Karl Ubl

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Karl Ubl (born May 15, 1973 in Vienna ) is an Austrian historian . Since 2011 he has been teaching as professor for medieval history with a focus on the early and high Middle Ages at the University of Cologne .

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Karl Ubl studied history, philosophy and historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Vienna from 1991 to 1995 . From 1992 to 1995 he completed the training course at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research . Military service followed in 1996/1997. In 1999/2000 he received his doctorate at the University of Heidelberg with a study on Engelbert von Admont supervised by Jürgen Miethke . From 2001 to 2007 Ubl was assistant for medieval history with Wilfried Hartmann at the University of Tübingen . In 2007 he received his habilitation in medieval history and historical auxiliary sciences in Tübingen. Since 2008 he has been the Academic Councilor for Medieval History in Tübingen. In the summer semester of 2009 he taught for Frank Rexroth as a substitute professor for history of the High and Late Middle Ages at the University of Göttingen . In the winter semester 2010/2011 and in the summer semester 2011 Ubl worked for a research year at the Institute for Advanced Study . Since the 2011/2012 winter semester he has been teaching in the successor to Klaus Zechiel-Eckes as professor for medieval history with a focus on the early and high Middle Ages at the University of Cologne . Since 2011 he has been on the scientific advisory board of the historical journal . In 2014 he was visiting professor at the École pratique des hautes études . Ubl has been a member of the Constance Working Group for Medieval History since 2014 . Since 2015 he has been a member of the Central Management of Monumenta Germaniae Historica . In February 2017, he turned down the call to the MGH presidency of the professorship for medieval history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Together with Gudrun Gersmann, Ubl heads the “Research Center for the History of Cologne”, which was founded in 2018.

His main research interests are the history of political theory, the history of education in the late Middle Ages, the history of the city of Cologne in the early Middle Ages, the edition of Jean de Pouilly's reports on the Templar trial and legal history in the early Middle Ages. With his dissertation, he presented the first extensive work on Engelbert von Admont . Together with William J. Courtenay, two quaestiones by Jean de Pouilly and an expert opinion, which is subject to the royal council of Guillaume de Plaisians, were presented in full for the first time. The edition is an important publication for the area of ​​Templar, legal and university history. His habilitation deals with the development and history of the canonical prohibition of incest in the period from 300 to 1100. Ubl justifies the importance of the prohibition of incest in the early Middle Ages with “the need to establish public order in an age of increasing erosion [...] because marriage and family, under the conditions of the de-differentiation of the legal system, were seen to a greater extent as the basis of social integration and consequently more attention and regulation in moral, theological and also legal respects were found necessary ”. Ludwig Schmugge praised the work as a "milestone in research into incest legislation". According to Johannes Fried , the importance of the investigation "for the social and aristocratic history of the epoch under discussion and thus for general history cannot be overestimated."

On the occasion of the third anniversary of the death of Klaus Zechiel-Eckes, a conference was held at the University of Cologne in February 2013. Ubl published the articles together with Daniel Ziemann in 2015. In 2014 he published an overview of the Carolingians . For Ubl, the specialty of the Carolingian Empire is the “close interweaving of religion and politics, ecclesiastical institutions and royalty, theology and representation of power”. Ubl sees the epochal significance of the Carolingians for European history primarily in the fact that they “covered the former west of the Roman Empire with a new layer of cultural homogeneity”. He published a book on Lex Salica in 2017 . In doing so, he took into account not only the earliest, but the entire tradition, which is based on almost 90 manuscripts. He understands his presentation about this legal document “as a contribution to the cultural history of law. It is based on the assumption that the meaning of norms can only be understood by considering the religious, moral, political and cultural convictions of a community ”. For him, the Lex Salica has a “community-building function” that made a significant “contribution to integration and stabilization”.

The North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts promotes from 2014 with a total of 5.28 million euros UBLS new edition of the Frankish Mr. Scherer Lasse ( " capitularies ") Carolingian within the Monumenta Germaniae Historica. The project will run for 16 years. The capitularies are among the most important sources in the history of the Franconian Empire from the 6th to the 10th century. The individual collections of capitularies should be digitized and the capitularies should be made accessible from the individual collections in the form in which they came from the ruler.

Fonts

Monographs

  • Foundations of meaning in a legal book. The Lex Salica in the Franconian Empire (= sources and research on law in the Middle Ages. Vol. 9). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2017, ISBN 978-3-7995-6089-4 .
  • The Carolingians. Ruler and Empire (= Beck series. Vol. 2828). Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-66175-4 .
  • with: William J. Courtenay: Scholarly reports and royal politics in the Templar trial (= Monumenta Germaniae historica. Vol. 51). Hahn, Hannover 2010, ISBN 978-3-7752-5711-4 .
  • Incest prohibition and legislation. The construction of a crime (300–1100) (= Millennium Studies. Vol. 20). de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020296-0 (also: Tübingen, Universität, habilitation paper, 2007).
  • The writings of Alexander von Roes and Engelbert von Admont part 2. Speculum virtutum, Hahn, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-0300-1 .
  • Engelbert of Admont. A scholar caught between Aristotelianism and Christian tradition. Oldenbourg, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-7029-0449-2 (also: Heidelberg, Universität, Dissertation, 1999/2000).

Editorships

  • with Daniel Ziemann: Forgery as a political tool? Pseudoisidor in the light of new research. Commemorative publication for Klaus Zechiel-Eckes (= Monumenta Germaniae historica. Studies and Texts. Vol. 57). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-447-10335-0 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Marc-Aeilko Aris: Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Report on the year 2016/17. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages, Vol. 73 (2017), pp. I – XVII, here: SI
  2. ↑ Oliver Junge: Heimatforschungsstelle. Colonia neglecta. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 13, 2018, No. 134, p. N3.
  3. ↑ See the review by Alexander Fidora in: Historische Zeitschrift 277 (2003), pp. 183–185.
  4. ↑ See the reviews of Matthias Heiduk in: Historische Zeitschrift 294 (2012), p. 494; Wolfram Benzinger in: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 91 (2011), pp. 517-518 ( online ); Piotr Gotowko in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, Canonical Department 99 (2013), pp. 444–450.
  5. ↑ See the reviews of Ludolf Kuchenbuch in: Historische Anthropologie 20 (2012), pp. 259–262; John Moorhead in: Francia-Recensio (2010), 3 ( online ); Ludwig Schmugge in: H-Soz-Kult , September 28, 2009 ( online ); Johannes Fried: Canon and Medieval Studies. New literature on canon law, incest, and the marriage of Pippin of Italy. In: Historische Zeitschrift 294 (2012), pp. 115–141; Detlev Jasper in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 66 (2010), pp. 829–830 ( online ); Christof Rolker in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. Canonical Department 97 (2011), pp. 512-514
  6. ^ Karl Ubl: Incest prohibition and legislation. The construction of a crime (300–1100). Berlin u. a. 2008, p. 498.
  7. ↑ Ludwig Schmugge in: H-Soz-Kult , September 28, 2009 ( online )
  8. ↑ Johannes Fried: Canon and Medieval Studies. New literature on canon law, incest, and the marriage of Pippin of Italy. In: Historische Zeitschrift 294 (2012), pp. 115–141, here: p. 125.
  9. ↑ See the reviews of Gregor Patt in: Nassauische Annalen 127 (2016), pp. 394–395; Lotte Kéry in: Historische Zeitschrift 304 (2017), pp. 473–476.
  10. ↑ See the reviews of Wolfram Drews in: Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Germanistische Department 134 (2017), pp. 520–522; Lars Hagemeier in: H-Soz-Kult , January 14, 2015, ( online ); Felix Grollmann in: Das Mittelalter 22 (2017), p. 254.
  11. ^ Karl Ubl: The Carolingians. Ruler and empire. Munich 2014, p. 13.
  12. ^ Karl Ubl: The Carolingians. Ruler and empire. Munich 2014, p. 121.
  13. ↑ See the reviews by Laury Sarti in: Francia-Recensio (2019), 1 ( online ); Ludolf Kuchenbuch in: H-Soz-Kult , November 14, 2018, ( online ); Rudolf Schieffer in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 74 (2018), pp. 251–253; Michael Borgolte in: Historische Zeitschrift 308 (2019), pp. 782–783; Immo Eberl in: Journal for Württembergische Landesgeschichte 78 (2019), pp. 437–439 ​​( online ); Peter Kreutz in: Das Mittelalter 24 (2019), pp. 505–506; Daniel Föller in: Early Medieval Europe 28 (2020), pp. 504–506.
  14. ^ Karl Ubl: Foundations of meaning in a legal book. The Lex Salica in the Franconian Empire. Ostfildern 2017, p. 29 f.
  15. ^ Karl Ubl: Foundations of meaning in a legal book. The Lex Salica in the Franconian Empire. Ostfildern 2017, p. 30.
  16. ↑ Dirk Riße: On the trail of the Franks. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , February 25, 2014; Project page
personal data
SURNAME Ubl, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna