Christoph Haack
@christoph-haack.bsky.social
Historian @uni_tue, Medieval history. Carolingian history, feudal revolution, saints, #modernity, https://nppm.ub.uni-tuebingen.de/
Today: meet the famous German medievalist Gei‘d Aíthoít!
November 21, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Today: meet the famous German medievalist Gei‘d Aíthoít!
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Nächste Woche ist diese Tagung zur Ästhetik von Naturorten im Mittelalter, veranstaltet von @chillrike.bsky.social und Jan Stellmann. Ich bin mit Barbie dabei: "Vnd spilt sich der stainen vels. Die Agency des Felsens in den mittelalterlichen Barbara-Legenden"! See you in Tübingen.
November 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Nächste Woche ist diese Tagung zur Ästhetik von Naturorten im Mittelalter, veranstaltet von @chillrike.bsky.social und Jan Stellmann. Ich bin mit Barbie dabei: "Vnd spilt sich der stainen vels. Die Agency des Felsens in den mittelalterlichen Barbara-Legenden"! See you in Tübingen.
Es gibt verrückte Sachen auf der Welt!
November 19, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Es gibt verrückte Sachen auf der Welt!
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Ich ziehe 50 Nudeln und 1 Sauce vor.
November 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Ich ziehe 50 Nudeln und 1 Sauce vor.
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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...
Here's a very fine review for a very fine book (if you'd like a quick overview of Johanna Jebe, Gutes Mönchtum in St. Gallen und Fulda 2024) doi.org/10.1111/emed...
Gutes Mönchtum in St. Gallen und Fulda. Diskussion und Correctio im Spiegel karolingischer Klosterbibliotheken. By Johanna Jebe. Fuldaer Studien 30. Herder: Freiburg im Breisgau. 2024. 736 pp. €82. ISBN 978 3 451 39830 9.
Click on the article title to read more.
doi.org
November 3, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Here's a very fine review for a very fine book (if you'd like a quick overview of Johanna Jebe, Gutes Mönchtum in St. Gallen und Fulda 2024) doi.org/10.1111/emed...
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so the news is that i have done the unthinkable and... started a podcast.
"American Medieval" - because if we've never been fully modern, maybe it's because we've always been a little bit medieval.
the trailer has now dropped! please have a listen -->
patreon.com/americanmedieval
"American Medieval" - because if we've never been fully modern, maybe it's because we've always been a little bit medieval.
the trailer has now dropped! please have a listen -->
patreon.com/americanmedieval
October 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
so the news is that i have done the unthinkable and... started a podcast.
"American Medieval" - because if we've never been fully modern, maybe it's because we've always been a little bit medieval.
the trailer has now dropped! please have a listen -->
patreon.com/americanmedieval
"American Medieval" - because if we've never been fully modern, maybe it's because we've always been a little bit medieval.
the trailer has now dropped! please have a listen -->
patreon.com/americanmedieval
Dear Blsky, should I write „viking“ with a small or capital„ V“, and why (small)? - Thank you, a confused German.
October 17, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Dear Blsky, should I write „viking“ with a small or capital„ V“, and why (small)? - Thank you, a confused German.
Tours-Poitiers 732 (? Or where? Or when?) salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2023/10/24/k... -- Wanted to share a fantastic blogpost by @ralphtorta.bsky.social and @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social . (Ps.: right-wingers hate this post!!!!)
October 14, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Tours-Poitiers 732 (? Or where? Or when?) salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2023/10/24/k... -- Wanted to share a fantastic blogpost by @ralphtorta.bsky.social and @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social . (Ps.: right-wingers hate this post!!!!)
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Chapeau to @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social for his wonderful new book which has just arrived, an amazingly global and ecumenical volume, in all senses! Beautifully produced by OUP (and before publication day!?).
A spur to others!
A spur to others!
October 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Chapeau to @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social for his wonderful new book which has just arrived, an amazingly global and ecumenical volume, in all senses! Beautifully produced by OUP (and before publication day!?).
A spur to others!
A spur to others!
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A new Early Medieval Europe virtual issue on Travel and Mobility in the Early Middle Ages, featuring five brilliant articles published over the past 20 years by Andy Merrills, Paul Dutton, Frank Riess, Ben Allport and Rebecca Thomas: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
Beyond migrations: travel and mobility in the early Middle Ages: Early Medieval Europe
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 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
A new Early Medieval Europe virtual issue on Travel and Mobility in the Early Middle Ages, featuring five brilliant articles published over the past 20 years by Andy Merrills, Paul Dutton, Frank Riess, Ben Allport and Rebecca Thomas: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
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Now also in print 😱😱😱
October 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Now also in print 😱😱😱
Another (quite exciting looking!) book from Tübingen!!
October 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Another (quite exciting looking!) book from Tübingen!!
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Eher unerwartet stellte sich seitens der Menschen, die es nicht nach Bonn geschafft haben, eine große Nachfrage nach Engelbert von Köln ein. Wer also via Zoom von uns vieren tatsächlich noch etwas über ihn hören möchte, voilà:
October 6, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Eher unerwartet stellte sich seitens der Menschen, die es nicht nach Bonn geschafft haben, eine große Nachfrage nach Engelbert von Köln ein. Wer also via Zoom von uns vieren tatsächlich noch etwas über ihn hören möchte, voilà:
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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
Sure you wonder (like me) what the bishops were doing/thinking in 829. - Well, here's the answer! publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/handle...
September 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Sure you wonder (like me) what the bishops were doing/thinking in 829. - Well, here's the answer! publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/handle...
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AotW: Eric Böhme, 1244: King James I of Aragón Reports on the Capitulation of Xàtiva, in: TMH 4.2 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
*We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !*
#medievalists #medievalsky
*We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !*
#medievalists #medievalsky
September 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
AotW: Eric Böhme, 1244: King James I of Aragón Reports on the Capitulation of Xàtiva, in: TMH 4.2 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....
*We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !*
#medievalists #medievalsky
*We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !*
#medievalists #medievalsky
fun fact of the day: I just learned a new German word -- "siedlungsschütter" (I wonder whether you could apply this to the arguement of an article jou dislike ...).
September 26, 2025 at 11:02 AM
fun fact of the day: I just learned a new German word -- "siedlungsschütter" (I wonder whether you could apply this to the arguement of an article jou dislike ...).
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If you're interested in the Lord's Prayer and its use in the Middle Ages, tune in to a (German) conference organised in Tübingen 25-26th of September (also online). Also, I will give some preliminary insight into my new project.
www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
Verwendung und Verständnis des Vaterunsers im Mittelalter
Aufgrund seiner großen kulturellen Prägekraft stellt das Vaterunser einen genuin interdisziplinären Untersuchungsgegenstand dar und bietet Anknüpfungspunkte für diverse Forschungsbereiche, die dieser ...
www.hsozkult.de
August 21, 2025 at 9:12 AM
If you're interested in the Lord's Prayer and its use in the Middle Ages, tune in to a (German) conference organised in Tübingen 25-26th of September (also online). Also, I will give some preliminary insight into my new project.
www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
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...