Kolloquium zur mittelalterlichen Geschichte, Sommersemester 2026 - Link gern auf Anfrage 22.04. (Mittwoch! 18.15–19.45) Ed Roberts (Kent): Canon Law and the Changing Functions of Church Councils in the Tenth Century R. 228 27.04. Christoph Haack (Tübingen): Eine andere Geschichte. Rodulf Glaber (ca. 980–1047), die Umbrüche des 11. Jahrhunderts und Geschichtsschreibung als Gegenwartsdeutung 04.05. Franziska Quaas (Marburg): Scribere cartas et epistulas. Praktiken formelhaften Schreibens in den frühmittelalterlichen Privaturkunden des Klosters Fulda 11.05. Becca Grose (St Andrews): Co-writing a comparative history of sex education in Late Antiquity, 300-900 AD: questions and challenges 18.05. Derek Benson (Tübingen): Neither Lord nor Peasant. Customary Tenure and Social Differentiation in Twelfth-Century Lower Occitania 01.06. Benjamin Scheller (Duisburg-Essen): Risiken übernehmen - Risiken loswerden: Beispiele aus der spätmittelalterlichen Seeversicherungspraxis 08.06. Maria Kammerlander (Freiburg): Gegenstand(slos)? Zur Notwendigkeit und Nutzung der Libri Sententiarum im Pariser Gelehrtenmilieu des 12. Jahrhunderts 15.06. Antonia Anstatt (Tübingen): Der König weint – und die Königin? Autorität, Emotionen und Gender in England, ca. 900–1100 22.06. Aaron Vanides (Heidelberg): Von der Nordsee nach Nordamerika: Auf der Suche nach Adam von Bremen 29.06. Sixt Wetzler (Solingen): ME FECIT SOLINGEN – Klingen : Stadt : Geschichte 13.07. Daria Safronova (Tübingen): Assemblies in Northern Iberia, c. 900–1100 20.07. Paolo Tedesco (Tübingen): Working for Saint Peter: Ecclesiastical Economy and Peasant Labour in Early Medieval Italy

EVEN MORE MIDDLE AGES!

Come and join the Medieval Research Colloquium at @unituebingen.bsky.social digitally or in-person this summer! 🙂

This semester's program for the Oberseminar (advanced seminar) on Medieval History at Wuppertal University.

This semester's program for the Oberseminar (advanced seminar) on Medieval History at Wuppertal University.

This time, among others, with German Medieval Studies and yours truly on Constantine the African and Arabic-Latin translations in Saxony.

#medievalsky #LitWiss #ConstantinusAfricanus

📚 Treasures of the Vikings - My new book is out on May 19th!

A Bifröst of a book that bridges Marvel, VIKINGS, The Northman, and academia, it pairs beautiful photos with the latest thinking on the Viking world, all written in an engaging and accessible style.

🛒 Pre-order now! 📖

Having to empty the house of my former partner who died in late 2024. Lots of amazing books, journals free to rehome but also rare books for sale including ‘Monumenta Palaeographica Vindobonensia’ vols 1 and 2. Please comment on this post if interested #booksky #palaeography

Brittany to Auxerre: Networks of Knowledge along the Loire and Beyond : Find an Expert : The University of Melbourne <p> Christianity dominates the intellectual and literary culture of the early medieval Latin West, and central to this culture are the biblical commentaries, glosses, and glossaries that facilitated the study and interpretation of scripture. Long dismissed as mere patchworks of patristic sources, these works, both anonymous and attributed, are now recognised as creative and innovative contributions to an interconnected tradition of scholarship — and as invaluable witnesses to the intellectual activity of their times and places of production. This project will investigate the networks of knowledge that connected the major religious and intellectual centres of ninth- and tenth-century Francia, with a particular focus on the Loire and Burgundy regions, home to celebrated houses such as Fleury, Auxerre, Tours, Orléans, and Reims. </p> <p> The successful candidate will take as their starting point the <em>Glossae Floriacenses (currently being edited by the primary supervisor),</em> attested at Fleury and Reims and containing Old Breton and Old English glosses. This work provides compelling early evidence of the regional connections under investigation. The candidate will focus on Genesis as a biblical book that attracted an especially substantial and varied corpus of commentary and glosses, thus making it an ideal case study for identifying textual relationships and moments of creative intervention. In addition to this compilation, the project will survey a wide range of published, in-progress, and as-yet-unstudied exegetical compilations to trace the transmission, adaptation, and innovation of material across this geographically and intellectually rich landscape. </p> <p> The candidates should have a strong knowledge of Latin, and knowledge of palaeography, medieval textual culture, and textual transmission would be an advantage. </p> <p> <strong>Notes to interested applicant</strong>: please attach a statement of interest to your CV document when submitting your Expression of Interest. </p>

TWO #FUNDED #MEDIEVAL #LATIN #PHD OPPORTUNITIES

Co-supervised by myself and Franck Cinato, with time @cnrs.fr and @unimelb.edu.au

#Scholarship includes tuition fees, living allowance, health insurance, and relocation support

Get in touch!

Project 1: go.unimelb.edu.au/85t2
Project 2:

Ringvorlesung Master-Mittelalterstudien @uniheidelberg.bsky.social

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Schon gesehen? Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch seit heute hier online: mwb.adwmainz.net
Kumulierte Lemmaliste ist sehr schick! Congrats, liebes MWB-Team! 🎉
#mittelhochdeutsch #medieval #wörterbuch

“Victim Blaming and Slut Shaming in the Exegesis on the Soul (NHC II,6)” is out today with Harvard Theological Review—and is open access thanks to UVA!

Please give it a read if you’re interested in ancient sexual violence, Coptic, or monasticism

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I've had some requests to make this map available as a poster, and so I have! If you'd like to purchase my map of the eels' life cycle, you can get a copy at my etsy store here:

etsy.me/3Nvk5jK

The print copy looks like this:
#eels #maps

oval medieval map above a wine-coloured background and white text as pasted in post.

'Mappa Mundi': Mapping the Mediaeval World is quickly approaching (APRIL 11)! Register before MARCH 27 at uoft.me/mediaeval-symposium.

Kultur braucht Freiheit! Freiheit braucht Kultur! - Rücktritt Weimer jetzt! Es ist ein Skandal, der uns alle angeht: Drei unabhängige Buchhandlungen, Golden Shop (Bremen), Rote Straße (Göttingen) und Zur schwankenden Weltkugel (Berlin), wurden nachweislich aus politischen Grü...

Immer neue Enthüllungen im Streit um den deutschen Buchhandlungspreis zeigen: Es ist Zeit für Kulturstaatsminiser Weimer, das Feld zu räumen. Unterschreibt jetzt die Petition. weact.campact.de/petitions/ku...

Charmante 3 Zimmer Wohnung zur Miete in Bahrenfeld - Wentzel Dr. - Wentzel Dr. Die Liegenschaft in der Ruhrstraße 154 befindet sich im lebendigen und aufstrebenden Hamburger Stadtteil Bahrenfeld, im Bezirk Altona. Das im Jahr 1928

Falls jemand ne bezahlbare Wohnung in Hamburg sucht, in meinem Nachbarhaus wird zum 1.4. eine 3-Zimmer-Wohnung frei:

58 m², kalt: 676,79 € warm: 811,79 €
Ruhrstr. 146 in Bahrenfeld: wentzel-dr.de/immobilie/ch...

Communities fight 'corporate' bid for seaweed rights Communities on Ireland's west coast say they will fight to safeguard their traditional seaweed rights against what they describe as a "corporate takeover "of their livelihoods.

Myself and Colin Breen have written in "Maritime Ireland" about seaweed harvesting on Ireland's coastline, in 19th century. These are local rights, well known and established through built features (e.g. wrack walls, kilns, etc). There is no way that such rights be taken over by foreign companies.

I'm stumped.

Where is "La Croze D 28"?

It's a Latin MS referenced in a German catalog. And I found lots of other La Croze MSS (now under different names) in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin... but I can't find any trace D 28.

Any idea how to track this manuscript down?

12. Sommerkurs Paläographie. Lateinische Schrift in Heidelberg.
Der Kurs vermittelt die Grundlagen aus zwei Jahrtausenden Schriftgeschichte (Datierung, Lokalisierung & Lesekompetenz). Wir freuen uns auf die Bewerbungen (bis 31.05.2026) 📖
#medievalsky

Two PhD positions in #Musicology advertised at Uppsala University--and in Sweden a PhD is paid employment! The department is lovely and particularly strong in #EarlyMusic & #MusicalBookHistory. Closing date 26 March 2026; interviews can occur throughout application period.

www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Today my translation of al-Dani's Taysir has come out! I hope to write a little bit more about this later, but for now here is a link. And it's Open Access!

www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

Handschriftenforschung und ihr Weg ins Digitale - SBB aktuell Event Details Date: 29.09 – 02.10.2026 Venue: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Categories: Kulturprogramm

Save the Date! Die Stabi veranstaltet vom 29.9.–2.10.2026 eine Handschriftenportal-Summer School für Masterstudierende & Promovierende: Im Fokus stehen praktische Erfahrungen – von der Erschließung einer Handschrift bis hin zur Arbeit mit Originalfragmenten der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.

Dies ist eine Liste von Fachinformationsdiensten auf Bluesky. Die FIDs werden gefördert von der @dfg.de. Das Starter Pack wurde zusammengestellt von der @stabihh.bsky.social. Hinzukommende FIDs gerne melden.

go.bsky.app/PoRXqhB

We have now a bsky page for the Vienna project, which just announced the 2026 online seminar. Check it out, it's a nice series of talks – organised by @dekayra.bsky.social.

Leider, leider, leider musste ich eine Einladung nach Breslau ausschlagen. Aber vielleicht findet sich hier jemand mit Zeit im Juni und einem Interesse an den Augustiner-Chorherren und -frauen?

✨ What’s On This February at Collins Barracks! ✨ Brigit Festival tours (1 Feb), LGBTQIA+ Tours (7 Feb), Valentine’s Tours (14–15 Feb), Lunar New Year (15 Feb), Culture Club (27 Feb) + Sensory Quiet Hour (28 Feb). More info: museum.ie #CollinsBarracks #DublinEvents

✨ What’s On This February at Collins Barracks! ✨
Brigit Festival tours (1 Feb), LGBTQIA+ Tours (7 Feb), Valentine’s Tours (14–15 Feb), Lunar New Year (15 Feb), Culture Club (27 Feb) + Sensory Quiet Hour (28 Feb).
More info: www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
#CollinsBarracks #DublinEvents

March 6 is the deadline to apply for Introduction to #Arabic #Manuscript Studies—a virtual, one-week intensive course held from June 22 to 26, 2026.

Apply today: hmml.org/programs/arabic-mss-studies

Ringvorlesung Ablaufplan

Das Mittelalter der Extremisten des 21. Jahrhunderts: Geschichtsgebrauch im Internet und den Sozialen Medien

Vortragsankündigung im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung:

IDEALE UND IDEOLOGIEN:
FACH- UND REZEPTIONSGESCHICHTE
DER MEDIÄVISTIK

29.01.2026, 16-18 Uhr in S001. LMU München

Stone and the gods: religious cognition and stone carving in first millennium AD northern Britain Archaeology often adheres to established periodisations, sometimes overlooking long-term societal transformations. One such shift in Northern Britain during the first millennium AD was the emergenc...

OPEN ACCESS - 'Stone and the gods: religious cognition and stone carving in first millennium AD northern Britain'. This World Archaeology article examines the origins of naturalistic stone carving in Northeast Scotland. Download, read, and share widely!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Was würden Sie denken, wenn Ihr Prof Ihren Namen vom gemeinsamen Manuskript streicht – und zugleich gegen ein Gesetz zum Schutz vor Machtmissbrauch protestiert?

Mein Artikel zum Konflikt über das geplante NRW-Hochschulrecht im Wiarda-Blog:
👉 jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/01/23/der-lange-weg-zur-integritaet

'Runes: A Concise History' by Tom Birkett. #runology

Proofs! „Orthodoxie und die Position der Franken im Rahmen des byzantinischen Bilderstreit“, in Brigitte Burrichter (Hrsg.), Normen und Ideale (Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung, Beihefte), Berlin/New York: De Gruyter

Cover of Studia Celtica journal from 2025

I'm delighted to be confirmed as the new Editor for Archaeology & Art for the international journal Studia Celtica.

With a double-blind peer review policy the journal is an excellent place to consider publishing new archaeological research about the Celtic nations 😊

👉 www.uwp.co.uk/journal/stud...