Univ.-Prof. Dr. Margareth Lanzinger
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Room: ZG 201.78 (main building, staircase VI)
Telephone: +43 1 4277 – 41369
Office hours by agreement
Email: margareth.lanzinger@univie.ac.at
Professor of Economic and Social History from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century
Speaker for the Research Group “Figurations of Inequality”
Editor of the Journal "Historische Anthropologie. Kultur – Gesellschaft – Alltag" with Sophia Bauer, Mario Keller, Erich Landsteiner and Brigitta Schmidt-Lauber 2020–2024
Coordinator of the International Research Network "Gender Differences in the History of European Legal Cultures"
Research Interests
- Historical Anthropology, Microhistory, Gender History
- Social History of Logistics and Infrastructure
- Inns and Innkeepers
- Alpine socio-material-natural interconnectedness
- Kinship, Family and Marriage
- Property and Wealth, Inheritance Practices and Marital Property Regimes
- Cultural History of Administration
- The Making of Heroes and Heroines
- Historiographic Topics
Projects
- ERC Advanced Grant ALPINNKONNECT “Agents of Logistics and Infrastructure in Eighteenth Century Alpine Transit Traffic” (October 2024–September 2029)
- Noble Siblings: Wealth Arrangements & Social Configurations from the Sixteenth to the
Eighteenth Century, funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF (2021-2026, two phases),
Research Associates: Florian Andretsch BA, MA und Claudia Rapberger BA,MA - Research projects completed at the Department of Economic and Social History: The Role of Wealth in Defining and Constituting Kinship Spaces from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century, funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF (August 2020-Juli2023), Research Associates: Dr. Janine Maegraith, Matthias Donabaum, MPhil.
- The Role of Wealth in Defining and Constituting Kinship Spaces from the 16th to the 18th Century, funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF (September 2016–February 2020) Research Associates: Dr. Janine Maegraith, Dr. Birgit Heinzle (March 2017–September 2017), Mag. Johannes Kaska (October 2017–February 2020).
Networks and Activities
- Member of DFG (German Research Foundation) Scientific Network "Inheritance patterns and property transfers since 1800", (2020 – 2024)
- international member of “Generaciones inciertas. Las familias de los influyentes españoles en tiempos de transformación (1740–1830)”, 4th phase of the research network on social history of the family and of kinship, a cooperation of five Spanish Universities; member of the Universidad de Murcia since 2014
- member of the international Doctoral Network in Women’s and Gender History of the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, Université de Rouen Normandie and the Universität Wien
- Member of the Gesellschaft für Agrargeschichte (Association of Agarian History)
- Member of the Società italiana delle storiche (SIS)
- Member of the Dr.-Friedrich-Teßmann Collection of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Edith Saurer Fund for sponsoring projects in the field of historical research
- Chair of the association „wasbishergeschah – Verein für historische Bildungsarbeit“
- Member of the Board of Management of the Internationale Gesellschaft für historische Alpenforschung / Assoziation Internationale pour l’Histoire des Alpes / Associazione Internazionale per la Storia delle Alpi
- Speaker for the research area "Economy and Society from a Historic Cultural Science Perspective" (March 2018-February 2021)
- Coordinator of the network Family and Kinship of the German Studies Association GSA, (2017-2020)
- Member in the editorial board of Historische Anthropologie (peer reviewed), Jahrbuch für Geschichte des ländlichen Raumes (peer reviewed), L’Homme. Z.F.G. (peer reviewed), Quaderni storici (peer reviewed), Zeitschrift für Agrargeschichte und Agrarsoziologie (ZAA)
Selected recent Publications
- Margareth Lanzinger, Administrating Kinship: Marriage Impediments and Dispensation Policies in the 18th and 19th Centuries, Leiden/Boston 2023 (open access) brill.com/display/title/57530
- Margareth Lanzinger and Raffaella Sarti, Eine Löwin im Kampf gegen Napoleon? Die Konstruktion der Heldin Katharina Lanz, Wien/Köln, Böhlau (2021).
- Janine Maegraith and Margareth Lanzinger (eds.), “Mobile Land. Modes of Transfer – Varieties of Contexts”, special issue The History of the Family, 27, 1 (2022).
- Margareth Lanzinger (Hg.), „Formen des Kredits“, Themenheft Zeitschrift für Agrargeschichte und Agrarsoziologie 70, 1 (2022).
- Margareth Lanzinger (Hg.), Vererben und Erben. Adelige, städtisch-bürgerliche und bäuerliche Kontexte, St. Pölten 2021.
- Siglinde Clementi and Margareth Lanzinger (eds.), „Der letzte Wille“, special issue of Historische Anthro-pologie 29, 3 (2021).
- Margareth Lanzinger, Janine Maegraith, Siglinde Clementi, Ellinor Forster and Christian Hagen (eds), Negotiations of Gender and Property through Legal Regimes (14th–19th Century). Stipulating, Litigating, Mediating, Leiden: Brill, 2021
- Joachim Eibach and Margareth Lanzinger (eds.), The Routledge History of the Domestic Sphere in Europe, 16th to 19th Century, London: Routledge 2020.
- Propriété, famille et arrangements de genre dans le monde rural
- Travail et genre en contexte rural et agricole (XIXe-XXIe siècles),
- Claudia Kraft u. Margareth Lanzinger (Hg.), Themenheft „Ehe – imperial“, L’Homme. Z.F.G. 31, 1 (2020).
- Margareth Lanzinger u. Clemens Zimmermann (Hg.), Themenheft „landlos“, Zeitschrift für Agrargeschichte und Agrarsoziologie 68, 1 (2020).
- Hans Heiss und Margareth Lanzinger (Hg.), Themenheft „Community of Images. Zugehörigkeit schaffen / Costruire appartenenze“, Geschichte und Region / Storia e regione 27, 1 (2018) [2019].
- Simone Derix and Margareth Lanzinger (ed.), special issue “Housing Capital. Resource and Representation”, Jahrbuch für Europäische Geschichte / European History Yearbook (2017), open access. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110532241/html?lang=en.
- Christine Fertig and Margareth Lanzinger (ed.), Beziehungen, Vernetzungen, Konflikte. Perspektiven Historischer Verwandtschaftsforschung, Köln/Wien/Weimar: Böhlau, 2016.
- Margareth Lanzinger, Verwaltete Verwandtschaft. Eheverbote, kirchliche und staatliche Dispenspraxis im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert, Wien/Köln/Weimar, Böhlau, 2015.
- Margareth Lanzinger (ed.), The Power of the Fathers. Historical Perspectives from Ancient Rome to the Nineteenth Century, London/New York, Routledge, 2015.