Daniel Ziemann

Since 2009, Daniel Ziemann has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Historical Studies (Department of Medieval Studies until 2024) at Central European University in Vienna (until 2020 in Budapest). He earned his PhD from Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in 2002. His research focuses on the early and high medieval political and legal history of Southeastern and Central Europe. In 2007, he published a monograph on the emergence of early medieval Bulgaria, titled Vom Wandervolk zur Großmacht: die Entstehung Bulgariens im frühen Mittelalter (7.-9. Jahrhundert). Alongside Nada Zečević, he edited the Oxford Handbook of Medieval Central Europe, published in 2022. His interests include early medieval state formation processes and their actors, as well as the transmission and adaptation of Canon Law in the early Middle Ages.