Thomas Kohl

Hey, herzlichen Glückwunsch, Frau Kollegin!

May I pick your brain? Local minds as living cadastres in a Portuguese eleventh‐century lawsuit In the context of a dispute with the monastery of Lorvão, in the late eleventh century, the monks of Vacariça, near Coimbra (modern Portugal), carried out a field enquiry in the village of Recardães....

How did large-scale landowning work on the ground, in a society without centralized landownership records? A brand-new article by Julio Escalona suggests it's about 'Dense Local Knowledge': onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Endlich ein Auto, das ich interessant finde!

The date and context of the Astronomer's Life of Louis the Pious The Astronomer's Life of the emperor Louis the Pious (814–40) is a canonical source for scholars of Frankish history. It sits at the centre of recent debates about the nature and tone of Carolingian ....

Enmeshed in marking, but just thought I'd point out that this article is now out, open access: Simon MacLean, arguing that the Astronomer's Life of Louis the Pious could be rather later than historians have assumed: might 'the Astronomer' be Jonas of Orleans?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀
𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀, 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗱
By Bastiaan Waagmeester

More info: bit.ly/48vHU0X

#ChurchHistory #Theology #Carolingian #Literacy #Medievalsky #Medievalists

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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...

Exciting online workshop on iconoclasm coming up @dhi-paris.fr

Another (quite exciting looking!) book from Tübingen!!

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!

Nicht vor dem Altar knien, wir wissen, was dann passiert!

Ooh, another coronation coming up?

I think it might be a Rotmilan (Red Kite)

I am not quite sure how this works, but here's a free open source editable historical map that's pretty decent on medieval Europe.

Cologne

A bird's eye view of Carolingian Cologne, c/o Karl Ubl.

#Latin #Medieval

The MGH have reinstated a Dokumentlieferdienst, or reprography service, and I'm advertising it on their behalf. If don't have access to a german library, you can order PDFs of rare papers and books, directly from their online catalogue. Example below!
mgh.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/se...

I don't know how often I have told students that!

JOB: We are looking for a new colleague for our working group on early modern global history at @unituebingen.bsky.social - PhD position, 3+1 years. Please spread the word (also beyond Germany!) and do not hesitate to get in touch! Deadline: 20 June. @duerrbortolotti.bsky.social

Aus aktuellem Anlass. Sollte es Simonie geben?

Tractoriae and the logistics of Carolingian entourages Entourages played a central role in Carolingian politics and military organization. Yet historians have neglected the important question of how kings and magnates supplied their retinues. This articl...

Eric Goldberg on the scale of Carolingian entourages, and armies:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ordo renascendi est crescere posse malis (Rutilius Namatianus I.140): the sack of Rome and the resilience of western Roman aristocracies Rutilius Namatianus’ poem De reditu suo was written a few years after the devastation of Rome in 410. It has been read as nostalgia for Rome’s past greatness written in a climate of senatorial escapi...

Fed up of doom-scrolling on Easter Monday? Then it's your luck day, for the latest issue of EME is out now!
The articles are *all* open access, starting with:
Sophie Kultzen on the resilience of the late Roman aristocracy
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Anyone interested?

Symbolic picture of students at the University of Passau

📢 Open Call 📢

Are you looking for an opportunity to focus on your research in a vibrant academic community in the heart of Europe? Apply now for a fellowship at our #PICAIS Centre for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies 👉 www.picais.uni-passau.de/en/funding-p...

🗓 Deadline: 15 May 2025
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Mein Mediävistenherz springt: ich bin nächste Woche mit dem Prior von Niederaltaich verabredet.

It is really very good!

I do love that the review starts with a complaint about the lack of elephants.

Noch frohe Weihnachten allerseits!

Gutes Mönchtum in St. Gallen und Fulda Johanna Jebe legt eine Neuanalyse zu den monastischen Entwicklungen der Karolingerzeit vor, die erstmals die vielstimmigen Diskussionen aufdeckt, die in den Klöstern über gutes Mönchtum geführt worden...

An excellent recent monograph by Johanna Jebe, "Gutes Mönchtum in St. Gallen und Fulda: Diskussion und Correctio im Spiegel karolingischer Klosterbibliotheken (Fuldaer Studien)" books.google.lu/books?id=J2L...