Reinhold Kaiser

Reinhold Kaiser (born January 5, 1943 in Wuppertal ) is a German historian of medieval history .

Reinhold Kaiser studied Romance studies and history at the universities of Cologne , Dijon , Poitiers and Bonn from 1962 to 1968 . In 1971 he received his doctorate with Eugen Ewig in Bonn with the work Civitas and Diocese Soissons in Roman and Merovingian times . From 1968 to 1974 Kaiser was a lecturer at the University of Paris X and as an assistant in medieval history at the University of Lille III . In 1978 he received his habilitation with a thesis on episcopal rule between kingship and prince power . Kaiser held a professorship at the University of Essen from 1981 to 1990 . From 1990 he taught early medieval history at the University of Zurich as a professor until his retirement in 2006 , and from 1997 as a full professor. In 2011 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Nancy 2.

Fonts

• Guibert von Nogent, Monodiae - 'individual songs'. Confessions and memoirs of an abbot from northern France , 2 part volumes (= Fontes Christiani. Vol. 77/1 and 77/2). Introduced, translated and edited by Reinhold Kaiser and Anne Liebe. Herder, Freiburg et al. 2019, ISBN 978-3-451-32929-6 .
• The Mediterranean world and Europe in late antiquity and early Middle Ages (= Neue Fischer Weltgeschichte . Vol. 3). S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-10-010823-4 .
• with Sebastian Scholz : Sources on the history of the Franks and the Merovingians. From the 3rd century to 751. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-17-022008-9 .
• The Burgundy (= Kohlhammer Urban pocket books. Vol. 586). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-17-016205-5 .
• with Marie-Thérèse Kaiser-Guyot: Drunkenness and violence in the Middle Ages. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2002, ISBN 3-412-02502-X .
• Churretia in the early Middle Ages. Late 5th to mid 10th century. Published by the Institute for Cultural Research Graubünden , Chur, in conjunction with the South Tyrolean Cultural Institute , Bozen. Schwabe, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7965-1064-7 (2nd, revised and expanded edition. Schwabe, Basel 2008, ISBN 978-3-7965-1064-9 ).
• The Franks: Rome's heirs and pioneers in Europe? (= Historical seminar. NF vol. 10). Schulz-Kirchner, Idstein 1997, ISBN 3-8248-0030-6 .
• with Marie-Thérèse Kaiser-Guyot: Documentation numismatique de la France médiévale. Collections de monnaies et sources de lʾhistoire monétaire (= Documentations et recherches. ). Saur, Munich et al. 1982, ISBN 3-598-10330-1 .
• Episcopal rule between kingship and princely power. Studies on episcopal city rule in the West Franconian-French Empire in the early and high Middle Ages (= Paris historical studies. Vol. 17). Röhrscheid, Bonn 1981, ISBN 3-7928-0424-7 (at the same time: Bonn, University, habilitation paper, 1978/1979).
• Studies of the history of the civitas and diocese of Soissons in Roman and Merovingian times (= Rheinisches Archiv. Vol. 89). Röhrscheid, Bonn 1973, ISBN 3-7928-0347-X (Partly at the same time: Bonn, University, dissertation, 1971).
• The Roman heritage and the Merovingian Empire (= Encyclopedia of German History . Vol. 26). Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55783-1 (several editions).

Web links

• Literature by and about Reinhold Kaiser in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Reinhold Kaiser at the University of Zurich