Gerald Schwedler

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Gerald Schwedler (* 1975 ) is a German historian .

Gerald Schwedler studied history, historical auxiliary sciences , English and philosophy at the universities of Salzburg , Oxford , Heidelberg and Rome from 1994 to 2002 . As part of his collaboration in the Collaborative Research Center “Ritual Dynamics” (SFB 619), he worked on his dissertation. In the 2006/07 winter semester he received his doctorate with a thesis on the rulers' meetings of the late Middle Ages, supervised by Jürgen Miethke . Since 2007 he has been a research assistant at the University of Zurich at the Sebastian Scholz Chair for Early Medieval History. In 2016 he completed his habilitation at the University of Zurich with a thesis on the damnatio memoriae in the early Middle Ages. Schwedler was substitute professor for Sebastian Scholz at the University of Zurich (2015), for Gabriela Signori at the University of Konstanz (winter and summer semester 2017) and at the University of Heidelberg (summer semester 2018). Since November 2018 he has been teaching as professor for history of the late Middle Ages as well as economic and social history at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . He is a member of the Society for Economic and Social History .

His research interests are historiography and the culture of remembrance, the Damnatio memoriae in the early and high Middle Ages, church building in the later Middle Ages, the political and cultural history of the kingdoms in a pan-European context, foreign relations and ceremonies in late medieval Europe, norm formation and enforcement, legal rituals and legal codification. In his dissertation, he examines meetings of rulers in Europe in the late Middle Ages. He wants to represent "a royal instrument of action at European level". The work spans around 170 years between around 1270 and around 1440. In the first part of the study, “eight significant historical individual cases” with regard to negotiations and consensus-building, oaths, treaties, peace treaties, leanings, counter- and double kingship, armistice and conclusion of peace examined. In the second part of the work "Processes and elements of late medieval rulers' meetings", Schwedler tries to design the ideal type of an encounter between two kings based on the four phases of preparation, coming together, being together and separation. Schwedler observed a decline in meetings with rulers in the 15th century. He interprets it as an expression of a profound social change in Europe and as a consequence of staggered bureaucratisation and legalization. In the long term, personal meetings with rulers were replaced by journeys by trained diplomats. The appendix to the work contains a repertory that contains 204 clearly documented, likely to be made or planned and failed meetings of rulers in the late Middle Ages, and provides an overview of the meetings sorted by realm and ruler.

Fonts

Monographs

  • Forgetting, changing, keeping silent and damnatio memoriae in the early Middle Ages (= Zurich Contributions to Historical Studies. Vol. 9). Böhlau, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-50723-7 .
  • Meeting of rulers of the late Middle Ages. Forms - rituals - effects (= medieval research. Vol. 21). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7995-4272-2 ( online ).

Editorships

  • with Andreas Büttner, Birgit Kynast, Jörg Sonntag: Imitation in the Middle Ages. Dimensions - Mechanisms - Functions (= supplements to the archive for cultural history. Issue 82). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2018, ISBN 978-3-412-50908-8 .
  • with Sebastian Scholz, Kai-Michael Sprenger: Damnatio in memoria. Deformation and counter-constructions in history (= Zurich contributions to historical science. Volume 4). Böhlau, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-412-22283-3
  • with Jörg Peltzer , Paul Töbelmann: Political meetings and their rituals. Forms of representation and decision-making processes of the empire and the church in the late Middle Ages (= Middle Ages research. Vol. 27). Thorbecke, Thorbecke 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-4278-4 ( online ).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the reviews by Martin Bauch in: H-Soz-Kult , September 23, 2009, online ; Kerstin Rahn in: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 88 (2008), pp. 682–684 ( online ); Michail A. Bojcov in: Sehepunkte 9 (2009), No. 1 [15. January 2009], online ; Achim Thomas Hack in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 65 (2009), pp. 729–730 ( online ); Immo Eberl in: Swiss Journal for History 59 (2009), pp. 471–472 ( online ); Petra Schulte in: Traverse. Zeitschrift für Geschichte –Revue d‛histoire 2009/2, pp. 174–176 ( online ); Benjamin Scheller in: Historische Zeitschrift 292 (2011), pp. 489–490; Heike Johanna Mierau in: Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 94/2 (2012), pp. 285–287; Alexandra Kaar in: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 119 (2011), pp. 218–219; Stéphane Péquignot in: Francia-Recensio 2009/3 Middle Ages ; Len Scales in: The English Historical Review 125 (2010), pp. 1230-1231 ( online ); Peter Elbel in: Communications from the Residency Commission / Academy of Sciences Göttingen 19/2 (2009), pp. 37–40.
  2. ↑ Gerald Schwedler: Meeting of rulers of the late Middle Ages. Forms - rituals - effects. Ostfildern 2007, p. 413.
  3. ↑ Gerald Schwedler: Meeting of rulers of the late Middle Ages. Forms - rituals - effects. Ostfildern 2007, p. 21.
  4. ↑ Gerald Schwedler: Meeting of rulers of the late Middle Ages. Forms - rituals - effects. Ostfildern 2007, p. 412.
personal data
SURNAME Schwedler, Gerald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1975