Eugene Smelyansky PhD 🇺🇦
@eugene-smelyansky.bsky.social
Medieval historian: religion, cities, heresy, intolerance, inquisition, environment, medievalism. Assistant Professor (Career-Track), Washington State University, Pullman. Views my own. he/him. https://eugene-smelyansky.com/
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Medievalisms and Russia - Arc Humanities Press
This new monograph devoted to a detailed exploration of the ways in which the medieval past has been wielded to propagandic effect in Imperial, Soviet, and p...
www.arc-humanities.org
Welcome new followers! I'm a historian of medieval Europe. I've published on late medieval persecution of heresy (and medieval persecution in general). I also research medievalism—how the Middle Ages have been understood, imagined, and used since (including in Russia, the focus of my latest book).
If you assign books via ProQuest Ebook Central, I recommend re-checking the page numbers. I just found out that they now count front matter pages (foreword, etc.) as part of the overall page count. In my case, the page range I assigned to students was off by 20 pages. 🙃 #HigherEd #AcademicSky
December 17, 2025 at 5:44 AM
If you assign books via ProQuest Ebook Central, I recommend re-checking the page numbers. I just found out that they now count front matter pages (foreword, etc.) as part of the overall page count. In my case, the page range I assigned to students was off by 20 pages. 🙃 #HigherEd #AcademicSky
After years of "I really should just do it, shouldn't I?" I have finished a professional website for myself: eugene-smelyansky.com It's nothing fancy, just a place to showcase my work all in one place. And hopefully it will be my first step to ditching academia.еdu at some point.
Eugene Smelyansky, PhD
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eugene-smelyansky.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
After years of "I really should just do it, shouldn't I?" I have finished a professional website for myself: eugene-smelyansky.com It's nothing fancy, just a place to showcase my work all in one place. And hopefully it will be my first step to ditching academia.еdu at some point.
Indiana Jones and the UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972
I do think it would be quite the powerful lesson to have a video game wherein Lara Croft and Indiana Jones were arrested by INTERPOL and then you watch as Jones is also denied tenure at U. Chicago. But this is good too. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
‘Tomb raiders’ arrested after anicent treasures stolen
The looting of rich artistic and archaeological heritage is a centuries-old problem
www.independent.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Indiana Jones and the UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972
Forgot to post this yesterday, but it is latkes time.
December 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Forgot to post this yesterday, but it is latkes time.
Lifesaving bravery
7News Australia reports that the hero who jumped and disarmed one of the terrorist shooters
His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed
A 43 year old married father of two
He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland
No experience with guns
He was walking past
He has two bullets in his arm
His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed
A 43 year old married father of two
He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland
No experience with guns
He was walking past
He has two bullets in his arm
December 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Lifesaving bravery
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There’s a whole thing in Hanukah about how you’re supposed to “publicize the miracle” except that there are all sorts of exceptions in times of danger.
Because the times that the Jews have lived under have not always been safe.
May the souls of the murdered in Australia be for a blessing.
Because the times that the Jews have lived under have not always been safe.
May the souls of the murdered in Australia be for a blessing.
December 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
There’s a whole thing in Hanukah about how you’re supposed to “publicize the miracle” except that there are all sorts of exceptions in times of danger.
Because the times that the Jews have lived under have not always been safe.
May the souls of the murdered in Australia be for a blessing.
Because the times that the Jews have lived under have not always been safe.
May the souls of the murdered in Australia be for a blessing.
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Let's end the die hard Christmas movie discourse.
Green Knight is a true Christmas movie.
Green Knight is a true Christmas movie.
December 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Let's end the die hard Christmas movie discourse.
Green Knight is a true Christmas movie.
Green Knight is a true Christmas movie.
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Noam Chomsky made it very clear that he was a scumbag when he denied the Khmer Rouge genocide back in the 1970s: if you’ve been trying to deny the obvious about him ever since, well, that’s on you.
Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
December 12, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Noam Chomsky made it very clear that he was a scumbag when he denied the Khmer Rouge genocide back in the 1970s: if you’ve been trying to deny the obvious about him ever since, well, that’s on you.
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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Would love RFK Jr. to shut about body fluids for once...
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Would love RFK Jr. to shut about body fluids for once...
We got a tree and Oscar is being totally normal about it
December 7, 2025 at 4:17 AM
We got a tree and Oscar is being totally normal about it
Roast duck for Thanksgiving means duck stock potato and leek soup later
December 6, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Roast duck for Thanksgiving means duck stock potato and leek soup later
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wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
Got to discuss my book in a colleague’s Modern Europe grad seminar the other day. I don’t get to work with grad students that often, so it was really cool and interesting!
Welcome new followers! I'm a historian of medieval Europe. I've published on late medieval persecution of heresy (and medieval persecution in general). I also research medievalism—how the Middle Ages have been understood, imagined, and used since (including in Russia, the focus of my latest book).
Medievalisms and Russia - Arc Humanities Press
This new monograph devoted to a detailed exploration of the ways in which the medieval past has been wielded to propagandic effect in Imperial, Soviet, and p...
www.arc-humanities.org
December 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Got to discuss my book in a colleague’s Modern Europe grad seminar the other day. I don’t get to work with grad students that often, so it was really cool and interesting!
To say nothing of the Roman ruins still housing cats in Rome (shout out to Largo di Torre Argentina cat sanctuary!), Pompeii, and many other places.
What has the Roman military ever done for Britain and for cats? 🐱 Well, a lot, it seems. Romans roads are excellent routes for carrying soldiers, disease, ideas, and felines.
www.popsci.com/environment/...
www.popsci.com/environment/...
Roman military helped bring cats to Europe
Military roads helped the felines domesticate about 2,000 years ago.
www.popsci.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
To say nothing of the Roman ruins still housing cats in Rome (shout out to Largo di Torre Argentina cat sanctuary!), Pompeii, and many other places.
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A quick jaunt to the land of glühwein and sausages (Leavenworth, WA)
November 30, 2025 at 2:18 AM
A quick jaunt to the land of glühwein and sausages (Leavenworth, WA)
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Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Hooligan Mulligan
Mulligan has been drinking out of the people water all afternoon and we just found out
November 27, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Hooligan Mulligan
*preheating the oven*
a man in armor with the words so it begins
Alt: A GIF of King Theoden at the siege of Helm’s Deep in LOTR: Two Towers, whispering “So it begins.”
media.tenor.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
*preheating the oven*
Turned 41 today. Cooked and now enjoying a homemade Napoleon cake (pictured) after some tagliatelle bolognese (not pictured).
November 27, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Turned 41 today. Cooked and now enjoying a homemade Napoleon cake (pictured) after some tagliatelle bolognese (not pictured).
God save us if RFK Jr. ever wears a bulky cardigan 🙃
November 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
God save us if RFK Jr. ever wears a bulky cardigan 🙃
Some years ago, my wife was on a whale watching tour in SoCal and they happened upon a blue whale. She sent me a video and, after watching it, I completely understood why ancient mariners believed that giant sea serpents were real.
Ok one more video. the most beautiful fluke I've seen. edited for EXTRA BEAUTY!!!
November 25, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Some years ago, my wife was on a whale watching tour in SoCal and they happened upon a blue whale. She sent me a video and, after watching it, I completely understood why ancient mariners believed that giant sea serpents were real.