Friends, Romans, fellow late antiquity fans! The first issue of Essays in Long Late Antiquity, a new journal published fully in open access by Liverpool University Press is out! We have a stunning volume for you to read with amazing contributions. 1/ liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/ella/cur...

An academic tribute to Rosamond McKitterick, published by Reti Medievali. www.rm.unina.it?p=554

Call for Papers – 11th #Symposium "Medieval Manuscripts of the Cologne Cathedral Library"📜 27 - 28 November 2026 Cologne Diocesan and Cathedral Library Deadline: 01 September 2026 #callforpapers #manuscripts #Medieval #library Further information: www.dombibliothek-koeln.de/m-article/Ca...

In 2017, a previously unknown fragment of the ‘Admonitio generalis’ was auctioned at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (capitularia.uni-koeln.de/en/blog/hand...). The same fragment will be up for sale again at Christie’s in a few days’ time www.christies.com/lot/lot-6594.... #medievalSky #research

Please share: with @imc-leeds.bsky.social nearly on us, if anyone needs a lift from the east of England roughly on this route (for a very small fee) then do get in touch. I’ll be doing one pickup in Cambridge but could possibly do more on the way

The Carolingian South is now out! This new edited volume approaches the Franks from a new direction. To celebrate @manchesterup.bsky.social sat me and @graemeyward.bsky.social to ask us some questions about the book: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/06... #medievalsky

Come work with us in Liverpool! It’s a great place www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...

Exciting to see this volume coming close to publication: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Rehabilitating Wilfrid! New from Peter Darby in @ihr.bsky.social Historical Research. 'The 2 Wilfridian petitions provide evidence that a sophisticated & learned community, inc skilled administrators... was fostered by Wilfrid [which]... endured across at least 3 decades...' doi.org/10.1093/hisr...

We lost Rosamond McKitterick, a great scholar, a great teacher, and a great human being, far too early. This has been hard to write, but thinking about her, who she was and the person she chose to be can never bring me anything but joy. #medievalsky salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/a...

I feel very proud to release the programme of a conference I have co-organised with @yanivfox.bsky.social and @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social funded by the @dfg.de on the intersection between Narratology and Temporality on 29-31 July in Tübingen. We have an incredible lineup - I can't wait!

We're back at the IHR this Wednesday, 17 June, when Victoria Ziegler (@uclarchaeology.bsky.social) will join us to speak on 'An alternative methodology for the study of urban development in early medieval London AD 850-1100'. Wolfson Room NB.02, 5.30pm. All welcome - please register in advance!

I was never a student of Rosamond's, but her support and encouragement on so many occasions were invaluable for developing my confidence as a young historian. A profound loss for our field, but what a wonderful legacy she has left.

While you're waiting for Blan's book to come, have a look at his super 2019 "peaches" essay: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

A reminder that our next meeting is this Wednesday, 10 June, at 5.30pm, a lecture held in collaboration with @ghilondon.bsky.social: Gerda Heydemann (FU Berlin) joins us to speak on 'The Social Life of Carolingian Exegesis'. This will take place in the GHIL Building (17 Bloomsbury Square, WC1A 2NJ).

On Wednesday, we will be joined by Gerda Heydemann for a lecture organised in collaboration with @earliermiddleages.bsky.social, titled 'The Social Life of Carolingian Exegesis'. Sign up here to join us in person or online: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu....

Join us next Wednesday, 10 June, for a lecture in cooperation with the Earlier Middle Ages Seminar (@earliermiddleages.bsky.social), Institute of Historical Research, given by Gerda Heydemann (Freie Universität Berlin ) on 'The Social Life of Carolingian Exegesis'! 1/5

I'm hiring for a funded PhD in 'global' medieval history or trans-Mediterranean entanglements at my chair in Bochum, Germany, from 1 Oct 2026 — 3 yrs, your own project, 3 hrs/week teaching in the History Department, at 65 %of TVL-13 (~€2050/month after tax). Apply by 31 May — or please share 👇

Our next seminar will be this Wednesday, 20 May, with Hannah Boston (@hannah-boston.bsky.social) speaking to us on 'Charters and ideas of property in England, 1000-1200'. All welcome, but please register in advance as usual! IHR Wolfson Room NB.02, 5.30pm.

Isn’t it pretty to think so. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/o...

Glad to see the proceedings of the conference on Languages and Identities in Early Medieval Western Europe published open access; and very grateful to the Navarre regional government for sponsoring both the event and the publication: www.siem-estella.es/uploads/file...

This is a really exceptional opportunity: a studentship funding an MA followed by a PhD. For students from underrepresented or lower-income backgrounds. Apply to do the wonderful MA @memsunikent.bsky.social or equivalent MA at KCL: www.komldsp.org.uk/ma-scholarsh.... Deadline: 12 June

We're looking for a Lecturer in Global Medieval History (ongoing) to join us in the vibrant School of History @universityofleeds.bsky.social ! Deadline 1 June. Full details jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #jobfairy #medievalsky #history

The proceedings from last summer's medieval 'semana' in Estella-Lizarra, on Languages and Identities in the Early Medieval West, have now been published (OA)! Feat. excellent studies by @francescatinti.bsky.social, @elvabjohnston.bsky.social, @hwaetspur.bsky.social, and many others not on here.

So the £85million+ spent (aka 'wasted') on a completely failed new city campus has dropped off this news altogether. This disaster was defended repeatedly in Senate by the VC who is now 'excited' by the opportunities presented by ending the careers of 100s of staff. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

SOLEMNE's own Gideon de Jong published his OA article in @peritia.bsky.social in which he subjects the Irish canonical collection Hibernensis to contemporary legal theory, arguing that laws can be understood only from a participant perspective or ‘internal point of view’. canones.org/peritia-arti...

Francesca has beaten me to it, which says a lot about how kind she is, but yes, the e-book is out!

Many congratulations to Rob Gallagher @hwaetspur.bsky.social on the publication of his brilliant book, The Written Word in Early Medieval England www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...

I reviewed a thing. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #MedievalSky

Ambrose of Milan begins to write - image taken from Josh Timmerman's new book on patristic authority in the Carolingian age, reviewed by @jkeskiah.bsky.social: "this book is indispensable to historians of the early Middle Ages" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/EZV9CG...

Un court billet de blog, rédigé avec Nicolas Perreaux et Sébastien de Valeriola, sur un projet en cours visant à mobiliser les méthodes quantitatives pour analyser la production historiographique dans le domaine de l'histoire médiévale depuis le 19e s.

This was a great episode of the Early Medieval Europe podcast with @medievaljon.bsky.social! Check it out for cunning kings, furious families, perishing popes and fun times with charters! #medievalsky

Tomorrow brings our first meeting of the term, with James Burns (Leicester, @dosse-project.bsky.social) joining us to speak on 'Gregory of Tours and Slavery'. All welcome! 5.30pm, IHR Wolfson NB.02. Please register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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

"These are not my methods. They may not be yours either."

My article "Shaping Dynastic History in the Charters of Arnulf of Carinthia" is out now in Early Medieval Europe (early view). I argue that Arnulf used his dynastic status in selective/ strategic ways in charters to differentiate himself from non-Carolingian "reguli." Link in next post #medievalsky

#MedievalSky Another major human aDNA study on late antique/early medieval mixing of populations in Europe. And perhaps a first in Nature? Peer-review included historians! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🗃️

@royalhistsoc.org, @ihr.bsky.social @histassoc.bsky.social & History UK's on the White Paper on community cohesion which argues 'throughout our history, the UK’s ability to withstand external challenges has been underpinned by a strong social fabric' for which understanding the past is essential 1/4

New! Nice to get my @universitypress.cambridge.org series editor's copies of this today. Congratulations Peter Clarke @historyatsoton.bsky.social!

I’m pleased to share that 'Borders and the Norman World', which I co-edited with Áron Kecskés, @rozierhistorian.bsky.social, and @lvhicks.bsky.social , is now being released in paperback. It will be available in June and is currently open for pre-order: boydellandbrewer.com/book/borders...

Officially released TODAY!!!

Happy to share that my article on Bede’s Martyrology and Carolingian efforts to educate priests is now out in Early Medieval Europe! I appreciate all the feedback I’ve received that’s shaped my thoughts on priests’ books and how the Carolingian project worked in practice. doi.org/10.1111/emed...

got a notice this baby had arrived and went down and ripped it straight out of my colleague's hands before it was even unpacked! Jerome, Commentary on Isiah, probably early 10th-century 🤩

Lecturer in Latin and Manuscript Studies at the University of Kent www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH997/l...

Publication – « The Occupatio by Odo of Cluny », éd. et trad. Christopher A. Jones rmblf.be/2026/04/24/p...

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...

Interested in Caroline Minuscule or in things Celtic or in Alfred the Great? Then come and hear Dr Jason Chess at the latest London Palaeography Seminar @ies-sas.bsky.social: Tuesday 28th April, 5:30pm. Book here for in person or online attendance: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Annual Becket Lecture at CCCU 11 May. Come to hear @laurajcleaver.bsky.social talk about Gervase of Canterbury. Details and sign up here. www.canterbury.ac.uk/events/2026/... #medievalsky #skystorians

EVEN MORE MIDDLE AGES! Come and join the Medieval Research Colloquium at @unituebingen.bsky.social digitally or in-person this summer! 🙂