Jan Keupp

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Jan Ulrich Keupp (born December 23, 1973 in Munich ) is a German historian .

Jan Keupp studied Medieval, Bavarian and Prehistory and German Studies in Munich from 1993 to 1997. In 1997 the Magister followed. In 2001/2002 he was a research assistant in Cologne. In 2001 he received his doctorate from the University of Bielefeld with a thesis on the ministerials Friedrich Barbarossa and Heinrich VI, suggested by Stefan Weinfurter and supervised by Neithard Bulst . From the summer semester of 2002 to 2008 he was a research assistant at the LMU Munich at Knut Görich's chair . He was a research associate and head of the DFG project The Shells of the Self: Medieval fashion in the field of tension between social norm and subjective localization . His habilitation took place in Munich in 2009 on fashion in the Middle Ages . Since September 2009 he has been an academic assistant at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In the 2011/12 winter semester he was a substitute for Chair III for Medieval History at the University of Münster . Since April 2012 he has been teaching medieval history as the successor to Eva Schlotheuber as professor at the University of Münster.

His main research interests are the sign systems of social and political order in the Middle Ages, the establishment and practice of lordly authority in the high medieval empire, the constitutional and social history of the court and the social history of clerical and secular elites. His dissertation did not include the entire ministry of the time of Frederick I and Henry VI. in the spotlight, rather it was about a "group of people constituted by closeness to the rulers". Keupp examined eight ministerial genders as examples. He was able to prove that the Reich Service was an essential prerequisite for expanding one's own regional position of power. In his work he was also able to determine that Friedrich Barbarossa initially relied hardly on ministerials in his rule. Since 1177 there has been a change in the relationship with the ministries due to the realignment of Italian policy. The son and successor of Barbarossa relied increasingly on the Reichsministeriales in his rule. With his work he expanded his knowledge of the scope of action of the Reich ministerial and at the same time relativized the previous judgment of the ministerial as “organ of the royal will” or “professional civil servants” ( Karl Bosl ).

Keupp carried out relevant research on clothing in the Middle Ages. In the center of the habilitation, he asked about “the social leeway and effects of clothing choice”. In doing so, he examined the clothing practice for the area of ​​the empire between the 9th and 15th centuries on the basis of medieval sources. With his habilitation, Keupp made a significant contribution to cultural-historical medieval clothing research. In 2012, Keupp received the € 5,000 Staufer Prize from the Stauferstiftung Göppingen for his habilitation .

Fonts

Monographs

  • with Robert Gramsch : Die Staufer. WBG, Darmstadt 2020, ISBN 3-534-15861-X .
  • Fashion in the Middle Ages. 2nd, revised edition. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2016, ISBN 978-3-534-26802-3 .
  • The choice of robe. Fashion, power and a sense of possibility in society and politics in the Middle Ages (= Middle Ages research. Vol. 33). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-4285-2 (also: Munich, University, habilitation paper, 2009). ( online )
  • Service and merit. The Ministerials Friedrich Barbarossas and Heinrich VI. (= Monographs on the history of the Middle Ages. Vol. 48). Hiersemann, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-7772-0229-0 (also: Bielefeld, University, dissertation, 2002).

Editorships

literature

  • Bernd Schneidmüller : Laudation for the awarding of the science prize to Prof. Dr. Jan Keupp. In: Die Staufer and Byzanz (= writings on Hohenstaufen history and art. Vol. 33). Society for Staufer History, Göppingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-929776-25-6 , pp. 150–155 ( online ).

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Jan Keupp: Service and merit. The Ministerials Friedrich Barbarossas and Heinrich VI. Stuttgart 2002, p. 10. Cf. the reviews of Gabriel Zeilinger in: Das Historisch-Politische Buch 52 (2004), p. 245f .; Wilhelm Störmer in: sehepunkte 4 (2004), No. 10 [15. October 2004], ( online ); Karl-Heinz Spieß in: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 92 (2005), pp. 223–224; Ulrich Ritzerfeld in: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte. 54 (2004), pp. 342-343; Immo Eberl in: Genealogy. German Journal for Family Studies 27 (2004/2005) p. 763.
  2. ↑ Jan Keupp: The choice of the robe. Fashion, power and a sense of possibility in society and politics in the Middle Ages. Stuttgart 2010, p. 11.
  3. ↑ Press release Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster upm of November 14, 2012 Staufer Prize for Prof. Keupp. Medieval historian from the University of Münster receives prestigious honor from the Göppinger Staufer Foundation , accessed on November 14, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Keupp, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keupp, Jan Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd December 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich