Dr. Frederick Crofts
Contact
Seminar für Neuere Geschichte
Wilhelmstraße 36
72074 Tübingen
Mail: frederick-george.crofts@philosophie.uni-tuebingen.de
Tel.: 07071 29-77123
Office hours during summer semester 2023
by appointment
Office: Hegelbau, 1st floor, room 133
CV
2022-2023
Teach@Tübingen Fellow
2017-2021
PhD
from the University of Cambridge: “Seeing the world through Marcus zum Lamm’s Thesaurus Picturarum, c. 1564–1606”
2020-2021
DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) fellowship and visiting researcher
at University of Tübingen
2019
Herzog Ernst Fellowship
Gotha Forschungsbibliothek
2018
International Doctoral Research Fellow
Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG) Mainz
2016-2017
MPhil
in Early Modern History at the University of Cambridge
2013-2016
BA
History of Art at the University of Nottingham
Research
Emphasis
- Early modern Europe
- Visual and material culture
- History of the image
- Ego-documents and subjectivity
- Microhistory
- German history
- History of science
- Intellectual history
- Reformation history
- History of collecting
- Networks of objects and knowledge
Research projects
Images and Subjectivity: Marcus zum Lamm’s Thesaurus Picturarum, c. 1564–1606
Publications
Journal publications
- “Visualising Germanness through Costumes in the Sixteenth Century”, in The Historical Journal, vol. 64, no. 5 (2021): 1198–1229. doi:10.1017/S0018246X20000667.
Professional memberships
- Renaissance Society of America
- German History Society
Courses
Teach@Tübingen Seminars
Summer semester 2023:
The world in a microcosm: european cabinets of curiosity, c. 1550-1750
Do., 14-16 Uhr c.t., Hegelbau, 5. OG, Bibliothek/Seminarraum 505,
Start: 20.04.2023
Winter semester 2022/23:
European visual culture, ca. 1450–1620: Sight, knowledge, and experience
Do., 14-16 Uhr c.t., Hegelbau, Bibliothek/Seminarraum 306,
Start: 20.10.2022