noticed.
www5.kb.dk/manus/vmanus...
www5.kb.dk/manus/vmanus...
August 1, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Fragments from classical authors are rare! MS of Seneca's Letters 64 & 65 (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 2855). The connection with Fragm. 1622 was not noticed.
www5.kb.dk/manus/vmanus...
www5.kb.dk/manus/vmanus...