Michel Summer
@leafandstream.bsky.social
Medievalist at Heidelberg University.
'We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love.' - J. R. R. Tolkien (1943)
'We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love.' - J. R. R. Tolkien (1943)
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Michel Summer
@leafandstream.bsky.social
· Aug 22
'In nomine Domini, Clemens Uuillibrordus anno sexcentessimo nonagessimo ab incarnatione Christi ueniebat ultra mare in Francea.'
A collection of all my posts related to my research on #Willibrord & early medieval #Echternach in one thread. #MedievalSky
A collection of all my posts related to my research on #Willibrord & early medieval #Echternach in one thread. #MedievalSky
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Erinnerung: Unser Call for Papers läuft bis zum 30. November. Gerne weitersagen! fobim.de/forum-2026
Der aktualisierte Call for Papers für unser Forum zum britisch-irischen Mittelalter ist jetzt da! Die Frist für Bewerbungen endet am 30.11.2025. Bitte weitersagen oder selbst bewerben! #medievalsky #mediävistik #skystorians
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Erinnerung: Unser Call for Papers läuft bis zum 30. November. Gerne weitersagen! fobim.de/forum-2026
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This is the feast–in all the churches!–of Willibrord, Apostle to the Frisians, d. 739. 🕯️ First up: the Calendar of Willibrord, BNF lat 10837, an early-8c manuscript written on the Continent, probably at Echternach, mainly in Insular majuscule. #medievalsky 🧵
portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/4309...
portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/4309...
November 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
This is the feast–in all the churches!–of Willibrord, Apostle to the Frisians, d. 739. 🕯️ First up: the Calendar of Willibrord, BNF lat 10837, an early-8c manuscript written on the Continent, probably at Echternach, mainly in Insular majuscule. #medievalsky 🧵
portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/4309...
portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/4309...
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Sad to see that the DigiZeitschriften is shutting down at the end of this year. I've used this for many years for journals such as Deutsches Archiv... will DA be available anywhere else online? @monumenta.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Sad to see that the DigiZeitschriften is shutting down at the end of this year. I've used this for many years for journals such as Deutsches Archiv... will DA be available anywhere else online? @monumenta.bsky.social
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Job: 2 Postdoctoral Researcher "History of the Second World War" (Univ. of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette)
https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-158558
Esch-sur-Alzette, 01.01.2026-31.12.2028, University of Luxembourg, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.12.2025
https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-158558
Esch-sur-Alzette, 01.01.2026-31.12.2028, University of Luxembourg, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.12.2025
www.hsozkult.de
November 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Job: 2 Postdoctoral Researcher "History of the Second World War" (Univ. of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette)
https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-158558
Esch-sur-Alzette, 01.01.2026-31.12.2028, University of Luxembourg, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.12.2025
https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-158558
Esch-sur-Alzette, 01.01.2026-31.12.2028, University of Luxembourg, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.12.2025
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I'm grateful to @karanthir.bsky.social for his very kind review of my book for Early Medieval Europe. #MedievalSky
If you thought you'd heard everything I have to say about @leafandstream.bsky.social's book on Willibrord, well, you'd be wrong! My (very positive) review for Early Medieval Europe has now appeared on early view: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Willibrord between Ireland, Britain and Merovingian Francia (690–739): Beyond Mission. By Michel Summer. Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Belief and Culture. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2024. xviii + 275 pp. £115. ISBN 978 1 83553 418 2.
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:11 AM
I'm grateful to @karanthir.bsky.social for his very kind review of my book for Early Medieval Europe. #MedievalSky
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"Le bon roi Dagobert" bon à rien et Clovis, le barbare inculte et proto-allemand "Chlodowig"? Justine Audebrand retrace la construction historiographique d'une dynastie dans son article "Les Mérovingiens. Bande de fainéants!" dans "France Fictions. Histoire […]
[Original post on wisskomm.social]
[Original post on wisskomm.social]
November 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"Le bon roi Dagobert" bon à rien et Clovis, le barbare inculte et proto-allemand "Chlodowig"? Justine Audebrand retrace la construction historiographique d'une dynastie dans son article "Les Mérovingiens. Bande de fainéants!" dans "France Fictions. Histoire […]
[Original post on wisskomm.social]
[Original post on wisskomm.social]
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Happy to report that our book 'Local Priests in the Latin West, 900-1050' has been published! It is Open Access, so you can read (or download) it here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Happy to report that our book 'Local Priests in the Latin West, 900-1050' has been published! It is Open Access, so you can read (or download) it here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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Zentrum für Burgenforschung an der Universität Tübingen eröffnet: Die Universität Tübingen hat am Donnerstag feierlich ein Zentrum für Burgenforschung eröffnet, das bisher ungeklärten Fragen zu den mittelalterlichen Bauten auf den Grund gehen wird: Wie viele Burgen gab es in… #archäologie
Zentrum für Burgenforschung an der Universität Tübingen eröffnet
Die Universität Tübingen hat am Donnerstag feierlich ein Zentrum für Burgenforschung eröffnet, das bisher ungeklärten Fragen zu den mittelalterlichen Bauten auf den Grund gehen wird: Wie viele Burgen gab es in Deutschland und Europa? Welchem Zwecken außer der Verteidigung dienten sie? Wie sah der Alltag ihrer Bewohnerinnen und Bewohner aus? In welcher Beziehung standen die Burgherren zu umliegenden Dörfern und Klöstern?
www.archaeologie-online.de
November 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Zentrum für Burgenforschung an der Universität Tübingen eröffnet: Die Universität Tübingen hat am Donnerstag feierlich ein Zentrum für Burgenforschung eröffnet, das bisher ungeklärten Fragen zu den mittelalterlichen Bauten auf den Grund gehen wird: Wie viele Burgen gab es in… #archäologie
'When we try to understand the Carolingians, we need to keep the fires of hell in the back of our minds.'
Today on the blog, we descend into a dark, dangerous underworld to answer the question, is Charlemagne in hell? #medievalsky
salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t...
salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t...
The Fire and the Worms: Infernal Affairs at the Carolingian Court
“If I can save 7,000 people a week from getting killed, that’s pretty good. I want to try and get to heaven, if possible. I’m hearing I’m not doing well. I am really at the bottom of the totem pole…
salutemmundo.wordpress.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:20 PM
'When we try to understand the Carolingians, we need to keep the fires of hell in the back of our minds.'
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📜 Deux manuscrits millénaires désormais en ligne !
Dans le cadre de son programme de numérisation du patrimoine écrit, la BnL met à disposition en ligne deux manuscrits d’une valeur historique exceptionnelle : le Codex Mariendalensis et la Bible géante de Saint-Maximin.
👉 https://gd.lu/4rbG0G
Dans le cadre de son programme de numérisation du patrimoine écrit, la BnL met à disposition en ligne deux manuscrits d’une valeur historique exceptionnelle : le Codex Mariendalensis et la Bible géante de Saint-Maximin.
👉 https://gd.lu/4rbG0G
October 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
📜 Deux manuscrits millénaires désormais en ligne !
Dans le cadre de son programme de numérisation du patrimoine écrit, la BnL met à disposition en ligne deux manuscrits d’une valeur historique exceptionnelle : le Codex Mariendalensis et la Bible géante de Saint-Maximin.
👉 https://gd.lu/4rbG0G
Dans le cadre de son programme de numérisation du patrimoine écrit, la BnL met à disposition en ligne deux manuscrits d’une valeur historique exceptionnelle : le Codex Mariendalensis et la Bible géante de Saint-Maximin.
👉 https://gd.lu/4rbG0G
'Augustine vs Wodan. Notker Labeo, Wednesday, and Irish Intellectual Influence at St Gall in the Early Middle Ages.'
New #OA article by Immo Warntjes @historytcd.bsky.social in 'Frühmittelalterliche Studien':
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
New #OA article by Immo Warntjes @historytcd.bsky.social in 'Frühmittelalterliche Studien':
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Augustine vs Wodan
The change of the weekday terminology for Wednesday from ‘Wodan’s day’ to ‘middle of the week’ in Old High German around the year 1000 is commonly explained through a rejection of the Germanic god Wod...
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October 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
'Augustine vs Wodan. Notker Labeo, Wednesday, and Irish Intellectual Influence at St Gall in the Early Middle Ages.'
New #OA article by Immo Warntjes @historytcd.bsky.social in 'Frühmittelalterliche Studien':
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
New #OA article by Immo Warntjes @historytcd.bsky.social in 'Frühmittelalterliche Studien':
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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To be fair, isn't that true for the majority of Latin Roman authors? I.e. our oldest surviving manuscripts being those copied by Carolingians?
October 31, 2025 at 12:43 PM
To be fair, isn't that true for the majority of Latin Roman authors? I.e. our oldest surviving manuscripts being those copied by Carolingians?
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Wir @sfb1671.bsky.social laden herzlich zum Workshop nach Heidelberg ein! In zwei Sessions diskutieren wir mit vier Expert:innen über Heimatmuseen in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Anmeldung via Mail, siehe Link.
www.sfb1671.uni-heidelberg.de/de/workshop-...
www.sfb1671.uni-heidelberg.de/de/workshop-...
Workshop: Von der historischen Rumpelkammer zum multidimensionalen (Lern-)Ort? Heimatmuseen in Geschichte und Gegenwart - Sonderforschungsbereich 1671
www.sfb1671.uni-heidelberg.de
October 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Wir @sfb1671.bsky.social laden herzlich zum Workshop nach Heidelberg ein! In zwei Sessions diskutieren wir mit vier Expert:innen über Heimatmuseen in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Anmeldung via Mail, siehe Link.
www.sfb1671.uni-heidelberg.de/de/workshop-...
www.sfb1671.uni-heidelberg.de/de/workshop-...
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CFP: Forum zum britisch-irischen Mittelalter
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158084
Innsbruck, 19.03.2026-20.03.2026, Forum zum britisch-irischen Mittelalter, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.11.2025
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158084
Innsbruck, 19.03.2026-20.03.2026, Forum zum britisch-irischen Mittelalter, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.11.2025
www.hsozkult.de
October 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
CFP: Forum zum britisch-irischen Mittelalter
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158084
Innsbruck, 19.03.2026-20.03.2026, Forum zum britisch-irischen Mittelalter, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.11.2025
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158084
Innsbruck, 19.03.2026-20.03.2026, Forum zum britisch-irischen Mittelalter, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.11.2025
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Auszeichnungen für junge Heidelberger Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler: Ruprecht-Karls-Preise und Fritz Grunebaum-Preis werden am 25. Oktober vergeben www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...
#universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #forschungspreis #wissenschaftlichernachwuchs
#universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #forschungspreis #wissenschaftlichernachwuchs
October 20, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Auszeichnungen für junge Heidelberger Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler: Ruprecht-Karls-Preise und Fritz Grunebaum-Preis werden am 25. Oktober vergeben www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...
#universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #forschungspreis #wissenschaftlichernachwuchs
#universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #forschungspreis #wissenschaftlichernachwuchs
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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
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...
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Film- und Vortragsreihe: Das Mittelalter auf der Leinwand – Veranstaltungsreihe des Historischen Seminars geht der Frage nach, wie eine vergangene Epoche zur Projektionsfläche für das Kino wird www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...
#universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #mittelalter #film #kino
#universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #mittelalter #film #kino
October 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Film- und Vortragsreihe: Das Mittelalter auf der Leinwand – Veranstaltungsreihe des Historischen Seminars geht der Frage nach, wie eine vergangene Epoche zur Projektionsfläche für das Kino wird www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...
#universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #mittelalter #film #kino
#universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #mittelalter #film #kino
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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
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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Need cheering up on a gloomy October afternoon? The new issue of Early Medieval Europe is out!
Articles on justice in Bavaria, tolls in Italy, women in 10th-c. Rome, Carolingian kingship, and child slavery: mostly available Open Access 😎https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680254/2025/33/4
Articles on justice in Bavaria, tolls in Italy, women in 10th-c. Rome, Carolingian kingship, and child slavery: mostly available Open Access 😎https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680254/2025/33/4
Early Medieval Europe: Vol 33, No 4
Early Medieval Europe is an interdisciplinary medieval studies journal covering European history from the fall of the Roman Empire up until the 11th century.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Need cheering up on a gloomy October afternoon? The new issue of Early Medieval Europe is out!
Articles on justice in Bavaria, tolls in Italy, women in 10th-c. Rome, Carolingian kingship, and child slavery: mostly available Open Access 😎https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680254/2025/33/4
Articles on justice in Bavaria, tolls in Italy, women in 10th-c. Rome, Carolingian kingship, and child slavery: mostly available Open Access 😎https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680254/2025/33/4
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Checking out the Viking-Age hall reconstruction in Lejre, Denmark
October 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Checking out the Viking-Age hall reconstruction in Lejre, Denmark
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Vient de paraître / Soeben erschienen
Bestellen über www.hemecht.lu
Bestellen über www.hemecht.lu
October 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Vient de paraître / Soeben erschienen
Bestellen über www.hemecht.lu
Bestellen über www.hemecht.lu
Published one year ago today!
'Willibrord between Ireland, Britain and Merovingian Francia (690–739). Beyond Mission' has been out for a month now. Very grateful for the support and the encouraging feedback I've received so far from friends & colleagues. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
October 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Published one year ago today!
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I finally made it to Bluesky - and our volume on the "feudal revolution" ist out (and open access!!)!
www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/after-t...
www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/after-t...
After the Feudal Revolution
Das Mittelalter gilt als Zeit der Ritter und Burgen, als Zeit
www.mohrsiebeck.com
September 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I finally made it to Bluesky - and our volume on the "feudal revolution" ist out (and open access!!)!
www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/after-t...
www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/after-t...
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The elephant rides again! 🐘 Join us on a journey from the palaces of Baghdad, through the streets of Córdoba and all the way to the forests of Aachen #medievalsky
Now in #paperback, The Emperor and the Elephant by @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social is a new history of Christian-Muslim relations in the #Carolingian period that provides a fresh account of events by drawing on Arabic as well as western sources.
Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
September 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The elephant rides again! 🐘 Join us on a journey from the palaces of Baghdad, through the streets of Córdoba and all the way to the forests of Aachen #medievalsky