Rainer Leng

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Rainer Leng doing research in the Bad Neustadt an der Saale city archive

Rainer Leng (born May 8, 1966 in Weißenburg in Bavaria ) is a German medieval historian . He taught at the University of Stuttgart and is currently professor at the Institute for History at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg .

Life

Leng completed after high school in 1985 at the Werner-von-Siemens-Gymnasium Weissenburg his community service at Anthony's orphanage Gersdorf and Caritas Altenheim White Castle. From 1987 to 1993 he studied history, German and social studies as well as classical philology at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg (as a guest student). In 1993 he obtained his Magister Artium from Rolf Sprandel in Medieval History in Würzburg. He then became a research assistant and received a state graduate scholarship. In 1996 he was in medieval history with a dissertation Conrad of Halberstadt OP Chronographia Interminata 1277 to 1355/59 Dr. phil. doctorate ( summa cum laude ). In 2000 he completed his habilitation with the two-volume work War-technical and tactical picture manuscripts and tracts in the 15th and 16th centuries in Würzburg; the work was awarded the Werner Hahlweg Prize for Military History and Defense Sciences , awarded in 2002 at the German Historians ' Day in Halle (Saale).

Since 2000 he has been teaching as a private lecturer in medieval history and since 2008 as an adjunct professor at the Institute for History at the University of Würzburg. In 2001 and 2002 he was a deputy chair for Middle Ages I and II. In addition, he was a research assistant in several research projects, including at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (2003, 2006), the Würzburg City Archives (2004) and the former Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen (from 2006 to 2009). From 2007 to 2009 and from 2011 to 2014 he was a substitute professor for Middle History at the Historical Institute of the University of Stuttgart .

In 2010 he completed his business studies at the ATV Training Networking Training in Munich and in November 2010 became managing director of Studiora UG, which offers seminars in history, art history and philosophy.

Act

Leng's research focuses on medieval history. He published works mainly on the craft of war , especially gunsmithing . From November 2002 to February 2003 he edited and transcribed the " Frammersbacher Sechserbuch " (village court, district system and written form of a Spessart community at the turn of the Middle Ages to modern times) as a collaborator in the Archaeological Spessart Project , from which a book was created by 2017.

Together with Mathias Herweg, he had a replica made of sterling silver struck from the original of a denarius of Charlemagne from the coin reform in the Franconian Empire in 794 using medieval technology to illustrate early medieval history (see also: Gold coin Charlemagne ).

Since 2014 he has been working on the creation of the history-oriented Massive Open Online Course .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Konrad von Halberstadt OP, Chronographia interminata. 1277-1355 / 59. Dissertation . (= Knowledge literature in the Middle Ages. Volume 23). Reichert, Wiesbaden 1996, ISBN 3-88226-876-X .
  • with Gundolf Keil , Eberhard König and Karl-Heinz Ludwig: The Medieval House Book . Edited by Christoph Graf zu Waldburg Wolfegg. 2 volumes, Prestel 1997, ISBN 3-7913-1838-1 .
  • Ars belli. German tactical and war-technical illuminated manuscripts and treatises in the 15th and 16th centuries. (= Imagines medii aevi. Volume 12). Reichert, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-89500-261-5 .
  • Franz Helm and his "Book of the Tried Arts". A handwritten gunsmith's book in the early printing period (= Imagines medii aevi. Volume 9). Reichert, Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-89500-223-2 .
  • Catalog of the German-language illustrated manuscripts of the Middle Ages . Volume 4/2, volume 1/2: 38: Fencing and ring binders . Edited by Ulrike Bodemann, Peter Schmidt, Christine Stöllinger-Löser. Publishing house of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in commission from Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7696-0937-0 .
  • Würzburg in the 12th century (= The Bavarian Millennium, Bavarian Television ). 2 volumes. Volk, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86222-065-6 .
  • Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn, Prince-Bishop of Würzburg . Edited by the Mainfränkisches Museum . Würzburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-932461-35-4 .

Editorships

  • Instructions for preparing gunpowder, loading and shooting rifles - a war-technical illuminated manuscript (= Imagines medii aevi. Volume 5). Reichert, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-89500-161-9 .
  • The history of the city of Heidingsfeld. From the beginning to the present. Schnell and Steiner, 2005, ISBN 3-7954-1629-9 .
  • The Benedictine monastery of St. Stephan in Würzburg (= historical studies of the University of Würzburg. Volume 4). VML Verlag Marie Leidorf, Rahden 2006, ISBN 3-89646-836-7 .
  • with Hans-Peter Baum , Joachim Schneider: Economy - Society - Mentalities in the Middle Ages. Festschrift for the 75th birthday of Rolf Sprandel (= contributions to economic and social history. No. 107). Steiner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-515-08882-2 .
  • with Joachim Bahlcke and Peter Scholz : Migration as a social challenge. Historical forms of solidarity from antiquity to the 20th century (= Stuttgart contributions to historical migration research. Volume 8). Steiner, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-515-10087-8 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Excellent work on medieval war books". idw, February 13, 2002.
  2. The book of six on the page of the Archaeological Spessart Project
  3. ^ Rainer Leng: Borders, stones, hexes. The village legal practice as reflected in the Frammersbacher Six Book . Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-8260-6160-8 .
  4. ^ "Denarius of Charlemagne (768–814)". ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. University of Würzburg @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.phil1.uni-wuerzburg.de
  5. ^ Rainer Leng: Charlemagne - Father Europae? ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (MOOC / online course). In: H-Soz-u-Kult . 4th June 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de