Thomas Kohl
Thomas Kohl
@zezzo796.bsky.social
Medieval Historian, University of Passau
Beschreibe deine Bahnverspätung mit einem Bild:
October 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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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
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Exciting online workshop on iconoclasm coming up @dhi-paris.fr
It’s the 1200th anniversary of the “Paris Meeting of 825,” at which a group of Frankish bishops discussed the permissibility of images in Christian worship!

We are celebrating by meeting in Paris. 🎉
October 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Another (quite exciting looking!) book from Tübingen!!
October 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies is hiring three postdoctoral researchers.

We investigate the causes and mechanisms that contribute to the persistence of strong asymmetrical dependencies across historical and contemporary contexts.

Pre-modern perspectives are very welcome!
3 Postdoctoral Positions (100%, TV-L E-13, for 3 years)
full-time, Temporary, EG 13, Reference number: 2025/152
www.uni-bonn.de
September 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Nicht vor dem Altar knien, wir wissen, was dann passiert!
September 27, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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I am not quite sure how this works, but here's a free open source editable historical map that's pretty decent on medieval Europe.
September 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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A bird's eye view of Carolingian Cologne, c/o Karl Ubl.
August 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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July 25, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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The MGH have reinstated a Dokumentlieferdienst, or reprography service, and I'm advertising it on their behalf. If don't have access to a german library, you can order PDFs of rare papers and books, directly from their online catalogue. Example below!
mgh.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/se...
July 25, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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JOB: We are looking for a new colleague for our working group on early modern global history at @unituebingen.bsky.social - PhD position, 3+1 years. Please spread the word (also beyond Germany!) and do not hesitate to get in touch! Deadline: 20 June. @duerrbortolotti.bsky.social
Job: 0,65 Wiss. Mitarb. (m/w/d) „Globalgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit (1400–1800)“ (Univ. Tübingen)

https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-155042

Tübingen, , Universität Tübingen, Bewerbungsschluss: 20.06.2025
www.hsozkult.de
May 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
April 25, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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Fed up of doom-scrolling on Easter Monday? Then it's your luck day, for the latest issue of EME is out now!
The articles are *all* open access, starting with:
Sophie Kultzen on the resilience of the late Roman aristocracy
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Ordo renascendi est crescere posse malis (Rutilius Namatianus I.140): the sack of Rome and the resilience of western Roman aristocracies
Rutilius Namatianus’ poem De reditu suo was written a few years after the devastation of Rome in 410. It has been read as nostalgia for Rome’s past greatness written in a climate of senatorial escapi...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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📢 Open Call 📢

Are you looking for an opportunity to focus on your research in a vibrant academic community in the heart of Europe? Apply now for a fellowship at our #PICAIS Centre for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies 👉 www.picais.uni-passau.de/en/funding-p...

🗓 Deadline: 15 May 2025
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March 21, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Mein Mediävistenherz springt: ich bin nächste Woche mit dem Prior von Niederaltaich verabredet.
March 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Noch frohe Weihnachten allerseits!
December 25, 2024 at 2:36 PM
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An excellent recent monograph by Johanna Jebe, "Gutes Mönchtum in St. Gallen und Fulda: Diskussion und Correctio im Spiegel karolingischer Klosterbibliotheken (Fuldaer Studien)" books.google.lu/books?id=J2L...
Gutes Mönchtum in St. Gallen und Fulda
Johanna Jebe legt eine Neuanalyse zu den monastischen Entwicklungen der Karolingerzeit vor, die erstmals die vielstimmigen Diskussionen aufdeckt, die in den Klöstern über gutes Mönchtum geführt worden...
books.google.lu
November 8, 2024 at 7:40 AM
Wunder des Publikationswesen: Ich habe diese Woche a) die pre-typsetting Fahnen eines Beitrags bekommen, den ich 2018 eingereicht habe (Tagung war 2015) und b) die Fahnen eines Aufsatzes bekommen, den ich Montag(!!!) eingeschickt habe (29.1.!)
February 2, 2024 at 1:50 PM
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historically correct
January 6, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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Students and colleagues in Göttingen mourn the early death of Rebekka Habermas, who was held in high esteem both academically and personally. It is upsetting that you will no longer meet her in our building or in the city.
Zum Tod von Rebekka Habermas
Es war, als öffnete sie Fenster und Türen für einen neuen Frühling der Geschichtsschreibung: Rebekka Habermas thematisierte als Historikerin die Themen, die die Gegenwart bewegen.
www.sueddeutsche.de
December 22, 2023 at 7:14 AM
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lol
December 13, 2023 at 8:06 PM
"Phlogaward von Rance" - apparently I need to work on the pronunciation of "Flodoard"
November 14, 2023 at 9:46 AM
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Proofs!

"Between Prophecy and Apocalypse" out with OUP in May (UK) and July (US) 2024

medievalsky 🗃️

preorder --> global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 10, 2023 at 9:28 AM