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Once more into the breach, my friends?
It is time to enter the breach once more. This time, to answer a piece by Kit Kowohl in the most recent issue of the Political Quarterly,...
Björn Weiler
Jun 13, 20234 min read
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On the Education of Kings
The following is a - very short - extract from Paths to Kingship in medieval Latin Europe, which is due to be published in October. In...
Björn Weiler
Sep 25, 20218 min read
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Reclaiming History
Once again, shots have been fired in the UK’s culture wars. This time, via the website History Reclaimed, introduced by one of its...
Björn Weiler
Sep 1, 202111 min read
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History, heritage and nationhood
The main news in the academic twittersphere has been an article in the UK’s Daily Telegraph (14 February 2021) that the government’s...
Björn Weiler
Feb 14, 20219 min read
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History & the Holy
In 1111/12, Sigebert of Gembloux, by then well over 80, completed what proved to be his final work: the Catalogus de viris illustribus...
Björn Weiler
Oct 22, 202010 min read
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How to read history around the year 1200
Writing history did not occur in a vacuum. Chroniclers and others writing about the past interacted directly with their brethren, peers...
Björn Weiler
Sep 26, 202014 min read
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Playing with numbers: Latin v. the Vernacular, and the transformation of the year 1200
Some of the recurring questions about this project, posed by historians as well as by colleagues in literary studies, relate to numbers....
Björn Weiler
Sep 2, 20208 min read
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Scholars, Gluttons and Builders
The trawl through chronicles continues. One of its great benefits is the number of texts I encountered that I didn’t know before, or of...
Björn Weiler
Aug 8, 20209 min read
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In Praise of Angry Dwarves
Like others, I have had my plans overturned by the pandemic. The manuscript hunting envisaged for this spring and summer had to be...
Björn Weiler
Jul 31, 202010 min read
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Giants, dwarves and crooks (iii)
Now back to the nineteenth century. Muratori’s emphasis on Italian sources set the tone for the major editorial projects of the...
Björn Weiler
Jul 24, 20209 min read
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Giants, dwarves and crooks (ii)
When Migne started compiling the Patrologia Latina, he did no editing himself. Nor would his business model allow him to hire anyone to...
Björn Weiler
Jul 24, 20208 min read
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Giants, dwarves and crooks (i)
Trawling through nineteenth- and twentieth-century editions of texts has made me realise just how indebted my generation is to the labour...
Björn Weiler
Jul 17, 20208 min read
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The monk, the chronicle, and the greedy archbishop
For the last few days I have been reading my way through the Chronicon Epternacense, or Chronicle of Echternach (in modern Luxembourg)....
Björn Weiler
Jul 10, 20206 min read
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Unity, diversity and the past, 1100-1300
Below a short summary of what this project is about. Future posts will be shorter! Medieval writers and modern debates Medieval...
Björn Weiler
Aug 5, 20197 min read
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