Prof. Dr. Laury Sarti

Investigator

Institute of Historical Science
Department of Medieval History
Room U1.006a
Konviktstraße 11
D-53113 Bonn
Phone: +49 228 73 6520
Phone Secretary's Office: +49 228 73 5383
sarti@uni-bonn.de

Laury Sarti
© Georg Hübl

Academic Profile

Research Fields and Research Interests: 

• Frankish world, France, (Holy) Roman Empire, Italy, England and the Byzantine Empire

• Mobility and travel in the Middle Ages

• Contacts and interconnections between the Byzantine and Franconian worlds

• Military and warrior culture

• Identities and affiliations in antiquity and the Middle Ages, incl. Gender history

• The transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

• History of mentality, imagination, ideas and semantics

• Digital Humanities, archaeology, manuscripts

2022
Habilitation and Venia legendi at the University of Freiburg (01/2022)

2012 
PhD at the University of Hamburg

2002–2007
Master's degree in History and Classical at the University of Hamburg, the Free University of Berlin, the Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis in Brussels, and the University of Luxembourg

since 12/2025
W3-Heisenberg-Professorship for Medieval Historye, University of Bonn

2025
DFG Heisenberg position, Centre for European History and Cultural Studies, History Seminar, University of Heidelberg

2024–2025
Substitute Professor for the W3 Professorship for the History of the Early and High Middle Ages and Transcultural History (Wolfram Drews), University of Münster

2023–2024
Substitute Professor for the W3 Professorship in the History of Religions held by Daniel König in the Department of History and Sociology, University of Konstanz

2022–2023
Substitute Professor for the W3 Professorship in Early Medieval History and Historical Fundamental Sciences (Nikolaus Jaspert), University of Heidelberg

2017–2025
Non-tenured Assistant Professor/senior lecturer at the Histoy Seminar of the University of Freiburg

2013–2017
Research Fellow at the Department of Late Antiquity and Early Medieval History, Free University of Berlin

11/2024
Admission to the DFG's Heisenberg Programme

09/2023
Fellowship in the framework of the DFG-Kollegs Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, University of Tübingen

01/2016–08/2020
PI of the research group funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation on "Militarization of Early Medieval Societies: Forms, Regulation, and Perception in a Western European Comparison"  

  • 2025. "Ottonian notions of imperium and the Byzantine empire." Frühmittelalterliche Studien 59(1): 99–126. Open access. 
  • 2025. As editor. With Helene von Trott zu Solz. Mobility in the Early Middle Ages, and Beyond. Interdisciplinary Approaches – Mobilität im Frühmittelalter und darüber hinaus – Interdisziplinäre Zugänge. Europa im Mittelalter 47. Berlin: De Gruyter. Open access.
  • 2024. Orbis Romanus. Byzantium and the Legacy of Rome in the Carolingian World. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press.
  • 2023. "Die Mobilität der englischen Gentry im Briefzeugnis der Familie Paston aus Norfolk (15. Jahrhundert)." Zeitschrift für historische Forschung 50(3): 1–40.
  • 2023. "Roman culture in the Ottonian world." Royal Studies Journal 10(2): 81–119. Open access.
  • 2023. Westeuropa zwischen Antike und Mittelalter. Geschichte Kompakt – Mittelalter. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
  • 2022. "Byzantine history and stories in the Frankish Chronicle of Fredegar (c. 613–662)." Francia. Forschungen zur westeuropäischen Geschichte 28: 3–22. [Spanish translation: 2022. L. Sarti and A. Escobar Tortosa. "La identidad del combatiente tras la desintegración del sistema militar romano en la Galia." Revista Universitaria De Historia Militar 11(22): 276–294.]
  • 2021. As editor. With Ellora Bennett, Guido M. Berndt, and Stefan Esders. Early medieval militarisation. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
  • 2019. As editor. With Stefan Esders, Yaniv Fox, and Yitzhak Hen. East and west in the Middle Ages. The Merovingian kingdoms in Mediterranean perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • 2018: "Der fränkische miles: weder Soldat noch Ritter." Frühmittelalterliche Studien 52(1): 99–117.
  • 2018. "From Romanus to Graecus. Identity and Perceptions of the Byzantines in the Frankish West." Journal of Medieval History 44(2): 131–150.
  • 2017: "The Clergy, the Military and Christian Faith in sixth-century Gaul." Early Medieval Europe 25(2): 162–185.
  • 2016. "Frankish Romanness and Charlemagne’s Empire." Speculum 91(4): 1040–1058.
  • 2016. "Eine Militärelite im merowingerzeitlichen Gallien? Versuch einer Eingrenzung, Zuordnung und Definition." Mitteilungen des Instituts für österreichische Geschichtsforschung 124(2): 271–295.
  • 2013. "Die Identität des Kämpfenden nach dem Zusammenbruch des römischen Militärwesens in Gallien." Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 95(2): 309–332.

  • 2013. Perceiving War and the Military in Early Christian Gaul (400–700). Brill’s Series on the Early Middle Ages 22 (= continuation of the Transformation of the Roman world series). Leiden/New York: Brill.