Martina Stercken

Martina Stercken is a German-Swiss historian .

Martina Stercken studied history, art history and philosophy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn from 1975 to 1981 and in the summer semester 1977 at the University of Innsbruck . The Magister Artium followed in 1981 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. From 1981 to 1982 she completed a traineeship at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn / Regionalmuseum Xanten . From 1982 to 1984 she was a research assistant at the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland. In the winter semester 1987/88 she did her doctorate with Georg Droege . From 1998 to 2001 she was senior assistant at the History Department at the University of Zurich. In the 2002/03 winter semester, she completed her habilitation at the University of Zurich . Since 2009 she has been teaching there as a professor of medieval history and comparative national history. She was visiting professor at the universities of Lucerne (winter semester 2006/07), Münster (summer semester 2009), Kassel (winter semester 2008/09) and Konstanz (winter semester 2011/12). From April to July 2019 she was a fellow at the Max Weber College in Erfurt.

Her main research interests are urban history, rule practice, cartography and mediality, i.e. the relationship between text and image. In her dissertation, she dealt with a comparative evaluation of the Rhine-Maasland rural peace of the 14th century. It was able to show that the king largely withdrew from the territorial peace and that the peace had a share in the consolidation of sovereignty. For Stercken, the rural peace between the Meuse and the Rhine, which is often characterized as “personal peace”, shows “tendencies towards the territorialization of peace, an identity of state and public peace that will appear in the future”. In several articles she dealt with the practice of rule and the cities of the Habsburgs in the 13th and 14th centuries. Her habilitation was devoted to researching the small towns in the Habsburg-dominated area in what is now northeastern Switzerland in the late 13th and 14th centuries.

Fonts

Monographs

with Michel Pauly : Urban development in premodern Europe. Observations on continuities and breaks (= Medieval Perspectives. Vol. 8). Chronos, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-0340-1549-3 .
Cities of domination. Small town genesis in the Habsburg dominion of the 13th and 14th centuries (= urban research. Series A. Vol. 68). Böhlau, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-412-13005-2 .
Royalty and territorial powers in the Rhine-Maasland rural peace of the 14th century (= Rheinisches Archiv. Vol. 124). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1989, ISBN 3-412-00289-5 .

Editorships

with Ute Schneider: Urbanity. Forms of presentation in texts, maps, images. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2016, ISBN 3-412-22272-0 .
with Bruno Fritzsche, Hans-Jörg Gilomen: Urban planning - planned cities. Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2006, ISBN 978-3-0340-0762-7 .

Web links

Literature by and about Martina Stercken in the catalog of the German National Library
Publications by Martina Stercken in the Opac der Regesta Imperii
Page from Stercken at the University of Zurich

Remarks

↑ See the discussion by Ernst-Dieter Hehl in: German Archives for Research into the Middle Ages . 47 (1991), p. 320 ( online ); Ludger Tewes in: Historische Zeitschrift 255 (1992), pp. 183-184.
^ Martina Stercken: Kingship and territorial powers in the Rhine-Maasland rural peace of the 14th century. Cologne et al. 1989, p. 170.
↑ Martina Stercken: Forms of stately presence. The Habsburgs in their cities in what is now Switzerland. In: Simon Teuscher, Thomas Zotz , Jeannette Rauschert (eds.): Habsburg rule on site - worldwide (1300–1600). Zurich 2013, pp. 149–168; This: Shaping rule. The beginnings of the Habsburgs. In: Bernd Schneidmüller (Ed.): King Rudolf I and the medieval rise of the House of Habsburg. Darmstadt 2019, pp. 57-82; This: saeldenrîche frowen and gschwind cunning wib. Female Habsburg presence in the south-west of the empire. In: Claudia Zey (Ed.): Mighty women? Queens and princesses in the European Middle Ages (11th – 14th centuries). Ostfildern 2015, pp. 337–364 ( online ).
↑ See the reviews of Hannes Steiner in: German Archives for Research into the Middle Ages. 64 (2008), pp. 324-326 ( online ); Arno Buschmann in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, German Department 126 (2009), pp. 504–506; Michel Pauly in: Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire 85 (2007), pp. 961–962; Andreas Bihrer in: Journal for Historical Research 35 (2008), pp. 94–96.

personal data
SURNAME	Stercken, Martina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century

[1] See the discussion by Ernst-Dieter Hehl in: German Archives for Research into the Middle Ages . 47 (1991), p. 320 ( online ); Ludger Tewes in: Historische Zeitschrift 255 (1992), pp. 183-184.

[2] Martina Stercken: Kingship and territorial powers in the Rhine-Maasland rural peace of the 14th century. Cologne et al. 1989, p. 170.

[3] Martina Stercken: Forms of stately presence. The Habsburgs in their cities in what is now Switzerland. In: Simon Teuscher, Thomas Zotz , Jeannette Rauschert (eds.): Habsburg rule on site - worldwide (1300–1600). Zurich 2013, pp. 149–168; This: Shaping rule. The beginnings of the Habsburgs. In: Bernd Schneidmüller (Ed.): King Rudolf I and the medieval rise of the House of Habsburg. Darmstadt 2019, pp. 57-82; This: saeldenrîche frowen and gschwind cunning wib. Female Habsburg presence in the south-west of the empire. In: Claudia Zey (Ed.): Mighty women? Queens and princesses in the European Middle Ages (11th – 14th centuries). Ostfildern 2015, pp. 337–364 ( online ).

[4] See the reviews of Hannes Steiner in: German Archives for Research into the Middle Ages. 64 (2008), pp. 324-326 ( online ); Arno Buschmann in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, German Department 126 (2009), pp. 504–506; Michel Pauly in: Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire 85 (2007), pp. 961–962; Andreas Bihrer in: Journal for Historical Research 35 (2008), pp. 94–96.