February 1, 2021
Marlen Michel is a doctoral student at the University of Bamberg. Her research interests lie in the mediation of medieval literature and language, Arthurian romances, rituals and representations of emotions.
February 1, 2021
Marie-Luise Kosan is a PhD student at the University of Bamberg. In her art historical dissertation she analyses the function of sculptural depictions and the interrelated conception of architecture and sculpture on medieval church portals in the 13th century using the example of the portal hall of Freiburg Cathedral (south-west Germany). The dissertation project is supported by a scholarship from the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst.
February 1, 2021
Kouadio Guy-Stéphane Kouamé is a PhD student in Medieval History at the University of Bamberg. His thesis, written in French under the title “Elites sans progéniture: le célibat des prêtres en occident, les eunuques à Byzance et dans le monde arabe – une étude comparative”, analyses the function of eunuchs and celibate priests as childless elites in the Latin West, Byzantium, as well as in the Islamic world.
February 1, 2021
Detlef Goller is Academic Director at the Department for Medieval German Philology at the University of Bamberg and Student Advisor at the Centre for Medieval Studies (ZeMas). After finishing his exams for the teaching profession (German, History, and Social Sciences), he worked for 12 years at the University of Halle/Wittenberg. His articles have focused on the Courtly German Literature while his PhD thesis investigated the intertextual relations between the works of Gottfried von Straßburg and Hartman von Aue (Lang Verlag, 2005).
February 1, 2021
Michaela Pölzl, Μ.Α., is a research assistant at the Chair of Medieval German Philology at the University of Bamberg and serves as Scientific Project Manager for NetMAR on the part of ZeMas Bamberg (Center for Medieval Studies Bamberg). She studied German Philology and Applied Cultural Studies in Graz (Austria) before starting to work on her doctoral thesis as a research fellow in the Bamberg graduate programme “Generational Consciousness and Generational Conflicts in Antiquity and the Middle Ages”.
February 1, 2021
Ingrid Bennewitz is Professor of Medieval Philology at the University of Bamberg. Her research focuses on German literature from the 12th to the 16th centuries, manuscript transmission and editions, gender studies, and on the reception of the Middle Ages (‘Mediaevalism’). She has authored and edited numerous books and articles, including a new edition of Neidhart-Songs (3. vols., 2007, with Ulrich Müller and Franz Viktor Spechtler).
February 1, 2021
Chrystalla Loizou works on a PhD thesis on the dynamic rural landscape of medieval Cyprus (12th-15th centuries) at the University of Cyprus under the supervision of Associate Professor A. Vionis. Her PhD is funded by the University of Cyprus and A. G. Leventis Foundation.
February 1, 2021
Savvas Mavromatidis is a PhD student at the University of Cyprus working on the funerary sculpture of the Lusignan Cyprus (1192-1474/89). His PhD is funded by the University of Cyprus. The aim of his research is to interpret Cypriot artistic production and topics presented on or related to the funerary slabs (iconography, epigraphy, dress, heraldry, memory), placing Cyprus at the centre of a cross-cultural dialogue that took place in the eastern Mediterranean during the late Middle Ages.
February 1, 2021
Marina Ilia obtained her PhD in History at the University of Cyprus in 2021. Her main research interest centres on the Cypriot rural population under Venetian rule. Her PhD thesis, entitled ‘Socioeconomic Aspects of Rural Life in Venetian Cyprus’, focuses on the family as a social and economic unit within specific settlements.