Dr Charlotte Behr

 

Job Title: Senior Lecturer Qualifications: Dr phil (Universität Münster) Telephone: +44 (0)20 8392 3069 Email Address: C.Behr@roehampton.ac.uk

In her research Charlotte Behr focuses on northern and western Europe in the late Roman and early medieval periods. She is particularly interested in the material and visual culture of these countries on the periphery of the Roman Empire. In her publications she has presented research on various aspects of migration-period gold bracteates, on their iconography, functions and meanings. Currently she is investigating the role and power of images within religious and political contexts in Scandinavian societies of the 5th and 6th centuries.

Publications

(2007) Using bracteates as evidence for long-distance contacts, Incipient Globalisation? Long-Distance Contacts in the Sixth Century, ed by Anthea Harris, Reading Medieval Studies Volume 32, BAR IS 1644 , 15-25.

Wilhelm Heizmann (Heilswörter) (2005) Sinnbilder und Heilswörter, Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde, 28, 467-473.

(2003) Immigration and Emigration. Evidence of the Jutes, www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/immig_emig/england/kent/article_5.shtml.

J. P. Lamm, M. Axboe, K. Hauck, H. Beck, A. Pesch (2001) 'Der Brakteat des Jahrhunderts'. Über den einzigartigen zehnten Brakteaten aus Söderby in der Gemeinde Danmark, Uppland, Frühmittelalterliche Studien, 34, 1-94, 49-51.

(2001) Do bracteates identify influential women in early medieval kingdoms?, Kingdoms and Regionality (Stockholm), 95-101.

(2001) Kreuz, Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, 17, 324-328.

() Forschungsgeschichte, Axboe, Morten, Beck, Heinrich, Behr, Charlotte, Düwel, Klaus, Heizmann, Wilhelm, Pesch, Alexandra (eds), Die Goldbrakteaten der Völkerwanderungszeit: Interdisziplinäre Studien, Ergänzungsbände zum RGA, Berlin forthcoming 2009.

Research Expertise

- Late Roman and early medieval northern European material and visual culture

- Role and power of images in migration-period Europe

- Gold bracteates: research history, iconography, political and religious context

- Bracteates in Anglo-Saxon England

Teaching Expertise

- Roman and early medieval history and archaeology: texts, objects, images
- theories of history and historiography

Current modules include:
Augustan Rome
Society, Politics and Religion in the late Roman Empire
Romans and Barbarians
Myths and Mythology (contributing)

Undergraduate courses taught at Roehampton:

Classical Civilisation
History

Postgraduate courses taught at Roehampton:

Historical Research