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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 10h

"The educational value of true crime waned when it became a vehicle to promote cruises and merchandise. The victim support waned when it became a rubbernecking extravaganza" www.autostraddle.com/how-to-quit-...

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How To Quit True Crime

And why you should.

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 11h

"We have fallen into habits that are steadily deskilling the human body, eroding capacities honed by evolution to support our wellbeing as we move through the world" aeon.co/essays/the-m...

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The more we rely on tech, the more we deskill our bodies | Aeon Essays

We are, moment by moment, doing less sensing, navigating, remembering, walking, choosing, and attending

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 12h

📚 SISMED Prize 2026! The Italian Society of Medievalists will fund the publication with #Viella of a first book in medieval history (unpublished monograph, PhD theses included). 👤 Under 40 🗓️ Deadline: 15 Jan 2027 Call (in Italian) 👉 www.sismed.eu/it/2026/10/2... #medievalsky

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Bando – Premio Sismed 2026 – SISMED

La SISMED bandisce un premio riservato a un’opera prima, consistente in una monografia inedita di ambito storico medievistico. Le tesi di dottorato, anche se non ancora discusse, rientrano nella tipologia di opere presentabili.

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

Next week, as part of my course "History of the University", we'll host David De Concilio (DiSSGeA, University of #Padova): 🏛️ "L'insegnamento del diritto nel medioevo europeo: scuole e metodi" 📅 27 Oct 2026, 8.30 AM 📍 Aula F, Palazzo Maldura Open to all interested! #medievalsky

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Dr Ellie Hardy @ellie-hardy.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Book history people! Please apply to come and work with @ies-sas.bsky.social! Tell your friends to apply! We are a lovely team and this is an exciting opportunity to join us! www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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Lecturer in Book History:London Senate House - Hybrid

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École française de Rome @ef-rome.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

👁️‍🗨️𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒂̀ 𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔 𝑾𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒉𝒂𝒎 (1950-2026) rédigé par Laurent Feller sur le #CarnetEFR Le parcours exceptionnel de l’un des plus grands historiens du Moyen Âge européen, l’originalité de sa démarche et l’ampleur de son œuvre scientifique ➡️ efrome.hypotheses.org/13390

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

“Since iron could be smelted locally, previously peripheral communities could arm themselves with weapons that were, for practical purposes, comparable to the weapons of the elite in the empire’s core. In contrast to bronze, iron democratized violence” www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-really...

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Why the Bronze Age collapsed

Historians like to blame drought, famine and invaders. But this can’t explain why the empires never came back.

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

"When OpenAI publishes several hundred proofs that end several hundred treasure hunts, it is succeeding brilliantly along the craft axis of science, but it is interrupting the thousand-year conversation" open.substack.com/pub/derektho...

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I Know Why the Mathematicians Weep

On technological grief

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

"The decline of marriage cannot be reduced to any one thing, but it cannot be fully explained without considering the decline of what the sociologist William Julius Wilson once called “marriageable men." open.substack.com/pub/derektho...

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Why Americans Stopped Falling in Love

Americans—and young Americans, in particular—are dating less, coupling less, marrying less, and having fewer children. A new book offers several theories for why.

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

“En los comentarios de videos que han publicado librerías bogotanas para denunciar robos sobresalen dos posturas: quienes piden una golpiza ejemplar y quienes invocan a Bolaño como coartada moral” elmalpensante.com/articulo/la-...

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La biblioteca negra: anatomía del robo de libros en Bogotá

Durante décadas, los mismos ladrones han robado las mismas librerías de la capital. Un lobo solitario, cuya educación sentimental fue forjada por el metal extremo y la poesía francesa, y una banda org...

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

Next 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

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The splendid Sarah Derbew has a new article in AJP on "From Aksum to Athens." It explores literary understanding of Aksum (modern Ethiopia) via Greek & Ge'ez (ግእዝ, aka Classical Ethiopic): She "examine[s] various descriptions of the 6th-century ce Aksumite ruler Kaleb." muse.jhu.edu/article/1002...

Museum number
1910,1207.1
Description
Gold coin. (whole)
Half-length bust of Kaleb right, crowned, holding stick, flanked by two wheat-stalks, in beaded inner circle.
Half-length bust of Kaleb right, wearing headcloth, holding stick, flanked by two wheat-stalks, in beaded inner circle.
State
Associated with: Aksumite Kingdom Africa: Aksumite Kingdom
Authority
Ruler: Kaleb
Cultures/periods
Aksumite
Production date
500-525 (circa)
Production place
Minted in: Aksum (town)
Africa: sub-Saharan Africa: Ethiopia: Tigray: Aksum (town)
Materials
gold
Dimensions
Die-axis: 12 o'clock
Weight: 1.60 grammes
Inscriptions
Inscription type: inscription
Inscription position: obverse
Inscription language: Greek
Inscription script: Greek
Inscription translation: King Khaleb
Inscription type: inscription
Inscription position: reverse
Inscription language: Greek
Inscription script: Greek
Inscription translation: Son of Thezenas
Bibliographic references
BMCAK / Catalogue of the Aksumite Coins in the British Museum (409, p.40)
Anzani 1926 / Numismatica Axumita (142)
Akbarnia et al 2018 / The Islamic World: a History in Objects (p.21, fig.3)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
royal/imperial
plant
Associated names
Named in inscription & portrayed: Kaleb
Named in inscription: Tazena
Ruler: Kaleb
Acquisition name
Purchased from: Messrs W S Lincoln & Son
Acquisition date
1910
Department
Money and Medals
Registration number
1910,1207.1
C&M catalogue number
BMCAK (BMC Aksumite)(40)(409)(40) now at the British Museum

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Medieval Executions 🧵 Hi there. One of my areas of expertise is medieval crime and punishment. If you’re interested, here are some comments on medieval executions. Note that, just as today, practices and perceptions varied widely across medieval Europe... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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‘Medieval’ and ‘disturbing’: US plan to livestream execution elicits global condemnation

Pentagon said execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, would be broadcast live

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

For the Italophones, a very touching memorial of Chris by Maria Elena Cortese.

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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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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

"Ogni volta che, con la mente magari distratta in qualcuno dei nostri impegni quotidiani, ci verrà da pensare «Chissà Chris cosa ne dice?». E allora davvero ci renderemo conto di quanto ci manca" Maria Elena Cortese su Chris Wickham per #RetiMedievali 💚https://tinyurl.com/mrtu8thu

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In ricordo di Chris Wickham (18 maggio 1950 – 9 ottobre 2026) – Reti Medievali

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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

RIP Chris Wickham. Unlike so many historians who emphasise particularities and contingencies, he was the master of constructing grand, coherent, beautifully rendered worlds out of his evidence. This, from his 2021 Past and Present essay, is a masterpiece of historical writing.

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

“Since the assassination of the US-backed president Jovenel Moise in 2021, armed groups have gotten a stranglehold over much of Haiti, filling the vacuum where a state was meant to be” www.equator.org/articles/hot...

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After the Dance • EQUATOR

A dream died when Haiti’s Hotel Oloffson burned to the ground. Can it be recovered?

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

“Researchers at several universities in China, in a study involving more than 1,500 high-school students, found that their future time perspective was damaged by a steady diet of such short-form videos” www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

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Teens Who Can’t Put Down TikTok and Instagram Are Losing Their Sense of Time

Instant gratification from short video clips makes it hard for people—particularly kids—to understand how the present affects the future, according to a study.

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

"The more time you spend with great works of fiction, the more you get out of them. That kind of responsiveness is so addicting that it can lead people to do crazy things, like try to teach literature to high schoolers" www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-...

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I like 'em thick

OR: an apology to my English teachers

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Piazza 900 / Radio Onde Furlane #podcast www.spreaker.com/podcast/piaz...

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Piazza 900

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

“Last summer Fransiskus Carli Kau, 30, received a letter from Rome telling him that he would be posted to Ireland. His first reaction was fear. Friends had told him that some churches had only ten congregants” www.economist.com/interactive/...

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The Muslim country churning out Catholic priests

As Europe struggles to fill its seminaries, a small island in Indonesia has become one of the world’s leading exporters of missionaries

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

“The biggest empire the world has ever seen was run by a small elite who partied all night, drank liters of port, and stayed in bed until the afternoon” worksinprogress.co/issue/the-se...

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Why were Victorian elites so effective? - Works in Progress Magazine

The biggest empire the world has ever seen was run by a small elite who partied all night, drank liters of port, and stayed in bed until the afternoon.

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

🎓 SIS (Italian Women Historians) announces a biennial award €2,500 for PhD dissertations on women's history, gender relations & gender identities! 📅 Dissertations defended 1/1/2023-30/6/2026 (IT/EN/FR/ES) 📩 Deadline: 30/11/2026 Info: societadellestoriche.it/premio-sis-2/ #History #GenderStudies

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Premio SIS – edizione 2026 – SIS – Società Italiana delle Storiche

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