This summer I went to two places in Britain that had unexpected connections with eighteenth and nineteenth-century slavery. Since it’s Black History Month, I thought it would be interesting t…

The transformations that shaped the transition to the “central” Middle Ages during the eleventh and twelfth centuries affected a wide range of structures across Italy and the post-Roman world. Histori...

To lose one database is a misfortune; to lose four feels like a conspiracy. Recently three online databases and one audiovisual digital archive with underlying database, on each of which I worked f…

Note: this is another post recalling and explaining technical decisions made as part of the Making of Charlemagne’s Europe project, which ran between 2012-2014 at King’s College London, during whic…

Christoph Traugott Hermann Rudolph Ehrhardt (1937–2001), Associate Professor in Classics at the University of Otago Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka and Honorary Curator for the Greek and Roman coins at Tūhura Ot...

One concept I’ve been thinking about a lot when translating Jonas of Orléans’ lay mirror De institutione laicali (DIL) is that of “rendering account to God”. “Rendering account” is a standard phras…

Note: I am currently translating Jonas of Orléans’ lay mirror “De institutione laicali” for publication by Manchester University Press. This is the first of several posts inspired by the text. The …