We at De Gruyter wish you a wonderful Christmas season – with medievally lavish feasts, snowball fights, heavenly music, joyful dancing, and marvelous manuscripts! #medievalsky #medievalliterature #earlymodern #mittelalter

#medievalsky #medieval #Carolingians Hey Medieval fans and scholars! I am wildly happy to announce the release of my favorite medievalist’s new edited volume Living in a Carolingian World Part 33 of Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages! The perfect holiday gift! brill.com/display/titl...

Is it Christmas yet? #medievalsky #medievaladvent @camdiglib.bsky.social Dd.5.5, f. 280r

Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Stephan Conermann, PD Dr. Ulrike Schmieder and Prof. Dr. Michael Zeuske, whose book, "Cultural Heritage and Slavery: A Perspective from the Caribbean," has just been published! 👉 buff.ly/sUOpm23 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Sources are the raw material of historical analysis, but their evidence is often qualitatively or quantitatively lacking – and sometimes entirely absent. The new volume of SMC explores the vast territory of missing evidence in the study of ancient cultures: uhh.de/csmc-smc-50

Just in time for Christmas! 🎄 Two festive volumes on medieval literature – from religious songs and mystical writings to courtly poetry and its aesthetic energy. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #medievalsky #medievalstudies

Everyday writings, often following no fixed plan, are likely to account for the majority of all handwritten production in human history. The new volume of Studies in Manuscript Cultures explores how the practice of taking notes shapes written artefacts and vice versa. Open access! uhh.de/csmc-notes

Delightful reflections of sun beams flecked our #Berlin office‘s facade this morning. @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Out this Thursday: the awesome edited volume I contributed to, "The Asiento System and the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans (c.1580–1750)" (Brill). A transimperial, heavily archival take on the Spanish asiento de negros, with truly new perspectives.

📣 Proud to present the first ever major reference work on comics studies in German! #comic #comicsforschung @stephanpackard.bsky.social @julianeblank.bsky.social @neous.bsky.social Find it here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

We are so proud too! Thank you @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social for this wonderful long-standing cooperation. To many more volumes! 🥂#manuscriptstudies

📚 Kaum war der Buchdruck mit beweglichen Lettern erfunden, wurde #Thüringen zu einer Hochburg für Druckereien und #Verlage. Warum gerade hier? Und welche Rolle spielte der Böhlau Verlag – heute Teil von De Gruyter Brill? 👉 Zum Interview: blog.degruyter.com/wie-thuringe...

⏰ Last day to save a whopping 40% off! Order today – our #HolidaySale only runs through Dec 11.

Renaissance German mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, instrument maker and professor at the University of Tübingen, Johannes Stöffler, was born 10 December 1452 #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2018/04/25/t...

@zannavanloon.bsky.social talking about Plantin Press Online, a free database hosted by Brill. On the screen: one of the few known editions in 128mo.

Get all these and more at 40% off during our holiday #sale! 🔗 marketing.degruyterbrill.com/DGB_Sale_EN?... Continue below for our picks! 👇

Last week we had a successful book launch for the OA title “A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Leiden". The atmosphere was inspiring! If you missed the event, here are some impressions. brill.com/display/titl... @judithpollmann.bsky.social @peterheijkoop.bsky.social #Leiden #medievalsky

The new volume in our book series takes you to places of dirt, sweat, and physical labour: archives. Their material features have long been neglected by scholarship. Yet, they are crucial sites of human interaction with written artefacts. Open access! uhh.de/csmc-archives

When it rains, it pours! More medieval disease history today. @gi-anna97.bsky.social has just brought out her FIRST BOOK! Leprosy in the Mediterranean Medical Literature: The Kitāb al-Malakī and Related Texts. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... De Gruyter/Brill are having a sale. #MedievalSky

On the quest for a unicorn: Yesterday, our Medieval and Early Modern Studies team enjoyed an inspiring visit to the Barberini Museum in Potsdam. If you are looking for a unicorn, hovewer, you can also go to De Gruyter - we have some too. #unicorn #medievalsky #medievalart

Announcing the 2026 Nuncius Prize for the best original essay on the material and visual #history of #science, #technology and #medicine in any period. The prize aims to encourage, recognize and promote high-quality research among graduate and early career scholars: 🔗 brill.com/view/journal...

This #turkey from Conrad Gessner‘s „Historiae Animalium“ wishes you a happy #Thanksgiving! If you are as bedazzled as we are by the works of this 16th-century polyhistor, check out these two DGB books on Gessner: ➡️ www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb... ➡️ www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

They are not just written artefacts, but objects of art. Applying a broad spectrum of analytical tools, the new volume of our book series aims at providing the complete history of 65 tsakali cards from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Open acess! uhh.de/csmc-smc-45

TIL that Theodore Roosevelt - while sitting president in 1907 - published an article on medieval Irish tales and called for the establishment of chairs in Celtic Studies in US universities. (fun fact from Ian Stewart's excellent book The Celts: A Modern History)

Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.

#OTD 175 years ago, Eduard Sievers (1850–1935) was born 🎂 A historical linguist and one of the leading Neogrammarians, he is best known for his analysis of Old English metre and for formulating the so-called Sievers’ Law. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

First #snow of the year in Berlin! ❄️

Einfach mit Gott sprechen? Tim Weitzel zeigt auf, wie tradierte Formen und Strukturen der Gott-Mensch Kommunikation im lateinischen Mittelalter immer wieder spannungsvoll ausgehandelt werden (müssen): www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... @uniregensburg.bsky.social #medievalsky #medievaltheology

📘 Out now: 'Slavery and Servile Societies in Korean History: The Hidden Background of Modern Korea' by BCDSS PI Reinhard Zöllner. All volumes in this series are available open access! 👉 More info: buff.ly/80R2y4q @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

We are celebrating the 100th volume of our Dante Yearbook, including fascinating #FreeAccess interviews with Dante scholars, writers & artists on the significance of Dante today, and extend our special gratitude to Christine Ott and Karl Philipp Ellerbrock! 🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...

Announcing the J.P. Gumbert Dissertation Award 2025! 🏆 We are looking for the best PhD thesis on any aspect of manuscript studies defended between 1 Sep 2024 and 31 Dec 2025. The award includes a prize of 5,000 EUR and a fellowship at the CSMC. Apply by 6 February 2026! uhh.de/csmc-jpga-2025

We are delighted to organise a book launch together with the editors of 'A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Leiden', in Leiden itself - home to Brill since 1683! The event will be in Dutch. brill.com/display/titl... @judithpollmann.bsky.social @peterheijkoop.bsky.social #Leiden #medievalsky

🎁 It's that time of year – the holidays are just around the corner! Whether you're looking for gifts or want to treat yourself, take advantage of our #HolidaySale and get 40% off our #books and #eBooks! Offer valid through Dec 11. Start browsing now: 🔗 marketing.degruyterbrill.com/DGB_Sale_EN?...

Mediterranean Connections. The Frankish Kingdoms and the Roman Empire (476–756), The Medieval Mediterranean 145 (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2025), is now also in paper print🤓. brill.com/display/titl... More good news is soon to come!

📅Am 13. November feiern wir das Erscheinen des zweiten Bandes unserer Paracelsus-Edition! Herzlich eingeladen sind alle, die einen Einblick in diesen bislang unveröffentlichten Teil des Werkes des berühmten Arztes und Naturphilosophen erhalten möchten. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

The first review of Frits Scholten’s new monograph on Adriaen de Vries is out. Holly Trusted, Senior Curator Emerita of Sculpture at the V&A, calls it “a fundamental resource for all students of Adriaen de Vries and early baroque sculpture.” pssauk.org/reviews/the-... @rijksmuseum.bsky.social #art

On the feast day of Leonard of Noblac, patron saint of horses (and much more), we recommend the following interdisciplinary book about horses and their significance in the Middle Ages: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #medievalsky #animalstudies @mip-medpub.bsky.social

Was haben mittelalterliche Menschen in tierischer Haut und das frühneuzeitliche „Lob des Knaster-Tobacks“ gemeinsam? Beide gehören zu den #OA Transformationspaketen #Literaturwissenschaft von #DeGruyter: www.degruyterbrill.com/publishing/f... #earlymodernstudies #medievalsky

And which party are you going to on #Halloween? #medievalsky

Pure terror on #Halloween ! 🦇 BL Sloane 4016; Herbal; Italy, N. (Lombardy); c.1440; f.102r

Noch nicht bei #Duolingo, aber schon bei #DeGruyter: #altsächsisch! Die erste umfassende Untersuchung der kulturellen Überlieferung des niederdeutschen Raums im Frühmittelalter, mit Fokus auf Bibeldichtungen und kleineren Texten. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb... #Frühmittelalter #Unibamberg

Today, something special happened: Members of the old and new editorial board of our edition of F. M. Klinger‘s Complete Works and our team met to inspect the edition‘s archive @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, representing 56 years of scholarship in a tiny room. To many more volumes and stay tuned!🥂

📣 New book series, “Court Cultures, 1000-1900”, 📚 launched by @historyboy30.bsky.social & @patrikpastrnak.bsky.social w/ @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Series feat books exploring any & all aspects of global courts 👑 (all variations). CfP now open! Info & CfP: www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/cocu-...

📢 Working on premodern education and literacy? Check out our #CfP for the new series “Confession and Literacy in the Pre-Modern Era”, a forum for interdisciplinary research in education, history, linguistics, literary studies, and theology! www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/klv-b... #EarlyModern

Deutsches Dante‑Jahrbuch, the yearbook of the German Dante Society, first published in remote 1867, will very soon release its 100th volume: Stay tuned for this landmark issue! #Dante #DanteStudies For more information and all issues of the yearbook: 🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...

We love #Romanticism for bequeathing to us so many facets of #medievalism, texts, artworks, even spaces. One such evocative space is Berlin‘s peacock island with its faux ruins and beautifully designed park. #Pfaueninsel Do you work on medievalism and are looking for a publisher? Contact us!

For #OAWeek, we recommend this newly released study by Cordelia Heß. In her book, she studies encounters between Nordic Christians and Greenland's indigenous populations in the Middle Ages and how these encounters changed over time: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #criticalracestudies

🔓 Open access is central to what we do. For #OAWeek, we're spotlighting some of our favorite open access books. 1/2

The history of writing cannot be told without the history of erasure and rewriting. The new volume of our book series ‘Studies in Manuscript Cultures’ takes a global perspective on text obliteration and manuscript reuse. Open access @dgb-mem.bsky.social uhh.de/csmc-smc-48

Coming soon! Out in November, Sadomasochistic Beowulf: Queer Narratives of Desire and Dissloution in Old English Literature applies gender/queer theory to the study of Old English literature, advancing the knowledge of both fields... (1/2) wmich.edu/medievalpubl...