Matthias M. Tischler

Matthias M. Tischler

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Humanities

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 (2001–09). After his habilitation at Dresden (2008–09), he was Associate Professor (2009–12), Senior Research Fellow at the UAB (2013–14), and Research Group Leader at the IMAFO (ÖAW) in Vienna (2015–16). 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 (2024–25). Since January 1, 2017, he has been ICREA Research Professor at the Institute for Medieval Studies (UAB) and since 2024 Guest Professor at the TU Dresden. 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 Catalonia (CarCat): The Database of the Carolingian Legacy of Medieval Septimania and Catalonia (2025)
- Tischler M & Marschner P S: "A New Witness of the So-Called Chronicon Moissiacense from Narbonne and Its Importance for the Use of Carolingian Historiography in Septimania", Francia 52 (2025) 31–54
- Tischler M: "Eine in westgotischer Minuskel geschriebene Kopie der Enarrationes in Psalmos des hl. Augustinus in Vic (Katalonien)", Sacris Erudiri 64 (2025) 141–190
- Tischler M & Vernet i Pons E: "Un nou fragment d’una còpia primerenca de l’Homiliari de Luculenci procedent de Sant Mateu de Bages", Misceŀlània litúrgica catalana 33 (2025) 21–35
- Tischler M (rec.): "Los procesos de formación del feudalismo, ed. por I. Martín [y] Viso, Somonte-Cenero 2023", in Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 81 (2025) 480–482

Selected research activities

PhD thesis by Patrick S. Marschner: The Chronicle of Claudius of Turin (thesis of habilitation); Silke Engelhardt: "Gaudete flores martyrum, salvete plebes gentium"; Oriol Ponsatí i Murlà: El 'De magistro' d'Agustí
Database Carolingian Catalonia (2025–); Study and Critical Edition of the Homiliary of Luculentius (2019–)
Guest Research Professor (FOVOG), TU Dresden
Senior Research Fellow at the DFG-KFG "Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages", Tübingen University, February 2025
Advisory Board of Nomads' Manuscripts Landscape (FWF START, 2020–25)
Course & Papers at Barcelona (2), Bellaterra (2), Leuven
Reviewer for Helsinki University, IEC, Barcelona, Einstein-Forum, Potsdam, FNRS
Scientific consultant for Sotheby's, London