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Este trabajo pretende ser un breve análisis de la labor científica de la santa Hildegarda de Bingen a través de distintas fuentes y recursos centrados en este tema. El trabajo se dividirá en una breve biografía y una serie de datos sobre... more
Monday 11 January 2021, 19:00 Israel Time Sword and Buckler in Hebrew Letters: Traces of Early Illuminated German Fight Books in Jewish Manuscripts Prof. Sara Offenberg Department of the Arts, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Two... more
Kosmas von Prag über das Liebesleben von Mathilde von Tuszien und Welf V. is a paper I have written for an university seminar before. It contains a small research about Mathilda of Canossa and her much younger second husband Welf V. The... more
The Codex Buranus, compiled, in all likelihood, in South Tyrol in the first half of the thirteenth century, has fascinated modern scholars and performers ever since its rediscovery in 1803. Its diverse range of texts (some famously... more
Prosopographical Apparatus, in: Robert Gramsch, Erfurter Juristen im Spätmittelalter. Die Karrieremuster und Tätigkeitsfelder einer gelehrten Elite des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance,... more
The Georgian Cross, the Cross of Saint George, is simply a red cross upon white field, defined heraldically as blazon argent, a cross gules. It may be of various forms, i.e. latin, greek, formée/pattée, moline, potent, etc. This cross... more
The article presents a network of clerics from Germany and Italy who studied in Paris and made career in the German church and in the Roman curia. The main protagonist is Albrecht II. von Käfernburg-Schwarzburg, the archbishop of... more
„Bertholds Kandidatur hat bei der Genese des Thronstreits möglicherweise eine nicht geringe Rolle gespielt. Natürlich ist eine solche ´Was wäre wenn´-Erwägung spekulativ. Ihr Reiz liegt aber darin, dass wir hier gewissermaßen einen... more
This course presents a broad survey of historical forces at work over the past 6,000 years, examining the manners in which human societies have organized themselves along categories of race, ethnicity, class, and gender to meet the... more
La princesse thuringienne Radegonde, devenue reine de France par son mariage avec Clotaire puis moniale exemplaire à Poitiers après être sortie de cette union, jouit très tôt d’une réputation de sainteté. Peu après sa disparition en 587,... more
“Waltharius.” Entry in Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia. Ed. John M. Jeep. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 2000. 793–794.
Although the sources for urban culture in the early medieval West are much less abundant than they are for the period from c. 1100 ce onwards, it is nevertheless all but impossible to deal with all aspects of 'Civic Identity and Civic... more
Es ist ein unschätzbar wertvolles Erbe des Mittelalters, Bildung – das „studium“ – als autonome „dritte Gewalt“ neben die Sphäre des Religiösen und des Politischen gestellt zu haben. Wie es zu diesem epochalen Schritt kommen konnte und... more
The Drachenfels (Dragon's Rock) in the Siebengebirge uplands between Königswinter and Bad Honnef in Germany. The hill is located in the North Rhine-Westphalia area. History The ruined castle Burg Drachenfels, on the summit of the hill,... more
This dissertation studies legal, political and personal ties of the Livonian territorial lords with the Holy Roman Emperors between 1199 and 1486. Medieval Livonia was a region whose territorial lords were eager to belong to the Holy... more
Frederick II, Hohenstaufen king of Sicily and emperor of Germany, was one of the most powerful rulers of the Middle Ages. In many ways he was a “pre-Renaissance man” as shown through his scholarly pursuits and worldly interests at a time... more
A draft translation of the 'Edictum de beneficiis regni italici' (Edict on the Benefices of the Kingdom of Italy), also known as the 'Constitutio de feudis' (Constitution or Ordinance on Fiefs) issued by Emperor Conrad II (r.1024-1039) on... more
El caballero es el guerrero más prestigioso de la Edad Media. Profusamente armado, montado en un magnífico corcel, parece invencible. Guiado por el código de la caballería, mientras lucha con su espada y su lanza, el honor y la gloria le... more
Programm des Mittelalterkolloquiums an der Universität Jena im Sommersemester 2021. Aufgrund der aktuellen Pandemielage wird die Veranstaltung (zumindest vorerst) online über Zoom stattfinden. Bei Interesse können Sie den Zoom-Link über... more
In several publications, the geographer Hans-Jürgen Nitz has described the medieval settlement history of the Odenwald, a lower mountain range situated in contemporary Germany. Nitz’s work has been and remains very influential among... more
in Fili d’oro e dipinti di seta. Velluti e ricami tra Gotico e Rinascimento, Catalogo della mostra (Trento, Castello del Buonconsiglio, 13 luglio-3 novembre 2109), a cura di L. Dal Prà-M. Carmignani-P. Peri, Trento, Castello del... more
The Fechtbuch (Fight-Book) from 1459 AD by Hans Talhoffer is truly an uncanny work. In this edition of his work, the fight-master opens a window for us to his world. He shares knowledge from his own field of expertise – the martial arts... more
In: Zeitschrift für thüringische Landesgeschichte 72 (2018), S. 41 - 59. Im Jahr 1170 wurde der Graf Ernst II. von Tonna-Gleichen durch den Landgrafen Ludwig II. von Thüringen enthauptet. Nach Bericht der Reinhardsbrunner Chronik... more
The time frame of the paper is the period approximately from the tenth to the twelfth century and it focuses on the Baltic Slavic principality centred on Rügen Island. Particularly on the development of a peculiar political system there.... more
Los conceptos de alteridad e identidad han ocupado en los últimos años un espacio central en los debates académicos en torno a la multiculturalidad. Con este libro se pretende hacer una aportación novedosa al debate uniendo dos tiempos y... more
Position de thèse / Abstract of the Ph. D thesis
Diese Bibliographie habe ich im Sommersemester 2016 für die Studierenden meines BA-Grundseminars zu Gottfrieds von Straßburg 'Tristan' an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf erstellt. Die Literaturhinweise richten sich an... more
The aim of the present contribution is to provide a first sketch of the possibilities for further research in the field of dynastic memory and identity of the Jagiellonians in the preserved genealogical material. We tried to give an... more
Bolesław II the Generous. Tragic fate of a great warrior 1040/1042 – 2/3 IV 1081 or 1082. Bolesław II the Generous, born circa 1042, was a Polish prince, Casimir I the Restorer and Dobroniega Maria’s child, who after his father’s death... more