Christoph Cluse

Christoph Cluse (born September 8, 1964 in Erle (Raesfeld) ) is a German historian of medieval history .

Life

Christoph Cluse studied history and English at the universities of Heidelberg , Trier and Leeds . He received his doctorate in 1998 in Trier on the Jews in the medieval Netherlands . Since 1997 he has been managing director or consultant to the management of the Arye Maimon Institute for the History of the Jews , with an interruption from 2003 to 2007. During this time, he was a postdoctoral fellow in graduate college 846 "Slavery - bondage and bondage - forced labor" of the University of Trier and research assistant in the DFG project "Research on the social history of Mediterranean slavery in the Middle Ages". From 2007 to 2009 he led the research project "Slavery in the Later Medieval Mediterranean" together with Reuven Amitai from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

Cluse is co-editor of the series “Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages” published by Brepols Publishers, “Research on the History of the Jews” (Hahnsche Buchhandlung) and the “Studies and Texts” of the Arye Maimon Institute (Kliomedia). He is a board member and treasurer of the Society for Research into the History of the Jews (GEGJ). His research interests are in the history of the Jews in the Middle Ages, the history of motifs of anti-Jewish stereotypes , sermons as sources for medieval history and slavery in the high and late Middle Ages, especially in the urban environment of northern and central Italy. He is currently working on a book project on "arithmetic" in the Middle Ages using the example of the compound interest problem.

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Monographs

• Can a bishop admit Jews? The expert opinion of Siffridus Piscator OP on the dispute over the expulsion of the Jews from Mainz. Trier: Kliomedia, 2013. ISBN 978-3-89890-185-7
• Studies on the history of the Jews in the medieval Netherlands. Hanover: Hahn, 2000. ISBN 3-7752-5619-9

Editorships

• Europe's Jews in the Middle Ages. Contributions to the international symposium in Speyer from October 20 to 25, 2002 . Trier: Kliomedia, 2004. ISBN 3-89890-081-9
• The Jews of Europe in the Middle Ages (Tenth to Fifteenth Centuries): Proceedings of the International Symposium, Speyer, 20-25 October 2002 . Turnhout: Brepols, 2004. ISBN 2-503-51697-1
• together with Alfred Haverkamp and Israel Jacob Yuval : Jewish communities and their Christian context in a comparative cultural context (5th-18th centuries). International conference at the University of Trier, 18-22. October 1999 . Hannover: Hahn, 2003. ISBN 3-7752-5622-9
• together with Friedhelm Burgard and Alfred Haverkamp: Liber Amicorum necnon et amicarum for Alfred Heit. Contributions to medieval history and regional history . Trier: Verlag Trier historical research, 1996. ISBN 3-923087-27-6

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translation

• Shatzmiller, Joseph : Shylock goes into revision. Jews, Money Lending, and Society in the Middle Ages. Translated from the English by Christoph Cluse, Trier: Kliomedia, 2007. ISBN 978-3-89890-121-5

Web links

• Site by Christoph Cluse at the University of Trier
• Literature by and about Christoph Cluse in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Christoph Cluse in the OPAC of the Regesta Imperii
• Homepage of the AMIGJ