Albrecht

He has published currently 118 scholarly books on German and European medieval and early modern literature, most recently Freedom, Imprisonment, and Slavery in the Pre-Modern Time (2021), Tracing the Trails in Medieval Literature (Routledge, 2021), and Wisdom from the European Middle Ages (2022). In his other recent books, he explored the history of toleration and tolerance (2018 and 2020), prostitution in medieval literature (2019), the topics of the forest and of water in medieval literature (2015 and 2018), magic and magicians (2017), and the Paradigm Shift in the late Middle Ages (2019). He is the editor of the journals Mediaevistik and Humanities Open Access, and serves on many different boards of international journals dedicated to the Humanities. In 2004, he received the Bundesverdienstkreuz am Band (Order of Merit) from the German government.