Chair of Early Modern History Research
Research foci
- History of historiography
- History of political thought
- History of mentalities
- Views of history
- Swiss history
- History of education and schools
Current research projects
- „Der Aggressor. Selbst- und Fremdwahrnehmung eines Akteurs zwischen den Nationen“
Project funded by the Daimler-Benz-Stiftung
Spokesman: Prof. Dr. Thomas Maissen - „Wie die Jungfrau zum Staate kam. Die Personifikation des Gemeinwesens in der Vormoderne“
Project funded by the Opus magnum initiative of the Volkswagenstiftung
Prof. Dr. Thomas Maissen
Concluded research projects
- „El Papel de las Repúblicas Europeas en la Conformación del Estado Moderno. ¿Alternativa Modernizadora o Motor del Sistema? (Siglos XVI-XVIII)“
Researcher: Urte Weeber
Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Thomas Maissen - „Übergänge. Die Bedeutung und Funktion von transitorischen Räumen (1400-1800)"
Project funded by the Innovationsfonds Frontier of the Exzellenzinitiative
Project manager: Prof. Dr. Thomas Maissen, Dr. Daniel Jütte
2009–2012
- „Nationising the Dynasty. Asymmetrical Flows in Conception of Government“
Project A5 in the Exzellenzcluster „Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows“
Researcher: Verena Gander
Project manager: Prof. Dr. Thomas Maissen - "Dynamic Asymmetries in Transcultural Flows at the Intersection of Asia and Europe: The Case of the Early Modern Ottoman Empire"
Project A7 in the Exzellenzcluster "Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in a Global Context"
Researcher: Pascal Firges, Tobias Graf
Project manager: Prof. Dr. Thomas Maissen
2009
- „The Devolopment of Citizenship in a Transcultural Context“
Project A11 in the Exzellenzcluster "Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in a Global Context"
Project manager: Prof. Dr. Thomas Maissen
2007–2010
- „Liberalism and Republicanism in Early Modern Europe: Concepts of Citizenship as a usable Past for today's Israeli-European Civic Dialogue“
Cooperation of the ZEGK with the German Israeli Foundation of Scientific Research and Development and Haifa University
Researcher: Elisabeth Natour, Urte Weeber, Antoinette Saxer, Christine Zabel
Project manager: Prof. Dr. Thomas Maissen together with Prof. Fania Oz-Salzberger (Haifa)
2006–2009
- „Das Konzert der Medien in der Vormoderne - Gruppenbildung & Performanz“
Regional doctoral college (Landespromotionskolleg) of the ZEGK and the ZAW
Spokesman: Prof. Dr. Thomas Maissen