Eva Schlotheuber (born 25 October 1959 in Osnabrück) is a German historian of Christianity in the Middle Ages.
Eva Schlotheuber studied at the universities of Göttingen and Copenhagen. In 1994, she received her doctorate in Göttingen with a dissertation entitled Die Franziskaner in Göttingen. Die Geschichte des Klosters und seiner Bibliothek (The Franciscans in Göttingen. The history of the monastery and its library), supervised by Hartmut Hoffmann. From 1999 to 2001, she was a research assistant to Claudia Märtl at the Technical University of Braunschweig, and then in 2001, at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). In 2003, she completed her habilitation there with a thesis on the life of nuns in the late Middle Ages.
In 2003, she was senior assistant at the LMU Munich and held professorships in Braunschweig and Marburg. From 2007 to 2010 Schlotheuber taught as Professor of Medieval History and auxiliary sciences at the University of Münster. Since 2010 she holds the Chair of Medieval History at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf as successor to .
Since 2014, she has been a full member of the Zentraldirektion (central management) of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica and since 2016 a member of the Konstanzer Arbeitskreis für Mittelalterliche Geschichte. Since the 51st Deutscher Historikertag (Biennial Convention of German Historians) in Hamburg in 2016, she has been President of the .
In 2020, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[1]
Her research focuses on the history of education and libraries, cultural history, the history of religious orders, especially forms of life and expression in the medieval nunneries as well as the material culture of the Middle Ages, the portrayal of personality in the biographical and autobiographical literature of the High and Late Middle Ages and the conception of Emperor Charles IV's rule as well as the political structures and cultural currents of the 14th century. In autumn 2017, Schlotheuber and organized a Reichenau conference of the Konstanzer Arbeitskreises für mittelalterliche Geschichte with the theme Zwischen Klausur und Welt. Autonomie und Interaktion spätmittelalterlicher geistlicher Frauengemeinschaften (Between enclosure and the outside. Autonomy and Interaction of Late Medieval Spiritual Women's Communities). Since 2016, she is Director (with Henrike Lähnemann) on a funded project "The Nuns' Network" to edit the letter books from Lüne Abbey, largest medieval corpus of letters written by women.