Dr. Katrin Rösler

• Comparative History of Religious Orders (with a focus on the Premonstratensians, Cistercians, Benedictines, and Benedictine nuns)
• Women’s Religious Life (with a focus on the High and Late Middle Ages)

Study and qualification

Professional stations

Since 10/2025 Research Associate at the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig

12/2020 - 09/2025 Advisor at the Saxon State Ministry for Social Affairs, Health and Social Cohesion - topics: integration, democracy work, diversity design

03/2019 - 11/2020 Personal Advisor to the Saxon International Students and Staff Officer in the Saxon State Parliament

01/2018 - 02/2019 Maternity leave and parental leave

08/2017 - 02/2019 Clerk to the Saxon International Students and Staff Officer in the Saxon State Parliament

11/2013 - 10/2017 Coordinator of an international research training group on the interreligious comparison of monastic cultures at the Research Center for Comparative History of Religious Orders at TU Dresden

01/2013 - 10/2013 Maternity leave and parental leave

01/2010-11/2013 Doctoral studies at the TU Dresden

09/2009-12/2009 Freelancer for provenance research at the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB)

11/2004 -01/2008 Student Assistant at the Collaborative Research Center 537 of the TUD Dresden University of Technology

02/2008 - 08/2009 Maternity leave and parental leave

09/2004 - 09/2007 Course assistant at the Goethe Institute Dresden

02/2003 - 03/2003 Internship at the City Archaeology Paderborn

Degrees

Memberships in associations and working groups

Monograph:

1. Unity Without Equality: Aspects of the Construction of Premonstratensian Identity in the 12th and 13th Centuries (Vita regularis. Essays 66), Münster: LIT 2020.

Contributions to anthologies and journals:

1. Between Contemplatio and Vita Apostolica. Aspects of the Identity of the Early Premonstratensian Order, in: Petrus Bsteh/ Brigitte Proksch/ Cosmas Hoffmann (eds.): Religious Orders in a Changing Europe. Historical Episodes and Their Global Consequences (Spirituality in Dialogue 5), Münster: LIT 2013, pp. 46–60. (published under the name: Katrin Rothe)

In preparation:

1. *Vita canonica* as *vita caritativa*. The Example of the Premonstratensians (working title), in: Mirko Breitenstein and Nathalie Schmidt (eds.): *Statutes of Hospital Orders and Statutes of Hospitals in a European Comparison (12th–18th Centuries)* (Vita regularis. Essays), Münster: LIT 2026.

2. Critical edition of the letter from Sophia von Stolberg, abbess of Helfta, dated 1451, to the St. Jacobi convent in Halberstadt. In: Studies and Communications of the Benedictine Order and Its Branches.

Shorter Articles and Reports (Selection):

1. Report: Asceticism from a Cross-Cultural Perspective—Conference in Vienna, In: Religionen unterwegs 23 (2017). pp. 30–31.

Reviews:

1. Tanja Skambraks: The Festival of the Child Bishop in the Middle Ages, Florence: SISMEL. Edizioni del Galluzzo 2014, in: sehepunkte 16 (2016), No. 1 [January 15, 2016], URL: https://www.sehepunkte.de/2016/01/26344.html

2. Svec Goetschi, Milena, Escape from the Monastery and Pilgrimage. Apostasy and Monastic Mobility in the 15th Century (Zurich Contributions to Historical Science, 7), Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2015, in: Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 44-2 (2017), pp. 326–327.

3. *Nottingham Medieval Studies* 65 (2021). Special Issue: Cistercians and Regular Canons in Medieval Western Europe, ed. by Claude Lucette Evans / Kenneth Paul Evans, Turnhout: Brepols 2022, in: *Analecta Praemonstratensia* 99 (2023), pp. 185–187.

4. Vivien Bienert: The Augustinian Canons’ Priory of Böddeken. Library and Book Production in the 15th Century. 2024, Cologne, in: Mediaevistik. International Journal for Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies 39 (2026), pp. 421–422.

In preparation:

1. Cristina Andenna/ Marina Benedetti/ Sylvie Duval/ Haude Morvan/ Ludovic Viallet (eds.): The Reforms of the Observance in Europe (14th–16th Centuries). Regulating, Educating, and Controlling Christian Society (Collection of the French School in Rome 623). Rome 2025. In: German Archive for Medieval Studies, 2026.

Translations:

1. Starting with Vol. 35 (2024), translations of the abstracts of all articles in the “Revue Mabillon” from French into German.

2. Schmitt, Jean-Claude: Outside or Inside? The Paradox of Monastic Existence in the West, in: Mirko Breitenstein / Gert Melville (eds.): The Impact of Monastic Life. Models – Orders – Competencies – Concepts (Monasteries as Innovation Labs 6), Regensburg 2020, pp. 235–244. (French–German)

3. Delle Donne, Fulvio: Nobilitas animi: Attribute or Requirement of a Nobilitas Sanguinis? Ideological Reflection at the Aragonese Court of Naples, in: Cristina Andenna / Gert Melville (eds.): Idoneity – Genealogy – Legitimation. Justification and Acceptance of Dynastic Rule in the Middle Ages (Norm and Structure), Cologne 2015, pp. 351–362. (Italian–German)

4. Delle Donne, Fulvio: The Collection of Letters by Petrus des Vinea and the Problems of the Transmission of Dictamina in the Time of Frederick II, in: Tanja Broser/Andreas Fischer/Matthias Thumser (eds.): Curial Letter Culture. Form – Transmission – Reception (Regesta Imperii. Supplements, 37), Cologne/Vienna 2015, pp. 223–233. (Italian–German)

5. Panarelli, Francesco: Diocese, City, and Women’s Religious Life: The Case of Matera in the Late Middle Ages. Lecture delivered at FOVOG Dresden on June 29, 2011. (Italian–German)

6. Cengarle, Federica: Power and Renunciation of Power – Power Through Renunciation. Lecture delivered in November 2011 at Villa Vigoni. (Italian–German)

Scientific projects: