Prof. Dr. Christine Abbt
Humanities, Social and behavioural sciences
Humanities
Modern European history
Social and cultural history; comparative history and cultural transfer; religious-political conflicts; memory studies; political iconography; national and regional identity. Main focus on German, French, Belgian and Italian history (period 1750-1914)
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian
"Catholic and Breton Forever": Violence and the visual in early-twentieth century France, in: Writing oolitical history today, eds. Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey, Heinz-Gerhard Haupt & Willibald Steinmetz (Frankfurt am Main 2013) 259-290.
Il culto degli italiani illustri nella Roma pre-risorgimentale, in: Memoria & Ricerca 45:1 (2014) 127-155.
Public pantheons in Revolutionary Europe. Comparing cultures of remembrance, c. 1790-1840 (Basingstoke 2012).
Voorbeelden voor het volk? Heldenverering in Groot-Brittannië en Italië, in: Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 124:2 (2012), 89-102.
Religion and violence in Catholic Europe, 1848-1914 (principal investigator)
Violence and the clerical-liberal conflict in Bavaria, Brittany and Flanders: 1848-1914 (personal project)
A history of blasphemy in Europe since 1500 (school project)
Public pantheons in Revolutionary Europe, c. 1790-1840 (dissertation project)
Interview with Deutschlandfunk (16 October 2014): http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/religion-und-gewalt-der-fundamentalismus-der-is-terroristen.1148.de.html?dram:article_id=300547
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Humanities, Social and behavioural sciences
Humanities, Philosophy: Moral and Social Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Bioethics
Humanities, Social, modern political, and environmental history
Languages, Humanities, Formal semantics and pragmatics, philosophy of language, logic