Dr Jochen Schenk
Jochen Schenk, who joined the GHIL in 2007, studied history and Islamic Studies at the Universities of Freiburg, Tübingen and Dublin, Trinity College. He received an M.Phil in Medieval Studies at Trinity College Dublin in 2001 and successfully completed his Ph.D. in History at Cambridge University in 2006. In the same year Jochen Schenk was elected an Andrew Mellon Research Scholar at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto to study for a post-doctoral Licence in Mediaeval Studies (LMS) and it was during the tenure of the one-year fellowship that he developed an interest in the spirituality and religious culture of the medieval military orders. His current research focuses on the phenomenon of monastic 'transitus' in the late middle ages and the connected questions of competition and individual agency within medieval professed religion.
Email: schenk(ghi)ghil.ac.uk
Current Responsibilities at the GHIL
- Research Fellow in Medieval History (since 2007)
- Co-editor, Bulletin of the German Historical Institute London (since 2007)
- Elected Staff Representative (Personalrat) (since 2009)
Research Interests
Medieval European history; the crusades and the military orders; religious cultural history; social history; deviance and agency in the medieval church.
| 1996-2000 | Universität Tübingen , Trinity College Dublin: Medieval History, Modern History, Islamic Studies |
| 2000-2001 | Trinity College Dublin: MPhil, Medieval Studies |
| 2001-2005 | University of Cambridge: PhD (2006) |
| 2006-2007 | Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto: studying for the degree of Licence in Mediaeval Studies (2008) |
| 2001-2004 | Emmanuel College Cambridge, Quartercentenary Scholarship Cambridge European Trust Research Bursary |
| 2002-2004 | Arts and Humanities Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship |
| 2002, 2004 | German Historical Institute Paris Postgraduate Research Scholarship |
| 2004 | Fellowship, Cambridge European Trust |
| 2006 | German Historical Institute Paris Postdoctoral Research Fellowship |
| 2006-2007 | Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Research Fellowship |
| 2007-2009 | Wolfson College Cambridge, Postdoctoral Research Associate |
| 2009- | Wolfson College, Cambridge, Senior Member |
| 2007-2009 | Course Instructor, Medieval History, Queen Mary, University of London (HST105, Medieval Europe: Authority, Religion and Culture 751-1215) |
| 2010 | Visiting Lecturer, Medieval History, Queen Mary, University of London (MA Seminar, The Medieval Military Orders; MA Seminar, Guide to Academic Reviewing) |
| 2010 | Course Instructor, Medieval History, University of Kent, Canterbury (HI339, Medieval Pilgrimage) |
Current Research
Changing Habits: Monastic Transitus and Religious Competition in Late Medieval Europe
| Monograph: | Family Involvement in the Order of the Temple in France (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life & Thought: Fourth Series 79), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (publication date: 31 Dec. 2011) |
| Textbook (in progress): | Territorial Lordship and Princely Power in Twelfth and Thirteenth Century Germany (working title), together with Graham Loud (Leeds) and Alan Murray (Leeds) |
| Articles: | ‘Forms of lay association with the Order of the Temple’, Journal of Medieval History 34:1 (2008), 70-103 |
| ‘Aspects of non-noble family involvement in the Order of the Temple’, The Military Orders Volume 4, ed. Judi Upton-Ward (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), 155-61 | |
| ‘The trial depositions as evidence of kinship influences in the Order of the Temple’, The Trial of the Templars (1307-1314), ed. Jochen Burgtorf, Paul F. Crawford, Helen J. Nicholson (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010), 145-60 | |
| ‘Nomadic Violence in the First Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Military Orders’, Reading Medieval Studies 36 (2010), 35-55 | |
| ‘The Teutonic Order’, Elite Fighting Forces, ed. Jeremy Black (London: Thames & Hudson, 2011), 56-57 | |
| ‘The cult of the Cross in the Order of the Temple’, Actas do VI Encontro sobre Ordens Militares (Palmela, forthcoming) | |
| ‘Hagiographical evidence for Templar spirituality, religious life and conduct’, Révue Mabillon (accepted) | |
| ‘The visual experience of Templar religion’, Révue Mabillon (under consideration) | |
| Reviews: | for Al-Masaq, Canadian Journal of History, Catholic Historical Review, Crusades, Deutsches Archiv, Francia, Historische Zeitschrift, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Mediaevistik, Speculum |