manuscripts

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....

The first output of the project I am currently working on has finally been published in the journal Frühmittelalterliche Studien. Together with my colleagues, we wrote a series of articles on priests in the long tenth century, using different types of source material and methodologies to better understand their role in the organisation of pastoral care in the post-Carolingian period. We devote special attention to priests and kinship, tithing, ecclesiastical discipline, and changing normative frameworks surrounding priests....

In this blog post for the ‘Post-imperial priests’-project, I discuss traces of use and what they can tell us about how manuscripts were used. I examine three sets of neumes specifically (see the dots and scribbles in the image above), which are examples of an early medieval notation system for music. The blog post is a byproduct of the research I have done in the past months on the group of manuscripts that I have discussed in a previous post on the same blog....