Rory Naismith

@rorynaismith.bsky.social

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Early medievalist, etc., at the University of Cambridge.

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Rory Naismith, FRHistS is a British academic, medieval numismatist and historian of Anglo-Saxon England, specialising in economic and monetary history. He is Professor of Early Medieval English History and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. .. more

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Dept of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Univ of Cambridge @department-asnc.bsky.social · 10h

Third-year ASNC students visiting the Wren Library (@trincolllibcam.bsky.social) to look at medieval manuscripts with @rorynaismith.bsky.social - many thanks indeed for being such gracious hosts!

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Agenda des médiévistes @rmblf.bsky.social · 1d

Publication – « Aristocratic networks. Elites and social dynamics in Italy in the age of Lothar I », éd. Giuseppe Albertoni, Manuel Fauliri, Leonardo Sernagiotto

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Publication – « Aristocratic networks. Elites and social dynamics in Italy in the age of Lothar I », éd. Giuseppe Albertoni, Manuel Fauliri, Leonardo Sernagiotto

This volume collects the proceedings of a conference held at the Department of Humanities of the University of Trento from 13 to 15 October 2022, as part of the initiatives of the PRIN 2017 project…

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 8d

Interested in early medieval history? Read the proceedings of the latest Dorestad conference online FREE here, including my chapter about gold and silver in Frisia after Dorestad's disappearance in the 850s. For a .pdf of my chapter, DM/email me. #medievalsky
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Dorestad and Everything After @ Sidestone Press

Dorestad was the largest town of the Low Countries in the Carolingian era. As an inland port on the edge of the Frankish Empire, it functioned as an international hub, connecting the North Sea World w...

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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 11d

On advance access: "Economic Change, Silver, and the Plague of 664-687 in England"

by @rorynaismith.bsky.social (University of Cambridge)

#OpenAccess

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Economic Change, Silver, and the Plague of 664–687 in England*

Abstract. Bede and other authors describe a destructive wave of plague sweeping across Britain and Ireland in the period 664–87. In the decades around and

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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · 11d

Looks good, but says forbidden when I click the link ...

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 23d

Oh wow, major work of interest to #MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges #EnvironmentalHistory. A new special issue devoted to "Environmental Challenges in Premodern Eurasian and Mediterranean Narratives": journals.uio.no/JAIS/article.... Kudos to the editors for bringing this work so quickly into print!

The titlepage for a special issue of the Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies. The title of the collection is "Environmental Challenges in Premodern Eurasian and Medi-terranean Narratives."
Cover image: Illuminated Manuscript, Book of kings (Shāhnāma), Rustam kills a dragon (the third feat), Walters Art Museum Ms. W.602, fol. 76b,by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts.

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Elizabeth Trueman @etrooms.bsky.social · 23d

BBC News - Solid silver Saxon cross found in Leeds field goes on show - BBC News
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Solid silver Saxon cross found in Leeds field goes on show

The gilded cross can be seen at Leeds City Museum following its discovery in the city last year.

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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · 26d

Very exciting news for those interested in early medieval England: a hugely important new volume on crops and food supply (by Helena Hamerow, Mark McKerracher & the FeedSax team) is now available Open Access academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...

Feeding Medieval England: A Long ‘Agricultural Revolution’, 700–1300

Abstract. As in the rest of Europe, the population of medieval England grew steeply, especially between the tenth and thirteenth centuries. This volume inv

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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 26d

"IT IS AGREED AND MOST EVIDENT THAT ALL MASTERS ARE EVIL..."

So begins the speech of the slave character Pantomalus in the Querolus, the only extant late antique comedy.

It will feature in a slavery sourcebook that we are working on.

Read more in our newest blog post: tinyurl.com/zrmc4a6s

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 28d

For a limited time only - a digital offprint of our interdisciplinary article rewriting the early history of Bruges and the coast of Flanders, and proposing it and Boulogne as mints of Charlemagne.
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A new mint for Charlemagne (768-†814) ? An investigation into the earliest history of Bruges

Suggestions for you

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School of Archaeology @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social · 28d

New 📖 & stocking filler 🎁 from the FeedSax project team - Feeding Medieval England: A Long ‘Agricultural Revolution’, 700–1300

Congratulations to the FeedSax team!

You can get it in print from Nov 21st.

@archanchistleic.bsky.social academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...

Feeding Medieval England: A Long ‘Agricultural Revolution’, 700–1300

Abstract. As in the rest of Europe, the population of medieval England grew steeply, especially between the tenth and thirteenth centuries. This volume inv

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 29d

The first find of Viking age dirhams on the Danish island of Falster - in 🇩🇰
www.tv2east.dk/guldborgsund...

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Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social · Oct 23

Chris Wickham's 'Framing the early Middle Ages, Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800' (2005) is widely seen as a milestone in early medieval studies.

New research published by Robert Portass, Peter Sarris and Caroline Goodson (@cjg70.bsky.social) now offers a critical response to Wickham’s ideas ⬇️

Vol. 43 Núm. 2 (2025): El modo de producción campesino: un replanteamiento de la sociedad rural de la Europa altomedieval | Studia Historica. Historia Medieval

Con la colaboración de la Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología | Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades.

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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · Oct 21

Now available Open Access! academic.oup.com/past/advance...

Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · Oct 16

Many congratulations! I've enjoyed reading it tremendously, and it will be making its way onto at least a couple of reading lists.

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · Oct 16

Hurrah! My new book, Europe in the Eleventh Century: Beyond Revolution and Reform is officially published today by Oxford University Press. 1/5 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · Oct 15

Thomas Keyes demonstrating how manuscripts like the Book of Kells and Lindisfarne Gospels were made. Videos from a Lottery funded project based at the Tarbat Discovery Centre. Thanks to @victoriawhitworth.bsky.social for the link www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSJd...

Stories on Skins: Calligraphy

YouTube video by Tarbat Discovery Centre

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