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. The Depiction and Exploitation of Abnormal Bodies in the 16th Century

March 2018: The Self in the Image. Nuremberg Portraits of Craftsmen from the 16th to the 18th Centuries

March 2018: The Mission of the Moravian Church among the Indigenous Peoples 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 lives and sufferings of the East Frisians during the Thirty Years’ War at the time of the occupation by Field Marshal Ernst von Mansfeld

January 2018: Practices of birth control and contraception in the 17th century

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

December 2017: Engaging with ‘new media’ using the example of the early days of the newspaper – important information or ‘fake news’?

March 2017: The Representation and Perception of Female Sexuality in 18th-Century English Erotica

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

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

January 2017: Fads in the 18th century – domestic literature and household guides as catalysts for social change

November 2016: ‘[…] I still mourn the loss of these […] children every day’ – Coping with grief following the death of children in first-hand accounts from the Early Modern period

November 2016: Romanticism Overseas. Transatlantic matchmaking within the French colonial framework

November 2016: The Reception of Antiquity in Neo-Humanist Oldenburg: The Case of the Georg Friedrich Brandes Collection

March 2016: “Mrs Prescott left the house for the preservation of her life.” – On establishing the untenability of a marriage in the late 18th century

January 2016: “Hoe komt het dat gy niet aan my schryft?” Dutch family letters within the colonial framework – writing practices of uncertainty

December 2015: Mental Illness and Therapeutic Approaches in the Work of Johann Christian Reil (1759–1813)

July 2015: Early English colonisation of America as a success story in 17th-century media

March 2015: The Duel Under Scrutiny – A Genealogy of the Duel

February 2015: Between Science and Diplomacy. G.W. Leibniz as an ‘Information Agent’ in his Writings to Peter the Great

January 2015: ‘Desirable Bodies’ in 17th-century self-help literature: bodily practices as illustrated by ‘Aristotle’s Masterpiece’

December 2014: Women in Men’s Clothing in the Early Modern Period – Contemporary Perceptions

October 2014: Medical obstetric practice on the cusp of the 19th century – a comparison of Germany and France

September 2014: Between Conformity and Distinction. The Constitution of the Self in the Early Modern Period, as Exemplified by Erasmus of Rotterdam

March 2014: The Significance of Stereotypes and Conspiracy Theories in the Frankfurt ‘Fettmilch’ Uprising

January 2014: “…to furnish yourself with the knowledge of such things as may be serviceable to your country and fit for your calling.” Travel as a noble educational practice in 16th-century England

November 2013: “Long live our good Queen Mary” – Queen Mary I of England. A reign marked 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: An exchange of ideas between London and Copenhagen? A comparison of the Danish and British anti-slavery movements

August 2012: ‘On the Vice of Fornication’ – Marriage and Impregnation Cases in the County of Oldenburg in the 18th Century

June 2012: Concepts of religious tolerance in the Netherlands, as exemplified by Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert

December 2011: Educational programmes and reflections on the role of Jewish women in the journal *Sulamith* (1806–1811)

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

November 2011: “The Harburg Trade Project” – Hanover’s economic potential during the period of the personal union

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

December 2010: The Conveyance of Historical Narratives in Film and Television Productions, as Exemplified by Jerry Bruckheimer’s Film “Pirates of the Caribbean”

November 2010: Offices and their duties – The coming of age 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 Outstanding Final Thesis)

2009: Shadow Figures in a Military Setting – A discourse-analytical approach to the construction and conception of the phenomenon of mercenary disability in visual sources from the Thirty Years’ War. – (Awarded as the best final thesis in the History subject in 2009.)

Summer semester 2009: Farewells and New Beginnings. The construction of the act of saying farewell, taking self-perception into account; based on the travel letters of Karoline Rebenack – 1798/99.

Winter semester 2008/09: “Magic, sorcerers, black magicians” – “Diabolical magic” in “Zedler’s Great and Complete Universal Encyclopaedia of All Sciences and Arts”.

Summer semester 2008: Ogier Ghiselin de Busbeck and the “Barbarians”:
On the perception of otherness in cultural encounters between Europe and the Ottoman Empire

Summer semester 2008: ‘PREGNANCY’ on the eve of upheaval.
The condition of pregnancy in ‘Zedler’s Great and Complete Universal Encyclopaedia of All Sciences and Arts’.

Summer semester 2008: ‘On the Rise and Fall of Commodities’ – Economic reporting and its reception, using Hamburg in the late 18th century as an example.

Summer semester 2008: ‘On the Ailments and Diseases of the Female Sex’ – The image of women as reflected in early modern 17th-century medical treatises.

Summer semester 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) as perceived by contemporaries

June 2005: The Enlightenment in the Thought of Ernst Cassirer

June 2002: The impact of the Enlightenment and the 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 among women in the early modern period

June 2007: “Restoration of the ‘Catholic Retreat’: The visitation records of Vicar Generals Hartmann and Nicolartius from 1613–1631 as a critical tool for understanding denominational change in the Lower Diocese of Münster”

2006: The Staged Emotion – Love in 17th-century aristocratic marriages, illustrated by the diary entries 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 paths amongst the East Frisian nobility in the second half of the 18th century

October 2004: The Status of Widows and Their Significance for the Economic Life of Aristocratic Families in the Osnabrück Region in the 18th Century, as Illustrated by the Example of Beate Elisabeth von Korff (1706–1767)

Gender roles and female (homo)sexuality: between norm and perception in the early modern period.

Summer semester 2008: Conversions and changes of religion in the context of migration and religious subjectification in 17th-century England.

December 2007: The Poor Law of 1601 and the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834. What societal and social 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” – A study of early modern language textbooks

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

December 2005: “A Beautiful and Useful Instruction”: 16th- and 17th-century leaflets as a medium of social discipline?