Robert Nelson

A better term for what we see today: neither exactly antisemitism nor antizionism but Judeophobia academia.edu/145995400/Jude…

Byzantine writers spoke of a need to crush or pummel the heart. I try to explain what they meant by this enthusiasm for self-punishment in a paper for the AEMA conference this week: academia.edu/144215319/Beat…

I’ve had something else in the oven related to bread, a text called ‘Perish the thought: fermentation and rot in the medieval imagination’. It’s an open-access publication, thanks to the largesse of Melbourne University #abstract" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

I am excited to present my paper on "Bees and Wasps in Byzantine Hagiography."🐝

About 40 years ago I noticed a phrase that I suspected was unique to Byzantium. I dreamed of gathering all the instances of this trope, trace its origins and explore its theological meaning. Now I finally got to satisfy my curiosity. academia.edu/127445311/He_d…

What can The Simpsons teach us about weight-training and body-image? youtu.be/DxtH334ujhY

Squat seminar: ideas in weight-training youtube.com/playlist?list=… via @YouTube More videos added

Socializing my banalities youtu.be/9wJUFcKjL_0

Here is the introduction to a series on lifting called Squat seminar youtu.be/aEDN9FYl-84

My study of what to call Byzantium amid much contention academia.edu/124241047/Byza… Image: Church of St George, Crete, photo Olympia Nelson

My history of sighing in a celebratory volume of Porphyra academia.edu/122169593/A_hi… below Graeco-Roman hero (‘Head of Odysseus’) Photo Jastrow

I am not so sure. Here are another 50 sonnets added to The Australian anti-war memorial academia.edu/109272563/The_… agonizing about the links between protest and violence

@miriamcosic @tazsdc In the context of a war, these manifestations of solidarity are themselves warlike. See academia.edu/109272563/The_…

.@tazsdc UPDATE: Professors from GWU, AU, and Georgetown have joined the encampment and have formed a protective barrier for the students protesting in solidarity with Ghazzza.

I honour the people who refused to fight in wars that we should never have joined. But wars don’t always give you much choice. My speculations in The Australian anti-war memorial academia.edu/109272563/The_… newly augmented with tales of art vandalism and a critique of decolonization

Today is the sixth anniversary of the death of our beloved Polixeni Papapetrou. Her immortal imagination and the love of her memory inspired me to write these Eclogues to Polixeni: academia.edu/117328425/Eclo…

A eucharist of sourdough or wafer? What a thousand-year-old religious quarrel tells us about fermentation - by Robert Nelson (Melbourne) @R0Bsez @ConversationEDU theconversation.com/a-eucharist-of…

Session 1B of the Australian Early Medieval Association Conference saw presentations by @UofTCMS's Zisu Zhang-Yang, @AucklandUni's Jessica Thomas, and @UniMelb's @R0Bsez: videopress.com/v/FWB6STw8 #medievaltwitter #medievalhistory

A short article confessing my love of sourdough theconversation.com/a-eucharist-of…

The impasse of #freePalestine and #proPalestine is that middle-class people on the left have forgotten that there is such a thing as war academia.edu/109272563/The_…

I do not call for a ceasefire. I call for peace. academia.edu/109272563/The_…