Hot off the press: the latest issue of the 'Deutsches Archiv' is now available. The table of contents can be found here:
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Michael Menzel reflects on Louis the Bavarian’s constitutional legacy, emphasising his role in establishing a genuine elective monarchy, free from papal interference. Although this was ultimately short-lived, Louis was certainly no ‘minor king’, as he was described.
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Alexander Patschovsky examines the frescoes in the Church of the Augustinian Hermits in Constance, commissioned by King Sigismund. He edits the surviving sources describing the frescoes—of which only fragments survive today—and provides a more detailed analysis.
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Excellent news - @monumenta.bsky.social to the rescue of online access to Deutsches Archiv!
Klaus Herbers presents a letter by Pope Stephen V (885–891) that has received little attention in research so far. It is preserved only in a manuscript from Montecassino and deals with parricide.
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The IHR's guide to its Monumenta Germaniae Historica collections (@monumenta.bsky.social) is a superb introduction for students of medieval German and European history. #medievalsky
Simon Grigo and Peter Orth present a newly discovered fragmentary textual witness of the first Latin translation of the Acts of the Second Council of Nicaea (787). This witness has survived in the form of the cover of a 17th-century book, which is now held in Cologne.
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Hot off the press, my review of Rudolf Hertwig's (excellent) new #charterrific volume in the MGH Schriften series. @monumenta.bsky.social
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Mikuláš Netík focuses on the ‘Appendix’ to the ‘Historia de expeditione Friderici imperatoris’, which is strongly connected to Leopold V of Austria. He analyses the strategies used to justify Leopold’s actions, who was excommunicated after capturing Richard the Lionheart.
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From mid-February 2026, the MGH is able to make all articles from the DA and NA available in digital form, fully searchable and open access! #medievalsky
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Indeed, this is a major problem. But all articles of the Deutsches Archiv (and the older Neues Archiv) can be researched in our OPAC and we have a PDF of each article publicly available. As of now, the old "Archiv" (1819–1874) is still work in progress. (1/3)