Ingrid Hartl

July 15, 2019 | Ingrid Hartl | HI Research Blog |

We are happy to announce that on 1 July the summer issue of our online journal Medieval Worlds has been published under the title Monasteries and Sacred Landscapes & Byzantine Connections. As the title indicates we present contributions grouped around two different topics.

In our cluster Monasticism and Sacred Landscapes we have...

Manu Radhakrishnan

July 1, 2019 | Manu Radhakrishnan | HI Research Blog |

All  medievalists have heard of saint Anthony and of the sensation caused in the West when Evagrius’s Latin translation of Athanasius’s Greek Life made its appearance sometime before 386 C.E. Augustine while in Milan was informed of the monk and his biography by Ponticianus and it proved to be a turning point in his...

Paul Gazzoli

June 15, 2019 | Paul Gazzoli | HI Research Blog |

There is a considerable gap between working on Christian Europe in the period 800–1000 and the then still largely unchristianised fringes of Europe. For the former, we have a native and contemporary tradition of written sources, but not for the latter. Some valuable written sources stand out: Rimbert’s Life of Ansgar (brief plug: I...

Thom Gobbitt

June 01, 2019 | Thom Gobbitt | HI Research Blog |

A number of clauses addressing or related to arson and fire damage appear throughout the Edictus Rothari (643 CE) and again in some of the later phases of Lombard legislation. The main set of clauses (Nos 146-159) adress, respectively, the wilful burning of another’s casam [house], negligent damage and injuries, fires left burning by...

Salvatore Liccardo

May 15, 2019 | Salvatore Liccardo | HI Research Blog |

Neglected for centuries, the Expositio totius mundi et gentium was rediscovered in the 17^th century and has been edited several times during the last 150 years. According to current scholarly consensus the author of the Expositio came from the eastern part of the Empire, and his mother tongue was Greek. Although much of...

Peter Fraundorfer

May 1, 2019 | Peter Fraundorfer | HI Research Blog |

Almost all the information we have about the famous holy bishop of Salzburg, Saint Rupert, can be and has been questioned. Where did the holy man originate? When did he live? When did he arrive in Salzburg? What exactly did he build or rebuild there? Where and when did he die? Generations of historians have tried to answer...

Rutger Kramer

April 15, 2019 | Rutger Kramer | HI Research Blog |

This is a book about religious reforms. Or rather, it is a book about expressing the will and the need for reforms. But it is also a book about the way people discussed such reforms, and how that discussion shaped the way these reforms were interpreted and applied.

So why does the word "reform" not occur in the title?

Picking a...

Jasid Abdulkader, Sophie Gruber, Lena Kornprobst and Natalie C. Sandner

April 1, 2019 | Jasid Abdulkader, Sophie Gruber, Lena Kornprobst, Natalie C. Sandner | HI Research Blog |

Vienna, 21–22 February 2019,
Conference Report

On February 21 and 22, 2019 the Special Research Programme Visions of Community: Comparative Approaches to Ethnicity, Region and Empire in Christianity, Islam and Buddhism...

Jan Odstrčilík

March 15, 2019 | Jan Odstrčilík | HI Research Blog |

Jan Hus (*c. 1370 – 6 July 1415) is rightfully numbered among the most influential people of Czech origin. He is mainly remembered for his efforts to reform the Catholic Church resulting in his execution as a heretic at the Council of Constance in 1415. His life and especially his cruel death led to the creation of the Hussite...

Veronika Wieser

March 1, 2019 | Veronika Wieser | HI Research Blog |

In late antique and early medieval societies, reflections on the present and future development of the Christian community were situated within an ongoing dialogue with the text of the Bible. In particular, the prophetical books of the Old and New Testaments, most prominently the Books of Ezekiel and Daniel, and the Revelation...