If you are interested in #Medieval #peasants #landscape then look no further for your next favourite book

Roman-period dogs with harnesses rather than collars. Mosaics from Neapolis (Israel Museum) and Bodrum (Myndos gate, Bodrum).

Haskins 2021! Registration and Program here: thehaskinssociety.wildapricot.org/event-4469406 #medieval The Haskins Society

Medieval HISTORIANS (who are instructors of record): I am gathering data on the stop/start dates of classes on medieval history. Please consider taking. Should take no more than 2 minutes: Thanks! surveymonkey.com/r/7DZ8TGD

For those of you who like to do something cerebral of an evening: This year's Joan Pye Lecture is on Thursday, 4th November. Dr Jane Webster of Newcastle University will discuss slavery in #Roman Britain. It promises to be an interesting and thought-provoking evening #Archaeology

The image of hordes of barbarians destroying the Roman Empire is a fundamentally racist trope, Mateusz Fafinski writes. buff.ly/3pXvU3V

Can't believe our story on Iona in the Viking Age made the cover Current Archaeology! Such an honour to work with some of the folk who taught me: Prof Kate Forsyth *Prof* Morantango, Ewan Campbell UofG Archaeology and Thomas Owen Clancy UofGCelticGaelic. Online too The Past #HESsupported

NOV. 11: Please join us for the 2021 AAEF-Paul Kardoush Annual Memorial Lecture: "Damascus: A History in Words," Presented by Professor Dana Sajdi Dana Sajdi! Location: goo.gl/maps/bxDLwN7XV… Reception 6:00pm / Lecture 6:30pm This event is free and open to public!

Spent the morning thinking about a tiny Roman-period lapdog at a Roman villa in Northamptonshire buried in its own cist (circled in red) next to a woman in another cist. #archaeology #romanbritain

⛏️Join us Thurs 18 Nov for our latest #CardiffArchaeology Research Seminar. Analysing the Early Medieval Ceramic Assemblage from Tintagel: Connecting Britain & Aegean with Dr Maria Duggan Dr Maria Duggan + Dr Evangelia Kiriatzi + Dr Noemi Muller The British School at Athens 👉 ow.ly/skbi50GLm8J

Today's job: Thinking about the tiny Chihuahua-sized adult dog killed within a generation of the Roman conquest of Britain and placed in a pit with a smashed pot and two cremated lambs. In Carshalton (Published in A.B. Powell, Queen Mary's Hospital Carshalton (2017)).

Wonderful paper at the The Haskins Society @sliptonmedieval just now that included, among other things, the way preachers taught their listeners how to look at and think about art and to avoid image-based error. #medievaltwitter

David Austin’s paper The Haskins Society on the Arts and Humanities Research Council Sacred Landscapes of Medieval Monasteries, on the complexity and variability of monastic interactions w/ places and their people and focused on Strata Florida. The Cistercian Church there centered on an earlier holy well!

Jakub Kabala’s talk The Haskins Society uncovers the mental geographies carried around in the heads of ninth-century writers like Nithard and explores the relationship between territoriality, the exercise of power over peoples, and control over resources.

Lauren Hosek and Austin Mason (@[email protected]) presented ideas The Haskins Society about the directional orientation of burials in England and Bohemia and showed visualization illustrating the relationship between topography, life-histories uncovered through bio-archaeology, and burial orientation.

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Came across this lovely acknowledgement in G. Speak "An Early RB Villa," Oxoniensia 77 (2012): “My final thanks should be to my dog, Oliver, who prompted the evening walk in August 2001 which led to the discovery of the site.” #romanbritain

A child burial, uncovered last year, which included among its many grave goods a lapdog with a copper-alloy, belled collar inrap.fr/une-sepulture-…

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