Was lange währt, ist nun schließlich da - und auch noch open access! #openaccessmiddleages #medievalsky www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde...

📢JOB ALERT 📢 We are looking to appoint a F/T open-ended Lecturer in Late Medieval / Early Modern History (1400-1700) @lancasteruni.bsky.social. This is an amazing opportunity that we are very proud to announce, so please spread the word far and wide! www.hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

New article 📢 written by Jane Whittle and me - about work and the problems of identifying workers in Medieval England. Open access here: doi.org/10.1080/0304... #history #medievalsky

Despite my last name, I actually don't speak Italian - nonetheless, my first publication in Italian is now published: www.rivistamodo.it/2026/05/03/t... Thanks to fantastic editors overseeing a discussion on widowed princesses and female rulers, published as double-feature in German and Italian!

Thrilled to see this epic international collaboration (two huge volumes, over 30 essays on Sigismund and his court) published. Honoured to have had the chance to contribute. Thanks and congratulations to the editors! www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde...

The kids are alright

Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @maartenp.bsky.social

A long interview with the early medieval historian Rosamond McKitterick, reflecting on her life and work, ably conducted by Richard Pollard youtu.be/pvBdJyUAwyY?...

Exciting, and very wide-ranging, conference coming up in Edinburgh @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social on "Institutional identities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages": hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even... - very sorry to be missing it.

#Berlin 08.MAI 1945 Der Zweite Weltkrieg in Europa endet mit der Ratifizierung der Urkunde zur bedingungslosen Kapitulation der Wehrmacht in Berlin-Karlshorst (Tag der Befreiung, VE-Day). #NIEWIEDER !

Scientists Confirm Remains of Medieval Emperor Otto the Great www.medievalists.net/2026/03/scie... #middleages

Post-Doc Mittelalter: bald wird vorausstl. eine Post-Doc-Stelle (A13, 100%) zum Mittelalter in Bonn ausgeschrieben. Die Stelle wird thematisch, zeitlich und räumlich offen sein, Bewerbungsschluss bereits Anfang Juni, Start vorausstl. September. Interessenten stellen sich gerne bereits darauf ein.

Always an excellent podcast this, but with the brilliant Caroline Palmer on ECR historians and academic publishing, doubly worth a listen.

Congratulations to Catherine-Rose Hailstone, whose book is now available to pre-order from Edinburgh University Press! *God, Demons, and Fear: Emotion, The Self, and Self-control in Gregory of Tours* edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-god-dem... @caterose.bsky.social @imems.bsky.social

University Lecturer, European Studies jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Over the weekend I undertook the Carolingianist's pilgrimage to Campus Galli near Meßkirch, the experimental archaeology project begun in 2013 to build a monastic complex following the Plan of St Gall. Extraordinary work - it may take a century to complete! #medievalsky

What was it like being a Carolingian king in a post-Carolingian world: and how do charters help us understand? Find out on the new EME podcast, where @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social talks to @medievaljon.bsky.social about King Arnulf of East Francia #chartertastic rss.com/podcasts/ear...

Can any experts on medieval warfare pitch in on this 'hand grenade (?)' from 1300? It has Monty Python vibes...

Great to see my colleague Steve Boardman's new book out, on late medieval Scotland edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-fir...

Part of the decoration of Charlemagne's palace at Paderborn - a fragment that says 'Draco' (= dragon). Image: www.lwl-kaiserpfalz-paderborn.de/de/blog/lieb...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... '.. Sam Altman’s comparison between the energy needed to train an AI model and the two decades of food consumption it takes a human being to “get smart”' AI and 'black mirror' capitalism: human obsolescence not as bug but as feature.

I'm pleased to announce I'm a founding co-editor of the new @manchesterup.bsky.social book series, Radical Histories. Do let me know if you have a proposal for a book that fits our inclusive remit on radical histories. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/radic...

Sint-Nicolaaskapel, Nijmegen, probably built around 1000 on the site of the Carolingian palace and inspired by the palatial chapel in Aachen. One of the Netherlands’ oldest extant buildings. Very cool!

Chuffed to see this out. Very grateful to Jonathan Lyon and Simon MacLean for the opportunity to take part in this volume. Rightly dedicated to a scholar who, a decade ago, sat in the Ship and Castle patiently listening to me both enthuse and rant about the very text translated here

Social class remains, I think, the element most often missing from academic conversations about intersectionality - perhaps because it is the 'characteristic' that we most readily can (and that working-class academics quickly learn that they should) try to erase.

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

Always exciting to see the Avignon Papacy in the news

Sehr gelacht.

Absolutely thrilled to have a piece on medieval German identity in the latest issue of ZEITGeschichte. Thank you @zeit.de for the superb production!

Was ist rechter #Geschichtsrevisionismus, wozu dient er und von wem wird er verbreitet? Dazu habe ich für die @bpb.de folgenden aktuellen Text geschrieben: www.bpb.de/themen/recht...

Let's start off with a banger: Our call is now live! What do you want to contribute to intersectionality and medieval studies? cims.hypotheses.org/412 Please share widely and send us your abstract until 31.08.2026.

National(ist) memory politics at their most tangled and enduring. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'There is good news for humanists in the arrival of AI. According to [link], unemployment for computer science graduates sits at 6.1%, .. for art history majors [at] 3%. Thinking, creating, understanding – these cannot be replaced by artificial intelligence.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Latest! A new store opens specialising in Rudolf of Habsburg memorabilia.

"And if AI sucks up all the minor writing jobs and opportunities, then emerging authors are deskilled before they get the chance to create their really significant works.” (Via @eicathomefinn.bsky.social)

Universities: you must complete a risk assessment and ethical review for this perfectly safe activity. Also universities: please embrace this energy-hungry water-guzzling plagiarism machine that is frequently wrong. Also, it makes you thick and may encourage you to kill yourself.

The IHR's guide to its Monumenta Germaniae Historica collections (@monumenta.bsky.social) is a superb introduction for students of medieval German and European history. #medievalsky

Abandoned medieval town (perhaps founded by the margraves of Brandenburg) found in Polish forest. www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

Don’t miss next week’s exciting session in our “Euro-Mediterranean Entanglements” seminar series! Participate online: t1p.de/entanglement... @maxweberstiftung.de @dhi-paris.fr #medievalsky #medievalstudies #adriatic #skytorians #entanglements #mediterranean

'Death the Emperor / Kaiser'. Interesting story, inc. that it caused a stir: the universal 'reign' of Death is hardly a surprising theme. Also the delicate matter of iconography. (The imperial crown, though in Vienna, was widely 'memed' in Hohenzollern Germany.) www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

The bones of Otto I and Henry II have been dna-authenticated. The Magdeburg AfD want to celebrate Otto as a founder of the 'German Reich'. They are not the first to have this idea. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Early spring finally comes to Durham. It's felt like a long, dark winter.

Das @dhi-paris.fr gratuliert Lyndal Roper herzlich zu dieser grossartigen Auszeichnung!

"I’m very worried about what is being destroyed. We’re all extremely worried, because what we’re seeing is the ad hoc closure and drastic cutting of many, many departments across the country." Historian Lyndal Roper in today's THE: bit.ly/4sqsfJ2 #Skystorians 1/2

Interesting piece. Can't imagine writing my current book (about places though not, like LR, itineraries) without visiting them. You hear tales of major historians who had *never* visited the place central to their magnum opus. Must make for a rather different - not necessarily less good - book?

Lecturer in Medieval & Early Modern History The School of History at the ANU seeks to appoint a Lecturer in History. Applicants working at the forefront of gender history between the 12th & 18th centuries, and on regions beyond Europe & Australia, are encouraged to apply. Applications due 19 April.

Here is my best Habermas story. I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"