Ed Roberts

6.000 Géigestänn aus der Merowenger-Zäit um Site zu Rolleng fonnt: "Um europäesche Plang gekuckt, ass eis eng Sensatioun gelongen" D'Ausgruewungen um Site, déi mëttlerweil scho sechs Joer amgaange sinn, si just ee Brochdeel vun der Aarbecht.

A large early medieval settlement from the #Merovingian period was discovered in Rolleng (Luxembourg) in 2019. The excavation, which is still ongoing, has yielded around 6000 objects so far. Article in Luxembourgish and German w. link to the French press release: www.rtl.lu/kultur/news/...

St. Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, Hans Holbein the Younger. (Item on loan from Lambeth Palace to Lambeth Palace Library by kind permission of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Church Commissioners.)

In our current exhibition you will find this portrait of St. Dunstan with 'The Tempter' perched upon his crozier. 🖼️

St. Dunstan famously had several encounters with the Devil, including the moment he seized him with red-hot tongs, while living as a hermit at Glastonbury.

#LambethPalace #StDunstan

«En nuestra lengua aragonesa». Testimonios documentales de la conciencia lingüística en la Edad Media

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This has been a slog but I’m pleased to day that I’m currently checking the proofs, which means this book will soon be out in the wild!

Agreed - I think it opens up some interesting possibilities for data-driven assessments, but I'm still unsure how best to approach...

I think platforms with a user-defined source base like NotebookLM present a greater challenge in some ways (if we are talking about student use). You simply upload say 20 PDFs as your data. It can analyse them exceptionally well, shows its references, and definitely doesn't hallucinate.

My Biographical Memoir of Jinty Nelson for the British Academy is now available on their website, open access on this link www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/m...

Hurray!

Featuring my own expert opinions on medieval French geography and modern AI idiocy

Thégan - La Bonté de l'empereur Louis

Texte introduit, traduit et commenté par Philippe Depreux

À paraître en mars aux Belles Lettres

Hostages in Early Medieval Wales

Tomorrow we are delighted to welcome Rebecca Thomas (Cardiff) to the Earlier Middle Ages seminar to speak on 'Hostages in Early Medieval Wales'. Weds, 18 Feb, 5.30pm, IHR Wolfson NB02. All welcome! #medievalsky

Keeping Your Eyes and Ears Open: A Diplomatic Counsel for an Anglo-Aragonese Alliance at the Outbreak of the Hundred Years War* Abstract. Late medieval diplomacy relied on informal networks to remedy administrative and governmental deficiencies in the management of international aff

New article! Barbara Bombi @bbombi.bsky.social on 'Keeping Your Eyes and Ears Open: A Diplomatic Counsel for an Anglo-Aragonese Alliance at the Outbreak of the Hundred Years War'

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#medieval

May I pick your brain? Local minds as living cadastres in a Portuguese eleventh‐century lawsuit In the context of a dispute with the monastery of Lorvão, in the late eleventh century, the monks of Vacariça, near Coimbra (modern Portugal), carried out a field enquiry in the village of Recardães....

How did large-scale landowning work on the ground, in a society without centralized landownership records? A brand-new article by Julio Escalona suggests it's about 'Dense Local Knowledge': onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

On another damp, fog-bound day here in the Pennines, I thought I’d share a few of the lustrous fragments of Saxon glass that I've just submitted for publication. Deposited in the early 8th century AD, they still sparkle with joy 1,300 years later 🏺✨

Turns out there's more to Felix Liebermann than just obsessiveness about manuscripts and a fondness for difficult German. ingridfiv.github.io/ingridsblog/...

Opening screen of Royal Historical Society blog post: 'With December’s restart, what next for REF2029 and for History?' Full abstract: On 10 December 2025, Research England announced the ‘unpausing’ of REF2029 and, with it, completion of a three-month review of the terms and principles of the next assessment exercise. The messaging that accompanied December’s announcement was clear: a more pragmatic, less burdensome REF template is ‘back on track’, with attention soon to move to the work of criteria setting by subject panels. However, December marked more than resumption after a temporary halt. The updates announced are extensive and include significant changes to the structure and content of REF2029. Here, we summarise and review the key headlines. This post also considers the implications of these changes, with reference to History and the wider humanities. These include positives, notably changes to the portability of books and to impact case studies. But there are also concerns, most notably in relation to the new-look environment element and changes to the form and weighting of its assessment. These put at risk the central REF principle of ‘rewarding excellence wherever it is found’.

What changes were made to REF2029 as part of last December's 'unpausing'; and what are the likely implications - positive and negative - for History and the wider humanities?

New on the RHS blog: bit.ly/3ZIfe0P

#Skystorians @artsandhums.bsky.social

Corteolona and Santa Cristina: the lives and afterlives of a Lombard “palace” and a “Lombard” monastery

We're back this week, welcoming @rossbalzaretti.bsky.social to speak on 'Corteolona and Santa Cristina: the lives and afterlives of a Lombard “palace” and a “Lombard” monastery'. Weds 4 Feb, 5.30pm, IHR Wolfson NB.02. All welcome - please sign up in advance here!

Papyrus Economies and the Experience of Early Medieval Papal Documents* Abstract. The medium of papyrus, a ubiquitous, state-sponsored product in the Roman world, was turned by the empire’s loss of Egypt in the 630s–640s into a

"The problem of the lack of papyrus [after c.1000] forced a receptiveness to new forms of papal government which the high medieval 'reformers' were able to move into and exploit from about 1050"... Absolutely enthralling new article by @cjg70.bsky.social and Ben Savill (Open Access). #medievalsky

https://bsr.ac.uk/awards-residencies-humanities/bsr-early-medieval-europe-fellowship/

Final call for the @bsrome.bsky.social and Early Medieval Europe early career fellowship, for a month's stay in Rome plus some travel costs to get there. Deadline tomorrow.
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Serving the Christian State in Late Antiquity Cambridge Core - Church History - Serving the Christian State in Late Antiquity

There's no cover image yet, but look what's coming out next year:

Do you like bureaucracy? early Christianity? both?

Robin Whelan has got you covered:

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It me! Online attendance also available; book on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/professor-...

Annals in Carolingian Europe In the 8th-9th centuries annals became the predominant genre of Frankish historiography, displaying a remarkable variety of texts. Yet for a long time scholarly appreciation of this variety has been l...

Looks like essential reading for Carolingianists, gonna need to carve out time to read this! #medievalsky

Asimov and Pirenne Spoilers for the first three Foundation books below. And the Pirenne thesis, I guess. Exactly when and how Isaac Asimov (c.1920-1992) encountered Henri Pirenne (1862-1935) is unknown. That the Amer…

Today on the blog - was Pirenne a psychohistorian and what influence did he have on Asimov’s classic SF Foundation series? #medievalsky #SF #Asimov

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A few months ago I was curious to know how much Anna's Archive was charging AI developers for access to their massive library of pirated works for training - so I emailed them saying I was interested in buying access.

Here is their reply.

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Call for Royal Historical Society PhD funding with text: The Royal Historical Society offers two annual PhD Fellowships for postgraduate historians in their third year of research at a university in the UK or overseas in order to complete a doctorate. The Fellowships comprise: Two RHS Centenary Fellowships: each Centenary Fellowship runs for 6-months and is worth £8,500 for final-year PhD students to complete their dissertations and to develop their research career. All Fellowships are open to candidates without regard to nationality or academic affiliation. They are jointly held with the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of London, where Fellows are based.

PhD funding for early career historians completing a doctorate.

Applications are invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships for the academic year 2026-27 bit.ly/49MzqmT.

Two awards of £8500 per student, held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians

Christianity before Conversion: The women who led the way

Our first seminar of 2026 will be this Wednesday at 5.30pm (IHR, Wolfson Room NB02), when we welcome @helengittos.bsky.social to speak on "Christianity before Conversion: The women who led the way". All welcome, please register in advance: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #medievalsky

Excellent news - @monumenta.bsky.social to the rescue of online access to Deutsches Archiv!

Sketch of a person (?)

The inkless doodles of Eadburg, an 8th-c. nun, discovered by new technology: now published by Jessica Hendy-Hodgkinson in EME doi.org/10.1111/emed... (Open access)

From the current issue: Viewpoint: “Secularizing Strategies in the Early Middle Ages and the History of Pre-Modern Religion”

by Conor O'Brien (@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

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A parchment charter issued in 947 by King Otto I of East Francia in favour of the abbey of St Gall.

Came across this handsome diploma of Otto I from 947, granting the abbot of St Gall the rights to hold a market and mint coins in Rorschach, on the southern shore of Lake Constance, 'for the convenience of those travelling to Italy or Rome'. www.e-chartae.ch/de/charters/...