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Marieke Röben (she/her)
@amedievalmare.bsky.social
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A Horsey Historian. An Early Medievalist. A Gamer. A Reader. A Feminist. A lover of chocolate & animals. Fed up with it all. 🏳️‍🌈 (ger/eng)
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Marieke Röben (she/her) @amedievalmare.bsky.social · Oct 15
Kunst und Wissenschaft, Forschung und Lehre sind frei.
Die Freiheit der Lehre entbindet nicht von der Treue zur Verfassung.

- Grundgesetz Artikel 5, Absatz 3
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pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
Another year, another end-of-semester infographic presentation from my students. Here's a map showing Alcuin's letter network.
Map showing Alcuin's letter network (based on Allott)
November 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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guidobaldine.bsky.social
Frauen im Spätmittelalter heißen ja meistens Katharina, Elisabeth oder Margarethe. Ausgefallene Namen sind eher selten. So zumindest der Urkundenbefund. Deshalb heute #NameOfTheDay: Adyatica. Zu finden auf #HHStA AUR 19735 aus dem Jahr 1413.
Ausschnitt einer mittelalterlichen Urkunde mit Text, der den Namen Adyatica enthält.
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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queermedieval.bsky.social
a world without trans people has never existed and never will
a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.
April 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
amedievalmare.bsky.social
6 years
476 pages
2122 footnotes
4015 times the word "horse"
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Me standing in front of the main building at the University of Hamburg, holding my thesis, smiling brightly
November 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
amedievalmare.bsky.social
While I was waiting for my PhD thesis on horses in the Middle Ages to be printed, I finally got around to visit Lüneburg's medieval town hall. I got stuck on this beautiful painting. Obviously, I could have looked at this forever.

by Daniel Frese, Lüneburg 1576.

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A painting of a skeleton in a white cloak riding a dark Horse. It's holding a scythe and turns around sitting up straight. The horse is decorated with silver ribbons and is jumping forward. Next to it the text: DIE 4, PLAG / PESTILENT(Z)d) R PSAL(M). 91. / DENN ER ERRETTET MICH VOM / STRICK DES IEGERSe) VND VON DER SCHR(ECK)/LICHE(N)f) PESTILENTZ.5)
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
amedievalmare.bsky.social
🎼 Heut ist mein Abgabetag, darum feiern wir 🎵
🎵 Alle meine Freunde freuen sich mit mir 🎶
#PhDLife #Doktorarbeit
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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akgwds.bsky.social
Anlässlich des 10-Jährigen und der Vereinsgründung veranstaltet der AKGWDS vom 28.-29.11.25 seine erste Online-Tagung!🥳

▶️Zoom-Link unter dieser Mail erhalten: tagung@akgwds.de

🗓️Das Programm am Freitag: www.instagram.com/ak_gwds/p/DR...

🗓️Und am Samstag: www.instagram.com/ak_gwds/p/DR...
Cover für die Online-Jubiläumstagung "Spielkulturen" des Arbeitskreises Geisteswissenschaften und Digitale Spiele.
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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weirdmedieval.bsky.social
they had goth baddies in the 17th century as evidenced by the fact that a woman named Caterine Morte had a skull coat of arms
a book page with a coat of arms showing a skull, next to it is written Caterine Morte
November 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
amedievalmare.bsky.social
That the Ionae vita Columbani is not the vita of Columban of Iona should be illegal.
November 23, 2025 at 9:38 AM
amedievalmare.bsky.social
Ich wollte gerade "perfekt" schreiben, aber meine Finger haben automatisch "pferdekt" getippt. Wird Zeit, dass die Diss wegkommt 😂
November 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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gewkvup.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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leonceundlena.bsky.social
RA Bimmel, RA Bammel, RA Bumm, Fachanwälte für Umzugs- und Gesangsrecht.
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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dlr-next.bsky.social
Nicht zu verwechseln mit dem Katzenaugennebel, den diese berühmte Aufnahme des Hubble-Teleskops zeigt. 😉
Das Bild zeigt einen sogenannten Planetarischen Nebel. In der Mitte ein kleiner heller Stern, drumherum in mehreren Schichten kreisförmige und fein strukturierte Gaswolken - oft sich mehrfach überlagernd und allesamt am Ende des Sternenlebens ins All abgestoßen. Links unten und rechts oben schießen weitere Gaswolken in die Umgebung, wobei sie hier eher länglich geformt sind.
November 19, 2025 at 6:24 AM
amedievalmare.bsky.social
The end is nigh!
But as a motivational quote.

#PhDLife
November 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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wokestudies.bsky.social
"Isambard" : Library Cat at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University.
Book: 'Opuscula of Gregorii Tiferni' (1494)?
#HigherEd #research #Cats #edchat
Photo of "Isambard" : Library Cat at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. Book: 'Opuscula of Gregorii Tiferni' (1494)?
November 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
amedievalmare.bsky.social
What's the most absurd divine judgment you've come across?

Mine is probably "A man stole St. Corbinian's Spanish stallion to breed with it, but then his mares became so aggressive that they kicked the horse so badly his penis was unusable."
November 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
amedievalmare.bsky.social
Proofreading a chapter in the car on the way back from a concert at 00:15. Just #PhDLife
November 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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jametc.bsky.social
Reminder!!

Bluesky has a pronoun labeler you should really use!

Only those who subscribe to this will see it so you should do that. Don't worry, that's all it does.
Instructions are in the bio/first post.
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
amedievalmare.bsky.social
Less than two weeks before handing in, I start questioning whether I might have misunderstood how quotes work and if all of my 2000 footnotes are wrong.
#PhDLife
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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nguthrie.bsky.social
Harlequin costume (German, #c18th #c18 #18thc), Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
Wool jacket and trousers with inlaid patchwork in yellow, white green and red with animals embroidered in wool and silk
November 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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bretonjustine.bsky.social
Chaucer, Chappell Roan, and bardcore: what a time to be alive.
#médiévalisme
Christina Carlson gives a paper on "Chappell Roan, The Wife of Bath, and the Politics of Cunt", for the enjoyment of everyone in the audience, including Fabien Bièvre-Perrin presenting the session.
November 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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lauropea.bsky.social
'The gays in ancient Rome?' Please, the term is 'the LGBTSPQR+ community'
August 31, 2024 at 9:29 AM
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lilischote.bsky.social
Jobcenter Mitarbeitende sind anscheinend ausgebildete Psycholog*innen, die nur in einer Maßnahme des Jobcenters feststecken
leogfischer.bsky.social Leo G. Fischer 💯👏 @leogfischer.bsky.social · 14d
Genial: die Jobcenter laden psychisch Kranke vor, um zu schauen, ob sie wirklich psychisch krank sind. Wenn sie nicht kommen, sind sie "Totalverweigerer*innen", wenn sie es in die Jobcenter schaffen, können sie ja nicht wirklich psychisch krank sein
Zitat Zeit-Text: "Menschen mit psychischen Erkrankungen sollen künftig strenger kontrolliert werden. Sie sollen künftig persönlich beim Jobcenter vorsprechen. So soll geprüft werden, ob die Betroffenen wirklich psychisch krank sind. Diese Regelung könnte sich als problematisch erweisen."
November 14, 2025 at 8:06 AM
amedievalmare.bsky.social
Final PhD stage madness has me at "maybe I'll just translate this 300 page source in my free time as a hobby once I'm done!"
November 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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juergenzimmerer.bsky.social
Was für ein Armutszeugnis! Hamburg will die olympischen Spiele ausrichten, schafft es aber nicht einmal seine @stabihh.bsky.social auskömmlich zu finanzieren. Pfeffersäcke haben halt andere Prioritäten: das schnelle Strohfeuer statt die nachhaltige Innovation
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Einschränkung des E-Medien-Angebots ab 2026
Aktuell ist die Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek auf vielen Gebieten mit erheblichen Kostensteigerungen konfrontiert, die Einsparungen – auch bei der Erwerbung wichtiger Literatur und der B…
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November 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM