(Limoges, France, the home of Pelagia.) ‘Since the pressures of the world weighed heavily on a woman, not least on a widow, Erkanfrida needed to...
Last week, I went to the Silk Roads exhibition at the British Museum. It situated slavery in wide-ranging Eurasian commercial networks, through which (for example)...
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(James C. Scott, 1936–2024. Photo credit: Yale.) By James Burns Even if one accepts that the serf, the slave, and the untouchable will have trouble...
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By Justin Pigott This month some of the DoSSE team made the short trip north to the International Medieval Congress in Leeds. As a historian...
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By James Burns At this year’s International Congress on Medieval Studies at West Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Sheida, Seth, and I gave our papers on...
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On Monday 15th April 2024, our Principal Investigator, Erin Thomas Dailey, will be giving the Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture, at the Bonn Center for...
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Slemish, in present-day County Antrim, where some think Patricius laboured as a slave Unlike most early medieval authors, who remain unknown to the broader public,...
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Why did the Roman Empire fall? Little did I know, when I first encountered this question as an undergraduate, that it would propel me along...
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By James Burns and Seth M. Stadel James: I have been reading Seth’s new book on Syriac exegesis, the abstract of which is below. When...
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The Ratchis Altar, presented in an elevated position to reflect its original setting. Wikipedia Commons. An eighth-century altar, housed in the Museo Christiano & Tesoro...