Excited for the launch of Radha's brilliant new book on Music in Colonial Punjab. Come and celebrate its release with everyone Durham History on 12th October at 5pm.

🎉 Very excited to celebrate the release of Radha's new book today at 5pm with Durham History. Please come along if you're free! Details in the poster below. 🎉

Massive congratulations to Radha at Durham History for the successful publication of her book: Music in Colonial Punjab: Courtesans, Bards, and Connoisseurs 1800-1947 with Oxford Academic

Now out from Amsterdam Univ Press! Rome and Byzantium in the Visigothic Kingdom: Beyond Imitatio Imperii. Edited by @historiantillo, Molly Lester, and our Jamie Wood, this volume explores Visigothic entanglement with Roman and Byzantine legacies. Order here: aup.nl/en/book/978946…

Happy St. Martin's Day to all those celebrating!

I love how the writing of this paper on Gregory of Tours and Ambrose of Milan's use of emotion in religious space to promote certainty is reminding me just how much I bloody love writing about Gregory! Paper is for Society for the History of Emotions's upcoming conference on Unsettling Certainties.

Our 4th Biennial Conference on Unsettling Certainties is about to start! 🎉🎉🎉 You can find copies of our 4 day programme and abstract booklet on our website. Don't forget to check out our exciting Unsettling Certainties exhibition while you're there! societyhistoryemotions.com/conference-pro…

Does anyone have any recommendations for historical literature on volcanoes and volcanic eruptions between the 4th - 6th Centuries? 🌋

This looks interesting. theguardian.com/science/2024/f…

For anyone working on the History of Emotions, Philippa Nicole Barr's brand new book is available to download through Open Access for the next two weeks! cambridge.org/core/elements/…

Looking for recommendations! Apart from Gauthier and Picard's Topographie Chretienne, does any one know of a book/database that catalogues every church built in Gaul during the sixth century? I'm specifically trying to identify churches built between 536 and 544 CE.

Leeds IMC paper is timed and ready. I've also finished carving this inscription from the 5-6thC Basilica of St. Martin at Tours. I don't know whether to add a decorative cross, dove, olive branch, or just leave plain.

Happy Saint Martin of Tours feast day to everyone celebrating. Photo author's own 11/11/2018.

Listening to the fabulous speakers at the Society for the History of Emotions Emotions of the Future Conference, I can't help but be struck by just how much fear and hope there is. They've appeared in many different contexts and periods, but they are the primary emotions. It says a lot.

Friends and colleagues who study late antiquity, besides Peter Brown and Danuta Shanzer is there anyone else that has written on the use of scents and smells in the churches of Gaul and Italy 400-600?

Happy Birthday to Bishop Gregory of Tours who was born on this day in 538. 🎉 Not many can say their work is still making an impact 1,486 years later.