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Links of concern10 comments

Jonathan Jarrett wrote 2 days ago: I don’t want to get unnecessarily doom-saying but there’s been a few seriously worrying … more →

Tags: archaeology, Blogroll, Currently teaching..., Asturias, Bad History, Environment, Neville resiste, self-justification

Can I see it in the daylight? New visualisation technology2 comments

Jonathan Jarrett wrote 2 weeks ago: [I'm sorry for the blank few days: there was some marking, I was ill, then there was a man wanting s … more →

Tags: Blogroll, Institutions, computing in the humanities, epigraphy, Inscriptions, Material Culture, Palaeography

I should have read this the moment I bought it, part V2 comments

Jonathan Jarrett wrote 1 month ago: The section of Davis & McCormick’s Long Morning of Medieval Europe that deals with religio … more →

Tags: Currently reading, Hagiography, Michael McCormick, patronage, Anthropology, Guy Philippart, Michel Trigalet, Arnold Angenendt, thomas head

I should have read this the moment I got it, part IV

Jonathan Jarrett wrote 1 month ago: This series is getting bogged down in other things now, so I’ll try and cut it down to the bas … more →

Tags: Currently reading, burial archaeology, dna analysis, Manuscripts, Michael Drout, Michael McCormick, Science, settlement archaeology, xkcd

Seminar schedules in my part of the world9 comments

Jonathan Jarrett wrote 1 month ago: I’m so far behind with content at the moment that it’s not funny: lots of stuff written … more →

Tags: Seminars, IHR seminars

Look shiny! Links to food for brain and eyes (featuring a lot of gold added at the last minute)6 comments

Jonathan Jarrett wrote 2 months ago: Your humble author was, at the time of writing the first part of this, doing a caffeine detox and so … more →

Tags: Anglo-Saxons, archaeology, Blogroll, Bayeux Tapestry, Dunwich, Emma Oxenby Wolfhart, Medieval Art

I should have read this the minute I bought it, part I6 comments

Jonathan Jarrett wrote 2 months ago: Cover of Davis & McCormick, The Long Morning of Medieval Europe Yes, I know I was writing about … more →

Tags: Currently reading, Chris Wickham, Karl Marx, medieval economy, Michael McCormick

CFP: Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages2 comments

Jonathan Jarrett wrote 2 months ago: Last post was all about me, let’s have one with no connection to me at all. This got circulate … more →

Tags: CFPS, Dante

Sindbad met a moa, met a moa on a mountain...9 comments

Jonathan Jarrett wrote 2 months ago: In recent days I have been doing a lot of work on nineteenth-century New Zealand. You will guess tha … more →

Tags: Now working on..., Al-Idrisi, Bad History, Conspiracy Theories, Fitzwilliam Museum, islamic technology, Korotangi, Maori, New Zealand

The unexamined project is not worth... er... projecting? Or, Help, I got some Foucault on me6 comments

Jonathan Jarrett wrote 3 months ago: Self-critique Despite my initial reservations, the Historical Archaeology I’m currently readin … more →

Tags: Catalonia, Picts, Currently reading, Celts, archaeology, Borrell II, self-justification, symbol stones, critical theory

And this *isn't*...7 comments

Jonathan Jarrett wrote 3 months ago: Ages ago I got given a copy of a book edited by Martin Hall and Stephen Silliman, called Historical … more →

Tags: Picts, Carolingians, Currently reading, archaeology, self-justification, Middle Ages, Bad History, martin hall, Stephen Silliman

Leeds report 4 and final (Thursday 16th July 2009)24 comments

Jonathan Jarrett wrote 3 months ago: The last day of the International Medieval Congress at Leeds is a half-day, unless you’re on o … more →

Tags: Catalonia, Carolingians, Anglo-Saxons, Currently reading, Next paper is due..., Spain, France, archaeology, Hagiography

Leeds report 3 (Wednesday 15th July)5 comments

Jonathan Jarrett wrote 3 months ago: By Wednesday I’d managed to get my alarm going again (“have you tried switching it off a … more →

Tags: Blogroll, Carolingians, humour, Charters, France, Italy, leeds, Wendy Davies, Blogging

Leeds report 2 (Tuesday 14th July)1 comment

Jonathan Jarrett wrote 3 months ago: This was a bad day for my alarm to fail, but happily nerves had me awake in plenty of time anyway. I … more →

Tags: Blogroll, Catalonia, Carolingians, Next paper is due..., Spain, Charters, Scandinavia, leeds, Wendy Davies

I left my heart phone charger in St Andrews (3 of 3)

Jonathan Jarrett wrote 4 months ago: The second evening of the St Andrews conference I’ve been reporting, Monasteries and Secular A … more →

Tags: Anglo-Saxons, Carolingians, Catalonia, Charters, Institutions, Ann Williams, Aristocrats, Assumptions, Byzantium

I left my heart phone charger in St Andrews (1 of 3)5 comments

Jonathan Jarrett wrote 4 months ago: Right! I’m really back now. And I used up all my buffer while I was away so had to actually wr … more →

Tags: archaeology, Carolingians, Celts, Charters, France, Institutions, Alex Woolf, Alexander O'Hara, Ann Williams

Seminary LII, Interdisciplinary conversation V: a new post at Cliopatria2 comments

Jonathan Jarrett wrote 5 months ago: A small portion of a Slovenian manuscript written in Glagolitic script The Bidayuh Longhouse in the … more →

Tags: Currently reading, Institutions, Anthropology, bidayuh, computing in the humanities, Conference, Conversion, Eva, Glagolitic

Seminary LI: `brothers' in Byzantium

Jonathan Jarrett wrote 5 months ago: Due to reasons of travel idiocy I missed the antepenultimate Earlier Middle Ages seminar at the Inst … more →

Tags: archaeology, Institutions, Romans, Byzantine Empire, Claudia Rapp, Friendship, IHR seminars, John Boswell, Liturgy

A certain sensitivity to the medieval, expressed by means of a bagful of links2 comments

Jonathan Jarrett wrote 5 months ago: One way I sometimes wind up writing a post is that I have two or three links that I see a common the … more →

Tags: Anglo-Saxons, archaeology, Blogroll, Charters, Currently reading, Institutions, Brock University, burial archaeology, Canada


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