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Marieke Röben (she/her)
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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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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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Another year, another end-of-semester infographic presentation from my students. Here's a map showing Alcuin's letter network.
November 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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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.
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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a world without trans people has never existed and never will
April 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
6 years
476 pages
2122 footnotes
4015 times the word "horse"
November 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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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November 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
🎼 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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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...
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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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
November 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
That the Ionae vita Columbani is not the vita of Columban of Iona should be illegal.
November 23, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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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November 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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RA Bimmel, RA Bammel, RA Bumm, Fachanwälte für Umzugs- und Gesangsrecht.
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Nicht zu verwechseln mit dem Katzenaugennebel, den diese berühmte Aufnahme des Hubble-Teleskops zeigt. 😉
November 19, 2025 at 6:24 AM
The end is nigh!
But as a motivational quote.

#PhDLife
November 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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"Isambard" : Library Cat at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University.
Book: 'Opuscula of Gregorii Tiferni' (1494)?
#HigherEd #research #Cats #edchat
November 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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
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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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
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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Harlequin costume (German, #c18th #c18 #18thc), Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
November 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Chaucer, Chappell Roan, and bardcore: what a time to be alive.
#médiévalisme
November 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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'The gays in ancient Rome?' Please, the term is 'the LGBTSPQR+ community'
August 31, 2024 at 9:29 AM
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Jobcenter Mitarbeitende sind anscheinend ausgebildete Psycholog*innen, die nur in einer Maßnahme des Jobcenters feststecken
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
November 14, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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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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