Christof Rolker

Christof Rolker (born February 21, 1979 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German historian and university professor .

Christof Rolker studied history, philosophy and political science at the University of Konstanz and the University of Oxford from 1998 to 2002 . There he obtained a "Master of Studies" degree in 2002. In 2006 he received his PhD from the University of Cambridge . From June 2006 to October 2014 he was a research assistant at the Chair of Medieval History at the University of Konstanz. In 2012 he completed his habilitation there. From 2012 to 2013 he took on a substitute for the Chair of Medieval History at the University of Konstanz. He held his inaugural lecture as a private lecturer in Konstanz in July 2013. He has been teaching since the summer semester of 2017 as the successor to Andrea Stieldorf as professor for basic historical sciences at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg . In January 2018 he gave his inaugural lecture on heraldic books.

His main research interests are medieval canon law , city history in the late Middle Ages, sexuality , marriage and family, as well as auxiliary sciences (especially heraldry and edition studies). In his habilitation he dealt with naming practices in late medieval Upper Germany, especially in the city of Constance. He evaluated 25 family history records from Upper Germany. He found that the social practice of naming is largely based on renaming after living relatives. In the conclusion of his work he concluded that there was neither a European naming system nor fixed rules for naming. In 2010 his dissertation was published, a comprehensive study on Ivo von Chartres and his contributions to canon law. According to his research, the Panormia is not Ivo's work, but was only ascribed to Ivo after his death in 1115. In Bamberg, Rolker primarily examines medieval and early modern coats of arms. He dealt several times with the Richental Chronicle as a book of arms and the book of arms of Konrad Grünenberg .

Fonts

Monographs

• The game of names. Family, relatives and sex in late medieval Constance (= Constance historical and legal sources. Vol. 45). Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-7995-6845-6 (also slightly revised version by: Konstanz, Universität, habilitation thesis, 2012).
• Canon law and the letters of Ivo of Chartres (= Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought. Ser. 4, 76). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2010, ISBN 978-0-521-76682-1 .

Editorships

• New discourses in medieval canon law research. Challenging the master narrative (= Medieval law and its practice. Vol. 28). Brill, Leiden 2019, ISBN 978-90-04-38993-9 .
• with Gabriela Signori : Competing affiliation (s). Practices of naming in a European comparison (= late medieval studies. Vol. 2). UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, Konstanz 2011, ISBN 978-3-86764-285-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Christof Rolker in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by and about Christof Rolker in the Opac der Regesta Imperii
• Page from Rolker at the University of Bamberg
• Page from Rolker at the University of Konstanz

Remarks

1. ↑ Christof Rolker: Heraldic orgies and social advancement, or: Where is actually "up" in the late medieval city? In: Journal for historical research 42, 2015, pp. 191–224.
2. ↑ Tim Kipphan: Messages from Unicorns and Winged Lions. Historian Christof Rolker invites you to an inaugural lecture on heraldic books . January 21, 2018
3. ↑ See the reviews of Karl-Heinz Spieß in: Historische Zeitschrift 304, 2017, pp. 212–213; Hans-Werner Goetz in: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 103, 2016, pp. 253–254 ( online ); Michael Mitterauer in: sehepunkte 15 (2015), No. 5 [15. May 2015], online ; Gregor Rohmann in: Historische Anthropologie 26, 2018, pp. 111–113; Wolfgang Haubrichs in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 74, 2018, pp. 300–302.
4. ↑ See also the reviews of Tatsushi Genka in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. Canonical Department 98, 2012, pp. 362–364; Wilfried Hartmann in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 71, 2015, pp. 684–685 ( online ); Greta Austin in: Speculum 86, 2011, pp. 544-545 ( online ); Przemyslaw Nowak in: Studia Źródłoznawcze 48, 2010, pp. 168–169; Brigitte Basdevant-Gaudement in: Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique 105, 2010, pp. 825–827; Nicolás Alvarez de las Asturias in: Ius Ecclesiae 22, 2010, pp. 709–723; Kathleen G. Cushing in: Francia Recensio 2011–1 ( online ); Laurent Waelkens in: Legal History Review 79, 2011, pp. 147-149; Detlev Jasper in: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 63, 2012, pp. 136-138; David Luscombe in: Church History 81, 2012, pp. 161-163; Uta-Renate Blumenthal in: The American Historical Review 116, 2011, pp. 502-503; Ken Pennington in: American Journal of Legal History 52, 2012, pp. 551-553; Becket Soule in: Ecclesiastical Law Journal 13, 2011, pp. 365-366; Philippe Lécrivain in: Recherches de Science Religieuse 99, 2011, pp. 573-574; Simona Paolini in: Ephemerides Iuris Canonici 51, 2011, pp. 230-235.
5. ↑ Christof Rolker: Ivo Chartres and the Panormia. The question of authorship revisited. In: Bulletin of medieval canon law 28, 2008/10, pp. 39-70.
6. ↑ Cf. Christof Rolker: The Richental Chronicle as a book of arms. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 71, 2015, pp. 57–103.
7. ↑ Christof Rolker: A world behind a thousand coats of arms: order models in Konstanz coat of arms books from Richental to Grünenberg. In: Karl-Heinz Braun, Thomas Martin Buck (eds.): The name of Constance went down all over the world: Framework conditions and reception of the Council of Constance. Stuttgart 2017, pp. 109-135; Christof Rolker: Tournament rules: Konrad Grünenberg's book of arms. In: Middle Ages. Journal of the Swiss Castle Association 19, 2014, pp. 26–33; Christof Rolker: Konrad Grünenberg's book of arms: acta et agenda. In: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 162, 2014, pp. 191–207 ( online ).