Steffen Patzold

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Steffen Patzold (born September 1, 1972 in Hanover ) is a German historian who researches the history of the early and high Middle Ages . Patzold has been teaching as professor for medieval history and historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Tübingen since 2007 .

Life

Steffen Patzold was born as the second child of a doctor. After graduating from Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Braunschweig in 1991, Patzold wanted to become a journalist. From 1991 to 1996 he studied history, art history and journalism at the University of Hamburg . He completed his master ’s examination with Hans-Werner Goetz with a thesis on conflicts in the early medieval monastery using the example of St. Gallen and Fulda . At Goetz he received his doctorate in 1999 with a dissertation on conflicts in the monastery in the realm of the Ottonians and Salians . From 2000 to 2006 he occupied the position as Goetz 'assistant.

In 2006, again at the University of Hamburg, he completed his habilitation based on the work Episcopus. Studies on the knowledge of bishops in the Franconian Empire in the 9th and early 10th centuries . In 2007 he moved to the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main as a research assistant ; In the summer semester of the same year, he held a substitute professorship for medieval history at the University of Kassel , before he succeeded Wilfried Hartmann at the University of Tübingen in the winter semester 2007/08 , where he has been teaching as a W3 professor for medieval history and historical auxiliary sciences since then . In January 2009 he gave his inaugural lecture on unity and division in Tübingen . A figure of thought from the Carolingian era . In 2010, Patzold turned down an appointment to the University of Münster to succeed Gerd Althoff , as did the call to Bern as the successor to Rainer Christoph Schwinges in early 2008 . Patzold was Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy from the 2010/2011 winter semester to the 2016 summer semester.

He is a member of the Constance Working Group for Medieval History and has been a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences since 2012 .

Research priorities

Patzold's research interests are the history of the early and high Middle Ages, the political and church history of the Carolingian era , the history of monasticism and the patterns of perception and interpretation of the Middle Ages.

In his Hamburg dissertation, he used five case studies for conflicts between the abbot and the convent (63–189) and three case studies for conflicts among conventuals (190–216) to examine the conflicts within the monastery in Ottonian - Early Salian times. In doing so, Patzold opened up a previously neglected topic. Patzold concludes for his investigation that his contemporaries looked for the causes almost exclusively in the character traits of the opponents. The structural causes of the conflicts, however, lay in the close links between the monastery and the outside world. In his dissertation, he tried out Gerd Althoff's conflict resolution model from the secular area on inner-monastic conflicts. According to this model, the losing opponent had to submit to the winner unconditionally. In the run-up to this, mediators agreed to pardon the loser. According to Althoff, this submission was a ritual . Submission made the reconciliation obvious and gave the victor the opportunity to treat the loser graciously. As a result, Patzold also found that Althoff's conflict resolution model only applies to inner-monastic conflicts with restrictions. Monks and abbots tried to end their disputes with mediators, but they also used numerous other means and methods. Using the Gesta episcoporum Cameracensium , the Gesta abbatum Lobiensium of Abbot Folkuin von Laubach and the Gesta episcoporum Leodiensium of Anselm von Lüttich, Patzold examined the conduct of the conflict in Lower Lorraine at the time of the Ottonians and early Salians. He noted "a remarkably diverse conflict settlement of the Ottonian period". The sources reveal various methods of conflict resolution and resolution.

In his habilitation he deals with the question of knowledge about the power of the bishops in the Franconian Empire of the 9th and early 10th centuries. Patzold does not understand power to mean the individual bishop or his skills, which have been conferred on the bishop through his office, but rather the "knowledge of those who lived around that the bishop is entitled or capable of certain actions". Patzold proceeds methodically in two steps. Using the various types of sources, he wants to describe what the various social groups in the kingdom actually knew about the abilities of bishops and, secondly, he analyzes the process in which this knowledge arose, that is, "was brought about, passed on, confirmed or changed". Patzold identified the 820s as a decisive phase of change. During this time a new model of bishops was conceived. As important texts, he refers to the Ordinatio of Ludwig the Pious (823/25) and the acts of synods in the 820s. The model formulated there (“Paris model”) of the coexistence of the episcopate and the king had consolidated over several years “in certain social groups and in certain regions of the empire to a new knowledge about bishops, emperors and people”. He proves that the so-called “Parisian model” only found itself increasingly in rituals as well as in texts in a period up to 843. In doing so, he refutes the previous research opinion that the reforms of 823/825 and 829 had no effect. With regard to the debate about the imperial church, he emphasizes that a bishop model already existed under Ludwig the Pious in the 820s, which attributed the leadership of Christianity to the episcopate together with the emperor.

Patzold contradicted the popular assumption of a cultural decline in the Fulda monastery in the late 9th and early 10th centuries. Instead, he refers to the creation of an abbot catalog and a martyrology , to evidence of the continued use of the library and the operation of the scriptorium in the decades around 900. Patzold is working with Philippe Depreux , Karl Ubl and Stefan Esders on the new edition of the Carolingian capitularies for the Monumenta Germaniae Historica . Unlike previous research, Patzold does not understand capitularies simply as rulers' decrees or as a specific genre of royal legal texts, but sees them as remnants of politics at the Frankish imperial assemblies and the communication between rulers and elites.

In May 2010, the international conference "Kinship, Name and Social Order (300–1000)" took place in Tübingen as part of the Nomen et Gens research network . The aim was to “work out a prosopography of the continental European gentes from the 4th to the 8th centuries”. The conference proceedings were edited by Patzold with Karl Ubl in 2015. In 2012, Patzold presented an overview of the feudal system . He presents the classic model developed in the 19th century in order to counter the criticism of more recent research.

In 2013 Patzold published a detailed portrait of Einhard , who was one of the most important advisers at the court of Charlemagne and his successor Ludwig the Pious . According to Patzold, Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni was written in the spring of 829 in Mulinheim ( Seligenstadt ) and was not written as a criticism of Ludwig the Pious, but pursued the intention to shine in front of his own court society with a literary bravura and at the same time to initiate voluntary retreat as a scholar. As a widely respected scholar, Einhard would like to be heard on existential questions far away from the everyday competition at court. Einhard received the suggestion for this decision from studying the prefaces in the Tusculans from Cicero . Patzold had previously advocated this thesis in an article published in 2011.

In 2013, together with Klaus Ridder, Patzold was co-editor of an anthology that summarized the results of the conference “The Topicality of Pre-Modernism. Epoch designs and European identities ”from the Tübingen Center“ Pre-Modern Europe ”from 2010. The aim of the volume is to put “the benefits and costs, opportunities and risks of the current remeasurement of space and time in the cultural and human sciences” up for discussion. In addition to the introduction, the volume includes 14 articles.

The 1500th anniversary of the death of Clovis was the occasion for a scientific conference held by Patzold, Mischa Meier and Dieter R. Bauer . Organization of reign around 500 , which took place from September 30 to October 2, 2011 in Weingarten . The volume comprises 20 articles and was published in 2014. Together with Depreux, Patzold held the international conference “Politics and Assembly in the Early Middle Ages” in Aachen in September 2014. In 2015, Patzold organized a spring meeting of the Constance working group on the island of Reichenau on the subject of "Small Worlds: Rural Societies in the Carolingian Empire". In 2019, Patzold published the contributions in an anthology with Thomas Kohl and Bernhard Zeller.

Patzold dealt repeatedly with the pseudoisidorical forgeries . According to Patzold, the reason for the forgery was not the dismissal of Archbishop Ebos of Reims in 835, but the banishment of Bishop Jesse of Amiens four years earlier. In 2015, Patzold published an investigation into the pseudo-idoric decretals. Research has long taken the view that the C-class of pseudoisidoric decretals emerged in the 11th or even the 12th century. In his investigation, however, Patzold argues that this version was also created in the 9th century. He sets the date of origin "at the earliest in the 840s, but maybe also not until the 850s". For a possible new edition, this would have the consequence that no “original text” can be reconstructed, since several versions are equally important.

The DFG- funded Collaborative Research Center 923 “Threatened Orders” began work in the summer of 2011 and is in its second funding phase (2015–2019). The opening conference took place in 2012. Patzold used the uprising of Heinrich V against his father Heinrich IV as a case study in order to further develop medieval conflict research by analyzing the conflicts in 1105/06 as a sign of threatened order. The partisan sources written in the conflicts play a special role. For Patzold they are downright “remnants of a threatened order in the early 12th century”. Patzold argues that order should no longer be viewed as a stable phenomenon, but rather as a negotiation process between those involved and their interests. Patzold is currently involved in two sub-projects in the Collaborative Research Center “Threatened Orders”. His sub-projects deal with securing agricultural labor and coping with the collapse of the Carolingian Empire around 900.

In 2017, Patzold, together with Mischa Meier and Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner, took over the project management of the research group “Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages”, which was newly established with DFG funds. The aim of the group is to investigate migration and mobility in the period between 250 and 900 AD as a phenomenon spanning several epochs. Their historically comparative approach also takes into account the methods and results of modern migration research.

Fonts

Monographs

  • Presbyter. Morality, mobility and the church organization in the Carolingian Empire (= monographs on the history of the Middle Ages. Vol. 68). Hiersemann, Stuttgart 2020, ISBN 978-3-7772-2023-9 .
  • Falsified law from the early Middle Ages. Investigations into the production and transmission of the pseudoisidoric decretals (= writings of the philosophical-historical class of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. Vol. 55). Winter, Heidelberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8253-6511-0 .
  • Me and Charlemagne. The life of the courtier Einhard. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-608-94764-9 .
  • Leaning (= Beck'sche Reihe 2745 CH Beck Knowledge ). Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63235-8 .
  • with Mischa Meier: August 410 - A battle for Rome. Klett-Cotta, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-608-94646-8 .
  • Episcopus. Knowledge about bishops in the Franconian Empire from the late 8th to early 10th century (= Middle Ages research. Vol. 25). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7995-4276-0 ( digitized version )
  • Conflicts in the monastery. Studies on disputes in monastic communities of the Ottonian-Salic Empire (= historical studies. Vol. 463). Matthiesen, Husum 2000, ISBN 3-7868-1463-5 (At the same time: Hamburg, Universität, Dissertation, 2000).

Editorships

  • with Thomas Kohl, Bernhard Zeller: Small worlds. Rural societies in the Carolingian Empire (= lectures and research. Vol. 87). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2019, ISBN 978-3-7995-6887-6
  • with Mischa Meier: Clovis's world. Organization of rule around 500. Steiner, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-515-10853-9 .
  • with Jürgen Martschukat : History and “performative turn”. Ritual, staging and performance from the Middle Ages to modern times (= norm and structure. Vol. 19). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2003, ISBN 3-412-07203-6 .

Translations

  • Translatio et Miracula Sanctorum Marcellini et Petri. = Translation and miracles of Saints Marcellinus and Peter (= Acta Einhardi. Vol. 2). Einhard Society, Seligenstadt 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-049804-6 .

Web links

literature

  • Inaugural speech by Mr. Steffen Patzold at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences on July 21, 2012. In: Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences for 2012. Heidelberg 2013, pp. 155–158 ( online )

Remarks

  1. ↑ List of high school graduates 1991 Accessed on August 2, 2020.
  2. ↑ Steffen Patzold: Conflicts in the early medieval monastery using the example of St. Gallens and Fuldas. Hamburg 1996.
  3. ↑ Circular No. 10 Tübingen, December 2008. Ten Years of History Association at the University of Tübingen , p. 8.
  4. ↑ See the reviews of Philippe Buc in: Annales 58, 2003, pp. 1415–1417; Gerhard Schmitz in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 59, 2003, pp. 336–337 ( online ); Hubertus Seibert in: Historische Zeitschrift 275, 2002, p. 172f .; Knut Görich in: sehepunkte 4 (2004), No. 2 [15. February 2004], ( online ); Brigitte Kasten in: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter 66, 2002, pp. 359–360 ( online ); Jutta Maria Berger in Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique 97, 2002, pp. 938-940; Franz-Reiner Erkens in: Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 38, 2003, pp. 313-314.
  5. ^ Steffen Patzold: Conflicts in the monastery. Studies of disputes in monastic communities of the Ottonian-Salic Empire. Husum 2000, p. 360.
  6. ^ Steffen Patzold: Conflicts in the monastery. Studies of disputes in monastic communities of the Ottonian-Salic Empire. Husum 2000, p. 327 and 362.
  7. ↑ Steffen Patzold: "... inter pagensium nostrorum gladios vivimus". On the "rules of the game" of conflict management in Lower Lorraine at the time of the Ottonians and early Salians. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History: German Department 118, 2001, pp. 58–99, here: p. 92 f.
  8. ↑ See the reviews of Rudolf Schieffer in: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter 74, 2010, pp. 275–276 ( digitized version ); Katrin Bayerle: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History: Canonical Department 98 (2012), pp. 351–355; Monika Suchan in: H-Soz-Kult , July 27, 2009, ( online ); Florian Hartmann : in: sehepunkte 10 (2010), No. 10 [15. October 2010], ( online ); Gerhard Schmitz in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 66, 2010, pp. 284–286 ( online ); Bernd Schütte in: Das Historisch-Politische Buch 57 (2009), pp. 35f .; Susanne Wittern in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 58 (2010), pp. 79–81.
  9. ↑ Steffen Patzold: Episcopus. Knowledge of bishops in the Franconian Empire from the late 8th to early 10th centuries. Ostfildern 2008, p. 509.
  10. ↑ Steffen Patzold: Episcopus. Knowledge of bishops in the Franconian Empire from the late 8th to early 10th centuries. Ostfildern 2008, p. 46.
  11. ↑ Steffen Patzold: Episcopus. Knowledge of bishops in the Franconian Empire from the late 8th to early 10th centuries. Ostfildern 2008, p. 184.
  12. ↑ Steffen Patzold: Episcopus. Knowledge of bishops in the Franconian Empire from the late 8th to early 10th centuries. Ostfildern 2008, p. 185.
  13. ↑ Steffen Patzold: Episcopus. Knowledge of bishops in the Franconian Empire from the late 8th to early 10th centuries. Ostfildern 2008, p. 521.
  14. ^ Steffen Patzold: Literature and culture in the Fulda monastery in the late 9th and early 10th centuries. In: Hans-Werner Goetz (Ed.): King Konrad I. - On the way to the "German Empire"? Bochum 2006, pp. 229-243.
  15. ↑ Steffen Patzold: Integration through communication: An attempt on rulers, missi and capitularies in the Carolingian Empire. In: Wolfram Drews (Ed.): The interaction of rulers and elites in imperial orders of the Middle Ages. Berlin 2018, pp. 191–211, here: pp. 207 and 211.
  16. ↑ Karl Ubl: Introduction: Kinship as a Resource of Social Integration in the Early Middle Ages. In: Karl Ubl, Steffen Patzold (eds.): Kinship, name and social order (300–1000). Berlin / Boston 2015, pp. 1–27, here: p. 2.
  17. ↑ See the review by Felix Grollmann in: Francia-Recensio 2013/1 ( online ); Roman Deutinger in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 69, 2013, p. 323 ( online ).
  18. ↑ See the reviews of Rudolf Hüls in: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 94, 2015, p. 456 f. ( online ); Julian Führer in: Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte 34, 2015, pp. 305–306 ( online ); Detlev Kraack in: Journal of History. 62 (2014), pp. 658-659; Rudolf Schieffer : Charlemagne after 1200 years. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 70, 2014, pp. 637–653, here: pp. 641 f. ( online )
  19. ↑ Steffen Patzold: Me and Charlemagne. The life of the courtier Einhard. Stuttgart 2013, p. 193 ff.
  20. ↑ Steffen Patzold: Einhard's first readers. On the context and the intention to represent the "Vita Karoli". In: Viator Multilingual 42, 2011, pp. 33–55. ( online )
  21. ↑ See the discussion by Maximilian Wick in: Arbitrium 34, 2016, pp. 158–161; Albrecht Classen in: Mediaevistik 26 (2013), pp. 220–223.
  22. ↑ See the reviews by Thomas FX Noble in: Anzeiger für die Altertumswwissenschaft 69, 2016, pp. 78–84; Jamie Kreiner in: Early Medieval Europe 25, 2017, pp. 544-546; Roland Steinacher in: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter 80, 2016, S, 274–275; Matthias Hardt in: Ethnographischarchäologische Zeitschrift 56, 2015 [2018], pp. 332–339; Sebastian Scholz in: Bonner Jahrbücher 216 (2016), pp. 445–447 ( online ).
  23. ↑ Andreasöffner: Conference report: "Small Worlds: Rural Societies in the Carolingian Empire". Spring meeting of the Constance Working Group for Medieval History, March 24, 2015 - March 27, 2015 Reichenau. In: H-Soz-Kult, September 24, 2015 ( online ).
  24. ↑ See the review by Thomas Zotz in: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 79 (2020), pp. 466–468 ( online ).
  25. ↑ Steffen Patzold: Considerations on the occasion for the forgery of early papal letters in the Corbie monastery. In: Karl Ubl, Daniel Ziemann (Ed.): Counterfeiting as a means of politics? Pseudoisidor in the light of new research. Commemorative letter for Klaus Zechiel-Eckes. Wiesbaden 2015, pp. 153–172.
  26. ↑ See the reviews of Stephan Dusil: Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, German Department 135, 2018, pp. 579–580; Cornelia Scherer in: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter 80, 2016, pp. 276–278 ( online ); Eric Knibbs in: Francia-Recensio 2016-4 ( online ).
  27. ↑ Steffen Patzold: Falsified law from the early Middle Ages. Investigations into the production and transmission of the pseudo-idorical decretals. Heidelberg 2015, p. 54.
  28. ↑ Ewald Frie, Mischa Meier: Threatened orders. A comparison of societies under stress. In this. (Ed.): Riot - Catastrophe - Competition - Decay. Threatened orders as a topic in cultural studies. Tübingen 2014, pp. 1–27.
  29. ↑ Steffen Patzold: Threatened Orders, Medieval Conflict Research, Communication: Considerations on the opportunities and perspectives of a new research concept. In: Ewald Frie, Mischa Meier (Eds.): Riot - Catastrophe - Competition - Decay. Threatened orders as a topic in cultural studies. Tübingen 2014, pp. 31–60, here: p. 48.
  30. ↑ Subproject E02: Human Resource: Securing Agricultural Labor and Threatened Regulations between 300 and 900 AD.
  31. ^ Subproject F02: From the Carolingian order to the “société féodale”? Order threatened and re-ordering around 900
  32. ↑ Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
personal data
SURNAME Patzold, Steffen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1st September 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover