Patrick Eickman

Biography

My research currently centers on the sentimental practices and literature of the Teutonic Knights during the Middle Ages. Scholarship on the emotional turn and the Baltic Crusades frames my project. I am particularly interested in how medieval ideas about emotions could essentialize Baltic peoples and how the Teutonic Order’s chroniclers constructed emotional communities that incorporated both monastic and chivalric ideas.

Education

M.A., Marquette University
B.A., Macalester College

Field

• European History
• War in Society and Culture

MA Title

• “‘The Intensity of Feeling’ of Teutonic Knights in the Kronike von Pruzinlant”

Working Dissertation Title

• “Ardent Compulsion and Sweet Comfort: Emotions in the Baltic Crusading Chronicles of the Teutonic Order”

Selected Publications

• Review of Risk, Emotions, and Hospitality in the Christianization of the Baltic Rim, 1000-1300, by Wojtek Jezierski. De Re Militari, May, 2023: https://deremilitari.org/2023/05/wojtek-jezierski-risk-emotions-and-hospitality-in-the-christianization-of-the-baltic-rim-1000-1300-reviewer-patrick-eickman/.
• Review of Medieval Authorship and Cultural Exchange in the Late Fifteenth Century: The Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order, by Rombert Stapel. Crusades, Volume 21.
• Review of Emotions in a Crusading Context: 1095-1291, by Stephen Spencer. De Re Militari, December, 2020: https://deremilitari.org/2020/12/stephen-spencer-emotions-in-a-crusading-context-1095-1291-patrick-eickman/.

Selected Awards

• One Year Grant for Doctoral Candidates, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. (2024-2025)
• Early Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison. (2024)
• Foreign Language and Area Studies Academic Year Fellowship, Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship Program. (2022-2023)
• Prucha – Theoharis Award for Outstanding Graduate Student, Marquette University (2020)

Professional Affiliations

• Society for the Study of Medieval Emotion
• The Medieval Academy of America
• Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East
• De Re Militari

Courses Taught as TA

• History 120: Europe and the Modern World, 1815 to the Present (2023)
• History 221: African Americans and Sports (2024)