Professor Martial Staub

L. ès L. (Paris I), M. ès L., D.Hist. (Paris X), Habilitation (EHESS/Paris)

Professor of Medieval History

European History 1200-1600

Office Hours: Spring 2012-13 - Mondays 11am-12pm; Tuesdays 2-3pm

m.staub@sheffield.ac.uk

+44 (0)114 22 22572
 

Jessop West 2.10

Major Publications

Biography

Martial Staub is Professor of Medieval History. His research interests include the history of the Church in the Middle Ages to the history of urban societies in Late Medieval and Renaissance Germany and Italy. His monograph on Nuremberg's parish churches in the Late Middle Ages combines both perspectives so as to emphasise the role of group institutions in one of the most wealthy and dynamic European city of the late Middle Ages. It is also an attempt to understand the Reformation from a medieval perspective. Martial's thèse d'habilitation, to be published soon, focuses on endowment practices as a form of political participation until the Reformation.

Martial was educated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay/St Cloud and took his degrees at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, the University of Paris X Nanterre and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He worked as a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute of History in Göttingen in Germany from 1993 until he joined the Department of History at Sheffield in September 2004.

As a historian with a European profile and Europe-wide connections, Martial is interested in comparative European history and in European collaboration in research and teaching.

In the meantime, Martial has become increasingly interested in the history of exile. He sees his research on this topic as part of an interdisciplinary project called the "Sheffield Exile Project", which he set up in 2005 with colleagues from across the University. He is currently working on a "Virtual Archive of Exile" and other international projects relating to exiledom.

Research

Research Supervision and Teaching

At Sheffield University he has taught courses relating to his interests in Medieval and Renaissance History and in historical theory. He is currently designing a new portfolio of courses, including on the history of exile.

Current PhD Students

• Julia McClure - 'Inventing New Worlds: A Franciscan Perspective.'
• Mark Critchlow - 'League Memories: Recollections of Catholic Political Engagement in late Sixteenth-Century Paris.'
• Ben Lacey - 'Communities of Religion in the Twelfth Century North of England.'
• Daniel Murphy - 'The Tormented Church: Visions of Crisis and Reform in the Medieval Imagination, c. 1150-1250.'
• Robyn Parker - 'The Social Theatre of Wandering Preachers and Hermits in France, 1050-1150.'
• Hannah Probert - 'Fatherhood in Late Antiquity.'

Administrative Roles and Responsibilities

According to his European profile and interest, Martial has been asked by the Vice-Chancellor to promote the Europeanisation of the University of Sheffield with Professor Paul White, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Teaching and Learning.

Selected Publications

Books

-  G. Melville & M. Staub (eds.), Enzyklopädie des Mittelalters (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2008)

- M. Matthiesen, T. B. Müller & M. Staub (eds.), Exil = Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte II/1 (2008)

- C. Dutt & M. Staub (eds.), Die Rückkehr der Wahrheit = Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte I/3 (2007)

- M. Matthiesen & M. Staub (eds.), Gegenwarten der Renaissance, I: Handeln zwischen ‚Virtù' und ‚Fortuna' (Göttinger Gespräche zur Geschichtswissenschaft 20), (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2004)

- H. Lehmann, M. Matthiesen, O. G. Oexle & M. Staub (eds.), Nationalsozialismus in den Kulturwissenschaften, I: Fächer – Milieus – Karrieren (Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts für Geschichte 200), (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004)

- H. Lehmann, M. Matthiesen, O. G. Oexle & M. Staub (eds.), Nationalsozialismus in den Kulturwissenschaften, II: Leitbegriffe - Deutungsmuster – Paradigmenkämpfe; Erfahrungen und Transformationen im Exil (Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts für Geschichte 211) (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004)

- M. Derwich & M. Staub (eds.), Die ‚neue Frömmigkeit' in Europa im Spätmittelalter (Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts für Geschichte 205), (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004)

- H. Brand, P. Monnet & M. Staub (eds.), Memoria, Communitas, Civitas. Mémoire et conscience urbaines à la fin du Moyen Age (Beihefte der Francia 55), (Stuttgart: Thorbecke, 2003)

- M. Staub, Les paroisses et la Cité: Nuremberg du XIIIe siècle à la Réforme (Civilisations et sociétés 116), (Paris: Editions de l´EHESS, 2003)