Alheydis Plassmann

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Alheydis Plassmann (born August 10, 1969 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ) is a German historian . Her research interests are in the German and English history of the early Middle Ages , the Hohenstaufen , the Welfs and the Normans . Plassmann has also emerged with numerous studies on Origo gentis . She has been co-editor of the Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter since 2013 .

Live and act

Alheydis Plassmann studied from 1988 to 1993 at the Universities of Bonn , Freiburg and Aberystwyth . From 1994 to 1997 she was a research assistant at the University of Bonn. She received her doctorate in 1997 with Rudolf Schieffer at the University of Bonn with a thesis on the court of Friedrich I. Barbarossa . Her habilitation took place in 2004, also in Bonn, with the thesis Origo gentis. Establishing identity and legitimacy in early and high medieval narratives of origin . From 2004 to 2011 she was senior assistant at Matthias Becher's chair in Bonn. In the summer semester 2008 she held a substitute professorship at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg , and in the summer semester 2009 and winter semester 2009/10 for Hans-Werner Goetz at the University of Hamburg . In the summer semester of 2010 she taught as a substitute professor for Johannes Laudage at the University of Düsseldorf . In the 2011/12 winter semester she was a substitute professor at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . Since November 2011 she has worked at the Institute for Historical Studies, Department for Rhenish Regional History in Bonn. In this position she has been editor and co-editor of the Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter since vol. 77 (2013). Since November 2014 she has been a member of the research network "The Angevin Empire".

Her main research interests are in particular German and English history in the (early) Middle Ages, the Guelphs, the Hohenstaufen and the Normans. Her dissertation in Bonn deals with the personnel and regional structure of the Barbarossa court. The aim of the work is to provide “insights into the structure of the court and the cooperation between the king, the nobility and the clergy”. In addition, due to the long reign of this ruler, there is the possibility of "tracing the tendencies of the constitutional development more precisely". As a result, Plassmann found that Friedrich succeeded in encouraging all social groups, albeit with regional and temporal differences, “to participate in Reich politics”.

With her postdoctoral thesis in Bonn, Plassmann wants to answer the question, “In which way the narrative of origin creates identity and how it legitimizes the existing order of one's own time.” Her study focuses on medieval authors from very different origins. She deals with Gildas , Gregor von Tours , Fredegar , Paulus Diaconus , Dudo von Saint-Quentin , Widukind von Corvey , Gallus Anonymus and Cosmas von Prag . The period thus extends from the early 6th to the 12th century. Your presentation is considered to be relevant for future engagement with an Origo gentis . Plassmann has published numerous other studies on the Origo gentis . In doing so, she has revised the research opinion about the Historia Welforum , which has often been rated as a unique work of noble self-image. Plassmann sees this in comparison with Western European testimonies from the 12th century from Anjou and Flanders as typical of the time, continuity and identity of noble origin history. Via Paulus Diaconus she came to the conclusion that he used the genus Origio gentis with the Historia gentis Langobardorum , but had no particular interest in establishing an identity for the Lombards, but "legitimize the Frankish rule in Italy and provide guidelines for correct behavior to make the difficult political floor available ”.

Plassmann had already dealt with the Normans in their first scientific publication in 1995. In 2008 she presented an overview of the Normans. The aim of the work is to "show the complex interaction of the Normans' identity with the adaptation to and demarcation from others, of their conquests with the structural requirements and of their will to power with the integration processes". The focus of her presentation is on England (pp. 160–288), while it deals with conditions in southern Italy much more briefly (pp. 104–159).

In 2009, Plassmann organized the conference “Controversy at court in the early Middle Ages” together with Matthias Becher . The dispute at the royal court was understood as "the negotiation of conflicting interests in a dispute". The 16 contributions were published in 2011.

In 2015 the parish of St. Petrus celebrated 1000 years of the church in the north of Bonn. In February 1015, Emperor Heinrich II gave the Bonn nunnery St. Petrus an estate in (royal) winter. The parish used the act of authentication as a starting point for the anniversary celebrations. For this anniversary, Plassmann published an anthology with eleven contributions.

Fonts

Monographs

  • The Normans. Conquer - rule - integrate (= Kohlhammer-Urban pocket books. 616). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-17-018945-4 .
  • Origo gentis. Establishing identity and legitimacy in early and high medieval origin narratives (= Orbis mediaevalis. 7). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-05-004260-5 .
  • The structure of the court under Friedrich I. Barbarossa according to the German witnesses of his documents (= Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Studies and Texts. Vol. 20). Hahn, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-7752-5420-X (also: Bonn, University, dissertation, 1997).

Editorships

  • with Dominik Büschken: Staufen and Plantagenets. Two Empires in Comparison (= studies on power and domination. Vol. 1). V&R unipress, Bonn 2019, ISBN 978-3-8471-0882-5 .
  • with Matthias Becher: Controversy at the court in the early Middle Ages (= super alta perennis. Studies on the effects of classical antiquity. Vol. 11). V & R Unipress - Bonn University Press, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89971-884-3 .
  • 1000 years of the church in the north of Bonn. Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 2015, ISBN 978-3-87707-960-7 .

Web links

Remarks

  1. See the reviews of Alois Gerlich in: Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Germanistische Department 118 (2001), pp. 509-514; Thomas Ertl in: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 108 (2000), pp. 174–176; Bernd Schütte in: Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 84 (2002), p. 477; Christian Hillen in: H-Soz-Kult , October 21, 2000, online .
  2. ^ Alheydis Plassmann: The structure of the court under Friedrich I. Barbarossa according to the German witnesses of his documents. Hanover 1998, p. 2.
  3. ^ Alheydis Plassmann: The structure of the court under Friedrich I. Barbarossa according to the German witnesses of his documents. Hanover 1998, p. 3.
  4. ^ Alheydis Plassmann: The structure of the court under Friedrich I. Barbarossa according to the German witnesses of his documents. Hanover 1998, p. 227.
  5. ^ Alheydis Plassmann: Origo gentis. Establishing identity and legitimacy in early and high medieval narratives of origin. Berlin 2006, p. 22.
  6. See the reviews of Bernd Schütte in: sehepunkte 7 (2007), No. 7/8 [15. July 2007], ( online ) Further reviews by Felix Mundt in: Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 43 (2008), pp. 296–299; Alois Gerlich in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, German Department 125 (2008), pp. 611–614; Lars Hageneier in: Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 90 (2008), pp. 461–463; Charles West in: Early Medieval Europe 16 (2008), pp. 245-247; Magali Coumert in: Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique 103 (2008), p. 293; Christian Lohmer in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 65 (2009), pp. 224–225 ( digitized version ); Magali Coumert in: Francia-Recensio 2009/1 ( online ); Joachim Ehlers in: Historische Zeitschrift 286 (2008), pp. 162–163.
  7. Alheydis Plassmann: The Welfen-Origo - An individual case? In: Dieter R. Bauer. Matthias Becher (Hrsg.): Welf IV. - Key figure of a turning point. Regional and European perspectives. Munich 2004, pp. 56-83 ( online ); Alheydis Plassmann: Medieval Origines gentium. Paul Deacon as an example. In: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries . Vol. 87 (2007), pp. 1-35 ( online ); Alheydis Plassmann: On the Origo problem with special consideration of Bavaria. In: Hubert Fehr and Irmtraut Heitmeier (eds.): The beginnings of Bavaria. From Raetien and Noricum to the early medieval Baiovaria. St. Ottilien 2012, pp. 163-182; Alheydis Plassmann: The migration motif as a founding myth in the early medieval Origines gentium. In: Michael Bernsen, Matthias Becher, Elke Brüggen (eds.): Founding myths of Europe in the Middle Ages. Bonn 2013, pp. 61–77.
  8. Cf. Otto Gerhard Oexle: Noble self-image and its connection with liturgical commemoration - the example of the Guelphs. In: Zeitschrift für Geschichte des Oberrheins 134 (1986), pp. 47–75, here: p. 50.
  9. Alheydis Plassmann: The Welfen-Origo - An individual case? In: Dieter R. Bauer. Matthias Becher (Hrsg.): Welf IV. - Key figure of a turning point. Regional and European perspectives. Munich 2004, pp. 56-83 ( online ).
  10. Alheydis Plassmann: Medieval Origines gentium. Paul Deacon as an example. In: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries. Vol. 87 (2007), pp. 1-35, here: p. 34 ( online ).
  11. Alheydis Plassmann: The change in the Norman view of history in the 11th century. A source study on Dudo by St. Quentin and Wilhelm von Jumièges. In: Historical yearbook. 115: 188-207 (1995).
  12. Alheydis Plassmann: The Normans. Conquer - rule - integrate. Stuttgart 2008, p. 15. Reviews by Harald Müller in: H-Soz-Kult , November 19, 2008, ( online ); Gerhard Köbler in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, German Department 126 (2009), p. 481 f. ( online ); Julia Becker in: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries . Vol. 88 (2008), pp. 653-655 ( online ); Stefan Burkhardt in: Francia-Recensio 2012/2 ( online ); Rudolf Schieffer in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 65 (2009), pp. 303–304 ( digitized version ); Robert C. Figueira in: Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique 104 (2009), pp. 708-709.
  13. Matthias Becher: Thoughts on the introduction. In: Matthias Becher, Alheydis Plassmann (ed.): Dispute at the court in the early Middle Ages. Göttingen 2011, pp. 9–15, here: p. 10.
  14. Matthias Becher, Alheydis Plassmann (ed.): Dispute at the court in the early Middle Ages. Göttingen 2011.