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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran

@sasanianshah.bsky.social

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Brown Viking. Historian, late antique Central & W. Asia, Sasanians, Byzantines, Scandinavia, Rus’. BD fan, Globe Trotter, Kensington Communist, flâneur, in love w London, Tehran, Athens, & Vienna. Have laptop, will write.

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 11h

It really is. Three top notch presentations so far.

Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 11h

That is so amazingly bad.

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 12h

Huh. Ich glaub’ i’ bleib bei chelokabab, ha?

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 13h

Participating in this very interesting workshop, sadly remotely, and looking forward to some inspiring scholarship.

The Political Economy of Capital
in the Pre-Modern World

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 21h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 20h

Ummm, ich auch nicht. Ich nehme an, die sind kartoffeln mit senf, oder? Noch etwas?

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 21h

A whole lot of modern historiography of the 6th century Mediterranean is based on impact of the Justinianic Plague. But I am ready to hear other takes, and in my end of the world (the Sasanian empire) it makes sense too (although it is not my concern really & makes no difference to my work).

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 21h

If I may: as a historian working on that period (but really any period), I’d never say I know anything for certain. Everything that I think I know is open to revision as far as I’m concerned. I am myself working on refuting something that well, all of previous scholarship says we are certain abt!

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 21h

A couple of decades ago, the US military was going around the world, touting its guns, exporting American Democracy™️ whether folks wanted it or not. Now, they are going around the US destroying the same democracy.

Was it all worth it, Messers. Bush, Chaney, Rumsfeld, Powell?

Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 21h

As I said, I don’t know anything about this subject. I just know the original work on the Justinianic plague.

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 22h

I feel like I’m going to get into serious trouble here, butting into something I have no interest or expertise in. But just to point out that the original article this is based on came out a good 5 years before Covid. I really don’t think Covid denial is their point.

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 1d

Ned knowing stuff… doubtful… :)

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 1d

Grazie padre!

Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 1d

Does anyone have a good suggestion for a book on the history of Carolingian & post Carolingian Italy? Something that gets deep into affairs of Spoleto & Tusculum & Teofilati family & such?

@drdragases.bsky.social ?

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 1d

Depends on the Pope… I think John XII would not have been shying away from it!

Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 1d

As soon as I think I’ve cleaned all my Unread Messages…. The Agade list/Jack Sasson pull me back in!

a man in a red sweater and tie says just when i thought i was out they pull me back in

ALT: a man in a red sweater and tie says just when i thought i was out they pull me back in

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 2d

I am hopefully seeing him in two days.

Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 2d

I am sure they can just fire it your way…

Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 2d

Lying down here, sick and coughing, looking at the weather & thinking of all the other places I could reasonably be… why did I choose this?!

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 2d

I had never realised how much Yoruba sounds like Japanese…

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

“I am living with the deep pain of watching someone I once loved become the face of evil.”

From July 17th: m.facebook.com/share/p/16yL...

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t vote for the same ones again and again. It’s incomprehensible how enduring your Congress people are. They practically retire from an elected office! Vote for new ones!

Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 2d

It occurred to me that MAGA isn’t actually a nostalgia for Greatness, rather a longing for American Exceptionalism. They are mad that the rest of the world has good movies & good music & technology too. They want it to be like the 50’s: cool Americans vs. the miserable rest!

They hate our freedoms!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

i think anyone taught by ilan wurman ought to ask the university of minnesota law school for their money back

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 3d

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

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