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#IchBinHanna avant la lettre?
Ein Essay über die Vergleichbarkeit von Prekarität und Sonderrechten in der mittelalterlichen und der zeitgenössischen Hochschule
Sebastian Kubon
Abstract
The essay examines whether the precarious working conditions for mid-level faculty at contemporary universities, which were criticized in social media as part of the #IchBinHanna campaign, had precursors at medieval universities. At first glance, the parallels are obvious. However, it has been shown that, unlike today, fixed-term contracts and pay were not markers of precariousness in the Middle Ages. The social structure of the Middle Ages was completely different, as students were clergymen and as such protected by their employer, the Church. This only changed with the Reformation, when the civil servant professor replaced the priest professor. In fact, it is the special law on temporary academic contracts (»Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz«) that is the sole privilege of the academic sector and thus breathes the spirit of the Middle Ages, as social institutions were regularly granted special privileges at that time, which is the exception in late modernity. This essay gathers preliminary working hypotheses that need to be tested in further research.
Keywords Abaelard, Fixed-term Contracts, Precarity, Professor, University
