Mikhail Anatolyevich Boizov

Michail Anatoljewitsch Boizow ( Russian Михаил Анатольевич Бойцов , scientific transliteration Michail A. Bojcov ; * 1961 in Moscow ) is a Russian historian .

Michail Boizow studied from 1978 to 1983 at the Lomonossow University in Moscow and from 1982 to 1983 at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1986 he received his doctorate in Moscow with a thesis on imperial assemblies in Germany in the second half of the 14th century. From 1991 to 1993 he was a scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service . From 1991 to 2011 Boizow was a research assistant and lecturer at the Chair of Medieval History at Lomonossow University. His habilitation on political ceremonies in the Holy Roman Empire in the 14th to the early 16th century took place in 2011. Since 2011 he has been a professor at the Faculty of History at the National Research University “University of Economics” . Boizow has been the head of the Center for Medieval Research since 2012. Boizow held visiting professorships in June 2000 at the University of Bern , in July 2003 at the University of Wales , in September 2005 at the University of Augsburg , and in the summer semester 2008 at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In December 2010 and May 2012 he was a visiting researcher at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Boizow submitted more than 190 publications. His research interests are political symbolism in the European Middle Ages and late medieval princely courts. In 2002 and 2003 he organized German-Russian colloquia with Otto Gerhard Oexle in Göttingen and Moscow on the images of power in the Middle Ages and modern times. It was about the function of imaginary and real images in the representation of power. In October 2011 he and Gerd Althoff hosted the conference on the international culture of state gifts ( The language of gifts. The rules of symbolic communication in Europe 1100–1700 ). The focus was on the cultural practices of giving and exchanging gifts from the 12th to 17th centuries from a comparative perspective. From 2002 to 2006, Boizow was a member of the international board of trustees of the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen. Since 2009 he has been a member of the scientific advisory board of the journal for historical research . Since 2012 he has been a corresponding member of the Central Management of Monumenta Germaniae Historica .

Fonts

• as editor with Otto Gerhard Oexle : Images of Power in the Middle Ages and Modern Times. Byzantium - Occident - Russia (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 226). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-35878-8 .

Web links

• Publications by Michail A. Bojcov in the Opac der Regesta Imperii
• Page of Bojcov at the Higher School of Economics (HSE)
• The curriculum vitae and list of writings of Michail A. Bojcov