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 Leyendecker as well as a conference volume edited by him and our former colleague Dominik Trump. After ten years of ‘Manuscripts (Capitularies, Chapters, Collections) of the Month’ it was time for something new for our blogposts. In 2025 we initiated the blogpost categories “From the Workshop” with findings and new insights from the editorial work and “From the Engine Room” on the technical aspects and challenges of a long-term project. And also in the past year team members were once again on the road attending conferences and workshops.
The digital edition continues to make progress; more than a third of the remaining transmissions of the capitularies before 814 have already been transcribed. You can follow the progress via the relevant blogposts or in the current work status.

We are now in the process of working on the second volume of the critical print edition, which covers the capitularies after 840, the reigns of Charles the Bald, Louis II and their successors. At this year’s IMC in Leeds, we will be taking a closer look at Charles the Bald’s famous Edict of Pîtres (864) in two sessions (Monday 6 July, 11.15-12.45 and 14.15-15.45). Perhaps we will see some of you there?!

We wish all our readers a happy and healthy 2026!
The Capitularia team