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...

In a Latin manuscript from a monastery in Poland, a Latin scholar from Würzburg has found two new sermons by the Doctor of the Church, St Augustine. He is currently working with an edition company on ...

Excellent news from the University of Würzburg, where a researcher has discovered two unknown sermons by St Augustine in a Latin manuscript in Poland!   The reporting (by Martin Brandstätter) is unusu...

Photo of Rosamond McKitterick, taken by the author on 1 February 2020 overlooking the Forum at Rome. Rosamond McKitterick died on Saturday 13th June 2026. As a sentence, that’s easy to write and im…

Cambridge Core - Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature - The Written Word in Early Medieval England

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A New Early-Ninth-Century Manuscript of Cædmon’s Hymn: Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Vitt. Em. 1452, 122v - Volume 52

Note: I am currently translating Jonas of Orléans’ lay mirror “De institutione laicali” for publication by Manchester University Press. This is the first of several posts inspired by the text. The …

…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 …

The Carolingian South - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of The Carolingian South by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby

Regular readers of this blog may have noticed that I have been thinking about the politics of the Caliphate in the late ninth century, with a particular focus on relations between the ʿAbbasids in …

Ancient DNA reveals that the Goths of eastern Europe, some of whom would ultimately sack the city of Rome, may have been a mix of peoples from three continents

There is growing evidence that the women were part of an early female religious community.

The Astronomer's Life of the emperor Louis the Pious (814–40) is a canonical source for scholars of Frankish history. It sits at the centre of recent debates about the nature and tone of Carolingian ....

JULIAN’S BATAVIAN CAMPAIGN, AN EMBEZZLEMENT TRIAL IN BRITAIN, AND BARBARIAN ACCESS TO THE ANNONA MILITARIS - Volume 80

THE ‘INNUMERABLE’ OF ZARAGOZA: A MARTYR CULT BETWEEN CITY AND MONASTERY - Volume 80

Along with their terminology, the Romans had passed down to early medieval Europe the belief that crowds were an...