Dr. Sandra Groß

Studies and qualification

WS 2005/2006 - SoSe 2010 Studies at the University of Leipzig
Subjects: Medieval and Modern History, Religious Studies, Ethnology

Degrees

2022 Doctorate with the thesis "Like fire and straw? Symbiotic convents in the Premonstratensian Order in the circumscriptions of Ilfeld and Bohemia-Moravia in the 12th-14th centuries"

2010 Magistra Artium

Memberships in scientific associations and working groups

Since 2019 Open History e.V.

Since 2014 Working Group for Historical Women's and Gender Studies (AKHFG) e.V.

Since 2012 AG Praemonstratensia

Since 2011 Friends and Sponsors of Religious Studies Leipzig e.V.

Teaching

WS 2011/12 Overview course on the Middle Ages (basic module I), exercise (6 SWS)

Summer semester 2011 Travels in the Late Middle Ages, seminar (4 SWS) Citizens' wills as sources on the material and spiritual culture of the Late Middle Ages, exercise (2 SWS)

WS 2010/11 Overview course on the Middle Ages (basic module I), exercise (6 SWS)

WS 2009/10 Theodor Fritsch, seminar at the Institute of Religious Studies Leipzig, together with Dr. Heinz Mürmel and Petra Klug (2 SWS) Medieval History, tutorial (2 SWS)

Core research areas

• Female and double monasteries (focus on the High and Late Middle Ages)
• History of religious orders (focus on Premonstratensians, Franciscans/Clarisses)
• Monastery libraries
• Religious deviance

Monograph

Like fire and straw? Symbiotic Convents in the Premonstratensian Order in the Circulars of Ilfeld and Bohemia-Moravia in the 12th-14th centuries (Quellen und Forschungen zur sächsischen und mitteldeutschen Geschichte, vol. 54), Stuttgart 2025.

Articles in anthologies and journals

From double to female monastery. The Premonstratensian nuns of the Ilfeld circarie between subordination, self-determination and disobedience. In: Yearbook of the Hennebergisch-Fränkischer Geschichtsverein 38 (2023), pp. 29-44.

In altissima paupertate altissimas divitias sapientiae thesaurizatas. The library of the Rostock Franciscan monastery as reflected in the visitation record of 1566. In: Roebert, Sebastian/Ghignoli, Antonella/Neustadt, Cornelia/Kolditz, Sebastian (eds.): Von der Ostsee zum Mittelmeer. Forschungen zur Mittelalterlichen Geschichte für Wolfgang Huschner, Leipzig 2019, pp. 485-496.

Rostock: Monastery of S. Katharina (Ordo Fratrum Minorum / Franciscans). In: Huschner, Wolfgang/Münch, Ernst/Neustadt, Cornelia/Wagner, Wolfgang-Eric (ed.): Mecklenburgisches Klosterbuch. Handbuch der Klöster, Stifte und Kommenden (10. - 16. Jahrhundert) (Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und Denkmalpflege in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Sonderband), Rostock 2016, vol. 2, pp. 872-898.

Of motherhood and the "desecration of women". Nationalist images of women in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic. In: Schuster, Dirk/Bamert, Martin (eds.): Religiöse Devianz in Leipzig; Stuttgart, 2012, pp. 85-108.

Carl Huter - Self-proclaimed founder of a new "world religion" between eugenics and facial expression science. In: Edenheiser, Iris (ed.): From Apostles to Zionists. Religious culture in Leipzig during the German Empire; Marburg, 2010, pp. 138-147.

Rassenwahn und Germanenkult - Die völkische Bewegung in Leipzig. In: Edenheiser, Iris (ed.): From Apostles to Zionists. Religious culture in Leipzig during the German Empire; Marburg, 2010, pp. 148-158.

Scientific projects

Lectures

• "Symbiotic convents in the Premonstratensian Order using case studies from the Ilfeld circarie.", conference Rethinking the Medieval Double Monastery in Interdisciplinary Perspective, October 14-16, 2022 in Admont
• "Women and male monasteries in the Premonstratensian Order. Symbiotic convents in the circaries of Ilfeld and Bohemia-Moravia in the 12th-14th centuries", conference of the AG Praemonstratensia, October 7-9, 2022
• "Immer Ärger mit den Chorfrauen - Prämonstratenserinnen zwischen Unterordnung, Selbstbestimmung und Ungehorsam", lecture at the Hennebergisches Museum Kloster Veßra on October 22, 2021
• "Between subordination, self-determination and disobedience. Premonstratensian nuns in the Ilfeld circarie as reflected in the documentary tradition", colloquium "Memory and community as reflected in documentary, historiographical and hagiographical traditions of the Middle Ages", November 3-5, 2017 in Schmalkalden
• "Women's and men's monasteries in the Premonstratensian Order. Doppelkommunitäten in den Zirkarien Ilfeld und Böhmen-Mähren", lecture as part of the series Neue Forschungen zur Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte. Annual meeting of the Central Region of the AKHFG e.V., February 24, 2015, University of Jena
• "Women's and men's monasteries in the Premonstratensian Order. Dual communities in the circaries of Ilfeld and Bohemia-Moravia", Colloquium on Medieval History, University of Erfurt, July 21, 2014
• "Die Bibliothek des Rostocker Franziskanerklosters", lecture at the Kulturhistorisches Museum Rostock, November 29, 2011
• "Von Gottesmutterschaft und 'Entweibung der Weiber' - Das Frauenbild der Völkischen in Kaiserreich und Weimarer Republik", as part of the lecture series "Menschen - Zeiten - Religionen" at the Institute of Religious Studies, University of Leipzig, December 7, 2010
• "Die Bibliothek des Rostocker Franziskanerklosters im Spiegel des Visitationsprotokolls von 1566", conference "Klöster und Stifte in Mecklenburg (13.-16. Jh.)", October 14-16, 2010 in Rostock