Marcus Meer

Marcus Meer

@marcusmeer.bsky.social

Medieval historian teaching at @ucl.ac.uk‬ – formerly @ghilondon.bsky.social, @hhu.de, @durhamhistory.bsky.social and @uni-muenster.de.

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I wish I could make it (so close yet so far...) but maybe others can!

Gabriele Passabì@gabpassabi.bsky.social

If you are still figuring out your morning, join us today in person and online for this fantastic roundtable at the GHIL!

A very nice poster indeed, John! :)

John Sabapathy@jwwsabapathy.bsky.social

A nice poster for the @ihr.bsky.social's 'European History 1150-1550' seminar, 2026/27. We are almost 25 😮. Fortnightly, autumn & spring in the IHR's Pollard room. Registration essential👇. All welcome in flesh & spirit (online). 🍷afterwards. #medieval #history www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Come and hear a panel discussion with three of the editors talking about this enormous project & 'where next for crusading history?' Online & in-person @ihr.bsky.social, 22/10/26, 17.30 GMT. Registration essential, link 👇. #medieval, #crusades

#NewRelease 📚 The Cambridge History of the Crusades. Volume 1: Sources and Crusading to the Holy Land, eds. M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, Andrew Jotischky, Thomas Madden, Jonathan Phillips (Cambridge University Press, September 2026) www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

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It is with overwhelming sadness that colleagues across @unibirmingham.bsky.social learned of the death last Friday of Prof. Chris Wickham. Chris’s colleagues and friends from around the world are invited to contribute to this online Book of Condolence: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2026/pr...

birmingham.ac.ukProfessor Chris Wickham - University of BirminghamIt is with overwhelming sadness that colleagues across the College of Arts and Law learned of the death last Friday of Professor Chris Wickham.

Just a reminder that this talk is on at the IHR tonight, in case your evening plans are still undecided!

John Sabapathy@jwwsabapathy.bsky.social

@ihr.bsky.social's 'European History 1150-1550' seminar will get off to great start Thursday 8 Oct 17.30 GMT with Sama Mammadova (Harvard) on consumer credit, mendicants & the Monti di Pietà in late medieval Italy. All welcome, in person at the IHR & online, registration & link below.

Exciting times! Our edited volume on iconoclasm in the Middle Ages is almost here…

Len Scales.bsky.social@lenscales.bsky.social

Out next month from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social, edited by @marcusmeer.bsky.social and me! Quoting the code BB135 gets you (or your library) 35% off all formats. Also applies to advance orders. boydellandbrewer.com/book/iconocl...

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...narratives of the economic past as sources for historically grounded legitimacy to justify, criticise, or reframe the authority of certain groups; memories of economic crises (e.g. famine, war, inflation) and successes (abundance, recovery, growth etc.) for institutional or personal identity...

...rhetorics of numeracy, quantification, and persuasive forces of exactness; interactions between processes of economic record-keeping and institutional decision-making; comparative approaches to regional, cross-cultural, and gendered modes of remembering the pre-modern economy!

In addition to texts (like chronicles, accounts etc.), we also welcome considerations of material and visual sources, such as images, artefacts, buildings and rituals and practices that referred to economic aspects of the past. Possible themes to be explored include (but are not limited to!)...

...considerations of money (including coinage, prices, taxation, debt, gifts, alms etc.) and economic exchange in pre-modern memory cultures; normative contemplation of moral economies and the communication of economic norms with reference to the past...

We are very excited to see this in print soon, and thank you to all the contributors!

Len Scales.bsky.social@lenscales.bsky.social

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...

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Carlo Ginzburg has just passed away. There is little I can add in memory of a scholar of his stature. I'll recall only what he said during a fortunate conversation at the Betty Behrens Seminar in Cambridge: “Read everything. Your research path will find its way". And I live by that advice.

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It's not just #MedievalMonday – we've got a whole week of #MedievalHistory ahead of us! Tomorrow, Maximilian Schuh will continue our series on environmental history with a talk on 'Demesne Accounts, Court Rolls, and Prognostic Treatises: Weather and Its Perceptions in Fourteenth-Century England'.

It was a great pleasure to meet the speakers and commentators last Friday. Thanks again to the GHIL‘s team for making it happen. I am looking forward to the next Medieval Germany Workshop in 2028 already!

#Throwback to last Friday! Thanks for a wonderful workshop on medieval Germany! 🏰 It was inspiring to get insights into so many different projects — from nuns' letters and Hildegard of Bingen to accounting records and the artistic world of Nuremberg. 1/5

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Max Weber Stiftung@maxweberstiftung.de

#CfP Medieval Germany Workshop 📌 1 Day #Workshop at #GHILondon | 29 May 2026 | organised by @ghilondon.bsky.social and @germanhistsoc.bsky.social | for #researchers to discuss work in progress 📝 Deadline for proposal submissions: 15 February 2026 🔗www.maxweberstiftung...

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Call for applications! 📣 The German Historical Institute London is seeking a Research Associate with a particular research interest in medieval history (with a focus on late medieval English history) for a part-time project position to start on 1 February 2026. 🤝 1/3

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