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Mateusz Fafinski

@calthalas.bsky.social

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Late antiquity, early Middle Ages, manuscripts, cities and monasticism. A bit of digital humanities and maps as well. Assistant Professor at the University of Erfurt

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · Nov 9

Medieval psalters be like

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 5h

Alte Geschichte, ancient history, late antiquity

Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 6h

Historism, Annales School, Cultural History

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 5h

Alte Geschichte, ancient history, late antiquity

Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 6h

Historism, Annales School, Cultural History

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 22h

Dark Ages, barbarians, decline and fall, etc. etc.

Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 23h

Probably my favourite long late antiquity piece of art. The so-called "palimpsest" fresco in Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome shows consecutive layers of paintings from the sixth century (Mary as empress of heaven) all the way to the seventh and early eight century. The level of detail is just amazing.

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · Aug 28

This is a tale of two castles

One of those buildings is fully original, an almost model example of its style; the other one is fake, built on the ruins of a medieval castle with a fully modern interior. 1/

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 5d

Peer-reviewing an article: "Why is this an article, and not a book?"

Peer-reviewing a book: "And why is this a book, and not an article?"

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Damián Fernández @historiantillo.bsky.social · 6d

I moved all my stuff from Academia_dot_edu to HCommons.

Schwarzenegger in the woods with animals.

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 6d

Potsdam!

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 6d

What? Me too! This is crazy!

Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 7d

is not! We are where the servants were but it’s still a lot of fun! Day two of Nature, Labour and Economy is about to begin!

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 7d

Is your conference taking place in a palace? Because ours

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 8d

The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies is hiring three postdoctoral researchers.

We investigate the causes and mechanisms that contribute to the persistence of strong asymmetrical dependencies across historical and contemporary contexts.

Pre-modern perspectives are very welcome!

3 Postdoctoral Positions (100%, TV-L E-13, for 3 years)

full-time, Temporary, EG 13, Reference number: 2025/152

www.uni-bonn.de

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 8d

We are in Potsdam to talk about nature, labour and economy in the second half of the first millennium!

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 8d

Tomorrow my first slide is this

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 8d

We are in Potsdam to talk about nature, labour and economy in the second half of the first millennium!

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Rutger K. 🟥 @anotheraspirin.bsky.social · 9d

I, Rowboat: Mechanical Propulsion and Individual Agency in the Viking Era North Atlantic

#FakePaperTitles

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 9d

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Liam @rampantpiracy.bsky.social · 10d

Sturm *UND* drang? In dieser Wirtschaft??

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 10d

This is actually kohlrabi in white sauce!

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 10d

German cuisine is actually quite tasty, it’s just usually badly prepared

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 11d

Germany. On a plate

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 11d

You know how you're supposed to put your own mask on before helping others on an airplane? This is why I make my coffee first in the morning.

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Jamey Walters @jedwardwalters.bsky.social · 13d

Sharing this on behalf of George Kiraz: There will be an introductory Syriac course at Cambridge in the winter term (January 2026). Please share with anyone who might be interested!

Poster advertisement for a course at Cambridge called "Explore Syriac."

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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 16d

I made an early Christian studies group---come join!

hcommons.org/groups/early...

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 14d

Expert here: We were not, in fact, ever puzzled. It has been and always will be a writing tablet. www.indy100.com/news/ancient...

'Laptop' spotted in Ancient Greek statue leaving experts puzzled

An ancient Greek statue of a woman seemingly using a laptop has sparked time travel theories online. "Grave Naiskos of an Enthroned Woman with an Attendant" is a 37-inch marble statue created around 1...

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