#  Sita Steckel 

 

 



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Sita Steckel received a Doctorate in Medieval History in 2006 from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany). She held postdoctoral positions at the University of Muenster (Germany) and Harvard University, and is currently Junior Professor for the History of the High and Late Middle Ages at Muenster. Her first book (2011) concerned cultures of teaching and religious expertise in Western Europe c. 800–1150. Her current project is a study of the political, religious and intellectual clashes of the secular clergy and the Franciscan and Dominican orders in thirteenth-century France. Her specific questions concern the role of (gendered) polemics and the development of the concepts of "religion" and "religiosity" in polemical discourses. On an abstract level, the intertwining of legal and religious argumentation in the medieval period is an issue, as are problems of the modern historiography with its conflicting master narratives of secularization and religious radicalization in the Western Middle Ages.

 

 

 





 

 

- ## Discipline
    
     [History](/disciplines/history)
- ## Fellowship
    
     [Postdoctoral](/fellowship/postdoctoral)
- ## Fellowship Year
    
     [2010 - 2011](/fellowship-year/2010-2011)
- ## Role
    
     [Fellows](/role/fellow)