Maximilian Höhn, M.A.

28. Dezember 1994

geboren in Eisenach

Juni 2013

Abitur am Elisabeth-Gymnasium Eisenach

2013-2017

Bachelor-Studium der Altertumswissenschaften und Geschichte an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

2016-2019

Tutor am Lehrstuhl für Alte Geschichte der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

2017-2020

Master-Studium „Geschichte der Antike“ an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

seit April 2020

Promotion an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena; Arbeitstitel: Zwischen Machtfaktor und Belastungsprobe. Die oströmischen Heermeister von Arcadius bis Anastasius I.

seit August 2021

Förderung der Dissertation durch die Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

WiSe 2021/22

Lehrbeauftragter am Lehrstuhl für Alte Geschichte der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

2022-2023

Elternzeitvertretung als Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Alte Geschichte

Reviews

• RezensionExternal link zu Bleeker, Ronald A., Aspar and the Struggle of the Eastern Roman Empire. AD 421-71, London u. a. 2022, in: Plekos 25, 2023, 127-132.

Conference reports

• TagungsberichtExternal link: Ausdrucksformen des Imperiums. Indirekte Herrschaft im Sāsānidischen Commonwealth, 07.09.2023 - 09.09.2023, Jena, H-Soz-Kult, 22.10.2023.

• Zwischen Machtfaktor und Belastungsprobe. Die oströmischen Heermeister von Arcadius bis Anastasius I., 11.07.2022, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Forum Antike & Mittelalter
• Influence and Power in the 5^th Century - The Entanglements of the Eastern Roman Master of Soldiers Aspar, 06.07.2023, University of Leeds, International Medieval Congress; Session 1542: Standing between Worlds

While in the 5th century in the Western Roman Empire powerful Master of Soldiers such as Stilicho, Constantius, Aëtius and Rikimer decisively determined the affairs, such a development is not discernible in the Eastern Roman part of the Empire. By establishing efficient structural and institutional mechanisms, the Eastern Roman emperors and other civil authorities succeeded in controlling their military and limiting its influence outside the purview of the military leadership. Only a few army masters, such as Aspar, managed to overcome this system for a short time.

The dissertation will address this phenomenon, explaining the special character of the Eastern Roman Master of Soldiers from the internal structural factors of the eastern part of the empire. In doing so, the thesis will elaborate a comprehensive picture of the office in general and specifically examine the scope of action of the eastern Master of Soldiers. Taking into account theoretical approaches of political science on the relationship of the civil to the military sphere, it will also get to the bottom of the circumstances and methods of the Eastern Roman Empire that prevented 'overbearing' generals.

Based on a systematic analysis of the political and military actions of all magistri militum in the Eastern Empire from Arcadius to Anastasius I, the role of these officials in the power structure of the Eastern Roman Empire will be analyzed comprehensively for the first time. Furthermore, a deeper insight into the organization and functioning of the Eastern Roman Empire will be gained by examining the structural and institutional control mechanisms.