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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele

@drdragases.bsky.social

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Scholar of Fortune @History Department - Ghent University. Everything you wanted to know about The Fall of Rome but were afraid to ask. Gallivanter extraordinaire. Italophile. Homeric Laughter.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · Jul 29

Journal of Roman Studies review:

"[This] is an admirably accessible volume... Many of these chapters will be top recommendations on my undergraduate and postgraduate reading lists. Overall, the volume is an impressive piece of work that makes a valuable and fresh contribution to the field."

JEROEN W. P. WIJNENDAELE (Ed.), Late Roman Italy: Imperium to Regnum. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. Pp. xv + 504, illus. isbn 9781399518024 £155.00 (hbk); 9781399518031, £29.99 (pbk). |...

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 9h

- "Why did the Romans become Christian if they used to persecute them?"

- "How were those migrants treated by the other Romans once they were in the army?"

The kids are alright.

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 9h

Today I taught a whooping 96 (!) fourteen-year olds about the origin of the Franks. Done this a few times already this year, and easily remains the most challenging bunch. But glad to say most actually seemed to be paying attention. With two girls - always girls - asking most insightful questions.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 17h

Never forget.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 1d

Boekvoorstelling: Willy Claes & Rik Van Cauwelaert - Wat ik nog kwijt wil (Handelsbeurs Gent)

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 1d

In ostentatiously siding with the downtrodden versus "the one percent", it's very worthwhile checking his earlier Gallic contemporary Salvian of Marseilles.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 1d

In ostentatiously siding with the downtrodden versus "the one percent", it's very worthwhile checking his earlier Gallic contemporary Salvian of Marseilles.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 1d

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats! What will be the topic?

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 1d

“The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · 1d

A new Early Medieval Europe virtual issue on Travel and Mobility in the Early Middle Ages, featuring five brilliant articles published over the past 20 years by Andy Merrills, Paul Dutton, Frank Riess, Ben Allport and Rebecca Thomas: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Beyond migrations: travel and mobility in the early Middle Ages: Early Medieval Europe

Early Medieval Europe is an interdisciplinary medieval studies journal covering European history from the fall of the Roman Empire up until the 11th century.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 1d

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Wim Vanhaecke @wimvanhaecke.bsky.social · 1d

René Magritte, ook Antifa.

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Enige politieke spotprent van Magritte onder de hamer: ‘Opnieuw actueel’

Het gaat om een affiche waarin hij de draak steekt met Léon Degrelle van de toenmalige fascistische beweging Rex.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 1d

Guess no one was more qualified to write about Christianity than Jesus.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 2d

Sinds vorige week doceer ik een nieuwe cursus op basis van 'De wereld van Clovis' @ertsberg.bsky.social voor Davidsfonds Academie te Tielt. Een schot in de roos. Gemiddelde inschrijvingen voor een cursus schommelen rond de 30-40, maar Clovis krijgt alvast een zeer dankbaar publiek van 61 deelnemers.

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 2d

Silver linings: for once it's not the Usual Suspects mailing list.

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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 2d

Academia and particularly the humanities is facing a global crisis. We need to be supporting each other. What we do not need to be doing is tarring kind, brilliant people with political views and personality traits they don’t have just because you disagree with the results of their research.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 2d

HEAR, HEAR!

James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 2d

Apropos nothing in particular, one can disagree with a good junior scholar's arguments about a set of events in the past without maligning them as advancing a harmful political agenda whose emergence post-dates work they did on those events and with which that scholar is openly, clearly, not aligned

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 2d

Ireland: "Mr. Stark, I Don't Feel So Good".

Rolf Oldejans @rolfoldejans.bsky.social · 2d

Map Of 3,554 Shipwrecks Around Ireland Going Back To 1530

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John Ma 🇺🇦 @nakhthor.bsky.social · 3d

Portland, Chicago, LA, DC, soon NYC perhaps— these "blue" cities are not DOING anything beforehand apart from (mostly) disapproving of the Trump regime and having lots of immigrants. The crime narrative is a myth, the sending in of ICE and army (!) intended to provoke dissent. This may backfire

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 3d

Surely your buddy Ned will know!

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Young Richard Kim @youngrichardkim.bsky.social · 3d

Dear NAPS friends, I just received awful news that Dennis Trout has passed away 😢

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Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) @mesa1966.bsky.social · 4d

#Employment The Department of History at Georgetown University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the history of the Persianate World from the Muslim conquest to the present. mesana.org/resources-an...

Middle East Studies Association

The Department of History invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the history of the Persianate World from the Muslim conquest to the present.

mesana.org

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 3d

Meanwhile in Sunlit Uplands.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 3d

Source: the 'White Collar' Portrait series - Marie Cecile Thijs.

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