Maximilian Schuh

Dr. Maximilian Schuh Tato e-mailová adresa je chráněna před spamboty. Pro její zobrazení musíte mít povolen Javascript. Education PhD in Medieval History, University of Münster, Germany 2013 Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Christel Meier-Staubach, Prof. Dr. Claudia Märtl State Examination (Bavaria) for Teaching at Secondary Schools in History, German Language & Literature and Educational Sciences, University of München, Germany 2006

Affiliation

Maximilian Schuh is a Feodor-Lynen-Fellow funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Hosted by Ota Pavlíček and his research group he studies the works of the 14^th century English scholar William Merle. The primary objective of his research project is to produce a critical edition of the largely unknown writings of the Oxford scholar and parish priest on weather forecasting, thereby bringing a neglected facet of 14th-century scientific history to greater scholarly attention. The current lack of reliable editions has contributed to the marginalization of the Latin tradition of weather prognostication. Anchored in an analysis of the intellectual context at the University of Oxford in the late Middle Ages, Merle’s treatises De prognosticatione aeris and Regulae ad futuram aeris temperiem prognosticandam will be critically edited. In contrast to conventional approaches in medieval astro-meteorology, Merle’s works assign fundamental importance to empirical observation of natural phenomena as the basis for weather prediction. The edition will be accompanied by a substantial introduction and an extensive thematic commentary that will elucidate the principal intellectual influences and the complex epistemological frameworks of the period. Only through such an analysis can the intellectual background of Merle’s innovative approach and its hitherto underappreciated legacy be fully understood. The project’s diverse challenges—scientific, philological, and intellectual-historical—will be addressed in close collaboration with Ota Pavlíček, Lukas Lička, and Barbora Kocánová.

CV and Research

Maximilian Schuh studied History and German Literature at the Universities of Munich and Edinburgh. In 2013 he received a PhD in Medieval History at the University of Münster, after preparing his dissertation on the University of Ingolstadt in the 15th century at the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics in Premodern and Modern Societies" Since 2011 he has been working in various positions at the Universities of Munich, Göttingen, Heidelberg and Duisburg-Essen. Since 2019 Maximilian is a lecturer at the Department for the History of the High and Later Middle Ages at Freie Universität Berlin. From October 2023 to September 2024 he was a Consolidator Fellow at the Historische Kolleg. Institute for Advanced Studies in Munich. His research focuses on the history of universities in the Holy Roman Empire in the Fifteenth Century and on the perceptions of environment in Fourteenth century England. Furthermore, he is interested in discussing the collaboration between the humanities and the natural sciences.

Selected Publications

Monograph and Edited Volume

Aneignungen des Humanismus. Institutionelle und individuelle Praktiken an der Universität Ingolstadt im 15. Jahrhundert (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 47), Leiden / Boston 2013.

with Jan-Hendryk de Boer / Marian Füssel (Eds.), Universitäre Gelehrtenkultur vom 13.–16. Jahrhundert. Ein interdisziplinäres Quellen- und Methodenhandbuch, Stuttgart 2018.

Selected Studies in English

with Xander Feys und Raf Van Rooy, Socio-Cultural History, in: Student Notes from Latin Europe (1400–1750). A Research Companion, hg. v. X. Feys u.a., Leuven 2025, 235-253. Open Access

with Tobias Kluge / Philipp Holz et al., Assessment of Climate Extremes at the Regional Scale during the Last Millennium Using an Annually Resolved Stalagmite Record, in: Earth and Planetary Science Letters 624 (2023), Article 118458. Link

Universities in the Holy Roman Empire, in: The English Historical Review 137 (2022), 884-889.

Narratives of Environmental Events in the Winchester Pipe Rolls and English Historiography of the Early Fourteenth Century, in: The Crisis of the 14th Century Teleconnections between Environmental and Societal Change?, ed. by Martin Bauch / Gerrit Jasper Schenk, Berlin / Boston 2020, 247-262. Open Access

Making Renaissance Humanism Popular in the Fifteenth Century Empire, in: Renaissance Now! The Value of the Renaissance Past in Contemporary Culture, ed. by Brendan Dooley, Oxford u.a. 2014, 81-101.