Institute of Modern History

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