Robert Nelson

History of ideas, Byzantium, poetry, art

[Robert Nelson @R0Bsez]

Here I am discussing my article just published in Colloquium: ‘Were there house-churches in early Christian times?’. This one must have taken me a couple of millennia to write 😆 https://t.co/HOXwsTPvaq

[Robert Nelson @R0Bsez]

how an old natty manages another chin up https://t.co/ssa8JjcLOc via @YouTube

[Robert Nelson @R0Bsez]

A better term for what we see today: neither exactly antisemitism nor antizionism but Judeophobia https://t.co/7pd2dAKvok

[Robert Nelson @R0Bsez]

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: https://t.co/gljBqaWQrw

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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
https://t.co/H4R3jPo5u7

[Aysenur 🌈🐝🐛🦗 @ayseemulla]

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

[Robert Nelson @R0Bsez]

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.
https://t.co/8bW2u2brbP

[Robert Nelson @R0Bsez]

What can The Simpsons teach us about weight-training and body-image?
https://t.co/yo10hO0AUQ

[Robert Nelson @R0Bsez]

Squat seminar: ideas in weight-training https://t.co/NlqB1yj7Hs via @YouTube More videos added

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Socializing my banalities https://t.co/6LlUci03qs

[Robert Nelson @R0Bsez]

Here is the introduction to a series on lifting called Squat seminar
https://t.co/JFmVcUk8AJ

[Robert Nelson @R0Bsez]

My study of what to call Byzantium amid much contention
https://t.co/B2S9amn1jx
Image: Church of St George, Crete, photo Olympia Nelson

[Robert Nelson @R0Bsez]

My history of sighing in a celebratory volume of Porphyra https://t.co/1jCaxSU605
below Graeco-Roman hero (‘Head of Odysseus’) Photo Jastrow

[Robert Nelson @R0Bsez]

I am not so sure. Here are another 50 sonnets added to The Australian anti-war memorial
https://t.co/gPi55xowXX
agonizing about the links between protest and violence

[Robert Nelson @R0Bsez]

@miriamcosic @tazsdc In the context of a war, these manifestations of solidarity are themselves warlike. See https://t.co/gPi55xp4Nv

[Robert Nelson @R0Bsez]

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
https://t.co/gPi55xp4Nv
newly augmented with tales of art vandalism and a critique of decolonization

[Robert Nelson @R0Bsez]

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:
https://t.co/k5fyNCkPGl

[Res_Australes: Ancient World Studies, Australasia @res_australes]

A eucharist of sourdough or wafer? What a thousand-year-old religious quarrel tells us about fermentation - by Robert Nelson (Melbourne) @R0Bsez @ConversationEDU https://t.co/YQhWpEP5oj

[AEMA @AEMAssociation]

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: https://t.co/4I4kAQKlt0

#medievaltwitter #medievalhistory

[Robert Nelson @R0Bsez]

A short article confessing my love of sourdough
https://t.co/sgjra4OPgp