Seamless public transportation to the Université de Caen. Colloquium "Les voyages de la monnaie dans l'antiquité romaine". Thank you Pierre-Marie Guihard and Jérémie Chameroy!
Applications for the 2023 Collier Prize are due by June 30th. This prize will be awarded to the best single or multi-authored book, catalogue, or online digital work in the field of ancient numismatics (650 BCE to 300 CE) published in 2021 or 2022. Apply: tinyurl.com/4vwszb3m.
December 1789, Louis XVI, still king, promulgates the end of religious discriminations in public offices. However, the Jews are left aside, their 'case' left to be treated separately and later...
@bernard_prof@carlosfnorena I think the issue with journals is more complex. We have so little spare time, publishing in some of these journals involves such a painful and time-consuming submission process, weird formatting guidelines, then you wait and can't do anything with your piece in the meanwhile.
@bernard_prof@carlosfnorena True, but edited volumes serve a true purpose. They focus on a specific topic, and provide a state of current knowledge and research in that particular field. They leverage on some initial gathering where all the contributors met, spoke, listened, and compared their views.
Simple and expeditious justice - France 1793 dealing with the émigrés, the nobles who fled the country and hoped to come back soon, in the wake of the invading German/Austrian/Russian armies funded by England...
Exciting moment...over 1,600 pamphlets from the Revolutionary period (mostly 1788-1793) that went unsold at a Paris auction have found a new home in New York.
@wmarybeard Constantine was very inclusive indeed: after he had his son from his first wife (or concubine?) executed, he had his (second) wife killed as well in order to respect inclusivity.
Am trying not to be a party pooper here, & Roman discoveries in Leicester are interesting (even if Roman religion isnt your bag). But blimey we've gone over the top! 'Thought for the Day' now praises Emp Constantine for his 'inclusivity'... really??? bit.ly/3mFHPUo