Dr Stephen Donnachie
@stevedonnachie.bsky.social
Historian of the Crusades & the Latin East, Lusignan Cyprus, Eastern Mediterranean, Medievalist, 12th-13th Centuries, moonlighting as a Misanthropologist. Swansea, Wales 🇬🇧🏴🇪🇺
I always love books like these. As much as I enjoy reading up on some political, economic, or social aspect of medieval society in my own particular field or more generally, sometimes I just want to know about what medieval people thought about foxes or swans.
In need of some new trivia or interesting conversation starters for the Christmas dinner table? Discover more about the fascinating (and sometimes bizarre) ways that medieval people perceived the natural world in our Medieval Animals series.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I always love books like these. As much as I enjoy reading up on some political, economic, or social aspect of medieval society in my own particular field or more generally, sometimes I just want to know about what medieval people thought about foxes or swans.
14th century depiction of the Poor Clares from thei chaoter house in Sienna by Ambrogio Lorenzetti
November 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
14th century depiction of the Poor Clares from thei chaoter house in Sienna by Ambrogio Lorenzetti
There is a Black Friday sale on at Boydell, and once again I find myself contemplating the book on medieval pigs.
November 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
There is a Black Friday sale on at Boydell, and once again I find myself contemplating the book on medieval pigs.
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The serpent head of the Oseberg Viking ship, carved in 820, and shown for the first time to the public in the Oslo Historical Museum
November 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
The serpent head of the Oseberg Viking ship, carved in 820, and shown for the first time to the public in the Oslo Historical Museum
A great thank you to the University of Belgrade for inviting me to deliver the key note lecture at this year's Iustoria Conference, speaking on the Frederick II, the Ibelins, and the legal context to the civil war in the Latin East in the early thirteenth century.
November 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
A great thank you to the University of Belgrade for inviting me to deliver the key note lecture at this year's Iustoria Conference, speaking on the Frederick II, the Ibelins, and the legal context to the civil war in the Latin East in the early thirteenth century.
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The heaviest object on display in The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries is this limestone sarcophagus, which was dug up on the Abbey's north green in 1869. It was used for two burials - a Roman one in about AD 300-400, and a Saxon one in about AD 900-1000.
#Museum30 #Heavy
#Museum30 #Heavy
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Inferno was a fun game, hours of hack and slash, would have happily played more of the trilogy.
www.ign.com/articles/ins...
www.ign.com/articles/ins...
Inside Dante’s Purgatorio, the Cancelled Sequel to EA’s Dante’s Inferno - IGN
Dante's Inferno 2 was cancelled over a decade ago, but IGN can now reveal the full story of the unmade, Purgatory-set sequel.
www.ign.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Inferno was a fun game, hours of hack and slash, would have happily played more of the trilogy.
www.ign.com/articles/ins...
www.ign.com/articles/ins...
At long last, I have finally made it to this pub. I can now cross it of my crusades historian checklist.
October 31, 2025 at 11:21 AM
At long last, I have finally made it to this pub. I can now cross it of my crusades historian checklist.
Pumpkin carving commences
October 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Pumpkin carving commences
Can't believe that you can just buy such dangerous products straight off the shelves.
October 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Can't believe that you can just buy such dangerous products straight off the shelves.
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"Parking is such sweet sorrow"
Shakespeare family home damaged by reversing driver
Shakespeare family home damaged by reversing driver
A 17th-century building that housed William Shakespeare's family has been left damaged after a driver reversed into it.
news.sky.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"Parking is such sweet sorrow"
I have managed to acquire this classic and foundational piece of childhood historical literature. Countless hours of my time as akid was spe t poring over this book. Just need to getvthe one on castles now.
October 18, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I have managed to acquire this classic and foundational piece of childhood historical literature. Countless hours of my time as akid was spe t poring over this book. Just need to getvthe one on castles now.
Me: I see they are releasing a Ghost In The Shell ttrpg.
Wife: Don't act like you aren't going to buy it.
Wife: Don't act like you aren't going to buy it.
a stuffed monkey is talking to another stuffed monkey in a tv show
ALT: a stuffed monkey is talking to another stuffed monkey in a tv show
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October 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Me: I see they are releasing a Ghost In The Shell ttrpg.
Wife: Don't act like you aren't going to buy it.
Wife: Don't act like you aren't going to buy it.
The problem with being a historian of thee crusades is that the algorithm does pick up on it eventually and make shopping suggestions for you. Sometimes tus is funny, and some times it is fashy. Temp really does have everything it seems.
October 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The problem with being a historian of thee crusades is that the algorithm does pick up on it eventually and make shopping suggestions for you. Sometimes tus is funny, and some times it is fashy. Temp really does have everything it seems.
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🔔 CFP | SSCLE 2026
Crossing Seas, Crossing Cultures
📍 Univ. of Porto
🗓️ 29 June–3 July 2026
Send proposals (papers, sessions, roundtables) 📩 [email protected]
🗓️ 15 Sept–15 Nov 2025
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Crossing Seas, Crossing Cultures
📍 Univ. of Porto
🗓️ 29 June–3 July 2026
Send proposals (papers, sessions, roundtables) 📩 [email protected]
🗓️ 15 Sept–15 Nov 2025
🔗 11th-sscle-conference-porto-2026.mozellosite.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
🔔 CFP | SSCLE 2026
Crossing Seas, Crossing Cultures
📍 Univ. of Porto
🗓️ 29 June–3 July 2026
Send proposals (papers, sessions, roundtables) 📩 [email protected]
🗓️ 15 Sept–15 Nov 2025
🔗 11th-sscle-conference-porto-2026.mozellosite.com
Crossing Seas, Crossing Cultures
📍 Univ. of Porto
🗓️ 29 June–3 July 2026
Send proposals (papers, sessions, roundtables) 📩 [email protected]
🗓️ 15 Sept–15 Nov 2025
🔗 11th-sscle-conference-porto-2026.mozellosite.com
Salisbury Cathedral, a more ingenious way to view its cieling.
October 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Salisbury Cathedral, a more ingenious way to view its cieling.
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Rare drone shot take at the Last Supper - 14th century, Stiftsbibliothek. Cod. 101, f. 45v
October 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Rare drone shot take at the Last Supper - 14th century, Stiftsbibliothek. Cod. 101, f. 45v
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And just like that, I have 2 months to write a keynote lecture for an international conference.
September 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
And just like that, I have 2 months to write a keynote lecture for an international conference.
Some new reading material for September
September 12, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Some new reading material for September
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