Hans-Werner Goetz#
| Membership Number: | 3592 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1990 - 2012 Professor of Medieval History, University of Hamburg
- 1986 - 1990 Professor of Medieval History, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
- 1976 - 1986 Assistant at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- History of the Early and High Middle Ages (5th-12th centuries)
- Medieval thinking, perception and mentality
- State and perspectives of medieval studies
- Christian perception of other religions in the Middle Ages
- Historiography and historical thinking in the Middle Ages
- Importance of personal names in medieval history
- Religious thinking in the Middle Ages
- Political, social, constitutional and gender history of the Early and High Middle Ages
Honours and Awards
- President of the Mediävistenverband 2001-2007 (Vicepresident 1997-2001)
- Since 1995 President of the Society “Medium Aevum Quotidianum”
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the British project PASE (Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England)
- 2007 - 2011 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Nordic Centre of Excellence
- 2009 - 2012 ERC Advanced Grant project “POR” (The Perception of Other Religions)
- Member of the Conseil scientifique de l'Institut Français Historique en Allemagne
- 2012 - 2013 23rd Wolfgang Stammler Gastprofessur in Fribourg, Switzerland
