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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

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 · 10h

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 · 10h

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 · 12h

Congrats! What will be the topic?

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 13h

“The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · 16h

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 · 18h

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Wim Vanhaecke @wimvanhaecke.bsky.social · 22h

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 · 22h

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

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

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 · 1d

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

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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

HEAR, HEAR!

James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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

Rolf Oldejans @rolfoldejans.bsky.social · 1d

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

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John Ma 🇺🇦 @nakhthor.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

Surely your buddy Ned will know!

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Young Richard Kim @youngrichardkim.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 3d

#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.

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

Meanwhile in Sunlit Uplands.

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

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

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 3d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 6d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Alain Gerlache @agerlache.bsky.social · 3d

Sagesse et dignité

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

Today in turbo-charged introductions to Byzantium, I tried covering Eastern Roman History c. 400-600 CE. In 20 minutes. And I nearly got there... Until I tried explaining Christology. BAM! 10 MORE MINUTES THROUGH THE WINDOW!

If have to summarize the class it would be:
"Laws, Walls, and Chalcedon".

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