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michaelmeckler, 7 months ago to histodons

CFP: Letter writing in the Roman empire (from Serena Connolly, Rutgers):

The Roman Epistulae Project invites abstracts for the conference 'Empire of Correspondence: Roman Imperial Letters as Literature and State Messaging, 31 BCE–534 CE' to be held in Boulder, Colorado, 4-5 October 2024.

Papers should examine the role of imperial correspondence in Roman society and governance.

Abstracts are due 1st January 2024. More info: https://tinyurl.com/hx6jvvx4

@histodons

#CFP #RomanHistory #RomanEmpire

taoish, 7 months ago

@michaelmeckler @histodons
Can you please unpack the phrase "Imperial Correspondence"? Does that mean anything written after Octavian consolidated power? Or specifically a letter written in the service of the Roman Empire, by someone with an official roll? Thx

AimeeMaroux, 11 months ago to random

I wrote a #guide for all my fellow creators starting out on #Mastodon:

https://www.eroticmythology.com/mastodon-for-creators/

Feedback is extremely welcome. This is a loving document, it can only be honed and get better with loving input from other users. What are your best tips for #creators?

#RIPTwitter #TwitterDown #TwitterMigration #twitter #Fediverse #fedi #introduction #NewHere #creator #WritersOfMastodon #ArtistsOnMastodon #musician #writer #artist #feditips #MastodonMigration

taoish, 8 months ago

@AimeeMaroux @CoinOfNote
I search hashtags all the time. I get results from other instances.

And you can always manually QT - we did it on Twitter for years.

taoish, 8 months ago

@AimeeMaroux @CoinOfNote
Wow, what a harsh response. Allow me to expand:
"Do you mind saying more about what is going wrong? I seem to get hashtag results from other servers, but now I am concerned that I'm missing a lot of results bc obviously I can't know what I'm not seeing. Do you get zero results ever from other servers? Or do you get some but know that others are missing? I'm trying to understand what the issue might be (for both of our sakes)."

taoish, 8 months ago

@CoinOfNote @AimeeMaroux
Interesting, thank you. So it sounds like there isn't much an individual user can do except to make sure that you are on a bigger server?

taoish, 8 months ago

@AimeeMaroux @CoinOfNote Wow, what a confusing yet interesting fact! So if I just follow people on different servers, I accidentally get wide coverage on my hashtag searches!? Never would have guessed that in a thousand years.

THanks!

taoish, 8 months ago

@AimeeMaroux @CoinOfNote I apologize for not being more clear (and gracious). I actually thought about adding softening language but I was in a rush. Sorry!

CoinOfNote, 9 months ago to random

Ladies, I have a horny man-god for you! Wait, "horned", a horned man-God - Gelas, from Sicily! Phew, that could have got awkward! (Ok @AimeeMaroux I know you can still do something inappropriate with Gelas!) This Æ Tetras harks all the way back to 420 - 405 BC, it amazes me that it is possible to hold something so old in your hands! More at: https://coinofnote.com/gela-ae-tetras-420-405-bc/ #SaturdayNightCoinShow #Numismatics #CoinCollecting #Italy #Bull
#History #ancient

Original coin has: "Bull right, olive branch above, three pellets (mark of value = 1/4 litra) in exergue". On mine, basically only the bull is visible.

taoish, 9 months ago

@AimeeMaroux @CoinOfNote
I saw a beautiful example of your first coin, @Greenseer or one like it -- I think the description said it was Dionysus though.

bloggingjulia, 9 months ago to random

Are there any other academics from the medieval studies field around here? I was wondering because most of the people here seem to be from the tech field.

Would love to connect with other academics.

#Academia #Literature #MedievalStudies #Medieval #Research

taoish, 9 months ago

@bloggingjulia Yes! And welcome. Lots of medieval studiers here. A good way to engage with us is to add the @histodons group and the @medievodon group to your posts. Note: not the hashtag, but the a.gup.pe address like I just did.

SJLahey, 9 months ago to bookhistodons

#TIH #OTD 11 Sep 1942: Death of Adriano Cappelli (b. 1859), Italian archivist & palaeographer at Parma State Archives, best known for his Lexicon Abbreviaturarum—a dictionary of c.14,000 abbreviations from #MedievalManuscripts.
#palaeography #manuscripts #BookHistory

@bookhistodons @medievodons

taoish, 9 months ago

@SJLahey @bookhistodons @medievodons

The Lexicon Abbreviaturarum is available for free download at archive.org, as well.
https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_nFwoAAAAYAAJ

taoish, 9 months ago

@jmccyoung @SJLahey @bookhistodons @medievodons
I took that class! For two terms. It is very good, and good value. Prof. Charles Burnett was my instructor. I reccomend it.

taoish, 9 months ago to histodons

One of the stolen papyri in the Obbink scandal has been returned and published. It turns out to be a previously unknown collection of the sayings of Jesus, possibly 2nd century - which would make it older than almost all of the New Testament.
https://brentnongbri.com/2023/09/09/the-date-of-the-new-oxyrhynchus-sayings-of-jesus-p-oxy-87-5575/

@histodons

taoish, 9 months ago

@ninetiger @histodons
One expert says no bc of the non-canonical material in this fragment - it overlaps with the Gospel of Thomas also - but I think it's worth more study for sure.

How can we be sure the other stuff wasn't also in Q?

aaronm, 9 months ago to medievodons

@medievodons and Art Historians, I need help with a word. Is there a specific term for "those little groups of three dots" one often sees in manuscript illumination? As example in Ott.lat.1562 f.1r. I feel like I've seen them so much they need a specific term, but I can't seem to recall one

taoish, 9 months ago

@aaronm @medievodons
On ancient coins (600 BCE =>) they are called pellets (today).

taoish, 10 months ago

@AskHistorians @histodons
Now it says that the creator deleted the post. Can anyone synopsize the answer? It's a good question. If moderate amounts of sex were considered essential for healthy life, why WERE priests asked to be celibate?

taoish, 10 months ago

@AskHistorians @histodons
Got it, thank you very much! I think the following link should jump directly to the answer, which is very good and nuanced.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/15f7m7v/in_medieval_times_it_was_thought_that_sex_in/jud2pfh/

aaronm, 10 months ago to medievodons

Does anyone recognize this #Medieval #Diagram
Source is BAV Ott.lat.877 f.1r. I think this was originally a flyleaf that just had the title of the work (Bede's Historia Anglorum), but the cruciform thing is puzzling me
@medievodons #Medievodons

taoish, 10 months ago

@NFerey @chronohh @aaronm @medievodons
The last two figures in Hrabanus Maurus' book feature palindromes as the intexts. It set off a burst of Carolingian "versus recurrentes" over the next century, many by Irish peregrinni in the circle of John Scottus Eriugena.