Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• König, Susanne

Titel

Feudalism in the GDR : Medieval History at the Humboldt University (1946-1989)

Ist Teil von

• L'atelier du Centre de recherches historiques, 2023-05, Vol.27 (27)

Ort / Verlag

Centre de recherches historiques - EHESS

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Feudalism as centre of a Marxist based historiography was rather a concept of the Middle Ages in the perspective of the GDR than a historiography of the Middle Ages based on research analysis. How this effected the concrete historian and his work will be analysed to expand the state of research on the historiography of the GDR. The GDR attempted to obtain legitimacy and identity by creating genuine socialist traditions. Feudalism was unable to serve as a founding myth of the GDR which collapsed in 1989. New approaches reflect feudalism not only from a historiographical point of view, but as part of medieval studies which can be studied as a science about the Middle Ages.