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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele

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Scholar of Fortune @History Department - Ghent University. Everything you wanted to know about The Fall of Rome but were afraid to ask. Gallivanter extraordinaire. Italophile. Homeric Laughter.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · Jul 29

Journal of Roman Studies review:

"[This] is an admirably accessible volume... Many of these chapters will be top recommendations on my undergraduate and postgraduate reading lists. Overall, the volume is an impressive piece of work that makes a valuable and fresh contribution to the field."

JEROEN W. P. WIJNENDAELE (Ed.), Late Roman Italy: Imperium to Regnum. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. Pp. xv + 504, illus. isbn 9781399518024 £155.00 (hbk); 9781399518031, £29.99 (pbk). |...

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Dries Vermeulen @draaimeulen.bsky.social · 20m

HET IS ER!

‘Tram 7 - De dagelijkse rit’ is vanaf deze week verkrijgbaar. Een boek over een tram, de mensen op die tram en vijf jaar pril vaderschap.

Bestel het nu online, of nog beter: steun je lokale boekhandel.

Nu al dankjewel aan al wie het koopt 🙏❤️

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 25m

Ik verkeer blijkbaar al anderhalf jaar in de illegaliteit!

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 3h

None of the providers I was subscribed to had it, until recently!

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 14h

Let's see what all the fuss is about.

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Levi @levi98k.bsky.social · 19h

Ik heb vrouwenhaat, homohaat en antisemitisme gehoord. Neonazi's liepen mee. Hitlergroeten kwamen voorbij. Er werd remigratie geroepen, een term die door experts als hondenfluitje voor deportatie wordt bestempeld.

Maar ik lees in de media nog altijd dat het om een anti-immigratie demonstratie gaat.

Maarten Hopman @maartenhopman.bsky.social · 19h

Het is dat ze geen watermeloen-button droegen, anders werd dit misschien wel antisemitisch genoemd.

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 6d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent Paul Thomas Anderson film. Fantastic performances by Di Caprio and above all Sean Penn. At 2h42 on the long side. Still doesn't bore a min. Seems like one of the first blockbusters to directly aim at Trump II. But timeline says no. Just shows how American soil was always fertile for this.

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 1d

This is all kinds of wonderful.

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Jona Lendering @jonalendering.bsky.social · 1d

Indiana Jones, Just Another Day at the Office

Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 2d

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 1d

Proficiat!

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 2d

Tegenwoordig moet een mens blijkbaar al 125 (!) ballen neerleggen voor gewoon ticket op enkele dag van een middelgroot festival.

Nog een chance dat de headliner tot het allerbeste behoort dat ik ooit live gezien heb. So no pressure, Nick.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 2d

- "Why did the Romans become Christian if they used to persecute them?"

- "How were those migrants treated by the other Romans once they were in the army?"

The kids are alright.

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 2d

Today I taught a whooping 96 (!) fourteen-year olds about the origin of the Franks. Done this a few times already this year, and easily remains the most challenging bunch. But glad to say most actually seemed to be paying attention. With two girls - always girls - asking most insightful questions.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 3d

Never forget.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 3d

Boekvoorstelling: Willy Claes & Rik Van Cauwelaert - Wat ik nog kwijt wil (Handelsbeurs Gent)

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 3d

In ostentatiously siding with the downtrodden versus "the one percent", it's very worthwhile checking his earlier Gallic contemporary Salvian of Marseilles.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 3d

In ostentatiously siding with the downtrodden versus "the one percent", it's very worthwhile checking his earlier Gallic contemporary Salvian of Marseilles.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 3d

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 3d

Congrats! What will be the topic?

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 3d

“The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · 3d

A new Early Medieval Europe virtual issue on Travel and Mobility in the Early Middle Ages, featuring five brilliant articles published over the past 20 years by Andy Merrills, Paul Dutton, Frank Riess, Ben Allport and Rebecca Thomas: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...