Vanina Kopp
@vkopp.bsky.social
medievalist, history professor • from the Rhine to the Seine, from Lake Maria Laach to Lake Ontario (and back) • cat & coffee lover
While so many of my fellow medievalists gather at #IMC2025, I headed to Paulinzella, maybe the largest romanesque ruins in Thuringia. It was founded in the 12th century as a double monastery by noblewoman Paulina who travelled to Santiago de C. & Rome (twice), and died by falling from a horse...
July 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
While so many of my fellow medievalists gather at #IMC2025, I headed to Paulinzella, maybe the largest romanesque ruins in Thuringia. It was founded in the 12th century as a double monastery by noblewoman Paulina who travelled to Santiago de C. & Rome (twice), and died by falling from a horse...
Als ich jung war (tm) versanken wir an Pfingsten auf Festivals im Regen & Schlamm, heutzutage viel älter stapfen wir halt nass unsere Wanderungen ab. Thüringens Wälder & Burgen sind auch im Dauerregen schön 🫠
June 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Als ich jung war (tm) versanken wir an Pfingsten auf Festivals im Regen & Schlamm, heutzutage viel älter stapfen wir halt nass unsere Wanderungen ab. Thüringens Wälder & Burgen sind auch im Dauerregen schön 🫠
Wow, und schon ist die erste Woche der Vorlesungszeit hier in Erfurt schon wieder vorbei... Plus es schien dieses WE die Sonne und ich habe mal wieder meine Wanderschuhe herausgeholt und meine "Thüringischen Erkundungen" aufgenommen. Typisches Merkmal: Natur, Menschenleere, irgendwie Burgen...
April 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Wow, und schon ist die erste Woche der Vorlesungszeit hier in Erfurt schon wieder vorbei... Plus es schien dieses WE die Sonne und ich habe mal wieder meine Wanderschuhe herausgeholt und meine "Thüringischen Erkundungen" aufgenommen. Typisches Merkmal: Natur, Menschenleere, irgendwie Burgen...
Prepping for my lecture series on "Power and rulership in the Middle Ages", and slowly regretting my choices. HOW to explain something like this 🧐
April 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Prepping for my lecture series on "Power and rulership in the Middle Ages", and slowly regretting my choices. HOW to explain something like this 🧐
Und auch wir in Erfurt freuen uns sehr über den Gastvortrag im Kolloquium der Mittelalterlichen Geschichte und des Historischen Seminars! Schön, dass Sie @kubon.bsky.social da sind!
January 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Und auch wir in Erfurt freuen uns sehr über den Gastvortrag im Kolloquium der Mittelalterlichen Geschichte und des Historischen Seminars! Schön, dass Sie @kubon.bsky.social da sind!
In case anyone wants to go for the all-public re-opening tomorrow... good luck y'all... (the diocese claims keeping visits free of charge, the reservation is to "fluidify" streams of expected visitors)
December 7, 2024 at 8:38 PM
In case anyone wants to go for the all-public re-opening tomorrow... good luck y'all... (the diocese claims keeping visits free of charge, the reservation is to "fluidify" streams of expected visitors)
On a personal note: When ND burned back in 2019, I was living in Paris but just attending a conference in Senegal. A Canadian radio show wanted to talk to me while everything was happening, but I refused. Weirdest moment ever. Anyway, here are pictures I took upon my return a few days later.
December 7, 2024 at 8:19 PM
On a personal note: When ND burned back in 2019, I was living in Paris but just attending a conference in Senegal. A Canadian radio show wanted to talk to me while everything was happening, but I refused. Weirdest moment ever. Anyway, here are pictures I took upon my return a few days later.
Notre Dame de Paris has never been my favourite "medieval" building (maybe because it's not soooo much medieval after all), but here I am, sitting in Germany watching some livestream of another grand French festivity...
December 7, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Notre Dame de Paris has never been my favourite "medieval" building (maybe because it's not soooo much medieval after all), but here I am, sitting in Germany watching some livestream of another grand French festivity...
After giving my talk I am now totally relaxed to enjoy a tour to the sacrosaint Fisher Library at amazing Robarts. Seeing the newly acquired Livre de la paix by Christine de Pizan and other medieval mss 🥰
August 21, 2024 at 6:04 PM
After giving my talk I am now totally relaxed to enjoy a tour to the sacrosaint Fisher Library at amazing Robarts. Seeing the newly acquired Livre de la paix by Christine de Pizan and other medieval mss 🥰
In case you're wondering: it's the same person here and there, other accounts on different platforms.
October 6, 2023 at 5:08 PM
In case you're wondering: it's the same person here and there, other accounts on different platforms.