Jan Rudiger

This article deals with the medieval historian. For the author of the same name, see Jan Rüdiger (author) .

Jan Rüdiger (born December 28, 1966 in Hamburg ) is a German historian of medieval history.

Jan Rüdiger passed his Abitur at the Bramfeld Gymnasium in Hamburg in June 1985 and studied history from 1985 to 1993 in Hamburg , in Sheffield (winter semester 1987/88) and Toulouse (winter semester 1989/90) with the minor subjects British literature and culture and Occitan studies . 1992 followed in Hamburg the Magister with a thesis on Toulouse in the Albigenserkrieg . In 1998 he received his doctorate from the University of Basel with Achatz von Müller with a thesis on the forms of perception of aristocrats and poets in the Tolosan Occitania around 1200. From 1996 to 2001 Rüdiger held teaching positions at the University of Rostock , the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel , the University of Hamburg and the University of Basel. From 2001 to 2008 he was a research assistant at the Institute for the Comparative History of Europe in the Middle Ages at the Humboldt University in Berlin . There he completed his habilitation in 2007 with a thesis on polygyny and political culture in Europe from the 9th to the 13th century , supervised by Michael Borgolte . In 2007 and 2009 he was visiting researcher at the Syddansk Universitet in Odense .

From 2008 to 2011 Rüdiger was managing director of the Leibniz project “Political Language in the Middle Ages” at the University of Frankfurt am Main . In 2008/2009 he was a substitute professor for Bernhard Jussen in Frankfurt am Main. In 2011, he turned down a call to Trondheim for a professorship in Medieval History. From the 2011/2012 winter semester, he taught at the University of Frankfurt am Main as the successor to Heribert Müller as Professor of Medieval History. In 2012/13 he was managing director of the historical seminar in Frankfurt. In 2013 he accepted a professorship for General History of the Middle Ages at the University of Basel . Rüdiger took over the professorship in Basel on April 1, 2014.

His main research interests are the medieval maritime domination ( thalassocracies ) and regional historical cultures. Rüdiger was involved in a research project with languages ​​in the Euro-Mediterranean Middle Ages. In his habilitation thesis he examined polygyny in the High Middle Ages from the perspective of political culture.

Fonts

• Aristocrats and poets. The grammar of a mentality in the Tolosan high Middle Ages. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-05-003594-3 ( review ).
• The king and his wives. Polygyny and political culture in Europe (9th – 13th centuries) (= Europe in the Middle Ages. Treatises and contributions to historical comparative literature. Vol. 21). De Gruyter, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-05-006319-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jan Rüdiger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Jan Rüdiger at the University of Basel
• Publications by Jan Rüdiger in the Opac der Regesta Imperii

Remarks

1. ↑ See the review by Jörg Oberste in: Francia 29/1 (2001), pp. 378-380 ( online ).
2. ↑ See the reviews by Simona Slanicka in: Historische Anthropologie 26, 2018, pp. 106–108; Alheydis Plassmann in: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter 82 (2018), pp. 243–244.