Dr Philipp Nothaft
Fifty-Pound Fellow
All Souls College
philipp.nothaft@all-souls.ox.ac.uk Most of my research revolves around discourses of time, astronomy/astrology, and calendars in medieval and early modern Europe, with a heavy focus on unpublished sources in medieval Latin manuscripts. Apart from a series of critical editions of texts dating from the twelfth to the fifteenth century, my current main project consists in a large-scale history of calendar improvement and lunisolar astronomy in the Latin Middle Ages. I also hope to expand this research into producing follow-up monographs on medieval observational astronomy and the history of historical chronology.
Research Interests
- Chronology, calendars, and systems of dating (ancient to modern)
- Medieval science (particularly astronomy)
- European intellectual history (ancient to early modern)
- Jews and Christians in medieval Europe