Dr. Jeremy Thompson

Jeremy Thompson specializes in the intellectual history of the European Middle Ages. After obtaining his B.A. and M.A. in classical philology, he completed a Ph.D. in medieval history at the University of Chicago (2014). His first book, based on his dissertation, appeared in 2019 with Brepols as a critical edition of the theological works of the Carolingian scholar Lupus of Ferrières. From 2018 to 2021 he held an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship in the Department for Medieval and Early Modern Latin at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, where his project focused on the use of music and arithmetic in medieval religious thinking with ancillary investigations into historical numeracy and the reception of Boethian arithmetic.

A new monograph in collaboration with Clare K. Rothschild, The Benedictine Prologue, appeared in 2023 with Mohr-Siebeck. Immediate interests include: the transmission of paratexts in the Latin New Testament and around Paul’s letters in particular; the hidden medieval legacy of melancholy and acedia up to the Romantic period; and, the long symbolic relationship of head and hand, now so prominent in critical discussions of virtual and augmented reality. At the IfDH he forms part of the eManuSkript team as a researcher in palaeography.