Manfred Luchterhandt

Manfred Luchterhandt (born November 25, 1966 in Detmold ) is a German art historian . His focus is on the history of art in Italy and the Middle Ages , in particular the Mediterranean and the Romanesque countries.

Life

After graduating from high school in Detmold , Manfred Luchterhandt studied history, German studies , art history and archeology at the Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg , in Padua and Rome . In 1993 he passed the first state examination in history and German. In 1997 he received his doctorate in Würzburg with a dissertation on the Cathedral of Parma . From 1994 to 2000 he was a doctoral scholarship holder and research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome ( Bibliotheca Hertziana ), since 2001 research assistant and academic senior counselor at the University of Münster , where in 2007 he conducted a study on papal court culture in the early Middle Ages qualified as a professor . After further guest stays at the Max Planck Society and substitute professorships at the University of Erlangen , he has been Professor of Art History of the Middle Ages at the University of Göttingen since 2011 . From 2017 to 2020 he was Dean of the Philosophical Faculty, at times also spokesman for the Dean's Council and member of the steering committee for the Excellence Initiative.

Manfred Luchterhandt is the brother of the music theorist and church musician Gerhard Luchterhandt .

Prizes and awards

• 1998 Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society (MPG)
• 2000/01 travel grant from the Max Planck Society to the Christian Orient and Washington

Publications (selection)

• The Popes and the Loca Sancta of Jerusalem: Relic Practice and Relic Diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean after the Muslim Conquest, in: B. Kühnel, R. Bartal, N. Bodmer (eds.), Natural Materials of the Holy Land and the Visual Translation of Place, 500-1500, Oxford 2017, pp. 36-63.
• The ancient world of Rome and their medieval viewers, in: Miracles of Rome in the View of the North, exh. Cat. Paderborn 2017, ed. by C. Stiegemann, Petersberg 2017, pp. 90-109.
• (Ed.) Copied - Rome's antiquities in the reproduction media of the early modern period, exhib.-cat. Petersberg 2013.
• (Ed.) The innocent eye. Oriental images in early photography, exhibition cat. Petersberg 2017.
• From the house of the bishop to the Locus Sanctus: The Lateran Palace in the cultural memory of the Roman Middle Ages, in: M. Featherstone et al. (Eds.), The Emperor's house. Palaces from Augustus to the Age of Absolutism (Urban Spaces 4), Berlin 2015, pp. 73–92.
• Il Sovrano sotto l'immagine. Icone nei cerimoniali di acclamazione a Roma ea Bisanzio ?, in: Text, image and ritual in medieval society (8th – 11th centuries) - Testo, immagine e rito nella società altomedievale. , ed. by P. Carmassi u. C. Winterer, Florence 2014 (Millennio medievale 102: Strumenti e studi, ns 39), pp. 45-76, plates I – V.
• Rome and Aachen. The Carolingians and the papal court around 800, in: Charlemagne - Charlemagne, exhib.-cat. Aachen 2014, Vol. 3: Places of Power. Essays, ed. by F. Pohle, Dresden 2014, pp. 104–113.
• Rinascita a Roma, nell'Italia carolingia e meridionale, in: Storia dell'Architettura Italiana: Da Costantino a Carlo Magno, ed. by S. de Blaauw, Milan 2010, pp. 322-373.
• Parma Cathedral. Architecture and sculpture in the age of the imperial church and the formation of communes (Roman Studies of the Bibliotheca Hertziana; 24), Munich 2009.

Web links

• Literature by and about Manfred Luchterhandt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Brief curriculum vitae at the University of Göttingen