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Christoph Haack

@christoph-haack.bsky.social
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Historian @uni_tue, Medieval history. Carolingian history, feudal revolution, saints, #modernity, nppm.ub.uni-tuebingen.de

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
It's the first day of #imc2026, and I'm really looking forward to moderating this session, organised by @christoph-haack.bsky.social imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2026/mee.... Hope to see you there :)
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Time, History, and Reform around the Millennium: Organising the Past in a Post-Carolingian World
Recent work on the decades around the year 1000 has emphasized the political and intellectual creativity of the period and has traced transregional developments through comparative study. This session...
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Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
We are super happy to have gathered wonderful colleagues to talk about the possibilities and challenges of Medieval Intersectional Studies at this year’s @imc-leeds.bsky.social with the mighty @basilaprice.bsky.social as respondent! Come and join us tomorrow - we also have stickers…
Picture of the presentation slide based on with a fractured image of the Mosaic of Justinian I, Basilica San Vitale, Ravenna credits: wiki commons.Picture of the stickers made for the collaborative for intersectional medieval studies Screenshot of the IMC Programme with three sessions on intersectional approaches - session 1: producing and contesting knowledge, session 2: bodies, species, and politics of temporal difference, session 3: indigineity, ethnicity, temporal dissonance, all taking place online and in Maurice keyworth building, room 1.33.
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Christoph Haack @christoph-haack.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Ich glaub es geht schon wieder los!
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Agenda des médiévistes @rmblf.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Publication – « Dynamics of Literacy in Medieval Europe. Studies in Honour of Marco Mostert », éd. A.J. van den Hoven van Genderen, Rob Meens, Carine van Rhijn rmblf.be/2026/07/04/p...
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Publication – « Dynamics of Literacy in Medieval Europe. Studies in Honour of Marco Mostert », éd. A.J. van den Hoven van Genderen, Rob Meens, Carine van Rhijn
This book honours the achievements of Marco Mostert, professor of Medieval History at Utrecht University. Marco has been one of the main promotors and proponents of the expanding field of studies i…
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Christoph Haack @christoph-haack.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
So ist das moderne Unileben! - Die Leute müssen dringend wieder mehr schaffen!
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Christoph Haack @christoph-haack.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Just reading a fascinating Book!
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Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Utterly excited having received this in the mail today! Merci mille fois to everyone who participated in this project - it was an absolute pleasure! @revue-traverse.bsky.social @isabelleschuerch.bsky.social @queebees.bsky.social
The Picture Shows the Cover of the Revue Traverse whose title is “wer Macht Geschichte / qui fait l’histoire?”
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Christoph Haack @christoph-haack.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Lates issue (52.3) of "The Journal of Medieval History" is out (and, btw, with my paper on Carolingian Warfare now "properly" published ... ).
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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The Carolingian South is now out! This new edited volume approaches the Franks from a new direction. To celebrate @manchesterup.bsky.social sat me and @graemeyward.bsky.social to ask us some questions about the book: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/06... #medievalsky
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Six questions on turning the Carolingian world upside down - Manchester University Press
The story of the Carolingian empire is often told from the north, centred on places like modern-day France and Germany. But what happens if we shift our focus south? The Carolingian South, edited by S...
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Christoph Haack @christoph-haack.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
A terrible lion! (And a nice knight) (Vatican Reg. lat. 1864 f. 72v)
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michaelajaneruth.bsky.social @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I feel very proud to release the programme of a conference I have co-organised with @yanivfox.bsky.social and @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social funded by the @dfg.de on the intersection between Narratology and Temporality on 29-31 July in Tübingen. We have an incredible lineup - I can't wait!
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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Mittelaltertag der Universität Heidelberg, dieses Jahr am 4. Juli unter dem Thema "Reichtum". #MedievalSky
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Christoph Haack @christoph-haack.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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Rezension zu: B. Waagmeester: Pastoral Works
Rezension zu / Review of: Waagmeester, Bastiaan: : Pastoral Works. Priests, Books, and Compilatory Practices in the Carolingian Period
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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Certainly my experience salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/a...
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A Pedant Revolts: The Dawn of Everything and Medieval Inequality
…Scholars and professional researchers, on the other hand, have to actually make a considerable effort to remain so ignorant. David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History …
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Christoph Haack @christoph-haack.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Not AI, but still quite nice: Fulk Nerra, assailed by the phantoms hof his victims (Gustav Doré, 1877?).
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I was wrong: what the world really needs is a list of *101* queens on the move, 900-1150! List now updated: thanks very much to everyone who's chipped in.
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Christoph Haack @christoph-haack.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
My Rodulf-Glaber-Ai-Picture of the day: Rodulf's etymology of the Lutici (from "lutum" - mud, dirt).
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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Happy to announce that @livunipress.bsky.social will publish 'Willibrord between Ireland, Britain and Merovingian Francia (690-739)' as a paperback in October. Pre-orders are already open: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... #MedievalSky
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Willibrord between Ireland, Britain and Merovingian Francia (690–739) | Home
Michel Summer is a Postdoctoral researcher and secretary of the Institute for Franconian and Palatine History at Heidelberg University. He received his PhD in Medieval History from Trinity College Dublin in 2021.
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 01/06/2026
hey hey, it's me! this (narrative) episode on Charlemagne was fun to do. check it out then check out my podcast @americanmedieval.bsky.social #medievalsky podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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Charlemagne
Podcast Episode · Short History Of... · May 31 · 46m
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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Uncover the real code of chivalry—learn what it meant to be a knight! ⚔️📜 medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/chiv... #Chivalry
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The Inception, Evolution, and Legacy of Chivalry
Explore the origins, cultural evolution, and decline of Chivalry in medieval Europe by examining its historical context, legal codification, literary expression, and lasting legacy from the early…
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Christoph Haack @christoph-haack.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Das sieht doch nach einem produktiven Tag für einen Geisteswissenschaftler aus!
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Jon M. Sweeney @jonmsweeney.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Even with God's hand reaching down, and the Holy Spirit dive-bombing your head, sometimes you still scratch your head in writing frustration. #writinglife
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Christoph Haack @christoph-haack.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Here is my AI picture of the day (la paix de Dieu d'après Raoul Glaber):
Rodulf Glaber, Historiarum libri quinque, V, c. 5 § 16.
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Bastiaan Waagmeester @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
On Friday, 27 March at 14:00, I'll be hosting a workshop in the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin. Feel free to drop by if you're interested in how late-antique knowledge was transmitted via medieval manuscripts. Together, we'll look at some of the remarkable exemplars available on site.
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hist4dem @hist4dem.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Wer Geschichte versteht, kann Autoritarismus und Faschismus erkennen und zerlegen! Noch viele weitere Gründe dafür, warum Demokratie Geschichte braucht (und umgekehrt!) und wir uns bei hist4dem engagieren, findet Ihr in unserem Video zum #TagderDemokratiegeschichte www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEdD...
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Demokratie braucht Geschichte! #tagderdemokratiegeschichte
YouTube video by Hist4Dem
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Christoph Haack @christoph-haack.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Happy (first) day of „Demokratiegeschichte“!
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Paweł Figurski @pawel-figurski.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Greetings from the Bodleian Library, Oxford, where you never know what you’ll find. Someone must have said: “I dare you to draw a piggy face in a manuscript full of sacred prayers.” And someone replied: “Challenge accepted.” 🐷📜
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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I’m delighted to see ‘The Caliph and the Falcons’ take to the skies at Early Medieval Europe! I had a blast writing this with @medivalist.bsky.social as we followed the extraordinary journey of falcons from Scandinavia all the way to Baghdad. #medievalsky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern...
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Kristin Eichhorn @drkeichhorn.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
@leising.bsky.social hat der Sächsischen Zeitung ein Interview zum Thema #Exzellenz gegeben. #ExitExzellenz "Manche Kollegen kommen vor lauter Wettbewerb kaum noch dazu, Forschung zu machen, anstatt sie immer nur anzukündigen." Sowas Ähnliches steht auch im Buch zu #IchBinHanna, aus Gründen!
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Interview | Daniel Leising
Anlässlich der anstehenden Entscheidungen im Rahmen der sogenannten Exzellenzstrategie habe ich der Sächsischen Zeitung ein Interview gegeben, das ich hier anhänge.
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Finally, 2026 has started properly, with a new issue of Early Medieval Europe! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680254...
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Early Medieval Europe: Vol 34, No 1
Early Medieval Europe is an interdisciplinary medieval studies journal covering European history from the fall of the Roman Empire up until the 11th century.
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Christoph Haack @christoph-haack.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Happy new year to all #royalistorians!
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Christoph Haack @christoph-haack.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Great news! I trained my first Transkribus Model! - Look at the incredible CER: I almost achieved a 100%.
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Christoph Haack @christoph-haack.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Just Stummels over a great classic! A very enlightening read!
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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The paperback of Ethnic Identity and the Archaeology of the aduentus Saxonum is now available to pre-order. There is currently a Black Friday discount of 25% available with the code BF2025S, making it < €39/£33! www.routledge.com/Ethnic-Ident...
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Ethnic Identity and the Archaeology of the aduentus Saxonum: A Modern Framework and its Problems
For centuries, archaeologists have excavated the soils of Britain to uncover finds from the early medieval past. These finds have been used to reconstruct the alleged communities, migration patterns, ...
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Christoph Haack @christoph-haack.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Did you ever wonder how the Early Medieval state worked? (And what it was ...?) - Here is my take on it. doi.org/10.1080/0304...
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The Common Good: Military Service as Community Organisation in the Carolingian World
The Carolingian empire under Charlemagne (768–814) and Louis the Pious (814– 840) was a polity deeply shaped by war, or, more specifically, the organisation of warfare. Taking the – for its time – ...
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Christoph Haack @christoph-haack.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Do we still need the Middle Ages? - I’m just about to find out!
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wpezemed.bsky.social @wpezemed.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Pour les agrégatifs d'histoire: aujourd'hui paraît (enfin) l'Atlande sur le programme de médiévale "Théories et pratiques du gouvernement impérial 717-1025". Bravo à Laurent Jégou pour son superbe travail de coordination! www.atlande.eu/nos-ouvrages...
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Christoph Haack @christoph-haack.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Today: meet the famous German medievalist Gei‘d Aíthoít!
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Alan van Beek @thiliel.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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.
NATURA & ceTERRA
Zur Ästhetik von Naturorten
im Mittelalter
Tagungsort
Bibliothek des Musikwissenschaftlichen InstitutsPfleghofSchulberg 272070 Tübingen
Organisation
Rike Szill & Jan Stellmann
SFB 1391 Andere Ästhetik
https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/159334
Teilprojekt B7 Natur/lehren
https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/252047
Brackweder Arbeitskreis für Mittelalterforschung
https://brackwederarbeitskreis.wordpress.com/
Kontakt
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Christoph Haack @christoph-haack.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Es gibt verrückte Sachen auf der Welt!
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Stadt Wien-Büchereien @buechereienwien.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Ich ziehe 50 Nudeln und 1 Sauce vor.
Cover von "1 Nudel - 50 Saucen"
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Bastiaan Waagmeester @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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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Christoph Haack @christoph-haack.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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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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.
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 30/10/2025
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
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American Medieval | Patreon
If we've never been modern, we've always been medieval.
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Christoph Haack @christoph-haack.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Dear Blsky, should I write „viking“ with a small or capital„ V“, and why (small)? - Thank you, a confused German.
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Christoph Haack @christoph-haack.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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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John Sabapathy @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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!
Front cover of Charles West's Europe in the Eleventh Century
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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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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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.
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Laury Sarti @laurysarti.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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