Bernd Roling

Bernd Roling (* 1972 in Lingen im Emsland ) is a German Middle Latin philologist .

Life

From 1993 Roling studied Middle Latin Philology, Latin Philology , Philosophy, History, Hebrew Philology and Indology at the University of Münster . In addition, he was employed as an assistant at the seminary for Middle Latin Philology. In 1998 he passed the first state examination with a thesis on the Historia Anglorum of Heinrich von Huntington; Nikolaus Staubach was the expert . After graduating, Roling was a scholarship holder at the Graduate College of Writing Culture and Society in the Middle Ages , then from 2001 a research assistant in the Collaborative Research Center 496 Theatrical and Social Communication: Functions of Urban and Court Games in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Times . From the end of 2001 he was employed as a research assistant at the Department of Latin Philology of the Middle Ages and Modern Times and since then has given seminars and reading exercises on Middle and Neo-Latin literature and intellectual history.

He achieved his doctorate at the end of 2002 with the work Credere more peripatetico. Aristotelian natural philosophy and Christian Kabbalah in the work of Paulus Ritius , which was supervised by Christel Meier-Staubach . The dissertation was published in 2007 in an expanded form under the title Christian Kabbalah and Aristotelian Natural Philosophy in the work of Paulus Ritius . In June of that year, Roling completed a linguistic study on speech act theory in the Middle Ages and the early modern period. Various professorships followed: winter semester 2007/2008 in Münster, summer semester 2008 in Göttingen (for Thomas Haye ), summer semester 2009 again in Göttingen. From the winter semester 2008/2009, Roling was a research assistant at the Thomas Institute at the University of Cologne and continued to teach part-time in Münster. Since the winter semester 2010/2011, Roling has held a W2 professorship for Latin studies with a focus on Middle Latin philology at the Free University of Berlin.

Writings (monographs)

• Christian Kabbalah and Aristotelian natural philosophy in the work of Paulus Ritius , Tübingen 2007.
• Bartholomaeus Anglicus: De rerum proprietatibus, Liber II, De proprietatibus angelorum, edition and introduction , Leuven 2007.
• Locutio angelica. The discussion of angel language in the Middle Ages and early modern times as an anticipation of a speech act theory , Leiden 2008.
• Dragons and Sirens: The processing and handling of mythology at European universities (Middle Latin texts and studies 42), Leiden 2010
• Physica Sacra: Miracles, Natural Science and the Historical Sense of Writing between the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times (Middle Latin Texts and Studies 45), Leiden 2013

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernd Roling in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bernd Roling at the Seminar for Latin Philology of the Middle Ages and Modern Times at the University of Münster
• Bernd Roling at the Free University of Berlin