Reposted by Mateusz Fafinski Laury Sarti @laurysarti.bsky.social · 16hProofs!! “Bearded and long-haired kings. Representations of rulership on seals and coins”, hrsg. von Nadine Viermann und Johannes Wienand, Reading the Late Roman Monarchy, Studies in Ancient Monarchies, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner 2026, 97–118. 0171
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiMateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Dark Ages didn't happen 1324
Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Well, given that Wales was the last direct successor state of the Western Roman Empire (up until the death of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd in 1282) nothing here comes as a surprise! 0142
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiGiulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026when the only reason you agree to do reviews is the financial incentive of getting your friends’ books 1236
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiJulia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 28/09/2026On tour with my lovely students and colleagues from ancient history @unibonn.bsky.social in Venetia et Histria. Day 6: Concordia Sagittaria, Grado and a small part of Aquileia (back there tomorrow) 1326
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiDr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 28/09/2026Greetings from the path from Prague to Stará Boleslav, where Czechs (and at least one Englishman) are gathering in honour of that "good king" from the carol. For the day that's in it, here's a new piece about why his name in English has an N, but not so in Czech. dannybate.com/2026/09/28/g...dannybate.comGood King VáclavEvery September 28th, thanks to a brutal fratricide over a thousand years ago, the Czech Republic gives itself a day off. The victim of that crime was Wenceslaus, ruler of Bohemia from 921 to maybe… 77219
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiFrancois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026First proofs of the forthcoming book have arrived in my email inbox from Bloomsbury. In classic fashion: in the middle of frantic marking and at the start of the school holidays. 🤦🏻♂️ 27715
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiEllen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I 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 313516
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiSarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I can’t believe my ancestors are badmouthed as hicks for making moonshine in bathtubs but it’s all *totally cool* if Romans do it.labrujulaverde.comA Roman Bathhouse Was Secretly Turned Into a Wine and Olive Oil Factory in Late Antiquity at Antiochia ad CragumA modest Roman bathhouse on Turkey's southern coast spent its retirement very differently from how it began. Constructed in the late 2nd or early 3rd century CE, it stopped functioning as a bath somet... 322236
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiSam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The village of Waldenbuch, including the castle, which belonged to the Dukes of Württemberg and the fourteenth-century church of St Vitus, a site of pilgrimage for those suffering from St Vitus’ Dance. 2373
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiNeville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026Stick to Polish fermentation. 231
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiCharles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Crikey, hadn't realised this was already happening. 21913
Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026In the time of enshittification of, well, everything the role of higher education is not to teach students how to enshittificate more efficiently. It is to provide them with hard skills like source criticism, languages, writing or critical reading that will allow them to survive all of this. 210229
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiΧοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Two recent publications, on the more “public facing” side of academia, thanks to the good graces of a couple of friends, including @rhigarthjones.bsky.social 283
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiJulia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 24/09/2026On tour with my lovely students and colleagues from Ancient History @unibonn.bsky.social in Venetia et Histria. Day 2: Verona 13310
Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We will always share our publications with you! For free! And you might even ask questions! 13313
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiSita Steckel @steckel.bsky.social · 23/09/20261/2 Heute sind tolle Sachen passiert. Gerade schon geteilt: Unser Band zu ‚Political Medievalism. Gebrauch und Missbrauch des Mittelalters bei der extremen Rechten‘ ist erschienen und Open Access zugänglich: www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/... #medievalsky #skystorians #rechtsextremismusdegruyterbrill.com 01511
Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I will be teaching with this piece and this collection next semester and so should you! 1122
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiMatt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 23/09/2026please to see that my latest academic article is out now: "Ghost in the Machine. Crusade Medievalisms in the 21st-century United States" I take on the ghost of Samuel Huntington and some right-wing tropes in scholarship open access so free to read --> www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... 713960
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiLinda Duits @lalalalinder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Interessant voor iedereen (zoals ik) die het gevoel heeft dat we nu een soort eindtijd leven 051
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiJay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026POV: You've just very loudly and confidently said something that's not true about a historic site. 1545820
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiSarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 22/09/2026There is a Reddit user who made went 🏺 to the Met and polycam 3D scanned various Greek amphorae. Now they are making one to scale completely out of gingerbread. This is truly delectable reconstructive archaeology. www.reddit.com/r/blender/s/... Greeks did love imported ζιγγίβερις from India!reddit.comFrom the blender community on Reddit: we used blender to make a greek vase out of gingerbreadExplore this post and more from the blender community 311633
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiCharles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Great news, and looking forward to a book historian becoming Chief Exec of the UK Space Agency sometime soon in this brave new world! 1416451
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiMatt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 18/09/2026this is such a good article. Mateusz was kind enough to send me an early PDF and it's really good! 1258
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiSarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This is a delightful essay, and quite accessible to non-specialists (like me) 0155
Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Given the distinctive westwerk my 3-year old placed in his church I am starting to suspect he might be a Carolingianist 313712
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiSarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Thanks so much to @jacoprisco.bsky.social at @cnn.com for speaking to me about the new research on Roman roads 🛣️ coming out of Itiner-e.org. However! I wanted to add a few predecessors that allowed Itiner-e to exist in the impressive form it does now. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/s...cnn.comWhy all roads don’t lead to Rome | CNNAn analysis of the Roman Empire’s road network disputes the myth “all roads lead to Rome,” citing the importance of other cities and reviewing long-held assumptions. 16516
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiEugene Smelyansky PhD 🇺🇦 @eugene-smelyansky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Excellent article! I am teaching a survey of Ancient Rome again in the spring and right into the reading list it goes! 071
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiSurprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It's 1100. You're a peasant in Harmston, England. Congrats! It's a fine place to live. But at what cost? Eels. That's what. Each spring, the village owes Earl Hugh 75,000 eels in rent. So every fall your life becomes all about the eels.* Welcome to Harmston. Here's your net. 🗃️🧪 623148
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiSarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Thanks, friend! And thanks too to @janesancinito.bsky.social for the review. Here is a free copy via Google Drive, if you’d care to read. drive.google.com/file/d/11mdY... 0168
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiMatt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 18/09/2026hey follow my podcast! it's good and my guests are really fun and smart! check it out --> americanmedieval.comamericanmedieval.comAmerican Medieval PodcastA podcast about the Middle Ages (with an American twist), hosted by Professor Matthew Gabriele. 0205
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiAmerican Medieval Podcast @americanmedieval.bsky.social · 18/09/20268 followers from a cool 1k... 021
Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"In some places Rome does not fall at all. In others, such as Italy, there are multiple, sometimes repeated farewell parties, where the guests do not want to leave and the host does not switch the music off." How do we think about the Fall of Rome today? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgTowards and beyond the ‘Fall’: rethinking Rome’s end | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge CoreTowards and beyond the ‘Fall’: rethinking Rome’s end 613745
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiJane Sancinito @janesancinito.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It is always a pleasure to read @sarahebond.bsky.social, but this time around I got to review her, too. It's in the latest AHR: academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...academic.oup.comSarah E. Bond. Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire.There is a long tradition of caution among Roman historians. Anachronism, modern terms, values, and frameworks can all easily overwhelm our fragmentary sou 12813
Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Great portents were seen in Rome where the Pope Leo of the Overseas Saxons was granted a relic of Saint Orb. It rained frogs and crickets for three days until the pope decided to build a basilica for the saint at the Via Alii Tricocci by the stadium of the game Romans call "basipila". 1195
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiDr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It’s incredible to have ‘Silence of the Gods’ shortlisted for @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social, and I’m so pleased that the largely forgotten history of northern and eastern Europe’s last pre-Christian religious traditions is finally receiving the attention it deserves 📚 3327337
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiDan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I'm pretty chuffed by this collab with Giorgia Nicosia! 2237
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiFrancesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · 17/09/2026At long last, my article on Languages, Identities and Communication in the Age of Bede has come out in the EHR. And it is open access! academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...academic.oup.comLanguages, Identities and Communication in the Age of Bede*Abstract. This article seeks to address the underexplored role of language as a marker of identity in the early medieval period by focusing on England in t 26426
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiRory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Highly recommend this important new article by @francescatinti.bsky.social in @enghistrev.bsky.social on language and identity in England in the age of Bede (late 7th/early 8th centuries). Open Access too! academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...academic.oup.comLanguages, Identities and Communication in the Age of Bede*Abstract. This article seeks to address the underexplored role of language as a marker of identity in the early medieval period by focusing on England in t 1105
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiKenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026What an outstanding article! I particularly enjoyed this bit from their conclusion. 0102