Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiAnd-Boo 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 13hyou could say "Caecilianist" to keep it in parity with "Donatist," I've seen folks do that 141
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiRobert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 21hWarsaw Late Antique Seminar on 15 October: Mateusz Fafiński (Universität Erfurt), Governing the Ungovernable? Administering Church Patrimony in Late Antique Italy. In person and online. 0157
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiGiulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 19hNext week, as part of my course "Italy in the Middle Ages", we'll host Nicola Luciani (DiSSGeA, University of #Padova): 🏛️ "Reconfiguring Sacred Space in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages" 📅 Mon 19 Oct 2026, 2.30 PM 📍 Aula 6, Complesso Beato Pellegrino Open to all interested! #medievalsky 051
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiCharles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The passing of Chris Wickham is hard to take in. Few have made a bigger contribution to their field, with such personal warmth. He's going to be missed by a lot of people. 513021
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiSam Barber @barber-samj.bsky.social · 09/10/2026For me as for so many others, Chris Wickham has been fundamental for how I think about the early medieval world--I'd even go so far as to say how I think about history writ large. An enormous loss. 34511
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiRory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · 09/10/2026(Shared from various people on FB) RIP Chris Wickham 2714641
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiMichel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The paperback version of my book is released today! Many thanks to @livunipress.bsky.social, who have again done a fantastic job! Hard to believe it's been out for 2 years already! Very grateful for the reviews & feedback it has received so far: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... 26714
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiDr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I’m thrilled that the first Element in my new series for @universitypress.cambridge.org (co-edited with Tabitha Stanmore) is PUBLISHED! And free to read for the first few weeks. It’s by top folklorist (and now @folkloresociety.bsky.social President) Jeremy Harte! www.cambridge.org/core/element... 📚🥳 29528
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiPeter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Well. Here it is: a new book that has been keeping me busy for a while. The Seventh Continent: Antarctica and the Southern Oceans. Past, Present and Future 1/5 510625
Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This thread is a required reading for today: 0172
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiJulia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Submission from ancient and medieval studies very much welcome! 053
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiCharles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 07/10/2026A new blogpost, on how "sorry" really did seem to be the hardest word for late Carolingian kings. blogs.ed.ac.uk/cwest3/2026/...blogs.ed.ac.ukHolding kings to account in late Carolingian Francia: the council of Metz, 859 – Earlier medieval history 23110
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiBuckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Yeah, just got off the phone. Turns out we've lost the Mandate of Heaven. We're still an accredited archive though so it's not all bad. 7828
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiRobert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Warsaw Late Antique Seminar. For the beginning of the new semester we have this: 8 October, 4.45 p.m. CET. Jakub Urbanik (UW) Temples Sold and Restored to the Gods. I. Kyme 17 and the Emergence of the ‘Imperial’ Law. In-person and online. 0104
Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The Mona Lisa of Faras, an eight-century masterpiece of late antique African art. This wall painting of St Anne, mother of Mary, comes from the cathedral of Faras in Nubia. Today in the National Museum in Warsaw. 335169
Reposted by Mateusz Fafinski Laury Sarti @laurysarti.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Proofs!! “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. 0213
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiMateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Dark Ages didn't happen 1314
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 1256
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) 1346
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 313616
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... 322436
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 · 25/09/2026And yes, this also means to teach students how to use a word processor, look up information on the internet or prepare a basic plot in the coding language of their choice. We have arrived at a point where those skills are as important for their cognitive development as palaeography or statistics. 0417
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. 210329
Reposted by Mateusz FafinskiAlex West @ajw87.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Finished reading this today and I can only recommend it. A very good introduction; changed my perspective on several topics. Otoh, I'm far from an expert in these things, so ymmv. 1215
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 293
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! 13413
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 01611
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... 713860
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. 1545719
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