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Address:

Laurin Herberich

Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Zentrum für Europäische Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften (ZEGK)

Historisches Seminar

Marstallstraße 6 

69117 Heidelberg

 

Contact:

Room 411 in the branch office of the Historical Seminar (Marstallstraße)

Phone: +49 (0)6221 547859

E-mail: laurin.herberich@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de 

 

Office hours:

On arrangement 

 

Research interests:

• History of the military religious orders (esp. of the Hospitallers)
• History of the Republic of Venice
• History of the Republic of Genoa
• History of the Eastern Mediterranean
• Digital Humanities (esp. relational databases, cypher, neo4j)
• Historical Methodology (esp. Latin philology)

 

Dissertation project:

Maritime Predators in the Eastern Mediterranean

The diction of sources doesn’t usually match the definition of researchers. Therefore, the fact that the main actors in the Rhodian “corso” of the Hospitallers in the Eastern Mediterranean are called “piratae” as well as “cursarii” by the mostly affected Venetians, reflects said rule of thumb. Surprisingly empirical research derives its definitions of the phenomenon of maritime predation not only from the modern equivalents of the latter terms, but also specifically from their distinction.

Reasons seem to be its source-analytical focus on entities and its legalist understanding of maritime predation.

To test newer attempts at definitions empirically and support them possibly, this project is not only setting a new focus on group- and single actors, but also a new outcome-oriented understanding of maritime predation as its guiding principle.

The aim is a prosopographical study of the phenomenon of maritime predation, that should enable insights in financial structures, social careers as well as diplomatic networks. At the end, a more useful definition of the phenomenon in the Late Middle Ages should be available, which matches its actors.

 

Curriculum Vitae:

• since October 2022: Researcher in the DFG-Project “Medieval Maritime Predation – A Database Supported Analysis of Mediterranean Violence”

• October 2021 – September 2022: Scientific Assistant at the Chair of Medieval History (Prof. Dr. Nikolas Jaspert) at the Department of History of the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg

• Juli 2021: Second State Exam (Latin and History)

• January 2020 – Juli 2021: Student teacher at Ludwig-Frank-Gymnasium Mannheim and the Seminar for the professional training of teachers Heidelberg

• November 2019: First State Exam (Latin and History)

• October 2013 – November 2019: Studies in Classical Philololgy and History at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg

 

Papers:

• Accessing Medieval Maritime Predation, Paper given at the DFG conference: Accessing the Sea in the Middle Ages: Quantitative Approaches to Mediterranean Mobility at Heidelberg University (30.10.2024).

• A City out of Time: Venice and the Latency Problem, Paper given at the 16^th conference of the European Association for Urban History (EAUH) at Ostrava University (05.09.2024).

• Pride and Predation: Conflict resolution between Venice and the Crown of Aragon in the late Middle Ages, Paper given at the IMC of the Institute for Medieval Studies at Leeds University (01.07.2024), URL: [https://imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/5419] (01.07.2024).

• Hospitallers and Maritime Violence: Bystanders or Beneficiaries? – Part II, Paper given at the Humboldt Symposium in Heidelberg (14.06.2024).

• Hospitallers and Maritime Violence: Bystanders or Beneficiaries? – Part I, Paper given at the IX Encontro sobre Ordens Militares in Palmela (27.10.2023).

• Loose Ends: POWs, Slaves and Refugees between Venice and the Ottoman Empire, Paper given in the Studienkurs of the Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani (04.10.2023).
• Out and Proud: The ‘pirata publicus’ in Venetian Archival Records, Paper given at the ICMS of the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University (13.05.2023).

• Maritime Powers and Maritime Predation: Strategies of Everyday Thalassocracy in the Eastern Mediterranean, Paper given in the Großes Kolloquium of the Historical Seminar at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (20.12.2022).

 

Publications:

Herberich, Laurin, Review of “Florian Chamorel, Un destin méditerranéen. Les princes de la Maison de Savoie en Méditerranée orientale (XIVe-XVe siècle) (Études d'Histoire Médiévale, 18), Paris (Honoré Champion) 2023”, in: Francia-Recensio (2024, 3), URL [https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/frrec/article/view/106510/101805] (12.11.2024).

Id., Review of “A Military History of the Mediterranean Sea. Aspects of War, Diplomacy, and Military Elites (History of Warfare, 118), hg. von Georgios Theotokis / Aysel Yildiz, Leiden/Boston 2018”, in: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters (2024, 79,2), pp. 915-917.

Id., Maritime Powers and Maritime Predation: Strategies of Everyday Thalassocracy in the Eastern Mediterranean, in: Jaspert, Nikolas, Rüdiger, Jan, Über die Küsten hinaus: Thalassokratien im Mittelalter (Mittelmeerstudien, 25), Paderborn 2023.

Tailored Terms: Catalan and Genoese Maritime Predators in Venetian Words, in: Ibero-Mediaevistik. Mittelalterforschung zur Iberischen Halbinsel (07.06.2023), URL: [https://iberome.hypotheses.org/1827] (07.06.2023).

Alfons V. and his Predators – Control through Goodwill, in: Ibero-Mediaevistik. Mittelalterforschung zur Iberischen Halbinsel (08.10.2022), URL: [https://iberome.hypotheses.org/1449] (08.10.2022).

How to achieve Metropolitan status in many, not so easy steps, in: Ibero-Mediaevistik. Mittelalterforschung zur Iberischen Halbinsel (26.12.2021), URL: [https://iberome.hypotheses.org/724] (26.12.2021).

“[multum] aliud importat” – Venetians, Catalans and Maritime Predators, in: Ibero-Mediaevistik. Mittelalterforschung zur Iberischen Halbinsel (18.11.2021), URL: [https://iberome.hypotheses.org/664] (18.11.2021).

 

Classes:

• SuSe 2024: Luxemburg in European contexts (Excursion)
• SuSe 2023: Genoa, Pisa and the Mediterranean (Excursion)
• SuSe 2023: Wissembourg between Bunkers und Castles (Excursion)
• SuSe 2023: Marshall Boucicaut (Exercise)
• WiSe 2022/23: Norman Connections (Excursion)
• SuSe 2022: The Teutonic Order in the County of Hohenlohe (Excursion)
• SuSe 2022: The Teutonic Order (Seminar)
• WiSe 2021/22: Venice and Maritime Predation (Exercise)

 

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