Miriam Czock
Miriam Czock (born September 23, 1976 in Schwelm ; † March 6, 2020 in Essen ) was a German mediaevalist .
Life
Miriam Czock studied philosophy, history, German and English from 1996 to 2003 at the Ruhr University Bochum and at Trinity College Dublin . After completing her master's degree in 2003, she was a lecturer at the FernUniversität in Hagen , the Ruhr University Bochum, the TU Dortmund and the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf . In 2009 she completed her doctorate at the Ruhr University in Bochum with a dissertation on the subject of Domus dei domus orationis debet esse, non spelunca latronum. The church as a sacred space in the early Middle Ages , which in 2012 was titled God's House. Studies on the church as a sacred space from late antiquity to the early Middle Ages was published.
From 2009 to 2010 she was a research assistant with Stefan Esders at the Friedrich Meineke Institute of the Free University of Berlin . From 2010 to 2011 she was a fellow of the DFG- funded project Space and Politics. Perception and practice in the Franconian Empire and in its successor realms from the 9th to the 11th centuries under the direction of Geneviève Bührer-Thierry and Steffen Patzold ( University of Tübingen ). In 2011 she took a position as an academic counselor at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Amalie Fößel . From 2012 to 2017 she headed the DFG funding project ZeitenWelten with Anja Rathmann-Lutz . To the entanglement of world interpretation and time perception in the early and high Middle Ages . From October 2018 to September 2019 she was a visiting fellow at the International Center for Research in the Humanities .
Czock died on March 6, 2020.
Research priorities
Her research interests and priorities included secular and ecclesiastical law and the legal practices of the early Middle Ages, ideas of holiness , the functioning of early medieval local societies, and the premodern perception of space and time . She was particularly interested in the emergence of a Christian concept of society based on intellectual models of space and time in early and high medieval Europe.
Fonts
- God's house. Investigations into the church as a sacred space from late antiquity to the early Middle Ages. de Gruyter, Berlin 2012.
- together with Anja Rathmann-Lutz (ed.): ZeitenWelten. On the entanglement of the world interpretation and time perception, 750-1350. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne et al. 2016. ISBN 9783412506650 .
- together with Bernhard Zeller, Charles West, Francesca Tinti, Marco Stoffella, Nicolas Schroeder, Carine van Rhijn, Steffen Patzold, Thomas Kohl, Wendy Davies: Neighbors and strangers. Local societies in early medieval Europe. Manchester medieval studies. Manchester University Press, Manchester 2020.
- together with Andreas Bihrer, Uta Kleine: The value of the sacred. Spiritual, material and economic entanglements. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2020.
Web links
- Publications by Miriam Czock in the Opac der Regesta Imperii
- Page from Czock at the University of Duisburg-Essen
- Czock's page on Academia.edu
- Obituary for Miriam Czock on the Middle Ages. Interdisciplinary research and reception history
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituaries , accessed on May 14, 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Czock, Miriam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medievalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 23rd September 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwelm |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 6, 2020 |
| Place of death | eat |