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And at another lectio ultima, this time of Wolfram Kinzig, one of the greatest church historians. We’re already at the thanksgiving by some of the many people whose lives he touched.

12 PhD positions are available within the DFG Research Training Group ‘Reconciliation and its Equivalents in a Transcultural Comparison’ @unibonn.bsky.social. Projects about reconciliation in the ancient world are very welcome! More info here www.reconciliation.uni-bonn.de/en and job ad below.

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‘He became a sensation’: Manchester pays tribute to abolitionist Frederick DouglassAnnual lectures will discuss work of writer and campaigner who ‘revitalised the anti-slavery cause’ in Britainwww.theguardian.com

At the lectio ultima of Matthias Becher, great early medievalist in Bonn, whom we will miss dearly. But now: Edgitha, wife of Otto I

On a tour of Roman Bonn again, with the inestimable Giulia Cappucci explaining the tomb stone of Euthenia, a female slave who lived in Bonn in the first century CE

We're coming to the end of our semester & I am really pleased with this experiment. Maybe I'm just blessed with my students, but they really took to this, used our discussions to critically assess historians' arguments & made some surprising connections across materials we looked at in the seminar.

"Caroline's brilliance makes room, in this light, on these streets, for everyone else's" - I can vouch for that! www.aarome.org/news/feature...

Farewell to Humanities Professor Caroline GoodsonThe Academy offers its sincere thanks to Caroline Goodson, who is completing her final year as Andrew W. Mellon Humanities Professor. After her two-year appointment at the American Academy in Rome, sh...www.aarome.org

For reasons, I have been calculating gender ratios for German professors of ancient history today. Turns out that 13% of chairs in Ancient History in Germany are held by women, less than in engineering (17%). That compares to 30% of chairs in Germany overall, and 44% in the Humanities.

Women and Justice | Home www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Women and Justice | HomeFemale Legal Agency in Late Antiquity and Beyondwww.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk

Coming in November 2026, thanks to the wonderful team @livunipress.bsky.social and our great authors, of course! With case studies from the 2nd to the 12th century, from Roman Lycia through the post-Roman west to Byzantium and Cairo, and about pagan, Christian, Jewish, and Muslim women.

Next semester I am going to lecture on female rulers who hindered Rome's progress, or tried to, or were suspected of trying to, as an alternative way to narrate Roman history. Here is my current list - are there any others? #ancientsky #classicsky #skystorians Dido Tullia minor Teuta Sophonisba 1/

I enjoyed Oriol Dinarès Cabrerizo's new article on Visigothic queens in Medieval People - turns out that among 26 queens or royal concubines that we know of between 419 and 713, a whopping 13 (i.e. half) are nameless! scholarworks.wmich.edu/medpros/vol4...