Annemarieke Willemsen
@amwillemsen.bsky.social
A medieval art historian & archaeologist @ Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Leiden, Dr, FSA, loves Rome & Roma, birds & books, proprietor of the Rose & Parrot 📚 🦤
"History is an illusion caused by the passing of time" (Douglas AdAms)
"History is an illusion caused by the passing of time" (Douglas AdAms)
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obsessed with the Roseisle pictish silly goose
November 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
obsessed with the Roseisle pictish silly goose
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Josy Luginbühl's new publication Grabfunde als Spiegel der Bildung uses artefacts found in burial contexts to explore female literacy in the Roman western provinces. 🏺
Her book is now available and free to read here: doi.org/10.30861/978...
Her book is now available and free to read here: doi.org/10.30861/978...
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Josy Luginbühl's new publication Grabfunde als Spiegel der Bildung uses artefacts found in burial contexts to explore female literacy in the Roman western provinces. 🏺
Her book is now available and free to read here: doi.org/10.30861/978...
Her book is now available and free to read here: doi.org/10.30861/978...
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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"You better be careful with your urine bottle in the library, mate, my macbook is not insured against water damages of all sorts".
#Academicchatter of the past.
#Academicchatter of the past.
August 13, 2025 at 6:44 AM
"You better be careful with your urine bottle in the library, mate, my macbook is not insured against water damages of all sorts".
#Academicchatter of the past.
#Academicchatter of the past.
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"Let me get this straight. Your lab has bred a dragon?"
"A wyvern, director. It has two legs, two wings, whereas a-"
"Which flies, breathes fire, and is intelligent?"
"About as intelligent as a border collie."
"So, intelligent. Why?"
"You asked us to invent measures to take down small drones."
"A wyvern, director. It has two legs, two wings, whereas a-"
"Which flies, breathes fire, and is intelligent?"
"About as intelligent as a border collie."
"So, intelligent. Why?"
"You asked us to invent measures to take down small drones."
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"Let me get this straight. Your lab has bred a dragon?"
"A wyvern, director. It has two legs, two wings, whereas a-"
"Which flies, breathes fire, and is intelligent?"
"About as intelligent as a border collie."
"So, intelligent. Why?"
"You asked us to invent measures to take down small drones."
"A wyvern, director. It has two legs, two wings, whereas a-"
"Which flies, breathes fire, and is intelligent?"
"About as intelligent as a border collie."
"So, intelligent. Why?"
"You asked us to invent measures to take down small drones."
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Either way we are sad.
November 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Either way we are sad.
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Leiden this Thursday/Friday www.materialculture.nl/en/events/re...
Rethinking the Restitutionary Moment: What Next?
Final Conference | November 27-28, 2025 | Grote Zaal, Wereldmuseum LeidenThe multi-year research project Pressing Matter: Ownership, Value and the Question of Colonial Heritage in Museums draws to a c...
www.materialculture.nl
November 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Leiden this Thursday/Friday www.materialculture.nl/en/events/re...
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Bookmarks of yesteryear. A leaf between the leaves of this manuscript @magdalenoxford.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Bookmarks of yesteryear. A leaf between the leaves of this manuscript @magdalenoxford.bsky.social
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Now for some sports news...
(this week's cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages)
(this week's cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages)
November 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Now for some sports news...
(this week's cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages)
(this week's cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages)
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For the first time this winter, watch live pup-dates from a solar powered seal-cam inside England’s largest grey seal colony at Blakeney Point, Norfolk Coast. Watch live and find out more at buff.ly/xQkMSUP
Thanks to @seamammalresearch for latest data.
📷 Hanne Siebers, Richard Steer
Thanks to @seamammalresearch for latest data.
📷 Hanne Siebers, Richard Steer
November 20, 2025 at 7:00 AM
For the first time this winter, watch live pup-dates from a solar powered seal-cam inside England’s largest grey seal colony at Blakeney Point, Norfolk Coast. Watch live and find out more at buff.ly/xQkMSUP
Thanks to @seamammalresearch for latest data.
📷 Hanne Siebers, Richard Steer
Thanks to @seamammalresearch for latest data.
📷 Hanne Siebers, Richard Steer
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This unassuming #Roman ceramic floor tile from ancient Londinium (London) sports a sketch of a pharos, a lighthouse. It's very much like the two lighthouses that flanked ancient Dover harbor, where the Roman fleet was based. Those, in turn, were based on the pharos of Alexandria. 🏺 1/
📸 me
📸 me
October 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This unassuming #Roman ceramic floor tile from ancient Londinium (London) sports a sketch of a pharos, a lighthouse. It's very much like the two lighthouses that flanked ancient Dover harbor, where the Roman fleet was based. Those, in turn, were based on the pharos of Alexandria. 🏺 1/
📸 me
📸 me
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Monday mood
Baldwin of Ford (d. 1190) focused on writing his text On the sacrament of the altar (De sacramento altaris)
CCCC MS 200, f. 1r (c. 1184-1190s) - fully digitised and online:
tinyurl.com/4s9v9j9t
Baldwin of Ford (d. 1190) focused on writing his text On the sacrament of the altar (De sacramento altaris)
CCCC MS 200, f. 1r (c. 1184-1190s) - fully digitised and online:
tinyurl.com/4s9v9j9t
November 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Monday mood
Baldwin of Ford (d. 1190) focused on writing his text On the sacrament of the altar (De sacramento altaris)
CCCC MS 200, f. 1r (c. 1184-1190s) - fully digitised and online:
tinyurl.com/4s9v9j9t
Baldwin of Ford (d. 1190) focused on writing his text On the sacrament of the altar (De sacramento altaris)
CCCC MS 200, f. 1r (c. 1184-1190s) - fully digitised and online:
tinyurl.com/4s9v9j9t
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Lovely scene from the Tacuinum sanitatis from the 1440s showing a common household, they're making cheese and a poor person (no shoes, holes in hose) is tasting it.
Lovely big but angry looking dog.
Oh look, shock horror... COLOURFUL CLOTHES.
Take note Hollywood.
Lovely big but angry looking dog.
Oh look, shock horror... COLOURFUL CLOTHES.
Take note Hollywood.
November 24, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Lovely scene from the Tacuinum sanitatis from the 1440s showing a common household, they're making cheese and a poor person (no shoes, holes in hose) is tasting it.
Lovely big but angry looking dog.
Oh look, shock horror... COLOURFUL CLOTHES.
Take note Hollywood.
Lovely big but angry looking dog.
Oh look, shock horror... COLOURFUL CLOTHES.
Take note Hollywood.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Flying into Thanksgiving week like… ☀️🪶🌵
November 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Flying into Thanksgiving week like… ☀️🪶🌵
New favourite humanities quote 🎵📚
Nice to see an article about musicology in the Graun. Struck by: “If a doctor makes a mistake it’s not such a big deal. But as a musicologist, if I make an error it will sit in books in libraries for hundreds of years.”
‘An inner duty’: the 35-year quest to bring Bach’s lost organ works to light
Musicologist Peter Wollny chanced upon the manuscripts in 1992 and authenticating them took half of his lifetime
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
New favourite humanities quote 🎵📚
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Freezing a hummingbird’s wings at 1/4000 of a second. (Anna’s hummingbird feeding on Creosote blossom)
November 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Freezing a hummingbird’s wings at 1/4000 of a second. (Anna’s hummingbird feeding on Creosote blossom)
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November 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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I wonder what new species of hyper-aggressive sparrows that subsist entirely on macaron crumbs and duty free liquor are currently rapidly evolving in Charles de Gaulle airport terminals
November 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I wonder what new species of hyper-aggressive sparrows that subsist entirely on macaron crumbs and duty free liquor are currently rapidly evolving in Charles de Gaulle airport terminals
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Voor iedereen die morgen meeschrijft met het Groot Dictee: studiemateriaal.
November 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Voor iedereen die morgen meeschrijft met het Groot Dictee: studiemateriaal.
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The Pleiades, a.k.a. The Seven Sisters or M45. Pleiades is known for its bright, blue stars and the surrounding reflection nebulae. Recent work has shown that it is a part of a much larger stellar complex that spans over 2,000 light years.
Exposure 6 hours, 11/19/25
#astronomy #astrophotography
Exposure 6 hours, 11/19/25
#astronomy #astrophotography
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The Pleiades, a.k.a. The Seven Sisters or M45. Pleiades is known for its bright, blue stars and the surrounding reflection nebulae. Recent work has shown that it is a part of a much larger stellar complex that spans over 2,000 light years.
Exposure 6 hours, 11/19/25
#astronomy #astrophotography
Exposure 6 hours, 11/19/25
#astronomy #astrophotography
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Review copy just landed!
"Becoming Arab: The Formation of Arab Identity in the Medieval Middle East"
by Yossef Rapoport
@princetonupress.bsky.social
"Becoming Arab: The Formation of Arab Identity in the Medieval Middle East"
by Yossef Rapoport
@princetonupress.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Review copy just landed!
"Becoming Arab: The Formation of Arab Identity in the Medieval Middle East"
by Yossef Rapoport
@princetonupress.bsky.social
"Becoming Arab: The Formation of Arab Identity in the Medieval Middle East"
by Yossef Rapoport
@princetonupress.bsky.social
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it is estimated that by the end up to 80% of the contents of the great library of alexandria consisted of discourse between the latin- and greek-speaking halves of the empire over whose food was worse
November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
it is estimated that by the end up to 80% of the contents of the great library of alexandria consisted of discourse between the latin- and greek-speaking halves of the empire over whose food was worse
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Why hadn't I read this glorious paper earlier?!
'Merelsweinn the Sheriff, Tovi the Proud, the Godwinesons... men who served as royal councillors, oversaw the executions of criminals, bullied peasants, & fought & died at Hastings – hard, tough, serious individuals, dressed like peacocks...'
'Merelsweinn the Sheriff, Tovi the Proud, the Godwinesons... men who served as royal councillors, oversaw the executions of criminals, bullied peasants, & fought & died at Hastings – hard, tough, serious individuals, dressed like peacocks...'
November 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Why hadn't I read this glorious paper earlier?!
'Merelsweinn the Sheriff, Tovi the Proud, the Godwinesons... men who served as royal councillors, oversaw the executions of criminals, bullied peasants, & fought & died at Hastings – hard, tough, serious individuals, dressed like peacocks...'
'Merelsweinn the Sheriff, Tovi the Proud, the Godwinesons... men who served as royal councillors, oversaw the executions of criminals, bullied peasants, & fought & died at Hastings – hard, tough, serious individuals, dressed like peacocks...'