Aktuelle(s) Projekt(e)

Rural commercialisation in southern Germany (1200-1500) in comparative perspective; medieval economic history; transitions to capitalism.

Frühere Position(en)

2015-16: Research Fellow (funded by an Insight Development Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Government of Canada).
2014-15: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.
2010-13: Junior Research Fellow (Postdoctoral Fellow), Magdalen College, Oxford.
2009-10: Visiting Research Fellow, School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester (funded by a Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Government of Canada).

Monographien (und Dissertation)

Ghosh, Shami, Writing the barbarian past: studies in early medieval historical narrative (Leiden: Brill, 2016).
Ghosh, Shami, Kings’ sagas and Norwegian history: problems and perspectives (Leiden: Brill, 2011).

Artikel

Ghosh, Shami, ‘Rural economies and transitions to capitalism: Germany and England compared (c.1200–c.1800)’, Journal of Agrarian Change (2016), 16, 2, 255-90.
Ghosh, Shami, ‘The “great divergence”, politics, and capitalism’, Journal of Early Modern History, 19, 1 (2015), 1–43.
Ghosh, Shami, ‘The imperial abbey of Ellwangen and its peasants: a study of the polyptych of 1337’, Agricultural History Review, 62, 2 (2014), 187–209.
Ghosh, Shami, ‘Conquest, conversion and heathen customs in Henry of Livonia’s Chronicon Livoniae and the Livländische Reimchronik’, Crusades, 11 (2012), 87–108.
Ghosh, Shami, ‘Condwiramurs’, Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte, 82, 1 (2008), 3–25.
Ghosh, Shami, ‘On the origins of Germanic heroic poetry: a case study of the legend of the Burgundians’, Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 129, 2 (2007), 220–52.

Herausgeberschaften und Editionen

Publikationsliste (Url)

http://utoronto.academia.edu/ShamiGhosh

Geschichte des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit (Schwerpunkt Deutschland); Sozial- u. Wirtschaftsgeschichte; Geschichtsschreibung; Mittelhochdeutsche und altisländische Dichtung