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Juan Rothenhäusler

Currently a master's student at the CAU-Kiel (Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology).

– Bachelor of Arts in History and Cultural Studies of Antiquity at the University of Konstanz
– Fall 2021 to summer 2023: student assistant at the department History of Religions under Prof. Dr. Daniel G. König; copy editor for the Journal "Transmediterranean History" ( Editors: Daniel G. König, Theresa Jäckh, Eric Böhme, DOI: https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/index.php/tmh/index .)
– Winter semester 2022/23: Tutor (History of Late Antiquity) at the university lectureship of Political Cultures of Antiquity under Prof. Dr. Steffen Diefenbach

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Research paper thumbnail of 1107-1110: Die "Jerusalemfahrt" Sigurds I. in der Darstellung Snorri Sturlusons

Transmediterrane Geschichte / Transmediterranean History / تأريخ العلاقات عبر البحر المتوسط , 2024

In a three-year campaign, the Norwegian king Sigurd I led 3,000 men to the Holy Land, where he co... more In a three-year campaign, the Norwegian king Sigurd I led 3,000 men to the Holy Land, where he conquered the city of Sidon with King Baldwin I of Jerusalem. His military campaign has been interpreted early on as a crusade, although he and his retinue spent the larger part of their journey attacking coastal cities and islands in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean—regardless of whether they were ruled by Muslims or Christians. Taking contemporary Arabic, Latin, and Old Nordic sources into account, the article examines the king’s saga dedicated to Sigurd as written by the Icelandic scholar Snorri Sturluson (d. 1241). Snorri describes an extended campaign displaying all characteristics of a typical Viking Age voyage. This raises the question whether Sigurd’s journey to Jerusalem can really count as a crusade.

Research paper thumbnail of 1258-1283: al-Qazwīnī berichtet aus dem Irak über Schleswig bzw. Haithabu

Transmediterrane Geschichte / Transmediterranean History / تأريخ العلاقات عبر البحر المتوسط, 2022

This article deals with a place called Šlašwīq (Haithabu/Schleswig) which is found as a lemma in ... more This article deals with a place called Šlašwīq (Haithabu/Schleswig) which is found as a lemma in the Āṯār al-bilād, a work compiled by the thirteenth-century Iraqi cosmographer and geographer al-Qazwīnī. The latter took his information on Šlašwīq and its inhabitants from a travel account written by the tenth-century Andalusian traveller Ibrāhīm b. Yaʿqūb al-Isrāʾīlī al-Ṭurṭūšī. The article considers the origin and transmission of this travelogue and endeavours to resolve which historical place is actually to be identified with Šlašwīq. A large part of the study debates the extent to which this Arabic-Islamic description of Šlašwīq reflects the historical realities of the tenth-century Baltic region, or the subjective impressions of the Andalusian traveller and his later compiler.

Research paper thumbnail of 1107-1110: Die "Jerusalemfahrt" Sigurds I. in der Darstellung Snorri Sturlusons

Transmediterrane Geschichte / Transmediterranean History / تأريخ العلاقات عبر البحر المتوسط , 2024

In a three-year campaign, the Norwegian king Sigurd I led 3,000 men to the Holy Land, where he co... more In a three-year campaign, the Norwegian king Sigurd I led 3,000 men to the Holy Land, where he conquered the city of Sidon with King Baldwin I of Jerusalem. His military campaign has been interpreted early on as a crusade, although he and his retinue spent the larger part of their journey attacking coastal cities and islands in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean—regardless of whether they were ruled by Muslims or Christians. Taking contemporary Arabic, Latin, and Old Nordic sources into account, the article examines the king’s saga dedicated to Sigurd as written by the Icelandic scholar Snorri Sturluson (d. 1241). Snorri describes an extended campaign displaying all characteristics of a typical Viking Age voyage. This raises the question whether Sigurd’s journey to Jerusalem can really count as a crusade.

Research paper thumbnail of 1258-1283: al-Qazwīnī berichtet aus dem Irak über Schleswig bzw. Haithabu

Transmediterrane Geschichte / Transmediterranean History / تأريخ العلاقات عبر البحر المتوسط, 2022

This article deals with a place called Šlašwīq (Haithabu/Schleswig) which is found as a lemma in ... more This article deals with a place called Šlašwīq (Haithabu/Schleswig) which is found as a lemma in the Āṯār al-bilād, a work compiled by the thirteenth-century Iraqi cosmographer and geographer al-Qazwīnī. The latter took his information on Šlašwīq and its inhabitants from a travel account written by the tenth-century Andalusian traveller Ibrāhīm b. Yaʿqūb al-Isrāʾīlī al-Ṭurṭūšī. The article considers the origin and transmission of this travelogue and endeavours to resolve which historical place is actually to be identified with Šlašwīq. A large part of the study debates the extent to which this Arabic-Islamic description of Šlašwīq reflects the historical realities of the tenth-century Baltic region, or the subjective impressions of the Andalusian traveller and his later compiler.

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