Behind the Capitularia Project team lie eventful days filled with intensive research, international exchange and valuable networking. We look back on a busy trip to the Eternal City, as well as our participation in the latest network meeting of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts (AWK NRW) in the state capital. Two stops […]
As the antiqua consuetudo dictates, our first blogpost of the New Year is dedicated to the review of the past. 2025 brought many new developments to the Capitularia project. Since the end of the year we have a new team member, Tobias Mercer. Newly published is the PhD thesis of the project’s doctoral student Dominik […]
Orange is the new Spring Green! We are proud to announce a double bill of publications by our two former colleagues, Dominik Trump and Dominik Leyendecker: In his PhD, “Unfreiheit und Recht. Die servi in den karolingischen Kapitularien (742-840)”, Dominik Leyendecker studies the role of unfree people in capitulary legislation, and reaches some unexpected conclusions […]
In der Tradition der Brauchtumspflege darf unser Jahresrückblick nicht ausbleiben – auch wenn er dieses Mal ein wenig verspätet kommt … In 2024 war es endlich soweit: Der erste Band unserer neuen Kapitularienedition ist erschienen! Das haben wir gebührend gefeiert mit einem Kolloquium in der Düsseldorfer Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste. Unter den Gästen waren […]
The first volume of the new edition of the Frankish capitularies has now been published! © AWK/Engel-Albustin Its two parts contain 56 numbers by Louis the Pious and his son Lothar I from the years 814-840. The Latin text of the capitularies is accompanied by a critical apparatus and commentary, but also – for the […]
We welcome a new guest from China, who introduces himself and his PhD project: My name is Xuke Wang, a PhD student from the Department of History at the Peking University. My research topic is “The Epistolary Culture in Early Medieval Europe: A Study on the Epistolae Sancti Bonifatii et Lulli.” Using the letters and […]
On 16-17 September, an international conference on legal manuscripts organized by Stefan Esders (Berlin), Shigeto Kikuchi (Tokyo), Karl Ubl (Cologne) and the Capitularia team will take place in Cologne: Legal manuscripts in the Frankish world and the transformation of early medieval legal cultures (8th-11th centuries). This is the second part of the final conference of […]
In August, two of our office chairs will receive new occupants: Franziska Lingk joins the Capitularia project team as our new student assistant, and Prof. Dr. Shigeto Kikuchi will be our guest again for two months, as he was last year. Prof. Kikuchi was recently awarded the Imperial Prize as well as the Japan Academy […]
The following manuscript pages were recently published: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Lat. 19414 München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Lat. 29555/3 New York, The Morgan Library & Museum, M. 642 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 5095 Sankt Petersburg, Rossijskaja Nacional’naja Biblioteka, Q. v. II. 11 Vatikan, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Barb. Lat. 421 Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, Rh. hist. 28 Furthermore, […]
Recently published the following manuscript pages: Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek, Memb. I 85 Leiden, Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit, VLQ 13 London, British Library, Cott. Tiberius A. III London, British Library, Harley 5431 Mailand, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, C. 51 sup. Mailand, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, S. 17 sup. Montserrat, Biblioteca del Monasterio, 995