Robert Lively ❌️👑
vikingrhetoric.bsky.social
Robert Lively ❌️👑
@vikingrhetoric.bsky.social
PhD Arizona State University. Studies Medieval Scandinavian Rhetoric. Fantasy and Science Fiction in Pop Culture. Community College prof. Tai Chi instructor at Serenity Tai Chi.
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My blog post with the ADAM network has now been published. It's about precarity, the future of small subjects, and communal approaches to academic work. I hope it will resonate with some. #IchBinHanna #KleineFaecher #SkandiRetten
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Hard Times and Trial Approaches: Old Norse-Icelandic Studies Between Precarity and the Future
Dr Rebecca Merkelbach reflects on her keynote speech at the most recent Saga Conference. Held every three years, Saga Con is the most important meeting of Old Norse scholars, bringing together acad…
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October 24, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE! nokings.org
October 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I can't believe my book has been out a year now. Thanks again to everyone at ARC Humanities for helping make this happen.
September 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Here's my schedule for WorldCon this week! See you there?
August 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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ASU English alum @vikingrhetoric.bsky.social, now a @tmccnevada.bsky.social professor, recently discussed his work—on how Vikings actually settled disputes using due process rather than bloodshed—with @5minmedievalist.bsky.social on The Medieval Podcast.

Listen: ow.ly/gJA050Wybue #ASUHumanities
Vikings Behaving Reasonably with Robert Lively - Medievalists.net
This week on The Medieval Podcast, Danièle speaks with Robert Lively about how a person became a Viking lawyer, what the process was for solving disputes, and how fixing bad behaviour worked in this s...
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August 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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If you are a final-year undergrad at @universityofleeds.bsky.social, you can now choose "Medieval Manuscripts and New Technologies" as a discovery module! Come and experiment with me and do something entirely different in your last semester!

#HandsOnHumanities

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Undergraduate module Catalogue : Module and Programme Catalogue
Module and Programme Catalogue provides current and historical information regarding the University of Leeds modules and programmes
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July 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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In usual IMC fashion, now that #IMC25 has concluded we are searching for papers exploring New Perspectives on the Viking Diaspora. Please get in touch if you are interested and share widely! #IMC26 @imc-leeds.bsky.social
July 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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CELEBRATE WITH US!!! 10 YEARS OF ARC!!!!! Past, present and prospective authors and editors, friends and colleagues are all invited to join us on Tuesday, July 8 at 8pm: Beechgrove Room. #imc2025
July 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Calling Leeds IMC! You are warmly invited to Arc’s 10 th Anniversary Reception Tuesday 8 July 8pm Beechgrove. Celebrate 10 years of changing the academic publishing game with wine, chat and celebrations of 2 books recently hot off the press… @imc-leeds.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco
June 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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VIKING NORTH exhibition starting 11th July 2025 at Yorkshire Museum #york #yorkshire #medievalsky www.yorkshiremuseum.org.uk/exhibition/v...
June 14, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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R u #digitalhumanities researcher affected by the recent developments in the US? R u interested in collaborating with @psl-univ.bsky.social ? The PSL seed fund has been doubled this year to enable this. 1-yr projects will be funded up to EUR 12k. Don’t hesitate to reach out! psl.eu/en/news/call...
Call for international partnership projects: PSL Global Seed Fund Spring 2025 | PSL
Research | In 2023, Université PSL created a funding instrument dedicated to the initiation of international projects: the PSL Global Seed Fund. Twice a year, in spring and autumn, PSL faculty and res...
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May 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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NOW AVAILABLE! Prussia, Lithuania, & Latvia were among the last places in Europe to be Christianized. Focusing on the deities, sacred places, & sacred rites of the Balts, this book introduces the religious world of some of Europe’s last pagan peoples. www.arc-humanities.org/978180270249...
April 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Check out our dual language edition of Vápnfirðinga saga - in #OldNorse and in English complete with maps, notes, and vocabulary! Perfect for #languagelearning
#booksky #medievalsky
February 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Today and every day.

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January 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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#medievalsky All events at the Institute for Medieval Studies are free and open to public. We also try to make events hybrid when possible. All welcome!

Follow @leedsims.bsky.social for future announcements of events and all things medieval at Leeds!
I am proud to announce the IMS research seminars for spring 2025. All events will be either hybrid or online only. Please watch this space for links to register for online attendance nearer the time.
January 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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25% off with ARC24 - Vikings Behaving Reasonably: Nordic "Hóf" in Civic and Legal Rhetoric by Robert L. Lively https://buff.ly/4g5gGkH medievalsky vikingssky
December 11, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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{New Book} Vikings Behaving Reasonably: Nordic "Hóf" in Civic and Legal Rhetoric by Robert Lively https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781802700633/vikings-behaving-reasonably/
October 6, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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Creative writers: come work with us at ASU! We're currently running a search for an Assistant Teaching Professor to teach undergrad CW in-person and online, and to oversee online curriculum development as their service component. More info here: english.asu.edu/about/employ...
November 13, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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Silence is complicity. Speak, act, resist. Together, we are unstoppable.
November 14, 2024 at 8:07 AM