PD Dr. Mihai-D. Grigore
Member of the academic staff, Department Abendländische Religionsgeschichte
Room: 04-09, Diether-von-Isenburg-Str. 9-11, 55116 Mainz (Besucheranschrift)Phone: +49 6131 39 39474
Fax: +49 6131 39 21050
Personal Details:
Born in 1975; 1999: graduated at the University of Bucharest in the Department of Historical Theology and Byzantine History with a thesis on the Second Bulgarian Empire between the 12th and 13th centuries. 2007: PhD in church history from the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen and Nuremberg with a dissertation in historical anthropology on the topic of the sense of honour in medieval society based on a case study of the Pax Dei in the 10th and 11th centuries. 2007-2012: postdoctoral researcher at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies and in the platform "World Regions and Interactions: Area Studies, Transregionally" in Erfurt with a project on the prince of the Wallachia Neagoe Basarab (1512-1521). January-May 2012: Stanley S. Seeger Research Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies of Princeton University. From November 2012 until June 2022 member of the academic staff of the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz. Since 01.07.2022 scholarship of the Gerda Henkel Foundation.
Memberships:
Societas Ethica
Southeast Europe Association
Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Theologie e.V., Fachgruppe Kirchengeschichte
AP-GC - Alternative Perspectives and Global Concerns
Research Interests:
Historical and political anthropology (rituals, symbolical communication, semantics) of the Middle Ages and pre-modern Europe
Byzantine and southeastern European intellectual history
Political philosophy before the Enlightenment
Editorships:
With Radu H. Dinu and Marc Zivojinovic: Herrschaft in Südosteuropa. Kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Perspektiven, V&R unipress, Göttingen 2012.
Selected Publications:
Grigore, M.-D. (2015): Neagoe Basarab – Princeps Christianus. Christianitas-Semantik im Vergleich mit Erasmus, Luther und Machiavelli (1513-1523), Frankfurt M.: Peter Lang (Erfurter Studien zur Kulturgeschichte des Orthodoxen Christentums 10).
Grigore, M.-D. (2009). Ehre und Gesellschaft. Ehrkonstrukte und soziale Ordnungsvorstellungen am Beispiel des Gottesfriedens (10. bis 11. Jahrhundert). Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
Grigore, M.-D. (2010). Der Mensch zwischen Gott und Staat. Überlegungen zu politischen Formen im Christentum. Studii Teologice. Revista facultăţilor de Teologie din Patriarhia Română, 1, 105-175. [indexed in EBSCO] or [indexed in ERIH Plus]
Grigore, M.-D. (2016). Positionen zu den Menschenrechten in der rumänischen Orthodoxie, in: Makrides, V. N. & Wasmuth, J. & Kube, S. (Hrsg.), Christentum und Menschenrechte heute. Perspektiven in Ost und West (S. 137-148). Frankfurt M.: Peter Lang (Erfurter Studien zur Kulturgeschichte des Orthodoxen Christentums 11)
Grigore, M.-D. (2014). Reformatorische Ideen in der Walachei und der Moldau zwischen 1519 und 1521? Mögliche Transferwege vom reformatorischen Gedankengut südlich und östlich der Karpaten. In Jahrbuch des Bundesinstituts für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa 22 (S. 189-211). München: De Gruyter/Oldenbourg.
Research projects:
Ways of the Monks - Ways of Power. The Danubian Principalities as Nodes in the Transimperial Space
The project examines the connection between mobility and rule or rule formation using the example of monastic mobility in "transimperial" Southeastern Europe from the 14th to the 17th century. "Transimperial" is understood here not only as passing through and across empires and their borders, but also in a diachronic sense with regard to the transition from the Byzantine to the Ottoman Empire.