Claudia Zey

Claudia Margarete Zey (born June 20, 1963 in Düsseldorf ) is a German historian of medieval history. She has been professor of general history of the Middle Ages at the University of Zurich since 2004 .

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Claudia Zey graduated from high school in 1982. From 1982 to 1989 she studied history and Latin at the University of Bonn . From 1989 to 1994 she was a research assistant for Rudolf Schieffer and received her doctorate from him in 1992. From 1994 to 2000 she was Schieffer's research assistant at the University of Munich . From 2000 to 2003 she received a post-doctoral fellowship from the German Research Foundation and an excellence grant from the Free State of Bavaria. In 2002, she completed her habilitation on the papal legacy policy in the 11th and 12th centuries in Munich. From 2003 to 2004 she took over the chair for Medieval History at the University of Leipzig . In 2004 she was a substitute for the professorship for the history of science and universities at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In the same year, she refused an offer for a full professorship for the history of the early Middle Ages at the Ruhr University Bochum as Hanna Vollrath's successor .

In September 2004 she succeeded Ludwig Schmugge instead and has been teaching as a full professor for the history of the Middle Ages at the University of Zurich. She has been a member of the Constance Working Group for Medieval History since 2006 , from 2010 to 2013 she was deputy chairwoman and from 2013 to 2019 chairwoman. Since 2008 she has been co-editor of the online review journal sehepunkte . In 2012 she turned down an offer for the position of director of the German Historical Institute in Paris . Since 2014 she has been a full member of the Central Management of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica . From September 1, 2020 to August 31, 2021, she is on leave from the University of Zurich in order to take up a research fellowship as a Senior Fellow at the Historical College in Munich . There she will work on the subject of "Representation in the Middle Ages - Concept and Functionality of Representative Rulership".

Her research interests include the church history of the European early and high Middle Ages, source studies and text editions, the development of the papal legation, the educational history of the Middle Ages and the position of medieval rulers and princesses in a European comparison. The new edition of the Liber gestorum recentium Arnulfs von Milan was the main part of her dissertation. The edition made the source accessible in an edition that corresponds to the current state of knowledge. The importance of the work lies primarily in the initial clarification of the handwritten tradition. The essay on the origin and tradition of the Liber gestorum recentium was also part of her doctoral thesis.

Together with Claudia Märtl, Zey edited the conference proceedings From the early days of European diplomacy . The volume is based on an international conference in Zurich in 2007 on the history of diplomacy in the late Middle Ages. In autumn 2010, Zey organized a Reichenau conference of the Constance working group for medieval history with the topic “Mighty women? Queens and princesses in the European Middle Ages (11th – 14th centuries) ”. This was the first time that the Constance working group dedicated itself to the topic of female rule. The conference proceedings edited by Zey were published in 2015. The focus was on the power and rule of noble women. However, the study not only takes into account queens who came to government due to "favorable family and structural circumstances" or who took over the reign for their absent spouses or underage sons, but also assumes an open concept of power and takes the European dimension of the subject in terms of content as well as research history. The specific form of female rule is asked. Through the “comparative comparison of queens and princesses in different realms and regions of Europe” from the 11th to the 14th centuries, national borders were crossed in research and the classic division between the High and Late Middle Ages was abolished.

Zey published a brief introduction to the investiture dispute in 2017 . Instead of the much-discussed early phase of the conflict about going to Canossa , she focused on explaining the connections for the period after 1100. In spring 2018, Zey organized a Reichenau conference of the Constance working group for medieval history on the subject of “Representation in Middle Ages. Concepts, people and signs in an intercultural comparison ”. She is a member of the scientific advisory board for the major state exhibition of the General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate “The emperors and the pillars of their power. From Charlemagne to Friedrich Barbarossa ”, which will open in September 2020.

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Monographs

• The Investiture Controversy. Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 3-406-70655-X .

Editorships

• Powerful women? Queens and princesses in the European Middle Ages (11th – 14th centuries) (= lectures and research. Vol. 81). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2015, ISBN 3-7995-6881-6 ( digitized version ).
• with Claudia Märtl : From the early days of European diplomacy. On the spiritual and secular legation from the 12th to the 15th century. Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-03-400927-0 .

Edition

• Arnulf of Milan, Liber gestorum recentium (= Monumenta Germaniae historica. Scriptores. Vol. 7). Hahn, Hannover 1994, ISBN 3-7752-5388-2 ( digitized version ).

literature

• Zey, Claudia. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists. Volume 4: Se - Z. 30th edition. De Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-051766-8 , p. 4241.

Web links

• Literature by and about Claudia Zey in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Claudia Zey in the Opac der Regesta Imperii
• Page from Zey at the University of Zurich

Remarks

1. ↑ See the reviews by Ludger Körntgen in: Theologische Revue 93 (1997), Sp. 400–402; Irene Scaravelli in: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 75 (1995), pp. 674-676; Josef Engelberger in: Archives for Cultural History 81 (1999), pp. 242–244.
2. ^ Claudia Zey: On the origin and tradition of the Liber gestorum recentium. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages . 49 (1993), pp. 1-38 ( digitized version ).
3. ↑ See the reviews of Jörg Schwarz in: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 75 (2019), pp. 263–267; Christina Antenhofer in: Journal for Württembergische Landesgeschichte 75 (2016), pp. 395–397 ( online ); Hansmartin Schwarzmaier in: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 165 (2017), pp. 462–465 ( online ).
4. ↑ Claudia Zey: Mighty Women? Queens and princesses in the European Middle Ages (11th – 14th centuries). For the introduction. In this. (Ed.): Powerful women? Queens and princesses in the European Middle Ages (11th – 14th centuries). Ostfildern 2015, pp. 9–33, here: p. 15 ( online ).
5. ↑ Claudia Zey: Mighty Women? Queens and princesses in the European Middle Ages (11th – 14th centuries). For the introduction. In this. (Ed.): Powerful women? Queens and princesses in the European Middle Ages (11th – 14th centuries). Ostfildern 2015, pp. 9–33, here: p. 16 ( digitized version ).
6. ↑ Preface. In: Claudia Zey (Ed.): Mighty women? Queens and princesses in the European Middle Ages (11th - 14th centuries). Ostfildern 2015, p. 7 ( digitized version ).
7. ^ Claudia Zey: The Investiture Controversy. Munich 2017, pp. 85–112; Claudia Zey: The Investiture Controversy - Newer Perspectives in Research. In: Thomas Kohl (ed.): Conflict and change around 1100. Europe in the age of feudal society and investiture dispute. Berlin / Boston 2020, pp. 13–31, here: p. 18.