Key research areas of the chair’s team
The chair’s team’s key research areas cover the history of Latin Europe, the Byzantine Empire, the Mediterranean region and the Arab world. We are currently focusing in particular on
- Court cultures
- Historiography and cartography
- Migration, flight and asylum
- History of science in Germany and the Arab world
- Elites and elite networks
- History of rituals and ceremonies
- History of communication
- Peace and conflict studies from a multi-religious perspective
- Historical social sciences
- Byzantine history & history of Eastern Christianity