Thomas Kohl
@zezzo796.bsky.social
Medieval Historian, University of Passau
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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/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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 ....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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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
𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀, 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗱
By Bastiaan Waagmeester
More info: bit.ly/48vHU0X
#ChurchHistory #Theology #Carolingian #Literacy #Medievalsky #Medievalists
December 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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
𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀, 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗱
By Bastiaan Waagmeester
More info: bit.ly/48vHU0X
#ChurchHistory #Theology #Carolingian #Literacy #Medievalsky #Medievalists
Beschreibe deine Bahnverspätung mit einem Bild:
October 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Beschreibe deine Bahnverspätung mit einem Bild:
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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...
October 20, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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...
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Exciting online workshop on iconoclasm coming up @dhi-paris.fr
It’s the 1200th anniversary of the “Paris Meeting of 825,” at which a group of Frankish bishops discussed the permissibility of images in Christian worship!
We are celebrating by meeting in Paris. 🎉
We are celebrating by meeting in Paris. 🎉
October 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Exciting online workshop on iconoclasm coming up @dhi-paris.fr
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Another (quite exciting looking!) book from Tübingen!!
October 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Another (quite exciting looking!) book from Tübingen!!
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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 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!
3 Postdoctoral Positions (100%, TV-L E-13, for 3 years)
full-time, Temporary, EG 13, Reference number: 2025/152
www.uni-bonn.de
September 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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 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!
September 27, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Nicht vor dem Altar knien, wir wissen, was dann passiert!
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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.
September 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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.
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A bird's eye view of Carolingian Cologne, c/o Karl Ubl.
August 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
A bird's eye view of Carolingian Cologne, c/o Karl Ubl.
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July 25, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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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...
mgh.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/se...
July 25, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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...
mgh.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/se...
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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
Job: 0,65 Wiss. Mitarb. (m/w/d) „Globalgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit (1400–1800)“ (Univ. Tübingen)
https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-155042
Tübingen, , Universität Tübingen, Bewerbungsschluss: 20.06.2025
https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-155042
Tübingen, , Universität Tübingen, Bewerbungsschluss: 20.06.2025
www.hsozkult.de
May 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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
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Eric Goldberg on the scale of Carolingian entourages, and armies:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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...
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April 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Eric Goldberg on the scale of Carolingian entourages, and armies:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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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/...
The articles are *all* open access, starting with:
Sophie Kultzen on the resilience of the late Roman aristocracy
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...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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/...
The articles are *all* open access, starting with:
Sophie Kultzen on the resilience of the late Roman aristocracy
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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📢 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
🧪
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
🧪
March 21, 2025 at 8:12 AM
📢 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
🧪
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
🧪
Mein Mediävistenherz springt: ich bin nächste Woche mit dem Prior von Niederaltaich verabredet.
March 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Mein Mediävistenherz springt: ich bin nächste Woche mit dem Prior von Niederaltaich verabredet.
Noch frohe Weihnachten allerseits!
December 25, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Noch frohe Weihnachten allerseits!
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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...
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...
books.google.lu
November 8, 2024 at 7:40 AM
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...
Wunder des Publikationswesen: Ich habe diese Woche a) die pre-typsetting Fahnen eines Beitrags bekommen, den ich 2018 eingereicht habe (Tagung war 2015) und b) die Fahnen eines Aufsatzes bekommen, den ich Montag(!!!) eingeschickt habe (29.1.!)
February 2, 2024 at 1:50 PM
Wunder des Publikationswesen: Ich habe diese Woche a) die pre-typsetting Fahnen eines Beitrags bekommen, den ich 2018 eingereicht habe (Tagung war 2015) und b) die Fahnen eines Aufsatzes bekommen, den ich Montag(!!!) eingeschickt habe (29.1.!)
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historically correct
January 6, 2024 at 8:45 PM
historically correct
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Students and colleagues in Göttingen mourn the early death of Rebekka Habermas, who was held in high esteem both academically and personally. It is upsetting that you will no longer meet her in our building or in the city.
Zum Tod von Rebekka Habermas
Es war, als öffnete sie Fenster und Türen für einen neuen Frühling der Geschichtsschreibung: Rebekka Habermas thematisierte als Historikerin die Themen, die die Gegenwart bewegen.
www.sueddeutsche.de
December 22, 2023 at 7:14 AM
Students and colleagues in Göttingen mourn the early death of Rebekka Habermas, who was held in high esteem both academically and personally. It is upsetting that you will no longer meet her in our building or in the city.
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"Phlogaward von Rance" - apparently I need to work on the pronunciation of "Flodoard"
November 14, 2023 at 9:46 AM
"Phlogaward von Rance" - apparently I need to work on the pronunciation of "Flodoard"