Klaus Van Eickels
Humanities and Cultural Studies
University of Bamberg
Germany
Biography
Klaus van Eickels (* 1963) studied history and Latin at the Universities of Düsseldorf (1983-1985 and 1986-1989), Munich (1985) and Aix-en-Provence (1985/1986). Degree courses: License d'histoire (Aix-en-Provence 1986); First state exams for the lehramt of upper secondary education history / Latin (Düsseldorf 1989).
Research Interest
Cultural history of the political in the high and late middle ages, History of personal ties in the Middle Ages (friendship / love, feuding, marriage), History of sexuality, Intercultural and epoch-transcending comparative cultural history, Economic and social history of the late Middle Ages, History of Western Europe (England, France, Netherlands), History of the Rhineland in the Middle Ages, The history of Franconia in the Middle Ages
Publications
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Klaus van Eickels, colonial heritage and national memorial. Grand Bassam - the first capital of the Ivory Coast as a world cultural heritage, in: World Cultural Heritage. Forms, functions and objects of cultural memory in and on the Middle Ages, ed. v. Andrea Schindler / Andrea Stieldorf (Bamberger interdisciplinary medieval studies, lectures and lectures 6), Bamberg 2015, pp. 217-250.
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Klaus van Eickels, Richard Löwenherz and Edward II of England as gay heroes of the past, in: Alte Helden, neue Zeiten, ed. by Andrea Schindler (Receptive Cultures in Literary and Media History), Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2016, pp. 159-186
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Klaus van Eickels, Wikipedia, Google Books & Co. Internet search as an opportunity for the humanities and cultural sciences, in: uni.vers. The magazine of the Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg, ed. v. Prof. Dr. Dr. habil. Godehard Ruppert, Bamberg 2015, pp. 38-41.
