Mateusz Fafinski
@calthalas.bsky.social
Late antiquity, early Middle Ages, manuscripts, cities and monasticism. A bit of digital humanities and maps as well.
Assistant Professor at the University of Erfurt
Assistant Professor at the University of Erfurt
Pinned
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The greatest prog rock song of all time is Bema Pamięci Żałobny Rapsod by Niemen and if you have 16:27 minutes of spare time you should go and listen to it.
November 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The greatest prog rock song of all time is Bema Pamięci Żałobny Rapsod by Niemen and if you have 16:27 minutes of spare time you should go and listen to it.
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Oxford Handbook to the End of Academia
November 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Oxford Handbook to the End of Academia
The greatest prog rock song of all time is Bema Pamięci Żałobny Rapsod by Niemen and if you have 16:27 minutes of spare time you should go and listen to it.
November 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The greatest prog rock song of all time is Bema Pamięci Żałobny Rapsod by Niemen and if you have 16:27 minutes of spare time you should go and listen to it.
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Reposting for the weekend crowd. #MedievalSky
How have books shaped the way we think? In January Anna Somfai will teach an online short course on books about science and philosophy in the Middle Ages. Book now 👇 #MedievalSky @ies-sas.bsky.social @warburginstitute.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social palaeography.uk/study/short-...
Medieval Philosophical and Scientific Manuscripts – an online short course taught by Anna Somfai
This course will run online from 14:00-17:00: Monday 26 January – Thursday 29 January 2026. The course explores medieval Western philosophical and scientific manuscripts produced over the spa…
palaeography.uk
November 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Reposting for the weekend crowd. #MedievalSky
Do I buy Anno 117 so soon after launch? Can something stop me?
November 22, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Do I buy Anno 117 so soon after launch? Can something stop me?
What can we learn about the late antique city from synodal acts? The special issue Civil Unrest in Long Late Antiquity is out in print now and my article on Edessa, monks, and one very unlucky bureaucrat is in it, together with four other excellent articles!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
What can we learn about the late antique city from synodal acts? The special issue Civil Unrest in Long Late Antiquity is out in print now and my article on Edessa, monks, and one very unlucky bureaucrat is in it, together with four other excellent articles!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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How did the built environment shape social contention in Late Antiquity?
Very pleased that this article, which has been in Early Access for just shy of a year, is now also out in print www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Very pleased that this article, which has been in Early Access for just shy of a year, is now also out in print www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Protest and Public Space in Fourth-Century Rome
Popular discontent in Late Antiquity has traditionally been interpreted as a sign of social disfunction and urban decline – a framework that has underestimated the political agency exercised by non...
www.tandfonline.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
How did the built environment shape social contention in Late Antiquity?
Very pleased that this article, which has been in Early Access for just shy of a year, is now also out in print www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Very pleased that this article, which has been in Early Access for just shy of a year, is now also out in print www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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I got to go on @mikemotia.bsky.social 's podcast, New Books in Late Antiquity, and talk about my new book, Things Unseen!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
Ellen Muehlberger,
Podcast Episode · New Books in Late Antiquity · 11/10/2025 · 1h 14m
podcasts.apple.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I got to go on @mikemotia.bsky.social 's podcast, New Books in Late Antiquity, and talk about my new book, Things Unseen!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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Middle Ages, gray, dark, all mud, no color, grim.
St Zeno Verona: you were saying?
St Zeno Verona: you were saying?
May 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Middle Ages, gray, dark, all mud, no color, grim.
St Zeno Verona: you were saying?
St Zeno Verona: you were saying?
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"The Renaissance" is not a result of a linear "revolution". It was a medieval phenomenon, rooted in ideas circulating for centuries (Giotto was born c. 1267). The Middle Ages had multiple periods of seeing "classical" ideas as fashionable. Works like Vitruvius were widely read and influential. 1/
May 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"The Renaissance" is not a result of a linear "revolution". It was a medieval phenomenon, rooted in ideas circulating for centuries (Giotto was born c. 1267). The Middle Ages had multiple periods of seeing "classical" ideas as fashionable. Works like Vitruvius were widely read and influential. 1/
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A reminder that we have no colloquium event this week! However, our affiliated program, the Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins, is holding a book event on Zoom with Prof. Ellen Muehlberger (Michigan) from 6:30–8:00 pm on Thursday, Oct. 30.
Details here:
rels.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/...
Details here:
rels.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/...
October 27, 2025 at 10:58 PM
A reminder that we have no colloquium event this week! However, our affiliated program, the Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins, is holding a book event on Zoom with Prof. Ellen Muehlberger (Michigan) from 6:30–8:00 pm on Thursday, Oct. 30.
Details here:
rels.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/...
Details here:
rels.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/...
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…and people act like medieval accounts of diplomatic missions are implausible.
Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.
October 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
…and people act like medieval accounts of diplomatic missions are implausible.
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Took a while but nice to get my author’s copy!
October 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Took a while but nice to get my author’s copy!
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Mind-numbing how many layers of history there can be to a single manuscript page: Syriac upper text (10th c.), Armenian undertext (pre-10th c.), Arabic material used for binding (11-12th c.?), Coptic foliation in the margin (date?), modern foliation at the bottom. Image: Leiden UL Or. 14236, link ⬇️
October 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Mind-numbing how many layers of history there can be to a single manuscript page: Syriac upper text (10th c.), Armenian undertext (pre-10th c.), Arabic material used for binding (11-12th c.?), Coptic foliation in the margin (date?), modern foliation at the bottom. Image: Leiden UL Or. 14236, link ⬇️
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Alte Geschichte, ancient history, late antiquity
Historism, Annales School, Cultural History
October 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Alte Geschichte, ancient history, late antiquity
Alte Geschichte, ancient history, late antiquity
Historism, Annales School, Cultural History
October 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Alte Geschichte, ancient history, late antiquity
Probably my favourite long late antiquity piece of art. The so-called "palimpsest" fresco in Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome shows consecutive layers of paintings from the sixth century (Mary as empress of heaven) all the way to the seventh and early eight century. The level of detail is just amazing.
October 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Probably my favourite long late antiquity piece of art. The so-called "palimpsest" fresco in Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome shows consecutive layers of paintings from the sixth century (Mary as empress of heaven) all the way to the seventh and early eight century. The level of detail is just amazing.
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This is a tale of two castles
One of those buildings is fully original, an almost model example of its style; the other one is fake, built on the ruins of a medieval castle with a fully modern interior. 1/
One of those buildings is fully original, an almost model example of its style; the other one is fake, built on the ruins of a medieval castle with a fully modern interior. 1/
August 28, 2025 at 8:17 AM
This is a tale of two castles
One of those buildings is fully original, an almost model example of its style; the other one is fake, built on the ruins of a medieval castle with a fully modern interior. 1/
One of those buildings is fully original, an almost model example of its style; the other one is fake, built on the ruins of a medieval castle with a fully modern interior. 1/
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Peer-reviewing an article: "Why is this an article, and not a book?"
Peer-reviewing a book: "And why is this a book, and not an article?"
Peer-reviewing a book: "And why is this a book, and not an article?"
October 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Peer-reviewing an article: "Why is this an article, and not a book?"
Peer-reviewing a book: "And why is this a book, and not an article?"
Peer-reviewing a book: "And why is this a book, and not an article?"
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I moved all my stuff from Academia_dot_edu to HCommons.
October 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I moved all my stuff from Academia_dot_edu to HCommons.
Is your conference taking place in a palace? Because ours
October 1, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Is your conference taking place in a palace? Because ours
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The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies is hiring three postdoctoral researchers.
We investigate the causes and mechanisms that contribute to the persistence of strong asymmetrical dependencies across historical and contemporary contexts.
Pre-modern perspectives are very welcome!
We investigate the causes and mechanisms that contribute to the persistence of strong asymmetrical dependencies across historical and contemporary contexts.
Pre-modern perspectives are very welcome!
3 Postdoctoral Positions (100%, TV-L E-13, for 3 years)
full-time, Temporary, EG 13, Reference number: 2025/152
www.uni-bonn.de
September 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies is hiring three postdoctoral researchers.
We investigate the causes and mechanisms that contribute to the persistence of strong asymmetrical dependencies across historical and contemporary contexts.
Pre-modern perspectives are very welcome!
We investigate the causes and mechanisms that contribute to the persistence of strong asymmetrical dependencies across historical and contemporary contexts.
Pre-modern perspectives are very welcome!
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We are in Potsdam to talk about nature, labour and economy in the second half of the first millennium!
September 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
We are in Potsdam to talk about nature, labour and economy in the second half of the first millennium!
Tomorrow my first slide is this
September 30, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Tomorrow my first slide is this
We are in Potsdam to talk about nature, labour and economy in the second half of the first millennium!
September 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
We are in Potsdam to talk about nature, labour and economy in the second half of the first millennium!