Clemens Beck, M.A.

• Since January 2020 member of staff at the Institute of Computer Science of the Friedrich Schiller University in the research project „CORE-H: eine digitale Forschungsumgebung für die Geisteswissenschaften. Anforderungsanalyse und erste prototypische Realisierung am Beispiel der Erforschung des südwest- und mitteldeutschen Humanismus’“.
• 06/2019 - 12/2019 Research assistant at the Goethe and Schiller Archive of the Klassik-Stiftung Weimar, collaboration in the project „PROPYLÄEN. Forschungsplattform zu Goethes Biographica. Briefwechsel, Tagebücher, Begegnungen und Gespräche. Chronologie. Quellen. Recherche.“
• Since 2017 Lecturer at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. the University of Erfurt and the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena.
• 2015 - 2018 PhD scholarships from the Hans Böckler Foundation and the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
• Since 2015 Ph.D. student at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, working title "The Archbishops of Cologne and the Empire - Network analysis of the Relations with Frederick I Barbarossa and Henry VI".
• 2012 - 2014 Master's degree in interdisciplinary medieval studies at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena.
• 2009 - 2012 Bachelor studies history and economics at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

The Archbishops of Cologne and the Empire - Network analysis of the Relations to Frederick I Barbarossa and Henry VI.

The planned doctoral thesis examines the relations between the Cologne archbishops Philipp von Heinsberg, Bruno von Berg as well as Adolf von Altena and the Hohenstaufen emperors after the fall of Henry the Lion until the open outbreak of hostilities in the Hohenstaufen-Welfish throne dispute in 1198. The events on the Lower Rhine are very complex in this period, which is why the research projects them into an "anti-Staufian tradition" of the Cologne archbishops.

In contradiction to older research, it will be demonstrated that this is a "master narrative" of research. Using historical network analysis, it will be shown that the archbishops of Cologne were among the most important actors in the complex network of the empire. Through this network, various external factors impacted the archbishops, leading to a temporary front against the Hohenstaufen. At the same time, the temporary antagonism was repeatedly resolved by close cooperation between the actors.

Special attention will be paid to the shaping of consensual rule in this period, taking into account the decline of princely court visitors. The dissertation thus contributes to the imperial and constitutional history of the late 12th century.

• Imperial and constitutional history in the High Middle Ages
• Historical network analysis
• Rhineland church and regional history in the High Middle Ages
• Thuringian-Saxon regional history in the High Middle Ages
• Spanish-Franconian relations in the 8th and 9th centuries

• Auf kaiserlichen Befehl? Die politischen Hintergründe der Enthauptung des Grafen Ernst II. von Tonna-Gleichen durch den Landgrafen Ludwig II. von Thüringen, in: ZThG 72 (2018), S. 41-59.
• Together with Markus Krumm [u.a.], Ordnung ins Chaos. Digitale Netzwerkanalyse am Beispiel von Galberts von Brügge De multro, traditione, et occisione gloriosi Karoli, comitis Flandriarum, in: Mittelalter. Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte 2 (2019), S. 276–317.