#  Andreas Fischer 

 

 



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Andreas Fischer received a Ph.D. from the Freie Universität Berlin in 2005. After serving on the faculty of the History Department of the Technische Universität Berlin from 2004 to 2006, he became Assistant Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin, where he taught about late antiquity and early medieval history. From 2009 to 2010, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mahindra Humanities Center and was invited as a guest to work at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library in Washington, D.C. Since 2012, he works as a Research Fellow at the Medieval Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. In his dissertation, which was awarded with the Friedrich-Meinecke Prize in 2006, he dealt with the long vacancy of the years 1268 to 1271, and the cardinals’ share in the protraction of the papal election and their generally problematic guidance of the church in times without a pope (published in 2008). He has published several articles on the history of the college of cardinals and the papal curia in the thirteenth century; a monograph on Charles Martel and his rulership (2011); a co-edited volume, Western Perspectives on the Mediterranean. Cultural Transfer in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (400-800) (forthcoming); and a collection of papers given at a conference he co-organized on letters and letter collections in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries (forthcoming). His main research interests include cardinals and the papacy in the high middle ages, letters and letter collections in late antiquity and the middle ages, narrativity and patterns of interpretation in early medieval historiography (especially in the so-called Fredegar-Chronicle), and ethnicity and identity in the transitory period between late antiquity and the early middle ages.

 

 

 





 

 

- ## Discipline
    
     [History](/disciplines/history)
- ## Fellowship
    
     [Postdoctoral](/fellowship/postdoctoral)
- ## Fellowship Year
    
     [2009 - 2010](/fellowship-year/2009-2010)
- ## Role
    
     [Fellows](/role/fellow)