Barbara Schlieben

Barbara Schlieben (* 1973 ) is a German historian .

Barbara Schlieben studied history and English at the universities of Frankfurt am Main , Dijon and Dublin . In December 2001 she passed the first state examination in English and history. From January 2002 to December 2004 she was a research associate in the research college “Knowledge Culture and Social Change” at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Schlieben had research stays in Madrid and Salamanca . From January 2005 to August 2009 she was a research assistant at Johannes Fried's chair . It was in January 2008 with the Fried and Heribert Müller "supervised work Playful power. Politics and knowledge at the court of Alfonso X. (1252–1284) ”. Since September 2009 she has been junior professor for the history of the Middle Ages at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In the summer semester of 2014 she held a substitute professorship at the University of Hamburg . From October 2014 to September 2015 she was a fellow at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich. Stood by Ratherius and Atto of vercell in the center of their research. Since August 2017, she has been teaching as professor for medieval history from a comparative perspective at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Her main research interests are the history of the early and high Middle Ages (especially the history of the Iberian Peninsula and Italy), the history of knowledge, global history / transcultural history, the history of historiography, the perception of time and time. With her dissertation she presented a reassessment of the rule of Alfonso X. With her dissertation, she attempted to examine the “connection between knowledge, politics and society” in its “timeless significance” using the example of Alfonso X. Schlieben was able to prove “that political, cultural and social life at the court of Alfonso X are by no means separate”. Rather, the “scientific” staff at the court cannot be distinguished from the “political” ones. It was often the same people who not only worked as notaries in the offices, but also as authors for the works commissioned by the king. Schlieben exposed the causal connection between political failure and the promotion of art and science as a historical judgment of the 16th century. This judgment on Alfonso X. had an impact on research into the 20th and 21st centuries. Her dissertation was awarded the Prize for the Promotion of the Humanities (Friedrich Sperl Prize) in 2009. With Olaf Schneider and Kerstin Schulmeyer, she published the articles on the George Circle and its historical pictures in 2004 .

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Monographs

• Playful power. Politics and knowledge at the court of Alfonso X. (1252–1284) (= culture of knowledge and social change. Vol. 32). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-05-004499-6 .

Editorships

• with Olaf Schneider and Kerstin Schulmeyer: Historical images in the George circle: Paths to science. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 978-3-89244-727-6 .

Web links

• Publications by Barbara Schlieben in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
• Page from Schlieben at the Humboldt University in Berlin

Remarks

1. ↑ Junior Professor Dr. Barbara Schlieben
2. ↑ Ingo Schwab's reviews in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages, Vol. 66 (2010), pp. 798–799 ( online ); Jenny Rahel Oesterle in: sehepunkte 10 (2010), No. 12 [15. December 2010], ( online ); Knut Görich in: Das Historisch-Politische Buch , Vol. 58 (2010), pp. 256-257; Wolfram Drews in: Historische Zeitschrift 292 (2011), pp. 478–479.
3. ↑ Barbara Schlieben: Playful power. Politics and knowledge at the court of Alfonso X (1252–1284). Berlin 2009, p. 292.
4. ↑ Barbara Schlieben: Playful power. Politics and knowledge at the court of Alfonso X (1252–1284). Berlin 2009, p. 25.
5. ↑ Prize for the promotion of the humanities (Friedrich Sperl Prize)
6. ↑ See the reviews by Perdita Ladwig in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 53 (2005), p. 70; Stefan Breuer in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 3, 2004, p. 43 ( online )