Thank you very much for you input Duncan! It is really appreciated. The paper benefited a lot from reading your work on the HRE, although I am certain we have a lot more to learn from you and other historians. Overall, we should communicate more across disciplinary boundaries.

Thank you! The same is definitely true in reverse: historians have a lot to learn from political scientists, esp. when it comes to explaining long-term significance. Jonathan Lyon articulated this well in the last paragraph of his review of your Succession book: scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/ind...

Indeed — one question I have in that regard is ob how to facilitate such exchange beyond ad hoc opportunities via bsky/twitter… any good ideas?

The big medieval conferences (MAA and Kalamazoo in the US, Leeds in the UK) are open to panels on any relevant topic, so it would definitely be possible to propose a panel of political scientists at those venues (or indeed an interdisciplinary panel). That could be a good opportunity for dialogue.

Do poli sci scholars working on pre-modern topics present at the big conferences in your field? Would a group of historians or literary scholars be able to present there as a way of fostering such conversations across disciplines?