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Biography
Hedwig Röckelein (born 13 July 1956) is professor of medieval history at the University of Göttingen.
Early life
Hedwig Röckelein was born in Burgebrach on 13 July 1956. She studied 1975-1981 German, history, politics and prehistoric and early historical archeology at the Universities of Würzburg and Freiburg. In 1985, she received her PhD at the University of Freiburg with a dissertation on high medieval Latin texts.
Career
From 1985 to 1989 she created as part of the DFG-program "capture the manuscript holdings in the Federal Republic of Germany" a catalog of Latin manuscripts at the Tübingen University Library. From 1990 to 1998 she was assistant lecturer at the University of Hamburg. Since 1999 she is a professor of Medieval history at the University of Göttingen. In January 2008 she became a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen.
Her research interests include women's and gender history of the Middle Ages, the media and communication in the Middle Ages and the Medieval vision literature.
Selected publications
Monographs
- Reliquientranslationen nach Sachsen im 9. Jahrhundert. Über Kommunikation, Mobilität und Öffentlichkeit im Frühmittelalter (= Francia. Beihefte der Francia. Bd. 48). Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-7995-7442-5 (Zugleich: Hamburg, Universität, Habilitations-Schrift, 1997/1998), Digitalisat (PDF; 19,28 MB).
- Otloh, Gottschalk, Tnugdal. Individuelle und kollektive Visionsmuster des Hochmittelalters (= Europäische Hochschulschriften. Reihe 3: Geschichte und ihre Hilfswissenschaften. Bd. 319). Lang, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1987, ISBN 3-8204-9512-6 (Zugleich: Freiburg (Breisgau), Universität, Dissertation, 1985: Otloh, Mönch von S. Emmeram, Gottschalk, der Bauer aus Holstein, und Tnugdal, der irische Ritter.).
Books
- with Hans-Werner Goetz: Frauen-Beziehungsgeflechte im Mittelalter (= Das Mittelalter. Bd. 1, H. 2, ISSN 0949-0345). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1996.
- with Charlotte Schoell-Glass und Maria E. Müller: Jeanne d'Arc oder wie Geschichte eine Figur konstruiert (= Frauen – Kultur – Geschichte. Bd. 4). Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau) u. a. 1996, ISBN 3-451-23953-1.
- Biographie als Geschichte (= Forum Psychohistorie. Bd. 1). Diskord, Tübingen 1993, ISBN 3-89295-571-9.
- with Claudia Opitz und Dieter R. Bauer: Maria, Abbild oder Vorbild? Zur Sozialgeschichte mittelalterlicher Marienverehrung. Diskord, Tübingen 1990, ISBN 3-89295-539-5.