Albrecht Classen

Dr. Albrecht Classen is University Distinguished Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona, where he teaches and researches medieval and early modern European literature, culture, and art history. He has published more than seventy scholarly monographs, editions, translations, critical volumes, and textbooks, and more than 500 articles. Most recently he published Sexual Violence and Rape in the Middle Ages (2011), Sex im Mittelalter (in German, 2011); War and Piece: Critical Issues in European Societies 800-1800 (2011), and Friendship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age (2011). In 2010 he published the standard-setting three volume Handbook of Medieval Studies. Currently he is preparing a new Handbook of Medieval Cultures. He serves as editor of the journals Mediaevistik, Tristania, and Humanities. He has received numerous teaching and research awards, most notably the Bundesverdienstkreuz am Band (Order of Merit) from the German government in 2004.