Cordula Nolte

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Cordula Nolte (born April 27, 1958 in Paderborn ) is a German mediaevalist .

Scientific career

Cordula Nolte studied from 1977 to 1985 at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster , the University of Hamburg and at the Free University of Berlin, the subjects of history, German and at times art history. She then worked as a research assistant at the Free University of Berlin until 1989. In 1993 she received her doctorate from the Free University of Berlin with her thesis Conversio and Christianitas - Women in Christianization from the 5th to the 8th Century .

Until 2000, Nolte held the position of a scientific assistant at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University in Greifswald. She then received a scholarship as part of the federal-state agreement to promote the further development of universities and science. She completed her habilitation in Greifswald in 2002 (subject of the habilitation thesis : Family, Court and Dominion. The relational relationship and communication network of the imperial princes using the example of the Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1440–1530) ).

The following year she was visiting professor at Saarland University ; since 2004 Nolte has been professor for the history of the Middle Ages at the University of Bremen . Here she received the Berninghausen Prize for excellent teaching in 2011 .

Since 2007 she has headed the research project Homo debilis at the University of Bremen , which examines the handling of disability and impairment in the pre-modern era with the questions of disability studies . The project was funded in various formats by the German Research Foundation together with the Bremen state archaeologist Uta Halle and the mediaeval literary scholar Sonja Kerth and, since 2013, as a creative unit as part of the Excellence Initiative. Since December 2013 this has also been part of the study groups of the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg .

Publications (selection)

  • as editor: Disability History of the Pre-Modern Age - Outlines of a Research Program , Affalterbach 2013.
  • Women and men in medieval society , Darmstadt 2011
  • as editor: Homo debilis. Disabled - sick - disabled in medieval society (studies and texts on the intellectual and social history of the Middle Ages, vol. 3), Korb 2009
  • Family, court and rule. The family relationship and communication network of the imperial princes using the example of the Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1440–1530) , Ostfildern 2005 ( digitized version )
  • Written and Oral , in: Courtyards and Residences in the Late Medieval Empire. Hof und Schrift (Residency Research Vol. 15.III), ed. by Werner Paravicini , arr. by Jan Hirschbiegel and Jörg Wettlaufer, Ostfildern 2007, pp. 11–35
  • Devotio christiana in rural Gaul in the 6th century - the perspective of Bishop Gregor von Tours , in: Brigitte Kasten (ed.): Fields of activity and experience horizons of rural people in the early medieval manorial rule (up to approx. 1000) , commemorative publication for Dieter Hägermann on the 65th Birthday, Munich 2006, pp. 199–216
  • Princes and history in the northeast of the late medieval empire. On the literary design of Duke Bogislaw X. von Pommern's trip to Jerusalem , in: Chantal Grell, Werner Paravicini and Jürgen Voss (eds.): Les princes et l'histoire. XIVe - XVIIIe siècle. Actes du colloque organisé par l'Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin et l'Institut Historique Allemand (Paris Historical Studies Vol. 47), Paris / Versailles 13. – 16. March 1996, Bonn 1998, pp. 151-169
  • The sick prince. Comparative observations on dynasty and rule crises around 1500, based on the Landgraves of Hesse , in: Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung , Vol. 27, H. 1 (2000), pp. 1-36

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the review by Michael Borgolte that appeared in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on September 30, 2009 .
personal data
SURNAME Nolte, Cordula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mediaevalist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Paderborn