Brief Biography

Fabian Kümmeler studied medieval and modern history, musicology, and peace and security studies in Bonn, Haifa and Hamburg. In 2018, he received his PhD with distinction at the University of Vienna. From 2011 to 2019, he was a research assistant in the interdisciplinary, FWF-funded SFB “Visions of Community: Comparative Approaches to Ethnicity, Region and Empire in Christianity, Islam and Buddhism (400–1600 CE)” at the Institute for East European History at the University of Vienna. Previously, he worked as a student assistant in the editing project “Acta Pacis Westphalicae” (2005-2010) and thereafter as a researcher at the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (2019-2020).

Research Interests

Period: 13th to 17th centuries
Area: Southeast Europe, particularly the Venetian Stato da Mar, the Danube region, Poland-Lithuania and the Baltic region
Topics: Cultural history of pastoralism between transhumance and sedentarism; micro-history of rural societies; law and administration in Venetian Dalmatia; insularity and entangled maritime history; historical peace and conflict studies; socio-cultural history of urban-rural interactions in Eurasia.

Selected Publications

• “L’archipel des bergers. Le pastoralisme dans les Balkans médiévaux et l’Adriatique orientale,” Histoire & Sociétés Rurales 56 (2021), 23–53.
• Korčula: Ländliche Lebenswelten und Gemeinschaften im venezianischen Dalmatien (1420–1499), De Gruyter Oldenbourg: Berlin, Boston 2021 (Südosteuropäische Arbeiten, 165).
• Practising Community in Urban and Rural Eurasia (1000–1600): Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Brill: Leiden 2021 [ed. together with Judit Majorossy and Eirik Hovden].
• “Herdsmen as a Socio-Professional Community in Late Medieval Dalmatia,” in: Comunità e società nel Commonwealth veneziano, ed. Gherardo Ortalli, Oliver Jens Schmitt and Ermanno Orlando, Venice 2018, 111–127.
• “‘Mediator inter eos cathellanos et fideles nostros’: A Korčulan Perspective on the Kingdom of Naples and the Catalans in the 15th Century”, Radovi Zavoda za hrvatsku povijest 52,3 (2020), 287-319.
• “The ‘Others’ from Within: Herders between Rural Communities and Venetian Governance on Late Medieval Korčula,” in: Otherness in the Middle Ages, ed. Hans-Werner Goetz and Ian N. Wood, Brepols: Turnhout 2021, S. 215-234 (International Medieval Series 25).
• “The World in a Village: Foreigners and Newcomers on Late Medieval Korčula,” in: Towns and Cities of the Croatian Middle Ages: The City and the Newcomers, ed. Irena Benyovsky Latin and Zrinka Pešorda Vardić, Zagreb 2020, 195-211.