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Since early 2021, I have been part of an interdisciplinary research group with five other scholars called THiGer that examines the understanding and use of the Lord’s Prayer during the Middle Ages. This is a broad subject that we want to study from a theological, historical and germanist perspective (hence the name). We believe that through our cooperation we can provide a more complete picture of the development of medieval prayer, lay piety, and Christian religion in general in Europe....

I’ve reviewed the collected volume ‘Networks of Bishops, Networks of Texts: Manuscripts, Legal Culture, Tools of Government in Carolingian Italy at the Time of Lothar I’ edited by Gianmarco De Angelis and Franceso Veronese for the journal Early Medieval Europe. If you’re interested in early medieval Italy and manuscripts it’s definitely worth checking out. There are a handful of articles that provide great insights into the connections between Carolingian Italy and the rest of the empire north of the Alps, through the careful study of manuscripts....

Afgelopen week is het boek ‘De inventieve middeleeuwen. Praktische kennis en kunde van voor het jaar 1000’ verschenen bij Uitgeverij Verloren. Het is een samenwerking van (veelal Utrechtse) historici die werken aan de vroege middeleeuwen en geïnteresseerd zijn, zoals de titel al aangeeft, in praktische kennis. Het gaat hier dus niet om politiek gemanoeuvreer of theologische debatten, maar over nuttige kennis voor het alledaagse leven. Denk hierbij aan recepten, medische weetjes, gebeden en dieetadvies van voor het jaar duizend....

During the last semester, I have taught an undergraduate course (Übung) at the Universität Tübingen together with my great colleague Johanna Jebe. The aim of the course was to introduce students to the study of medieval history in general and the study of medieval manuscripts in particular. In this post, I will try to give some insights into the structure of the course, our ideas behind it, and its final result....

Some personal news: since the end of September I have been in Edinburgh as a visiting scholar. I am currently working together with prof. dr. Charles West on a book as part of the project ‘Priests in a post-imperial world, 900-1050’. It is slowely taking shape and we hope to finish it at some point next year. Besides writing, I have also given a talk at the medieval seminar in Edinburgh with the title ‘Episcopal manuals and the ordering of knowledge in a post-Carolingian world’....