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40 years ago I walked into my history tutor's office & heard him declare "you wrote complete nonsense about Offa." So reading @rorynaismith.bsky.social's Offa: King of the Mercians was not only fascinating and enjoyable but also somehow healing! Surely I would handle the exam better today.

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Working on a revised second edition as a result of my own years of rethinking!

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'But what would, say, the German court have thought, full of snobbish aristocrats from old families as it was, to find an authoritative representative from northern Italy’s biggest city called Shit-pesto?' Chris! I do so wish we had better words to describe how much academic colleagues mean to us.

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Very sad news this morning. A great scholar and great guy

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