Simon Teuscher

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Simon Teuscher (born April 26, 1967 in Bern ) is a Swiss historian .

Life

Simon Teuscher studied history , Nordic language and literature and philosophy at the Universities of Zurich and Bergen ( Norway ) from 1987 to 1995 . He did his doctorate with Roger Sablonier in Zurich with a thesis on sociability and politics in the city of Bern around 1500. From 1995 to 1999 he worked as a research assistant at the History Department of the University of Zurich . In 2006 he qualified as a professor at the University of Zurich on writing practices in today's Switzerland. In the meantime, Teuscher worked as a lecturer and assistant professor at various universities ( UCLA , University of Lucerne , University of Neuchâtel , École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales , University of Basel ). In 2006 he received a professorship for the history of the Middle Ages at the University of Basel. Teuscher has been a full professor of medieval history at the University of Zurich since March 2007.

His main research interests are the social and cultural history of the European late Middle Ages, the older history of Switzerland, relatives and personal relationships, rural and urban society, rulership, court and administrative culture and perceptions of nature. Teuscher was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study , Princeton (2004/05); Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2013/14) and at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University (2016/17).

Teuscher is responsible for the Ad Fontes e-learning project and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Legal Sources Foundation of the Swiss Lawyers Association .

Fonts (selection)

As an author
  • Acquaintances - clients - relatives. Sociability and politics in the city of Bern around 1500 (= norm and structure, studies on social change in the Middle Ages and early modern times. Vol. 9). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-412-14397-9 .
  • Narrated right. Local rule, writing and tradition formation in the late Middle Ages (= Campus Historical Studies. Vol. 44). Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-593-38494-8 .
    • Translation: Lords' Rights and Peasant Stories. Writing and the Formation of Tradition in the Later Middle Ages (= Middle Ages Series ). Translated by Philip Grace. Penn, Philadelphia 2012, ISBN 978-0-8122-4368-0 .
As editor
  • with Claudia Moddelmog: Königsfelden. Regicide, monastery, clinic. Hier + Jetzt, Baden 2012, ISBN 978-3-03919-259-5 .
  • with Christopher H. Johnson, Bernhard Jussen , David Warren Sabean: Blood and Kinship. Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present. Berghahn, New York / Oxford 2013, ISBN 978-0-85745-749-3 .
  • with Jeannette Rauschert, Thomas Zotz : Habsburg rule on site - worldwide (1300–1600) Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2013, ISBN 978-3-7995-0891-9 .
Essays
  • Icelandic Attitudes towards Animals in the High Middle Ages - a Study of Mentalité in some Sagas of Icelanders , in: Historisk Tidskrift (Oslo) 63, 1990, pp. 311-337.
  • Dogs at the Fürstenhof. Mutts and 'noble wind' as media of social relationships, in: Historische Anthropologie 6, 1998, pp. 347–369.
  • Compilation and Orality. The culture of domination and the use of wisdom in the Zurich area (14-15th centuries), in: Historische Zeitschrift (2001), pp. 261-278.
  • Kinship in Europe: A New Approach to Long-Term Development , in: Kinship in Europe. Approaches to Long-Term Development (1300-1900), Jon Mathieu , David W. Sabean and Simon Teuscher (eds.), New York 2007, pp. 1-32.
  • Politics of Kinship in the City of Bern at the End of the Middle Ages , in: Kinship in Europe. Approaches to Long-Term Development (1300-1900), Jon Mathieu, David W. Sabean and Simon Teuscher (eds.), New York 2007. pp. 76-90.
  • Threats from Above on Request from Below: Dynamics of the Territorial Administration of Berne, 1420-1450 , in: Empowering Interactions. Political Cultures and the Emergence of the State in Europe, 1300–1900, Wim Blockmans, André Holenstein and Jon Mathieu (eds.), Hants 2009, pp. 101–114.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Acquaintances - clients - relatives. (see writings)
  2. Narrated law. (see writings)
  3. Research focus and curriculum vitae by Simon Teuscher , website of the University of Zurich. Retrieved April 15, 2013.