Richard Corradini

November 1, 2019 | Richard Corradini | HI Research Blog |

For the year 1000, the Annales Hildesheimenses (henceforth AH) report: “The year 1000 goes beyond the number of fixed computation, according to what has been written: ‘The year 1000 exceeds and transcends all years.’” (“Millesimus annus supercrescens statute computationis numerum, secundum illud quod legitur scriptum:...

Veronika Wieser and Walter Pohl

October 17, 2018 | Veronika Wieser, Walter Pohl | HI Research Blog |

Edited by Walter Pohl and Veronika Wieser. Vol. 24, Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019.

We are happy to announce that the first volume of our Historiography and Identity series, entitled Ancient and Early Christian Narratives of Community, has been...

Max Diesenberger

October 10, 2018 | Max Diesenberger | HI Research Blog |

Creating the past meant actively ‘forgetting’ the deeds of earlier generations, talking their cultural heritage often down, identifying turning points in the history of the realm or of a people, and re-arranging events in order to create a new narrative. It is characteristic for periods of transformation that there are...

Diarmuid Ó Riain

September 15, 2019 | Diarmuid Ó Riain | HI Research Blog |

It will come as a surprise to many that Martin of Tours, the late antique confessor saint immortalised in Sulpicius Severus’ Life, is buried not on the Loire in France but rather on the Salzach in Austria. According to a short text, that is, which was written at the archiepiscopal see of Salzburg in the high medieval...

Pavlína Rychterová

August 15, 2019 | Pavlína Rychterová | HI Research Blog |

Vade mecum in tribulatione of John of Rupescissa and its translations into medieval vernaculars    

The Vade mecum in tribulatione, written by the Franciscan John of Rupescissa in 1356 while he was in captivity in Avignon was one of the most popular of all late-medieval prophetic works. The collective monograph...

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...