Rory Naismith
@rorynaismith.bsky.social
Early medievalist, etc., at the University of Cambridge.
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Oh wow, major work of interest to #MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges #EnvironmentalHistory. A new special issue devoted to "Environmental Challenges in Premodern Eurasian and Mediterranean Narratives": journals.uio.no/JAIS/article.... Kudos to the editors for bringing this work so quickly into print!
November 3, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Oh wow, major work of interest to #MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges #EnvironmentalHistory. A new special issue devoted to "Environmental Challenges in Premodern Eurasian and Mediterranean Narratives": journals.uio.no/JAIS/article.... Kudos to the editors for bringing this work so quickly into print!
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BBC News - Solid silver Saxon cross found in Leeds field goes on show - BBC News
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Solid silver Saxon cross found in Leeds field goes on show
The gilded cross can be seen at Leeds City Museum following its discovery in the city last year.
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November 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
BBC News - Solid silver Saxon cross found in Leeds field goes on show - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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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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New 📖 & stocking filler 🎁 from the FeedSax project team - Feeding Medieval England: A Long ‘Agricultural Revolution’, 700–1300
Congratulations to the FeedSax team!
You can get it in print from Nov 21st.
@archanchistleic.bsky.social academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...
Congratulations to the FeedSax team!
You can get it in print from Nov 21st.
@archanchistleic.bsky.social 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
academic.oup.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
New 📖 & stocking filler 🎁 from the FeedSax project team - Feeding Medieval England: A Long ‘Agricultural Revolution’, 700–1300
Congratulations to the FeedSax team!
You can get it in print from Nov 21st.
@archanchistleic.bsky.social academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...
Congratulations to the FeedSax team!
You can get it in print from Nov 21st.
@archanchistleic.bsky.social academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...
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"IT IS AGREED AND MOST EVIDENT THAT ALL MASTERS ARE EVIL..."
So begins the speech of the slave character Pantomalus in the Querolus, the only extant late antique comedy.
It will feature in a slavery sourcebook that we are working on.
Read more in our newest blog post: tinyurl.com/zrmc4a6s
So begins the speech of the slave character Pantomalus in the Querolus, the only extant late antique comedy.
It will feature in a slavery sourcebook that we are working on.
Read more in our newest blog post: tinyurl.com/zrmc4a6s
October 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"IT IS AGREED AND MOST EVIDENT THAT ALL MASTERS ARE EVIL..."
So begins the speech of the slave character Pantomalus in the Querolus, the only extant late antique comedy.
It will feature in a slavery sourcebook that we are working on.
Read more in our newest blog post: tinyurl.com/zrmc4a6s
So begins the speech of the slave character Pantomalus in the Querolus, the only extant late antique comedy.
It will feature in a slavery sourcebook that we are working on.
Read more in our newest blog post: tinyurl.com/zrmc4a6s
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For a limited time only - a digital offprint of our interdisciplinary article rewriting the early history of Bruges and the coast of Flanders, and proposing it and Boulogne as mints of Charlemagne.
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A new mint for Charlemagne (768-†814) ? An investigation into the earliest history of Bruges
Suggestions for you
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October 29, 2025 at 6:19 AM
For a limited time only - a digital offprint of our interdisciplinary article rewriting the early history of Bruges and the coast of Flanders, and proposing it and Boulogne as mints of Charlemagne.
shs.cairn.info/revue-revue-...
shs.cairn.info/revue-revue-...
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The first find of Viking age dirhams on the Danish island of Falster - in 🇩🇰
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October 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The first find of Viking age dirhams on the Danish island of Falster - in 🇩🇰
www.tv2east.dk/guldborgsund...
www.tv2east.dk/guldborgsund...
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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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October 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Now available Open Access! academic.oup.com/past/advance...
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Hurrah! My new book, Europe in the Eleventh Century: Beyond Revolution and Reform is officially published today by Oxford University Press. 1/5 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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October 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Hurrah! My new book, Europe in the Eleventh Century: Beyond Revolution and Reform is officially published today by Oxford University Press. 1/5 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Thomas Keyes demonstrating how manuscripts like the Book of Kells and Lindisfarne Gospels were made. Videos from a Lottery funded project based at the Tarbat Discovery Centre. Thanks to @victoriawhitworth.bsky.social for the link www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSJd...
Stories on Skins: Calligraphy
YouTube video by Tarbat Discovery Centre
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October 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Thomas Keyes demonstrating how manuscripts like the Book of Kells and Lindisfarne Gospels were made. Videos from a Lottery funded project based at the Tarbat Discovery Centre. Thanks to @victoriawhitworth.bsky.social for the link www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSJd...
Many congratulations @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social on this superb new book - I look forward very much to reading it!
October 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Many congratulations @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social on this superb new book - I look forward very much to reading it!
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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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This year's Brixworth Lecture will be given by Joyce Hill on Pastoral Provision and the Benedictine Reform. Tickets: www.friendsofbrixworthchurch.org.uk/2025/09/03/b...
September 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
This year's Brixworth Lecture will be given by Joyce Hill on Pastoral Provision and the Benedictine Reform. Tickets: www.friendsofbrixworthchurch.org.uk/2025/09/03/b...
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The 2025 Dorothy Whitelock Lecture @engfac.bsky.social will be given by Prof. Jane Roberts. All welcome. In person and online. Registration details below.
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September 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The 2025 Dorothy Whitelock Lecture @engfac.bsky.social will be given by Prof. Jane Roberts. All welcome. In person and online. Registration details below.
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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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A feast for the eyes! 😍 One of the finest Carolingian coins ever seen, à gold solidus of Louis the Pious, minted in the 810s, in an auction with Jean Elsen. 💯% genuine as die-linked with previously known coins.
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September 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
A feast for the eyes! 😍 One of the finest Carolingian coins ever seen, à gold solidus of Louis the Pious, minted in the 810s, in an auction with Jean Elsen. 💯% genuine as die-linked with previously known coins.
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Cambridge is *hiring* in post-1920 US political history and/or history of the US in the world. Closing date October 27. Please spread the word or, if you're an early career scholar in those fields, TELL NO ONE but please apply!
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University of Cambridge - UK - Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920 | H-Net
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September 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Cambridge is *hiring* in post-1920 US political history and/or history of the US in the world. Closing date October 27. Please spread the word or, if you're an early career scholar in those fields, TELL NO ONE but please apply!
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For #EpigraphyTuesday an amazing #Roman gold fibula (a decorative pin for fastening garments/a brooch) carrying the Latin inscription VTERE FELIX - use this happily, one of the most common inscriptions on Roman finger rings and fibulae.
From Ostrovany, Slovakia, late 3rd c. AD
📷 KHM Wien
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From Ostrovany, Slovakia, late 3rd c. AD
📷 KHM Wien
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September 16, 2025 at 8:18 AM
For #EpigraphyTuesday an amazing #Roman gold fibula (a decorative pin for fastening garments/a brooch) carrying the Latin inscription VTERE FELIX - use this happily, one of the most common inscriptions on Roman finger rings and fibulae.
From Ostrovany, Slovakia, late 3rd c. AD
📷 KHM Wien
🏺
From Ostrovany, Slovakia, late 3rd c. AD
📷 KHM Wien
🏺
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...
I would love to have used Liz Truss as an example of dodgy modern Anglo-Saxonism when writing this: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
September 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I would love to have used Liz Truss as an example of dodgy modern Anglo-Saxonism when writing this: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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A mummy portrait of a soldier from Fayum in Egypt. Dating to around 130 AD, the portrait is part of the collections at the Altes Museum in Berlin. 📷 My own. #Fayum #AltesMuseum
August 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
A mummy portrait of a soldier from Fayum in Egypt. Dating to around 130 AD, the portrait is part of the collections at the Altes Museum in Berlin. 📷 My own. #Fayum #AltesMuseum
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Many congratulations to @ninacnock.bsky.social , who recently completed a doctorate in ASNC and has now been awarded the 2025 Johann-Kaspar-Zeuß-Prize for the best PhD thesis in Celtic Studies! 🎉🎉🎉
August 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Many congratulations to @ninacnock.bsky.social , who recently completed a doctorate in ASNC and has now been awarded the 2025 Johann-Kaspar-Zeuß-Prize for the best PhD thesis in Celtic Studies! 🎉🎉🎉
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Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) wishes to recruit an Associate Professor/Professor in CDH from Jan 2026
Specialisms: Digital History/Mapping, Critical Data Studies, Archive and Memory Studies, Digital Media Arts, Environmental Humanities, AI/Digital Visual Culture
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/associa...
Specialisms: Digital History/Mapping, Critical Data Studies, Archive and Memory Studies, Digital Media Arts, Environmental Humanities, AI/Digital Visual Culture
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/associa...
Associate Professor/Professor in Cambridge Digital Humanities
Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) wishes to recruit an Associate Professor/Professor in Cambridge Digital Humanities from January 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. The appointment may be made
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August 27, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) wishes to recruit an Associate Professor/Professor in CDH from Jan 2026
Specialisms: Digital History/Mapping, Critical Data Studies, Archive and Memory Studies, Digital Media Arts, Environmental Humanities, AI/Digital Visual Culture
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/associa...
Specialisms: Digital History/Mapping, Critical Data Studies, Archive and Memory Studies, Digital Media Arts, Environmental Humanities, AI/Digital Visual Culture
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/associa...