Matthias M. Tischler, born 1968 in Münchberg (Germany), studied Medieval and Modern History, Applied Historical Sciences, Latin and Romance Philology, Philosophy, Theology and Islamic Studies at Heidelberg, Munich and Frankfurt. He obtained his PhD in Heidelberg (1998). He was an Assistant Professor at Frankfurt (2001–2009). After his habilitation at Dresden (2008/2009), he was Associate Professor (2009/2012), Senior Research Fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) (2013/2014), and Research Group Leader at the IMAFO (ÖAW) in Vienna (2015/2016). He was a Visiting Professor of the ÉPHÉ in Paris (2015) and a Senior Research Fellow at the Medieval Institute, Notre Dame, USA (2016), the IAS, Princeton, USA (2019), the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany (2020) and Tübingen University, Germany (2024). Since January 1, 2017, he has been ICREA Research Professor at the Institute for Medieval Studies (UAB). Since 2020 he is member of the Academia Europaea.
Research interests
My studies are raising the question about the geographical, linguistic, religious, cultural and mental borders of the multi-layered legacy in the centres and peripheries of the Medieval Worlds. I have analyzed the Europe-wide intellectual attraction and radiance of the Parisian abbey of Saint-Victor in the mirror of its exegetical and theological production, focusing on the various European areas. Then, I have broadened my panorama to reconstruct European religious and intellectual identities by conducting extensive research on texts of Christian-Muslim encounters and perceptions in Europe, specializing on early Christian polemics against Islam, the linguistic and religious borders between Christians, Jews and Muslims, processes of religious and cultural passages, entanglement and dis/integration among the members of the three monotheisms in the Carolingian and Iberian Worlds. A new research field I try to establish is methodologically sound Transcultural Studies and Palaeography.
Selected publications
- Tischler M: Carolingian Canon Law Collections in Early Medieval Catalonia, in Canon Law and Christian Societies between Christianity and Islam, ed. by M. Maser e.a., Turnhout 2024, 87–125
- Tischler M: La réforme carolingienne de la vie canoniale en Septimanie (et au-delà), in Chanoines et chapitres du Midi, Fanjeaux 2024, 79–166
- Tischler M: A New Ninth-Century Witness of A Carolingian Cold Walter Ordeal from Septimania, Traditio 79 (2024) 409-416.
- Tischler M: Wie erforscht man die sogenannte 'Karolingische Reform' im 21. Jahrhundert?, Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 132 (2024) 384–394
- Tischler M (together with Brentjes S - Fidora A): Towards a New Approach to Medieval Cross-Cultural Exchanges, in S. Brentjes: Historiography of the History of Sciences in Islamicate Societies, Abingdon - New York 2024, 153–186
- Tischler M (rec.): T. Licht (ed.), Walahfrid Strabo, De imagine Tetrici, Heidelberg 2020, Faventia 46 (2024) 122–126
- Tischler M (rec.): F. Peloux, Les premiers évêques du Languedoc, Genève 2022, Medievalia 27 (2024) 189–193
Selected research activities
PhD thesis by Óscar Perdomo Ceballos: St Ildefonsus of Toledo and the Virginity of Mary, FU Berlin, Nov. 28, 2024
PhD thesis by Silke Engelhardt: "Gaudete flores martyrum, salvete plebes gentium": A Cult Topography of the Catalan Pyrenees
Projects Carolingian Culture in Septimania and Catalonia (2020–24); Study and Critical Edition of the Homiliary of Luculentius (2019–25)
Guest Research Professor at the FOVOG, TU Dresden, March 2024–
Senior Research Fellow at the DFG-KFG "Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages", Tübingen University, Nov. 2024
Advisory Board of Nomads' Manuscripts Landscape (FWF START, 2020–25)
Course & Papers at Barcelona, Edinburgh, Leeds, Mainz, Tübingen
Manuscript excursion at Albi
Remote Referee for ERC-2024-SYG
Reviewer for Rice University, ÖAW, OUP, Palgrave-Macmillan, Cahiers de civilisation médiévale, Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies