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Hard to process the loss of Chris Wickham. A true intellectual 'gentle giant' - if one can put it like that - who wore his astonishing breadth and depth of learning so lightly. It was a real privilege to be taught the Medieval Historiography course by him during my M.St. I will really cherish (1/6)

We are very sorry to learn of the death of Professor Chris Wickham. Chris was elected a Fellow of the Society in 1986. As well as being a superb scholar, Chris played leading roles in shaping and interpreting the research and publishing environments in which historians work #Skystorians

Pauline Stafford@pstafford.bsky.social · 4w ago

There will be many appreciations of Chris Wickham - as a historian and as a human being. This is a good starting place. www.medievalists.net/2026/10/chri...

Chris Wickham was endlessly curious, he was a life-long learner of languages, methods, problem. An important British interlocutor with _Annales_ history-making and expositor of the Marxist historical tradition. Always humane and engaged. A loss not only to his loved ones, but to all historians.

The passing of Chris Wickham is hard to take in. Few have made a bigger contribution to their field, with such personal warmth. He's going to be missed by a lot of people.

For the Italophones, a very touching memorial of Chris by Maria Elena Cortese.

Giulia Zornetta@gzornetta.eurosky.social · 4w ago

"Ogni volta che, con la mente magari distratta in qualcuno dei nostri impegni quotidiani, ci verrà da pensare «Chissà Chris cosa ne dice?». E allora davvero ci renderemo conto di quanto ci manca" Maria Elena Cortese su Chris Wickham per #RetiMedievali 💚https://tinyurl.com/mrtu8thu

I'll add more as they appear online. But for now, a huge thanks to all our contributors, my co-editor Chris Lewis, the senior editors of JMH, and our reviewers!

Bill Aird's 'Our Enemies in the North': William Rufus’s War Against Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumbria, in 1095, and the Complexities of Loyalty in the Middle Ages' examines the bonds of loyalty in 1095 war btwn the earl of Northumbria and Rufus (open access!) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

'Our Enemies in the North': William Rufus’s War Against Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumbria, in 1095, and the Complexities of Loyalty in the Middle Ages

Bonds of loyalty in the 1095 war between Robert, earl of Northumbria and King William II are examined. It argues that the morality of loyalty depends on the context and on the point of view of thos...

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Michał Machalski's '‘So Vipers Nurse at the Breasts of Devout Loyalty!’ Loyalty in Vincentius of Cracow’s Chronica Polonorum' addresses the ideas and ideals of loyalty that Vincentius set up for his readers, shaping and expressing the ambitions of the Polish elite www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘So Vipers Nurse at the Breasts of Devout Loyalty!’ Loyalty in Vincentius of Cracow’s Chronica Polonorum

The article investigates how bonds of loyalty linking rulers and subjects were depicted in Vincentius of Cracow’s Chronica Polonorum. Vincentius tried to bolster the claims of his patron Kazimierz ...

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Ruth Harvey's 'Loyalty and Litigation in the Troubadour Love-lyric' examines how troubadour song is transformed into a plaintiff's exposition of his case in a seigneurial court, and what this reveals about understanding of loyalty in both contexts (open access!) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Loyalty and Litigation in the Troubadour Love-lyric

The Occitan troubadours exploit the image of the devoted courtly lover as vassal to the object of his aspirational desires: the lady as feudal overlord. This frequent trope is often seen as a centr...

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The introduction, co-written with Chris Lewis, lays out why we've been arguing for loyalty as a methodology for studying the medieval period (open access!): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Loyalty in Medieval Europe

Medieval historians frequently write about loyalty, usually in the context of lords and kings, but there has been little sustained engagement with the wider role of loyalty in society. This introdu...

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Delighted to have five out of the eight articles for the Journal of Medieval History special issue on Loyalty in Medieval Europe out! 👇

Loyalty in Medieval Europe

Medieval historians frequently write about loyalty, usually in the context of lords and kings, but there has been little sustained engagement with the wider role of loyalty in society. This introdu...

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Delighted to see my article - Defying Kings, Protesting Loyalty: Thomas Becket, Salzburg, and the Uses of Diocesan History - published in a special issue of the Journal of Medieval History (and Open Access too thanks to Bonn's support). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Defying Kings, Protesting Loyalty: Thomas Becket, Salzburg, and the Uses of Diocesan History

This article explores the dilemmas of loyalty faced by archbishops – both at Canterbury in the English kingdom and at Salzburg in the Empire – who sought to argue that their defiance of kings did n...

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An amazing find! Gifted very kindly a copy of Marjorie Chibnall's Anglo-Norman England - and contained within is a letter from Chibnall herself to the book's owner, Michael Clanchy, thanking him for a recommendation 📖 What a rare treat! #medievalsky

Morning in tbe garden with this barnstorming, trailblazing book by Elisabeth van Houts. Run, don't walk, etc. @yalepress.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social

Home after a typically exhausting, but inspiring IMC - my tenth year attending. Particularly in this dark moment for the discipline (and UK HE) there is something especially wonderful about being part of passionate conversations on topics as diverse... 19th century German historiography...

Anyone happen to know lawyers who specialise in health insurance (esp. Bonn/Cologne) and who might offer free consultation? My private health insurance company contacted me to claim that I lied to them 2 years ago, to terminate my insurance immediately and to refuse to pay c. 4000 euros owed.

Very much looking forward to @imc-leeds.bsky.social next week where @drkrisztinailko.bsky.social and I have organised two panels on the Transformation of Political Culture in the High Middle Ages following on from the conference held in the @dependencybonn.de last year. We hope to see you there!

First-gen and second-gen from a different age (Stubbs and Maitland as discussed by James Campbell)

Dr. James M. Harland, Postdoctoral Researcher at the BCDSS, contributes to the July 2026 "Head to Head" in History Today: "How did the English Arrive in Britain?" buff.ly/ryhKjG8 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

#Chance | PhD Prize of the German Historical Institute London. German & British history | London | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht... @ghilondon.bsky.social #jewishstudies #jewsky #GermanHistory Deadline: July 31, 2026

Lovely quote (Stuart Jenks). Think about it a lot, when ecnouraging students to dive into a seemingly dry topic. "Alles oberflächlich betrachtet ist schlicht langweilig."

Struggling to parse this. Exeter is celebrating its overall global ranking to 136th, comprised (it reports) of 151st (Natural Sciences), 131st (Life Sciences & Medicine) and 76th (Arts & Humanities) while announcing plans to make 25% of Arts & Humanities staff redundant. Does this compute?

University of Exeter@exeter.ac.uk · 5mo ago

We’re delighted to be able to share some exciting news: We’ve climbed 19 places in the QS World University Rankings 2027, and we’re now ranked 136th globally. This achievement reflects the growing strength of our reputation as one of the world’s top universities. news.exeter.ac.uk/staff-news/e...

Six key messages from Exeter UCU. The upshot is that these proposed cuts are unnecessary and damaging. We must stop them. Please amplify these messages if you can!

New book coming from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social , ed. by @marcusmeer.bsky.social and me: a starry international cast of contributors exploring image-breaking in medieval politics and society (as well as religion) - a big, neglected topic with much to tell us. boydellandbrewer.com/book/iconocl...

The last three days were successively Germany's three hottest days of all time.

Özden Terli@terliwetter.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Wieder 41,5 Grad und es heizt noch weiter. 3 Tage hintereinander Allzeit-Höchststände. #Hitzenotstand #HistorischeHitzewelle

For reasons, I have been calculating gender ratios for German professors of ancient history today. Turns out that 13% of chairs in Ancient History in Germany are held by women, less than in engineering (17%). That compares to 30% of chairs in Germany overall, and 44% in the Humanities.

The Angevin World, 1154-1204 edited by Stephen D Church, Laura Cleaver and Matthew Strickland offers fresh perspectives on how we understand the complex nature of the Angevin lands. Learn more 👉 buff.ly/F693EmF #BookSky @laurajcleaver.bsky.social

Mein erstes Buch 😱 für alle, die mehr über volkssprachige Urkunden, Formelsprache und female agency bei Bildung und Urkundenerstellung im 13. Jahrhundert wissen wollen! #charterrific doi.org/10.3813/9783777636115

🚨 If you missed my sold-out talk on the Bayeux Tapestry in Bristol back in April, you’ll get another chance in Oxford on 17 June courtesy of @magdalenoxford.bsky.social! Do join us and help spread the word! 🚨