This blog is a non-commercial, independent, micro site that presents carefully researched work on saints Roman history medieval Europe and the quieter strands of the past. It brings together long‑form essays contextual notes and profiles grounded in reputable scholarship. The project follows a digital humanities approach that organises material clearly and helps readers explore overlooked corners of history with confidence.
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Limentinus remains the guiding figure. In Roman religion he watched thresholds, doorways and the places where one thing becomes another, and that’s still the territory this project occupies. The site has always been interested in edges: the quiet corners of Roman domestic life, the overlooked figures who sit just outside the main narrative, and the landscapes where history shifts into memory or story.
The homepage acts as a gateway to the new structure. It gathers the active hubs and guides, the Roman daily‑life material and the developing research threads that continue to grow.
Choosing Limentinus means choosing transition, and this moment is exactly that. The project is moving from one shape into another, keeping its interest in thresholds while giving itself room to change.
What You’ll Find Here
John Finch: Solitary Courage, the ‘Saint Next Door’ in the English Reformation
Stuart Funerary History: Burials, Embalming and Power
The “Register of Lesser Saints” Project
The Isle of Wight: A Guide to History, Folklore, and Landscape
- Slave Meta Hub A structured gateway into Rome’s systems of ownership, coercion and domestic hierarchy.
- Roman Religion: Meta Hub Explores the rituals, household cults and civic expectations that shaped Roman identity and behaviour.
- Rome: Daily Life Meta Hub A survey of ordinary routines, labour, domestic authority and the social pressures that governed everyday life.
- Roman Sex and Sexuality: Meta Hub – Exploring Roman attitudes to the personal things and the public relating to sex and sexuality.
- Emperors and the Imperial Cult: Meta Hub
- Hadrian and Antinous: Meta Hub
The Stuart Dynasty: Exile, Devotion, Memor
UK Online Safety Act: Compliant
Images and Credit Licensing
I use openly licensed, public domain and non-commercial reuse images, and every image is credited beside it with its source, rights holder and licence or terms of use. Where I’ve altered an image, for example by cropping, resizing or removing a background, I say so in the caption although I’m not a professional and I do make mistakes.
Images come from the following collections, each used under its own terms: the Portable Antiquities Scheme; the British Museum; Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France); the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the J. Paul Getty Museum; the Museo Nacional del Prado; the National Portrait Gallery, London; and National Galleries of Scotland. Copyright in each image remains with the institution or rights holder named in its caption.
This blog is non-commercial. It carries no advertising, sponsorship, affiliate links or paid content, and because some images are licensed for non-commercial use only, I don’t plan to change the focus of the blog..
I take attribution seriously, but I’m only human. If you spot a mistake, a broken link or an image you’d like credited differently or removed, please email limentinus@duck.com and I’ll fix it promptly.
Limentinus is a non‑commercial digital micro‑publication exploring life through liminality power, sexuality, ancient slavery, identity, and everyday behaviour, written with academic responsibility and structured as a digital‑humanities project. It carries no advertising and generates no income. Images from public collections are credited to their institutions and used under their stated public‑domain or non‑commercial terms, with gratitude for the work these institutions make accessible. Rights holders with concerns may contact limentinus@duck.com for prompt resolution.