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Marcus Meer joined University College London in 2025 after several years as a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute London. He previously taught at Durham University, King’s College London, and the University of Düsseldorf. His research focuses on the Middle Ages, with particular interests in the intersections of economic and cultural history, and the communicative construction of identities, institutions, spaces, and the antagonisms and convergences within urban, monastic, and noble cultures. His current project investigates the role of money in chronicles from monasteries, cities, and courts in England, the Low Countries, and northern parts of the Holy Roman Empire during the late thirteenth to early sixteenth centuries. It suggests that institutional chronicles employed monetary rhetoric to explore morally acceptable economic thought and evidence-based governmental practices. Additionally, he has explored how monetary rhetoric contributed to the construction of identities marked by shared pasts. His doctoral work analyzed the visual culture of heraldic signs in urban societies of medieval England and Germany.