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Dr. Stefanie Rüther
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Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie
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60323 Frankfurt am Main☎+49 (69) 789 78 - 190
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Stefanie Rüther studied history and German language and literature at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, where she completed her PhD in spring 2000 with a thesis on the representation of Lübeck councillors in the Middle Ages and early modern period. From 2000-2008 she worked at the SFB 496 Symbolic Communication and Social Value Systems, first as a research associate in the sub-project „Konflikt und Friedensrituale im Spätmittelalter“, then in the area of „Zentrale Aufgaben“. These included the conception and coordination of a cross-project database. From 2008-2012, Stefanie Rüther was head of a junior research group in the Graduate School of the Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics at Münster University. Following, she was employed as a knowledge research officer at the Central Custody of the University of Göttingen before moving to Frankfurt in summer 2015 as a research coordinator at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory.
Research interests
History of war and conflict
Security in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period
History of knowledge
History of religion and piety