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Nik Matheou 🇵🇸 @historyastheory.bsky.social · Feb 10

Very excited that this article is finally out! I hope it'll be of interest to anyone who: 1) is interested in the history of #nationhood & #nationalism; 2) is into the debate over Romanness in "#Byzantium"; & 3) wants to develop critical #Marxist frameworks before & after capitalism. A short 🧵/1

Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · Feb 10

New on advance access: "Nationcraft and the Origins of Territory: Experiencing Romanía in the Medieval Empire of New Rome"

by Nicholas S M Matheou (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...

Nationcraft and the Origins of Territory: Experiencing Romanía in the Medieval Empire of New Rome*

Abstract. The modernism debate in the historiography of nationhood and nationalism has fizzled out to a curious détente: the idea that nationhood and natio

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Nik Matheou 🇵🇸 @historyastheory.bsky.social · Aug 23

A colleague and I wrote an article for @ScotNational in response to @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social's apology following the self-commissioned Race Review, in the light of continued complicity w/ genocide & colonialism in Gaza. Read in full here: archive.ph/2025.08.23-0...

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Nik Matheou 🇵🇸 @historyastheory.bsky.social · Aug 13

New school year, new office sign

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LAMPS Edinburgh @lamps-edinburgh.bsky.social · Jul 14

LAMPS SEMINAR SERIES CALL FOR PAPERS AUTUMN 2025

Please submit your paper to us at [email protected]
Deadline: 29th August 2025

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Nik Matheou 🇵🇸 @historyastheory.bsky.social · Jul 27

Now for accountability and reparations @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Edinburgh University had ‘outsized’ role in creating racist scientific theories, inquiry finds

Exclusive: Investigation finds one of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious universities benefited from transatlantic slavery and was haven for white supremacist theories

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Nik Matheou 🇵🇸 @historyastheory.bsky.social · Jul 24

Thanks be for summer kids clubs at the local community centre 🙏

Nik Matheou 🇵🇸 @historyastheory.bsky.social · Jul 18

The only real answer to #MAGA...

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M. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com · Jun 30

We’re launching a website of revolutionary speculative fiction, art and poetry set in the world of Everything for Everyone! We’re calling it Project 2052. To support author honoraria, subscribe as a sustainer, make a one-time donation, or pitch a story here: www.commonnotions.org/project2052.

Project 2052 — Common Notions Press

Project 2052 is a website of revolutionary speculative short fiction, visual art and poetry, set in the world of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072.

www.commonnotions.org

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Nik Matheou 🇵🇸 @historyastheory.bsky.social · Jun 15

Happy Father's Day to all the Marx daddies out there keeping it dialectical 🙏🚩

Nik Matheou 🇵🇸 @historyastheory.bsky.social · May 30

Birthday vibes

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Nik Matheou 🇵🇸 @historyastheory.bsky.social · May 22

Amazing! I know the project but didn't see that this had launched, thanks for aleting me to it ☺️

Nik Matheou 🇵🇸 @historyastheory.bsky.social · May 19

5hr train sorted 👌 ⚒️⚔️

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Nik Matheou 🇵🇸 @historyastheory.bsky.social · May 17

Very happy with my early bday #tattoo 😊

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Simon Berger @chakarchinggis.bsky.social · May 15

#mongolsky #mongolempire

Church Monuments Society @churchmonuments.bsky.social · May 9

Fascinating article about a monument to a medieval Italian woman at Yangzhou, China www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Yangzhou, 1342: Caterina Vilioni's Passport to the Afterlife | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society | Cambridge Core

Yangzhou, 1342: Caterina Vilioni's Passport to the Afterlife - Volume 2

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Nik Matheou 🇵🇸 @historyastheory.bsky.social · May 10

Thanks so much! Looking forward to seeing how it might be useful in your research

Nik Matheou 🇵🇸 @historyastheory.bsky.social · May 4

Absolute dream of a week/end guest lecturing at the University of Ghent on an Afro-Eurasian perspective on the Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages. The students were great, and the merchant capitalist setting of the city couldn't have been more fitting!

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Nik Matheou 🇵🇸 @historyastheory.bsky.social · May 1

Happy May Day to all workers, waged and unwaged! Long live revolutionary internationalism, onwards to full communism in our lifetimes 🚩🏴

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May Day Labor Anthem (Socialist Revolutionary Song) - Kartvelian (Laz) ,Armenian,Kurdish,Turkish

YouTube video by Communist Songs

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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · Apr 30

We are pleased to be supporting:

"Trans Sainthood in Transistion, ca. 400 - 1500"

@ghilondon.bsky.social and online on 22 - 23 May 2025

Programme details and Zoom registration;

pastandpresent.org.uk/registration...

Registration and programme for “Trans Sainthood in Translation, ca. 400–1500” - Past and Present

received from Mariana Bodnaruk (Masaryk University, Brno), Stephan Bruhn (German Historical Institute, London) and Michael Eber (University of Oxford) Dates: 22 - 23 May 2025 Venue: German Historical ...

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · Apr 21

Very much looking forward to this conference in Edinburgh starting tomorrow, with a wide range of papers:
www.eventbrite.com/e/graduate-c...

Graduate Conference-Shifting Fortunes in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

The University of Edinburgh's 6th International Graduate Conference in Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies (LAIBS)

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Nik Matheou 🇵🇸 @historyastheory.bsky.social · Mar 24

Nice to see the medieval tradition of Sufi lodges leading popular revolt is alive and well

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James T Palmer @jtpmedieval.bsky.social · Mar 6

Team! We are looking for a new *permanent* medievalist-Latinist to work with us at St Andrews!
#medievalsky

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD844/a...

Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in Latin and in the History of the British Isles, c.1100-1500 – AO1974DD at University of St Andrews

An academic position as a Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in Latin and in the History of the British Isles, c.1100-1500 – AO1974DD is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more deta...

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Nik Matheou 🇵🇸 @historyastheory.bsky.social · Mar 4

Sad to miss it! I have Views 😅

Nik Matheou 🇵🇸 @historyastheory.bsky.social · Feb 25

Very flattering - didn't even realise he had an academia.edu account

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Nik Matheou 🇵🇸 @historyastheory.bsky.social · Feb 21

One for all the epigraphers out there: late thirteenth century #Armenian bishop and historian, Stepanos Orbelean, complaining about the poor preservation of an inscription he was using (and largely recorded verbatim) in his history.

Stepanos, babe, I feel you. #Medievalsky

Nik Matheou 🇵🇸 @historyastheory.bsky.social · Feb 21

Jairus Banaji slaps once more - what should be another nail in the coffin of Brennerism/Political #Marxism, but sadly that satisfying story remains a useful origin myth for #Marxist intellectuals and organisers unengaged with history (understandably!).

www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/reto...

Retotalising Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction to its History - Historical Materialism

I’ve divided this presentation into four distinct parts.[1] A shorthand description of these might be Conventional narratives of capitalist origins Commercial capitalism as a better alternative Modern...