Franz-Josef Arlinghaus

Franz-Josef Arlinghaus (born May 11, 1960 in Münster ) is a German historian .

After training as a carpenter, Arlinghaus studied Middle History, Romance Studies, Education and Economic Policy in Münster and Madrid from 1983 to 1991 . He then worked until 1999 in the Collaborative Research Center “Carriers, fields, forms of pragmatic writing in the Middle Ages” at the University of Münster. There he received his doctorate in 1997 with Hagen Keller with a thesis on accounting techniques of the Italian merchants of the 14th and 15th centuries. In 2007, he completed his habilitation at the University of Kassel with a thesis on the judiciary of late medieval Cologne . The following year he was appointed professor of history with a focus on the history of the premodern world at the University of Vechta . Since 2009 he has been Professor of General History at Bielefeld University, with a special focus on the High and Late Middle Ages . From October 2014 to September 2015 he held the Mercator professorship at the Graduate College 1919 “Prevention, Foresight, Prediction: Coping with Contingency through Future Action” at the University of Duisburg-Essen .

His research focuses on the Italian and German urban and legal history of the High and Late Middle Ages. In addition, his works deal with the history of the individual and individuality as well as the symbolic-ritual use of writing in premodern times .

Franz-Josef Arlinghaus is married to the Germanist Margreth Egidi .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Inclusion - exclusion. Function and forms of law in the late medieval city. The example of Cologne (= norm and structure. Vol. 48). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2018, ISBN 3-412-51165-X .
• Legitimation strategies in difficult times. The sentences of the Milan municipal courts in the 12th and 13th centuries. UVK, Konstanz et al. 2016, ISBN 3-86764-699-6 .
• Between note and balance sheet. On the momentum of the use of writing in commercial accounting using the example of the Datini / di Berto trading company in Avignon (1367–1373) (= Society, Culture and Writing - Medieval Contributions. Vol. 8). Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-631-35256-5 .

Editorships

• Forms of Individuality and Literacy in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods (= Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy. Vol. 31). Brepols, Turnhout 2015, ISBN 2-503-55220-X .
• together with Bernd Ulrich Hucker and Eugen Kotte : Constitutional history from an international and diachronic perspective. Meidenbauer, Munich 2010, ISBN 3-89975-210-4 .
• together with Ingrid Baumgärtner , Vincenzo Colli, Susanne Lepsius and Thomas Wetzstein : Practice of jurisdiction in European cities of the late Middle Ages (= jurisprudence. Vol. 23). Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-465-04007-4 .
• together with Marcus Ostermann , Oliver Plessow and Gudrun Tscherpel : Transforming the Medieval World. Uses of Pragmatic Literacy in the Middle Ages (= Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy. Vol. 6). Brepols, Turnhout 2006, ISBN 978-2-503-51166-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz-Josef Arlinghaus in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Franz-Josef Arlinghaus in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
• Franz-Josef Arlinghaus on Academia.edu
• Page from Franz-Josef Arlinghaus at Bielefeld University

Remarks

1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar Online
2. ↑ See the review by Laurence Buchholzer in: Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 46 (2019), pp. 498–499.