Research interests

  • Crusade preaching and mobilization (focus late twelfth century)
  • Theological and providential conception of crusading
  • Intellectual History and medieval universities
  • Sermon studies, sermon collections
  • Biblical exegesis and its interplay with historical phenomena
  • Eschatology, Apocalypticism, and Salvation History
  • Anti-Judaism and other forms of religious violence
  • History of the Iberian Peninsula
  • Manuscript Studies (i.e., identification, transcription, and analysis of unpublished sources)
  • Theory and methodology (especially Discourse Analysis; Narratology; Spatial Theory)

Curriculum Vitae

Since 03/2023

Return period of FWF Erwin Schrödinger grant [J 4576] at the IMAFO, ÖAW

06/2021–02/2023

FWF Erwin Schrödinger grant [J 4576], hosted by the Historisches Seminar, University of Heidelberg, Germany, in cooperation with Nikolas Jaspert

2019 

Graduation grant of the University of Vienna

2014 – 2019

Doctoral program in Philosophy, in the area History, University of Vienna, Austria; with a dissertation entitled ‘The Preaching of the Third Crusade (1187-92): Religious violence in the shadow of exegesis’; supervised by Philippe Buc (now University of Leiden); and currently in preparation for publication at Brill, series Commentaria

2016 – 2018

doc fellowship of the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften

2017 – 2018

Several research stays in Paris (consulting manuscripts)

2016

Research stays at the University of Heidelberg (hosted by Nikolas Jaspert) and visiting scholar at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London (hosted by David d’Avray, University College London), consulting manuscripts in London and Oxford

2009 – 2016

 Acquiring the following four degrees, all at the University of Vienna, Austria: MA Ancient History; MA History with focus Middle Ages; BA German Studies; BA History

Membership

  • Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East

  • International Medieval Sermon Studies Society

  • Vienna Doctoral Academy: Theory and Methodology in the Humanities (formerly)

  • Vienna Doctoral Academies: Medieval Academy (formerly)

Courses taught

  • Exercise course: ‘The Bible in Crusade Sources: Chronicles, papal letters, sermon texts’ (in English), winter term 2022, Historisches Seminar, University of Heidelberg

  • Exercise course: ‘Preaching the Crusades in the Central Middle Ages’ (in German), summer term 2022, Historisches Seminar, University of Heidelberg

Kontakt:

+43-1-51581-7213

alexander.marx(at)oeaw.ac.at

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