Dr. Christoph Joseph Pretzer

CV

2021–2024	Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow, Institute of Classical Philology, University of Bern, Switzerland
2020–2021	Junior Fellow, Walter Benjamin Kolleg, University of Bern, Switzerland
2019–2020	Lecturer of German, St Hilda’s College, Lincoln College, Oriel College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
2018	Teaching Fellow for Pre-Modern German, King’s College London, United Kingdom
2014–2017	PhD-Student, Department of German and Dutch, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
2013–2014	Teaching and Research Assistant, Chair for Medieval German Literature, University of Bamberg, Germany
2013	Master of Arts, Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies, University of Bamberg, Germany
2011–2012	Year Abroad, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
2010	Bachelor of Arts, Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies, University of Bamberg, Germany

‘Columns of Time - Fictional Spolia as Chronometers in 12th-century Middle High German Literature’, in Interfaces, eds Sarah Bowden, Leah Braun and George Younge (accepted for publication).
‘Between Artifice and Manifestation: Literary Composition in the Prologue of the Kaiserchronik and other Early Vernacular Prologues’ in Journal for English and Germanic Philology, vol. 119.3 (2020), pp. 515–535.
‘Die heiden in Ottokars aus der Gaal Buch von Akkon’ in Germanistik in der Schweiz, vol. 14 (2017), Bern 2018, pp. 82–119.

Ottokar aus der Gaal’s Book of Acre, Book II of the Styrian Rhyming Chronicle. Translation, Commentary and Analysis, in Crusade Texts in Translation (under contract by Routledge for submission in 2024).
Writing across Time in the Twelfth Century: Historical Distance and Difference in the Kaiserchronik (Oxford: Legenda, 2022).

Christoph Pretzer, ‘Ottokars aus der Gaal Buch von Akkon als mittelhochdeutsche Städteklage’ in Mentale Konzepte der Stadt in vormodernen Text- und Bildmedien, eds Margit Dahm and Timo Felber (Leiden: Sidestone Press, accepted for publication).
’Kataloge heidnischer Heere in der mittelhochdeutschen Literatur als Sammlung zwischen Ordnung und Entgrenzung’ in Sammeln als literarische Praxis im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit, eds Mark Chinca, Manfred Eikelmann, Michael Stolz, and Christopher Young, (Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, forthcoming 2022).
‘“unze an dîsen hiutegen tac” – Historische Distanz und Differenz in der Kaiserchronik’ in Geschichte erzählen: Strategien der Narrativierung von Vergangenheit in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters, eds Sarah Bowden, Manfred Eikelmann, Stephen Mossman and Michael Stolz (Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto 2020), pp. 53–65.
‘Rom, die erzählte Stadt’ in Erzählen von Macht und Herrschaft. Die Kaiserchronik im Kontext zeitgenössischer Geschichtsschreibung und Geschichtsdichtung, ed. Elke Brüggen (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht 2019), pp. 67–84.

With Richard Rex {Cambridge), joint translation of a selection of letters by Martin Luther, Hieronymus Emser, and Johann Fabri from Early Modern German into English in: Richard Rex, Martin Luther and Henry VIII.

Review: Alastair Matthews, ‘The Kaiserchronik, a medieval narrative’ (Oxford: OUP 2012), in Medium Aevum 84.2, Oxford 2016, pp. 352–354.