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First Name
Franziska
Last Name
Kleybolte
Country
Germany
State
Affiliation
University of Münster and Technical University of Braunschweig
Website URL
https://www.uni-muenster.de/JuedischeStudien/institut/personen/kleybolte/index.shtml
Keywords
Jewish Medieval History in Europe, especially Iberia and Germany, History of Anti-Judaism and Anti-Semitism, Expressions of Anti-Judaism in Art and Architecture, Jewish-Christian Relations, Cultural Appropriations in Pre-Modernity
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PhD
MA

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About Me

Franziska Kleybolte is a scholar in the field of history, with a focuss on medieval Jewish-Christian relations. She studied history and art history at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Tel Aviv University, and the University of Oxford. Kleybolte completed her Master of Studies in Medieval Studies at Oxford in 2019.

Currently, Kleybolte is a PhD candidate and research assistant at the University of Münster, where she has been working since September 2019. rthermore, she works as a research assistant at the Bet Tfila – Research Center for Jewish Architecture in Europe, where she is involved in developing a new study programme in Jewish Cultural Heritage Studies.

Her research focuses on the coexistence of Christian and Jewish populations in medieval Europe, particularly as reflected in architecture, imagery, and written sources. Kleybolte’s PhD project, part of the University of Münster’s Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics,” examines the Christian conversion of synagogues into churches in the late medieval kingdoms of Castile-Leon and Aragon. This research explores the transformation of sacred spaces and the dynamics of religious interaction in medieval Iberia. Specifically, she examines the motifs, implementations, and both intended and unintended consequences of these conversions, which I understand as a lens through which to study Jewish-Christian relations at the time, as well as their reception and instrumentalization in the decades and centuries that followed.

Recent Publications
  • Kleybolte, F. (2023). »daz sie alle di Judenhauser […] brechen můgen und sullen «. Nürnberg zur Zeit des Schwarzen Todes. In Bubert, M., & Krischer, A. (Hrsg.), Centrum für Religion und ModerneZwischen Gottesstrafe und Verschwörungstheorien. Deutungskonkurrenzen bei Epidemien von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart (1. Aufl.) (S. 128–160). Campus Verlag.
Media Coverage
Country Focus
Expertise by Geography
Mediterranean, Western Europe
Expertise by Chronology
Medieval
Expertise by Topic
Art & Architectural History, Higher Ed, Material Culture, Museums, Politics, Religion, Urban History