Historian of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages @glasgow.ac.uk. Writes on the medieval Roman Empire, Britain, and everything in between.
Glasgow is hiring a lecturer in medieval history (c.800-1500) on an open-ended basis. We are a lovely bunch in the medieval area, would be great to have a new colleague! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSF052/l...
Lecturer in Medieval History (Research & Teaching Track) at University of GlasgowLooking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Medieval History (Research & Teaching Track) on jobs.ac.uk!www.jobs.ac.ukWondering how long/late/early is late antiquity? Looking for a journal with a convenient acronym? University VPN playing up? Well, have we got a new open-access journal for you!
Mateusz FafinskiFriends, Romans, fellow late antiquity fans! The first issue of Essays in Long Late Antiquity, a new journal published fully in open access by Liverpool University Press is out! We have a stunning volume for you to read with amazing contributions. 1/ liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/ella/cur...
About time we take the Northumbrian metropolitan elite down a peg.
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The first issue is shaping up nicely already, look out for more news in 2026 and an appearance from the team at the Leeds International Medieval Congress!
Liverpool University PressNEW FOR 2026 | Essays in Long Late Antiquity A new Open Access journal in first millennium studies, enticing interdisciplinary and superregional approaches to research in the second to the ninth centuries & broader Afro-Eurasian region: bit.ly/4f7BXZC @calthalas.bsky.social @sihonglin.bsky.social
Spoke too soon, this directory does just that and should be very useful for people rebuilding networks here: bsky.app/profile/josh...
Sihong LinReally glad to see so much of the old #medievaltwitter reunited here, but at this rate we'll need a starter pack of starter packs.
A neat new EHR article by Rachel Singer on the plague in sixth-century Britain. The discussion of when/how the plague arrived is interesting enough, but the final section questioning whether Britain was the late antique 'periphery' is worth reading for Byzantinists too... doi.org/10.1093/ehr/...
Contextualising Edix Hill: First-Pandemic Plague and Britain*Abstract:. The 2019 discovery of Yersinia pestis ancient DNA at Edix Hill in Cambridgeshire unquestionably confirms that plague was present in sixth-centurdoi.org