Sven Meeder
@svenmeeder.bsky.social
Historian / early medieval canon law / Radboud University / Utrecht
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Fellows of the Society come from a wide range of backgrounds and are recognised for their original contribution to historical knowledge.
This takes many forms well beyond publication of a book. We've a new guide to the many routes to Fellowship: bit.ly/49IG67g. Applications welcome #Skystorians
This takes many forms well beyond publication of a book. We've a new guide to the many routes to Fellowship: bit.ly/49IG67g. Applications welcome #Skystorians
December 1, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Fellows of the Society come from a wide range of backgrounds and are recognised for their original contribution to historical knowledge.
This takes many forms well beyond publication of a book. We've a new guide to the many routes to Fellowship: bit.ly/49IG67g. Applications welcome #Skystorians
This takes many forms well beyond publication of a book. We've a new guide to the many routes to Fellowship: bit.ly/49IG67g. Applications welcome #Skystorians
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November 30, 1817: Birthday of the great Theodor Mommsen, perhaps the best Roman epigrapher and legal expert of all time. In addition to having epic hair, Max Weber was Mommsen’s star pupil. If you have time, check out the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL) via the BBAW database. cil.bbaw.de/en/
November 30, 2025 at 12:28 PM
November 30, 1817: Birthday of the great Theodor Mommsen, perhaps the best Roman epigrapher and legal expert of all time. In addition to having epic hair, Max Weber was Mommsen’s star pupil. If you have time, check out the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL) via the BBAW database. cil.bbaw.de/en/
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Post-Doc Position at Freiburg University within RTG 2571 "Empires" - not only for historians... uni-freiburg.de/empires/jobs...
Jobs and Opportunities – DFG Research Training Group 2571 "Empires. Dynamic Change, Temporality and Post-Imperial Orders"
uni-freiburg.de
November 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Post-Doc Position at Freiburg University within RTG 2571 "Empires" - not only for historians... uni-freiburg.de/empires/jobs...
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This is dreadful.
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This is dreadful.
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Wiss. Mitarb. (w/m/d) "Geschichte des Spätmittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit" ( Univ. Freiburg im Breisgau) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...
Wiss. Mitarb. (w/m/d) "Geschichte des Spätmittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit" ( Univ. Freiburg im Breisgau)
Am Historischen Seminar der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg ist im Rahmen einer Elternzeitvertretung folgende Stelle zu besetzen: Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in (w/m/d)
Bewerbungsfrist: 19. D...
www.hsozkult.de
November 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Wiss. Mitarb. (w/m/d) "Geschichte des Spätmittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit" ( Univ. Freiburg im Breisgau) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...
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JOB
College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics (c20), Trinity College, Cambridge
[This includes a teaching requirement for International Relations]
www.trin.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/co...
College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics (c20), Trinity College, Cambridge
[This includes a teaching requirement for International Relations]
www.trin.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/co...
College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics
Applications are invited for appointment to a College Lectureship in Modern History and Politics, together with a Fellowship, tenable for five years in the first instance, with the possibility of…
www.trin.cam.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
JOB
College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics (c20), Trinity College, Cambridge
[This includes a teaching requirement for International Relations]
www.trin.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/co...
College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics (c20), Trinity College, Cambridge
[This includes a teaching requirement for International Relations]
www.trin.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/co...
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Announcing the J.P. Gumbert Dissertation Award 2025! 🏆
We are looking for the best PhD thesis on any aspect of manuscript studies defended between 1 Sep 2024 and 31 Dec 2025. The award includes a prize of 5,000 EUR and a fellowship at the CSMC.
Apply by 6 February 2026!
uhh.de/csmc-jpga-2025
We are looking for the best PhD thesis on any aspect of manuscript studies defended between 1 Sep 2024 and 31 Dec 2025. The award includes a prize of 5,000 EUR and a fellowship at the CSMC.
Apply by 6 February 2026!
uhh.de/csmc-jpga-2025
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Announcing the J.P. Gumbert Dissertation Award 2025! 🏆
We are looking for the best PhD thesis on any aspect of manuscript studies defended between 1 Sep 2024 and 31 Dec 2025. The award includes a prize of 5,000 EUR and a fellowship at the CSMC.
Apply by 6 February 2026!
uhh.de/csmc-jpga-2025
We are looking for the best PhD thesis on any aspect of manuscript studies defended between 1 Sep 2024 and 31 Dec 2025. The award includes a prize of 5,000 EUR and a fellowship at the CSMC.
Apply by 6 February 2026!
uhh.de/csmc-jpga-2025
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Announced tonight: next action - HE strike on december 9. Mark your calendars!
www.fnv.nl/cao-sector/o...
www.fnv.nl/cao-sector/o...
Kabinet sloopt hoger onderwijs
Verzet je tegen de bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs. Sluit je aan bij de strijd: 9 december landelijke hoger onderwijsstaking.
www.fnv.nl
October 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Announced tonight: next action - HE strike on december 9. Mark your calendars!
www.fnv.nl/cao-sector/o...
www.fnv.nl/cao-sector/o...
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British Library workers are sick of poor pay, overwork, and feeling the fallout of a cyber-attack which left them vulnerable to identity theft and blackmail. Now, they are going on strike for a fortnight.
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/from...
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/from...
From National Treasure to National Scandal
British Library workers are sick of poor pay, overwork, and feeling the fallout of a cyber-attack which left them vulnerable to identity theft and blackmail. Now, they are going on strike for a fortni...
tribunemag.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
British Library workers are sick of poor pay, overwork, and feeling the fallout of a cyber-attack which left them vulnerable to identity theft and blackmail. Now, they are going on strike for a fortnight.
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/from...
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/from...
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Job alert! University of Auckland, lectureship in English, in the long 19th century:
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...
Lecturer - English
Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandThe University of Auckland is New Zealand’s pre-eminent University, with a turnover of $1.1bn, including research revenue of over $...
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October 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Job alert! University of Auckland, lectureship in English, in the long 19th century:
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...
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In the US, another blow for independent reasoning, as Trump fires 22 of the 26 members of the National Council for the Humanities, a board of "scholars and humanities leaders appointed by the president to six-year terms" who advise the chair of the NEH on grantmaking, policy and funding decisions."
October 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
In the US, another blow for independent reasoning, as Trump fires 22 of the 26 members of the National Council for the Humanities, a board of "scholars and humanities leaders appointed by the president to six-year terms" who advise the chair of the NEH on grantmaking, policy and funding decisions."
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Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Are you passionate about early medieval Britain? Do you have advanced knowledge of Medieval Latin and interested in the analysis of Latin letter-writing? If yes, then you may be interested in this f...
jobs.kent.ac.uk
September 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Reposting for the early morning crowd: a three-year postdoc opportunity to work on early medieval correspondence
Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Are you passionate about early medieval Britain? Do you have advanced knowledge of Medieval Latin and interested in the analysis of Latin letter-writing? If yes, then you may be interested in this f...
jobs.kent.ac.uk
September 30, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Reposting for the early morning crowd: a three-year postdoc opportunity to work on early medieval correspondence
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Goed verslag over het optreden van de politie tijdens een anti-abortusdemo op de campus vorige week. Als ooggetuige deel ik de observaties.
OPINIE - Universitair docent Marieke van Houte was verbijsterd toen de politie vorige week donderdag een tegendemonstratie op de campus labelde als ‘antifa’ en de tegendemonstranten insloot. (1/2)
Tegendemonstrant over optreden bij anti-abortusprotest: 'In de ogen van de politiek en de politie ben ik een terrorist' - Vox magazine
OPINIE - Universitair docent Marieke van Houte was verbijsterd toen de politie vorige week donderdag een tegendemonstratie op de campus labelde als ‘antifa’ en de tegendemonstranten insloot. Zeker in ...
www.voxweb.nl
September 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Goed verslag over het optreden van de politie tijdens een anti-abortusdemo op de campus vorige week. Als ooggetuige deel ik de observaties.
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In zijn ijver zijn politieke mening over migratie en integratie met historische voorbeelden te staven, doet @steijehofhuis.bsky.social niet alleen de door specialisten opgedolven feiten geweld aan, maar rammelen ook veel van zijn redeneringen. Hierbij onze reactie:
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
September 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
In zijn ijver zijn politieke mening over migratie en integratie met historische voorbeelden te staven, doet @steijehofhuis.bsky.social niet alleen de door specialisten opgedolven feiten geweld aan, maar rammelen ook veel van zijn redeneringen. Hierbij onze reactie:
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.
September 26, 2025 at 7:29 AM
The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.
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This is a problem.
September 26, 2025 at 5:59 AM
This is a problem.
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Vidi pyramidas sine te, dulcissime frater/ et tibi quod potui, lacrimas hic maesta profudi…
“I saw the pyramids without you, my dearest brother, and here I sadly shed tears for you, which is all I could” trans. Hobel
Lien Foubert has a great article on the epigraphy & experience of ancient tourism
“I saw the pyramids without you, my dearest brother, and here I sadly shed tears for you, which is all I could” trans. Hobel
Lien Foubert has a great article on the epigraphy & experience of ancient tourism
Men and women tourists’ desire to see the world: ‘curiosity’ and ‘a longing to learn’ as (self-) fashioning motifs (first–fifth centuries C.E.)
Although tourism is often defined as characteristically modern, this article examines a series of Classical and early medieval texts (produced between the first and the fifth centuries C.E.) that c...
www.tandfonline.com
September 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Vidi pyramidas sine te, dulcissime frater/ et tibi quod potui, lacrimas hic maesta profudi…
“I saw the pyramids without you, my dearest brother, and here I sadly shed tears for you, which is all I could” trans. Hobel
Lien Foubert has a great article on the epigraphy & experience of ancient tourism
“I saw the pyramids without you, my dearest brother, and here I sadly shed tears for you, which is all I could” trans. Hobel
Lien Foubert has a great article on the epigraphy & experience of ancient tourism
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Another in the continuing series loosely titled “just about everything you have been told is ancient Celtic paganism was made up by some dude in the 1970s”:
September 16, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Another in the continuing series loosely titled “just about everything you have been told is ancient Celtic paganism was made up by some dude in the 1970s”:
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“15m downloads a month and more than half their audience is under 35.” Good read on the success of The Rest Is History pod. Strikes me that mainstream broadcasters dumbing down history to “OMG #iconic” spoon-fed shite left a huge gap that they’re filling
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
‘We’re insanely hubristic’: how The Rest Is History became the world’s biggest history podcast
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook on storytelling, their strangest interactions with fans and bonding over The Lord of the Rings
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 8:12 AM
“15m downloads a month and more than half their audience is under 35.” Good read on the success of The Rest Is History pod. Strikes me that mainstream broadcasters dumbing down history to “OMG #iconic” spoon-fed shite left a huge gap that they’re filling
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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When I started BretPal (almost two years ago 😪), I had one very clear research goal: to establish parameters for Breton Caroline minuscule
(Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 85)
(Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 85)
September 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
When I started BretPal (almost two years ago 😪), I had one very clear research goal: to establish parameters for Breton Caroline minuscule
(Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 85)
(Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 85)
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Well, that decides it. I was seriously thinking of applying for the open position in Medieval History at UT-Knoxville. Not now.
I won't give any time, energy, or support to an institution that sides WITH fascists, racists, and promoters of murder, & AGAINST free speech.
Shame on you, UT.
I won't give any time, energy, or support to an institution that sides WITH fascists, racists, and promoters of murder, & AGAINST free speech.
Shame on you, UT.
Add Knoxville to the growing list of campuses where faculty have been terminated or are facing termination procedures due to social media statements.
UT looks to terminate assistant professor for social media post 'endorsing violence and murder'
The university said it initiated the termination process against the employee for a recent post, saying she "failed to meet our expectations for civil engagement."
www.wbir.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Well, that decides it. I was seriously thinking of applying for the open position in Medieval History at UT-Knoxville. Not now.
I won't give any time, energy, or support to an institution that sides WITH fascists, racists, and promoters of murder, & AGAINST free speech.
Shame on you, UT.
I won't give any time, energy, or support to an institution that sides WITH fascists, racists, and promoters of murder, & AGAINST free speech.
Shame on you, UT.
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We're thrilled to post an interview with @svenmeeder.bsky.social about his new book. He actually beat us to by posting himself but we'll forgive him!
Interview with Sven Meeder on Collectio CCCC capitulorum, The Collection in 400 Chapters - Catholic University of America Press
Interview with Sven Meeder for the CUA Press Blog on his new canon law book.
www.cuapress.org
September 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
We're thrilled to post an interview with @svenmeeder.bsky.social about his new book. He actually beat us to by posting himself but we'll forgive him!