"I didn't expect to see myself, to see people like me, in the artefacts of early medieval England" - Fatima on the Offa dinar

Just presented @TOEBI_OE to talk about 4 YT videos concerning cultural connections between east and west :)! Thank you TOEBI for having me and giving me a grant so I was able to be there physically :D If you're interested, here is the link to the videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

"Cats have been messing shit up since the dawn of time" is my favorite brand of archeology

Map of the world with Jerusalem in the centre, and some of its inhabitants depicted on the outer edge. BL Add MS 28681; 'The Map Psalter'; 1262-1300 CE; England; f.9r Medieval Manuscripts

اخيراً ! 🥳 Our first public model for #Arabic handwriting is here Working with historical Arabic manuscripts? Go give it at try transkribus.org/model/arabic-k…

Found my name in the British Museum🙈 The new Silk Road exhibition highlights connections between early medieval England and the Silk Road/East. One section, inspired by our video project, includes a translation of the Offa coin from our videos. Highly recommend checking it out!

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Can you teach a machine to read Old English manuscripts? Yes, you can! Here is a recording of our latest ISSEME Virtual Seminar on the project Ansund, which combines HTR and Old English! youtube.com/watch?v=FqoYcT…

My first keynote at VESAL, Tishik University! Spoke on "The Beowulf Manuscript Meets the East", exploring how The Wonders of the East & The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle viewed the ‘foreign other.’ Of course I had to give a special shout out to both Hadrian and Theodore!

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If you fancy some premodern diplomacy, medieval Christian-Muslim relations or just the dulcet tones of my voice, I’m delighted to say that my interview with ⁦Centre for Geopolitics⁩ on early medieval IR is now available on YouTube. #medieval youtu.be/cQ5lkhD2bzg

Ahh let the Arab a** kissing begin 🤦

Some Old English support for #WOinActie

The idea was simple: Can we put a small-diameter endoscopic camera into the gap that occurs naturally between the book's spine and its covering, once a book is opened. The answer: YES! Enjoy this video: youtube.com/watch?v=39FMuU…

Hwæt! If you're still around the last day of Leeds (July 10), do come and join the session where I'm giving a paper about Ælfric's depiction of 'the east' in his Lives of Saints :) #imc

Thijs Porck stopped by our stand at #IMC2025 to see his new collection "Cultural Connections between the Continent and Early Medieval England", co-edited with Kees Dekker and László Sándor Chardonnens. Save 50% wth code BB094: buff.ly/oj7ejhk Thijs Porck #Medieval

Delighted to have presented at #IMC2025 in Leeds! My paper looked at how Ælfric’s Lives of Saints portrays ‘the East’ (the modern Middle East) as both a heathen land of conflict and a source of wisdom and miracles. Thanks to the organisers and all who came! #OldEnglish