Carl, Horst, Prof. Dr.
28190 | Horst.Carl@geschichte.uni-giessen.de | Professor
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Prof. Dr. Horst CarlOtto-Behaghel-Str. 10, D-35394 Gießen, Haus C Raum 104 [Sprechzeiten / aktuelle Mitteilungen] Tel: 0049-641-99-28190-
Horst.Carl@geschichte.uni-giessen.de
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Teaching
- Current courses
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Research focuses
- Importance of cooperative forms of organisation in late medieval and early modern constitutional history
- Self-assertion of nobility during periods of transition (around 1500 and 1800)
- Situations of occupation in early modernity
- History of mentatlity concerning religion and experiences of war around 1800
- Organised Bodies of Violence and cultures of violence in early modernity
- Public peace in the 16th and 17th century
Functions
- Speaker of the transregional Collaborative Research Center "Dynamics of Security" (2018-2021); deputy speaker (2014-2017, 2022-2025) [more...]
- Member of the research group "Organised Bodies of Violence" ("Gewaltgemeinschaften") (DFG FOR 1101, 2009-2016).
- Member of the historical commission for Hessia (since 2003).
- Co-editor of the series 'Rulership and social systems in Early modernity' („Herrschaft und soziale Systeme in der Frühen Neuzeit“) and 'War in History' ("Krieg in der Geschichte")
- Member of the editorial board of the 'Encyclopedia of Early Modern History' („Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit“).
- Member of the board of directors of the International Graduate Centre for the Studies of Culture, Giessen (2006-2011) (funded as part of the Excellence Initiative) [mehr...]