Caspar Ehlers

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Caspar Ehlers (born June 19, 1964 in Hamburg ) is a German historian of medieval history.

The son of Joachim Ehlers studied history from 1985 to 1988 at the University of Frankfurt am Main and from 1988 to 1992 at the University of Bonn . In the winter semester 1995/96 he did his doctorate in Bonn with Rudolf Schieffer . From 1995 to 2006 Ehlers was a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen for the repertory of the German royal palaces . Teaching assignments at the universities of Hanover (2000/2001), Göttingen (2003 to 2005) and Würzburg followed(2005). His habilitation took place in Würzburg in 2005. His post-doctoral thesis deals with the "development of a Saxon infrastructure under the influence of secular and ecclesiastical notions of order in the early Middle Ages". In the summer semester of 2008 and in the winter semester of 2008/09, Ehlers was a substitute professor for medieval history for Johannes Laudage at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . Ehlers has been a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt / Main since the beginning of 2007 . In 2012 he was appointed adjunct professor at the University of Würzburg.

His main research interests are the medieval monarchy between the Carolingian and Staufer times in a European and, above all, interdisciplinary comparison, especially the "places of rule" as a cross-cultural phenomenon as well as the integration processes in the early Middle Ages, especially Saxony and its ecclesiastical structures into the early and high Middle Ages. In his dissertation on the importance of Speyer for the Salian kingship, he classified the royal stays in three different categories. Stays "in which the government activity of the king is attested in the form of documents or narrative sources and can be dated beyond doubt", "which can only be recorded by evaluating the sources, but not through certificates from the chancellery" and such stays that are not in the sources but can be inferred from the king's travel route.

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Monographs

  • Legal spaces. Patterns of order in Europe in the early Middle Ages (= Methodica - introductions to legal historical research. Vol. 3.). De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin / Boston 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-037971-6 .
  • The integration of Saxony into the Franconian Empire (751-1024) (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 231). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 3-525-35887-3 . ( Technical discussion )
  • Metropolis Germaniae. Studies on the importance of Speyer for royalty (751–1250) (= publications by the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 125). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1996, ISBN 3-525-35442-8 .

Editorships

  • Places of power = Lieux du pouvoir (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 11.8). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-35600-5 .
  • Centers of stately representation in the High Middle Ages. History, architecture and ceremonial (= publications by the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 11.7). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 3-525-36521-7 .
  • Spiritual central locations between liturgy, architecture, praise of God and rulers. Limburg and Speyer (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 11.6). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-525-35309-X .
  • Places of domination. Medieval royal palaces. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-525-36261-7 .

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Remarks

  1. See the reviews of Franz Staab in: Nassauische Annalen 110 (1999), pp. 413–414; John B. Freed in: The American Historical Review 103 (1998), pp. 155-156 ( online ); Bernd Schütte in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 53 (1997), pp. 761–762 ( online ); Ernst-Dieter Hehl in: Historische Zeitschrift 266 (1998), pp. 475–477.
  2. Caspar Ehlers: The integration of Saxony into the Frankish empire (751-1024). Göttingen 2007, p. 15. Cf. the reviews of Florian Hartmann in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 56 (2008/1), p. 71f .; Klaus Naß in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 64 (2008), pp. 736–737 ( online ); Matthias Springer in: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter 73 (2009), pp. 265–267 ( online ).
  3. Caspar Ehlers: Metropolis Germaniae. Studies on the importance of Speyer for royalty (751–1250). Göttingen 1996, p. 14.