Florian Wöller

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Florian Wöller is Associate Professor (tenured) of Church History at the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen (Denmark). Prior to his position at Copenhagen, he was a lecturer in Church History at the University of Basel (2010-2016) and at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (2016-2018).

His research concerns two fields within the history of Christianity before ca. 1500: Religious and Cultural History of Late Antique Christianity as well as Intellectual and Cultural History of Medieval Scholasticism.

He currently works on a monograph project on Processions and Urban Space in late antiquity (ca. 300–600 AD). It's aim is to elucidate how processions as communal acts of urban mobility not only were shaped by late antique cities, but also themselves constituted, shaped, and manipulated urban spaces. The cases analysed in the monograph include Jerusalem, Milan, Antioch, Constantinople, Rome, and the cities of sixth-century Gaul. Florian's further contributions to late antique studies are on processional cultures in Antioch, Milan, and Constantinople, with more to come. He is the co-editor of an interdisciplinary volume on Milan in Late Antiquity (forthcoming with Mohr Siebeck).

Florian's first book, Theologie und Wissenschaft bei Petrus Aureoli (2015) is a study of 14th-century concepts of science, faith, and theology at the medieval university with a special focus on the commentary on the Sentences by the French Franciscan Peter Auriol (d. 1322). Further contributions to medieval studies concern a wide range of topics from epistemology, theory of science, and historical though in scholasticisim to the use of the Bible, mendicant culture, and ecclesiology.

Florian is the co-editor of the yearbook for the study of medieval theology Archa Verbi (ISSN 1612-3964)

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since 9/2018: Associate Professor for Church History, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen

9/2016-8/2018: Postdoctoral lecturer in Church History, Faculty of Protestant Theology, LMU Munich

11/2013-8/2016: Postdoctoral lecturer in Church History, Faculty of Theology, University of Basel

10/2013: PhD, Faculty of Theology, University of Basel

1/2010-10/2013: Doctoral lecturer in Church History, Faculty of Theology, University of Basel

2/2008-12/2009: Doctoral fellow, eikones NCCR Iconic Criticism, University of Basel

2/2008: Diploma in Theology (equivalent to MA), Faculty of Theology, University of Göttingen

10/2001-2/2008: Studies in Theology and Philosophy in Münster, Rome, and Berlin

Born 7 April 1982