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Late Medieval
Economic History

PD Dr. Julia Bruch

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Julia Bruch has been a postdoc in the DFG Research Group 2212 “Dynamics of Conventionality (400-1550)” at the University of Cologne since 2020. She completed her habilitation thesis <a href=\"https://mittelalterliche-geschichte.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/en/personal/academic-staff/bruch-julia/research-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sammeln und auswählen, ordnen und deuten. Geschichte(n) schreibende Handwerker und ihre Chroniken im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert<a href=\"https://grk2212.uni-koeln.de/projekte/sammeln-und-auswaehlen-ordnen-und-deuten\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> at the University of Cologne in 2021/2022. She is currently working on a project about <a href=\"https://mittelalterliche-geschichte.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/en/personal/mitarbeiterinnen/bruch-julia/rechenbuecher-als-multidimensionale-wissensquellen\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reckoning books. In the winter semester 2023/24, Julia Bruch will be Guest Professor “Women in Manuscript Cultures” at the <a href=\"https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Centre for the Studies of Manuscript Cultures and Cluster of Excellence “Understanding Written Artefacts”. In the winter semester 2022/23, she filled in for the professorship for Medieval History/Late Middle Ages (Prof. Dr. Sabine von Heusinger) in Cologne. Julia Bruch is supervising two doctoral theses that are being written as part of the GRK 2212: Nils Foege's work on Cologne monastery libraries in the late medieval media change and Simone Hallstein's project on anti-Semitism and media change in the late Middle Ages.

From 2011 to 2020, she was a research associate at the Chair of Medieval History/Late Middle Ages under Prof. Dr. Sabine von Heusinger (with a break due to maternity and parental leave). From 2009 to 2011, she was a scholarship holder of the Gerda Henkel Foundation. In 2008 and 2010, she was a research assistant at the Chair of Medieval History at the University of Mannheim, under Prof. Dr. Annette Kehnel. She also completed her doctorate here in 2012 with a thesis on the Cistercian Abbey of Kaisheim and its daughter monasteries. In 2010, Julia Bruch won the doctoral forum of the German Historians' Day in Berlin with a poster presentation on this work.

She completed her studies in medieval and modern history, ancient history and German studies at the University of Mannheim from 2002 to 2008.

Her research interests are: literality and knowledge transfer, urban historiography of the 15th and 16th centuries, pre-modern economic history and the history of monasteries and religious orders of the 13th and 14th centuries.

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