Marc von der Höh

Marc Christian von der Höh (born April 13, 1970 in Wermelskirchen ) is a German historian .

Marc von der Höh graduated from high school in Remscheid in 1989 . From 1991 to 1995 he studied history, German, sociology and historical auxiliary sciences at the Universities of Cologne and Düsseldorf . In 1997 he passed the first state examination in history and German at the University of Cologne . From 1998 to 2002 he was a fellow in there DFG - Research Training Group "pre-modern concepts of time and history". In 2001 he received a research grant at the DHI Rome . From 2002 to 2005 he was a research assistant in the project "City and Residence in Central Germany" of the Historical Commission for Saxony-Anhalt . In 2004 he received his doctorate under Andreas Ranft at the University of Halle-Wittenberg with a thesis on the forms and functions of dealing with the past in high medieval Pisa (1050–1150). In 2006 he became a research assistant and in 2007 he became an academic adviser at the chair for the history of the late Middle Ages at the Ruhr University in Bochum with Nikolas Jaspert . In 2010/11 he was a Fellow at the Cultural Studies College in Konstanz . He was a substitute professor at the University of Freiburg (2013/2014) and for History of the Late Middle Ages at the University of Bochum (2014/2015). In 2014 he completed his habilitation in medieval history and historical auxiliary sciences with a thesis on the family structure of the older Cologne leadership in the late Middle Ages. Since 2017 he has been teaching as professor for medieval history at the University of Rostock .

His main research interests are urban history, court and residence research, historical auxiliary sciences (especially manuscript studies, heraldry and epigraphy ), history of the Mediterranean, medieval cultures of remembrance, historical kinship research. In his dissertation, he examined the emergence of the culture of remembrance in Pisa between 1050 and 1150. The work consists of two early communal historiography (pp. 41–201) and history in urban space - the city as a space of remembrance (pp. 202–426) Share. He understands the culture of remembrance as “the sum of all forms of representation of the past that exist in a given culture”. In the first part he asks for a specific selection of memorable events on the basis of early communal historiography. The focus is on the annalistic texts, "because despite the sparse entries, they represent the city's history in a temporal overview and thus better reveal the selection criteria of their authors". In early communal history, Pisa is above all the city of pagan fighters. The threat posed by the Saracens at the beginning of the 11th century and the resulting fleet expeditions to the western Mediterranean are, according to his research, the “founding experience of the Pisan urban community”. According to Florian Hartmann , von der Höh's work “considerably enriched research on Pisan historiography and remembrance culture in the city's flourishing period”. He is co-editor of two anthologies on Symbolic Interaction in Residential Cities of the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Times (2013) and another anthology on Cultural Brokers at Mediterranean Courts in the Middle Ages (2013). He is working on an edition and a historical commentary on Werner Overstolz's family book, which is one of the most important sources on the social and cultural history of late medieval Cologne.

Fonts

Monographs

• Culture of remembrance and early commune. Forms and functions of dealing with the past in high medieval Pisa (1050–1150) (= Halle contributions to the history of the Middle Ages and the early modern period. Vol. 3). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-05-004181-0 .

Editorships

• Nikolas Jaspert, Jenny Rahel Oesterle: Cultural Brokers at Mediterranean Courts in the Middle Ages (= Mediterranean Studies. Vol. 1). Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, ISBN 978-3-506-77559-7 .
• with Gerrit Deutschländer and Andreas Ranft: Symbolic interaction in the royal seat of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period (= Halle contributions to the history of the Middle Ages and the early modern period. Vol. 9). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-05-004141-4 .

Web links

• Publications by Marc von der Höh in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
• Entry on Marc von der Höh in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
• Page from Marc von der Höh at the University of Rostock

Remarks

1. ↑ See the reviews by Knut Görich in: sehepunkte . 8 (2008), No. 7/8 [15. July 2008], online ; Rudolf Pokorny in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages . 64 (2008), p. 367 f. ( online ); Christoph Friedrich Weber in: H-Soz-Kult . October 10, 2007, online ; Florian Hartmann in: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries . 88 (2008), pp. 813-815 ( online ); Immo Eberl in: The old town. Quarterly magazine for urban history, urban sociology, monument preservation and urban development. 37 (2010) pp. 282-283.
2. ^ Marc von der Höh: culture of remembrance and early commune. Forms and functions of dealing with the past in high medieval Pisa (1050–1150). Berlin 2006, p. 15.
3. ^ Marc von der Höh: culture of remembrance and early commune. Forms and functions of dealing with the past in high medieval Pisa (1050–1150). Berlin 2006, p. 118.
4. ^ Marc von der Höh: culture of remembrance and early commune. Forms and functions of dealing with the past in high medieval Pisa (1050–1150). Berlin 2006, p. 112.
5. ↑ See the review by Florian Hartmann in: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries. 88 (2008), pp. 813–815 ( online )
6. ↑ See the review by Alexander Beihammer in: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung. 126 (2018), pp. 392–394 ( online )