Michael Rothmann

Michael Rothmann (* 1960 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German historian .

Michael Rothmann completed a commercial apprenticeship and studied German, philosophy and history from 1983 to 1989 at the University of Frankfurt am Main . He then worked there from 1990 to 1995 as a research assistant. In 1991 he was awarded the Bethmann Prize of the City of Frankfurt am Main. In 1995 he received his doctorate from Johannes Fried in Frankfurt on the Frankfurt trade fairs in the Middle Ages. From 1995 to 2001 he worked as a research assistant in Frankfurt am Main and in the special research area on knowledge cultures and social change. From 2001 to 2007 Rothmann was a university assistant at the University of Cologne . In 2008 he completed his habilitation on signs and wonders. High medieval paradigms of interpretation between traditional natural knowledge and emerging natural science . In this presentation he examined the mirabilia collection of the English legal scholar Gervasius von Tilbury , who in the early 13th century presented a world history for Emperor Otto IV, an important source of the time to this day. From 2008 to 2011 he was a research assistant at the University of Giessen . Rothmann has been teaching as professor for medieval history at the University of Hanover since the 2011/12 winter semester .

His main research interests are the economic and social history of the late Middle Ages, in particular market organization, accounting as well as monetary and credit transactions, the general history of the city, the history of ideas and ideas of the 12th and 13th centuries, the courtly encyclopedia and research on nobility and feuds of the late Middle Ages. Rothmann published relevant publications on urban communication, commercial and aristocratic forms of economy, the function of courtly reading culture and medieval-early modern cartography. He is a member of the Historical Commission in Frankfurt am Main , a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Comparative Urban History , the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen and the Historical Association for Lower Saxony .

Fonts

Monographs

• The Frankfurt trade fairs in the Middle Ages (= Frankfurt historical treatises. Volume 40). Steiner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-06883-X (also: Frankfurt (Main), University, dissertation, 1995).

Editorships

• together with Gabriele Annas and Petra Schulte : Justice in the Social Discourse of the Later Middle Ages (= Journal for Historical Research. Supplement 47). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2012, ISBN 3-428-13706-X .

Web links

• Researcher profile of Michael Rothmann at Clio-online
• Publications by Michael Rothmann in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
• Page from Rothmann at the University of Hanover
• Michael Rothmann's website at the Friedrich Christian Lesser Foundation

Remarks

1. ↑ See the discussions by Klaus Militzer in: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter 63 (1999), pp. 374–376 ( online ); Henri Dubois in: Francia 28/1 (2001), pp. 382-387 ( online ); Kurt Wesoly in: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine. 149 (2001), pp. 620-621.