Research
The Chair of Early Modern History at Bayreuth University combines political, cultural, social and economic history. It aims to take a holistic view of historical change. We study national specificities in a comparative perspective as much as trans- and supranational historical phenomena, the so-called entangled histories.
Research areas
Themes:
- Early Modern European and Atlantic History with focus on migrations, confessional and religious history, religious minorities and diasporas
- Media and Press History (18th to 20th centuries)
- French Revolution, Atlantic Revolutions
- Social and cultural history of the Enlightenment
- History of cartography as history of knowledge
- Economic history as cultural history
- Historical theory and philosophy of history
Research questions:
- Transfer of cultures and systems, Transformations of systems
- Construction of identity and its effects: nation, ethnicity, diaspora, construction of space/areas
- Constructivity, "Emergence" and transmittance of knowledge
Methods:
- Entangled Histories
- Comparative studies
- Discourse analysis