Klaus van Eickels

Klaus van Eickels (born May 5, 1963 in Kevelaer ) is a German historian .

Klaus van Eickels graduated from high school in Kleve in 1982 . As a schoolboy, he won first prize in the Federal President's history competition for a work on the history of everyday life under National Socialism . He studied history and Latin in Düsseldorf, Munich and Aix-en-Provence . He passed the first state examination in 1989. The state work examined the property development of the Kommende Koblenz and the development of their tariff privileges in the 13th century. In 1993 he received his doctorate from the University of Düsseldorf with a thesis supervised by Rudolf Hiestand on the Deutschordensballei Koblenz and its economic development in the late Middle Ages. From 1994 to 2001 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Bamberg . In 2001 he completed his habilitation in Bamberg with a thesis on Anglo-French relations and their perception at the turn of the Middle Ages, which was examined by Bernd Schneidmüller , whereupon he took the position of senior assistant from 2001 to 2003. This was followed in 2003/04 by substitute professorships in Bielefeld and Bamberg. From 2004 to 2005 van Eickels taught as a professor for the history of the late Middle Ages at Saarland University . Since 2005 he has been teaching medieval history as a professor at the University of Bamberg. He is a member of the Constance Working Group for Medieval History and the Society for Franconian History.

His main research interests include the economic and social history of the late Middle Ages, the history of Western Europe (England, France, the Netherlands), the history of personal ties in the Middle Ages (friendship / love, feudalism, marriage) and the Franconian and Rhenish history.

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Monographs

• From staged consensus to systematized conflict. The Anglo-French relations and their perception at the turn of the high to the late Middle Ages (= Middle Ages research. Vol. 10). Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-7995-4261-2 ( digitized ).
• Emperor Friedrich II. Life and personality in sources from the Middle Ages. Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf 2000, ISBN 3-491-69134-6 .
• The Deutschordensballei Koblenz and its economic development in the late Middle Ages (= sources and studies on the history of the Teutonic Order. Vol. 52). Elwert, Marburg 1995, ISBN 3-7708-1054-6 (also: Düsseldorf, Universität, Dissertation, 1993).
• The Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck in the Nazi era 1933–1942. Adaptation and resistance in everyday school life in the Third Reich (= series of publications of the Kleve district. Vol. 3). Boss in Komm, Kleve 1982, ISBN 3-922384-51-X .

Editorships

• Mediaevistics and new media. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2004, ISBN 3-7995-0321-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus van Eickels in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Klaus van Eickels in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
• Page by Klaus van Eickels at the University of Bamberg