On Friday, 27 March at 14:00, I'll be hosting a workshop in the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin. Feel free to drop by if you're interested in how late-antique knowledge was transmitted via medieval manuscripts. Together, we'll look at some of the remarkable exemplars available on site.

Demokratie braucht Geschichte! #tagderdemokratiegeschichte YouTube video by Hist4Dem

Wer Geschichte versteht, kann Autoritarismus und Faschismus erkennen und zerlegen! Noch viele weitere Gründe dafür, warum Demokratie Geschichte braucht (und umgekehrt!) und wir uns bei hist4dem engagieren, findet Ihr in unserem Video zum #TagderDemokratiegeschichte
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Happy (first) day of „Demokratiegeschichte“!

Greetings from the Bodleian Library, Oxford, where you never know what you’ll find. Someone must have said: “I dare you to draw a piggy face in a manuscript full of sacred prayers.” And someone replied: “Challenge accepted.” 🐷📜

The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern...

I’m delighted to see ‘The Caliph and the Falcons’ take to the skies at Early Medieval Europe! I had a blast writing this with @medivalist.bsky.social as we followed the extraordinary journey of falcons from Scandinavia all the way to Baghdad. #medievalsky

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Interview | Daniel Leising Anlässlich der anstehenden Entscheidungen im Rahmen der sogenannten Exzellenzstrategie habe ich der Sächsischen Zeitung ein Interview gegeben, das ich hier anhänge.

@leising.bsky.social hat der Sächsischen Zeitung ein Interview zum Thema #Exzellenz gegeben. #ExitExzellenz

"Manche Kollegen kommen vor lauter Wettbewerb kaum noch dazu, Forschung zu machen, anstatt sie immer nur anzukündigen."

Sowas Ähnliches steht auch im Buch zu #IchBinHanna, aus Gründen!

Early Medieval Europe: Vol 34, No 1 Early Medieval Europe is an interdisciplinary medieval studies journal covering European history from the fall of the Roman Empire up until the 11th century.

Finally, 2026 has started properly, with a new issue of Early Medieval Europe! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680254...

Happy new year to all #royalistorians!

Great news! I trained my first Transkribus Model! - Look at the incredible CER: I almost achieved a 100%.

* stumbled ... 🙈

Just Stummels over a great classic! A very enlightening read!

Ethnic Identity and the Archaeology of the aduentus Saxonum: A Modern Framework and its Problems For centuries, archaeologists have excavated the soils of Britain to uncover finds from the early medieval past. These finds have been used to reconstruct the alleged communities, migration patterns, ...

The paperback of Ethnic Identity and the Archaeology of the aduentus Saxonum is now available to pre-order. There is currently a Black Friday discount of 25% available with the code BF2025S, making it < €39/£33!

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Danke!!

The Common Good: Military Service as Community Organisation in the Carolingian World The Carolingian empire under Charlemagne (768–814) and Louis the Pious (814– 840) was a polity deeply shaped by war, or, more specifically, the organisation of warfare. Taking the – for its time – ...

Did you ever wonder how the Early Medieval state worked? (And what it was ...?) - Here is my take on it. doi.org/10.1080/0304...

Do we still need the Middle Ages? - I’m just about to find out!

Pour les agrégatifs d'histoire: aujourd'hui paraît (enfin) l'Atlande sur le programme de médiévale "Théories et pratiques du gouvernement impérial 717-1025".
Bravo à Laurent Jégou pour son superbe travail de coordination!

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Ehrlich gesagt OCR mit KI ...

Today: meet the famous German medievalist Gei‘d Aíthoít!

NATURA & ceTERRA Zur Ästhetik von Naturorten im Mittelalter Tagungsort Bibliothek des Musikwissenschaftlichen InstitutsPfleghofSchulberg 272070 Tübingen Organisation Rike Szill & Jan Stellmann SFB 1391 Andere Ästhetik https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/159334 Teilprojekt B7 Natur/lehren https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/252047 Brackweder Arbeitskreis für Mittelalterforschung https://brackwederarbeitskreis.wordpress.com/ Kontakt

Nächste Woche ist diese Tagung zur Ästhetik von Naturorten im Mittelalter, veranstaltet von @chillrike.bsky.social und Jan Stellmann. Ich bin mit Barbie dabei: "Vnd spilt sich der stainen vels. Die Agency des Felsens in den mittelalterlichen Barbara-Legenden"! See you in Tübingen.

Es gibt verrückte Sachen auf der Welt!

Cover von "1 Nudel - 50 Saucen"

Ich ziehe 50 Nudeln und 1 Sauce vor.

Happy to report that our book 'Local Priests in the Latin West, 900-1050' has been published! It is Open Access, so you can read (or download) it here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Gutes Mönchtum in St. Gallen und Fulda. Diskussion und Correctio im Spiegel karolingischer Klosterbibliotheken. By Johanna Jebe. Fuldaer Studien 30. Herder: Freiburg im Breisgau. 2024. 736 pp. €82. ISBN 978 3 451 39830 9. Click on the article title to read more.

Here's a very fine review for a very fine book (if you'd like a quick overview of Johanna Jebe, Gutes Mönchtum in St. Gallen und Fulda 2024) doi.org/10.1111/emed...

so the news is that i have done the unthinkable and... started a podcast.

"American Medieval" - because if we've never been fully modern, maybe it's because we've always been a little bit medieval.

the trailer has now dropped! please have a listen -->

patreon.com/americanmedieval

Great, thank you (!) to Both of you, that explains it! I think I will use the small „v“, then …

Dear Blsky, should I write „viking“ with a small or capital„ V“, and why (small)? - Thank you, a confused German.

Tours-Poitiers 732 (? Or where? Or when?) salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2023/10/24/k... -- Wanted to share a fantastic blogpost by @ralphtorta.bsky.social and @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social . (Ps.: right-wingers hate this post!!!!)

Front cover of Charles West's Europe in the Eleventh Century

Chapeau to @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social for his wonderful new book which has just arrived, an amazingly global and ecumenical volume, in all senses! Beautifully produced by OUP (and before publication day!?).

A spur to others!

Beyond migrations: travel and mobility in the early Middle Ages: Early Medieval Europe Early Medieval Europe is an interdisciplinary medieval studies journal covering European history from the fall of the Roman Empire up until the 11th century.

A new Early Medieval Europe virtual issue on Travel and Mobility in the Early Middle Ages, featuring five brilliant articles published over the past 20 years by Andy Merrills, Paul Dutton, Frank Riess, Ben Allport and Rebecca Thomas: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...