Selected Publications
- Konstruktion und Manifestation von ‚Frauenmystik’. Rezeptionsdynamiken in der oberdeutschen Überlieferung des Liber specialis gratiae (Bibliotheca Germanica 78), Tübingen/Basel 2023.
- (together with Lauritz Daher and Marcus Ventzke) MMMMO – Mechthild’s Medieval Mystical Manuscripts Online. Eine interaktive Kartendarstellung als digitale Überlieferungsgeschichte am Beispiel des ›Liber specialis gratiae‹ der Mechthild von Hackeborn, in: Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften 9 (2024).
- Reisen als Grenzüberwindung. Übergangsriten im Fortunatus (1509), in: Daphnis. Zeitschrift für deutsche Literatur und Kultur der Frühen Neuzeit 51 (2023), pp. 495–522.
- Vom Meister lernen. Perspektiven der ‘Frauenmystik’-Philologie am Beispiel Mechthilds von Hackeborn, in: Meister Eckhart-Jahrbuch 16 (2022), pp. 299–320.
- Verschichten von Geschichte(n). Metachronikalisches Erzählen als Narrativierungsstrategie in den Excerpta Chronicarum, in: Geschichte erzählen. Strategien der Narrativierung von Vergangenheit in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters, ed. by Sarah Bowden, Manfred Eikelmann, Stephen Mossman and Michael Stolz, Tübingen 2020, pp. 283–297.
FRIAS Project
Ars se necandi. Cultural poetics of suicide in the Middle Ages
In my project, I am seeking to link different historical, theological, linguistic, legal and literary statements dealing with suicide. The interplay of both traditional and subversive discourses in medieval culture, thus the assumption, are represented in literary productions, and vice versa literary texts played a significant part in stimulating those negotiations. Case studies will be analysed in a variety of genres (e.g. Kaiserchronik, Courtly narratives, Minnesang, Mysticism). It will assess how the different perspectives discursively influence and productively interact with each other. One question among others will be whether – and to what extent – literary texts reflect their aesthetic potential as specifically poetic texts, and are thus able to transcend other discourses.
Coming from studying German and History very broadly, I am generally interested in any kind of intertwining between both disciplines, particularly in the Middle Ages. This includes historiography, the history of Christianity, cultural history as well as palaeography, but also reception studies and the question of how history is told in the present, i.e. books, movies and popular culture.