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PD Dr. Laury Sarti
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Medieval historian @UniHeidelberg 🎓@degruyterbrill, @WissenVerbindet & @OxUniPress monographs 💡Western Europe, Byzantium, mobility, military, digital humanities ✐Heisenberg (DFG)
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Was lange währt, wird endlich gut! ich freue mich sehr zu sagen, dass ich heute zur W3-Universitätsprofessorin für Mittelalterliche Geschichte an der Universität Bonn auf Lebenszeit berufen worden bin, mit Dienstantritt zum 1. Dezember www.igw.uni-bonn.de/de/institut/...
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Hot off the press, my review of Doublier's (excellent) 'Reich ohne König?'. The book is an absolute game-changer for how we approach politics in 11th and 12thC northern Italy.

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Ein Reich ohne König? Akzeptanz, Deutung und Repräsentation königlicher Herrschaft im regnum Italicum zwischen dem 11. und 12. Jahrhundert. By Étienne Doublier. Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Schriften 84. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. 2024. LXXIV + 666 pp.; 45 colour figures and 10 b/w maps. €115. ISBN 978 3 447 12274 0.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Was lange währt, wird endlich gut! ich freue mich sehr zu sagen, dass ich heute zur W3-Universitätsprofessorin für Mittelalterliche Geschichte an der Universität Bonn auf Lebenszeit berufen worden bin, mit Dienstantritt zum 1. Dezember www.igw.uni-bonn.de/de/institut/...
November 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
How was your weekend? 🧑‍🎨
November 17, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access

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Cambridge University Press
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November 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Mediterranean Connections. The Frankish Kingdoms and the Roman Empire (476–756), The Medieval Mediterranean 145 (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2025), is now also in paper print🤓. brill.com/display/titl... More good news is soon to come!
November 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Studentische Hausarbeiten, with a study by Paula Johanna Langner on "Eltern-Kind-Kommunikation im Briefverkehr des Spätmittelalters Untersuchung am Beispiel der Kinder des Markgrafen von Brandenburg-Ansbach" (Heidelberg, 2025). timetravellinghistorian.blogspot.com/2020/01/stud...
Studentische Hausarbeiten
Blog on medieval history, incl. topics like physical mobility, the connectivity between Byzantium and the West, the military, student work, and maps.
timetravellinghistorian.blogspot.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 AM
W2-Professur für Alte Geschichte (m/w/d)
Universität des Saarlandes www.academics.de/jobs/w2-prof...
W2-Professur für Alte Geschichte (m/w/d) - Universität des Saarlandes
Universität des Saarlandes bietet Stelle als W2-Professur für Alte Geschichte (m/w/d) in Saarbrücken - jetzt bewerben!
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October 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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To mark the launch of Colmán Etchingham's Vikings in Early Medieval Ireland, Boydell & Brewer are offering a **65%** discount on the book until the end of November. Enter the code BB158 when ordering it from their website (individual not institutional orders):

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October 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Und nachdem Gott seinen himmlischen Heerscharen die große Kiste mit der Kreide zum Malen überlassen hatte, sah er, dass diese Idee höchstens so mittelgut war.

(Auf dem Weg zur Arbeit.)
October 29, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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For a limited time only - a digital offprint of our interdisciplinary article rewriting the early history of Bruges and the coast of Flanders, and proposing it and Boulogne as mints of Charlemagne.
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A new mint for Charlemagne (768-†814) ? An investigation into the earliest history of Bruges
Suggestions for you
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October 29, 2025 at 6:19 AM
CfP: Small Worlds, Big Worlds: Medieval Mediterranean Perspectives, Ninth International Conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean, Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM) – NOVA, FCSH, Lisbon, June 22–26, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/small-w...
Small Worlds, Big Worlds: Medieval Mediterranean Perspectives | Mary Jaharis Center
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October 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Hurrah! My new book, Europe in the Eleventh Century: Beyond Revolution and Reform is officially published today by Oxford University Press. 1/5 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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October 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Reposting for all those looking for an appetising lunchtime podcast.
October 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Proofs!🤓‘Secular women in the Lombard Kingdom’ in E. Fournier and M. Kahlos (eds.), Women in late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Studies from Western Europe and Northern Africa, Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 44 (Turhhout: Brepols, 2025), 287–314
October 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Studentische Hausarbeiten, with "Wahrnehmung und Umgang der englischen Gentry des 15. Jahrhunderts mit Krankheiten. Vergleichende Untersuchung anhand der Briefe der Familien Paston, Stonor und Plumpton" by Lea Crescentini (Heidelberg, 2025). timetravellinghistorian.blogspot.com/2020/01/stud...
Studentische Hausarbeiten
Blog on medieval history, incl. topics like physical mobility, the connectivity between Byzantium and the West, the military, student work, and maps.
timetravellinghistorian.blogspot.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Here comes another open access article, "Ottonian Notions of imperium and the Byzantine Empire", published in "Frühmittelalterliche Studien" 59.1 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Ottonian Notions of imperium and the Byzantine Empire
This study re-examines the Ottonian Empire’s self-conception and its relationship with its eastern counterpart in the context of the empire’s re-establishment in the West. Building on earlier Roman, B...
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October 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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This looks like a very interesting read.
October 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Thank you, my pleasure! 😎
@jurdj.bsky.social I'm weeping tears of joy. If only this was popularised so we can finally lay to rest the notions of the previous century.
Excerpt from 'Mediterranean Connections - the Frankish Kingdoms and the Roman Empire (476-756)' by @laurysarti.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Kolloquium Forschungen zur Geschichte des mittelalterlichen Europas WiSe 2025/26
October 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Another publication to appear "Kulturkontakt zur Zeit der Völkerwanderung. Koexistenz, Verflechtung oder „Clash of Cultures", Religion und Politik, Ergon Verlag: Münster 2025, see here www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/document/...
October 20, 2025 at 9:01 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...
October 20, 2025 at 8:19 AM
As often, Google Books is first!! Please find a first impression of "Mediterranean Connections: The Frankish Kingdoms and the Roman Empire (476–756)" here books.google.de/books?id=nai...
Mediterranean Connections: The Frankish Kingdoms and the Roman Empire (476–756)
This monograph challenges the idea that Roman imperial authority in the West ended in 476. It shows how the Frankish realm maintained ties to the empire, with real separation only emerging in the late...
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October 18, 2025 at 11:04 AM
W3/W1TTW3-Professur „Allgemeine Geschichte unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der vormodernen Geschichte“ (1.000 - 1.500)
Universität Bielefeld www.academics.de/jobs/w3-w1tt...
W3/W1TTW3-Professur „Allgemeine Geschichte unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der vormodernen Geschichte“ (1.000 - 1.500) - Universität Bielefeld
Universität Bielefeld bietet Stelle als W3/W1TTW3-Professur „Allgemeine Geschichte unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der vormodernen Geschichte“ (1.000 - 1.500) in Bielefeld - jetzt bewerben!
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October 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Ringvorlesung über den Historiker/innen/beruf
October 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM