Peter Dinzelbacher

Peter Dinzelbacher (born July 14, 1948 in Linz ) is an Austrian historian who researches the European Middle Ages ( Medievalist ).

Life and scientific work

After graduating from high school , he studied history , art history , philosophy , folklore and classical philology at the universities of Graz and Vienna . In 1973 he received his doctorate at the University of Vienna with the thesis The Jenseitsbrücke in the Middle Ages , in 1978 he completed his habilitation in ancient and medieval history at the University of Stuttgart . In 1985 he was appointed adjunct professor there. This was followed by teaching activities in Germany, France, Austria, Italy, the USA and Denmark, at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the universities of Vienna, Augsburg , Hanover , Bergamo , Florence , Trento , Trieste , Salzburg , Innsbruck , Klagenfurt and Esbjerg as well as membership in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1999/2000 . From 1988 to 2011 Dinzelbacher was editor of the Mediaevistik magazine , which he also founded. Since 1998 he has been honorary professor for social and mental history at the University of Vienna .

Peter Dinzelbacher's research focuses on mentality and the history of mentality , mysticism and religiosity , vision literature , women's history, the history of sexuality and the cultural and social history of the Middle Ages . In addition to his monographs , which have been translated into ten languages , he has written more than 400 essays and articles and edited several compilations .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Vision and vision literature in the Middle Ages. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1981; 2nd, revised and significantly expanded edition there 2017 (= monographs on the history of the Middle Ages. Volume 64)
• Structures and Origins of the Twelfth-Century 'Renaissance' (Monographs on the History of the Middle Ages 63). Hiersemann, Stuttgart 2017
• Doomsday fantasies and their function in European history . Alibri, Aschaffenburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86569-175-0 .
• Heads and masks. Symbolic building sculpture on medieval churches . Pustet, Salzburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7025-0741-1 .
• German and Dutch Mysticism of the Middle Ages: A Study Book . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-022137-4 .
• Life worlds of the Middle Ages, 1000–1500 . Scientific publishing house Bachmann, Badenweiler 2010.
• Why is the king crying? A Critique of Medieval Pan-Ritualism . Scientific publishing house Bachmann, Badenweiler 2009.
• Unbelief in the Age of Faith. Atheism and Skepticism in the Middle Ages . Scientific publishing house Bachmann, Badenweiler 2009.
• The stony gaze: Romanesque symbol heads (together with Ralph Frenken). German Wiss.-Verlag, Baden-Baden 2008.
• Europe in late antiquity: 300–600; a history of culture and mentality . Primus, Darmstadt 2007.
• Body and piety in the medieval history of mentality . Schöningh, Paderborn 2007.
• The foreign Middle Ages. Judgment of God and Animal Trial Magnus, Essen 2006
• Mentality and Religiousness of the Middle Ages Klagenfurt 2003.
• Europe in the High Middle Ages 1050–1250. A history of culture and mentality . Primus, Darmstadt 2003.
• Handbook of the history of religion in the German-speaking area II: High and late Middle Ages . Schöningh, Paderborn 2000.
• The Templars. An order shrouded in mystery? Herder, Freiburg 2002.
• Heaven, hell, saints. Visions and Art in the Middle Ages . Primus, Darmstadt 2002.
• Saints or witches? Fates of conspicuous women in the Middle Ages and early modern times . 3rd edition Rowohlt, Reinbek 2001.
• The last things. Heaven, Hell, Purgatory in the Middle Ages . Herder, Freiburg 1999.
• Bernhard of Clairvaux . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1998.
• Fear in the middle ages. Devil, Death and God Experience: Mental History and Iconography . Schöningh, Paderborn 1996.
• Christian mysticism in the west. Your story from the beginning to the end of the Middle Ages . Schöningh, Paderborn 1994.
• On the threshold of the afterlife. Death visions in an intercultural comparison . Herder, Freiburg 1989.
• Medieval vision literature. An anthology . Darmstadt 1989.
• Vision and vision literature in the Middle Ages (monographs on the history of the Middle Ages 23). Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1981.
• Juda traditions (Raabser fairy tale series 2). Austrian Museum of Folklore, Vienna 1977.
• The Beyond Bridge in the Middle Ages (dissertations from the University of Vienna 104). Association of Austrian Scientific Societies, Vienna 1973.

Collections of articles

• From the world through hell to paradise - the medieval afterlife . Schöningh, Paderborn 2007.
• Medieval woman mysticism . Schöningh, Paderborn 1993.

Translations from Latin

• Letters from the Ostrogoth King: Theodoric the Great and his successors. From the "Variae" of Cassiodorus . Mattes, Heidelberg 2010.
• Elisabeth von Schönau, works . Introduced, commented on and translated by Peter Dinzelbacher, Schöningh, Paderborn 2006.

Editorships

• Folk culture of the European late Middle Ages. (With Hans Dieter Mück ). Kröner, Stuttgart 1987.
• Religious women's movement and mystical piety in the Middle Ages (together with Dieter Bauer). Böhlau, Cologne 1988.
• Popular religion in the high and late Middle Ages (together with Dieter Bauer). Schöningh, Paderborn 1990.
• Adoration of saints in the past and present (together with Dieter Bauer). Schwabenverlag, Ostfildern 1990.
• Dictionary of Mysticism (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 456). 2nd, supplemented edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-520-45602-8 .
• The middle age. Our "foreign" past (together with Harald Kleinschmidt, Joachim Kuolt). Fay, Stuttgart 1990.
• Non-fiction dictionary of medieval studies (= Kröner's pocket edition. Volume 477). Kröner, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-520-47701-7 .
• with Winfried Becker : The churches in German history. From the Christianization of the Teutons to the present (= Kröner's pocket edition. Volume 439). Kröner, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-520-43901-8 .
• together with James Lester Hogg : Cultural history of the Christian orders in individual representations (= Kröner's pocket edition. Volume 450). Kröner, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-520-45001-1 .
• People and animals in the history of Europe (= Kröner's pocket edition. Volume 342). Kröner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-520-34201-4 .
• European history of mentality. Main themes in individual representations (= Kröner's pocket edition. Volume 469). 2nd, revised and supplemented edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-520-46902-1 .
• Mysticism and nature . de Gruyter, Berlin 2009.
• Animals as friends in the Middle Ages. An anthology (together with G. Kompatscher and A. Classen). Bachmann, Badenweiler 2010.
• Change processes in the history of mentality (together with Friedrich Harrer). DWV, Baden-Baden 2015.

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Dinzelbacher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Detailed list of publications (PDF; 128 kB)
• Reviews at Perlentaucher

Remarks

1. ↑ See Dieter Kremers : Review. In: German Dante Yearbook. Volume 64, 1989, pp. 173-178.