Jörg Oberste

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Jörg Oberste (born September 13, 1967 ) is a German historian .

Jörg Oberste studied history, German and Romance languages ​​in Münster . He received his doctorate with Gert Melville with the work Visitation and Order Organization . From 1994 he was a research assistant at the Chair for Medieval History at the Technical University of Dresden . In Dresden he worked at the Collaborative Research Center 537 “Institutionality and Historicity” in the project “Institutional Structures of Religious Orders”. In 2000/2001 he completed his habilitation on the subject of religiosity and the social advancement of urban elites in the high Middle Ages at the TU Dresden . Oberste has been teaching as professor for medieval history and historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Regensburg since the 2004/05 winter semester .

His research focuses on religious orders , late medieval city history , high and late medieval economic theories, the crusades and the history of the heresies . Oberste worked on the religiosity of urban elites in Toulouse in the 12th and 13th centuries. In 2003 he presented a description of the Albigensian Crusade . Oberste is considered to be one of the best experts on the history of the Cistercian order . In 2014 he published an overview of the history of this order from its beginnings to the present day. According to Oberste, the success of the Cistercians lies in the "interplay of charismatic mission and rational planning."

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Monographs

  • Visitation and organization of orders. Forms of social standardization, control and communication among Cistercians, Premonstratensians and Cluniacens (12th – early 14th century) (= Vita regularis. Volume 2). Lit, Münster 1996, ISBN 3-8258-2587-6 (also: Münster (Westphalia), university, dissertation, 1995/96).
  • Between holiness and heresy. Religiousness and social advancement in the city of the high Middle Ages (= norm and structure. Volume 17). 2 volumes. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2003, ISBN 3-412-16002-4 (Volume 1: Urban Elites in the Church of the High Middle Ages ), ISBN 3-412-16102-0 (Volume 2: Urban Elites in Toulouse ) (Also: Dresden, Technical University, habilitation thesis, 2001).
  • The "crusade" against the Albigensians. Heresy and Power Politics in the Middle Ages. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft / Primus, Darmstadt 2003, ISBN 3-89678-464-1 .
  • Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2007, ISBN 3-534-15576-9 .
  • The treasure of the Nibelungs: myth and history. TV booklet for the ARD series of the same name. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2008, ISBN 978-3-7857-2318-0 .
  • The Cistercians (= Kohlhammer-Urban pocket books. Vol. 744). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 3-17-022142-6 .

Editorships

  • Communication in medieval cities (= Forum Medieval: Studies. Volume 3). Schnell + Steiner, Regensburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-7954-2018-5 .
  • Representations of the medieval city (= Forum Medieval: Studies. Volume 5). Schnell + Steiner, Regensburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7954-2101-4 .
  • with Sabine Reichert: City history (s). Cultures of remembrance in the premodern city (= Forum Middle Ages. Volume 14). Schnell + Steiner, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-7954-3275-1 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the discussions by Björn Gebert in: Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte 127 (2016), pp. 108-109; Werner Rösener in: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 74 (2015), pp. 438–370 ( online ); Immo Eberl in: Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches 126 (2015) pp. 557–560.
  2. ↑ Jörg Oberste: The Cistercians. Stuttgart 2014, p. 46.


personal data
SURNAME Colonel, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1967