Seminar by Prof Jorg Rogge: Cultural history and its different approaches

Abstract:

This lecture deals with concepts of historiography that became prominent after the end of the classic East-West divide in 1989/90. After German unification, a new political and social framework emerged, which had an influence on the development of new questions and interpretations of German history in an international context. Another important factor was that as early as the 1980s, criticism of structuralist social history, which had little interest in people, led to debates among researchers about other methods and approaches. These debates and their consequences cannot be described in detail; I will concentrate on the following aspects: • the assertion of cultural history since the 1980s; • heuristic foundations and methods; • historical anthropology, everyday history, microhistory; • women's and gender history

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Dr. Jörg Rogge is Professor of History, Middle Ages, at the University of Mainz, Germany. His main research interests are methods and theories of Cultural History, social, military, and cultural history of urban and noble societies with a focus on gender history and environmental history. He is also interested in the History of Southern Africa. His publications include, amongst others: Jörg Rogge (Ed.) Recounting deviance. Forms and Practices of Presenting Divergent Behavior in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, 2016; Jörg Rogge (Ed.), Killing and being killed: bodies in battle. Perspectives on Fighters in the Middle Ages, 2017; Together with Alessandro Arcangeli and Hannu Salmi he published “The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World.”, London/New York 2020; Johannes Palitzsch, Jörg Rogge (Eds.) Victors and Vanquished in the Euro-Mediterranean. Dealing with Victory and Defeat in the Middle Ages, Göttingen 2024. Prof Rogge is a participating researcher of the “Research Training Group 2304 “Byzantium and the Euro-Mediterranean Cultures of War. Exchange, Differentiation and Reception” (Research Training Group 2304 (uni-mainz.de). He is member of the European Academic of Science (Headquarter is in Salzburg/Austria). He was the chair and is now a member of the committee of the International Society for Cultural History (http://www.culthist.net/ ). He is also a member of the editorial board of the South African Journal of Cultural History.