The article for the handbook “Residenzstädte im Alten Reich (1300-1800)” offers a brief outline of Leipzig’s function as a residential city in the Middle Ages and the early modern period.

This article examines the eventful history of the bailiwick of the Benedictine monastery of Remse near Glauchau, founded in the middle of the 12th century. Close to the empire and under royal protection in the High Middle Ages, with the collapse of the Hohenstaufen kingship first the lords of Waldenburg and then, as their heirs, the lords of…[Read more]

The article deals with the relationship between Thilos von Trotha, Bishop of Merseburg (1466-1514) and the towns in his diocese in comparison to the diocese of Naumburg in the 15th and 16th centuries. First, the episcopal rule of the towns in the two high bishoprics is compared, especially the question of jurisdiction. Secondly, we ask how and in…[Read more]

The article deals with the observant Thuringian-Saxon reform congregation of Augustinian hermits around 1500, the order that Luther joined in Erfurt in 1505. The emergence and organization of the reform congregation is examined in a comparative perspective and embedded in the overarching, contemporary context of church and piety history. Finally,…[Read more]

The article examines the prerequisites and conditions of late medieval reform movements in the convents of the Thuringian Augustinian canons from the perspective of organizational sociology. The 15th century was marked by a veritable reform mania to which all institutions were subjected. It was believed, that a return to an old, “better” way of…[Read more]

This article examines the processes of reformation in the episcopal city of Naumburg, which took place in parallel and at different speeds. Drawing on sociological theories of social movements (collective good problem and threshold theory), it is argued that in addition to individual (partly corporate) actors such as the bishop, the sovereign and…[Read more]

The article highlights the importance and role of Zwickau in the Central German educational and university landscape of the 15th and 16th centuries.

The article examines the history of the origins of the Franciscan monastery of Kamenz, founded in 1493, in the context of the late medieval reform movement and against the background of the Bohemian kings’ development of power in Upper Lusatia.

The article examines the prerequisites and conditions of late medieval reform movements in the convents of the Thuringian Augustinian canons from the perspective of organizational sociology. The 15th century was marked by a veritable reform mania to which all institutions were subjected. It was believed, that a return to an old, “better” way of…[Read more]

The article explores the question what kind of economical impact late-medieval universities could make on their surrounding cities. By studying the sources for the university of Leipzig (founded in 1409) it can be shown, that despite a proportionately rather high amount of students in the city, the economic impact should not be overestimated.…[Read more]

This article is a draft of my post-doc project concerning the late-medieval phenomenon of inter-dynastic divisions (Herrschaftsteilungen) between two or more successors in german higher nobility. What are the preconditions of division, why did houses divide and what (political, economical and cultural) implications arise from the practice of…[Read more]

Dieser kleine Beitrag ist das Ergebnis eines Vortrags, den ich im Rahmen des im Sommersemester 2017 am Historischen Seminar der Universität Leipzig abgehaltenen Projektmoduls „Doing History. Anwendung von Methoden und Theorien der Geschichtswissenschaft.“ (gefördert durch die LaborUni der Universität Leipzig) gehalten habe. Das Ziel des Moduls…[Read more]

Der Beitrag versucht mit Hilfe der quantativen Netzwerkanalyse die Rolle des Collegiums Beate Mariae Virginis, eines der vier Kollegienhäuser der mittelalterlichen Universität Leipzig, und die Funktion ihrer Mitglieder, die sich exklusiv aus Magistern schlesischer und preußischer Herkunft rekrutierten, innerhalb des universitären Kontextes und den…[Read more]

A biographical article about Ulrich von Radefeld, Bishop of Naumburg (1394-1409).