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Dipl.-Kffr. MMag. Dr.
Marion Romberg

marion.romberg(at)oeaw.ac.at  

Marion Romberg was a member of the research unit History of the Habsburg Monarchy and head of the project „"The Viennese Court – A prosopographical Portal" (VieCPro). Since April 2023 she has been working as a visiting scholar at the IHB.

Brief Biography

Marion Romberg studied Art History and History at the University of Vienna and Business Administration in Germany, New Zealand and England. In 2015 she got her PhD in History from the University of Vienna. She was a fellow of the Gerda Henkel Foundation and project member in three FWF projects "Empress and Empire. Ceremonial, Media and Rule 1550 to 1740" (ÖAW, IHB), „Continent Allegories in the Baroque Age" (Univ. Vienna) and "The Diaries and Tagzettel of Cardinal Ernst Adalbert von Harrach (1598-1667). Edition and Commentary" (Univ. Vienna). From 2017 to 2023 she taught at the Universities of Vienna, Bonn and Salzburg. Since May 2023, she has been a research associate in the Department of Early Modern History and Rhenish Regional History at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn and editor of the Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter. From 2010 to 2020 she was editor of the scientific portal Habsburg Discussion Network and has been a board member of the Austrian Society for 18th Century Studies since 2008 and since 2023 Elected Member in the Executive Committee of the International Society for Eighteenth Century Studies.

Research Interests

Period: 16th to 18th centuries.
Area: Southern Germany, Habsburg Monarchy
Topics: cultural history, historical visual culture, history of everyday life and piety (especially fraternities), history of ideas and mentalities, baroque frescoes, representation of dynastic women, digital humanities, Viennese Court

Selected Publications

Books

  • Die Welt im Dienst des Glaubens. Erdteilallegorien in Dorfkirchen auf dem Gebiet des Fürstbistums Augsburg im 18. Jahrhundert. / Romberg, Marion.
    Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2017.
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Editions and Collections

  • Kirche und Klöster zwischen Aufklärung und administrativen Reformen. / Lahner, Julian (Editor); Romberg, Marion (Editor); Wallnig, Thomas (Editor) et al.
    Wien: Böhlau Verlag, 2021. (ÖGE18-Jahrbuch "Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert und Österreich," 36).
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  • Queens and Empresses in the Courtly Public Sphere from the 17th to the 20th Century. / Romberg, Marion (Editor); Melion, Walter (Editor of Series).
    Leiden: Brill, 2021. (Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 56).
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Articles

  • An Early Modern Empress Consort's Role in the Courtly Public Sphere: Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg and her Media Appearance in Single-Sheet Prints and Medals between 1676 and 1687.". / Romberg, Marion; Romberg, Marion (Editor); Melion, Walter (Editor of Series).
    Queens and Empresses in Courtly Public Spheres from the 17th to the 20th Century. Leiden: Brill, 2021. (Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 56).
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  • Queens and Empresses in the Courtly Public Sphere from the 17th to the 20th Century – An Introduction. / Romberg, Marion; Romberg, Marion (Editor); Melion, Walter (Editor of Series).
    Queens and Empresses in the Courtly Public Sphere from the 17th to the 20th Century. Leiden: Brill, 2021. p. 1–28 (Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 56).
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  • The Viennese Court. A Prosopographical Portal. Eine Projektvorschau auf ein Referenz- und Nachschlageportal zum Wiener Hof von Leopold I. bis Franz II. (I.), / Romberg, Marion; Kaiser, Maximilian.
    In: Residenzenforschung, Vol. 9, 30.11.2020, p. 43-52.
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  • Was Ihro Hochwürden bauen, darf jedermann sehen“ – Die Allegorien der vier Erdteile im Benediktinerkloster St. Mang. / Romberg, Marion.
    In: Zeitschrift für bayerische Landesgeschichte, Vol. 82, No. Heft 2, 30.11.2020, p. 447-474.
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  • The Visible Church. The Discourse on an Ecclesia Triumphans and the Four Continents in Parish Churches of Baroque Southern German. / Romberg, Marion; Horowitz, Maryanne Cline (Editor); Arizzoli, Louise (Editor).
    Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents. Brill, 2020. p. 275–312 (Intersections, 73).
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  • Die Sakralisierung des Landkapitels Weilheim – Entstehung eines „in seinem Wesen reichere[n], glän-zendere[n] Kult[es]. / Romberg, Marion; Aigner, Thomas (Editor); Telesko, Werner (Editor).
    Die Sakralisierung der Landschaft in Mitteleuropa – Inbesitznahme und Gestaltung im Zeichen der Gegenreformation. St. Pölten, 2019. p. 288-310 (Beiträge zur Kirchengeschichte Niederösterreichs 21 = Geschichtliche Beilagen zum St. Pöltner Diözesanblatt 38),).
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  • Did Europe exist in the Parish before 1800? The Allegory of Europe and her three Siblings in Folk Culture. / Romberg, Marion; Walser-Bürgler, Isabella (Editor); Marsico, Clementina (Editor) et al.
    Contesting Europe: Comparative Perspectives on Early Modern Discourses of Europe (15th–18th Century),. Leiden: Brill, 2019. p. 77-103 (Intersections, Band: 67).
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  • Maps, Timelines, Search Features and Indices ⎯ Digital Tools in the Continent Allegories Database. / Wallnig, Thomas (Editor); Romberg, Marion; Weiß, Joelle (Editor).
    Digital Eighteenth Century: Central European Perspectives. Wien: Böhlau, 2019. p. 31-48 (Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des Achtzehnten Jahrhunderts).
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  • Habsburg Discussion Network - A digital pioneer looking back and forward. / Chernev, Borislav; Kwan, Jonathan; Olin, Timothy et al.
    In: Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts, Vol. 33, 24.06.2018.
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Other Publications

  • Drace-Francis, Alex, European Identity. A Historical Reader, Palgrave Macmillan: New York, 2013; 238 pp.; 25.99 GBP; 9780230243293. / Romberg, Marion.
    In: European History Quarterly, Vol. Vol. 48, Issue 2, 2018, 15.01.2018, p. 335-336.
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  • Der Ovalsaal im Schloss Hacklberg. / Romberg, Marion; Forster, Bernhard (Editor); Dupper, Jürgen (Editor) et al.
    Passau. 2019.
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Projects

Empress and Empire

The Viennese Court – A prosopographical Portal (VieCPro)

Links

ORCID

Publications

Empresses and Queens in the Courtly Public Sphere from the 17th to the 20th Century

(gem. mit Th. Wallnig und Joelle Weiß), Digital Eighteenth Century: Central European Perspectives

Die Welt im Dienst des Glaubens. Erdteilallegorien in Dorfkirchen auf dem Gebiet des Fürstbistums Augsburg im 18. Jahrhundert