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Digital Medievalist is an anglophone, platinum-open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to every facet of digital scholarship on the Middle Ages. Founded in 2005 as “the most formal part” of the wider Digital Medievalist community, the journal has evolved in step with the field: from its pioneering beginnings at the University of Lethbridge (2005-2017), through a period of professionalisation on the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) platform (2017-2025), to its relaunch on OpenEdition Journals at a rate of one open issue per year.

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Adrian Doyle, Mary Sweeney and Pádraic Moran
An Assessment of NLP Approaches for the Comparison of Glosses [Full text]
10 July 2026

Colin Layfield and Lisa Fagin Davis
Singulion Structure and the Voynich Manuscript [Full text]
10 July 2026

Zarko Vujosevic and Georg Vogeler
Encoding Medieval Charters in Preparation of a Diplomatic Semantic Web [Full text]
Combining the TEI with the Vocabulaire International de la Diplomatique
01 July 2026

Source : Digital Medievalist

This volume presents twelve studies, written between 2007 and 2023, which examine the conduct of war in Carolingian East Francia and Ottonian Germany from the mid-ninth to the early eleventh century. Grouped thematically rather than by date of publication, the chapters focus on military recruitment and administration, intelligence gathering, the military infrastructure of frontier fortifications, campaign strategy, and the religion of war.

Cumulatively these essays represent an assessment that the long-term military success of the Carolingians and Ottonians was based on an equally successful development of institutions through which rulers mobilized men and resources to undertake a vast number of military operations that were focused largely on the capture and defense of fortifications.

 This volume will be of great value to scholars and advanced students interested in the military affairs of pre-modern Europe. In addition, the consistent focus on matters such as source criticism, and the methodological imperative to integrate a wide range of written as well as material sources of information when pursuing questions relating to military history, make these studies essential to those scholars and students intending to pursue questions on a very wide range of matters in periods for which traditional sources of information, such as historical narratives, survive in only limited numbers.

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1.      David S. Bachrach, “The Past and Future of Warfare in Early Medieval Germany,” previously unpublished.

2.      David S. Bachrach, “Immunities as Tools of Royal Military Policy under the Carolingian Kings,” Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, germanistische Abteilung 130 (2013), 1-36, republished with the permission of De Gruyter Press

3.      David S. Bachrach, “Ottonian Military Organization c. 900-1018: The Views of Bishop Thietmar of Merseburg,” Journal of Military History 72 (2008), 1061-1088, republished with the permission of the Society for Military History.

4.      David S. Bachrach, “Civilians and Militia in Ottonian Germany: Warfare in an Era of Small Professional Armies,” in Civilians and Warfare in World History, ed. Nicola Foote and Nadya Williams (Routledge Press, London, 2017), 110-131, republished with the permission of Routledge Press.

5.      David S. Bachrach, “The Ducal Office in Ottonian Germany from a Military-Administrative Perspective,” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, 3^rd Series 16 (2019, appearing 2022), 77-115, republished with the permission of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

6.      David S. Bachrach, “Feeding the Host: The Ottonian Royal Fisc in Military Perspective,” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, 3^rd Series 9 (2012), 1-43, republished with the permission of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

7.      David S. Bachrach and Bernard S. Bachrach, “Military Intelligence and Long-Term Planning in the Ninth Century: The Carolingians and their Adversaries,” Mediavistik 33 (2020), 89-111, republished with the permission of Peter Lang Verlag.

8.      David S. Bachrach, “Military Intelligence and Strategic Planning under the Ottonian Kings of Germany, c. 919-c.1024,” in Military Cultures and Martial Enterprises in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of Richard P. Abels, ed. John Hosler and Steven Isaac (Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, 2020), 61-87, reprinted with the permission of Boydell and Brewer Press.

9.      David S. Bachrach, “Restructuring the Eastern Frontier: Henry I of Germany 924-936,” Journal of Military History 78.1 (2014), 1-27, reprinted with the permission of the Society for Military History.

10. David S. Bachrach, “The Eastern Campaigns of King Henry II of Germany, 1003-1017,” Journal of Medieval Military History 17 (2020), 1-36, reprinted with the permission of Boydell and Brewer Press.

11. David S. Bachrach, “Military Chaplains and the Religion of War in Ottonian Germany, 919-1024,” Religion, State, and Society 39.1 (2011), 13-31, reprinted with the permission of Routledge Press.

12. David S. Bachrach, “Grand Strategy of the Ottonian Empire,” in The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Military Strategy, ed. Daniel P. Franke and John D. Hosler (London, 2024), 32-43, reprinted with the permission of Routledge Press.

Informations pratiques :

David S. Bachrach, Armies and Warfare in Carolingian East Francia and Ottonian Germany, Londres, Routledge, 2026 ; 1 vol., 314 p. (Variorum Collected Studies). ISBN : 978-1-04121-253-9. Prix : € 152,00.

Source : Routledge

Rosvita di Gandersheim (ca. 935-ca. 975) ricopre un ruolo assai importante all’interno della letteratura del sec. X. Entro la sua produzione – comprendente poemetti agiografici, dialoghi drammatici e poemetti storico-encomiastici – si possono individuare alcuni nuclei tematici particolarmente significativi, quali, soprattutto, la conversione e il martirio. In questo volume si vuole fare il punto sulle svariate tipologie di conversione, pentimento, ravvedimento che è possibile individuare, enucleare e analizzare all’interno degli opera omnia rosvitiani (segnatamente nei poemetti agiografici Maria, Theophilus, Basilius, Dionysius e Agnes) con un’unica expertise dedicata al ritorno dei dialoghi drammatici, il Callimachus (ché tali tematiche risultano sostanzialmente assenti, o comunque non rilevanti, nei due poemetti storico-encomiastici, i Gesta Ottonis e il Primordia coenobii Gandershemensis). In particolare, poi, il Theophilus e il Basilius sono caratterizzati, oltre che dal tema della conversione, da quello del “patto col diavolo” di ampia diffusione nella letteratura medievale e moderna.

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Premessa – i. Rosvita di Ganderheim fra conversione e martirio – ii.Anna e Gioacchino, genitori della Vergine, in Maria (vv. 45-266) – iii. La fuga in Egitto, la distruzione degli idoli, la conversione di Afrodisio (Maria, vv. 692-862) – iv. Patto col diavolo e conversione nel Theophilus e nel Basilius – v. Il convertito che opera conversioni: la figura di san Dionigi nel Dionysius – vi. Desiderio, crudeltà e conversione nell’Agnes – vii. Il motivo della conversione nel Gallicanus – Bibliografia – Indice degli autori e dei testi antichi e medievali

Informations pratiques :

Armando Bisanti, Conversione e martirio nell’opera di Rosvita di Gandersheim, Spolète, CISAM, 2026 ; 1 vol., XIV–182 p. (Studi, 25). ISBN : 978-8-86809-491-1. Prix : € 28,00.

Source : CISAM

During the 14th and early 15th centuries, the Papacy directed its attention towards the Mongols. The aim of the Apostolic See was to pursue a universal project that combined the proclamation of the Christian faith with the consolidation of papal authority. Drawing on diplomatic documents, missionary accounts, and medieval chronicles, this volume examines the ambitions of the Papacy and reconstructs the relationship between the Apostolic See and the Mongol world. Central to the analysis are the activities of the Franciscan and Dominican friars, as well as the role of the apostolatus ad Tartaros as a tool to assert authority and counter the Antipopes, opponents of the Apostolic See. The volume thus offers an original interpretative framework for understanding the final stage of interactions between Latin Christians and the Mongols.

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Giovanni Di Bella, Il Papato, i Mendicanti, i Mongoli. L’Asia e l’universalismo pontificio tra XIV e inizio XV secolo, Florence, Firenze University Press, 2026 ; 1 vol., 358 p. (Premio Istituto Sangalli per la storia religiosa). ISBN : 979-12-215-0921-2.

Source : Firenze University Press