Study and teaching
Middle Ages section

Section overview

Get a quick overview of the special features of our section: the courses offered, special style sheets and helpful links throughout your studies.

Teaching and Research Staff Middle Ages

Please come and visit us during our office and/or consultation hours.

Team Mittelalterliche Geschichte

Teaching

Time table of our teaching offer (PDF file) (opens in new tab) (in German)

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The colloquium takes place on Tuesdays (4:15 – 5:45 pm)

Venue: S3|13, 110

14.4.26
Information for students (Schenk)
21.4.26
Torben Jordan (Darmstadt): „Ibn Butlans Tacuinum sanitatis. Zur Transformation von Wissen vom 11. bis 16. Jahrhundert“
28.4.26
Alicia Wolff (Heidelberg): „Auf zu neuen Ufern. Erste Überlegungen zu einem Habilitationsprojekt zur Geschichte der Brücke im Mittelalter“
5.5.26
Daniel Gneckow (Darmstadt): „Wer nicht wagt, der nicht gewinnt. Schlachtenrezeption im spätmittelalterlichen Oberdeutschland“
12.5.26
Florian Kehm (Mainz/Darmstadt): “Raum, Sexualität und Ordnung in Marco Polos Le Divisament dou monde“
19.5.26
Marie Jaros (Berlin): „Wale inszenieren. Von Walknochen und anderen Blickfängen (Flandern, Niederlande und Norddeutschland, ca. 1300-1600)“
26.5.26
Stefan Holz (Stuttgart): „Welche Rolle spielte das Geld für die fürstliche Existenz um 1500?“
2.6.26
Simon Pankratius (Darmstadt): t): ”Via Argentum“. Rezeption spätmittelalterlichen Silberbergbaus in Kutná Hora (Kuttenberg) am Beispiel von Kingdom Come: Deliverance II.
9.6.26
Exam preparation / counseling (Schenk)
16.6.26
John Burden (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA): „Law and Penance in Action: Abbreviations of Burchard's Decretum“ (Zoom)
23.6.26
Evan Mesmin (CNRS, Paris, Frankreich): ” River in the records : using accounts to reconstruct hydrogeomorphological activity of the Loire r. and societal adaptation (XIVth – XVIIIth c.)"
30.6.26
N.N.
7.7.26
Sander Govaerts (Gent University, Belgien): „Biodiversity in the World of the German Hanse, 1400-1600“
14.7.26
cancelled

To register for this exam please fill in the special form at the Institute of History (PDF file) (opens in new tab) AND register in TUCaN. For more information, contact Prof. Schenk or Prof. Weileder via email.

You may choose from a wide range of literature: literature Prof. Schenk (PDF file) (opens in new tab)/ literature Prof. Weileder. (PDF file) (opens in new tab)

Please contact Prof. Schenk or Prof. Weileder to fine-tune your supervised reading-exam.

Open Moodle courses

The Open Moodle courses allow you to prepare, follow up and revise core content of the history programme, particularly medieval history, anytime and anywhere.

Please switch to the German version for more information

Latin courses at TU Darmstadt

In cooperation with the RMUniversities, we now offer a larger variety of Latin courses. Find out more on our website.

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Literature research:

Regestra Imperi

über TU-VPN: Brepols

Digital tools and editions:

dMGH

RI-Online

LexMA

Manuscripta Mediaevalia

Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters

Wörterbuchnetz

Mittellateinisches Online-Wörterbuch

Deutsche Biographie

Germania Sacra

Institutions:

MGH

Regestra Imperii

Mediävistenverband

Mediaeval research platforms:

Mittelalterblog

Konstanzer Arbeitskreis

Picture: Anita Schilz

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