Astrid Breith

Codicology and Manuscript Cultures, History of written Artefacts, Texts and their Transmissions, Hagiography, Gender Studies

since 2025 member of staff at IMAREAL responsible for MEMO

2013–2024 member of staff at the Austian Academy of Science exploring the medieval library of the Benedictine monastery of Göttweig (FWF-projects P 25940 and P 32739)

2008–2013 member of staff at the Academy of Science and Humanities Berlin-Brandenburg

2006–2008 Library and Information Science at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin

2006 phd on a 15th-century book containing females saint‘s lives, “’Textaneigung’ – das Frauenlegendar der Schreibmeisterin Regula aus Lichtenthal”

2002–2003 and 2006–2007 member of staff at the Institute for the History of Reformation Tübingen, Academy of Science and Humanities Heidelberg

2003–2005 grant at the Graduate School „Ars & Scientia – Bildung und Wissenschaft im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit“ at the University of Tübingen

1998–2002 member of staff  at the manuscript department of the University Library of Tübingen

1988–1998 student of Cultural Anthropology and Medieval German Literature at the Universities of Munich, Tübingen and London

since 2025 member of the COST Action CA23143 PRAYTICIPATE – Participation through Prayer in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World

since 2024 member of the network AGFEM (Arbeitskreis Geistliche Frauen im Europäischen Mittelalter)

since 2023 member of the network “International Anchoritic society“

since 2021 member of the network “Network for the Study of Glossing”

since 2019 member of the network „Historische Wissens- und Gebrauchsliteratur e.V.“

since 2009 member of the advisory board of the Handschriftencensus