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Kordula Wolf @kordulawolf.bsky.social · 7d

Great !!!

Istituto Storico Germanico | German Historical Institute Rome @dhiroma.bsky.social · 7d

🎶 #Music connects! For #WorldMusicDay on October 1, we're sharing our #playlist: as diverse as our team – from classical to rap, featuring sounds that reflect our location & make 🇩🇪🤝🇮🇹 ties audible. Curious? 🎧 open.spotify.com/playlist/63f...

@maxweberstiftung.de

Backside of the German Historical Institute in Rome with green lawn and orange trees in the foreground

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Kordula Wolf @kordulawolf.bsky.social · 8d

Applications for the European Diploma in Medieval Studies from the #FIDEM (Fédération Internationale des Instituts d'Études Médiévales) are now open. Deadline: 1 december 2025. More information on their website: fidemweb.org/call-for-app...

Call for Applications – DEEM 2026 | FIDEM

fidemweb.org

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Kordula Wolf @kordulawolf.bsky.social · Jun 30

Join us in our one-hour session on medieval Islamic cartography! Karen Pinto will tell us what lies behind the harmonious KMMS maps of the Mediterranean. With Giancarlo Casale

📆1 July 2025, 5-6 pm CET online
👉Register here: t1p.de/entanglement...

#medievalsky #medievalmediterranean #medievalmaps

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Kordula Wolf @kordulawolf.bsky.social · Jun 5

There are still a few days left until the application deadline (9 June). We look forward to receiving your proposals!

t1p.de/entanglement...

#medievalsky #medievalmediterranean @dhiparis.wisskomm.social.ap.brid.gy @dhiroma.bsky.social

Kordula Wolf @kordulawolf.bsky.social · May 20

Open call for the online seminar series on "Euro-Mediterranean #Entanglements in #Medieval #History" (September 2025 – May 2026). Send us your proposal: t1p.de/entanglement...
Deadline: 9 June 2025

#medievalsky #medievalmediterranean @dhiparis.wisskomm.social.ap.brid.gy @dhiroma.bsky.social

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Kordula Wolf @kordulawolf.bsky.social · May 27

‼️Session postponed to 👉July 1, 2025, 5-6 pm CET online. With Karen Pinto (Colorado University) and Giancarlo Casale (European University Institute). The registration link is the same: t1p.de/entanglement... (old registrations remain valid).

#medievalsky #medievalmediterranean #medievalmaps

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Kordula Wolf @kordulawolf.bsky.social · May 20

Open call for the online seminar series on "Euro-Mediterranean #Entanglements in #Medieval #History" (September 2025 – May 2026). Send us your proposal: t1p.de/entanglement...
Deadline: 9 June 2025

#medievalsky #medievalmediterranean @dhiparis.wisskomm.social.ap.brid.gy @dhiroma.bsky.social

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Kordula Wolf @kordulawolf.bsky.social · May 8

Interested in medieval Islamic cartography and curious about what lies behind the harmonious KMMS maps of the Mediterranean? With Karen Pinto & Houari Touati. Join us!

27 May 2025, 5-6 pm CET online
Registration: t1p.de/entanglement...

#medievalsky #medievalmediterranean #medievalmaps

bulbous vase-like shape image of the blue-colored Mediterranean sea, Norman-Sicilian parchment copy of the 12th century (Courtesy: Leiden University Libraries, Cod. Or. 3101, fol. 33).

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Istituto Storico Germanico | German Historical Institute Rome @dhiroma.bsky.social · May 7

After the 20th century, after colonialism, world wars and totalitarianism - does the powerless papacy still have a political function today?
Lecture (in german language) by Otto Kallscheuer
Info: t1p.de/n0ukt
12.05.2025, 18.00
👉In-person/online: t1p.de/xwdyf
#skytorians #pope #papacy #globalpolitics

Foto-Portrait of the philosopher and political theorist Otto Kallscheuer.

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Kordula Wolf @kordulawolf.bsky.social · Mar 14

Next week in Rome: Conference on German medieval studies and basic research in Italy from the 19th to 21th century

Istituto Storico Germanico | German Historical Institute Rome @dhiroma.bsky.social · Mar 13

#Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Über die nicht immer einfache Zusammenarbeit zwischen dem Vatikan und der Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften um die Jahrhundertwende. Vortrag von @markschies.bsky.social, 17. März, 18 Uhr.
Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo
Registrierung: eveeno.com/mediaevistik...

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Kordula Wolf @kordulawolf.bsky.social · Feb 5

How did #trade in late #medieval Maghribi port cities function within the frameworks of (religious) laws and #cross-cultural exchange? With Joel Pattison + Maya Shatzmiller. Join us!

🗓️18 Feb. 2025, 5-6 pm CET online: t1p.de/entanglement...

#medievalsky #medievalmediterranean #interfaithencounters

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Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften @bbaw.bsky.social · Feb 4

#Stellenangebot: Das Akademienvorhaben „Die alexandrinische und antiochenische Bibelexegese in der Spätantike“ ediert bedeutende christliche Kommentare und Predigten zu alttestamentlichen Texten. Sie möchten im Bereich der Gräzistik mitarbeiten? Dann bewerben Sie sich! https://www.bbaw.de/stellenan…

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H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · Feb 4

Konf: Europäische Formierungsprozesse während des Alexandrinischen Schismas (1159-1177): Phänomene der Spaltung und ihrer Überwindung

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-152939

Würzburg, 24.03.2025-26.03.2025, Akademienprojekt "Die Formierung Europas durch Überwindung der Spaltung im 12. …

Europäische Formierungsprozesse während des Alexandrinischen Schismas (1159-1177): Phänomene der Spaltung und ihrer Überwindung

www.hsozkult.de

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Kordula Wolf @kordulawolf.bsky.social · Jan 28

Still time to register and attend our today's #entanglements session – at 5 pm CET!

Kordula Wolf @kordulawolf.bsky.social · Jan 10

An apple, a dying #Aristotle, the Liber de Pomo – what do Arabic and Hebrew-Latin #medievaltranslations reveal to us? With I.-H. Chames-Eddine & I. Curut

👉 28 January 2025, 5-6 pm CET online: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#medievalsky #medievalmediterranean @dhiparis.wisskomm.social.ap.brid.gy

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Kordula Wolf @kordulawolf.bsky.social · Jan 10

An apple, a dying #Aristotle, the Liber de Pomo – what do Arabic and Hebrew-Latin #medievaltranslations reveal to us? With I.-H. Chames-Eddine & I. Curut

👉 28 January 2025, 5-6 pm CET online: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#medievalsky #medievalmediterranean @dhiparis.wisskomm.social.ap.brid.gy

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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · Jan 6

Applications are open for the 2025-27 Past & Present Fellowships @ihr.bsky.social are open

Applications close on 31st Jan 2025

Fellows appointed will commence on 1st Oct 2025 and be tenable for 24 months

Please share with your network

www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

Past & Present Fellowships

Past & Present Fellowships are available for two years, and open to researchers who have completed a doctorate in history.

www.history.ac.uk

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Istituto Storico Germanico | German Historical Institute Rome @dhiroma.bsky.social · Dec 20

Postdoctoral fellowship in the field of medieval studies for a period of 12 months (2025/2026). Together with the École française de Rome and the Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo. Application deadline 31 January 2025: t1p.de/6nu6q
@maxweberstiftung.bsky.social #medievalsky
#medievalstudies

Initial 'D' with strawberries in a gradual from the Dominican convent of St Nicholas in Gdansk. Graz University Library, Cod. 2067, I (fol. 24r), REALonline image no. 007997.

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Anoushka Alexander-Rose @anoushka-ar.bsky.social · Dec 19

Next up — the Wandering Jew in London, with a special event on the 23rd January where I will be in conversation with Elisabeth Becker-Topkara exploring the exhibition through the lens of understanding Jewish agency in the construction of German, and European, culture and society. Link below!

German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · Dec 17

📣 New exhibition! 📣

The German Historical Institute London is delighted to host ‘The Wandering Jew: A Travelling Exhibition’ curated by Anoushka Alexander-Rose (@anoushka-ar.bsky.social) from 6 January to 14 February 2025 (Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 5.30pm)!

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Freie Universität Berlin @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social · Dec 19

#SaveBrainCity: Rund 3000 Personen - Studierende, Beschäftigte, Wissenschaftler*innen - haben heute vor dem Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus lautstark gegen die Einsparungen des Berliner Senats protestiert❗️
Weitere Eindrücke unter: www.fu-berlin.de/campusleben/...

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Kordula Wolf @kordulawolf.bsky.social · Dec 3

Good news !!!

Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social · Dec 2

I am a bit excited to announce that “Eroberte im Mittelalter” (Being Conquered in the Middle Ages) was chosen to also be available as paperback @degruyterbrill.bsky.social - once again, a massive thanks to everyone who was involved in this project.

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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · Nov 26

AotW: Daniel G. König, 653: In a Letter, Pope Martin I Denies Having Collaborated with the Expanding Saracens, in: Transmediterranean History 1.2 (2019), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

* We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... *

#medievalists #medievalsky

Statue of Martin I, S. Maria della Consolazione, Todi, Italy

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Kordula Wolf @kordulawolf.bsky.social · Nov 29

That's simply great!

Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · Sep 23

'Dark Ages'.

Btw. 2018-21, I posted a series of cartoons on Twitter, based on my research in (early) Medieval History. I've drawn very little since then, but I hope to repost some of the older ones here & perhaps to add some new ones as well... feel free to use them for your research, teaching etc.

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Kordula Wolf @kordulawolf.bsky.social · Nov 29

Could you please add me to your starter pack "Medieval Historians"? Thank you!

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Amsterdam University Press @amsterdamupress.bsky.social · Nov 15

Marco Panato's 'River and Society in Northern Italy' is out now!

This exciting monograph shapes a new #interdisciplinary method for the analysis of the #EarlyMiddleAges, where the #environment played an equal part as political movements.

Read a preview ➡️ www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... #MedSky

book cover including neo-classical drawing of river scene with castle

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Kordula Wolf @kordulawolf.bsky.social · Nov 28

I'd love to be added to this Early Medieval History starter pack. Thank you!

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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · Nov 26

In today's post, Rohan chauhan explores Aksharamukha 🌍 an online script converter developed by virtual vinodh.

📜 A powerful #opensource tool supporting 121 scripts and 21 romanization methods 🗃️

digitalorientalist.com/2024/11/26/a...

#DigitalHumanities #ResearchTools #transliteration #coding

Aksharamukha: The Automated Transliteration Tool to Simplify Script Conversion

Aksharamukha, a free and open-source transliteration tool supporting 121 scripts and 21 romanization methods, enhances access to multilingual texts and facilitates cross-cultural communication.

digitalorientalist.com

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