Mark Nicovich, Ph.D.

Professor of History & Geography. Venetian/Ottoman Warfare, Disease & Climate Change. Husband, father & traveller. 🇺🇦

[Mark Nicovich, Ph.D. @StatoDaMar]

One of the greats. https://t.co/Hgb7V9LwQa

[Mark Nicovich, Ph.D. @StatoDaMar]

Fellow medievalists, arise! Our time has come!

[Giovanni Collot @giovacollot]

– Guerra santa contro i musulmani ✅
– Lotta per le investiture ✅
– Il Papa come coscienza morale del mondo ✅
– Dibattito pubblico sull'Anticristo✅
– L'Europa col fiato sospeso sull'Ungheria ✅

Medievisti, avete aspettato decenni, ma ora il vostro momento e' arrivato!

[Mark Nicovich, Ph.D. @StatoDaMar]

This is a very good list to start with.

[Magister Johannes Josephus @nassaujuan]

Thread of the best books on the Crusades, by a Crusades historian!

The Crusades, a History, by Jonathan Riley-Smith is the best primer. It is a monumental overview of the crusades’ material and logistical costs, their theological discourse, and the experiences of those involved.

[Mark Nicovich, Ph.D. @StatoDaMar]

The Norman spirit lives on in Apulia.

[BRICS News @BRICSinfo]

JUST IN: 🇮🇹 Armed robbers attack cash-in-transit van on highway in southern Italy in broad daylight.

[Mark Nicovich, Ph.D. @StatoDaMar]

My recent co-authored article.

A ‘useless marsh … breeding fever and insect pests’: assessing malaria risk on roads through Cilicia Pedias (modern Türkiye) and its historical impact in antiquity and the Middle Ages | Parasitology | Cambridge Core - https://t.co/Fcc9K7wwTf

[Mark Nicovich, Ph.D. @StatoDaMar]

This is what my house here in Hattiesburg, MS looked like 20 years ago today. The 90 year old water oak shattered at noon the day before as the 125 mph winds of Katrina moved over the area, damaging c. 10,000 buildings in Hattiesburg.

[Mark Nicovich, Ph.D. @StatoDaMar]

@jzipple If I remember right that Mormon group based out of the facilities of one of the Southern Baptist churches here. I also recall a Jewish group out of Rochester, NY working in town. Katrina was truly an ecumenical moment in Hattiesburg & south Mississippi in general.

[Mark Nicovich, Ph.D. @StatoDaMar]

I was blessed to have been a grad student & TA for Jim Hitchcock at SLU. A kind, generous & witty soul. Requiescat In Pace.

[Edward Peters @canonlaw]

Please say a prayer for the repose of the soul of Dr. James Hitchcock, at SLU when I was an undergrad there. What a fine, fine man.

[Mark Nicovich, Ph.D. @StatoDaMar]

Pleased to share my latest peer-reviewed article:

The Rage of the Dog Star: Spatio-Temporal Risk of Malaria in the Eastern Mediterranean During the Crusader Period (c. 1000–c. 1250) https://t.co/Q0edBf1uLW #mdpihistories via @HistoriesMdpi

["Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @BretDevereaux]

So let's maybe talk about what it I am doing here, because folks seem to be confused.

I am an ancient historian.

So my goal is to encourage enthusiasm in folks to learn about antiquity, but also to advance accurate knowledge about it and correct misconceptions. 1/

[Mark Nicovich, Ph.D. @StatoDaMar]

The Ottoman garrison likely placed its powder store in Parthenon because it was a large, well protected space. The Venetians had great difficulty striking it, moving a battery into a better position to do so. But no concept of protecting monuments existed at the time.

[Mark Nicovich, Ph.D. @StatoDaMar]

@byzantineprof That’s incredibly cool.

[Mark Nicovich, Ph.D. @StatoDaMar]

I’ve been looking forward to Larry’s new work on the Fifth Crusade. Glad to hear that it’s out!

[John D. Hosler @medievalist1]

Please help me boost this! My friend Larry Marvin has written a military history of the Fifth Crusade for Oxford UP. I had a chance to read an early version and can wholly recommend it as fantastic and a must-have for crusade historians.

https://t.co/yNyhJqBKKR

[Mark Nicovich, Ph.D. @StatoDaMar]

@BretDevereaux Brilliant. Stealing this for my Roman Republic class this fall.

[Mark Nicovich, Ph.D. @StatoDaMar]

And I have to point out that the plague didn’t disappear; it circulated through the Old World, with regional epidemics cropping up every year for centuries.

[Mark Nicovich, Ph.D. @StatoDaMar]

@byzantineprof The Roman Empire in the style of Stanley Kubrick c. 1960.

[Mark Nicovich, Ph.D. @StatoDaMar]

@byzantineprof Congratulations! Well deserved!

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

Our second Summer Loeb Draw! All five volumes of Plautus' comedies, containing 21 plays edited by one of the great Classicists of our age. To enter, just retweet this message and we'll draw a random follower from the list on Friday 21 June! Anyone can enter, so good luck to all.

[Mark Nicovich, Ph.D. @StatoDaMar]

@devotiocruci I’ve got French ancestry from early settlers in the Biloxi area.

[Mark Nicovich, Ph.D. @StatoDaMar]

Another reason I love Italy.

[The Guardian @guardian]

Italian village with 46 residents has 30 local election candidates https://t.co/HUFOCcbeqG