AFFILIATED RESEARCHER 2025-2026 Alexander Marx
Alexander Marx completed his PhD at the University of Vienna in 2019, under the supervision of Philippe Buc (now University of Leiden). His first book, The Preaching of the Third Crusade (1187–1192): The Early University of Paris, Biblical Exegesis, and the Coming Apocalypse, was published last year with Brill (2024, open access). It is devoted to the mobilization of one of the most important crusade expeditions, which was very much understood as an apocalyptic event.
He is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, where he is leading a FWF-funded project [ESP-678] on the reception of the Roman conquest of Jerusalem (70 CE) in medieval Latin texts from c.400 to c.1300—which will become his second book. Recent publications include an article on Martin of León’s unique Liber Sermonum in the Journal of Medieval History (2025), and a piece on the biblical commentaries of Rupert of Deutz in Religions (2025), discussing how this exegete used the Roman conquest to grant the First Crusade (1095–1099) providential meaning, including a significant place within the apocalyptic scenario.