Accusare, interpellare - das frühmittelalterliche Vokabular zur Klageerhebung ist überraschend vielfältig und durchaus nuanciert. Dazu und mehr bei uns, in unserem e-Lexikon: werkstatt.formulae.uni-hamburg.de/texts/urn:ct...

Daily Bread Conference in Cambridge April-May 2026

Excited for our (@rorynaismith.bsky.social and Paolo Tedesco) upcoming conference: "Our Daily Bread: The Making of Sacral Economies in Western Eurasia," with papers from @woodjamie.bsky.social, @historiantillo.bsky.social & others. If you're around Cambridge (UK) & want to come, drop us a line!

Offre d’emploi – Vertretung einer Professur für Mittelalterliche Geschichte (Früh- und Hochmittelalter), Universität Hamburg Einrichtung : Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften, Fachbereich Geschichte Wertigkeit : Pauschale angelehnt an W2 Arbeitsbeginn 01.10.2026, befristet auf der Grundlage des Teilzeit- und Befristungsge…

Offre d’emploi – Vertretung einer Professur für Mittelalterliche Geschichte (Früh- und Hochmittelalter), Universität Hamburg

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The cover of the new trade book by Étienne Doublier

This looks well worth a read!

www.laterza.it/scheda-libro...

Evergreen.

Now I feel left out!

Hot off the press: the latest issue of the 'Deutsches Archiv' is now available. The table of contents can be found here:
www.mgh.de/de/blog/post...

#medievalsky

Paperback of Máel Coluim III book is now available to pre-order from publisher:
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Welcome back! Good to see you here.

Oh, and NB: the seal will be featured in the British Museum's upcoming Bayeux Tapestry exhibition, so there will soon be an opportunity to see it on these shores!

Thanks! It's been fun to work on.

If you want to know more, the article writing up the find was published (Open Access) with Early Medieval England and its Neighbours this morning.

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

Its reappearance also offers an opportunity to revisit thorny questions about the evolution of the sealed writ-charter and continental influence on pre-Conquest English documentary traditions more widely.

As Guilhem Dorandeu, the brilliant young French sigillographer who discovered the seal, notes, it provides precious and hitherto overlooked evidence for Byzantine influence on the seal's iconography.

It constitutes the earliest surviving English royal (wax) seal from England and this was possibly the earliest impression. Most crucially, it is the only of the three to offer an accurate guide to its iconography. (The other two are heavily damaged.)

Lost seal of Edward the Confessor found after being missing for 40 years An 11th-century Anglo-Saxon seal belonging to Edward the Confessor has been rediscovered more than 40 years after being declared lost. The wax impression of the ‘Saint-Denis seal’ disappeared without ...

Exciting times for the study 11thC England: the 'lost' seal of Edward the Confessor has been rediscovered in the Archives nationales de France! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky

A photo of the altar of the chapel, also featuring stained glass windows.

A photo of the font of the chapel, also featuring stained glass windows.

Stained glass window featuring St Swithun

Stained glass window featuring Bede

All Saints' Chapel, Sewanee, featuring stained glass windows of Bede and Swithun.

Gospel Book of Otto III c. 1000 Manuscript (Clm. 4453), 334 x 242 mm Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich This is another miniature from the Gospels of Otto III (folio 139r). It shows St Luke with a piles of manuscripts in his lap (their bindings studded with jewels) exalting all the Old Testament prophets who foretold the coming of Christ. Web gallery of art image: https://www.wga.hu/html_m/zgothic/miniatur/1001-050/1/1gospel5.html

I love this photo of Saint Luke with piles of manuscripts in his lap from the Gospel Book of Otto III (c. 1000 CE)
(Manuscript (Clm. 4453), Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich). Probably projection, but he looks traumatized by all the reading he still needs to do before the end of the semester.

A print out of my lecture notes

The entry for my lecture in the conference programme.

Now, however, I must sing for my supper...

A bit of a long shot, this, but does anyone out there have up-to-date contact details for my former student Adrian (Ade) Smith, whom I taught at Birkbeck and later at York on the MA and an M.Phil.?

I have a friend whose application for citizenship was delayed because the Home Office got her name wrong on a form and refused to accept the many forms of ID they offered because they didn't match the name they'd invented for her.

Universities ‘threatened by spurious Home Office visa rejections’ New rules will punish institutions if study visas are rejected — but they say the official reasons given for refusals are often inaccurate

This Times report suggests the Home Office is unable to reverse egregious mistakes, if it realises it has rejected university applicants on spurious grounds due to its own incompetence
www.thetimes.com/article/1644...

You jest, but I don't get the sense that there's a lot of news around here...

Just realized I managed to add another e to Sewanee... 😬 Apologies to all the locals!

I could see that. If you were to go, I'd coordinate with a group of fellow Carolingianists (Matt Gillis at Knoxville?) so you'd have strength in numbers. Really nice place.

Thanks!

We had some for lunch yesterday! It must have been a comfortable drive when you were in Knoxville.

That's rubbish! Not a lot of Carolingianists here, but a really warm and welcoming atmosphere.