Beth Digeser
@bddigeser.bsky.social
Roman historian, cook, lover of dogs.
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No cover image yet, but look what's coming from CUP 🤓
Veiling in the Late Antique World | Cambridge University Press & Assessment share.google/LTK0QdIDGuWF...
Veiling in the Late Antique World | Cambridge University Press & Assessment share.google/LTK0QdIDGuWF...
August 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
No cover image yet, but look what's coming from CUP 🤓
Veiling in the Late Antique World | Cambridge University Press & Assessment share.google/LTK0QdIDGuWF...
Veiling in the Late Antique World | Cambridge University Press & Assessment share.google/LTK0QdIDGuWF...
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An idea:
August 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
An idea:
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"often intriguing, at times moving"
Guy Stroumsa reviews Mike Chin's LIFE: THE NATURAL HISTORY OF AN EARLY CHRISTIAN UNIVERSE
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Guy Stroumsa reviews Mike Chin's LIFE: THE NATURAL HISTORY OF AN EARLY CHRISTIAN UNIVERSE
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Life: The Natural History of an Early Christian Universe. Catherine Michael Chin
This is an unusual book on the world of the Church Fathers, often intriguing, at times moving. The author’s poetic writing is enhanced by a number of image
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August 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
"often intriguing, at times moving"
Guy Stroumsa reviews Mike Chin's LIFE: THE NATURAL HISTORY OF AN EARLY CHRISTIAN UNIVERSE
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Guy Stroumsa reviews Mike Chin's LIFE: THE NATURAL HISTORY OF AN EARLY CHRISTIAN UNIVERSE
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BlueSky humanities people: For those who’ve written popular-facing trade books about history (esp ancient stuff), would any of you be willing to chat w me about things like agents & presses? I’m working on an idea w a friend but neither of us have done this before.
August 16, 2025 at 4:19 AM
BlueSky humanities people: For those who’ve written popular-facing trade books about history (esp ancient stuff), would any of you be willing to chat w me about things like agents & presses? I’m working on an idea w a friend but neither of us have done this before.
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cliff ain't pulling punches!
This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.
August 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
cliff ain't pulling punches!
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We stopped expanding the House in the 1920s, decided the Supreme Court should freeze in the 1930s, added the last states in the 1950s, amended the Constitution only once in the last fifty years.
The USA and its government continued to grow, but almost all that growth came in the executive branch.
The USA and its government continued to grow, but almost all that growth came in the executive branch.
i really think the only reason we haven't created new states — which was a common political tactic in the 19th century, see nevada and the dakotas — is that 50 is a round number
August 11, 2025 at 10:21 PM
We stopped expanding the House in the 1920s, decided the Supreme Court should freeze in the 1930s, added the last states in the 1950s, amended the Constitution only once in the last fifty years.
The USA and its government continued to grow, but almost all that growth came in the executive branch.
The USA and its government continued to grow, but almost all that growth came in the executive branch.
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Space... The Final Frontier... and coincidentaly the main subject of my essay that just came out in the Studies in Late Antiquity. online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/9/3
August 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Space... The Final Frontier... and coincidentaly the main subject of my essay that just came out in the Studies in Late Antiquity. online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/9/3
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If you're passionate about ancient history, Roman archaeology, and the legacy of Emperor Hadrian, I invite you to subscribe to my blog, Following Hadrian. Join me as I follow Hadrian’s footsteps across the Roman Empire. #RomanHistory
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This country is being run like a syndicate. Everyone needs to pay protection money or else.
August 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This country is being run like a syndicate. Everyone needs to pay protection money or else.
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Annual Future Loss in the county where I live: $59M and 254 jobs.
Current Loss: $3.6M and 15 jobs
Current Loss: $3.6M and 15 jobs
August 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Annual Future Loss in the county where I live: $59M and 254 jobs.
Current Loss: $3.6M and 15 jobs
Current Loss: $3.6M and 15 jobs
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A pleasant surprise to wake up and find myself cited in @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/comment/regi... @unibirmingham.bsky.social
Depicting Jesus as a woman is not blasphemy
Fresh from playing Elphaba in the cinematic adaptation of Wicked, Cynthia Erivo has been cast as Jesus in an upcoming production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar, due to be performed at
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August 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
A pleasant surprise to wake up and find myself cited in @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/comment/regi... @unibirmingham.bsky.social
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Oh, you know, just the New Yorker quoting Sarah :) @sarahebond.bsky.social
Greek and Roman statues were often painted, but assumptions about race and aesthetics have suppressed this truth.
The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture
Greek and Roman statues were often painted, but assumptions about race and aesthetics have suppressed this truth. Now scholars are making a color correction.
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August 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Oh, you know, just the New Yorker quoting Sarah :) @sarahebond.bsky.social
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I was asked by my editor for Basic Books if I knew anyone in the UK in media or folks who blog regularly. Do any of you do that? #history #publichistory
July 31, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I was asked by my editor for Basic Books if I knew anyone in the UK in media or folks who blog regularly. Do any of you do that? #history #publichistory
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I remember attending a lecture where a leader of the field--actually, no, *the* leader of the field---was set to speak to about 300 people. The person tasked with introducing her did not prepare an introduction.
August 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I remember attending a lecture where a leader of the field--actually, no, *the* leader of the field---was set to speak to about 300 people. The person tasked with introducing her did not prepare an introduction.
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The Medieval Foremothers Society invites proposals for two hybrid sessions honoring Sharon Kinoshita (UC Santa Cruz) at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI in May 2026. Full CFP below!👇✨
July 31, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The Medieval Foremothers Society invites proposals for two hybrid sessions honoring Sharon Kinoshita (UC Santa Cruz) at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI in May 2026. Full CFP below!👇✨
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Dems should vow to impeach Bove and any nominee who did not testify truthfully under oath
July 30, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Dems should vow to impeach Bove and any nominee who did not testify truthfully under oath
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Over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely accessible online at the end of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project.
👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg
👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg
Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible
Over the course of the last three years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval medical recipes in historic library collections across the ...
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July 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely accessible online at the end of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project.
👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg
👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg
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"In Things Unseen, Ellen Muehlberger exposes readers to a late ancient hall of mirrors: a series of illusory exteriors that ultimately reveal how interior truth is manufactured out of exterior falsehood." - me!
(get this book!)
(get this book!)
It's time to tell you to pre-order this! $34.95 for a handy lil' paperback!
www.ucpress.edu/books/things...
www.ucpress.edu/books/things...
Things Unseen by Ellen Muehlberger - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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July 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"In Things Unseen, Ellen Muehlberger exposes readers to a late ancient hall of mirrors: a series of illusory exteriors that ultimately reveal how interior truth is manufactured out of exterior falsehood." - me!
(get this book!)
(get this book!)
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It's time to tell you to pre-order this! $34.95 for a handy lil' paperback!
www.ucpress.edu/books/things...
www.ucpress.edu/books/things...
Things Unseen by Ellen Muehlberger - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
www.ucpress.edu
July 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
It's time to tell you to pre-order this! $34.95 for a handy lil' paperback!
www.ucpress.edu/books/things...
www.ucpress.edu/books/things...
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Dear universities,
I am begging you to stop requiring letters of recommendation for master's programmes. You and I both know you don't read them, so stop asking for them.
Instead, have applicants list a name and get in touch if it's a borderline case.
Signed,
Everyone.
I am begging you to stop requiring letters of recommendation for master's programmes. You and I both know you don't read them, so stop asking for them.
Instead, have applicants list a name and get in touch if it's a borderline case.
Signed,
Everyone.
July 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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