W2-Professur für Alte Geschichte (m/w/d) Universität des Saarlandes www.academics.de/jobs/w2-prof...

To mark the launch of Colmán Etchingham's Vikings in Early Medieval Ireland, Boydell & Brewer are offering a **65%** discount on the book until the end of November. Enter the code BB158 when ordering it from their website (individual not institutional orders): boydellandbrewer.com/book/vikings...

Und nachdem Gott seinen himmlischen Heerscharen die große Kiste mit der Kreide zum Malen überlassen hatte, sah er, dass diese Idee höchstens so mittelgut war. (Auf dem Weg zur Arbeit.)

For a limited time only - a digital offprint of our interdisciplinary article rewriting the early history of Bruges and the coast of Flanders, and proposing it and Boulogne as mints of Charlemagne. shs.cairn.info/revue-revue-...

CfP: Small Worlds, Big Worlds: Medieval Mediterranean Perspectives, Ninth International Conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean, Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM) – NOVA, FCSH, Lisbon, June 22–26, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/small-w...

Hurrah! My new book, Europe in the Eleventh Century: Beyond Revolution and Reform is officially published today by Oxford University Press. 1/5 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Reposting for all those looking for an appetising lunchtime podcast.

Proofs!🤓‘Secular women in the Lombard Kingdom’ in E. Fournier and M. Kahlos (eds.), Women in late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Studies from Western Europe and Northern Africa, Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 44 (Turhhout: Brepols, 2025), 287–314

Studentische Hausarbeiten, with "Wahrnehmung und Umgang der englischen Gentry des 15. Jahrhunderts mit Krankheiten. Vergleichende Untersuchung anhand der Briefe der Familien Paston, Stonor und Plumpton" by Lea Crescentini (Heidelberg, 2025). timetravellinghistorian.blogspot.com/2020/01/stud...

Here comes another open access article, "Ottonian Notions of imperium and the Byzantine Empire", published in "Frühmittelalterliche Studien" 59.1 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

This looks like a very interesting read.

Thank you, my pleasure! 😎

Kolloquium Forschungen zur Geschichte des mittelalterlichen Europas WiSe 2025/26

Another publication to appear "Kulturkontakt zur Zeit der Völkerwanderung. Koexistenz, Verflechtung oder „Clash of Cultures", Religion und Politik, Ergon Verlag: Münster 2025, see here www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/document/...

Unexpectedly, the OA version of "Mediterranean Connections. The Frankish Kingdoms and the Roman Empire (476–756)", The Medieval Mediterranean 145 (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2025), is already out! (first they told me 27.11, then 30.10) ...Download: brill.com/display/titl...

As often, Google Books is first!! Please find a first impression of "Mediterranean Connections: The Frankish Kingdoms and the Roman Empire (476–756)" here books.google.de/books?id=nai...

Forschungskolloquium zur Mittelalterlichen Geschichte (Univ. Kassel) www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

W3/W1TTW3-Professur „Allgemeine Geschichte unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der vormodernen Geschichte“ (1.000 - 1.500) Universität Bielefeld www.academics.de/jobs/w3-w1tt...

Ringvorlesung über den Historiker/innen/beruf

It appears this will already be published by the end of October! 🤓 brill.com/display/titl... (reminder: it will be in open access)

Apropos Mediterranistik: „Transmediterranean History“ @transmedhistory.bsky.social hat auch studentische Beiträge publiziert. ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind...

Das ist eine schöne Initiative! Ich mache einmal Werbung für etwas Ähnliches, das meine Kollegin Margit Mersch betreut. Vielleicht ergeben sich ja Synergiepotentiale: ojs.ub.rub.de/index.php/MaNo

Studentische Hausarbeiten, mit "Der Kurfürst und seine Töchter Familiäre Zuneigung und unglückliche Ehen in den Briefen von Albrecht Achilles und seinen Töchtern Ursula, Elisabeth und Amalie", von Jacqueline Siffermann, timetravellinghistorian.blogspot.com/2020/01/stud...

Also forthcoming "Kulturkontakt zur Zeit der Völkerwanderung. Koexistenz, Verflechtung oder ‚Clash of Cultures‘?", ed. Christian Scholl, www.nomos-shop.de/de/p/kulturk...

Forthcoming: "Women in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Studies from Western Europe and North Africa", eds. Éric Fournier and Maijastina Kahlos, www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

Job!! Professor - Late Antiquity, University of Toronto maryjahariscenter.org/blog/profess...

Tenure-track assistant professor "Early medieval history" (Univ. of Copenhagen) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

0,75 Universitätsassistent:in Praedoc "Hochmittelalter" (Univ. Wien) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

Although I haven't been told about it and have had to find out for myself via their website, at least one nice thing to come out of AUP's move to Taylor & Francis is that my book has now been made a paperback for the rather more affordable price of €40: www.routledge.com/Ethnic-Ident...

The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies is hiring three postdoctoral researchers. We investigate the causes and mechanisms that contribute to the persistence of strong asymmetrical dependencies across historical and contemporary contexts. Pre-modern perspectives are very welcome!

We had an entire day of stimulating discussions yesterday at the 'Elite Women and Systems of Dependency in Late Antiquity' workshop organised by Grace Stafford and yours truly. We are grateful to @dependencybonn.de for providing funding and assistance for this event.

Classicist Dr. Conor Whately and psychologist Dr. Stephanie Bugden are this year's recipients of the Chancellor's Research grants. LEARN MORE ⬇️

Impressed by how my sharp-eyed students spotted today how the Vatican Vat. 6018 map (c. 770) includes size estimates for some Mediterranean islands, taken from Orosius.

CfP IMC Leeds 2026 - Deadline EXTENDED: Manuscripts and Narratives through Space and Time: New Perspectives on Matthew Paris We invite papers on all aspects of Matthew Paris’s works & their temporalities. 📅 Deadline now: September 16!

Als Ort der nächsten Verbandstagung, erstmalig dann unter dem neuen Namen, bestimmte die Mitgliederversammlung des VHD in der vergangenen Woche #Heidelberg @uniheidelberg.bsky.social. #TagDerGeschichtswissenschaft @historikertag.bsky.social

Hausarbeiten, mit einer Arbeit von Fanny Wörns über "Eine Gemeinschaft in Leben und Tod Krankheit und Sterben im Kloster" (Heidelberg, 2025), mit Bezug auf die Briefe der Nonnen aus dem Kloster Lüne (diglib.hab.de/edoc/ed00024... !!), siehe timetravellinghistorian.blogspot.com/2020/01/stud...

I finally made it to Bluesky - and our volume on the "feudal revolution" ist out (and open access!!)! www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/after-t...

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Studentische Hausarbeiten, with an essay by Jan van den Hombergh on"Die Ästhetisierung der Freundschaft. Die Briefe Margaretes von der Mark (†1409) an Mechtild von Geldern (1324–1384)", Heidelberg timetravellinghistorian.blogspot.com/2020/01/stud...

As we start a new academic year, we are absolutely delighted to welcome Professor Benjamin Pohl (@benpohl.bsky.social) as our new Co-Director of the CMS! 🎉

Zurück vom Historikertag (@historikertag.bsky.social) im schönen Bonn, mit vielen Eindrücken, konstruktiven Gesprächen und wundervollen Vorträgen!

W3-Professur für Mittelalterliche Geschichte in Konstanz!! www.academics.de/jobs/w3-prof...

"Rethinking rebellion in early Capetian Burgundy (1002–1016)" doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... Just out, by @ralphtorta.bsky.social

Our book isn't quite out yet, but this blog gives a teaser... @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social cambridgeblog.org/2025/09/peop...

Excited to hear that this volume is coming out in December - just in time for you to buy copies as Christmas presents for all your friends! 🤓 brill.com/display/titl...

Wooow!! I had no idea this was about to appear!!! Congratulations!!!!

Huge congratulations to my wonderful colleague and former University of Sheffield pal @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social !! Go read this book, the 11th century is the best century :)

🎺🎺 Aufgepasst! Little reminder in eigener Sache: Zur Unterstützung am @dhi-paris.fr suche ich aktuell eine stud./wiss. Hilfskraft. Bewerbungsfrist läuft noch bis 10. September 2025, mehr Informationen gibt's hier: karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/6... Natürlich gerne repost! 😎