Usually I find rereading my own writing a rather arduous task, but there is a weird sense of satisfaction to going over a first draft after a long while and finding a very thorough footnote.
Looking forward to it!
Titel and Abstract page of "A ladies' man: Julian Augustus as son, husband, and emperor'. Abstract: This article investigates the Emperor Julian’s relations with three of his female relatives: with his mother Basilina, with the wife of his cousin Constantius II, Eusebia, and with his own wife, Helena the Younger, also the sister of Constantius II. I argue that the relationships with these women not only shaped Julian’s agency and ultimately his ability to become Roman emperor, but that he also carefully incorporated these relationships into his imperial self-image, even or particularly after their death. By casting a light especially on Julian’s mother and on his wife, widely ignored by modern scholarship on Julian, the article invites us to consider the power that flowed through ancient men’s domestic ties created by women, and on imperial men’s acute awareness of this power.
Proofs!
Soon available in open access at the Bullettin of the Institute of Classical Studies - as soon as I have sorted out image permissions with the Soprintendenza in Rome...
A group of three people in front of a white historic residence
Kicking off our project on The Nameless in History with Pia Wiegmink and @woodjamie.bsky.social in the beautiful surroundings of Schloss Herrenhausen @volkswagenstiftung.de
Julia Doroszewska (UW) on Subversive Sainthood: Late Antique Hagiography as Evidence for Religious Mentality - at Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 5 March 2026, 4.45 p.m. Warsaw time.
So operation "epic fury" is a "major combat operation" but is too limited in scope to be called a war, and a "special military operation" is not an invasion but a retreat during it is a "goodwill gesture".
The post truth age has become the post satire era.
The US and Israel are bombing Iran. Anyone reporting it as “preventive” is engaging in propaganda, by definition. There is no interpretation of what’s happening as anything else than a crime.
You don’t have to like the Iranian regime to understand why this is bad.
More on Máirín MacCarron's and my recent chapter on social network analysis, Roman prosopography, and late Roman and early medieval sources at @ucc.ie's Department of Digital Humanities
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One week before the invasion, Mearsheimer stated that Putin surely was too smart to invade Ukraine. Now he says he would have invaded sooner. The guy is an idiot.
OTD in 2000 Ukraine sent its final strategic bomber to Russia.
Having given up strategic arms and so having no long-range ability to threaten Russia, Ukraine was subsequently rewarded with invasion and supplied with limitless grave concern.
US certainly managed to surpass the late Soviet gerontocracy with the age of their last two presidents.
Right now, Donald Trump is threatening to attack Iran in order to distract from his problems at home and advance US and Israeli interests in the Mideast.
It is important to hear from Iranians who resist the Iranian government about why US military action will not help Iranians at all.
If you wanna know just how unpopular Andrew is, just consider he's the first ever modern royal to get arrested.
On his birthday.
And then they throw this offer on top.
"Są prawicowcy, którzy mówią, że wzorem lewicowca jest Leszek Miller. Oni dobrze nam lewakom życzą, oczywista oczywistość".
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na Pradze Północ jest największy w Warszawie odsetek mieszkań komunalnych. Nikt nie chce ich likwidować. W tej dzielnicy na cele mieszkalne remontujemy obecnie 28 kamienic i budujemy nowe. To wystarczy na potrzeby mieszkańców Pragi. Gdybyśmy jednak chcieli wyremontować wszystkie kamienice praskie na mieszkania komunalne, to musielibyśmy sprowadzać do nich lokatorów z innych części Warszawy.
Kolejki są sztucznie zaniżane, wnioski potrzebujących rodzin są systematycznie ubijane, a poziom inwestycji jest żenująco niski. Ale wiceprezydent potrafi powiedzieć coś takiego. #lokatorzy #praga
Warsaw Late Antique Seminar: we are starting the new semester next week. Take a look at the programme.
Don't want to get my hopes up, but this sounds genuinely exciting. The seventh century is one of the most important era's in Western Eurasian history, witnessing the rise of Islam, the end of Ancient Persia, and the dramatic reduction of Eastern Rome losing its status as Mediterranean Empire.
W Pruszkowie doszło do brutalnego pobicia dwóch Ukrainek przez polskich „husarzy”.
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Funny enough how this popular image of Late Antique Christians is a result of the survival mainly of the works presenting the perspective of then counter-culture ascetic fringe (I don't mean Augustine, but Jerome&co) and the more radical Hellenes.
Programme of Digital Digesta. Interpretation of Legal Codes and Data Structuring and handout of first talk
Such an honour to be at Nagoya University for this fabulous event, talking about a project I am conducting @dependencybonn.de using data from Connecting Late Antiquities
There is way too much optimism about the peace process between Russia and Ukraine. In reality, there is little reason to believe that the current talks will lead anywhere. In this video, I give a status on the talks and discuss why Trump's efforts to stop the war have failed.
Explore Roman Bonn through the eyes of Bassiana, a free Ubian woman living near the legionary camp of Bonna.
Our new self-guided digital heritage trail is now online via the free app – with places, stories, and small challenges along the way.
More: buff.ly/4QtrLc9
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Once again, how can anyone in the West or the media take these negotiations seriously? Russia remains uninterested in peace.
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What Rutte does not seem to get is that the USA will not defend Europe anyway. Doesnt matter what Europe wants.
And of course Europe can defend itself.
Residents of Greenland must be thrilled, dreaming of becoming part of a country where masked police shoot you.
One of the many achievements of president Donald J. Trump and his White House staff is mass curing of the impostor syndrome. Just observing this bunch bungle through their day inspires belief in one's own competence.
22 stycznia 1863 roku wybuchło Powstanie Styczniowe – trwający ponad 1,5 roku zryw zbrojny wymierzony w rosyjski imperializm, carską przemoc i narodowe zniewolenie.
Cześć i pamięć bohaterkom i bohaterom Powstania Styczniowego!
#rocznica #powstaniestyczniowe #razemmazowsze #partiarazem
