Came across this handsome diploma of Otto I from 947, granting the abbot of St Gall the rights to hold a market and mint coins in Rorschach, on the southern shore of Lake Constance, 'for the convenience of those travelling to Italy or Rome'. www.e-chartae.ch/de/charters/...

Even Bede features, along with other insular authorities such as Theodore of Canterbury, Cummean and Patrick, highlighting the collection's focus on penitential law.

And here are Prosper of Aquitaine, Pope Zosimus, Caesarius of Arles, Pope Sixtus (II?) and Pope Symmachus.

Medieval legal manuscripts don't often contain illustrations, but this collection (Vatican lat. 1339) made in central Italy in the mid-11th C features depictions of 6 ecumenical councils and 44 portraits of canonical authorities. Here's the 431 council of Ephesus, convened by Theodosius II:

DigiZeitschriften is now sadly gone, though apparently any last orders for its public domain content can be made until the end of April...

Been greatly enjoying this new book, which contains some excellent studies of life in the Carolingian Empire. brill.com/display/titl...

Sad to see that the DigiZeitschriften is shutting down at the end of this year. I've used this for many years for journals such as Deutsches Archiv... will DA be available anywhere else online? @monumenta.bsky.social

Thanks for the great blog and reading suggestions! I will add that any early medievalists to the region should (in addition to Nara) pay a visit to Daigo-ji temple near Kyoto. The pagoda dates to the 10th century and is apparently the oldest structure in Kyoto.

Always a highlight of the teaching term: examining original Anglo-Saxon charters (including the 'Fonthill letter') at Canterbury Cathedral with @memsunikent.bsky.social MA students. This year they were treated to a double act of @hwaetspur.bsky.social and me.

I'm a medieval historian, but we're all just here for the dogs, right? This is Remi.