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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 15h

The turnip lantern also features in Scotland around Halloween. Traditionally, no pumpkins to carve.

Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 15h

When I write “it’s all fine!”, that’s the face I am making.

Q&A with Paul du Plessis on Henry Maine’s Ancient Law

Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social · 6d

✒️ New on the blog

@sententiaepauli.bsky.social chats to EUP about his new book: Henry Maine’s Ancient Law as an Expression of Victorian Humanism.

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My monograph aims to revisit the book with the central question: what did Maine believe he was doing when he wrote Ancient Law?

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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 6d

#TransferableSkills

Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 8d

A Biedermeier rocket. 👌

Utilitas - The Word That Changes Everything? | Edinburgh Law School

Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 8d

The lambs, Clarice. Eeek.

Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 8d

There’s a hybrid option available for joining online.

Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 8d

Join us for this event on Friday. Hybrid.

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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 10d

See also cats.

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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 13d

What? You mean you haven’t gotten up at 4 am this morning to meditate for 3 hours while manifesting world peace? Slacker!

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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 15d

Zero-eth. 😃

Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 16d

It’s publication day, folks. Available from the website of the Press or from Amazon. May you find it useful in your own work.

#AncientLaw
#HenrySumnerMaine
#RomanLaw

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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 17d

I had an email today from “miss Tatiana oligarch” wanting to discuss a business opportunity. Honestly, that’s just phoning it in.

Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 17d

Sublime.

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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 19d

Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 19d

The Latin word for dad joke is laughterfamilias.

Publication – « A Companion to Byzantine Law. From the Foundation of Constantinople (330) until the End of the Macedonian Dynasty (1056) », éd. Eleftheria Papagianni, Daphne Penna

Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 19d

The Latin word for dad joke is laughterfamilias.

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Agenda des médiévistes @rmblf.bsky.social · 20d

Publication – « A Companion to Byzantine Law. From the Foundation of Constantinople (330) until the End of the Macedonian Dynasty (1056) », éd. Eleftheria Papagianni, Daphne Penna

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The so-called Byzantine Empire, which existed for more than a thousand years with Constantinople as its capital, demonstrates the birth of a new world with the wedding of Western and Eastern tradit…

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 21d

Here’s how I sometimes start a new project.

First I buy a fancy new notebook.

Second I write some very well-ordered notes in my best handwriting on the first page.

Third I never look at it again.

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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 21d

#AncientLaw - early November. Good line-up.

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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 21d

Such a sad end to Big Bird.

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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 22d

A justification is NEVER needed. Just saying.

Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 23d

A rush-through. Like a drive-through, but faster.

Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 24d

Well done! 👏

Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 25d

Is HC ResearchGate?

Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 27d

Preach it from the hilltops.

Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 27d

Seriously peer-reviewers, this is not 19th century and we are (I hope!) no longer publishing in Mitteilungen der Akademie für Geschichte der Gelehrtengesellschaft Göttingen. Let people actually submit writing that others want to read and stop policing "academic style".

Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 27d

Returning to article peer review comments (which boil down to 'take out all the good bits and the jokes') and longing for death

Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 27d

Seriously peer-reviewers, this is not 19th century and we are (I hope!) no longer publishing in Mitteilungen der Akademie für Geschichte der Gelehrtengesellschaft Göttingen. Let people actually submit writing that others want to read and stop policing "academic style".

Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 27d

Returning to article peer review comments (which boil down to 'take out all the good bits and the jokes') and longing for death

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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 28d

I, too, wonder what’s a good alternative. Let me know if you discover one.

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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 29d

The Pragmatics of Legal Argumentation

Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Topoi entitled: The Pragmatics of Legal Argumentation. Special issue article publications ...

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