Research interests

  • Crusade preaching and mobilization
  • Theological and providential conception of crusading
  • The reception of the Roman conquest of Jerusalem (70 AD)
  • Intellectual History and medieval universities
  • Sermon studies, sermon collections
  • Preaching before the Friars, from the Carolingian period to the twelfth century
  • Biblical exegesis and its interplay with historical phenomena
  • Eschatology, Apocalypticism, and Salvation History
  • Anti-Judaism and other forms of religious polemic and violence
  • History of the Iberian Peninsula
  • Manuscript Studies (i.e., identification, transcription, and analysis of unpublished sources)
  • Theory and methodology (especially Discourse Analysis, Narratology, and Spatial Theory)

Curriculum Vitae

Since 06/2024

FWF ESPRIT grant [ESP-678] at the IMAFO, ÖAW: The Medieval Reception of the Roman Conquest of Jerusalem (c.600-c.1200)

03-05/2024

Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Paris

03/2023– 11/2023

Return period of FWF Erwin Schrödinger grant [J 4576] at the IMAFO, ÖAW
Martin of León (c.1130-1203): A Spanish crusade preacher in the late twelfth century

06/2021–02/2023

FWF Erwin Schrödinger grant [J 4576], hosted by the Historisches Seminar, University of Heidelberg, Germany, in cooperation with Nikolas Jaspert
Martin of León (c.1130-1203): A Spanish crusade preacher in the late twelfth century

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); appearing now with Brill, series Commentaria, vol. 16

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

  • Medieval Academy of America

  • Arbeitsgemeinschaft Iberomediaevistik

Courses taught

  • Guided Reading: ‘Preaching the Crusades in the Central Middle Ages’ (in German), winter term 2024, Institut für Geschichte, University of Vienna

  • Proseminar: ‘Propaganda in the Middle Ages: Sermons as a historical source’ (in English), summer term 2025, Institut für Geschichte, University of Vienna

  • 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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