Hedwig Röckelein

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Hedwig Röckelein (born July 13, 1956 in Burgebrach ) is a German historian . Since 1999 she has been Professor of Medieval and Modern History at the Georg-August University in Göttingen .

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Hedwig Röckelein studied German literature, history, politics and prehistoric and early historical archeology from 1975 to 1981 at the universities of Würzburg and Freiburg im Breisgau . With a thesis on the sword as a sign of power and rule in text, image and material evidence of the Carolingian era , the master's degree at the Philosophical Faculty in Freiburg followed in 1981. In 1985 she received her doctorate from Hagen Keller at the University of Freiburg with a dissertation on high medieval Latin vision texts. The work was published in 1987 under the title Otloh, Gottschalk, Tnugdal - Individual and collective vision patterns of the High Middle Ages .

From 1985 to 1989 she compiled a catalog of the Latin manuscripts at the University Library of Tübingen as part of the DFG program "Recording the Manuscript Holdings in the Federal Republic of Germany" , which appeared in two volumes in 1991 and 2001. From 1990 to 1998 she was a university assistant at the University of Hamburg . From 1995 to 1997 she received a habilitation grant from the DFG. In 1996 she was awarded the Aby Warburg Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. In Hamburg she completed her habilitation with the work Reliquientranslationen nach Sachsen in the 9th century. On communication, mobility and the public in the early Middle Ages , published in 2002 in the series “Beihefte der Francia” at the German Historical Institute in Paris . Since 1999 she has been teaching as professor for Middle and Modern History at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Since 2007 she has been head of the diplomatic apparatus there , a teaching collection of original documents that has existed since 1802.

Her research interests include the history of women and genders in the Middle Ages , media and communication in the Middle Ages, and mediaeval vision literature . In her dissertation, she examines a few selected high medieval vision reports from a “cultural-historical, psychoanalytic, traditional and mentality-historical perspective”. It is about the question of "whether the occurrence of visionary phenomena is linked to a specific religious-ritual system". In the first main part of the thesis she deals with the Liber visionum Otlohs of St. Emmeram . The second part deals with the otherworldly visions in the Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii , Tnugdalus , Gottschalk , Thurkill , Orm and Gunthelm.

In 2005 Röckelein initiated a database on medieval women's monasteries in Europe, which were founded between 400 and 1600, under the title "Female Monasticisms Database" (FemMoData). In 2015 at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen established DFG Collaborative Research Center 1136 “Education and Religion in Cultures of the Mediterranean and its Environment from Antiquity to the Middle Ages and Classical Islam”, she headed the subproject A 04 on appropriation from 2015 to 2020 ancient knowledge by Christians.

Röckelein was awarded several awards and memberships based on her research. In 1999 she was nominated as a Research Fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna. In the academic years 2003/2004 she was visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. In June 2008 and from January to March 2009 she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Collegium Budapest . She is a member of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen . In 2008 she was elected a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . Since 2008 she has chaired the management committee of the Germania Sacra office at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences. The project makes an important contribution to research into German church history from the beginnings of the German dioceses in the 3rd and 4th centuries. Century to the Reformation in the 16th century and the secularization at the beginning of the 19th century.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Written landscapes, educational landscapes and religious landscapes of the Middle Ages in Northern Germany (= Wolfenbütteler Hefte. Vol. 33). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-447-10393-0 .
  • Relic translations to Saxony in the 9th century. About communication, mobility and the public in the early Middle Ages (= Francia. Supplements of Francia. Vol. 48). Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-7995-7442-5 (also: Hamburg, University, habilitation paper, 1997/1998), digitized version (PDF; 19.28 MB) .
  • Otloh, Gottschalk, Tnugdal. Individual and collective vision patterns of the High Middle Ages (= European university publications . Series 3: History and its auxiliary sciences. Vol. 319). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1987, ISBN 3-8204-9512-6 (At the same time: Freiburg (Breisgau), University, dissertation, 1985: Otloh, Mönch von S. Emmeram, Gottschalk, the farmer from Holstein, and Tnugdal, the Irish Knight. ).

Editorships

  • with Galit Noga-Banai and Lotem Pinchover: Devotional cross-roads. Practicing love of God in medieval Jerusalem, Gaul and Saxony. Göttingen University Press, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-86395-372-0 .
  • 100 years of Germania Sacra. Writing church history from the 16th to the 21st century (= studies on Germania Sacra. New series 8). De Gruyter Academy Research, Berlin / Boston 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-061958-4 .
  • The Gandersheim treasure in comparison. For the reconstruction and presentation of church treasures (= studies on the women's monastery in Gandersheim and its own monasteries. Vol. 4). With the assistance of Thorsten Henke and Maria Julia Hartgen. Schnell + Steiner, Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7954-2638-5 .
  • Women's monasteries, women's monasteries and their parishes (= Essen research on women 's monastery . Vol. 7). Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8375-0278-7 .
  • with Martin Hoernes: Gandersheim and Essen. Comparative studies on Saxon women's colleges (= Essen research on women's colleges. Vol. 4). Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2006, ISBN 3-89861-510-3 .
  • The cult of the apostle James d. Ä. in northern German Hanseatic cities (= Jakobus Studies. Vol. 15). Narr, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-8233-6039-6 .
  • with Hans-Werner Goetz : Women's relationships in the Middle Ages (= The Middle Ages. Vol. 1, No. 2, ISSN  0949-0345 ). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1996.
  • with Charlotte Schoell-Glass and Maria E. Müller: Jeanne d'Arc or how history constructs a figure (= women - culture - history. Vol. 4). Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau) et al. 1996, ISBN 3-451-23953-1 .
  • Biography as history (= Forum Psychohistorie. Vol. 1). Diskord, Tübingen 1993, ISBN 3-89295-571-9 .
  • with Claudia Opitz , Gabriela Signori , Guy P. Marchal : Maria in der Welt. Marian veneration in the context of social history, 10. – 18. Century (= Clio Lucernensis. Vol. 2). Chronos Verlag, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-905311-12-7 .
  • with Claudia Opitz and Dieter R. Bauer : Maria, image or role model? On the social history of medieval devotion to Mary. Diskord, Tübingen 1990, ISBN 3-89295-539-5 .

literature

  • Hedwig Röckelein: Options for a History of the Sexes in the Middle Ages. In: Yearbook of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. 2009, ISSN  0373-9767 , pp. 443-448 ( online ).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the review by Nigel F. Palmer in: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 44, 1988, p. 704 ( online ); Thomas Lentes in: Mediaevistik 6, 1993, pp. 367-371.
  2. ↑ See the reviews of Ralf Lützelschwab in: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries . 85, 2005, pp. 652-654 ( online ); Anne-Marie Helvétius in: Francia. 31/1, 2004, pp. 291-292 ( online ); Jörg Oberste in: H-Soz-Kult , July 16, 2002, ( online ); Conradin von Planta in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 60, 2004, pp. 724–725 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Hedwig Röckelein: Otloh, Gottschalk, Tnugdal. Individual and collective vision patterns of the High Middle Ages. Frankfurt am Main et al. 1987, p. 7.
  4. ↑ Hedwig Röckelein: Otloh, Gottschalk, Tnugdal. Individual and collective vision patterns of the High Middle Ages. Frankfurt am Main et al. 1987, p. 18.
  5. ↑ Female Monasticisms Database (FemMoData) .
personal data
SURNAME Röckelein, Hedwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgebrach