Lucas Burkart

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Lucas Burkart (born February 3, 1967 in Basel ) is a Swiss historian .

Life

Lucas Burkart attended the schools in Basel from 1974 to 1987, which he finished with the Matura at the Humanist Gymnasium . From 1987 to 1994 he studied history, economics, literature and philosophy in Basel and Bologna . In 2000 he received his doctorate from the University of Basel with a thesis on image strategies in late medieval Verona . In 2005 he completed his habilitation in Basel with a thesis on the instrumentalization of church treasures in the Middle Ages. From 2007–2012 he was a professor at the Swiss National Science Foundation at the History Department of the University of Lucerne . Since August 1, 2012 he has been an associate professor at the University of Basel, and since 2017 a full professor of general history of the late Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance.

His research focuses on the history of visual and material culture as well as urban, economic and social history in the late Middle Ages and in the early modern period .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • The city of images. Familial and communal image investment in late medieval Verona. W. Fink, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-7705-3501-4 ( dissertation , University of Basel, 1998).
  • The blood of the martyrs. Genesis, meaning and function of medieval treasures. Böhlau, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20104-3 ( habilitation thesis , University of Basel, 2005/06).
  • (with Tina Asmussen and Hole Rößler) Theatrum Kircherianum. Cultures of knowledge and worlds of books in the 17th century, Wiesbaden 2013 ( online )

Editorships

  • Europe Arcadia. Jakob Philipp Hackert and the Imagination of Europe around 1800. Göttingen 2008 (with Andreas Beyer , Achatz von Müller and Gregor Vogt-Spira)
  • Le trésor au Moyen Âge. Pratiques, discours, images ?? Treasure cultures in the Middle Ages. Discourse, Practice, Presentation, Florence 2010 (= Micrologus Library) (with Philippe Cordez; Pierre-Alain Mariaux; Yann Potin)
  • Myths, bodies, images. Ernst Kantorowicz between historicism, emigration and the renewal of the humanities, Göttingen 2015. (with Joachim Kersten; Ulrich Raulff; Hartwig von Bernstorff; Achatz von Müller)

Essays

  • Political investment. The history of the Basel Minster Treasure from the 11th century to the Reformation, in: Historisches Museum Basel (ed.): Exhibition catalog Der Basler Minster Treasure, Basel 2001, pp. 230–241
  • The cultural studies of Aby Warburg and the visual history of Percy Ernst Schramm. in: Jens Jäger, Martin Knauer (Hrsg.): Pictures as historical sources. Munich 2009, pp. 71–96.
  • The city of images. Verona in the late Middle Ages, in: Peter Johanek (ed.): Image and Perception of the City (City Research 63), Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2012, pp. 25–50.
  • Reflections on the importance of materiality in premodern city representations , in: Bernd Roeck , Marco Jorio , Martina Stercken , François Walter, Thomas Manetsch, Thomas (eds.): Schweizer Städtebilder. Urban Iconographies (15th – 20th Centuries), Zurich 2013, pp. 133–142.
  • Giving is happier than receiving ??. On the asymmetry of political economy in early medieval royal rule, in: History in Science and Education 65, 2014, no. 9/10, pp. 540–547.
  • Why history? A look at Switzerland at the beginning of the 21st century and its expectations of history, in: Discipline / Discipline , 2014, pp. 91-103.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vademecum of the historical sciences. F. Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, p. 321.
  2. ↑ [1] ; [2]
personal data
SURNAME Burkart, Lucas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd February 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel