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Peter Kidd @mssprovenance.bsky.social · 18h

This looks very useful: a new online searchable version of Cappelli's _Dizionario di abbreviature_ reader.contubernalesbooks.com#/paleo/cappe... There is also a section on how to actually read a manuscript, which looks like a very useful teaching/learning tool: reader.contubernalesbooks.com#/paleo

reader.contubernalesbooks.com

Read Latin and Greek with help on every word

Seven books free, no account needed. Notes, scansion, facing texts and games built from each book's own words.

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This looks amazing! Let us know when it's available in some form.

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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Magical - thanks for writing this up!

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Adam @chalicotherex.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

RIP Chris Wickham. Here’s a post of a very funny bit I found tucked away in one of his books. adamsnotes.substack.com/p/one-weird-...

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One Weird Naming Convention of Milan's Medium Elite Families

Adam's Notes for January 30, 2025

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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

(Shared from various people on FB) RIP Chris Wickham

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

Punching my ticket to Kalamazoo

Graphic labelled "Types of Medievalist Paper" based on xkcd.com/2456/. 12 pictures of 'papers' appear with overlaid titles:

You Won't Believe What Nuns Were Up To
HEY, I FOUND A TROVE OF OLD RECORDS! THEY DON'T TURN OUT TO BE PARTICULARLY USEFUL, BUT STILL, COOL!
The Silk Road Is Not Just A Website for Buying LSD
Niche Tax Documents in Provence, 1370-1373
Everything That Happened in Asia, 622-1914
Ships Might Be Very Important
Introducing "Spatula' The New Journal for Medieval Studies
Globalizing the Middle Ages: An Examination of England *and* France
How l Got the University to Pay for My Trip to Venice
Did You Know? Arabs Had Science and Culture Too
We Remembered Spain And It's Right Where We Left It
More Viking Shit Found in Unexpected Place

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Which makes it particularly funny that they call themselves conservatives.

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not sure how well it works with texts claiming to be non-fiction. We can analyze it as fanfic, but calling it that definitively requires authorial intent doesn't it?

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Which parts? I don't think it takes well-known pre-existing characters and plonks them down into a brand new story.

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If that counts then Julian's "The Caesars" long predates Dante.

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is why we need an Empress Irene film.

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Time for a paleographical shot in the dark - can anyone help? This is from a 14th century indulgence letter near Stowe, England. It's written in Anglicana Formata script. The big question is what the "ex" with a superscript "cc" means. Can't find this abbreviation in my references.

a line from an English medieval document written in Latin

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

That seems like a very strained definition. Where are the bookends on either side?

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My brother-in-law has written a book! It's in Spanish, so I cannot say for certain, but he tells me it is quite good and I, trusting soul that I am, believe him. The description sounds very interesting - early 20th c. Mexican Revolution historical fiction. www.amazon.com/Bajo-el-polv...

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Bajo el polvo de la frontera (Spanish Edition)

Amazon.com: Bajo el polvo de la frontera (Spanish Edition) eBook : Bañuelos, Carlos César: Kindle Store

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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Early medievalists may be happy to know that Simon Keynes’s collection of maps of Anglo-Saxon England has now been made freely available via @trincolllibcam.bsky.social These were commissioned by Simon and drawn (by hand) by Reg Piggott between 1991 and 2012. archives.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php/ma...

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Maps of Anglo-Saxon England - archives.trin.cam.ac.uk

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The key there is "durable," which I don't think was remotely possible even if Norse families retained power.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Just like today: A #Roman carpenter's plane (and a replica of it) from Üttfeld,around 300 AD. On display at Landesmuseum Trier 📷️ me 🏺 #archaeology

A museum display featuring the corroded metal remains of a Roman carpenter’s plane, with only the metal parts surviving. Above it hangs a modern wooden and metal replica, showing the tool’s full original form against a purple background.

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I also really dislike the very grindy achievement-style system that unlocks bonuses for various leaders. Far too many single-player games are mimicking MMO style time-wasters.

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I found it underwhelming, but haven't played since around release; maybe they have improved it? Regardless I look forward to hearing your thoughts.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🐈 At a Roman villa In Adramytteion (Turkey) 🐕 the owners put the name of their cat and dog in a mosaic—I am reading σμαράγδιη (“emerald”) for the cat. (I am a little bit mystified by the eta on the end unless it is a nu, but this is cool). Dog is named ὠκεανός (“ocean”) arkeonews.net/1800-year-ol...

Mosaic depiction of a cat from the Roman villa at Adramytteion, accompanied by an inscription giving a name interpreted as meaning “Emerald.” Credit: AA

Mosaic depiction of a dog from the Roman villa at Adramytteion, identified by an inscription with the name “Okyanos” (“Ocean”). Credit: AA

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

However much we may wish for one, there is not always a legal solution to every political problem.

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Murdered with extreme prejudice and copious chortling.

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I'd rather triple the size of Congress

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

For a while I entertained the idea of making some money that way myself. But this is the horse-buggy repair-man trope. If that's the only argument against, it surely *is* good that archaeologists can push a button for rote-work illustrations of rusty nails and move scarce resources elsewhere.

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The prof I'm working for saved thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of labor by taking a few days to train an AI to produce archaeological illustrations of small finds.

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It took a shockingly long time for me to finally realize that many of the very Protestant doctrines and assumptions I grew up with were, in fact, Very Protestant and not Universally Christian.

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

slow day in the office so we're starting beef with archaeologists

One of those 'STOP DOING X' memes, ripping into archaeology. It has images of soil stratum, a trowel, and a flint shard. The text mocks archaeologists for digging for pottery sherds and saying everything has a 'ritual purpose'.

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Back in 2011 I happened to sit next to a young couple from Kosovo on a flight to Europe. They were returning from a vacation to the US. They were... effusive... with gratitude toward the American people and government.

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The important thing is to look tough in the staged photos for the papers back home.

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I presume most tiny lurker/reply guy accounts like mine have simply never sent or received one.

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Truman had something to say about that.

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Perhaps you have forgotten that the Koreans also fought in the Korean War.

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

There are a shocking number of people who seem to uncritically accept MacArthur's position on the Korean War as dispositive.

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Or at least, impossible within the obvious constraints set upon it. AFAIK all the scenarios wargamed out for US wartime control of Hormuz involved occupying at least some of the Iranian coast.

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

So much for professors brainwashing students.

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I appreciate the correction/clarification!

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

At the same time, of course, the victors were indeed portrayed as glorious. The ancients could hold both of those thoughts at once and not feel overly troubled; we cannot.

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

There is enormous pathos in the sack of Troy and the suffering of its people. It was so powerful that it created its own ancient literary trope. The poem does not only focus on the glorious victors.

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It's a very difficult question to answer with any precision because institutionalized unfreedom of various sorts and the spread/character/influence of Christianity varied across the Mediterranean. I don't think very many modern scholars would make that argument.

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Isidore of Seville has entered the chat

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Like Loebs? Every fall semester, I like to remind people that while Perseus has many free Loebs sectioned up into book and chapter, if you want to download and read the public domain Loebs (277 of them) as PDFs or txt files, Duke U's very own Ryan Baumann created _Loebolus 📗📕_. ryanfb.xyz/loebolus/

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Loebolus

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Dr Carolyn La Rocco 🏺🍃 @carrielarocco.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

More late antique Iberian funerary inscriptions! This time, Anduires, a distinguished (inlis) woman who founded a church (hanc ecle[siam]) with her husband (viro suo) in Casa de Vildé (Burgos de Osma, Soria, Castilla y León) in the 6th or 7th century. (Illustration: me, after image from AEHTAM.) 🏺🗃️

A drawing of a tall, thin stone with a Latin inscription ‘† in nomine Domin[I // loc]us Anduires inlis // [femina]e qui hanc ecle // [siam] cum viro suo // [. . .]uiro inluste // [---] fecerunt // [fue] runt par //[ticipes an]nos XXX // [quat]er nutri[vera]nt filios re // [cessit] supradicta // matrona in pace // et in summa ca[s] // titate cum cert[o.. .. ] //.’

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Thanks so much for sharing this! (So much for my plans for the rest of the day)

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

That's fair, but remember we're talking about an idea being tossed into the shark-infested pool of pop culture. And that's who the review is directed toward.

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Unfortunately the idea of any obligation not freely chosen is deeply unpopular in present popular culture.

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

If there's one thing the medieval world needs from the modern, it is geese.

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Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

CK3 succeeds brilliantly from a historical point of view because the core design centers on the deeply personal nature of medieval European rule. It flattens or ignores a lot (e.g. local/regional differences) but the player is forced to think like a family and not country.

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