Just a little update on what I've been up to lately posted on my other site Contagions... Its well into spring now and my blogging has perhaps hit an all time low. I have been working on a project that I will write about more later this year. I’ve been reading a lot about environm…... Continue Reading →
Human Parasites of the Roman Empire | Contagions
Piers Mitchell's recent paper on parasites before, during and after the Roman Empire is challenging a lot of assumptions about the Romans. I posted a summary of this paper on my Contagions site this morning. Source: Human Parasites of the Roman Empire | Contagions
The Bavarians from the Ground Up
Since written history doesn't spread very much light on the people who lived in sixth century Bavaria, let's literally look to the ground and examine what their cemeteries tell us about them. Aschheim is the only place where plague aDNA has been found, but as far as I know, it is the only Late Antique... Continue Reading →
Who were the Early Medieval Bavarians?
My reading for the last year has been all over the place as I try to catch up on the world of the Plague of Justinian. A sample of my reading for the last few months is here. Believe it or not, they all relate in some what to what was going on during the... Continue Reading →
The Canterbury Tales to ‘Calefornia Dreamin’ by the Mamas and Papas
For all those hitting the Kalamazoo trail over the next 24 hours…
As the annual pilgrimage to Kalamazoo begins this week, I thought I would leave you with some entertainment on a much older pilgrimage while I’m gone.
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