Dr Karin Friedrich
Senior Lecturer in History
MA in History and Political Science (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany): 1989
PhD in History (Georgetown University, Washington D.C.): 1995.
Personal Details
| Telephone: | +44 (0)1224 272451 |
| Fax: | x44-(0)1224-272203 |
| E-mail: | k.friedrich@abdn.ac.uk |
| Address: | School of Divinity, History and Philosophy, Crombie Annexe, Meston Walk, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Old Aberdeen, AB24 3FX. Room: 207 |
Web Links
As a member of the Research Committe for the Baroque at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbuettel (Germany), I am currently co-organising the library's Baroque Congress which is held very three years, and which in 2009 takes place 25-28 August. The link to the programme is:
http://www.hab.de/forschung/arbeitskreise/Programm%20Barockkongress%202009%20.htm
I am the director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies, information on which is accessible through the following weblink
Biography
After studies of Modern and Early Modern History, East European History and Political Sciences in France, Munich, Washington D.C. and Poland, I held the post of lecturer and then senior lecturer at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London/University College London, where I was a member of the History Department from 1995. I joined the University of Aberdeen in January 2005.
Research Interests
My doctoral work and the first book was on Polish Prussia, c. 1500-1800, particularly on the urban élites and their distinct culture (German speaking and mostly Protestant) and their historical and national identities in the context of a noble-dominated Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Further interests and publications focused on the history of political and religious ideas in early modern Central Europe, early modern identities and urban history. Other publications include articles on early modern identity in Silesia, the urban history of Cracow and Prague and confessionalisation in Poland-Lithuania. In 2008, I finished an edited, collected volume on issues of citizenship and identitiy in early modern Poland-Lithuania, and (with Sara Smart, Exeter) a co-authored book on the coronation of Prussia in 1701, which contains a whole section of primary sources in the original languages and in English translation.
Current Research
I am currently working on a history of early modern Prussia in its East Central European context (for Palgrave), which will be useful as a textbook and interpetative synthesis for students and specialists alike.
My next monograph, will focus on the Polish-German borderlands in the early modern period, from Pomeranian coast, along Great Poland, down to Silesia. My interest here is mainly directed at the social and political dynamics of the border, conflicts which arise from the clash of different political cultures,religions and identities, the interference from central government (military recruitment, statistics, economic policies, customs and tariffs etc), and co-operation across the border among locals in the periphery. I want to make use of a large body of research on the border, which traditionally was more focused on the modern period with its often artifically constructed national borders, and adapt it to the specificities of the early modern, Polish-German case study between the Hohenzollern dynasty and the crown of Poland.
Collaborations
I was part of an AHRC-funded project on East european travel literature (London), a Leverhulme-funded publication on European political thouught (based in Hull), and an AHRC-funded project 'Europa Triumphans' (Warwick) to publish and analyse sources on European festival culture.
Research Grants
Guest Scholar/Chair replacement Freie Universitaet Berlin Summer Term 2000
Leverhulme Research Fellowship 2000-2001
Guest scholar at the Krupp Foundation Greifswald/ University of Greifswald Summer 2007
Guest scholar at the Herzog August Library Wolfenbuettel, summer 2008 and summer 2009
Teaching Responsibilities
- HI1521 Renaissances and Reformations (from spring 2009), co-ordinator
- HI2513 Scotland and Europe, 1500-1800
- HI1512 Europe and the Wider World
- HI 301B Making an Empire: Germany 1806-1914, co-ordinator
- HI 351A Germany 1516-1806: Reformation, Empire and Enlightenment, co-ordinator
- HI5053 Introduction to Historical Research, co-ordinator
- HI5558 The Enlightenment in Comparison: Scotland and Central Europe, 1650-1800, co-ordinator
- HI5903/HI5905/HI5906/HI5907 Dissertation II
External Responsibilities
Joint editor of German History (2001-2006), and director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies at Aberdeen; membership in the academic advisory committee of the German Historical Institute in Warsaw, and of the Working Group on the Baroque at the Herzog-August Library in Wolfenbuettel. Member of the advisory editorial board of H-Net German, and member of the editorial board of Central Europe.
Selected Publications
Books:
The Cultivation of Monarchy in Brandenburg-Prussia and the Rise of Berlin 1700-1701, co-authorship with Sara Smart (Ashgate, forthcoming 2009)
Citizenship and Identity in a Multi-national Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania in Context, 1569-1795 (Leiden: Brill, 2009)
The Other Prussia. Poland, Prussia and Liberty, 1569-1772 (Cambridge University Press, 2000) 280 pp. Reprinted as paperback in August 2006 with CUP; Polish version: Inne Prusy. Prusy Królewskie między wolnością a wolnościami 1569-1772 (Poznań, PTPN Jan. 2006)
Festivals in Germany and Europe: New Approaches to European Festival Culture, ed. by Karin Friedrich (Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2000) 396 pp
Articles and Chapters:
'Die Reformation in Polen-Litauen' (Chapter 2.f.) and 'Von der religiösen Toleranz zur gegenreformatorischen Konfessionalisierung: Konfessionelle, regionale und ständische Identitäten im Unionsstaat' (chapter 3.d.), both in:in Michael Müller, Hans-Jürgen Bömelburg and Jürgen Heyde (eds), Handbuch für Geschichte Polens, vol II: Frühe Neuzeit, ed. H.-J. Bömelburg (Hiersemann-Verlag, Stuttgart, forthcoming 2010)
'Introduction: Citizenship And Identity In An Early Modern Commonwealth', in Friedrich, Pendzich (eds), Citizenship and Identity in a Multi-national Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania in Context, 1550-1772 (Leiden: Brill, 2009), pp. 1-16.
'Citizenship In The Periphery: Royal Prussia And The Union Of Lublin 1569', in Friedrich, Pendzich (eds), Citizenship and Identity in a Multi-national Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania in Context, 1550-1772 (Leiden: Brill, 2009), pp. 49-70.
'Polish-Lithuanian Political Thought, 1450-1700': in Howell Lloyd, Glenn Burgess, Simon Hodson (eds), History of European Political Throught, 1450-1700 (Yale University Press, 2007), 409-47.
German History 22:3 (2004), special issue: 'Polish Views of German History'; articles: '''Pomorze" or "Preussen": Polish Perspectives on early modern Prussian History', pp. 190-217, and Introduction (co-authored with Klaus Zernack), 155-168.
'Zwischen zwei Adlern. Kulturelle und ideologische Einflüsse Polen-Litauens auf das herzogliche Preußen vor 1701' [Between Two Eagles. Cultural and ideological influences of Poland-Lithuania on Ducal Prussia], in: Preußen in Ostmitteleuropa [Prussia in East Central Europe], ed. by Matthias Weber (Oldenburg, 2003), 115-141.
'Nationsbewußtsein im Schlesien der frühen Neuzeit' [National identity in early modern Silesia], in: Die Grenzen der Nationen. Nationale Identitätenwandel in Oberschlesien in der Neuzeit, edited by Kai Struve and Philip Ther (Marburg: Herder-Institut, 2002), 19-44.
'The Development of Prussian Towns, 1720-1815', in P. Dwyer, ed., The Rise of Prussia: Re-thinking Prussian History, 1700-1830, (London: Adison, Wesley, Longman, 2001), 129-150
Source Editions:
'Preface', 'Royal Entries into Cracow, Warsaw and Danzig: Festival Culture and the Role of the Cities in Poland-Lithuania', as well as the edition of source texts in form of an anthology of eleven festival descriptions (1543-1754) with annotations, in the original languages (German, Polish and Latin) and in English translation, in: Europa Triumphans. Court and Civic Festivals in Early Modern Europe, ed. By J.R. Mulryne, Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, Margaret Shewring, Elizabeth Goldring and Sarah Knight, 2 vols, 500 pp. each (Ashgate, 2004), ISBN 07546 38731, vol. II, pp. 373-374, pp. 386-392, pp. 394-462 (source texts).