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michel52.bsky.social @michel52.bsky.social · 2d

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · 7d

Published one year ago today!

Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · Oct 31

'Willibrord between Ireland, Britain and Merovingian Francia (690–739). Beyond Mission' has been out for a month now. Very grateful for the support and the encouraging feedback I've received so far from friends & colleagues. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

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Christoph Haack @christoph-haack.bsky.social · 14d

I finally made it to Bluesky - and our volume on the "feudal revolution" ist out (and open access!!)!
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After the Feudal Revolution

Das Mittelalter gilt als Zeit der Ritter und Burgen, als Zeit

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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 14d

The elephant rides again! 🐘 Join us on a journey from the palaces of Baghdad, through the streets of Córdoba and all the way to the forests of Aachen #medievalsky

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 14d

Now in #paperback, The Emperor and the Elephant by @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social is a new history of Christian-Muslim relations in the #Carolingian period that provides a fresh account of events by drawing on Arabic as well as western sources.

Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

The Emperor and the Elephant: Christians and Muslims in the Age of Charlemagne by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby

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Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · 16d

Philippe Depreux - Gouverner l'Empire d'Occident

Des Carolingiens au règne de Conrad II (737-1039)

Symbolique du pouvoir et pratiques sociales

À paraître en octobre aux Belles Lettres

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 20d

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Living in a Carolingian World

"Living in a Carolingian World" published on 18 Dec 2025 by Brill.

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · 23d

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · 28d

I'm grateful to @karanthir.bsky.social for his very kind review of my book for Early Medieval Europe. #MedievalSky

Nosferatu's John Thomas @karanthir.bsky.social · Sep 5

If you thought you'd heard everything I have to say about @leafandstream.bsky.social's book on Willibrord, well, you'd be wrong! My (very positive) review for Early Medieval Europe has now appeared on early view: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Manon @manonrnl.bsky.social · 26d

Je suis ravie d'avoir l'occasion de revenir sur le parcours de Plectrude dans un colloque qui s'annonce très enrichissant !

SAMA @sama-ur1132.bsky.social · 26d

Conférence | Manon Raynal – La gouvernance de Plectrude (714-717) : autorité d’une aristocrate à la tête du royaume franc d’Austrasie | 22-23 septembre 2025, Clermont-Ferrand
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Manon Raynal – La gouvernance de Plectrude (714-717) : autorité d’une aristocrate à la tête du royaume franc d’Austrasie | 22-23 septembre 2025, Clermont-Ferrand

Les lundi et mardi 22 et 23 septembre, aura lieu le colloque « Hommes et femmes en autorité. Construction conjointe de la norme » à l’Université Clermont Auvergne. Cette manifestation se tient dans le...

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · 28d

I'm grateful to @karanthir.bsky.social for his very kind review of my book for Early Medieval Europe. #MedievalSky

Nosferatu's John Thomas @karanthir.bsky.social · Sep 5

If you thought you'd heard everything I have to say about @leafandstream.bsky.social's book on Willibrord, well, you'd be wrong! My (very positive) review for Early Medieval Europe has now appeared on early view: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Willibrord between Ireland, Britain and Merovingian Francia (690–739): Beyond Mission. By Michel Summer. Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Belief and Culture. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2024. xviii + 275 pp. £115. ISBN 978 1 83553 418 2.

Click on the article title to read more.

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · Aug 22

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · Oct 31

'Willibrord between Ireland, Britain and Merovingian Francia (690–739). Beyond Mission' has been out for a month now. Very grateful for the support and the encouraging feedback I've received so far from friends & colleagues. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · Aug 22

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · Aug 19

Many thanks to @karanthir.bsky.social for featuring my book @livunipress.bsky.social on his blog & interviewing me about my research on Willibrord and the wider context of his biography, i. e. the Merovingian world around 700. Already looking forward to the next parts in the series!

Nosferatu's John Thomas @karanthir.bsky.social · Aug 19

Something new on the blog today: an interview with @leafandstream.bsky.social about his recent book on Willibrord
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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · Aug 22

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · Aug 19

The site of the 'Petite Marquise' in #Echternach, where structures dated to the 10/11th c. were discovered in 2020, is now covered with panels tracing the town's medieval history & showing some of the archaeological finds. Hopefully, we'll hear more about the preservation project 'Epternacum' soon.

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · Aug 22

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · Apr 9

Now available in OA: My article on 'Studying the networks and the mobility of clerics between Ireland, Britain
and Francia (c. 640–750)' in the volume on early medieval mobility edited by @laurysarti.bsky.social and Helene von Trott zu Solz. Congratulations to the editors! #MedievalSky

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · Aug 22

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · Mar 26

During Pope Francis' visit to Luxembourg in 2024, Prime Minister Luc Frieden called Willibrord a 'European before the European Union'. In a brief article for @livunipress.bsky.social's blog, I reflect on the appl. of the label 'European' to early medieval missionaries. #MedievalSky

Cover of the book 'Willibrord between Ireland, Britain and Merovingian Francia (690-739)' and a quote from the blog article by Michel Summer.

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · Aug 22

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · Nov 20

I had the huge pleasure of presenting my book on Willibrord in Echternach in pres. of the mayor & the 🇮🇪 & 🇬🇧 ambassadors to 🇱🇺 - w. the supp. of the Irish Embassy & the Willibrordus-BV, we were able to invite Dáibhí Ó Cróinín for a great discussion on Ireland, Britain & the Continent in the 7/8th c.

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · Aug 22

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · Nov 19

Today, I had the chance to visit the National Library of Luxembourg together w. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín & HE Ambassador Jean McDonald. We were shown some of the oldest fragments in their collection, incl. one of Gregory's Dialogues & the Hisperica Famina, both of 7th-c. date & kept at Echternach. 1/2

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · Aug 22

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · Oct 3

It was a great honour and pleasure to be able to launch my book on Willibrord at the Luxembourg Residence in Dublin yesterday at the invitation of the ambassador, HE Florence Ensch. I was especially delighted to see so many former colleagues and friends from the Irish medievalist community again.

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · Aug 22

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · Dec 20

My chapter '"Vassal" or "political player"? Towards a re-assessment of Willibrord's political activity in Merovingian Francia (690-739)' is now published in OA as part of the collected volume 'Power of the Priests. Political Use of Religious Knowledge': www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · Aug 22

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · Dec 14

My French review of Rainer Neu's 2021 monograph on "Willibrord und die Christianisierung Europas im Frühmittelalter" is now out in the latest issue of the Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique 118, 1-2 (2023).

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · Aug 22

'In nomine Domini, Clemens Uuillibrordus anno sexcentessimo nonagessimo ab incarnatione Christi ueniebat ultra mare in Francea.'

A collection of all my posts related to my research on #Willibrord & early medieval #Echternach in one thread. #MedievalSky

Page from the so-called Echternach Gospels (Paris, BnF, Lat. 9389, fol. 75v).

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · Aug 19

Many thanks to @karanthir.bsky.social for featuring my book @livunipress.bsky.social on his blog & interviewing me about my research on Willibrord and the wider context of his biography, i. e. the Merovingian world around 700. Already looking forward to the next parts in the series!

Nosferatu's John Thomas @karanthir.bsky.social · Aug 19

Something new on the blog today: an interview with @leafandstream.bsky.social about his recent book on Willibrord
longhairedkingsblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/w...

Willibrord and Beyond: An Interview with Michel Summer

I’m very excited to give you something new today: an interview with a fellow scholar. I hope this will be part of an ongoing series in which I talk to other researchers about topics more or less re…

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · Aug 19

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Epternacum

Plus d'informations à venir prochainement En collaboration avec la BNL Votre don, notre patrimoine partagé Aidez la BnL à sauver un manuscrit médiéval millénaire de l’école du scriptorium d’Ech...

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · Aug 19

The site of the 'Petite Marquise' in #Echternach, where structures dated to the 10/11th c. were discovered in 2020, is now covered with panels tracing the town's medieval history & showing some of the archaeological finds. Hopefully, we'll hear more about the preservation project 'Epternacum' soon.

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Sven Meeder @svenmeeder.bsky.social · Aug 18

I have yet to see the book myself, but the
‪@cua-press.bsky.social‬ website assures me that my edition of the Collectio CCCC capitulorum is now out! This early medieval collection of canon law has been with me for a very long and I am happy to see it published www.cuapress.org/978081323847... 1/2

Collectio CCCC capitulorum, The Collection in 400 Chapters - CUAPress

Surviving in three ninth-century manuscripts, the collection of canon law known as the Collectio 400 capitulorum is a remarkable and understudied witness to...

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · Aug 14

Der Eintritt ist kostenlos. Informationen zu Anmeldung und Anfahrt gibt es über den QR-Code oder unter www.uni-heidelberg.de/fakultaeten/.... #Landesgeschichte #DigitalHumanities

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