Jacob Langeloh
Contact
Name and title: Jacob Langeloh
Workplace: Department of History Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room D916Universitetsvägen 10 D, plan 8 och 9
Postal address Historiska institutionen106 91 Stockholm
About me
My research has been about seeking crossroads between disciplines. I am fascinated by how argumentation is used in different concrete contexts, times, and genres.
In my dissertation Erzählte Argumente (English translation in preparation), I examined the value that medieval historical theorists attributed to history and to short narratives such as exempla. Since then, I have worked on various intersections of conceptual history, intellectual history, literary studies, and theology – and contributed to the history of interreligious encounters in the book Der Islam auf dem Konzil von Basel (OA) and some articles.
Most recently, I have also developed my work toward representing intertextual relations as Linked Open Data and more broadly using digital methods.
Education
Dr. phil., Freie Universität Berlin, 2015
Magister Artium, Freie Universtität Berlin / Humbolt Universität zu Berlin, 2009
In the autum term, I am teaching
Seminars in Grundkurs i historia – Historia I
- del 1, Delkurs 2: Världens och Sveriges historia: medeltid
- del 2, Delkurs 1: Världens och Sveriges historia: tidigmodern tid
An advanced course on Religion and War - the Medieval Crusades
And a session in the doctoral course From Text to Tech.
I am happy to supervise Bachelor's thesis on a multitude of topics, which may have to do with the middle ages, interreligious encounters, or digital methods in historical research.
From 2026–2029, I will pursue a VR-funded project on the sermons held at the councils of Constance (1414-1418) and Basel (1431-1449), preparing digital editions, analyzing their contents with digital methods, and recovering their role in proceedings of the councils.
Recent articles:
- Confutation, Conversion, Martyrdom. How John of Ragusa Sought to Confront the ‘Saracens’ While at Constantinople in 1435–1437’ in: Rivista Storica Italiana, 137.1 (2025), 268–303.
- ‘Unleash the Apparatus? Towards a shared representation of knowledge about connections between primary sources’, in: Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, 6.1 (2024).
- ‘Reasoning with Riccoldo. John of Ragusa’s Fragmentum de Conditionibus Legum, written at Constantinople (?) c. 1437’ in: K. Villads Jensen, D. Scotto (eds.), Riccoldo da Monte di Croce (†1320). Missionary to the Middle East and Expert on Islam, Stockholm, 2024, 219–237.