Dr. Michael Eber

Curriculum Vitae

Michael Eber studied history and philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of California Irvine before receiving his doctorate in medieval history from Freie Universität Berlin. A monograph based on his dissertation entitled Christologie und Kanonistik: Der Dreikapitelstreit in merowingischen libri canonum will be published in the series MGH Schriften at the end of 2023. He was a research fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin and Leopold Franzens Universität Innsbruck, as well as a Karl Ferdinand Werner Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Paris. Since July 2023, he has been working at the Institute for Digital Humanities on a project on the transmission contexts of the Latin vitae of monachoparthenoi, for which he has secured a Walter Benjamin Fellowship at the DFG.

His research interests include gender identities and sexuality in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, in particular how these intersect with conceptions of holiness, as well as practices of excerption, compilation and (re)contextualisation in medieval manuscripts.