Irmgard Fees

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Irmgard Fees (born July 26, 1952 in Lemgo ) is a German historian . From 2008 to 2018 she held the professorship for historical basic sciences and historical media studies at the University of Munich . She conducts research on Venice, including the documents handed down in the 12th and 13th centuries, on West Franconia during the time of Charles the Bald and on the layout of early and high medieval diplomas.

Live and act

Irmgard Fees studied history and English at the Universities of Marburg and Kingston-upon-Hull . In 1977 she passed the state examination for teaching at grammar schools. This was followed by a study visit to Venice at the Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani from 1979 to 1981 . In 1986 she received her doctorate with a thesis on the social and economic history of Venice in the High Middle Ages. From 1992 to 2008 Fees edited the regests of the West Franconian King and Emperor Karl the Kahlen (823 to 877) on behalf of the German Commission for the Processing of the Regesta Imperii (at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz ). In 1999, she completed her habilitation at the University of Marburg in the field of medieval history and historical auxiliary sciences with the title Eine Stadt l goes to write. Venice from the 10th to the 12th centuries . Fees held several substitute professorships for historical auxiliary sciences in Marburg (from 1999 to 2000), for medieval history at the University of Erlangen (from 2000 to 2001) and for historical auxiliary sciences and archival science at the University of Leipzig (from 2003 to 2004). From 2008 to 2018 she taught as a professor for "Historical Basic Sciences and Historical Media Studies" at the University of Munich . The chair of her predecessor Walter Koch was downgraded after his retirement. Fees earned merits on the newly established W2 professorship in raising funds for the digitization of the extensive collection of epigraphic articles and the further expansion of the epigraphic research collection. Along with Horst Enzensberger , Thomas Frenz , Walter Koch and Theo Kölzer, Fees is one of the few medievalists with a narrow focus on auxiliary science .

Her specialties are medieval diplomacy, in particular the rulers' and papal documents of the Middle Ages as well as the private documents of Venice and Northern Italy. In addition, her research focuses on the history of the Carolingian era , the history of Italy and Venice in the High Middle Ages, and medieval social and economic history. In her dissertation she traces the rise of the Doge family Ziani, which were the richest family in Venice in the second half of the 12th century. In doing so, she shows that trade was decisive for the family's rise. In the appendix of the work over 400 regesta on the history of the Ziani family from the 11th to the 13th century are published. With Francesco Roberg, she edited the first volume of the newly founded series “digital document images”. The volume contains all the original documents from the Worms City Archives up to 1255, including 19 rulers' documents from Heinrich IV to Wilhelm of Holland . Fees is a member of the Historical Commission for Hesse (since 2006) and the Commission Internationale de Diplomatique (since 2010).

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Twelve essays published between 1898 and 2007 are summarized in: Irmgard Fees: Lebendigezeichen. Selected essays on diplomacy, trade and writing in the early and high Middle Ages. Irmgard Fees for her 60th birthday. Eudora-Verlag, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-938533-42-0 .

Monographs

  • Wealth and power in medieval Venice. The Ziani family (= library of the German Historical Institute in Rome. Vol. 68). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1988, ISBN 3-484-82068-3 (at the same time: Marburg, University, dissertation, 1986).
  • A city learns to write. Venice from the 10th to the 12th century (= library of the German Historical Institute in Rome. Vol. 103). Niemeyer, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-484-82103-5 (also: Marburg, Universität, habilitation thesis, 1999) ( review ).

Editorships

  • with Francesco Roberg: The oldest documents from the Worms city archive. (1074–1255) (= digital document images from the Marburg photo archive of older original documents. Vol. 1). Eudora-Verlag, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-938533-04-8 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the review by Martin Kintzinger in: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 92 (2005), pp. 337–338.
  2. ^ Franz-Albrecht Bornschlegel: Epigraphy of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age. In: Archiv für Diplomatik 65 (2019) pp. 237–266, here: p. 241.
  3. ^ Hans-Werner Goetz : Modern Medieval Studies. Status and perspectives of medieval research. Darmstadt 1999, p. 157.
  4. ↑ See the reviews by Louise Buenger Robbert in: Speculum 65 (1990), pp. 400–402; Gerhard Rösch in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 45 (1989), p. 330 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Fees, Irmgard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Lemgo