Gabriela Signori

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Gabriela Signori (born February 6, 1960 in Basel ) is a Swiss historian who researches the late Middle Ages . Signori has been teaching as professor for the history of the Middle Ages at the University of Konstanz since 2006 . Her diverse research areas include the history of piety and gender.

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Gabriela Signori studied history, Romance languages ​​and philosophy at the Universities of Basel , Geneva , Lausanne and Paris . In Basel she did her doctorate with František Graus . From 1992 to 2000 she was a research assistant at Klaus Schreiner's chair at Bielefeld University . She had received a Heisenberg grant (2000/2001). Signori taught from 2001 to 2006 as a professor for the history of the late Middle Ages and historical auxiliary sciences at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . In 2004 she canceled a nomination for the professorship on the history of the late Middle Ages at Harvard University . She turned down an appointment at the Ruhr University Bochum in 2005 and instead accepted an appointment at the University of Konstanz. She has been teaching there since 2006 as a professor for the history of the Middle Ages. She is a member of the Constance working group for medieval history .

Her main research interests are the history of piety, the history of ideas, the history of law, gender studies , the history of old age, the monastic culture of the late Middle Ages and the auxiliary historical sciences. In her habilitation thesis, published in 2001, she dealt with testators without children or families in late medieval Basel. For this purpose, she evaluated 70 wills of childless testators for the period from 1450 to 1500 from the production books of the Großbasler Schöffengericht. In 2005, she presented a collection of essays that should contribute to a better understanding of the 15th century. Until now, the 15th century had often only been viewed from the perspective of the Reformation and as a time of decline and decline. Signori puts the thematic focus on the late medieval church space, “as a communication space, as a space that is used, occupied, painted and described, as well as a space that various social groups and forces claim for themselves and around which they, if necessary , also fight ”. It shows a large number of writings in the church. In view of the numerous tables and texts in the churches, for example on catechesis or to increase church discipline, Signori assumed a significantly better reading ability from the second half of the 15th century. In a further contribution Signori was able to establish that the Reformation rather "disfeced" the churches first. With this, Signori corrected the view that it was only the Reformation that produced the pews. She also investigates the headgear and bare headedness of men and women when entering the church. At first there were different norms for men and women. In the late Middle Ages everyone had to cover their heads, but in different ways. With this work, she made an important contribution to research in the 15th century.

In 2006 Signori organized a cultural studies conference on the "reading woman". Three subject areas from antiquity to modernity were explored around the "reading woman". The question was asked about the reading woman as a metaphor in words and images, about the woman as addressee and reader as well as about suitable reading materials and educational models for women. The contributions were published in 2009 by Signori.

In 2007 Signori published an anthology on the seal . The volume bundles 18 articles which, after two introductory essays, concentrate on the topics of church seal management, secular seal management and special seal functions. The presentation does not understand itself as a seal customer, but as an "introductory reading book" and aims to bring the reader closer to "the cultural dimensions of the premodern sealing practice". The focus is on the central functions of the seal “as a medium of self-presentation and representation” and “as a means of authentication and authenticity control”. The time focus of the book is on the High and Late Middle Ages. In 2007, she gave a historical introduction to miracles . She explains "The Christian Basics", goes into the most important sources ("Miracle Reports"), discusses the "Social World of Miracles" and presented two important phenomena influenced by society with "Miracle Healings" and "Violence and Miracles". Also in 2007 she published an Introduction to the 13th Century. What is special about their introduction is that “the sources, rather than the research literature, are the focus of attention”. In her overview, Signori dispenses with an introduction to research history and research controversies. She begins her study book on the “Boundaries of the World” in the European 13th century. She deals with the fourth crusade , the Albigensian crusades , the Reconquista , the Baltic crusades, the children's crusades and Wilhelm von Rubruk's journey to the Mongols. Signori emphasizes the strong part of the crusade history in the 13th century: "The 13th century can justifiably be called the century of the crusade". In addition to traditional political-historical topics, Signori focuses on aspects of cultural history in her presentation. The other chapters deal with the church (II), education and upbringing (III), the European powers (IV), the legal codes (V), town and country (VI) as well as literature and art (VII). Together with Birgit Studt , she organized a Reichenau conference of the Constance Working Group for Medieval History in autumn 2011 with the topic “The Constance Council as a European Event”. The three focuses of the volume are on "encounters", "communication" and "rituals".

In 2012, together with Marc Müntz, she presented the account book of the Konstanz goldsmith Steffan Maignow , the only known account book of a late medieval goldsmith in the German-speaking area, in a critical edition and thus made it accessible to a wider public. The document provides insights into the work and experience of a medieval artisan. Maignow kept the account book from 1477 until his death in 1501. His widow continued it until 1520. In 2014 Signori published an annotated edition of the debt register by Ludwig Kilchmann , a Basel businessman. The debt register begins with the year 1452 and ends in the first decades of the 16th century. This means that there is a valuable certificate of commercial documents.

On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the canonization of Bruno , the founder of the Carthusian Order , Signori presented an edition of the roll of the dead in 2014 together with Hartmut Beyer and Sita Steckel. Signori also published the anthology Prekäre Ökonomien in 2014 . Debt in the late Middle Ages and early modern times . The aim of the contributions is to examine “the place of debt in the premodern world from a multitude of different perspectives” in order to “work out in approaches the peculiarity of an economy that can be found at all levels, including the level of institutions, with the help of organized and financed by loans ”. The ten contributions to the anthology are divided into four parts (“Theories and pitfalls in practice”, “Merchants and craftsmen”, “Women, mercenaries and scholars” and “The city”).

In 2016, Signori and Barbara Hausmair edited around 190 verdicts from the Constance Building Court from the years 1452 to 1470. The verdicts mainly deal with neighborhood disputes about unwanted waste disposal, controversial borders or annoying additions and alterations to windows, latrines or walls.

Fonts

Monographs

  • Debt economy. Consumer and mortgage loans in late medieval Basel (= late medieval studies . Vol. 5). UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, Konstanz, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-86496-770-2 .
  • From paradise marriage to community of property. Marriage in the medieval world of life and ideas (= history and genders . Vol. 60). Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-593-39429-9 .
  • The 13th century. An introduction to the history of late medieval Europe. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-17-019096-2 .
  • Wonder. A historical introduction (= historical introductions. Vol. 2). Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-593-38453-5 .
  • Spaces, gestures, forms of devotion. Gender, Conflict, and Religious Culture in the European Late Middle Ages. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2005, ISBN 3-7995-3422-9 .
  • Provision, inheritance, remembering. Child and family-free testators in urban society in the late Middle Ages (= publications by the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 160). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-35476-2 (At the same time: Bielefeld, University, habilitation paper).
  • Mary between cathedral, monastery and world. Hagiographic and historiographic approaches to a high medieval miracle sermon. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1995, ISBN 3-7995-0411-7 (At the same time: Basel, University, dissertation, 1991: Mary between cathedral, monastery and world. ).

Editions

  • The debt register of the Basel businessman Ludwig Kilchmann (d. 1518) (= quarterly journal for social and economic history . Supplements, vol. 231). Edited and annotated. Steiner, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-515-10691-7 .
  • with Marc Müntz: The business book of the Konstanz goldsmith Steffan Maignow (= Konstanzer historical and legal sources. Vol. 42). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7995-6842-5 .
  • with Lisa Röthinger: The grave book of the Basel cathedral monastery . Badisches Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe 64/4 (= sources and research on Basel history ). Introduced and edited. Reinhardt, Basel 2009, ISBN 978-3-7245-1620-0 .
  • with Jan Hrdina, Thomas Müller and Marc Müntz: Das Wunderbuch Unser Lieben Frau im Elende (1419–1517) (= publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Large series, vol. 12). Edited and annotated. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2006, ISBN 3-412-25505-X .
  • with Beate Sophie Fleck and Friedel Helga Roolfs: The Freckenhorster Legendar. Devotion, history and legend in a late medieval canonical pen (edition and commentary) (= religion in history. Vol. 10). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2003, ISBN 3-89534-470-2 .

Editorships

  • Precarious economies. Debt in the late Middle Ages and early modern times (= Late Middle Ages studies . Vol. 4). UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, Konstanz, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-86764-521-8 .
  • together with Birgit Studt : The Constance Council as a European event. Encounters, media and rituals (= lectures and research. Vol. 79). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2014, ISBN 978-3-7995-6879-1 ( online ).
  • Dying for the faith, killing for the faith. Old-Testament faith-warriors (1 and 2 Maccabees) in historical perspective (= Brill's studies in intellectual history . Vol. 206). Brill, Leiden et al. 2012, ISBN 978-90-04-21105-6 .
  • The reading woman (= Wolfenbütteler Research. Vol. 121). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-447-06007-3 .
  • The seal. Use and meaning. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2007, ISBN 978-3-534-20682-7 .
  • "Holy Westphalia". Saints, relics, pilgrimages and miracles in the Middle Ages (= religion in history. Vol. 11). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2003, ISBN 3-89534-491-5 .
  • Reading, writing, embroidering and remembering. Contributions to the cultural and social history of medieval women's monasteries (= religion in history. Vol. 7). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2000, ISBN 3-89534-291-2 .
  • “My God-loved friend”. Friendship documents from monastic and humanistic writing rooms (= Religion in History. Vol. 4). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 1995, ISBN 3-89534-158-4 .
  • Grief, despair and temptation. Suicide and attempted suicide in medieval and early modern societies (= Forum Psychohistorie. Vol. 3). Edition diskord, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-89295-581-6 .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ See the reviews by Matthias Steinbrink in: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Vol. 89 (2002), p. 213; J. Friedrich Battenberg in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft Vol. 50 (2002), pp. 460–462; Kathrin Utz Tremp in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages, Vol. 58 (2002), p. 360 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Gabriela Signori: spaces, gestures, forms of devotion. Gender, Conflict, and Religious Culture in the European Middle Ages. Ostfildern 2005, p. 9.
  3. ↑ Gabriela Signori: Image or writing? Catechesis in books, on blackboards and church walls. In: Dies .: spaces, gestures, forms of devotion. Gender, Conflict, and Religious Culture in the European Middle Ages. Ostfildern 2005, pp. 36–73, here: p. 73.
  4. ↑ Gabriela Signori: Standing or Sitting? The story of a myth. In: Dies .: spaces, gestures, forms of devotion. Gender, Conflict, and Religious Culture in the European Middle Ages. Ostfildern 2005, pp. 74–95, here: p. 95.
  5. ↑ Gabriela Signori: Standing or Sitting? The story of a myth. In: Dies .: veil, hat or hair? Thoughts on the reception history of 1 Corinthians 11: 3–16. Ostfildern 2005, pp. 96–113, here: p. 113.
  6. ↑ Review by Arnd Reitemeier in: sehepunkte 6 (2006), No. 7/8 [15. July 2006], ( online ); Bea Lundt in: Das Mittelalter 13 (2008), pp. 183–184.
  7. ↑ See the review by Pauline Puppel in: Nassauische Annalen . 122 (2011), pp. 516-519.
  8. ↑ See the reviews of Doris Bulach in: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters Vol. 65 (2009), pp. 274–276 ( online ); Pauline Puppel in: Sehepunkte 8 (2008), No. 5 [15. May 2008], ( online ); Carsten Woll in: Das Historisch-Politische Buch Vol. 56 (2008), p. 568 f. Tobias Weller in: Journal for Historical Research Vol. 37 (2010), pp. 113–115.
  9. ↑ Gabriela Signori: The Seal. Use and meaning. Darmstadt 2007, p. 5.
  10. ↑ Reviews by Georg Scheibelreiter in: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung Vol. 119 (2011), pp. 193–196. ( online ); Ralf Lützelschwab in: Journal for Historical Research Vol. 36 (2009), pp. 300–302; Michaela Hammerl in: Bayerisches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde 2008, pp. 170–173.
  11. ↑ Reviews of Robert Gramsch in: H-Soz-Kult , July 1, 2009. ( online ); Uwe Israel in: Sehepunkte 7 (2007), No. 9 [15. September 2007] ( online ); Knut Görich in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages Vol. 66 (2010), p. 296 ( digitized version ); Martin Kaufhold in: Journal for Historical Research Vol. 37 (2010), pp. 127–128; Wolfgang Hasberg in: Das Historisch-Politische Buch Vol. 55 (2007), p. 262; Christof Paulus in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 56 (2008), pp. 168–170; Thomas Vogtherr in: Das Mittelalter Vol. 15 (2010), p. 178; Wolfgang Stürner in: Journal for Württembergische Landesgeschichte 67 (2008), pp. 534-535.
  12. ↑ Gabriela Signori: The 13th Century. Introduction to the history of late medieval Europe. Stuttgart 2007, p. 7.
  13. ↑ Gabriela Signori: The 13th Century. Introduction to the history of late medieval Europe. Stuttgart 2007, p. 28.
  14. ↑ See the reviews of Jörg Schwarz in: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters Vol. 74 (2018), pp. 846–849; Jürgen Miethke in: sehepunkte 15 (2015), No. 9 [15. September 2015], online ; Harald Derschka in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings 133 (2015), pp. 314–315; Paul Srodecki in: Historische Zeitschrift 305 (2017), pp. 201–203.
  15. ↑ See the reviews by Thomas Ertl in: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 70 (2014), p. 712; Melanie Prange in: Journal for Württemberg State History 73 (2014), pp. 523-524.
  16. ↑ See the review by Mechthild Isenmann in: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte Vol. 102 (2015), pp. 413–414 ( online ); Thomas Ertl in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 73 (2017), pp. 789–790 ( online ); Sabrina Stockhusen in: Yearbook for Regional History 33 (2015), pp. 147–149.
  17. ↑ See the reviews by Markus A. Denzel in: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte Vol. 102, Issue 2 (2015), pp. 214–215 ( online ); Nils Bock in: FranciaRecensio 2015/2 ; Christof Jeggle in: WerkstattGeschichte (2015), 71, pp. 122–124 ( online ); Thomas Ertl in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages Vol. 71 (2015), pp. 815–816 ( online ).
  18. ↑ Gabriela Signori: Introduction. In this. (Ed.): Precarious Economies. Debt in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Times. Konstanz / Munich 2014, p. 7–14, here: p. 11 f.
personal data
SURNAME Signori, Gabriela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel