Werner Rösener

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Werner Rösener (born August 19, 1944 in Lohne ) is a German historian . From 1996 to 2009 he taught as a professor for Middle and Modern History at the University of Giessen . Rösener focuses on the medieval agricultural, social and constitutional history.

Live and act

Werner Rösener passed his Abitur in 1964 and studied history, classical philology and political science at the universities in Berlin and Freiburg from 1964 to 1972 . In 1972 he received his doctorate at the University of Freiburg under Josef Fleckenstein with a thesis on the medieval history of the Salem Imperial Abbey . From 1974 to 1996 he was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen. From 1981 to 1996 he held teaching positions at the Universities of Göttingen and Hanover . 1990 took place with the topic "Manorial rule in transition. Investigations into the development of ecclesiastical manors in southwest Germany from the 9th to the 14th century ”his habilitation at the University of Göttingen in the fields of Middle and Modern History. In 1991 he stayed at Wolfson College , Oxford for an extended period . In 1996, Rösener was offered a chair for Middle and Modern History at the University of Giessen, where he taught until his retirement in 2009. Since 1997 he has been a member of the Historical Commission for Hesse .

Rosener's main research interests are agricultural history , changes in the manorial structures and aristocratic rule and culture in the Middle Ages. He presented relevant studies on these topics, some of which were translated into several languages. This includes changing manors. Studies on the development of spiritual manorial rule in southwest Germany from the 9th to 14th centuries (1991), farmers in the Middle Ages (1991), agriculture, agricultural constitution and rural society in the Middle Ages (1992), the farmers in the European history of the Middle Ages (1993) and Introduction to Agricultural History (1997). With Agriculture, Agricultural Constitution and Rural Society in the Middle Ages (1992) Rösener presented the first German-language presentation of modern historical agricultural research for the entire Middle Ages.

In addition to general studies on the Middle Ages and modern times, Rösener's other research interests include, in particular, studies on the history of the Cistercian order , the development of aristocratic rule and court culture, and on the nobility and peasants in the field of tension in medieval society. He examined the medieval and modern history of the Cistercian order in numerous studies and dealt particularly with the economic, spiritual and cultural development of individual Cistercian monasteries. With a view to the development of German history after 1945, he presented a study on the history of the Göttingen Max Planck Institute for History, which from 1956 to 2006 had a strong impact on German historical research.

On the occasion of Rösener's 65th birthday, an international conference took place in Gießen in September 2009 under the title Nobility and Peasants in the Tension of Society of the High and Late Middle Ages . The articles were published in 2012.

Fonts (selection)

A list of publications, which takes into account the publications of Rösener up to 2011, appeared in: Carola Fey, Steffen Krieb (Hrsg.): Adel und Bauern in der Gesellschaft des Mittelalters. International colloquium on the 65th birthday of Werner Rösener (= studies and texts on the intellectual and social history of the Middle Ages. Vol. 6). Didymos-Verlag, Korb 2012, ISBN 978-3-939020-26-4 , pp. 329–343.

Monographs

  • The Max Planck Institute for History (1956–2006). Fifty years of historical research. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-525-30063-3 .
  • Life on the farm. Royal and princely courts in the Middle Ages. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7995-0814-8 .
  • The history of the hunt. Culture, society and hunting through the ages. Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf et al. 2004, ISBN 3-538-07179-9 .
  • Introduction to agricultural history. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1997, ISBN 3-534-07563-3 .
  • The peasants in European history. Beck, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-406-37652-5 (translated into numerous languages).
  • Agriculture, the agricultural constitution and rural society in the Middle Ages (= Encyclopedia of German History. Vol. 13). Oldenbourg, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-486-55024-1 .
  • Manorial rule in transition. Studies on the development of ecclesiastical manors in southwest Germany from the 9th to the 14th century (= publications by the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 102). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1991, ISBN 3-525-35639-0 (At the same time: Göttingen, University, habilitation paper, 1988/1989).
  • Peasants in the Middle Ages. Beck, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-406-30448-6 (several editions).
  • Salem Imperial Abbey. Constitutional and economic history of the Cistercian monastery from its founding to the middle of the 14th century (= Constance working group for medieval history. Lectures and research. Special volume 13). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1974, ISBN 3-7995-6673-2 .

Editorships

  • with Peter Rückert: The Cistercian Monastery of Salem in the Middle Ages and its heyday under Abbot Ulrich II of Seelfingen (1282–1311) (= Upper Rhine Studies. Vol. 31). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2014, ISBN 978-3-7995-7833-2 .
  • with Heinz Krieg and Hans-Jürgen Günther: 850 years of the Tennenbach Cistercian Monastery. Aspects of its history from foundation (1161) to secularization (1806). (= Research on the history of the Upper Rhine region. Vol. 59). Alber, Freiburg et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-495-49959-7 .
  • with Franz J. Felten: Norm and Reality. Continuity and change of the Cistercians in the Middle Ages (= Vita regularis. Abhandlungen. Vol. 42). Lit, Berlin et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-10408-3 .
  • with Carola Fey: Fürstenhof and sacral culture in the late Middle Ages (= forms of memory. Vol. 35). V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89971-514-9 .
  • with Carola Fey and Steffen Krieb: Medieval royal courts and their cultures of remembrance (= forms of remembrance. Vol. 27). V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89971-327-5 .
  • Tradition and remembrance in aristocratic rule and peasant society (= forms of remembrance. Vol. 17). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-525-35576-9 .
  • Noble and bourgeois cultures of remembrance of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period (= forms of remembrance. Vol. 8). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-35427-4 .
  • Communication in rural society from the Middle Ages to the modern age (= publications by the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 156). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-525-35472-X .
  • State and war. From the Middle Ages to the modern age. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-525-01386-8 .
  • Hunting and court culture in the Middle Ages (= publications by the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 135). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1997, ISBN 3-525-35450-9 .
  • Manorial rule and rural society in the High Middle Ages (= publications by the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 115). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1995, ISBN 3-525-35652-8 .
  • Structures of manorial rule in the early Middle Ages (= publications by the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 92). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1989, ISBN 3-525-35628-5 .

literature

  • Carola Fey, Steffen Krieb (Hrsg.): Nobility and farmers in the society of the Middle Ages. International colloquium on the 65th birthday of Werner Rösener (= studies and texts on the intellectual and social history of the Middle Ages. Vol. 6). Didymos-Verlag, Korb 2012, ISBN 978-3-939020-26-4 ( review ).
  • Christian Stadelmaier, Andreas Kuczera, Holger Sturm (eds.): The Konverseninstitut and its environment in the high and late Middle Ages. Contributions to the colloquium on the occasion of Werner Rösener's 70th birthday on December 13, 2014 in the Arnsburg monastery (= work of the Hessian Historical Commission. New series, vol. 37). Hessian Historical Commission Darmstadt, Darmstadt 2017, ISBN 978-3-88443-414-7 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the reviews of Dieter Hägermann in: Historische Zeitschrift 261 (1995), pp. 173–175; Michael Toch in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 50 (1994), p. 348 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Carola Fey, Steffen Krieb (ed.): Nobility and farmers in society in the Middle Ages. International colloquium on the 65th birthday of Werner Rösener. Basket 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Rösener, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Rewards