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Rutger K. 🟥

@anotheraspirin.bsky.social
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Friendly, non-threatening rewriter of medieval history. Operates out of the Low Countries. Purveyor of Fine Puns.

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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am convinced that the way out of this isn't to make the humanities easier, endlessly flexible to meet the demands of people who might otherwise blow them off---it's to make them harder and more disciplined in effort
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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What if we scheduled the 9 hrs and required students to attend? Before you say "it'd never work," let me remind you: this is what the practical sciences do
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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One option for humanities classes going forward: don't schedule the class, schedule the work
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The problem isn't rogue #AI models, it's *negligent companies*. If a biomedical firm put their product in public water supply because they wanted to test it 'in the real world', they'd be treated as criminal at corporate & individual level. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue
Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways
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Rutger K. 🟥 @anotheraspirin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liven up your Saturday afternoon with this delightful lecture by the ever-awesome @vauser.bsky.social, held at @castlefest.bsky.social 2026. youtu.be/0YMDcDuZ7QM?... Tooth and Claw, Amber and Ice: Amulets Against the Unseen
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Castlefest 2026 Academy Lecture: Tooth and Claw, Ice and Amber - Amulets against the Unseen
YouTube video by Castlefest
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God @thegodshow.com · 26/09/2026
If any of you ever want to have an actual life? You’re going to have to come together to elect progressives and tax the billionaires.
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Jesse Keskiaho @jkeskiah.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just got my hands on this fine looking volume, including my piece on a Carolingian copy of the first eight books of De civitate carrying annotations probably made in or near Arles in the early sixth century, possibly in the entourage of bishop Caesarius doi.org/10.30965/978...
Cover of the volume Augustine's De civitate Dei. Text, Context and Reception, ed. by Anthony Dupont, Marina Giani and Gert Partoens, showing a woodcut print depicting Aurelius Augustinus as a late medieval scholar
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Agenda des médiévistes @rmblf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Appel à contribution – The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast Call for Proposals rmblf.be/2026/09/25/a...
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Appel à contribution – The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast Call for Proposals
Season 6 Call for Proposals | The Multicultural Middle Ages PodcastSubmission Deadline: October 15, 2026 After five successful seasons, The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast (MMA) will return for i…
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Dr Matt Firth @mattfirth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What was the Danegeld, and what legacy did the English payments to the Vikings leave? I'm in The Conversation discussing exactly that (in under 800 words!). #medieval #medievalsky
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The English paid off the Vikings for almost a century. But was the Danegeld such a bad idea?
It’s easy to say now that paying the Vikings to go away ‘didn’t work’. But this obscures the fact paying off one Viking band didn’t ensure another would stop coming.
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Rutger K. 🟥 @anotheraspirin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
...waarin ik probeer uit te leggen dat Karel de Grote* belangrijk was, maar geen "icoon"... podcastluisteren.nl/ep/Iconen-va... * vooral zijn hofhouding eigenlijk
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Karel de Grote | De Middeleeuwen
In de tweede aflevering van ons seizoen over de middeleeuwen staat Karel de Grote centraal! Om hierover te spreken is Rutger Kramer te gast. Mocht u deze aflev...
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The Haskins Society @haskinssociety.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Kalamazoo ICMS 2027 CFP: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟳 (Session #8365) 𝗘𝗫𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗗 𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘: 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟮, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝘋𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦: Hybrid 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘖𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: Haskins Society 𝘊𝘰-𝘚𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘖𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: Medieval People @kzooicms.bsky.social
A graphic has a call for papers for a session on "The Normans in 2027" for a 2027 ICMS panel sponsored by the Haskins Society. There is a photo showing the British Museum's digital projection of the Bayeux Tapestry onto the White Cliffs of Dover in 2027, overlaid on a detail from a medieval manuscript.

2027 will be the year of the Normans. Many events have been developed to celebrate this anniversary, including exhibiting the Bayeux Tapestry in London for the first time. This millennial celebration provides an ideal opportunity to evaluate the Normans. Charles Homer Haskins was foundational in what we think about the Normans. How has our understanding of the Normans changed or evolved since Haskins’ time? What has remained consistent? What new methodologies have been employed? What areas have been examined that Haskins didn’t consider?
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The Haskins Society @haskinssociety.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Kalamazoo ICMS 2027 CFP: 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗩𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 (Session #8255) 𝗘𝗫𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗗 𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘: 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟮, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 This session invites papers from graduate students and early career researchers. 𝘋𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦: Hybrid 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘖𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: Haskins Society @kzooicms.bsky.social
A graphic with a call for papers for a panel on "New Voices in Medieval History" for the ICMS 2027 panel sponsored by the Haskins Society. Abstracts due September 22, 2026. A medieval manuscript image shows a female saint holding her cloak out to shelter a smaller, veiled woman under it. Behind this image is a faded detail from a medieval manuscript.
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Pauline Stafford @pstafford.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
‘Gisela, Abbess of Chelles, in conversation with Charlemagne and Alcuin of York’ by @anotheraspirin.bsky.social & Ingrid Rembold drew me, just one of excellent ‘research-informed presentations of real people . . Enriched by informed speculation and creative story-telling’. Eileen Power Mk 2 /2
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Pauline Stafford @pstafford.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Lots of discussion of ‘popular’ history and its pitfalls in context of Bayeux Tapestry exhibition. Just come across this excellent example - rather belatedly to my shame - of professional historians doing it brilliantly. 1/ www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
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Portraits of Medieval Europe, 800–1400 | Christian Raffensperger, Erin
This volume provides a collection of ‘imagined lives’ – individuals who, no matter their position on the social hierarchy, were crucial to the development of
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Poll watching right now is like, "Normal candidate with normal opinions ekes out small lead against sweaty bag of farts who sends dick picks to orphans and once dropkicked a puppy with leukemia."
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Historici vertellen @historicivertellen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Goedemorgen! Mijn naam is Esmee Roxs. Als recent afgestudeerde vertel ik jullie de komende week meer over mijn specialisatie, mijn interesses en mijn werkzaamheden als redacteur bij Erfgoed Brabant.
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A book should NOT be req'd for tenure--esp now w/ the inordinate pressures on peer review. It puts untenable demands on scholars & publishers AND enables tenure committees to shirk their duty & blame presses for killing jobs/careers instead of actually engaging scholars' work. It's infuriating.
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Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture @mjcbac.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Job posting: Assistant Professor of Medieval European History, Texas Tech University. Applications due October 15, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/assista...
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Assistant Professor of Medieval European History, Texas Tech University | Mary Jaharis Center
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The Medieval Academy of America @medievalacademy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Jobs For Medievalists Helen Ann Mins Robbins Dissertation Fellowship, University of Rochester www.library.rochester.edu/spaces/ro… The www.themedievalacademyblog.org/jobs…
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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
📢Here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on professional opportunities for women in the early modern language sector: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/PhD-Posi... Apply by 15 Oct 2026
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PhD Position Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
PhD Position Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
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Agenda des médiévistes @rmblf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Offre d’emploi – Tracing the Free Spirit in Brussels: Heresy and Repression in the Early Fifteenth Century rmblf.be/2026/09/15/o...
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Offre d’emploi – Tracing the Free Spirit in Brussels: Heresy and Repression in the Early Fifteenth Century
Departement: Departement LetterkundeRegime Voltijds Bepaal mee de toekomst – Universiteit Antwerpen De Universiteit Antwerpen is een dynamische, toekomstgerichte Europese universite…
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Agenda des médiévistes @rmblf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Appel à contribution – Annoncer et mémoriser la mort au Moyen Âge : pratiques scripturaires et culture matérielle rmblf.be/2026/09/15/a...
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Appel à contribution – Annoncer et mémoriser la mort au Moyen Âge : pratiques scripturaires et culture matérielle
Au Moyen Âge, la mort n’est pas seulement un seuil biologique ou théologique ; elle est le catalyseur d’une immense production écrite et d’une intense activité documentaire. L’irruption du trépas e…
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Rutger K. 🟥 @anotheraspirin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Eindelijk de tijd gehad/genomen om dit boek uit te lezen. Zouden jullie ook moeten doen!
Janna Coomans, Dievenland: Overleven in de Middeleeuwen (2025)
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Middeleeuwen Podcast @middeleeuwen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Deze week neemt dr. Carine van Rhijn (@carinevanrhijn.bsky.social) van de Universiteit Utrecht ons mee naar de fascinerende wereld van de Rotulus: een boekrol vol advies van 1000 jaar geleden! Ga met ons mee op reis… en dat kan overal waar je podcasts luistert 🎧
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De Rotulus lost alles op: een boekrol vol advies van 1000 jaar geleden | Middeleeuwen
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Rutger K. 🟥 @anotheraspirin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Vivaldi implies the existence of Vivaldum
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Rutger K. 🟥 @anotheraspirin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
So much cheese. What can men do against such reckless gratin?
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Rutger K. 🟥 @anotheraspirin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This whole thread 👇 and the accompanying article and also it's about teaching.
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 11/09/2026
📰 The largest Viking Age silver hoard ever found in Denmark has been unearthed during gardening! 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
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Homeowner unearths largest Viking silver hoard ever found in Denmark
Treasure placed in clay vessel and likely buried sometime in 10th century
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Mysticism & Lived Experience Network @mlen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The deadline for our CFP for @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2027 is fast approaching! We are organizing a panel series challenging the solitary paradigm of mysticism and sainthood, repositioning them as communal. Abstracts are due Sept. 14, 2026. #IMC2027 #Mysticism #medievalsky
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Excited to see it ! Here’s Chuck Jones’ rules for the original animated show
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Rutger K. 🟥 @anotheraspirin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Given that I say something ✨positive✨ about Richard Dawkins in my book, I was suddenly reminded of this picture which always cracks me up for no discernable reason
Pixel art of Richard Dawkins angrily chasing a pot of 'hunny' which proclaims 'god is real haha'.
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Interested in late medieval witches? It's not too late to join sessions on the topic at the IMC2027, co-organised by a @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social PhD student, Ana Inés Aldazabal.
Although the witch-hunt reached its peak in the early modern era, it was during the medieval period that the foundations were laid for the stereotype that would characterise witch trial records. In late medieval Europe, the idea emerged that an organised group of individuals led by the Devil sought to destroy the Christian community through maleficia. By allegedly attacking livestock, poisoning populations, spreading disease, and destroying crops, witches came to be perceived both as a collective threat and as a counter-community: an imagined parallel society with its own cult and culture, constructed as a negative reflection of Christendom. As witchcraft beliefs took hold, accusations and persecution became a means of reaffirming social boundaries. However, they could also have deeply disruptive effects on community life.

For this panel, we welcome proposals dealing with witchcraft in relation to communities during the Middle Ages. We encourage submissions from a variety of disciplines (art history, history, law, literature, religious studies, etc.) and contributions that foster interdisciplinary dialogue from researchers at any stage of their career
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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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Evelyne Verheggen @evelyneverheggen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Augustinus’ De Genesi ad litteram. Commentaar op het Bijbelse boek Genesis door Augustinus († 430) 📖 Geschreven in onciale (met enkel hoofdletters) op perkament ca. 500-550 ✍️ Met visvormig E-initiaal, in groen en geel 🐟 Afkomstig uit Zuid-Italië/Napels Biblioteca Nazionale Rome 🇮🇹
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Sven Meeder @svenmeeder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Great to see press interest in the current exhiting exhibition at the Fries Museum (@friesmuseum.bsky.social) on Redbad, leader of (some) Frisians around 700 CE. (www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...) Still, this interview in #NRC newspaper reads like a missed opportunity. 🧵 1/6
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Hoe machtig was de Friese oerkoning Redbad? ‘We weten zo weinig!’
Geschiedenis: De vroegmiddeleeuwse Redbad was misschien wel meer dan zomaar een machthebber langs de Noordzeekust. Een tentoonstelling in het Fries Museum wil het debat aanzwengelen over deze historis...
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New issue alert: the Fall 2026 issue of Studies in Late Antiquity is available online now. online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/10/3
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Volume 10 Issue 3 | Studies in Late Antiquity | University of California Press
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mflueh.bsky.social @mflueh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Gesucht (und bestimmt für viele Digital Humanists spannend): Research Associate for the Project “Automated multi-writer Handwritten Text Recognition with continual learning" www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
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Ausschreibung
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Glaciers collapse, disasters ensue. And then we’re expected to ignore all that because we can make fun AI images and google can badly summarise Wikipedia. Seriously. AI - Fuck off.
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Sven Meeder @svenmeeder.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Proofs! Great to see the first contours of our article 'Law and Marriage'. It discusses the canonical tract known as the 'De Ratione Matrimonii' and offers its first critical edition + translation. Soon in Traditio, volume 81! See: canones.org/topics/news/
Preview of article 'LAW AND MARRIAGE BETWEEN THE EIGHTH
AND TWELFTH CENTURIES: THE TEXT, CHARACTER,
AND RECEPTION OF THE DE RATIONE MATRIMONII' by BRUNO SCHALEKAMP, GIDEON DE JONG, AND SVEN MEEDER
Abstract: The short canonical tract entitled De ratione matrimonii, dating to the late eighth or early ninth century, offers straightforward rules on marriage drawn from a variety of authoritative texts. Its enduring appeal is evinced by the survival of at least twenty-three manuscript witnesses from the early ninth to the twelfth century, uninfluenced by important developments regarding marriage within Christian society during that period. Despite its potential to shed light on fundamental thoughts on the topic of marriage within Christian society between the eighth and twelfth centuries, this short tract has escaped the close attention of modern scholars. This article presents the tract, describes its context and character and provides its first critical edition with an English translation. An examination of the text
reveals its dependence on a peculiar version of the Irish Collectio canonum Hibernensis, offering insights into the development of this important early medieval canonical collection. In addition, the tract is a rare example of a set of pragmatic guidelines for early medieval societies, through its focus on practical rather than doctrinal norms about starting, living in, and ending a marriage. The study of the
mostly fragmentary witnesses to the text not only sheds light on medieval concerns about rightful marriage but also reveals the conscious editorial choices made by individual scholars and copyists throughout this period.
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is a small reminder that if you are looking for a concise introduction to monasticism as an urban force our little book, Monasticism and the City in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages might be a great start! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Monasticism and the City in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Monasticism and the City in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
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Rutger K. 🟥 @anotheraspirin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Out of nowhere - or to celebrate finishing the proofs of my book - here's a public appreciation message for @rogerpearse.bsky.social and his blog at www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/. So much good stuff there, from musings & analyses to simply sharing data. Including on Saint Nicholas. Thanks for that!
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Roger Pearse
Thoughts on Antiquity, Patristics, putting things online, information access, and more
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Rutger K. 🟥 @anotheraspirin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
See also: Dutch universities.
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Middeleeuwen Podcast @middeleeuwen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
SEIZOEN 2 | We zijn begonnen: seizoen 2 van Middeleeuwen ging gisteren van start met prof. dr. Louis Sicking! In een boeiende aflevering vertelt hij meer over het recent verschenen boek ‘Nederland als provincie. Van het Romeinse Rijk tot de Europese Unie’. 🎧 Luisteren kan overal!
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Nederland als provincie. Van het Romeinse Rijk tot de Europese Unie | Middeleeuwen
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Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Extremely excited to announce an article co-authored by myself and Aaron Hyman on the visual and material cultures of Dutch piracy in the early modern Caribbean is now out in Renaissance quarterly @rsaorg.bsky.social , and open access! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Recasting the Silver Fleet, or The Propaganda of Piracy in the Dutch Caribbean | Renaissance Quarterly: Vol 79, No 3
In 1628, the Dutch West India Company captured a Spanish silver fleet off the shore of Cuba. A broadside by Claes Jansz Visscher (1587–1652) celebrated the event, illustrating the battle and providing...
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A new setting to turn off on Instagram…
Screenshot of IG setting to turn off Meta AI using your content
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#MedievalSky That "1300" includes you, too!
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Rutger K. 🟥 @anotheraspirin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you ever find yourself in Zaragoza, do yourself a favor and go to the origami museum (EMOZ - www.emoz.es/language/en/). It's... quite something.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Victor Frankenstein walkinge yn a hurrye through a mall. He passeth a signe: BUILDE A BEAR. Victor Frankenstein doth pause, shake hys heade, rolle up hys sleeves, and walke ynto the store.
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