Cornelia Dreer, M.A.

Contact

dreer[at]uni-kassel[dot]de

CV

  • 9/2017 scholarship from the German Historical Institute London
  • 2017 – 2019 research associate in medieval history at the University of Kassel
  • 2014-2017 doctoral scholarship from the University of Kassel
  • 2014-2016 associated doctoral candidate in the DFG Research Training Group 1599, “Dynamics of Space and Gender”
  • since 8/2013 doctoral candidate in medieval history at the University of Kassel
  • 9/2012 magister degree from the University of Kassel
  • 2006-2007 studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
  • 2004-2012 studies in art history, history and sociology at the University of Kassel
  • 2/2003 Diplom (FH) in Industrial Design from Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences

Dissertation project

Das Polychronicon von Ranulph Higden. Wissen, Weltchronik und Weltkarte

The universal chronicle by Benedictine Ranulph Higden (d. 1363/64) provides us with a comprehensive collection of late medieval knowledge. As an account of history and geography, of miracles and exempla it also reveals underlying concepts of knowledge and learning that differ substantially from modern ideas. This study explores these conceptions, which form a crucial basis for further appraisal of the Polychronicon's content, focusing especially on the maps that are preserved in 18 copies of the chronicle. Design, content and function of these mappae mundi reveal the prevalent interests and practices in the context of the Polychronicon. Its example thus opens up new perspectives on knowledge in the Middle Ages.

Publications

  • Regnerus Engelhard, in: Nikola Roßbach (Hg.), Kleines Kasseler Literatur-Lexikon. Autorinnen und Autoren, Hannover 2018, S. 236-237.
  • mit Keith D. Lilley, Universal Histories and their Geographies: Navigating the Maps and Texts of Higden's Polychronicon, in: Michele Campopiano und Henry Bainton (Hgg.), Universal Chronicles in the High Middle Ages (Writing History in the Middle Ages 4), Woodbridge 2017, S. 275-301.

Presentations

  • 12.4.2019 Tübingen: Knowledge, Faith and Pragmatism – The Maps in Ranulph Higden’s Polychronicon
  • 12.9.2017 DHI London: Das Polychronicon von Ranulph Higden. Wissen, Weltchronik und Weltkarte
  • 5.7.2017 International Medieval Congress, Leeds: The selection, presentation and intention of geography in Ranulph Higden's chronicle
  • 17.7.2017 Kartengeschichtliches Kolloquium, Zürich: Geographie in Higdens Weltchronik – Themen, Vermittlung, Funktion
  • 11.6.2016 Kartengeschichtliches Kolloquium, Essen: Das Weltbild zur Chronik. Entwurf und Reproduktion von Polychronicon-Karten
  • 12.5.2016 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo: How to Map World History: The Creation and Copying of Polychronicon Maps
  • 13.7.2015 International Conference on the History of Cartography, Antwerpen: The Polychronicon maps: Mappae mundi and memorization
  • 7.7.2015 International Medieval Congress, Leeds: The Polychronicon maps: Mappae mundi and memorization
  • 8.12.2014 DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 1599, Kassel: Wissen, Räume und Identitäten im Spätmittelalter. Ranulph Higdens Polychronicon
  • 24.1.2014 Universal chronicles workshop, University of York: Concepts of knowledge, space, and identity. The Polychronicon by Ranulph Higden