Stefan Esders#
| Membership Number: | 5706 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/fmi/institut/mitglieder/Professorinnen_und_Professoren/esders.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 04/2006 - present (Full) Professor of Late Antique and Early Medieval History, Freie Universität Berlin
- 4/2000 - 3/2006 University Lecturer (Ancient and Medieval History), University of Bochum
- 10/1995 - 3/2000 Assistant Professor (Medieval History), University of Bochum
Fields of Scholarship
- Religion and identity formation in the transformation of the Roman world
- Transformations of late Roman culture in Visigothic Spain, Lombard Italy and Merovingian Gaul
- Legal culture, legislation and law manuscripts in late antiquity and the early medieval West
- Critical edition of early medieval legal texts
- Late antique and early medieval hagiography
- History of late antiquity and the early middle ages
- History of the oath in antiquity and the middle ages
- Latin and vernacular legal texts in the eary medieval West
- Mediterranean communication and exchange , ca 400-900 CE
- The Carolingian Empire
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Fellow, Humanities Council and the Program in Medieval Studies, Princeton University
- 2019 - present Corresponding Member, Monumenta Germaniae Historica
- 2013 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
- 2014 - present Member, Konstanzer Arbeitskreis für Mittelalterliche Geschichte
- 2009 - 2017 Liaison lecturer, German National Study Foundation („Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes“)
- 2008 - present Member, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Committee for Medieval Studies
- 2004 - 2005 Visiting Professor, Freie Universität Berlin
- 1994 - 1995 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Münster
- 1993 Postdoctoral Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute of History, Göttingen
- 1990 - 1993 Predoctoral Fellow, University of Freiburg
- 1986 - 1987 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholar, University of Oxford
