Prof. Dr. (phil.) Jochen Burgtorf M.A., Chair

Medieval History

California State University, Fullerton

Department of History

800 N. State College Blvd.

Fullerton, CA 92834-6846, USA

Phone: (657) 278-3560

Fax: (657) 278-2101

E-mail: jburgtorf@fullerton.edu

Office hours (Fall 2011): T, 6p-7p (not 11/15, 11/22)

W o r k   E x p e r i e n c e

2005-2009

Associate Professor of Medieval History, California State University, Fullerton

2001-2005

Assistant Professor of Medieval History, California State University, Fullerton

1999-2001

Archivist/Researcher in Medieval History (Papal Documents)

Academy of Arts and Sciences in Göttingen, Germany

1994-1999

Lecturer in Medieval History, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Germany

T e a c h i n g   a n d   R e s e a r c h   I n t e r e s t s

Crusades and Religious Military Orders (Hospitallers and Templars)

Comparative institutional history, prosopography (collective biography), and mythopoetic discourse. Archival work on unedited inventories of the Templar trial and early statute collections of the Hospitallers (e.g. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 6049). Historical advisor to the Syro-Hungarian Archaeological Mission (castle of al-Marqab/Margat). Member of the editorial board of Outremer (Brepols). Related courses: HIST490T (Crusades and Latin East) and HIST490T (Historical Battle Myths)

English Medieval

History

Interpersonal relations and discourse strategies in late-medieval historiography (focus: the reign of Edward II, 1307-1327). Related courses: HIST423C/formerly 402 (Ancient and Medieval Britain) and HIST490T (The Viking Age)

Medieval Religious History: Regesta Pontificum Romanorum (RPR; Pre-1198 Papal Documents)

Official collaborator of the RPR, an international research project (established 1896 at the Academy of Arts and Sciences in Göttingen, Germany) dedicated to publishing summaries (regesta) of and critical commentaries on papal documents. Related courses: HIST423A/formerly 423 (Medieval History) and HIST412A/formerly 421A (History of the Christian Church)

Fugitivus (Fugitive): Aspects of a Human Survival Strategy in

the Middle Ages

History of mentalities (fight vs. flight strategies, the mind of the fugitive, and the logistics of flight). Related course: HIST300B (Historical Writing), topical focus in select sections

E d u c a t i o n a l   E x p e r i e n c e

Ph.D. (2001)

Medieval History (major), Modern History (minor), English (minor)

Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Germany

M.A. (1994)

Medieval History (major), Modern History (minor), English (minor)

Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Germany

1989–1990

DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship for graduate study

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

1988–1994

Student in Medieval History, Modern History, and English

Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Germany

P u b l i c a t i o n s

BOOKS

The Central Convent of Hospitallers and Templars: History, Organization, and Personnel (1099/1120-1310), History of Warfare, Volume 50 (Leiden, Netherlands, and Boston, Massachusetts: Brill, 2008), xxviii, 761 pp. ISBN 978900416608. ISSN 13857827

International Mobility in the Military Orders (Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries): Travelling on Christ’s Business, co-edited with Helen J. Nicholson, Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages (Cardiff, Wales: University of Wales Press; Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006), xxii, 218 pp. ISBN 9780708319079

ARTICLES/ESSAYS

“‘With my life, his joyes began and ended:’ Piers Gaveston and Edward II of England Revisited,” in Fourteenth Century England, Volume V, ed. Nigel Saul (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2008), pp. 31-51. ISBN 9781843833871. ISSN 14713020

“A Mediterranean Career in the Late Thirteenth Century: The Hospitaller Commander Boniface of Calamandrana,” in The Hospitallers, the Mediterranean and Europe: Festschrift for Anthony Luttrell, ed. Karl Borchardt, Nikolas Jaspert, and Helen J. Nicholson (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), pp. 73-85. ISBN 9780754662754

“Die Herrschaft der Johanniter in Margat im Heiligen Land” [The Hospitaller Lordship of Margat in the Holy Land], in Die Ritterorden als Träger der Herrschaft: Territorien, Grundbesitz und Kirche, ed. Roman Czaja und Jürgen Sarnowsky, Ordines Militares, Colloquia Torunensia Historica, XIV (Toruń: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, 2007), pp. 27-57. ISSN 08672008

“The Military Orders in the Crusader Principality of Antioch,” in East and West in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean, Vol I: Antioch from the Byzantine Reconquest until the End of the Crusader Principality, ed. Michael Metcalf and Krijnie Ciggaar, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 147 (Leuven: Peeters Press, 2006), pp. 217-246. ISBN 9789042917354

“The Templars’ and Hospitallers’ High Dignitaries: Aspects of International Mobility,” in International Mobility in the Military Orders (Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries): Traveling on Christ’s Business, ed. Jochen Burgtorf and Helen Nicholson, Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages (Cardiff: University of Wales Press; Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006), pp. 11-24. ISBN 9780708319079

“Das Selbstverständnis der Templer und Johanniter im Spiegel von Briefen und Urkunden (12. und 13. Jahrhundert)” [The Templars’ and Hospitallers’ Self-Image: Evidence from Letters and Charters], in Selbstbild und Selbstverständnis der geistlichen Ritterorden, ed. Roman Czaja and Jürgen Sarnowsky, Ordines Militares, Colloquia Torunensia Historica, XIII (Toruń: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, 2005), pp. 23-45. ISSN 08672008

“Die Ritterorden als Instanzen zur Friedenssicherung?” [The Military Orders as Institutions for the Keeping of the Peace?], in Jerusalem im Hoch-und Spätmittelalter: Konflikte und Konfliktbewältigungen, Vorstellungen und Vergegenwärtigungen, ed. Dieter Bauer, Klaus Herbers, and Nikolas Jaspert (Frankfurt and New York: Campus, 2001), pp. 165-200. ISBN 9783593368511

“Leadership Structures in the Orders of the Hospital and the Temple (Twelfth to Early Fourteenth Century): Select Aspects,” in The Crusades and the Military Orders: Expanding the Frontiers of Medieval Latin Christianity, ed. Zsolt Hunyadi and József Laszlovszky (Budapest: Central European University, 2001), pp. 379-394. ISBN 9639241423. 2nd, revised edition (Budapest: Central European University, 2008). ISBN 9789639776203 [Expected: Fall 2008]

“Wind Beneath the Wings: Subordinate Headquarters Officials in the Hospital and the Temple from the Twelfth to the Early Fourteenth Centuries,” in The Military Orders: Volume 2: Welfare and Warfare, ed. Helen Nicholson (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998), pp. 217-224. ISBN 9780860786795

“The Order of the Hospital’s High Dignitaries and their Claims on the Inheritance of Deceased Brethren: Regulations and Conflicts,” in Autour de la première croisade, ed. Michel Balard, Byzantina Sorbonensia, no. 14, 255-265 (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1996), pp. 255-265. ISBN 9782859443085

ENCYCLOPEDIA/HANDBOOK ARTICLES

2009 and 2007: “Kreuzfahrerherrschaften am Mittelmeer” [Crusader States in the Mediterranean], in Mittelalter: Oldenbourg Geschichte Lehrbuch, ed. Matthias Meinhardt, Andreas Ranft and Stephan Selzer (München: Oldenbourg Verlag, 2007), pp. 97-100. ISBN 9783486575927; 2nd edition: (München: Oldenbourg Verlag, 2009), pp. 97-100. ISBN 9783486588293

2006: “Acre, Siege of (1291),” “Andrew of Montbard,” “Antioch, Principality of,” “Bethlehem,” “Crusade of 1239-1241,” “Forbie, Battle of (1244),” “Garin of Montaigu,” “Gaza, Battle of (1239),” “Girbert Eral,” “Hugh Revel,” “Joinville, John of (1224/1225-1317),” “Nicholas Lorgne,” “Odo of Pins,” “Peter of Vieillebride,” “Robert Burgundio,” “Thibaud Gaudini,” “William of Chateauneuf,” and “William of Villaret,” in Encyclopedia of the Crusades, ed. Alan V. Murray, 4 vols. (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2006). ISBN 9781576078624

P r o f e s s i o n a l   A c t i v i t i e s

2010-present

Member of the National Advisory Board of Phi Alpha Theta (History Honor Society), and of the society’s Book Award committee. Executive director: Dr. Graydon A. (Jack) Tunstall, Jr., University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., SOC 107, Tampa, Florida 33620-8100, USA

2008-present

Member of the international editorial board of Outremer: Studies in the Crusades and the Latin East, a series of monographs, thematic collections of essays, and editions and translations of original sources, published by Brepols (Belgium). Editor: Dr. Alan V. Murray, Institute for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK

2006-present

Historical advisor and member of the Syro-Hungarian Archaeological Mission excavating the castle of Margat (al-Marqab). Contact: Dr. Balázs Major, Director of the Syro-Hungarian Archaeological Mission, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Piliscsaba, Hungary

C l a s s e s

Classes Taught at California State University, Fullerton (2001-present)

FLLT 100

Latin (Reading Knowledge)

HIST 110A

World Civ to 16C

HONR 210A

World Civ to 1500

HIST 300A

Historical Thinking

HIST 300B

Historical Writing

HIST 400A

Concepts in World History

HIST 402 (now 423C)

Ancient & Medieval Britain

HIST 409 (now 436A)

European Cities 1000-1915

HIST 420

Byzantine Empire

HIST 421A (now 412A)

History of the Christian Church (Origins-Reformation)

HIST 423 (now 423A)

Medieval History

HIST 490T

Crusades and Latin East

HIST 490T

Historical Battle Myths

HIST 491T

World of Charlemagne

HIST 491T

History of Spain

FLLT 499

Latin (Independent Study)

HIST 501

Theory & History

HIST 551T

Readings in World History

HIST 552T

Research in World History

Classes Taught at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (1994-1999)

Wars of the Roses

Councils and Conciliar Movement

Louis IX, King of France

Burgundy (5th-15th centuries)

Europe 1024-1125

The Imperial Coronation of Otto I (962)

Charles IV and the Golden Bull (1356)

England 1066-1377

The Twelfth Century

A w a r d s

2006 and 2010

Gordon M. Bakken Outstanding Faculty Award (History Dept., CSUF)

2006

Outstanding Faculty Advisor to a Student Organization (CSUF)

2004

Outstanding Untenured Faculty (College of H&SS, CSUF)

S e l e c t   S e r v i c e   A c t i v i t i e s   (AY 2011/2012, CSUF)

History Department 

Phi Alpha Theta, Theta-Pi Chapter, History Honor Society (advisor)

College of H&SS

Strategic Planning Committee (member)

University 

University Curriculum Committee (chair)

M e m b e r s h i p   i n   P r o f e s s i o n a l   S o c i e t i e s

AHA (American Historical Association)

De re military (The Society for Medieval Military History)

MAA (Medieval Academy of America)

Mediaevistenverband (German Medievalists' Society)

SSCLE (Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East)

L a n g u a g e s

German (native speaker)

English (M.A. minor and Ph.D. minor)

Latin (university-level teaching experience)

French (reading knowledge; basic speaking and writing)

Italian, Spanish, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch (workable reading knowledge)