Prof. Albrecht Classen

University Distinguished Professor of German Studies

University of Arizona, USA

Professor

Email: aclassen@email.arizona.edu

Qualifications

1986        Ph.D., University of Virginia

1984-1986 Graduate Studies, University of Virginia

1982-1984 Graduate Studies, Oxford University, Great Britain

Publications (selected)

1. Friendship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Explorations of a Fundamental Ethical Discourse, ed. Albrecht Classen and Marilyn Sandidge. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 6 (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2010), ix, 802 pp., 18 b/w ill.
2. Sexual Violence and Rape in the Middle Ages: A Critical Discourse in Premodern German and European Literature. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 7 (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2011), vi, 272 pp.
3. Religion und Gesundheit in der Frühen Neuzeit:Der heilkundliche Diskurs im 16. Jahrhundert, ed. Albrecht Classen. Theophrastus Paracelsus Studien, 3 (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2011), VI, 410 pp.
4. Sex im Mittelalter: Die andere Seite einer idealisierten Vergangenheit. Literatur und Sexualität(Badenweiler: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Bachmann, 2011), 369 pp., 18 ill.
5. War and Peace: Critical Issues in European Societies and Literature 800-1800  ed. Albrecht Classen and Nadia Margolis. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 8 (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2011), viii, 647 pp., 33 ill.
6. Mediaevistik: Internationale Zeitschrift für Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterforschung, ed. Peter Dinzelbacher and Albrecht Classen. Vol. 23 (Frankfurt a. M., Berlin, et al.: Peter Lang, 2010), 659 pp.
7. Medieval Answers to Modern Problems, ed. Albrecht Classen (San Diego: Cognella, University Readers, 2012), 250 pp.; rev. ed. 2012, 302 pp.; 2nd rev. ed. 2013, 328 pp.
8. Kultur-undkommunikationshistorischer Wandel des Liedes im 16. Jahrhundert, ed. Albrecht Classen, Michael Fischer, and Nils Grosch. Populäre Kultur und Musik, 3 (Münster, New York, et al.: Waxmann, 2012), 256 pp.
9. Aspects of Literary Translation: Building Linguistic and Cultural Bridge in Past and Present, ed. Eva Parra-Membrives, Miguel Ángel García Peinado, Albrecht Classen. Translation, Text and Interferences, 1 (Tübingen: Narr, 2012), 413 pp.
10. Gutes Leben und guter Tod von der Spätantike bis zur Gegenwart: Ein Philosophisch-ethischer Diskurs über die Jahrhunderte hinweg, ed. Albrecht Classen. Theophrastus Paracelsus Studien, 4 (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2012), 470 pp.
11. Mediaevistik: Internationale Zeitschrift für Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterforschung, ed. Albrecht Classen. Vol. 24 (Frankfurt a. M., Berlin, et al.: Peter Lang, 2012), 727 pp.
12. The Letters of the Swiss Jesuit Missionary Philipp Segesser (1689-1762): An Eyewitness to the Settlement of Eighteenth-Century Sonora (Pimería Alta, ed. and trans. Albrecht Classen. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Occasional Series, 5 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012), x, 245 pp., 4 ill.
13. Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: The Spatial Turn in Premodern Studies, ed. Albrecht Classen, with the collaboration of Christopher R. Clason. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 9 (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2012), x, 921 pp.
14. Crime and Punishment in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Mental-Historical Investigations of Basic Human Problems and Social Responses, ed. Albrecht Classen and Connie Scarborough. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 11 (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2012), viii, 602 pp.
15. Early History of the Southwest through the Eyes of German-Speaking Jesuit Missionaries: A Transcultural Experience in the Eighteenth Century(Lanham, MD, Boulder, et al.: Lexington Books, 2013), xi, 216 pp., 10 ill.
16. Mediaevistik: Internationale Zeitschrift für Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterforschung, vol. 25, ed. A. Classen (Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang, 2013), 591 pp.
17. East Meets West in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: Transcultural Experiences in the Premodern World, ed. Albrecht Classen. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 14 (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2013), ix, 818 pp.
18. Literatur am Rand: Perspektiven der Trivialliteratur vom Mittelalter bis zum 21. Jahrhundert, ed. Albrecht Classen and Eva Parra-Membrives. Popular Fiction Studies, 1 (Tübingen: Narr Verlag, 2013), 301 pp. (ca. 70% responsibility)
19. Mediaevistik: Internationale Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Mittelalterforschung 27 (2013), 487 pp.
20. Erasmus Widmann (1571-1634): Edition seiner weltlichen, unterhaltsamen und didaktischen Lieder und Gesänge (Berlin: Weidler, 2011), 147 pp.
    

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Last Updated: 2014-03-28