Handke, Marcus
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Research member; project "Monasteries in the High Middle Ages"
NameMr Dr. Marcus Handke
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Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte
Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte
Postal address:
TUD Dresden University of Technology Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte (FOVOG)
01062 Dresden
Office hours:
By arrangement
Areas of Research
- Comparative History of Religious Orders (focus: High Middle Ages)
- Individuality and concepts of conscience in the Middle Ages
- Solitude in the perspective of the history of ideas
- Parenetic literature in the Late Middle Ages
| 2009 bis 2016 |
Student (B.A. and M.A.) of History and Philosophy (supplementary field) at the TU Dresden with specialization in Medieval History Title of the master thesis: "(Un)Certainty of Salvation and Self-Determination? Inwardness and the Formation of Conscience in the High Middle Ages Using the Example of Cistercian Exemplary Literature" |
01/2015 bis 06/2017 |
Student assistant at the Research Center for Comparative History of Religious Orders (FOVOG) Dresden, project „Monasteries in the High Middle Ages. Laboratories of Innovation for European Designs of Life and Models of Order“ (Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities at Leipzig) |
10/2016 bis 03/2017 |
Together with PD Dr. Andenna: University Seminar „Telling oneself. 'Autobiographical' Sources in the Middle Ages“ |
07/2017 bis 08/2020 |
Doctoral studies in Medieval History at the TU Dresden Title of the dissertation: „Solitude. Functional, evocative and pathological contours of an ideal in the monastic reform period of the 11th and 12th centuries“ Doctoral Scholarship, Funding: Scholarship of the Free State of Saxony |
seit 02/2020 |
Research Member in the project „Monasteries in the High Middle Ages. Laboratories of Innovation for European Designs of Life and Models of Order“ of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities at Leipzig |
| 07/2021 |
Completion of the PhD-Project with successful defence of the dissertation thesis: PhD in Medieval History |
Monographs
Loneliness. Purpose, function and theological dimensions in the monastic reform period of the 11th and 12th centuries (Camaldolese, Carthusians and Cistercians) (Vita regularis 85), Berlin 2024, 620 p.
Editorships
Together with Kai Hering, Daniela Bianca Hoffmann, Oliver Sowa und Maria Weber: Räume, Orte, Konstruktionen. (Trans)Lokale Wirklichkeiten im Mittelalter und der Frühen Neuzeit (Mittelalter. Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte, Beihefte 3), 2021-voraussichtlich 2023. online
Articles in edited volumes and journals
Together with Julia Becker: Einsam oder gemeinsam? Spannungsfelder innovativer Lebensexperimente (12./13. Jahrhundert), in: Mechanismen des Innovativen im klösterlichen Leben des hohen Mittelalters, hg. v. G. Melville / J. Sonntag (Klöster als Innovationslabore 12), Regensburg 2023, S. 104-132.
Reviews and Reports
Review: „Stefanie Monika Neidhardt, Autonomie im Gehorsam. Die dominikanische Observanz in Selbstzeugnissen geistlicher Frauen des Spätmittelalters“, in: RJKG 37 (2018), S. 408–409.
Die Wirkmacht klösterlichen Lebens im Mittelalter. Modelle – Ordnungen – Kompetenzen – Konzepte, 06.04.2016 – 08.04.2016 Grimma, in: H-Soz-Kult, 10.10.2016, read online.
Wohin geht die Ordensgeschichte? Themen, Wege und Methoden einer vergleichenden Forschung, 27.10.2016 – 29.10.2016 Dresden, in: H-Soz-Kult, 24.03.2017, read online
Together with Jörg Sonntag: Research Centre for the Comparative History of Religious Orders (FOVOG). Report 2016, in: Revue Mabillon 27 (2016).
Press articles
Neue Perspektiven aus Osteuropa? Fazit zum internationalen Workshop über neue Ansätze der Ordensgeschichte, in: Newsletter, Bereich Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften vom 19.12.2016, online lesen.
Vom europäischen Mönchtum gelernt? Resümee des internationalen Kongresses über Ordensgeschichte in Dresden, in: Dresdner Universitätsjournal 27 (Nr. 19) vom 29. November 2016, S. 4.
Current project
History of reception and impact of David of Augsburg, De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione (project "Monasteries in the High Middle Ages. Laboratories of Innovation for European Designs of Life and Models of Order" of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities at Leipzig)
Completed projects
| 07/2017 – 08/2020 | PhD project "Einsamkeit. Bestimmung und Funktion im hochmittelalterlichen Mönchtum.", funded by the Free State of Saxony |