Eva Schlotheuber

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Eva Schlotheuber (born October 25, 1959 in Osnabrück ) is a German historian .

After a professorship for Medieval History at the University of Münster (2007–2010), she has been teaching as Professor for Medieval History at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf since 2010 . Her research focuses on the history of the order and the history of Emperor Charles IV. In 2016, she was the first woman to become chairwoman of the Association of Historians of Germany .

life and work

Eva Schlotheuber studied at the Universities of Göttingen and Copenhagen . She received her doctorate in 1994 in Göttingen with the thesis supervised by Hartmut Hoffmann , Die Franziskaner in Göttingen. The history of the monastery and its library . From 1999 to 2001 she was a research assistant to Claudia Märtl at the Technical University of Braunschweig . In 2001 Schlotheuber was a research assistant at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU). In 2003 he completed his habilitation there with a thesis on the world of nuns in the late Middle Ages. In 2003 she was senior assistant at the LMU Munich and held professorial positions in Braunschweig and Marburg .

From 2007 to 2010 Schlotheuber taught as a professor for medieval history and auxiliary sciences at the University of Münster. Since 2010 she has been teaching as the successor to the late Johannes Laudage at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. Since 2014 she has been a full member of the Central Directorate of Monumenta Germaniae Historica and since 2016 a member of the Konstanz Working Group for Medieval History . Since the 51st German Historians' Day in Hamburg in 2016, she has been chairwoman of the Association of Historians in Germany. This makes her the first woman to be chairwoman in over 120 years of association history. In 2020 Schlotheuber was elected to the American Philosophical Society .

Her main research interests are the history of education and libraries, the history of culture, the history of the order, in particular the forms of life and expression in the medieval women's monasteries, as well as the material culture of the Middle Ages, the portrayal of personality in high and late medieval biographical and autobiographical literature and the conception of power by Emperor Charles IV. as well as the political structures and cultural currents of the 14th century.

In the history of the order, she has specialized in the Franciscans and the women's convents. Through numerous publications she is considered to be one of the best experts on the monastic life of female religious communities. In her habilitation, she evaluated the “convent diary” of an anonymous nun from the Cistercian monastery of Heilig-Kreuz near Braunschweig, created between 1484 and 1507, as a source of the “inner-monastery organization” and the “relationships between the monastery and its immediate social environment”. At the same time she presented an edition of the convent diary ( Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel , 1159 Novi) (pp. 313–478). In autumn 2017, Schlotheuber and Sigrid Hirbodian organized a Reichenau conference of the Constance Working Group for Medieval History on the subject of “Between enclosure and world. Autonomy and interaction of late medieval religious women's communities ”. Together with Jeffrey Hamburger, Margot Fassler and Susan Marti, she analyzed the liturgical manuscripts from the Westphalian Dominican convent Paradies near Soest, which were created between the 13th and 15th centuries . As a result, two volumes with over 1000 pages were presented in 2017 after years of research.

Fonts

Monographs

  • with Jeffrey Hamburger , Margot Fassler, Susan Marti: Liturgical Life and Latin Learning at Paradies bei Soest, 1300–1425. Inscription and Illumination in the Choir Books of a North German Dominican Convent. 2 volumes, Aschendorff, Münster 2017, ISBN 978-3-402-13072-8 .
  • Convent entry and education. The world of nuns in the late Middle Ages. With an edition of the 'convent diary' of a Cistercian from Heilig-Kreuz near Braunschweig (1484–1507). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-16-148263-8 .
  • The Franciscans in Göttingen. The history of the monastery and its library. Dietrich-Coelde-Verlag, Werl 1996, ISBN 3-87163-222-8 .

Editorships

  • together with Jeffrey Hamburger: The Liber ordinarius of Nivelles. Liturgy as Interdisciplinary Intersection (= Late Middle Ages, Humanism, Reformation. Vol. 111). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2020, ISBN 978-3-16-158242-4 .
  • together with Hubertus Seibert : Social ties and social structures in the late Middle Ages (14th – 16th centuries). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-525-37304-0 .
  • with Hubertus Seibert: Bohemia and the German Empire. Comparison of idea and culture transfer (13th – 16th centuries). Oldenbourg, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-59147-7 ( review ).
  • Nuns, canons and mystics. Religious women's communities in southern Germany. Contributions to the interdisciplinary conference from September 21 to 23, 2005 in Frauenchiemsee. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-35891-7 .

Digital projects

  • with Henrike Lähnemann , Simone Schultz-Balluff, Edmund Wareham, Philipp Trettin, Lena Vosding and Philipp Stenzig: Networks of the Nuns. Edition and cataloging of the collection of letters from Lüne Monastery (approx. 1460–1555). In: Wolfenbütteler digital editions. Wolfenbüttel 2016–, online .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Eva Schlotheuer: Language skills and lay communication. In: Nathalie Kruppa, Jürgen Wilke (Hrsg.): Monastery and education in the Middle Ages. Göttingen 2006, pp. 61-87 ( online ); Falk Eisermann, Eva Schlotheuber, Volker Honemann (eds.): Studies and texts on the literary and material culture of the women's monasteries in the late Middle Ages. Results of a working meeting in the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel, 24. – 26. Febr. 1999. Leiden et al. 2004.
  2. ↑ See the reviews by Martin Kintzinger in: sehepunkte 6 (2006), No. 10 [15. October 2006], ( online ); Klaus Naß in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 62 (2006), pp. 783–784 ( online ); Christina Lutter in: Journal for Historical Research 33 (2006), pp. 645–648; Thomas Scharff in: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 86 (2005), pp. 218–219 ( online ); Anne E. Lester in: Speculum 82 (2007), pp. 235-236.
  3. ↑ See the reviews of Letha Böhringer in: Historische Zeitschrift. 307, 2018, pp. 497-499; Julia Burkhardt in: Journal for Historical Research 44, 2017, pp. 740–742 ( online ); Jennifer Thomas in: Renaissance Quarterly 72, 2019, pp. 325–327.
personal data
SURNAME Schlotheuber, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück