| Dr. Jochen Burgtorf | |
| Associate Professor | |
| Medieval World History | |
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Research |
2005-present: Associate Professor of Medieval World History; California State University, Fullerton
2001-2005: Assistant Professor of Medieval World History; California State University, Fullerton
2001: Ph.D. in Medieval History (major), Modern History (1st minor), and English/American Language and Literature (2nd minor); Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf; Thesis: "Führungsstrukturen und Funktionsträger in der Zentrale der Templer und Johanniter von den Anfängen bis zum frühen 14. Jahrhundert" (Leadership Structures and Functionaries in the Headquarters of the Orders of the Temple and the Hospital from the Beginnings to the Early Fourteenth Century)
1999-2001: Archivist/Researcher in Medieval History; Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen (Academy of Arts and Sciences in Göttingen)
1994-1999: Lecturer in Medieval History, Assistant to the Department Chair; Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
1994: M.A. in Medieval History (major), Modern History (1st minor), and English/American Language and Literature (2nd minor); Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf; Thesis: "Die großen Würdenträger des Johanniterordens im 12. und 13. Jahrhundert: Personen, Karrieren, Funktionen" (The High Dignitaries of the Knights Hospitallers in the 12th and 13th Centuries: Personalities, Careers, Functions)
1989-1990: Recipient of a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)-scholarship for graduate study in the Department of History of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
1988-1994: Student in Medieval History (major), Modern History (1st minor), and English/American Language and Literature (2nd minor); Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.
BOOK (in progress): Leadership Structures and Functionaries in the Headquarters of the Orders of the Temple and the Hospital from the Beginnings to the Early Fourteenth Century (working title).
ARTICLE (in progress): "Li maistre ou cil qui tenra son leuc: The Order of the Temple's Central Government in the Absence of the Master."
ARTICLE (submitted): "A Mediterranean Career in the Late Thirteenth Century: The Hospitaller Grand Commander Boniface of Calamandrana."
ARTICLE (submitted): "With my life, his joyes began and ended: Piers Gaveston and King Edward II of England Revisited."
SHORT ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES (submitted for the new Dictionnaire des Ordres Militaires): "carrière," "chancelier," "drapier," "Garnier de Naplouse," "grand commandeur," "hiérarchie," "hospitalier," "Hugues Revel," "Joseph de Chauncy," "lieutenant," "maître," "maréchal," "mobilité," "règlement des conflits," "rivalité," "trêves," "turcopolier."
BOOK CHAPTER (2007): “Die Kreuzfahrerstaaten” (The Crusader States), in Einladung ins Mittelalter (Invitation into the Middle Ages), ed. Andreas Ranft (München: Oldenbourg Verlag, 2006).
ARTICLE (2006): “The Military Orders in the Crusader Principality of Antioch,” in Antioch (696-1268, ed. Michael Metcalf, Krijnie Ciggaar, and Victoria van Aalst, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta (Leuven: Peeters Press, 2006), 217-246.
SHORT ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES (2006): “Acre, siege (1291)”, "Andrew of Montbard," “Crusade of 1239-1241”, “Forbie, battle”, "Garin of Montaigu," "Girbert Eral," "Hugh Revel," “Joinville”, "Nicholas Lorgne," "Odo of Pins," "Peter of Vieillebride," "Robert Burgundio," "Theobald Gaudini," "William of Chateauneuf," and "William of Villaret," in Encyclopedia of the Crusades, ed. Alan V. Murray (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2006).
BOOK (2006): International Mobility in the Military Orders (Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries): Travelling on Christ's Business, ed. Jochen Burgtorf and Helen Nicholson (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2006). pp xxii 221 including 9 maps and figures.
ARTICLE (2006): "The Templars' and Hospitallers' High Dignitaries: Aspects of Horizontal Mobility," in International Mobility in the Military Orders (Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries): Travelling on Christ's Business, ed. Jochen Burgtorf and Helen Nicholson, 11-24 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2006).
ARTICLE (2005): "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 (Toruń: University Press of the Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, 2005), 23-45.
BOOK REVIEW (2004): [Helen Nicholson, The Knights Templar: A New History (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2001)], Crusades 3 (2004): 194-195.
BOOK REVIEW (2003): [Marcus Junkelmann, Panis militaris: Die Ernährung des römischen Soldaten oder der Grundstoff der Macht (Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1997)], Journal of Indo-European Studies 31, no. 3-4 (2003): 456-459.
BOOK REVIEW (2003): [Jonathan Riley-Smith, Hospitallers: The History of the Order of St John (London: The Hambledon Press, 1999)], Crusades 1 (2002): 211-213.
BOOK REVIEW (2001): [Kaspar Elm and Cosimo Damiano Fonseca, Militia Sancti Sepulcri: Idea e istituzioni, Hierosolimitana: Acta et Monumenta (Città del Vaticano: n.p., 1998, 521 pp.], Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 28, no. 2 (2001): 307-309.
ARTICLE (2001): "Die Ritterorden als Instanzen zur Friedenssicherung?" (The Military Orders as Institutions for the Keeping of the Peace?), in Jerusalem im Hoch-und Spätmittelalter, ed. Dieter Bauer, Klaus Herbers, and Nikolas Jaspert, 165-200 (Frankfurt and New York: Campus, 2001).
ARTICLE (2001): "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, 379-394 (Budapest: Central European University, 2001).
INTERNET (1999): During the winter semester of 1998/1999, the students of my classes "Councils and the Conciliar Movement" and "The Wars of the Roses (1455-1485)" compiled a series of bibliographies which I subsequently edited and installed on the library server at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf where they were accessible until 2004 (they are currently under preparation for this website).
ARTICLE (1998): "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, 217-224 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998).
ARTICLE (1996): "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).
2007: “The Inventories of the Templars’ Houses in France,” The 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, USA, May 2007.
2006: “Templar and Hospitaller Properties in the Principality of Antioch and the County of Tripoli,” A.A. Bredius Foundation Conference "Antioch in the Period from the Byzantine Reconquest in 969 to the Fall of the Crusader Principality in 1268 - Part Two," Kasteel Hernen, Netherlands, May 2006.
2006: “Margat and Valenia in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries,” International Castle Research Society, Braubach, Germany, January 2006.
2005: “Die Johanniterherrschaft von Margat” (The Hospitaller Lordship of Margat), XIIth Conference "Ordines Militares: Colloquia Torunensia historica," "Selbstverständnis und Selbstbild der geistlichen Ritterorden," Torun, Poland, September 2005.
2005: “The Templar Matthew Sauvage and Sultan Baybars: Enemies and Blood-Brothers in the Thirteenth-Century Middle East,” The 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, USA, May 2005.
2004: “Women on the Run: Female Fugitives in Medieval Europe,” CSUF Faculty Research Conference "Intersections in History, Gender, Race and Performance," California State University Fullerton, USA, March 2004.
2004: “Peace-Keeping Forces in the Latin East? The Military Orders Revisited,” California Medieval History Seminar, Huntington Library, San Marino, USA, February 2004.
2003: "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), XIIth Conference "Ordines Militares: Colloquia Torunensia historica," "Selbstverständnis und Selbstbild der geistlichen Ritterorden," Torun, Poland, September 2003.
2003: "The Military Orders in the Crusader Principality of Antioch," A.A. Bredius Foundation Conference "Antioch in the Period from the Byzantine Reconquest in 969 to the Fall of the Crusader Principality in 1268," Kasteel Hernen, Netherlands, May 2003.
2003: "With my life, his joys began and ended: The Relationship Between Piers Gaveston and Edward II of England Revisited," The 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, USA, May 2003.
2002: "The Templars' and Hospitallers' High Dignitaries: Aspects of their Horizontal Mobility," International Medieval Congress, Session 203, Leeds, England, July 2002.
2002: "Feasting and Fasting in the Middle Ages," Symposium "Food, Culture, and History", History Alumni Association, California State University, Fullerton, USA, April 2002.
2002: "Templars and Hospitallers: Religious Military Orders as Peace-Keeping Forces in the Medieval Middle East?," Clio Club, California State University, Fullerton, USA, April 2002.
2002: "Historian I may be, but I am also a woman: Reflections on the Writing of History in Anna Komnene's Alexiad," CSUF Faculty Research Conference "What Women Make: A Celebration of Feminist Inquiry," California State University Fullerton, USA, March 2002.
2001: "Die Arbeitsstelle für Papsturkundenforschung an der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen" (The Center for Research on Papal Documents at the Academy of Arts and Sciences in Göttingen), Sitzung des Kuratoriums der Pius-Stiftung für Papsturkundenforschung, Göttingen, Germany, November 2001.
1999: "Die Ritterorden als Instanzen zur Friedenssicherung?" (The Military Orders as Institutions for the Keeping of the Peace?), Conference "1099: Eroberung Jerusalems - und die Folgen: Konflikte und Konfliktregelungen," Weingarten, Germany, December 1999.
1999: "Leadership Structures in the Headquarters of the Orders of the Hospital and the Temple (12th through early 14th centuries)," Jerusalem, Acre, Cyprus, Conference-Workshop "The Military Orders and the Crusades," Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, February 1999.
1998: " ... the one who takes the Master's place: The Order of the Temple's Central Government in the Absence of the Master," International Medieval Congress, Session 306, Leeds, England, July 1998.
1996: "Wind Beneath the Wings: Subordinate Headquarters Officials in the Hospital and the Temple from the Twelfth to the Early Fourteenth Centuries, Second Quadrennial Military Orders Conference "Welfare and Warfare," St. John's Gate at Clerkenwell, London, England, September 1996.
1996: "Eliten im Schatten des Meisters: Führungsstrukturen der Templer und Johanniter, 12.-14. Jahrhundert" (Elites in the Shadow of the Master: Leadership Structures in the Orders of the Hospital and the Temple, 12th-14th Centuries), Görres-Gesellschaft zur Pflege der Wissenschaft, March 1996.
1995: "The Order of the Hospital's High Dignitaries and their Claims on the Inheritance of Deceased Brethren - Regulations and Conflicts," Fourth International Conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, Clermont-Ferrand, France, June 1995.
Research I: High Middle Ages, Crusade History, Religious Military Orders. In my Ph.D. dissertation (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 2001), I have documented, in a comparative approach, the evolution and further development of leadership structures below the mastership level in the headquarters (Jerusalem to 1187, Acre 1191-1291, Cyprus 1291-1308/1310) of the military religious orders of the Hospital and the Temple. While the order of the Hospital (Knights of St. John) started as a hospital/hospice in Jerusalem and retained its charitable functions long after its militarization, the order of the Temple began as a military escort for pilgrims. Both orders later formed the standing army of the crusader states and both experienced "internationalization" with ever new challenges for their central government. Within the framework of medieval European church and constitutional history, my dissertation's first part presents a chronological overview (A) and systematic analysis (B) of the offices of the functionaries (seneschal, preceptor, treasurer; marshal, turcopolier, admiral; draper; hospitaller; prior) who in the course of the 12th and 13th centuries formed an exclusive and powerful group that effectively organized the headquarters' daily routine and represented the orders in the Holy Land, as well as on special missions abroad, but also advised and (most importantly) controlled the master. The systematic part (B) includes an evaluation of these functionaries' international careers, and chapters on the functionaries' personalities as reflected in the narrative sources, charter arengae, and trial records. The dissertation's third part (C) consists of a prosopographical catalogue (containing the data for 226 functionaries). The dissertation is based in part on a considerable body of hitherto neglected and mostly unpublished source material (the over 70 volumes of charters of the "Collection d'Albon", Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, nouvelles acquistions latines). Most sources are recorded in Latin or medieval French, some are in medieval Spanish (including Catalan) and Italian. Most research for the dissertation was done in Paris (France), London and Oxford (England). Several publications (see above) have been produced based on research collected throughout the dissertation process. I am now preparing the dissertation for publication as a book. The history of the crusades and the religious military orders continues to be one of my main research interests.
Research II: Fugitivus (The Fugitive): Aspects of a Human Survival Strategy in the Middle Ages. The (hi)story of fugitives and refugees is as old as the history of mankind itself and is not restricted to a certain region or social class. To run or move away from impending or present danger, from punishment or pursuit, is part of the instinct of self-preservation. The Bible, Roman law, and other normative texts, but also medieval chronicles contain an abundance of references to fugitives and flight incidents. For this project, my main objective is to see what can be learned from the sources about (A) the mind of the fugitive and (B) the logistics of flight. The project would definitely benefit from a cooperation with historians that work in epochs other than the Middle Ages on the history of mentality and/or mobility, and from an interdisciplinary approach which would bring together scholars of history, theology, law, behavioral science, philology, etc. Some of the issues that I have started to work on are: (1) Terminology (Latin): fugitivus, fugax, fugire, fuga, evadere, etc. (context); (2) Reasons for flight: personal, legal, religious, economic, health, ethnic, military; (3) Logistics: preparations, transportation, speed, roads taken, help, shelters (refugia); (4) Flight as a curse - Flight as a chance; (5) Flight - alone or in a group; (6) Flight typologies; (7) Loss of the "home" - Search for a substitute - Hope for return. A catalogue of references in Medieval sources to fugitives/refugees and flight (to be compiled) will then serve as a basis for further investigation. I am planning to publish my findings as a book.
Research III: Regesta Pontificum Romanorum (Research on Pre-1198 Papal Documents). Since 1994, I have been cooperating on various parts of the "Regesta Pontificum Romanorum" (RPR). The RPR, i.e. Latin summaries of papal documents combined with information on their archival whereabouts, on the editions available, and short commentaries, were inaugurated as a major historical project in the nineteenth century, first by Ph. Jaffé, then by Paul F. Kehr who, in 1896, helped to make the RPR one of the projects of Göttingen's Akademie der Wissenschaften. Kehr's intention to produce, by and by, editions of all papal documents issued before 1198 (the year in which the Vatican registers begin), has kept historians busy ever since. We know now that the total of pre-1198 documents is probably well above 30,000. About 50 volumes of editions, "regesta", archival reports, and special studies have appeared in conjunction with RPR in the past 100 years (and the end is not in sight). I have been involved in three parts of the project: (1) collaborating on an edition of the "regesta" of the papal documents for the military orders (Oriens Pontificius, Ordines Militares), (2) helping to prepare an edition of selected papers by Paul F. Kehr (ed. Rudolf Hiestand), and (3) compiling a database catalogue of the collections of transcriptions, collations, photographs, and films of pre-1198 papal documents held in Göttingen (the largest of its kind in the world). Together with three colleagues from Düsseldorf, I helped organize and run the international symposium celebrating the centennial of the RPR project in Göttingen in October 1996 (the volume of papers read at this symposium has been published).
MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein (Duesseldorf Historical Society)
Görres-Gesellschaft zur Pflege der Wissenschaft (Görres Scholars' Society)
SSCLE (Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East)
| Copyright: | Jochen Burgtorf | ||
| Created: | July 2, 2002 | ||
| Updated: | May 16, 2007 | ||
| Contact: | jburgtorf@fullerton.edu | ||