Screenshot from the DigiZeitschriften website announcing its closure on 31 December 2025

Sad to see that the DigiZeitschriften is shutting down at the end of this year. I've used this for many years for journals such as Deutsches Archiv... will DA be available anywhere else online? @monumenta.bsky.social

👉 The fourth volume of PRIN2017, ‘Ruling in Hard Times’, has been published by Firenze University Press!

This means that you can read my essay on the Lombard aristocracy of Benevento and many more free and #openaccess 🌶️

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Image of front cover of BICS Journal Issue, Orosius Through the Ages

Image of Table of Contents of BICS Special Issue Orosius Through the Ages

The Special Issue of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Orosius Through the Ages, is out!!

Co-edited with Elisabeth Manzo & Cameron Wachowich, on the boil since 2019, we're so pleased with the final output. Both Dr M. & Dr W. have completed their PhDs since then too!

Local Priests in the Latin West, 900–1050 Cambridge Core - European Studies - Local Priests in the Latin West, 900–1050

Five years, four authors, one book. Out now (fully open access), our new book on local priests in the tenth century 🌟 www.cambridge.org/core/books/l... @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social

Hard Times and Trial Approaches: Old Norse-Icelandic Studies Between Precarity and the Future Dr Rebecca Merkelbach reflects on her keynote speech at the most recent Saga Conference. Held every three years, Saga Con is the most important meeting of Old Norse scholars, bringing together acad…

My blog post with the ADAM network has now been published. It's about precarity, the future of small subjects, and communal approaches to academic work. I hope it will resonate with some. #IchBinHanna #KleineFaecher #SkandiRetten
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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...

A delightfully niche award (clarkesworldmagazine.com/hall_02_25/)

New in open access #medievalsky: Bede's Medical Books!

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Keepin' it Old School this time

Sure you wonder (like me) what the bishops were doing/thinking in 829. - Well, here's the answer! publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/handle...

Tenure-track assistant professor "Early medieval history" (Univ. of Copenhagen) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

This is a problem.

Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Postdoctoral Research Associate Are you passionate about early medieval Britain?  Do you have advanced knowledge of Medieval Latin and interested in the analysis of Latin letter-writing?  If yes, then you may be interested in this f...

Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Hi #Medievalsky,

Michaela and I have decided to put together a last minute #IMC2026 session proposal: *Dead Reckoning in the early medieval [?world]"

If you've anything on interactions with the dead (literary, historical, legal, etc.) and are looking for an (unfunded) session to join, let us know!

Rethinking rebellion in early Capetian Burgundy (1002–1016) Abstract. This article examines the civil conflict which took place in Burgundy after the death of Duke Henry (r. 965–1002), normally understood as a strug

"Rethinking rebellion in early Capetian Burgundy (1002–1016)" doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... Just out, by @ralphtorta.bsky.social

Publication – Robert A.H. Evans, « God and History in the Early Medieval West. The Theology of Carolingian Historians » While virtually all early medieval historians wrote about God, they did not do so in the same way. Rather than taking their comments about God at face value then, as has been the case in much work …

Publication – Robert A.H. Evans, « God and History in the Early Medieval West. The Theology of Carolingian Historians »

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Collectio CCCC capitulorum, The Collection in 400 Chapters - CUAPress Surviving in three ninth-century manuscripts, the collection of canon law known as the Collectio 400 capitulorum is a remarkable and understudied witness to...

I have yet to see the book myself, but the
‪@cua-press.bsky.social‬ website assures me that my edition of the Collectio CCCC capitulorum is now out! This early medieval collection of canon law has been with me for a very long and I am happy to see it published www.cuapress.org/978081323847... 1/2

Frechulf! There's an example in his Histories and one in a letter he sent to Hrabanus Maurus (see nn. 42 and 43 in screenshot from my book)

Widows, Orphans and Churches: Protection and Virtue Signalling in the Carolingian World* Abstract. This article fundamentally reassesses the interpretation of grants of protection within the Carolingian world. The established view of such grant

A very interesting new article out in @enghistrev.bsky.social from Ingrid Rembold on the discourse around orphans, widows and protection in the Carolingian World. academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

If early medieval Aquitaine or Carolingian political culture is your jam, please do give this a read (also on Open Access thanks to @livunihss.bsky.social @livunilibrary.bsky.social)!

Fresh on early view: @eddiemeehan99.bsky.social on how Pippin I of Aquitaine (d. 838) balanced kingship "as an office and as a dynastic status".
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Manchmal bietet er dir Pferde Leberkäse. Er enthält aber auch Schweinefleisch

Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Lecturer in Early Medieval History (c.400-1100) Are you an experienced Lecturer who can teach British and European Early Medieval History?  Do you have a passion for Medieval History and are you available for a fixed term contract to start in Septe...

Delighted to say that I've been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for 2025-26, and we are hiring a 1-year full-time lecturer in early medieval history to replace me. Deadline 7 August. Please get in touch with me if you have any questions about the role! jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

The Luck of Heinrich Fichtenau While in much of the world a PhD is the highest university degree one can achieve, in many European countries such as France, Germany and Italy there exists another, further, qualification, known a…

Today on the blog, Vienna and Charlemagne in the wake of the Second World War as we take a look at the luck of Heinrich Fichtenau. #medievalsky

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This is the truest thing I have ever seen. You cannot imagine how much the Romans would have lost their minds for excel. They literally already started writing our historical chronicles in synchronized columns *by hand*

Publication – Josh Timmermann, « In the Footsteps of the Ancient Fathers. The Construction and Use of Patristic Authority in the Carolingian Era » This book traces the categorical construction and discursive employment of the Church Fathers across a variety of textual genres and contexts during the Carolingian era. This study shows that Carol…

Publication – Josh Timmermann, « In the Footsteps of the Ancient Fathers. The Construction and Use of Patristic Authority in the Carolingian Era »

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Roman Atlantic garum: DNA confirms sardine use and population continuity in north-western Iberia | Antiquity | Cambridge Core Roman Atlantic garum: DNA confirms sardine use and population continuity in north-western Iberia

Given that my @imc-leeds.bsky.social talk this year is on garum/liquamen in early medieval cuisine, dietetics and medicine, I was really excited to see the publication of this piece today: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

1-year temp. medieval lectureship at KCL, covering Alice Rio's teaching, closing date 20 July: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

Great timing! Part 2 of 2: my and Simon Whedbee’s edition of the glosses to the 13th-century pseudo-Ovidian De vetula, by… Roger Bacon? With some new thoughts on authorship, function, style, and newly identified sources of the scholia.

There's an exciting new 3-year job in Göttingen (Germany) available as part of our project! www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.ht...

We need someone with experience in manuscript studies and early medieval Germanic vernaculars. Digital humanities skills an advantage! Deadline: 14 July. #palaeography

How Mediterranean Economies Were Shaped in the Early Middle Ages The clichéd image of the premodern Mediterranean economy is stagnation until the twin forces of capitalism and Industrial Revolution kick-started growth an

My review article, "How Mediterranean Economies Were Shaped in the Early Middle Ages" in the American Historical Review is out. This was a lot of fun and I try to make sense of 500+ years of recent economic histories. Find it: doi.org/10.1093/ahr/.... 1/