Stefan Esders (historian)

Stefan Esders (born January 14, 1963 in Hildesheim ) is a German ancient historian and medievalist .

Stefan Esders studied history and Latin philology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the University of Oxford . By Fergus Millar Esders became the study of the Roman legal history stimulated. In 1990 he passed the first state examination. From 1991 to 1993 Esders was a scholarship holder of the graduate school “Relating to the Past in Ancient Presents”. At the same time he was a lecturer in Freiburg, where he spoke to ancient historian Jochen Martin in the summer of 1993 on the subject of Roman legal tradition and Merovingian royalty. To the legal character of political rule in Burgundy in the 6th and 7th century was doctorate. From 1994 to 1995, he worked as a post-doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen and at the Graduate College “Writing Culture and Society in the Middle Ages (Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies)” in Münster . He then became a research assistant to Hanna Vollrath at the chair for the history of the early Middle Ages at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum from 1996 to 2000 , then until 2006 as a teacher in the University Service for Ancient and Medieval History. The habilitation on the subject of Sacramentum fidelitatis. Loyalty oath, military organization and formation of mediaeval statehood took place in 2003 for mediaeval history and historical auxiliary sciences . Since 2007 Esders has been Professor of the History of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the Free University of Berlin . Esders has been a member of the Constance Working Group for Medieval History since 2014 .

Stefan Esders' research focuses on topics such as continuity, change and acculturation in the transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages, statehood, law and military affairs in Rome, Byzantium and the early medieval west, border areas of ancient and medieval empires as places of ethnic formation, Latin and vernacular in the Early and High Middle Ages, religion as a factor in establishing political identity from late antiquity to the high Middle Ages and feudal society and family structures in medieval Europe. Esders is working with Philippe Depreux , Steffen Patzold and Karl Ubl on an edition of the Carolingian capitularies after 814.

Fonts

Monographs

• Roman legal tradition and Merovingian royalty. On the legal character of political rule in Burgundy in the 6th and 7th centuries (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 134). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1997, ISBN 3-525-35449-5 (partly at the same time: Freiburg (Breisgau), university, dissertation, 1993).
• with Heike Johanna Mierau : The old high German clergy oath. Episcopal diocesan authority, church charities and vernacular legal practice in early medieval Bavaria (= Monumenta Germaniae Historica . Studies and Texts. Vol. 28), Hahn, Hanover 2000, ISBN 3-7752-5728-4 .

Editorships

• with Thomas Scharff : Oath and search for truth. Studies on legal survey practices in the Middle Ages and early modern times (= society, culture and writing. Medieval articles. Vol. 7). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1999, ISBN 3-631-34429-5 .
• with Christine Reinle : Legal change in the political and social context of medieval legal diversity (= New Aspects of European Medieval Research . Vol. 5). Lit, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-8258-8541-0 .
• Understanding of law and conflict management. Judicial and extrajudicial strategies in the Middle Ages. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-20046-6 .
• with Philippe Depreux : La productivité d'une crise / productivity of a crisis. Le règne de Louis le Pieux (814–840) et la transformation de l'Empire Carolingien / The reign of Louis the Pious (814–840) and the transformation of the Carolingian empire (= Relectio. Carolingian Perspectives. Vol. 1). Sigmaringen, Thorbecke 2018, ISBN 978-3-7995-2802-3 .

literature

• Ernst Baltrusch : History of Ancient History at the Free University. In: Karol Kubicki, Siegward Lönnendonker (ed.): The historical sciences at the Free University of Berlin (= contributions to the history of science of the Free University of Berlin. Vol. 2). V & R unipress, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89971-475-3 , pp. 11–40, here: pp. 23 and 33.

Web links

• Literature by and about Stefan Esders in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Stefan Esders on Academia.edu
• Publications by Stefan Esders in the Opac der Regesta Imperii
• Page from Stefan Esders at the FU Berlin