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Alexander D'Alisera

@dalisera.bsky.social
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history professor | medieval speleologist | caves, religion, stone | Boston, MA

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Alexander D'Alisera @dalisera.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thank you @profgabriele.com for having me as a guest on your show!
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Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The cover of my forthcoming book, out in February/March. #dogs #Roman-Britain #animalturm #archaeology
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Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Just out and open access: Rethinking Grand Narratives: Mobility, Diet, and Health in a Small Corner of Early Medieval Hampshire | Speculum: Vol 100, No 3 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Rethinking Grand Narratives: Mobility, Diet, and Health in a Small Corner of Early Medieval Hampshire | Speculum: Vol 100, No 3
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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Check out @dalisera.bsky.social’s new article on the Book of Durrow’s evangelical symbols & his approach to Pictish iconographic influence! A good read for folks interested in Christian apocrypha, gospel reception, Irenaeus, and Pictish/Columban imagery clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.ph...
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View of Durrow’s lion: Irenaeus, Pictish stonescapes, and the Book of Durrow’s non-Hieronymian evangelical symbols
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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Excited this is out - lots of Columban loveliness from myself (on island monasteries), and papers by Heather Pulliam Gilbert Markus Victoria Thompson and many others clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.ph... OPEN ACCESS
Cover of I Chaluim Chille - book on St Columba
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Alexander D'Alisera @dalisera.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
An apocalyptic scene: people hide in caves, as the sun goes dark, the moon reddens, and the stars fall to the earth (Cf. Revelation 6:12-17). From a mid-10th century Iberian illumination of Beatus’s late-8th century “Commentary on the Apocalypse,” Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.644, fol. 112r.
Morgan Library & Museum MS M.644, fol. 112rDetail from Morgan Library & Museum MS M.644, fol. 112r
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Alexander D'Alisera @dalisera.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
Such an honor to publish with postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social !
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Alexander D'Alisera @dalisera.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
Our stone panel at EAA2023 in Belfast was such a success that we are offering a sequel session at EAA2024 in Rome: "The Experience of Stone II: Sculpting Comparative Phenomenologies." Folks in history & archaeology are especially encouraged to submit abstracts! @celticist.bsky.social 🏺 #medievalsky
Christina Cowart-Smith (Department of Archaeology, Durham University, UK) and Alexander D’Alisera (History Department, Boston College, USA) invite you to submit abstracts for an EAA Rome 2024 (28-31 August 2024) session entitled: The Experience of Stone II: Sculpting Comparative Phenomenologies (Session #643)
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Dr Christina Cowart-Smith @celticist.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
I'm a bit slow to the game (Lindisfarne called) but we had a super all-day session at the EAA. Massive thanks to my co-organiser @dalisera.bsky.social. Alexander & I will be working with colleagues from Queens Uni Belfast to get our papers jointly published by Springer in an edited vol. Stay tuned!
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Alexander D'Alisera @dalisera.bsky.social · 19/08/2023
The schedule is finally set for our daylong (!) panel at EAA2023 in Belfast: “The Experience of Stone.” 24 papers, with global scope and a vast chronology from prehistory to the medieval. (Subjects include: caves, high crosses, death rituals, sacred stones, temples, volcanic seascapes, and more…)
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