Tobias Daniels studied history, Italian and German at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. In 2012, he received his PhD with a thesis on a learned jurist at the Universities of Innsbruck and Pavia, and in 2018 he completed his habilitation in Medieval History and Auxiliary Sciences at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich with a thesis on the Pazzi conspiracy as a political scandal and its European resonances. He was a research assistant at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome, and held visiting professorships in Trier and Zurich. His research has focused on humanism and the Renaissance in a European perspective; social and institutional history of church and kingship; connections between art, economy and politics.
