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Scott G. Bruce
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Medieval History / Fordham University / editor of Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought, and Religion / Canadian / chaotic good
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The first in-depth account of the lives and careers of educated slaves and freedmen in ancient Rome.

Intellectual Property by Harriet I. Flower is now available (2 Dec UK pub).

Read a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#AncientRome #AncientHistory
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Just found out about this amazing example of #manuscript #recycling . The whole manuscript is made up from the margins of an earlier liturgical manuscript, cut out and rearranged (hence the unusual format), the (mostly) blank margins then used to copy various magical texts in the mid 16th century.
November 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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New issue of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Vol. 68, No. 1 (2025) academic.oup.com/bics/issue/6... @ics.bsky.social @tigerlilyrocks.bsky.social @camwachowich.bsky.social @graemeyward.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Five years, four authors, one book. Out now (fully open access), our new book on local priests in the tenth century 🌟 www.cambridge.org/core/books/l... @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social
Local Priests in the Latin West, 900–1050
Cambridge Core - European Studies - Local Priests in the Latin West, 900–1050
www.cambridge.org
November 3, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Assistant Professorship in Early Medieval Literatures and Cultures, Fordham University:
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Assistant Professorship in Early Medieval Literatures and Cultures, Fordham University | MEMOs
Early Modern Literatures and Culture, Fordham University (NYC)
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October 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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October is the time for knocking down acorns for swine to eat.
#medievalcalendar
Bodleian Library MS. Auct. D. 2. 6; c.1140 CE; England (St. Albans); f.6r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
September 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I'm very excited to share the cover of my forthcoming collection of fourteen essays on Cluniac monasticism, which Cornell UP will publish in January 2026. The cover image is from fol. 1v of Angers BM 820, an eleventh-century compilation of texts related to the cult of Abbot Maiolus of Cluny.
September 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Excited to learn that Drew Jones's new edition & translation of Odo of Cluny's Occupatio, one of the tenth century's most intriguing but little-known Latin works, is coming out very soon: www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
Brepols - The Occupatio by Odo of Cluny
Brepols is an international academic publisher of works in the humanities, with a particular focus in history, archaeology, history of the arts, language and literature, and critical editions of histo...
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September 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
Journal of Late Antiquity
Volume 18, Number 2, Fall 2025
#S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE
tinyurl.com/58uf6c74

CONTRIBUTORS
Sabine R. Huebner
Marion Kruse
J.-Michel Reaux Colvin
Maria Pavlou
Chengzuo Yao
Gail Tatham
Andrew Paul Wood
Gabriele Castiglia
Seth M. Stadel
and more!
September 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
NIN in Baltimore.
August 27, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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St Paul is here to write letters and kick ass. And he has just written his last letter.

Musée de Cluny, Cl.1505, c. 1030, Echternach
July 31, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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So excited that my book has a cover. Michigan's design people have outdone themselves in their styling of Mr. Murder Mittens (a massive Roman temple key from Switzerland). Full details here (the e-version will be open access come the publication date): press.umich.edu/Books/S/Stea...
July 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
New in CHR: “Fragments of Greek Patristics in Eusebius’s Historia ecclesiastica and Their Readers in the Latin West.”
July 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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The goddess Diana giving herbs to Chiron the centaur who named them after her.

BL Sloane 1975; Medical & herbal collection; 12th century; f.17v
July 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Jacopo Bisagni's new article on the Sun’s night journey and its cosmic battle with a tide-making sea monster (sometimes called Leviathan) has just been published in JML. This narrative is found in De cursu solis in nocte, a text which Jacopo discovered in the ninth-century manuscript Laon MS 422.
Where is the Sun at Night? New Evidence from Laon, Médiathèque Suzanne Martinet, MS 422: The Journal of Medieval Latin: Vol 35
The article explores early medieval cosmological narratives concerning the Sun’s night journey and its cosmic battle with a tide-making sea monster (sometimes called Leviathan), focussing on a text di...
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June 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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A CRUSADER'S DEATH AND LIFE IN ACRE by Anne E. Lester & Laura K. Morreale offers a glimpse into #crusader life through the death inventory of Eudes of Nevers in 1266.

From knights' wages to crusade poems, this is an exploration of #medieval Outremer.

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
A Crusader's Death and Life in Acre by Anne E. Lester and Laura K. Morreale | Paperback | Cornell University Press
A Crusader's Death and Life in Acre uses five parchment rolls that inventoried the possessions of Eudes of Nevers, son of the duke of Burgundy, at his death in Acre in 1266 to open out a panorama of.....
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May 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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For Good Friday, a glorious mid-9th century Carolingian rock crystal engraving of the crucifixion. Originally from St Denis and now in the British Museum. www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
April 18, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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'The relationship between mankind and demon-kind is always a point of contention.'

Aida Amoako: When mankind encounters demons
The Penguin Book of Demons (Scott G. Bruce, editor) | Book review
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April 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Hello beautiful.
April 1, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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New volume of Traditio Vol. 79 (2024) muse.jhu.edu/issue/54478 @projectmuse.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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If you missed our recent screening of the hilarious HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940), you can enjoy a Public Domain Movie Night in your own home!

📽️ Watch the full film ➡️ archive.org/details/his-...

#PublicDomain #ClassicFilm #Comedy #InternetArchive
March 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“Changesonebruce”. Forthcoming in January 2026.
March 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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The Fall of the Angels

BnF MSS NAF 15939; Vincent de Beauvais, Speculum historiale, French translation by Jean de Vignay, under the title Miroir historial, Vol I (Bks I-VII); 14th century (towards 1379 CE-1380 CE); Paris; f.11r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
March 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM