Alex Drace‐Francis

Alex Drace-Francis

@alexdrace.bsky.social

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Cultural historian, modern Europe @uvahumanities.bsky.social. Books: The Making of Mămăligă (CEU Press); Networks, Narratives and Nations (Amsterdam UP). Amateur gardener.
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Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social · Dec 2

OK here it is! Bernhard Stolz, A Bohemian in Bucharest: Reports from a world in transition. With unpublished letters of Dora Stolz and her sisters (1840-1845).
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Book cover: Bernhard Stolz, Un boem la Bucureşti. Reportaje dintr-o lume în tranziţie. Cu scrisori inedite de la Dora Stolz şi surorile ei (1840-1845). Traduse şi editate de Alex Drace-Francis. Bucureşti: Editura Humanitas, 2025.

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Françoïs Guesnet @guesnet.bsky.social · 1d

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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 1d

Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin

La date du 16 juin avait été dans un premier temps pressentie pour son entrée au Panthéon, mais la cérémonie a dû être décalée de quelques jours en raison du G7 à Evian-les-Bains.

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Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social · 1d

Not at all, I am totally grateful for all references, thankyou!

Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, looks like a great reference which I did not know! Am familiar with the phenomenon from Slavic, curious about the symmetrical reversal above tho'

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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 2d

Look what arrived today, or at least the ebook did. This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women’s writing globally,focusing on the thousand-year period between 500-1500. Entries on about 250 women writers plus longer thematic essays. You’re welcome.

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 4d

"A truly sensational find" made by my friend and colleague Adrian C. Pirtea 👀👇
#Syriac
#ChristianArabic
#ChristianEast

medieval worlds • no. 23 • 2025

A truly sensational find is presented in volume 23 of Medieval Worlds: a newly discovered Christian world chronicle in Arabic, which Adrian C. Pirtea examines in a preliminary case study. We furthermo...

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Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social · 5d

I always loved the market in Athens - hope it's still going

Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social · 5d

This is happening in Bucharest too - long tradition of good barbecued or roast meat being wiped out

Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social · 6d

How did that happen? #languages

Table showing meanings of words for 'green' and 'yellow' in Romanian and Albanian.

Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social · 6d

New book: Erik van Ree, "The Revolutionary Organisation: Armed Struggle from the Late 18th Century to the Present"
Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 57
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Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social · 6d

Anyone have access to the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics? Our library's subscription seems to have lapsed - I'll try to get that fixed, but meanwhile if anyone can help I'd appreciate, thanks in advance

Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social · 7d

True, but I hate the thought that even if I retired to the other end of the galaxy I would still be in danger of spotting Mandelson

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 7d

There are aliens on the opposite side of the galaxy who could spot that Mandelson was dodgy

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 7d

Note to Starmer-stans: if we all knew Mandelson was dodgy, he should have, even if he wasn’t in parliament in 2009.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 7d

There are aliens on the opposite side of the galaxy who could spot that Mandelson was dodgy

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 7d

Note to Starmer-stans: if we all knew Mandelson was dodgy, he should have, even if he wasn’t in parliament in 2009.

Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social · 7d

Question on behalf of a student - there were some good sites with digitized runs of Romanian magazines from the socialist times? Thinking domestic, women's magazines, leisure, film &c.
Thanks in advance for any help.

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Louise Bedford | Archaeology @louisearchaeology.bsky.social · 8d

The British Museum posted Al slop and quietly deleted it. Here's what it was and why it matters.

#archaeology🏺#musuem #culture #heritage #history

Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social · 8d

Couldn't "increased oversight" be achieved by fostering a culture in which the research community actually reads the publications? Just a thought..

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 8d

Some of the country's largest universities have increased their oversight of academic cheating in response to the rise of generative AI rte.ie/b/1556159

Universities increase oversight of cheating using AI

Some of the country's largest universities have increased their oversight of academic cheating in response to the rise of generative AI.

rte.ie

Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social · 8d

February (Faurar in old Romanian)
Illustration, "Minerva" Calendar, Bucharest 1912

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 8d

Some of the country's largest universities have increased their oversight of academic cheating in response to the rise of generative AI rte.ie/b/1556159

Universities increase oversight of cheating using AI

Some of the country's largest universities have increased their oversight of academic cheating in response to the rise of generative AI.

rte.ie

Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social · 10d

Even more sceptical about "must be subject to a strategic research management regime" - the more research is subject to a regime, the less it's research..

Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social · 10d

Krakatice 'squid' - love these Czech lexicographer's index cards
bara.ujc.cas.cz/psjc/search....

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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 10d

🔊 This event is now sold out in person, but you can still join us online to learn more about how food vocabulary in the #Balkans encodes millennia of indigenous evolution, alongside contact, borrowing, and contested belonging.

🗓️ 3 February at 5pm
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Event poster for 'Eating the Balkans: Language, Cuisine, and Cultural Meaning in the Balkans' with an image of Balkan food.

Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social · 12d

The umbrella is delicious!
We discussed some of Barabás's contemporary representations in a seminar a few years back
nec.ro/events/surve...
We discussed some of

Surveying Bucharest. The 1832 Panorama Sketch by Miklós Barabás : NEC

NEC Institute for Advanced Study

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Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social · 12d

Of course it is stylized in retrospect, but B was in Bucharest in 1830 and it fits with images made at the time (this one by a Russian artist).

Wallachian boyar, c. 1830. Watercolour by Russian artist “R.G.A.I.”,
Romanian Academy Library

Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social · 12d

Hungarian National Gallery mng.hu/mutargyak/74...

Filipescu bukaresti rendőrfőnök - Magyar Nemzeti Galéria

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Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social · 12d

I think it says "Emlékezet után 1887" [From memory, 1887] under his signature if I read right? But Barabas was in Bucharest in 1831 and it is a recollection from this period