Matthias Kuhn
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B10
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Telephone: (0)6221-548121 |
Address
ZEGK: Historisches Seminar
Grabengasse 3-5
D-69117 Heidelberg
Project
Genealogical rolls of the German and English nobility
The project deals with genealogical representations on Rotuli/scrolls from a material-based perspective.
The research focuses on various genealogical works of German and English noble families. The connection between the form and the diagrammatic-textual content are the focus of the work. Praxeological questions are considered as well as investigations of layout, materiality and non-textual design elements.
The comparison within the German and English groups, as well as between them, is particularly appealing, since questions of representation of rank, proximity and relationship to royalty, and the handling of one's own family past can be examined.
Career
- November 2019 onwards: Researcher at the CRC 933 Material Text Cultures, sub-project B10
- 2017-2019: Master's degree at the University of Heidelberg in History focusing on Late Medieval Ages in Europe as well as modern American history
- 2013-2016: Bachelor's degree at the University of Bonn in History and political science. Major in studies: Social- and economic development in medieval and early modern times, political history of the late Roman Republic, history of political theory
Studies abroad:
- winter term 2016/17 studies abroad at the University of Perugia, studies in ancient history as well as medieval art and church history
- winter term 2018/19: studies abroad at the State University of Massachusetts/amhers, German and American History, International Law, ROTC
Interests and fields of research
- The Empire and England in Late Medieval Ages
- church and papal history
- papal poenitentiary and late medieval art history
- Heraldry
- Knighthood and nobility
- materiality of late medieval clothing
- Genealogy and kinship of the European Nobility
