Deadline: 3 June 2024. The German Historical Institutes Paris and Rome will continue the online seminar series on "Euro-Mediterranean Entanglements in Medieval History" in the academic year 2024/2025. It is aimed at scholars from all medieval disciplines and qualification levels. Its purpose is to establish an international and interdisciplinary forum that facilitates the exchange of ideas on a  ...   

For technical reasons, the library is not currently able to operate on a regular basis. However, we provide a limited number of places in the reading room to our external users who request them at bibliothek[at]dhi-roma.it. Opening hours: Monday–Friday 9.00 a.m. – 7.00 p.m.

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This volume of selected essays by Arnold Esch and Ludwig Schmugge, the fruit of over thirty years of research, deals with sources from the archives of the Apostolic Penitentiary, the Catholic Church's supreme tribunal of penitence and mercy – more precisely, with the registers that this 'dicastery' kept on petitions from all regions of Latin Christendom, which were positively decided upon by it. What new perspectives does  ...   

After its defeat in the Second World War, Germany lost the regions of Silesia, Pomerania and East Prussia to Poland and the Soviet Union. A part of the Germans living in these territories had already fled the advance of the Red Army on the Eastern Front, while others were forced to leave their homeland after the end of the war. This volume reconstructs the individual and community histories of those who were resettled in the  ...   

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This year we are retro-digitising volumes 1 (1898) to 37 (1957) of our journal "Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken". We are endeavouring to inform the authors or their legal successors also in this way via our Institute website and to draw attention to possibilities of objection. Here you can find  ...