Curriculum vitae:
| March/April 2010 |
Scholarship holder at Deutsches Historisches Institut Rom / Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma |
| July 2008 to present | Postgraduate student, cluster of excellence “Religion and Politics”, WWU Münster |
| April 2007-June 2008 | Postgraduate student, research training group “Generational Awareness and Generational Conflicts in Antiquity and the Middle Ages”, University of Bamberg |
| October 2006-March 2007 | Postgraduate student, Department of Medieval History, University of Munich. Thesis supervised by Prof. Dr. Claudia Märtl |
| August 2006 | First State Examination for secondary school teaching, History/German Language & Literature, University of Munich |
| 2001-2007 | Student assistant, Department of Medieval History, University of Munich and Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Munich |
| 2000–2006 | Joint honours degree in History/German Language & Literature at the Universities of Munich, Heidelberg and Edinburgh |
Ph.D. project:
Renaissance Humanism at the University of Ingolstadt (1472 - ca. 1500).
Individuals and Institutions between diverging religious and political influences.
During the second half of the 15th century universities in the Empire north of the Alps – Ingolstadt being among them since 1472 – found themselves between growing poles of diverging religious and political influences. Both territorial princes and clergymen restricted the traditional autonomy of universities and exploited them for their own interests in imperial, territorial and religious conflicts. These infringements on internal university interests were particularly manifested in the varying adoption of Italian Renaissance humanism, either supporting or refusing those new ideas to different degrees. Nevertheless, scholars, interested in humanism managed to insert the canon of the studia humanitatis, including grammar, rhetoric, poetics, history and moral philosophy, into the conception of the medieval scholastic university. In order to have a look into the relevant integrating processes, the University of Ingolstadt is used as an example to analyse and identify different ways of adoption. At the same time, not only personal categories such as individual biographical profiles are taken into consideration but also institutional categories of adoption.
Concerning personal categories, closest attention is paid to the actual studies of the studia humanitatis and the collection and edition of ancient and humanistic texts as well as to the spreading of humanistic script. As to the institutional categories of adoption, the integration of humanistic texts into the curriculum of the faculty of arts, the establishment of chairs for poetics and mathematics and the humanistic inventories of libraries are analysed. The main aim is to closely relate these categories in order to develop a clear picture of the specific approaches to integrate humanistic efforts. Since these processes had a major influence on the intellectual socialisation of both protagonists and participants of the 16th century Reformatory debates, territorial princes and certain scholars considerably benefited from these developments. Therefore my project is meant to be a precise analysis of intellectual processes and their political and social consequences on the threshold of the Middle Ages and the early modern period.
Research interests:
- History of universities
- History of ideas
- Sociological concepts in historical research
Function within the Cluster/Membership in Projects and Groups:
- Member of the study group Conflicts in the Area of Religion and Politics
Publications:
Editor
- Together with Eva Schlotheuber: Denkweisen und Lebenswelten des Mittelalters, Munich 2004 (Münchener Kontaktstudium für Geschichtslehrer 7).
- Together with Hartwin Brandt / Ulrike Siewert: Familie – Generation – Institution. Generationenkonzepte in der Vormoderne, Bamberg 2008 (Bamberger Historische Studien 2).
Articles
- Together with Ulrike Nagengast, Natur vs. Kultur? Zu den Konzepten der Generationenforschung, in: Familie – Generation – Institution. Generationenkonzepte in der Vormoderne, ed. by Hartwin Brandt / Maximilian Schuh / Ulrike Siewert, Bamberg 2008 (Bamberger Historische Studien 2), p. 11-30.
- Von alten Bürgern und jungen Studenten im spätmittelalterlichen Ingolstadt. Das Verhältnis von Stadt und Universität als Generationenkonflikt?, in: Generationen in spätmittelalterlichen und frühneuzeitlichen Städten (Konflikte und Kultur), ed. by Mark Häberlein / Lina Hörl, Konstanz 2010 [forthcoming].
- In dicendo et ornatus et copiosus. Zur Diversität der Rhetorik an der Artistenfakultät der Universität Ingolstadt im 15. Jahrhundert, in: Diversität und Rhetorik in Mittelalter und Renaissance (Münchner Beiträge zur Geschichtswissenschaft), ed. by Georg Strack / Julia Knödler, München 2010 [forthcoming].
- Praxisorientierte Ausbildung oder elitäres Wissen? Universitäre Didaktik der Rhetorik im 15. Jahrhundert, in: Das Mittelalter 20 (2012) [forthcoming].
Reviews and reports
- Tagungsbericht über Valenzen des Lachens in der Vormoderne. 16.01.2009-17.01.2009, Bamberg, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 26.03.2009
- Rezension zu Sheffler, David L: Schools and Schooling in Late Medieval Germany. Regensburg, 1250-1500. Leiden 2008, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 22.07.2009
- zus. mit Sophie Kleinecke und Andreas Zerndl, Tagungsbericht: Genealogisches Bewusstsein als Legitimation. Inter- und intragenerationelle Auseinandersetzungen sowie die Bedeutung von Verwandtschaft bei Amtswechseln. 23.09.2009-25.09.2009, Bamberg, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 20.01.2010
Contributions
- Mohammed, Marco Polo, Dschingis Khan und Thomas von Aquin, in: Die musst du kennen. Menschen machen Geschichte, ed. by Sandra Maischberger, Munich 2004.
- Grundherrschaft, Reichsfürsten, Reichskirchensystem, Vogtei, Islam, Zünfte, Transport, Lebenserwartung, Scholastik und Medizin, in: Claudia Märtl, Die 101 wichtigsten Fragen: Mittelalter, Munich 2006.
- Mohammeds Flucht, Dschingis Khan schlägt die russischen Truppen, Die erste Leichensektion, Ausbruch der Pest in Italien, Einweihung des Genter Altars und Spanische Inquisition in: Nachrichten, die Geschichte machten. Von der Antike bis heute, ed. by Claus Kleber, Munich 2006.
Courses:
- Summer semester 2007: University of Munich, with Prof. Dr. Claudia Märtl: Humanism at the University of Ingolstadt, Ungergraduate Course in Medieval History
- Summer semester 2008: University of Bamberg: The European University in the Middle Ages, Ungergraduate Course in Medieval History, 4 ECTS Points.
Contact
Maximilian SchuhJohannisstraße1-4
Room 117
D-48143 Münster
Germany
Tel.: +49 251 83-23358
Fax: +49 251 83-23340
maximilian.schuh@uni-muenster.de
Supervisor
Prof. Dr. Christel Meier-StaubachDepartment of Medieval and Early Modern Latin Philology
Salzstraße 53
D-48143 Münster
Germany
Tel.: +49 251 41469-11/12
Fax: +49 251 41469-19
mlat@uni-muenster.de
Supervisor
Prof. Dr. Claudia MärtlLudwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Historisches Seminar, Department of Medieval History
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 München
Germany
c.maertl@mg.fak09.uni-muenchen.de
