Beckers, Christina: "Remembered, imagined, lived. Family relationships in absence in the 18th century"
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Heidorn, Thomas: "A free and open country"? - The Danish-Oldenburg Personal Union 1667 - 1773
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Marquardt, Frank: The "Garden of the Lord in the most terrible wilderness". Localisation of self- and external disciplining in the Herrnhut missionary communities in the Danish colonial system 1730-1792.
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Meinert, Annett: "Jewish culture and religion on the microcosm ship. A praxeological reading of ship letters in the 18th century"
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Rieske, Constantin: Practices of religious change in the 17th century
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Schmees, Katharina: "I idolise children!" On dealing with childlessness in self-testimonies of the modern era
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April 2018: Controlling the uncontrollable - menstruation as a physical, social and religious event at the end of the early modern period

December 2017: Multifunctionality of witch trials in north-west Germany

December 2017: "Melia, Melia, what you have done?" Narratives of birth and new-born child murder in 18th century England

November 2017: "I wished for a little sea sickness." Female travelling practices in the early modern period using the example of Eliza Fay's travel letters

May 2016: The Fear of the "Class of the Fallen" - Christian Georg Andreas Oldendorp's Reflection on the Practices of Discipline and Pedagogisation in the Herrnhut Mission on the Slave Plantations of the Danish West Indies 1793-1769

March 2016: Child education from the perspective of Puritan advice writers in England at the beginning of the 17th century

September 2015: A gentleman of perspective - A praxeological look at the self-testimonies of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn

March 2014: "The world together in one place" - Early modern address offices and the genealogy of the knowledge society

September 2013: Romish Rabble and Popish Trumperies. Anti-Catholic illustrated prints as Protestant propaganda in England in the first half of the 17th century

December 2012: Idealised oppression? The social standing and family life of women as reflected in Protestant moral teaching between the Reformation and Danish rule in the county of Oldenburg using the example of the Butjadingen region

May 2012: Practices of recognition and networking in 18th century medical correspondence

October 2011: Of idlers and hotspurs, men and sissies - young merchants in early modern foreign lands and in search of themselves

February 2011: The men behind the power - advisors and their position using the example of the First Secretaries of Elizabeth I

January 2011: Continuities and discontinuities in the Halle reports

December 2010: Trading interests and trading networks of Jewish merchants using the example of the pearl and jewellery merchant Glückel von Hameln

September 2010: "[...] and on the 30th the Duke of Marlborough arrived at the headquarters in Jemgum, where he lodged with Mr Administrator Groeneveld [...]" - Frisian peasants as glocal elites?(School prize for an excellent thesis)

January 2007: Crime and Punishment in the United East India Company

October 2005: Merchants and skilled workers, false teachers, trendsetters and entertainers, travellers and "loose people" - foreign policy in Sweden during the Great Power era (1611-1718)

August 2018: Of monsters and wonders. Representation and instrumentalisation of abnormal bodies in the 16th century

March 2018: The self in the picture. Nuremberg craftsmen's portraits of the 16th - 18th centuries

March 2018: Mission of the Moravian Church among the indigenous people of Suriname (1789 - 1808) - a civilising mission?

March 2018: "Petrified loaves" - a symbol of the economisation of social relations in the 17th century?

February 2018: The life and suffering of the East Frisians during the 30 Years' War at the time of the occupation by general Ernst von Mansfeld

January 2018: Birth control and contraception practices in the 17th century

January 2018: Love and bodily practices in Robert Burton's "The Anatomy of Melancholy" (1621)

December 2017: Dealing with "new media" using the example of the beginnings of the newspaper - important information or "fake news"?

March 2017: Representation and perception of female sexuality in 18th century English erotica

March 2017: Ideas about child rearing in the 16th and 17th centuries

January 2017: Forms of anti-Judaism in the early phase of the Reformation

January 2017: Fads in the 18th century - domestic literature / household advice as a trigger for social change

November 2016: "[...] I still mourn the loss of these [...] children every day" - Coping with grief in the event of child deaths in early modern testimonies

November 2016: Romanticism overseas. Transatlantic marriage initiation in the French colonial structure

November 2016: The reception of antiquity in neo-humanist Oldenburg using the example of the Georg Friedrich Brandes Collection

March 2016: "Mrs Prescott left the house for the preservation of her life." - Establishing the unsustainability of marriage at the end of the 18th century

January 2016: "Hoe komt het dat gy niet aan my schryft?" Dutch family letters in the colonial structure - writing practices of uncertainties

December 2015: Mental illness and therapeutic concepts in the work of Johann Christian Reil (1759-1813)

July 2015: The early English colonisation of America as a success story in the media of the 17th century

March 2015: The duel on the test bench - A genealogy of the duel

February 2015: Between science and diplomacy. G.W. Leibniz as an "information agent" in the writings to Peter the Great

January 2015: 'Desirable bodies' in 17th-century advice literature: body practices using the example of 'Aristotle's Masterpiece'

December 2014: Women in men's clothing in the early modern period - contemporary perceptions

October 2014: Medical birth practices on the threshold of the 19th century - Germany and France in comparison

September 2014: Between Conformity and Distinction. The constitution of the self in the early modern period using the example of Erasmus of Rotterdam

March 2014: The significance of stereotypes and conspiracy theories in the Frankfurt fat-milk riot

January 2014: "... to furnish yourself with the knowledge of such things as may be serviceable to your country and fit for your calling." Travelling as an aristocratic educational practice in 16th century England

November 2013: "Long live our good Queen Mary" - Queen Mary I of England. A reign characterised by religious fanaticism and a thirst for revenge. (To what extent did "Bloody Mary" lead her people into anti-Catholicism?)

December 2012: Jewish solidarity in the early modern period. Ideal and reality

October 2012: Exchange of ideas between London and Copenhagen? A comparison of the Danish and British anti-slavery movements

August 2012: "The vice of fornication" - Matters of marriage and impregnation in the county of Oldenburg in the 18th century

June 2012: Figures of thought of religious tolerance in the Netherlands using the example of Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert

December 2011: Educational programmes and reflections on the role of Jewish women in the magazine Sulamith (1806-1811)

December 2011: The Romantic Clemens Brentano as a representative of the ambivalence between Jewish salon culture and German-Christian table societies

November 2011: "The Harburg Trade Project" - The economic potential of Hanover at the time of the Personal Union

October 2011: "'twill be the making of you". Study on the self-education of an English merchant in the 18th century

December 2010: The mediation of historical images in film and television productions using the example of Jerry Bruckheimer's film "Pirates of the Caribbean"

November 2010: Offices and their duties - the growth of a community in early modern Celle

August 2010: "Fördartwade Smak" or "Yppighets Nytta"? Luxury consumption as a topic of public debate in the Swedish "Friketstid", 1719-1772(School prize for an excellent thesis)

2009: Shadow Figures in a Military Setting - A Discourse-Analytical Approach to the Construction and Conceptualisation of the Phenomenon of Mercenary Invalidity in Pictorial Sources of the Thirty Years' War. -(Honoured as best thesis in the subject of history 2009).

Summer term 2009: Departure and Departure. The construction of the farewell-taking under consideration of self-perception; based on the travel letters of Karoline Rebenack - 1798/99.

Winter semester 2008/09: "Zauber, Hexenmeister, Schwartzkünstler" - "Teuflische Magie" in "Zedlers Grosses vollständiges Universallexikon aller Wissenschaften und Künste".

Summer term 2008: Ogier Ghiselin de Busbeck and the "Barbarians":
On the perception of foreignness in cultural contacts between Europe and the Ottoman Empire

Summer term 2008: 'PREGNANT' before the upheaval.
The state of pregnancy in 'Zedler's Great Complete Universal Lexicon of all Sciences and Arts'.

Summer semester 2008: 'On the Rise and Fall of Goods' - Economic reporting and its reception using the example of Hamburg in the late 18th century.

Summer semester 2008: "Von Anliegen und Kranckheiten des weiblichen Geschlechts" - The image of women as reflected in early modern pharmacopoeias of the 17th century.

Summer term 2008: In the shadow of Thomas Platter. The network of Swiss humanists as reflected in autobiographical writings from the 16th century.

2007: The Jewish Free School in Berlin (1778-1825) in contemporary perception

June 2005: The Enlightenment in the Thought of Ernst Cassirer

June 2002: The impact of the Enlightenment and Haskalah on German-Jewish identity and self-perception

July 2009: "...the business for which I was created" - The self-image of English merchants in the 17th century

Winter semester 2008/09: Luxury and consumption by women in the early modern period

June 2007: "Restoration of the "Catholic Exercise": The visitation files of Vicars General Hartmann and Nicolartius from 1613-1631 as a critical instrument for confessional change in the Lower Abbey of Münster

2006: The arranged feeling - love in aristocratic marriages of the 17th century using the example of the diaries of Johanna Theresia Harrach. (2006)

January 2006: Isolation or integration? Jewish life in a Christian environment in the Meppen district during the 18th century

November 2005: European aristocratic culture and regional roots. Culture, politics and career in the East Frisian nobility in the second half of the 18th century

October 2004: The position of widows and their significance for the aristocratic family economy in the Osnabrück region in the 18th century using the example of Beate Elisabeth von Korff (1706-1767)

Role conception and female (homo)sexuality between norm and perception in the early modern period.

Summer term 2008: Conversions and religious change in the context of migration movements and religious subjectivation in England in the 17th century.

December 2007: The Poor Law of 1601 and the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834: What social and societal developments led from a locally administered parish system of poor relief to a state-regulated and publicly controlled system of poor relief?

December 2007: Autobiographical Writings of Women during the English Civil War

September 2007: "Languages, That is A Short but fundamental Direction to the Four Principal Languages" - An investigation into language textbooks of the early modern period

The English Parliament under the Test Acts: The Politics of the Dissenters in the Years 1661-1689

December 2005: "Eine schöne nutzliche Underweisung": 16th and 17th century pamphlets as a medium of social discipline?