Levi Roach
@proflroach.bsky.social
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Professor of Medieval History and Diplomatic. Deputy Head of Arch & Hist @exeter.ac.uk. Editor of charters @monumenta.bsky.social. Monographs with CUP, Yale UP and @princetonupress.bsky.social. Medievalist + Germanophile.
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Much #charterrific fun to be had on the new Fiscus website, dedicated to fiscal lands in the regnum Italiae! #medievalsky

fiscus.unibo.it/en/
Fiscus
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proflroach.bsky.social
Sounds like you need a holiday! Vancouver Island is a lovely part of the world...
proflroach.bsky.social
And congrats, incidentally, on the parenthood! I hadn't realised you'd joined the club. (We really ought to have a catch-up at Pizzer Express some time.)
proflroach.bsky.social
We've all been there...
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thecelticist.bsky.social
Just arrived. The posthumously published book of my late colleague, Dr Colmán Etchingham. Thanks to everyone who saw it through to publication. We plan to hold an event in Maynooth to mark its publication (details to follow). Available to order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/vikings...
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A copy of Colmán Etchingham, Vikings in Early Medieval Ireland: Church-raiding, Politics and Kingship (Boydell and Brewer, 2025).
proflroach.bsky.social
Interesting gender balance there.
proflroach.bsky.social
This is what peak performance looks like.
proflroach.bsky.social
Yes, indeed! A monumental achievement. She's a very good thing.
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vch-home.bsky.social
#HistoryJob - just a reminder that our colleagues in VCH Herefordshire are looking for *two* contributing editors to bring their first #BigRedBook for over 100 years to fruition.

Details in the link, applications close on 10 October.
Contributing Editors at The Herefordshire Victoria County History Trust
Apply for the Contributing Editors role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
www.jobs.ac.uk
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#Stellenauschreibung: Die Stadt #Göttingen sucht einen Archäologen für die #Stadtarchäologie (offenbar Nachfolge Betty Arndt).
#Archäologie 🏺 @Archaeodons group
📷 Göttinger Marktplatz mit altem Rathaus, Gänseliesel-Brunnen und Fußgängerzone ( Daniel Schwen, CC BY-SA 2.5)
Archäolog:in | Stadt Göttingen
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proflroach.bsky.social
Quite. All you can do is play your hand and hope for the best.
proflroach.bsky.social
This is why I naturalized before having children here. ILR never felt truly safe. (Though I'd love to live in a world where it was!)
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Yes, and frankly what we do see looks very similar to what's going on elsewhere in Europe in that regard (Ireland, France, Netherlands, Germany).
proflroach.bsky.social
The long arm of American Puritanism...
proflroach.bsky.social
Articles may be good, but pizza is better! (And certainly goes better with a beer.)
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helengittos.bsky.social
The @oxembi.bsky.social is hosting a special lecture, Long Distance Travel from Early Medieval Britain by Prof @francescatinti.bsky.social & a workshop on Global Britain with Jörg Drauschke, Maria Duggan, @caitlinrgreen.bsky.social, @jk-viking.bsky.social & others. 14 & 15 October. All welcome.
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formlitchart.bsky.social
Grüße aus München: Der heutige Tag der MGH-Herbstakademie ist den frühmittelalterlichen Formelsammlungen gewidmet. Es unterrichten Horst Lößlein und Christoph Walther!
mgh.de/de/blog/post...
Eingangsportal der Monumenta Germaniae Historica in München
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francescatinti.bsky.social
Very excited about this new project on early medieval correspondence starting in January 2026
proflroach.bsky.social
To London, to the 29th annual @britishacademy.bsky.social Anglo-Saxon Charters Symposium! #charterrific
Screenshot of the programme of the annual charters symposium.
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Hadn't realised that the Connecting People book is OA as a pdf - have grabbed it from trivent-publishing.eu/home/197-369....