Wissenschaft im Umbruch. Erfurt und die Artistenfakultät um 1500

Martin Kintzinger and Wolfgang E. Wagner (eds.) with Andreas Lindner
Wissenschaft im Umbruch. Erfurt und die Artistenfakultät um 1500
(series: Yearbook of University History, vol. 24)
Franz Steiner publishing house, 2025
ISBN: 978-3-515-13843-7
235 pages
62 EUR

The new volume of the Yearbook of University History (volume 24), edited by the History Department of the University of Münster, has just been published under the title “Wissenschaft im Umbruch. Erfurt and the Artists’ Faculty around 1500”. It is based on an international conference of the same name held in May 2019 at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Erfurt. Adjunct Professor Andreas Lindner from the Martin Luther Institute at the University of Erfurt was the guest editor. In this volume, an important source for the history of the older University of Erfurt, among other things, is made available for the first time in the form of the source edition “Vorlesungsstatuten der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Erfurt um (1563) 1565/66” (lecture statutes of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Erfurt around 1563/65), for which Professor Jörg Seiler (University of Erfurt) was responsible.

The current volume of the yearbook shows current trends and future horizons of research into the history of universities and science. These include the recently established, culturally and historically broad perspective of the history of knowledge, which opens up new approaches to historiographical tradition, as well as the use of digital methods for historical studies and the public reception of their research results (digital humanities, public history). Studies on persecuted Jewish scholars during the Nazi era are still particularly topical. The thematic focus of the journal's 4th issue is on the upheaval at the universities around and after 1500: the significance and impact of humanism, particularly at the University of Erfurt, are presented in the context of the tension between ecclesiastical tradition, scholarly innovation and the new beginning brought about by the Reformation.