Dr. Eva-Maria Cersovsky
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of History
Medieval History
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
50923 Köln
Office: Philosophikum, Room 4.005
Phone: 0221-470-3811
Email: cersovse@uni-koeln.de
Office hours: Please send me an email to make an appointment.
Teaching
Winter term 2023/24
- Einführungsseminar "Herrschen, Wohnen, Arbeiten: Höfe im Mittelalter"
Short Biography
10/2021 | Ph.D., Medieval History, University of Cologne, dissertation on gender and medical charity in 15th and 16th-century Strasbourg |
since 10/2020 | Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of History, Chair of Late Medieval History, Prof. Dr. Sabine von Heusinger, University of Cologne |
2016-2020 | Ph.D. candidate at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne |
2012-2016 | Student and Research Assisant, Department of History, Chair of Late Medieval History, Prof. Dr. Sabine von Heusinger, University of Cologne |
2009-2015 | Student of History, English & Education, University of Cologne and Durham University, UK, Degree: First State Examination in Teaching |
Scholarships and Awards
- Dissertation prize awarded by the Arbeitskreis Historische Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung e.V. (10/2022)
- Ph.D. scholarship, given by the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne (04/2017-03/2020)
- Pre-doctorate scholarship, given by the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne (10/2016-03/2017)
- DAAD travel grants for conducting research in Strasbourg, France (11/2016 und 06/2017)
- Faculty prize for the State Examination thesis „anfechtung” – „trackheit” – „verzagen”. Doubts and Distance from God during the Late Middle Ages", awarded by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Cologne (07/2016)
- Student scholarship, given by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (07/2013-12/2015)
- ERASMUS scholarship for studying abroad at Durham University, UK (09/2011-06/2012)
Publications
Books
- Geschlechterverhältnisse in der Krankenfürsorge. Straßburg im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert, phil. Diss. masch. Köln 2021 (expected to be published with an English summary in autumn 2023, series "Mittelalter-Forschungen", Jan Thorbecke publishing; the manuscript was awarded the dissertation prize by the Arbeitskreis Historische Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung e.V.).
Edited Volumes
- with Julia Exarchos: Gender, Work, and Service in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1300-1600) (in preparation, series "VSWG-Beihefte", Franz Steiner publishing)
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
- with Julia Bruch: Wirtschaft und Geschlecht. In: Ertl, Thomas (Hrsg.): Wirtschaft im Mittelalter (in preparation, series "Handbücher zur Wirtschaftsgeschichte", De Gruyter publishing).
- Working Couples, Health Care and Poor Relief in Later Medieval Strasbourg. In: Eva-Maria Cersovsky/ Julia Exarchos (ed.): Gender, Work, and Service in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1300-1600). (in preparation, series "VSWG-Beihefte", Franz Steiner publishing)
- Ubi non est mulier, ingemiscit egens? Gendered Perceptions of Care from the Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries. In: Ritchey, Sara / Strocchia, Sharon (ed.): Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550. Amsterdam 2020 (Premodern Health, Disease, and Disability), pp. 191-214.
- Pflege, Stadt und Geschlecht. Zur Organisation häuslicher Krankenpflege im Straßburg des 16. Jahrhunderts. In: Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 101,2 (2019), pp. 401-427.
- Medical Practitioners: Negotiating Expertise in University and Medical Marketplace. In: Bruch, Julia / Kypta, Ulla / Skambraks, Tanja (ed.): Methods in Premodern Economic History. Case Studies from the Holy Roman Empire, c.1300-c.1600. Cham 2019 (Palgrave Studies in Economic History), pp. 222-225.
- The Search for Identity in Black British Women's Drama: An Analysis of Jackie Kay's Chiaroscuro and Winsome Pinnock's Talking in Tongues. In: Gender Forum 45 (2013), Special Issue: Early Career Researchers I <http://www.genderforum.org/issues/special-issue-early-career-researchers-i/the-search-for-identity-in-black-british-womens-drama-an-analysis-of-jackie-kays-chiaroscuro-and-winsome-pinnocks-talking-in-tongues>.
Book Reviews und Conference Reports
- Review of: Simona Lorenzini/ Deborah Pellegrino (eds.): Women’s Agency and Self-Fashioning in Early Modern Tuscany (1300-1600). Rome 2022 (Kent State University European Studies 8). In: In: Sehepunkte 23 (2023), Nr. 9 [15.09.2023], URL: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2023/09/37238.html.
- Review of: Jitske Jasperse: Medieval Women, Material Culture, and Power. Matilda Plantagenet and her Sisters. Leeds 2020. In: The Medieval Review (in preparation).
- Review of: Katherine Weikert/ Elena Woodacre (eds.): Medieval Intersections. Gender and Status in Europe in the Middle Ages. New York 2021. In: H-Soz-Kult, 01.03.2023, <www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-115374>.
- Review of: Kathryn Maude: Addressing Women in Early Medieval Religious Texts. Woodbridge 2021 (Gender in the Middle Ages 18). In: Francia-Recensio 4 (2022), <https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/frrec/article/view/92119>.
- Review of: Ruth J. Salter: Saints, Cure-Seekers and Miraculous Healing in Twelfth-Century England. Woodbridge 2021 (Health and Healing in the Middle Ages). In: Historische Zeitschrift 315,1 (2022), S. 211-212.
- Review of: Regina Toepfer: Kinderlosigkeit. Ersehnte, verweigerte und bereute Elternschaft im Mittelalter. Berlin 2020. In: Historische Zeitschrift 314,3 (2022).
- L'alsace et le rhin supérieur au Moyen Âge / Elsass und Oberrhein im Mittelalter, 03.06.2016-04.06.2016 Mulhouse. In: H-Soz-Kult, 07.12.2016, <www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-6867>.
Conference Organisation
- Gender, Work and Service in Late Medieval Europe (1300-1600), with Dr. Julia Exarchos (RWTH Aachen University), University of Cologne, 29.-30.09.2022
- Gender(ed) Histories of Health, Healing and the Body, 1250-1550, with Dr. Ursula Gießmann, University of Cologne, 25.-26.01.2018
- Disputationes. Kölner Herbstwerkstatt, with Tim Fuchs, Georg Friedrich Heinzle, Ralph Lange und Sebastian Schlinkheider, University of Cologne, 28.-30.09.2017
Conference Papers (selection)
2023 (planned)
- "Artisans and Charitable Institutions in Later Medieval Strasbourg, 1400-1600", IMC Leeds 2023, Session "New Perspectives on Networks of Work and Service in Late Medieval Cities", 05.07.2023
- "Geistliche Frauen und Männer in der städtischen Krankenfürsorge: Kontinuität und Wandel zwischen 1400 und 1550", Masterforum, Prof. Dr. Eva Schlotheuber, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, 19.06.2023
- "Craftspeople and Christian Charitable Institutions in Later Medieval Strasbourg (15th-16th Centuries)", International Conference "Jews, Christians, and Crafts in Pre-Modern Towns", University of Cologne, 15.06.2023
- "Women’s Work? Approaching Women and Work in Later Medieval Hospitals", Seminar "Women in Economic History", Mannheim University, 01.03.2023
2022
- "Fürsorge für Kranke und Schwangere im spätmittelalterlichen Straßburg", Workshop „Naître à la fin du Moyen Âge. Autour d’un récit d’accouchement à Strasbourg en 1459, Université de Strasbourg, 07.10.2022
- "Documenting the Relationships between Beguines, Hospitals and Caring for the Sick.
Sources from Late Medieval German Cities", Conference of the Network "Sorores": "Las Religiosas No Enclaustradas Y Sus Fuentes (Siglos XII-XVIII)", Casa de Velázquez, Madrid, 12.07.2022 - "Working Couples, Health Care and Poor Relief in Later Medieval Strasbourg", 9th International Conference of the Research Group on Late Medieval Economic History: "Labour in Premodern Europe", Charles University, Prague, 20.05.2022
- "Bruderschaften, Krankenfürsorge und Geschlecht. Straßburger Beispiele aus dem 15. Jahrhundert", Nachwuchstagung „Von Lüttich bis Straßburg. Neue Forschungen zur deutsch-französischen Grenzregion im Hoch- und Spätmittelalter (11.-16. Jahrhundert), University of Trier, 28.-29.04.2022
- "Seeking Support for the Sake of the Family: Parents, Sickness and Poor Relief in 16th-Century Strasbourg", Hybrid History Conference "Mothers and Fathers in the Pre-Modern World, c. 1000-1800", University of Cambridge, GB, 23.04.2022
- "Adapting to Life in a Protestant City: Beguine Communities in Sixteenth-Century Strasbourg", 2022 Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Panel "Women between World and Religious Institution II: Religious Women and Society (16th-17th Century)", Dublin, Ireland, 30.03.2022
2021
- "Geschlechterverhältnisse in der Krankenfürsorge. Straßburg im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert", Hessisch/ Mittelrheinisches Kolloquium des Konstanzer Arbeitskreis, University of Kassel (Zoom), 02.07.2021
- „Von Eltern, Geschwistern und Kindern: Paar- und Familienbeziehungen in der städtischen Krankenfürsorge des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts“, Colloquium „Neue Forschungen zur mittelalterlichen Geschichte“, University of Cologne, 31.05.2021
- "Geschlechterverhältnisse in der Krankenfürsorge. Straßburg zwischen ca. 1400 und 1560", Colloquium "Neues aus dem Mittelalter“ (Prof. Dr. Gerrit Schenk), Technical University of Darmstadt (Zoom), 09.02.2021
2020
- "Charity, Caregiving and Female Social Roles from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period", Colloquium "The Other Sister", University of Toronto (Zoom), 17.12.2020
2019
- "Fürsorgliche Autoritäten? Zu Männlichkeiten und Gesundheitsfürsorge im Straßburg des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts", Colloquium „Neue Forschungen zur mittelalterlichen Geschichte”, University of Cologne, 25.11.2019
- „Pflege und Geschlecht. Zur Gesundheitsfürsorge im spätmittelalterlichen Straßburg“, Colloquium of the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 12.06.2019
2018
- "Pflege und Geschlecht. Das Beispiel der Straßburger Krankenwärterinnen und -wärter im 16. Jahrhundert", Landeshistorisches Kolloquium, Georg August University of Göttingen (Prof. Dr. Arnd Reitemeier), 28.11.2018
- "Compassionate Hearts and Thaumaturgic Bodies. Feminising Care and Healing during the 13th to 16th Centuries", 4th Cologne-Toronto Graduate Student Colloquium, University of Toronto, 04.11.2018
- "blind fraw – bresthaft man. Überlegungen zu Beeinträchtigung, Versorgung und Geschlecht in Städten des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts", 52. German Historian Conference, Sektion "Dis/ability – Alltag – Geschlecht. Erkundungen im Feld der interdisziplinären Dis/ability History", Münster, 26.09.2018
- Round Table "Beginen im Spiegel der Quellen: Strukturen – Grenzen – Möglichkeiten", with Barbara Baumeister, Letha Böhringer und Sigrid Wegner, Workshop "Aktuelle Forschungsdiskurse und -projekte IX", Arbeitskreis geistliche Frauen im europäischen Mittelalter (AGFEM), Cloister Höchst, 10.03.2018
- "Ubi non est mulier, gemescit egens: Gendered Discourses of Care during the Later Middle Ages", International Workshop "Gender(ed) Histories of Health, Healing and the Body, 1250-1550", University of Cologne, 26.01.2018
2017
- "recht getrostet und ir leibs halben wol gepflegt: Fromme Frauen und Gesundheitsfürsorge im Straßburg des späten Mittelalters (1350-1550)", Doktoranden- und Examenskolloquium, University of Tübingen (Prof. Dr. Sigrid Hirbodian), 05.12.2017
- "Gesundheitsfürsorge und Geschlecht im spätmittelalterlichen Straßburg, ca. 1350-1550. Werkstattbericht aus einem laufenden Forschungsprojekt", Seminar „Dis/ability History: Forschungsschwerpunkte vom Mittelalter bis zur Zeitgeschichte“, University of Bremen (Prof. Dr. Cordula Nolte), 03.11.2017
- "Traditions in Transition. Caring for the Sick Poor in Reformation Strasbourg", AHRC DTP Conference on Transition and Transformation, University of Cambridge, 20.09.2017
- "Beguines – Confraternities – Hospitals. Assessing Women's Role in Caring for the Sick and Needy in Later Medieval Strasbourg", Workshop on Medieval Germany, German Historical Institute, London, 05.05.2017
- "Männer und Frauen in Straßburger Gesundheits- und Fürsorgestrukturen vom 14. bis 16. Jahrhundert – Projektidee und Werkstattbericht", Colloquium „Neue Forschungen zur mittelalterlichen Geschichte”, University of Cologne, 25.04.2017
2016
- "Who Cares? Gender and Health Care in Late Medieval Strasbourg", Cologne-Toronto Graduate Student Colloquium, Toronto, 29.09.2016
- „anfechtung – trackheit – verzagen. Zweifel an und Entfernungen von Gott im späten Mittelalter”, Colloquium „Neue Forschungen zur mittelalterlichen Geschichte”, University of Cologne, 26.01.2016
Research Interests
- History of crafts and artisans on the Iberian Peninsula
- Social and cultural history of medicine, nursing, hospitals and charity
- Gender history
- Economic history (history of work, history of crafts and artisans)
- Urban history
- Religious and ecclesiastical history
Memberships
- Arbeitskreis Historische Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung e.V. (akhfg)
- Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands (VHD)
- Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien Köln (ZEMAK), postdoctoral representative since 10/2021
- The Renaissance Society of America (RSA)
- Arbeitskreis geistliche Frauen im europäischen Mittelalter (AGFEM)