Prof. Dr. Hagit Amirav
Humanities, Early Christianity and Late Antiquity
Humanities
History of the early modern period
Religious history with a focus on Lutheranism
The Jesuit mission and (the transfer of) knowledge
(Lay) prophecies
History of museums and museum collections
Politische Kultur in der Frühen Neuzeit. Kirchenräume in Hildesheimer Stadt- und Landgemeinden, 1550-1750 (Quellen und Forschungen zur Reformationsgeschichte 77), Gütersloh 2006.
Frauenarbeit in Haus, Handel und Gewerbe – ihr Beitrag zur Hamburger Stadtwirtschaft im 14. Jahrhundert, Berlin 2005.
Kirchen, Märkte und Tavernen. Erfahrungs- und Handlungsräume in der Frühen Neuzeit, hg. zus. mit Gerd Schwerhoff (Zeitsprünge Sonderband), Frankfurt am Main 2005.
Expansionen in der Frühen Neuzeit, hg. zus. mit Gisela Engel und Johannes Süßmann (ZHF Beiheft 34), Berlin 2004.
Eigene und fremde Frühe Neuzeiten. Genese und Geltung eines Epochenbegriffes, hg. zus. mit Gisela Engel u. Johannes Süßmann (HZ Beihefte 35), München 2003.
Mägde in der Stadt. Das Beispiel Schwäbisch Hall in der Frühen Neuzeit (Geschichte und Geschlecht 13), Frankfurt am Main 1995.
Forum. Globalizing Early Modern German History (zus. mit Ronnie Hsia, Carina Johnson, Ulrike Strasser, Merry Wiesner-Hanks), in: German History 31 (2013), S. 366-382.
Confession as an Instrument of Church Discipline – a Study of Catholic and Lutheran Confessional Manuals from the 16th and 17th Centuries, in: Between Creativity and Norm-Making. Tensions in the Early Modern Era, hg. v. Sigrid Müller u. Cornelia Gottschamel, Leiden 2013, S. 215-240.
Laienprophetien. Zur Emotionalisierung politischer Phantasien im 17. Jahrhundert, in: Performing Emotions. Zum Verhältnis von Politik und Emotion in der Frühen Neuzeit und in der Moderne, hrsg. von Claudia Jarzebowski/ Anne Kwaschik, Göttingen 2013, S. 17-41.
Kanzelaltäre zwischen Säkularisierung und Sakralisierung, in: Der Kirchenbau zwischen Sakralisierung und Säkularisierung im 17./18. Jahrhundert und heute, hg. von Eva-Maria Seng, Berlin 2013, S. 54-74.
Sprachreflexion in der Mission. Die Bedeutung der Kommunikation in den sprachtheoretischen Überlegungen von José de Acosta S.J. und Antonio Ruiz de Montoya S.J. im ausgehenden 16. und beginnenden 17. Jahrhundert, in: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 36 (2010), S. 161-196.
Research Training Group 1662/1: Religious knowledge in pre-modern Europe (800-1800): Transfers and Transformations. Paths to the modern knowledge society; Project: Prophecy as participation in the process of salvation. Lutheran lay prophecy in the period of confessionalization
Collaborative Research Centre 923: Threatened orders. Project C07: Apocalypticism as a threat discourse: Prophetic movements in colonial Peru (16th century)
German Research Foundation (DFG) project: The Museum Fridericianum as a travel destination for educational and research purposes during the European Enlightenment. Annotated, digitized edition of the visitors' book, 1769-1796. (completed)
Member of the scientific advisory committee to 'German History', since 2014
Member of the scientific advisory committee to the Institute for Danube Swabian History and Geography, since 2013
Member of the committee 'Historical Geography in Baden-Württemberg', since 2012
Member of the scientific advisory committee to the 'Upper Swabian Society for History and Culture', since 2012
Member of the German Research Foundation (DFG) subcommittee on transregional access to academic and scientific literature, since March 2011
Co-editor of the series 'Frühneuzeit-Forschungen' (Early Modern Research) from the bibliotheca academica publishing house, Epfendorf, Germany, since 2009
Member of the Historical Commission for the State of Hesse, Germany, since 2007
Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Kassel, Germany, 2006 – 2011
Professor of Modern History at the University of Tübingen, Germany, since October 2011
Overseas Visiting Scholarship to St John's College in Cambridge, UK, 2013
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Humanities, Early Christianity and Late Antiquity
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