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Samuel Rowe

@samdrowe.bsky.social

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PhD student working on early medieval Lombard Italy at Padua, Venice and Salamanca.

Samuel Rowe @samdrowe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

On Thursday at 17h30 BST I'll be presenting on Lombard onomastics and what they can tell us about the role of names in early medieval rulership discourse! Registration link: forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon... #medievalsky #Lombards

A powerpoint slide from the presentation "Lombard Onomastics and Rulership Discourse" showing the etymologies of the dithematic names of the Lombard kings.

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Samuel Rowe @samdrowe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Circulating this CfP on "The Lombard Communities" on behalf of Kaiyue Zhang (kaiyue.zhang@history.ox.ac.uk) #medievalsky #IMC2027

CfP for the IMC on The Lombard Communities

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Samuel Rowe @samdrowe.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Final call! We already have some interesting papers lined up, so it's all looking very promising. #medievalsky #IMC2027

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Samuel Rowe @samdrowe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Re-circulating this with 2 weeks to go; don't hesitate to send me a proposal (at samueldavid.rowe@studenti.unipd.it) as we still need submissions! #medievalsky #IMC2027

Call for papers for the IMC session "Redefining early medieval gentes"; proposals should be sent to samueldavid.rowe@studenti.unipd.it

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Samuel Rowe @samdrowe.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I am circulating my CFP for #IMC2027, concerning how early medieval gentes, equatable with ethnic communities, were delineated, defined and redefined in the sources through active discourse and brokerage, to various identificatory ends – distinction, promotion, inclusion, exclusion, specialness...

A call for papers for sessions concerning the subject "Redefining early medieval gentes" at the IMC Leeds 2027.

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Samuel Rowe @samdrowe.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I had a fantastic time at this year's @imc-leeds.bsky.social, and the sessions on the #Lombards I co-organised with @worthjrw.bsky.social and Kaiyue Zhang were a great, well-attended success. All the papers, including the case-study I presented from my own thesis, led to interesting discussion.

Screenshot of the video recording of my paper. The Altar of Ratchis can be seen.

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Samuel Rowe @samdrowe.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

#medieval #medievalsky #IMC2026 #Lombards #kingship #identity

Powerpoint presentation slide of the paper "Ratchis, Tassia and the Creation of a Royal Counter-Identity in Lombard Italy"

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Samuel Rowe @samdrowe.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Next week, I'll be presenting research from my PhD thesis on Lombard strategies of identification and rulership discourse, here looking specifically at sources involving the royal couple Ratchis and Tassia – Tuesday at 11:15, in the second of four sessions dedicated to Lombard history!

A screenshot of the session's details from the IMC app.

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Samuel Rowe @samdrowe.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

@imc-leeds.bsky.social dear conference organisers, just wanted to warn you (and anyone else seeing it for the first time or searching it up) that the Global Travel phishing scam is back this year.

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Samuel Rowe @samdrowe.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Note that the time indicated in the first post is not set in stone yet. The entire strand (which I am helping organise and moderate) is dedicated to the #Lombards (also known as #Langobards or #Longobards), a gens well deserving of more attention in wider historiography. Attached, a coin of Ratchis!

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Samuel Rowe @samdrowe.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

I'm delighted to be presenting my research on the #Lombards once again at the next IMC. The focus this time is on the very specific and evolving strategies of identification of the eighth-century royal couple Ratchis and Tassia (r. 744–749 and 756–757). #medieval #medievalsky #IMC2026 #identity

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Samuel Rowe @samdrowe.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Circulating this CfP for Leeds #IMC2026 on the evolution of the Lombards and Lombard identities through time. #MedievalSky #skystorians

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Samuel Rowe @samdrowe.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

It was a pleasure to present at @imc-leeds.bsky.social this year on how Lombard queens navigated strategies of identification, part of the ongoing research for my thesis. Thanks again to the organisers, other speakers and the audience, who had some great questions. #medievalsky

Screenshot of the recording of the session in question.

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