Wow! A whole fifth-eighth century century hilltop settlement 20km south of Dijon with big stone buildings and even a hypocaust heating system.

A new documentary on the archaeology of Great Zimbabwe airs tonight on PBS. I interviewed the lead archaeologist, Shadreck Chirikure, and if you click through, you can watch an exclusive clip showing the team's discovery of Longquan celadon from eastern China. 🧪🏺

stonewall was so powerful that the brick travelled back in time and caused the UK's Sexual Offenses Act of 1967.

(actually, that one goes Europe-wide - hopefully I can pair your *forthcoming blog post* - get hyped, readers - with my translation of Bishop Oliba of Vic doing kingship admonition on the Spanish frontier through the specific medium of complaining about incest)

Something…something Roger Collins’ line about Visigothic society consisting of nothing but ‘oppressed Jews, fugitive slaves, and black-magic practicing bishops’.

Honestly an undergrad textbook is probably the level I’m looking for, just to give me a feel for where the field is nowadays when it’s not busy producing its 3000th book on queenship.

Which I haven’t yet had a chance to read either.

I really like Cullen’s new Introduction to the Carolingian Age as a starting point.

The Carolingian World isn’t that antediluvian! It’s only fifteen years old. (Speaking as someone who remembers when it was cutting edge). I’m happy recommending that.

It is quite striking! I’d rather assumed there’d be some companion volume.

Ooh, thanks for the tip!

I’m always game for a scrap between two senior professors!

Can anyone recommend something general about the Ottonians? I’ve read Karl Leyser’s Medieval Germany but is there anything more recent? In English or German for preference although (in the words of more than one Otto) I’ll take a stab at Italian if need be.

may all reviews of your work begin like this