The History Department cordially invites you to a lecture co-presented by Jörg Rogge and Regina Schäfer, from the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.
Title: Regesta Civitatum Imperialium: Regesta as a basis for research on the small and medium-sized imperial cities of southwest Germany in the late Middle Ages (until 521).
Abstract:
The project involves creating a database in which the archival records of 34 former imperial cities in southwestern Germany will be presented in the form of Regesta for further research. It is a so-called ‘basic research project’ funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for nine years. In historical studies, a regest (from the Latin regestum, "list entry," from regerere, "to bring back; to enter in a register") refers to a summary of the legally relevant content of documents from the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. The plural regesta also refers to a specific form of publication that documents by issuer, provenance, or subject—arranged by date—and supplement them with summaries of their content, information on their transmission, and critical source analysis. Jörg Rogge and Regina Schäfer will present the specific work being done in the project and demonstrate the significance of this basic research for the study of pre-modern history in Germany.
Bio:
Dr. Jörg Rogge is Professor of History (Middle Ages), specialising in cultural history, urban and noble societies, and gender and environmental history. He leads the DFG project “Regesta Civitatum Imperialium,” participates in the Research Training Group 2304 on Byzantium and Euro-Mediterranean cultures of war and is a member of the European Academy of Science. He has chaired the International Society for Cultural History and serves on the editorial board of the South African Journal of Cultural History. While Regina Schäfer is a research assistant in the Department of History at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (since April 2025), working on the same DFG project. She studied History, German, Sociology, and Journalism at Mainz and Dijon, and has contributed to around 50 publications, mainly on the 15th century.
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