Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran
@sasanianshah.bsky.social
Brown Viking. Historian, late antique Central & W. Asia, Sasanians, Byzantines, Scandinavia, Rus’. BD fan, Globe Trotter, Kensington Communist, flâneur, in love w London, Tehran, Athens, & Vienna. Have laptop, will write.
The fourth lecture coming up, on “Central Asia” and East Iran. Excited and also nervous as there is soooo much to say!
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The Orient’s East: Iran and Eurasia in the First Millennium CE | Framaforms.org
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December 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The fourth lecture coming up, on “Central Asia” and East Iran. Excited and also nervous as there is soooo much to say!
framaforms.org/the-orients-...
framaforms.org/the-orients-...
Glorifying money-making bubbles, enterpreneurising society (offering “solutions” instead of “doing things”), pouring money into STEM, & bleeding Humanities. Humanities itself has not been too helpful by holding on to old biases in the name of “integrity” & holding its breath hoping for the best!
More bad news a liberal arts college... "[A]fter a review of 'student enrollment data and student interest'... Cornell College will halt its [majors in] more than 10 areas, including classical studies, French and Francophone studies, German studies, religion..."
Cornell College to cut programs after review of enrollment, student interest • Iowa Capital Dispatch
Cornell College will halt "major courses of study" in different languages, music studies and more in the next academic year.
iowacapitaldispatch.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Glorifying money-making bubbles, enterpreneurising society (offering “solutions” instead of “doing things”), pouring money into STEM, & bleeding Humanities. Humanities itself has not been too helpful by holding on to old biases in the name of “integrity” & holding its breath hoping for the best!
It is fun speaking Dutch in Brussels, because their Dutch is often not better than mine and I don’t feel embarrassed speaking it in front of them!
November 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
It is fun speaking Dutch in Brussels, because their Dutch is often not better than mine and I don’t feel embarrassed speaking it in front of them!
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This week, we spoke with @jakestattel.bsky.social about how legal institutions in England changed dramatically from AD 900 to 1200, due in part to internal political developments and the Viking incursions.
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#medievalsky #vikingsky #history #podcast
vikingology.substack.com/p/viking-law...
#medievalsky #vikingsky #history #podcast
Viking Law and Order: English Edition
Watch now | How much did the Norse affect the creation of English law?
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November 30, 2025 at 7:13 AM
This week, we spoke with @jakestattel.bsky.social about how legal institutions in England changed dramatically from AD 900 to 1200, due in part to internal political developments and the Viking incursions.
vikingology.substack.com/p/viking-law...
#medievalsky #vikingsky #history #podcast
vikingology.substack.com/p/viking-law...
#medievalsky #vikingsky #history #podcast
Did you all laugh at my Latin joke in this?
The memory, or forgetting, of the Achaemenids in Sasanian late antiquity and the medieval period is a robust debate. I wrote a rather longish blog about it here:
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Did Sasanians Remember the Achaemenids… or Should They Have?
(Any unauthorised quotations, copying, or use of the following is strictly prohibited) The scholarly debate on whether the Sasanians, particularly the early Sasanians like Ardashir I, had any memor…
iranologie.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Did you all laugh at my Latin joke in this?
The memory, or forgetting, of the Achaemenids in Sasanian late antiquity and the medieval period is a robust debate. I wrote a rather longish blog about it here:
iranologie.com/2025/11/29/d...
iranologie.com/2025/11/29/d...
Did Sasanians Remember the Achaemenids… or Should They Have?
(Any unauthorised quotations, copying, or use of the following is strictly prohibited) The scholarly debate on whether the Sasanians, particularly the early Sasanians like Ardashir I, had any memor…
iranologie.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:56 AM
The memory, or forgetting, of the Achaemenids in Sasanian late antiquity and the medieval period is a robust debate. I wrote a rather longish blog about it here:
iranologie.com/2025/11/29/d...
iranologie.com/2025/11/29/d...
A long time ago, right after PhD, I had a plan to write a comparative study of Normans in Europe and Daylamites in Iran, particularly comparing the Buyid Brothers with the Hauteville Brothers. Even got funding for it, but had to reject it because if work conflict.
November 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
A long time ago, right after PhD, I had a plan to write a comparative study of Normans in Europe and Daylamites in Iran, particularly comparing the Buyid Brothers with the Hauteville Brothers. Even got funding for it, but had to reject it because if work conflict.
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#ToucanButtoftheDay
Something away from Bijagua (finally!), a Fiery-billed Aracari (Pteroglossus frantzii) at San Vito, Puntarenas #CostaRica
#toucans #birds #nature
Something away from Bijagua (finally!), a Fiery-billed Aracari (Pteroglossus frantzii) at San Vito, Puntarenas #CostaRica
#toucans #birds #nature
November 27, 2025 at 2:35 AM
#ToucanButtoftheDay
Something away from Bijagua (finally!), a Fiery-billed Aracari (Pteroglossus frantzii) at San Vito, Puntarenas #CostaRica
#toucans #birds #nature
Something away from Bijagua (finally!), a Fiery-billed Aracari (Pteroglossus frantzii) at San Vito, Puntarenas #CostaRica
#toucans #birds #nature
The Orient’s East: Iran and Eurasia in the First Millennium CE | Framaforms.org
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November 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
After a (half) lifetime of not having any support in academia & feeling that no one cares about what I have to say, out of the blue, two of the nicest, kindest, and greatest scholars of the field have decided, inexplicably, to support me & make me feel accepted.
I must have done something good?
I must have done something good?
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
After a (half) lifetime of not having any support in academia & feeling that no one cares about what I have to say, out of the blue, two of the nicest, kindest, and greatest scholars of the field have decided, inexplicably, to support me & make me feel accepted.
I must have done something good?
I must have done something good?
Despite the fact that he wanted to capture Napoleon and put him in a cage and parade him around France, he still gets a statue…! :)
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Despite the fact that he wanted to capture Napoleon and put him in a cage and parade him around France, he still gets a statue…! :)
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I find it very pleasing that sometime around 1040, an Icelandic skald addressed the king of the Norwegians as "sinjórr", showing that already at this early stage the French vocabulary for lordship had entered the Nordic world.
November 24, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I find it very pleasing that sometime around 1040, an Icelandic skald addressed the king of the Norwegians as "sinjórr", showing that already at this early stage the French vocabulary for lordship had entered the Nordic world.
That this Fascist jerk has casually renamed himself and his department and we are all just casually watching it is one if the things that worries me a lot…
November 24, 2025 at 10:53 AM
That this Fascist jerk has casually renamed himself and his department and we are all just casually watching it is one if the things that worries me a lot…
I am not an expert of the period, but when Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798, there were no Brits there, were they? He was conquering it directly from the Ottomans, right?
November 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I am not an expert of the period, but when Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798, there were no Brits there, were they? He was conquering it directly from the Ottomans, right?
The whole Marjory Taylor Green vs. T-rump episode, and now her resignation, stinks of a scripted & manufactured conflict. Something is going on behind the scenes, & as usual, it is related to the Epstein Files.
November 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The whole Marjory Taylor Green vs. T-rump episode, and now her resignation, stinks of a scripted & manufactured conflict. Something is going on behind the scenes, & as usual, it is related to the Epstein Files.
Clovis I: how he is on his (much later effigy)
Medieval painting
How he probably really looked like…
Medieval painting
How he probably really looked like…
November 22, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Clovis I: how he is on his (much later effigy)
Medieval painting
How he probably really looked like…
Medieval painting
How he probably really looked like…
With Pepin I…
I love Pepin’s title in French and the fact that it cognates with English brief.
I love Pepin’s title in French and the fact that it cognates with English brief.
November 22, 2025 at 7:52 AM
With Pepin I…
I love Pepin’s title in French and the fact that it cognates with English brief.
I love Pepin’s title in French and the fact that it cognates with English brief.
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Just saw that British manners YouTube guy say you should eat RICE with the BACK of a FORK and I would rather end civilization
November 21, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Just saw that British manners YouTube guy say you should eat RICE with the BACK of a FORK and I would rather end civilization
All this discussion about Harari’s book made me realise something. There is really a lot of interest in people talking candidly about bad books or books that you just dislike. I should do a podcast, as I am great on hating a lot of books.
I will start with The Great Gatsby…
I will start with The Great Gatsby…
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
All this discussion about Harari’s book made me realise something. There is really a lot of interest in people talking candidly about bad books or books that you just dislike. I should do a podcast, as I am great on hating a lot of books.
I will start with The Great Gatsby…
I will start with The Great Gatsby…
Something very pleasant happened by pure accident to me this afternoon that, had I had less reason, might have made me believe in some religion or god!
Life is full of surprises!
Life is full of surprises!
November 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Something very pleasant happened by pure accident to me this afternoon that, had I had less reason, might have made me believe in some religion or god!
Life is full of surprises!
Life is full of surprises!
Someone (well, @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social) was complaining a few days ago about lack of discussions and disagreements on this site. Here is me running a “bait” experiment (disagreeing ever slightly) with the zeitgeist. See the results:
The reasons why we hate the book are contained in the podcast episode you're linking to. tl;dr he *is* worse than Diamond or Graeber!
I don’t get why people hate Yuval Harrari’s book so much. Less so why they dislike him & wonder “why he has a career”. Other “big history” writers (Diamond, Fernandez Armesto, Graeber) don’t get half as much hate. The book is not good (an understatement), I get it. But it’s not worse than any other.
November 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Someone (well, @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social) was complaining a few days ago about lack of discussions and disagreements on this site. Here is me running a “bait” experiment (disagreeing ever slightly) with the zeitgeist. See the results:
I don’t get why people hate Yuval Harrari’s book so much. Less so why they dislike him & wonder “why he has a career”. Other “big history” writers (Diamond, Fernandez Armesto, Graeber) don’t get half as much hate. The book is not good (an understatement), I get it. But it’s not worse than any other.
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
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November 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I don’t get why people hate Yuval Harrari’s book so much. Less so why they dislike him & wonder “why he has a career”. Other “big history” writers (Diamond, Fernandez Armesto, Graeber) don’t get half as much hate. The book is not good (an understatement), I get it. But it’s not worse than any other.
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Good. The Nazis are in power and no longer even need to hide it. Maybe now the liberal clowns in their fantasy “middle” position will act accordingly to oppose the fascists. (Lol. They won’t.)
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Good. The Nazis are in power and no longer even need to hide it. Maybe now the liberal clowns in their fantasy “middle” position will act accordingly to oppose the fascists. (Lol. They won’t.)
Sort of half-attending the 21st. Roundtable of the Société d’études syriaques at the BnF Richelieu… interesting line up
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Les bibliothèques syriaques. XXIe table ronde de la Société d'études syriaques
Ce colloque, organisé du jeudi 20 au vendredi 21 novembre 2025 à la BnF( site Richelieu) et à l'Institut protestant de théologie, s’intéresse aux bibliothèques comme un des principaux lieux de product...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Sort of half-attending the 21st. Roundtable of the Société d’études syriaques at the BnF Richelieu… interesting line up
www.irht.cnrs.fr/fr/agenda/co...
www.irht.cnrs.fr/fr/agenda/co...
The first, very sloshy (Icelandic: slydda), of the year in a mildly festive Lille…
November 20, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The first, very sloshy (Icelandic: slydda), of the year in a mildly festive Lille…