Key Research Topics

• The Holy Roman Empire in the High Middle Ages
• European political and social history (c. 1000-1500)
• History of statehood, corruption and anti-corruption
• History of kinship in the Middle Ages
• Gender history and history of masculinity

Current Projects

• Die Urkunden der Äbtissinnen von Quedlinburg im Hochmittelalter
• An Introduction to the Medieval Holy Roman Empire

Academic curriculum vitae

• 1993-1997: B.A. History and Latin, Colgate University (Hamilton, New York, USA) – summa cum laude

• 1996: Exchange student, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

• 1997-1999: M.A. History, University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA)

• 1999-2005: Ph.D. History, University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA)

• 2000-2001: J. William Fulbright Research Scholarship, United States Department of State, University of Bamberg

• 2005–2006: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Notre Dame

• 2006–2013: Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Chicago

• 2007: esearch grant, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), University of Freiburg and University of Heidelberg

• 2012–2013: Academic Director of the Berlin Consortium for German Studies, Freie Universität, Berlin

• 2013-2022: Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Chicago

• 2013-2014: Lise Meitner position, FWF project # M 1534-G18, Institute of Austrian Historical Research, University of Vienna

• 2017-2018: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, University of Heidelberg

• 2022–2023: Professor, Department of History, University of Chicago

• 2023-2024: Sorin and Imran Siddiqui Professor, Department of History, University of Chicago

Functions

• Series Adviser, Manchester Medieval Sources Series

Publications

Monographs

Corruption, Protection and Justice in Medieval Europe: A Thousand-Year History (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023)

Princely Brothers and Sisters: The Sibling Bond in German Politics, 1100–1250 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013)

Translations

Forthcoming: I, Helene Kottannerin: The lady-in-waiting who stole Hungary's crown (University of Toronto Press). Translation of Julia Burkhardt und Christina Lutter, Ich, Helene Kottannerin. Die Kammerfrau, die Ungarns Krone Stahl.

Forthcoming: Caesarius of Heisterbach, “The life and acts of lord Engelbert, archbishop of Cologne and martyr,” in Lords and Pastors: Lives of German Bishops, 950-1250, Manchester Medieval Sources

Noble Society: Five Lives from 12^th-Century Germany, Manchester Medieval Sources (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2017)

Editor

Forthcoming: with Simon MacLean, Lords and Pastors: Lives of German Bishops, 950-1250, Manchester Medieval Sources

with Christina Lutter, Central Europe in the Fifteenth Century: Patterns of Conflict and Negotiation, Austrian History Yearbook (2024)

Articles

with Christina Lutter: "Central Europe in the Fifteenth Century: Patterns of Conflict and Negotiation," Austrian History Yearbook (2024): 1-7.

“Pledging Lordly Rights and ‘Squeezing’ Local Communities in the Later Middle Ages,” Austrian History Yearbook (2024): 1-12.

“The Princes and the King in Medieval Germany, ca. 1125-1350, “ in How Medieval Europe was Ruled, ed. Christian Raffensperger (London and New York: Routledge, 2023), pp. 191-207.

“A Different Set of Rules: Aristocratic Elites and the Monastic Life in Twelfth-Century Europe,” in Virtuosos of Faith: Monks, Nuns, Canons, and Friars as Elites of Medieval Culture, eds. Gert Melville and James Mixson (Vienna: LIT Verlag, 2020), pp. 85-107.

“Nobility and Monastic Patronage: The View from Outside the Monastery,” in The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West, eds. Alison I. Beach and Isabelle Cochelin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), vol. 2, pp. 848-864.

“Advocata, Advocatrix, Advocatissa. Frauen als Vögtinnen im Hochmittelalter,” in Kirchenvogtei und adlige Herrschaftsbildung im europäischen Mittelalter, eds. Kurt Andermann and Enno Bünz, Vorträge und Forschungen 86 (Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2019), 143-168.

“Rulers, Local Elites and Monastic Liberties. Tegernsee and Bury St Edmunds under the Staufens and Plantagenets,” in Staufen and Plantagenets: Two Empires in Comparison, eds. Alheydis Plassmann and Dominik Büschken (Göttingen: V&R unipress and Bonn University Press, 2018), 151-182.

“Response to the Chapters in ‘Spiritual Communities’ Section,” in Meanings of Community across Medieval Eurasia: Comparative Approaches, eds. Eirik Hovden, Christina Lutter and Walter Pohl (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016), 461-467.

“Otto of Freising’s Tyrants: Church Advocates and Noble Lordship in the Long Twelfth Century,” in Christianity and Culture in the Middle Ages: Essays to Honor John Van Engen, ed. David C. Mengel and Lisa Wolverton (South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015), 141-167.

“Noble Lineages, Hausklöster, and Monastic Advocacy in the Twelfth Century: The Garsten Vogtweistum in its Dynastic Context,” Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 123 (2015): 1-29.

“The Letters of Princess Sophia of Hungary, a Nun at Admont,” in Writing Medieval Women’s Lives, eds. Charlotte Newman Goldy and Amy Livingstone (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 51-68.

“The Medieval German State in Recent Historiography,” German History 28:1 (2010): 85-94.

“Fathers and Sons: Preparing Noble Youths to be Lords in Twelfth-Century Germany,” Journal of Medieval History 34:3 (2008): 291-310.

“Die Andechs-Meranier und das Bistum Bamberg,” in Das Bistum Bamberg in der Welt des Mittelalters, eds. Christine and Klaus van Eickels, Bamberger interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien, Vorträge und Vorlesungen, vol. 1 (Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, 2007), pp. 247-262.

“The Withdrawal of Aged Noblemen into Monastic Communities: Interpreting the Sources from Twelfth-Century Germany,” in Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. Albrecht Classen (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2007), pp. 143-169.

“Die Andechs-Meranier,” in Elisabeth von Thüringen — Eine europäische Heilige: Katalog, eds. Dieter Blume and Matthias Werner (Michael Imhof Verlag, 2007), pp. 45-46.

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