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! 🙂

The IHR Earlier Middle Ages seminar reconvenes in May, with another great line-up of papers for the term! #medievalsky

Colloque – Jubilee Colloquium celebrating the 100th birthday of Horst Fuhrmann (1926-2011) rmblf.be/2026/04/21/c...

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!

Reading a book published in 2025 by a Nobel prize-winning economist, and the start is ... not promising. None of this is true, and the scholarship cited here is conspicuously out of date (Mitterauer first published in 2003).

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

The view from my lodgings for the next month as I begin a stint as a visiting researcher at the University of Tübingen! Hopefully the coming days will be less cloudy though.

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

How did medieval chess create a space where players engaged as equals, regardless of skin colour? In British Academy-funded research, Dr Krisztina Ilko examines a 1283 chess manual to show how the game could model a “just world”. One in which intellect, rather than religion or race, mattered most.

Some good news - a new issue of Early Medieval Europe has dropped! And it's a bumper issue, with six articles, not the usual five. Here's a quick thread on the delights awaiting you: 1/9

Tomorrow! Still some space to register for anyone around in London.

There is so much new scholarship published every month, it would be easy to miss all of it. I've decided to collect the things I find each month, and compile it into a list for perusal. It shows how vibrant and dynamic (academic) medieval studies can be! #medievalsky

One of the wonderful and crazy things about life in England - you can buy an old Archbishop's Palace and live in it if you fancy (and have the money of course - that's the drawback!) www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1... 1/2

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

In our December issue: Richard Purkiss @richardpurkiss.bsky.social on 'The Limits of the Danelaw' academic.oup.com/ehr/article/... @uomhistdept.bsky.social

#MedievalSky I received a very important announcement today. Feminae, the bibliographical database on medieval women created and run by Margaret Schaus for the past couple of decades, is going offline as of 1 April. Download as much as you can ASAP: inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/Feminae/Adva...

Did King Harold Really Sail to the Battle of Hastings? I'm not convinced... www.marcmorris.org.uk/2026/03/did-...

#Latein war das Englisch des Mittelalters: Im #Karolingerreich traf nach Einheit strebende Verwaltung auf Völkervielfalt. Zwischen lateinischer Elite-Kultur & volkssprachigem Alltag entschied Mehrsprachigkeit über Macht, Recht & das Seelenheil. Neuer #Essay 👉 www.awhamburg.de/essays/mehrs...

Just dropped: @richardpurkiss.bsky.social on thegns in tenth- and eleventh-century England. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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...

Join us for 'Primacy: Archbishops and Authority from late Roman Africa to Medieval England', a talk held in connection with our current exhibition Primate of All England: The Archbishop of Canterbury Through Time.

This week on the blog, I get grumpy about Graeber and Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything and talk about medieval ideas of inequality (add your anarcho-syndicalist peasants here). #medievalsky salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/a...

For #medievalsky today a gorgeous Carolingian comb, ivory, dated c. 870, believed to have been made in Metz, now in Cologne. www.museum-schnuetgen.de/sammlung-dig...

The Carolingian South is now available for preorder! Edited by me and @graemeyward.bsky.social and out in May, the book assembles a crack team of scholars (and me) to turn Charlemagne's empire upside down. @manchesterup.bsky.social #medievalsky manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/978152617630...

And another press release from @unibonn.bsky.social, this time on our new project funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de The Nameless in History ...and in English www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/048-... @woodjamie.bsky.social

St Patrick described himself as a refugee ("profugus"). He was a Roman Briton, trafficked into slavery in Ireland as a teenager who chose to return in adulthood as a missionary. He was elevated to the role of Ireland's national saint in the 7th century by the church of Armagh. Happy #StPatricksDay ☘️

For anyone in London at a loose end on Thursday 9 April, I'm giving a talk at @lampallib.bsky.social on the concept of the primate archbishop, exploring its history from late antiquity to the Norman Conquest. Free to attend but please register here! #medievalsky

Our final seminar of the term takes place this Wednesday, 18 March, with Philip Wood, speaking on "The Church of the East in Abbasid Iraq (750-950). A second established religion?". 5.30pm, IHR Wolfson NB02. All welcome - please register in advance!👇