'Willibrord between Ireland, Britain and Merovingian Francia (690–739). Beyond Mission' has been out for a month now. Very grateful for the support and the encouraging feedback I've received so far from friends & colleagues. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Now in #paperback, The Emperor and the Elephant by @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social is a new history of Christian-Muslim relations in the #Carolingian period that provides a fresh account of events by drawing on Arabic as well as western sources.

Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

I'm grateful to @karanthir.bsky.social for his very kind review of my book for Early Medieval Europe. #MedievalSky

Conférence | Manon Raynal – La gouvernance de Plectrude (714-717) : autorité d’une aristocrate à la tête du royaume franc d’Austrasie | 22-23 septembre 2025, Clermont-Ferrand
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If you thought you'd heard everything I have to say about @leafandstream.bsky.social's book on Willibrord, well, you'd be wrong! My (very positive) review for Early Medieval Europe has now appeared on early view: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

'Willibrord between Ireland, Britain and Merovingian Francia (690–739). Beyond Mission' has been out for a month now. Very grateful for the support and the encouraging feedback I've received so far from friends & colleagues. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Many thanks to @karanthir.bsky.social for featuring my book @livunipress.bsky.social on his blog & interviewing me about my research on Willibrord and the wider context of his biography, i. e. the Merovingian world around 700. Already looking forward to the next parts in the series!

The site of the 'Petite Marquise' in #Echternach, where structures dated to the 10/11th c. were discovered in 2020, is now covered with panels tracing the town's medieval history & showing some of the archaeological finds. Hopefully, we'll hear more about the preservation project 'Epternacum' soon.

Now available in OA: My article on 'Studying the networks and the mobility of clerics between Ireland, Britain
and Francia (c. 640–750)' in the volume on early medieval mobility edited by @laurysarti.bsky.social and Helene von Trott zu Solz. Congratulations to the editors! #MedievalSky

During Pope Francis' visit to Luxembourg in 2024, Prime Minister Luc Frieden called Willibrord a 'European before the European Union'. In a brief article for @livunipress.bsky.social's blog, I reflect on the appl. of the label 'European' to early medieval missionaries. #MedievalSky

I had the huge pleasure of presenting my book on Willibrord in Echternach in pres. of the mayor & the 🇮🇪 & 🇬🇧 ambassadors to 🇱🇺 - w. the supp. of the Irish Embassy & the Willibrordus-BV, we were able to invite Dáibhí Ó Cróinín for a great discussion on Ireland, Britain & the Continent in the 7/8th c.

Today, I had the chance to visit the National Library of Luxembourg together w. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín & HE Ambassador Jean McDonald. We were shown some of the oldest fragments in their collection, incl. one of Gregory's Dialogues & the Hisperica Famina, both of 7th-c. date & kept at Echternach. 1/2

It was a great honour and pleasure to be able to launch my book on Willibrord at the Luxembourg Residence in Dublin yesterday at the invitation of the ambassador, HE Florence Ensch. I was especially delighted to see so many former colleagues and friends from the Irish medievalist community again.

My chapter '"Vassal" or "political player"? Towards a re-assessment of Willibrord's political activity in Merovingian Francia (690-739)' is now published in OA as part of the collected volume 'Power of the Priests. Political Use of Religious Knowledge': www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

My French review of Rainer Neu's 2021 monograph on "Willibrord und die Christianisierung Europas im Frühmittelalter" is now out in the latest issue of the Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique 118, 1-2 (2023).

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