Guest post by Ellie Sadler Editorial note: Ellie Sadler has just finished her third-year in Classical Studies at the University of Lincoln. She originally drafted...
DoSSE project members will be presenting at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, this coming July. Here, we set out what we will be presenting...
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Hosted by the DoSSE project, Niall Ó Súilleabháin (Université de Poitiers) will be giving a public lecture at the University of Leicester on the subject...
It is with great pleasure that we announce the visit of Andriy Danylenko to the University of Leicester, and his Public Lecture on the subject of: The...
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By James R. Burns DID YOU KNOW that Theodoric the Great, ruler of the Ostrogoths (c. 475-526), was the son of two slaves? Well, he...
By James R. Burns (Limoges, France, the home of Pelagia.) ‘Since the pressures of the world weighed heavily on a woman, not least on a...
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(James C. Scott, 1936–2024. Photo credit: Yale.) By James R. Burns Even if one accepts that the serf, the slave, and the untouchable will have...
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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...
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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