Inscribed. Reflexions of Material Text Cultures in the Literature of the 12th and 17th Century (C05)

• Subject Area: German Medieval Studies (Medieval German Literature)
• Term: from 2011 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 178035969

The project examines socio-cultural practices pertaining to script-bearing artefacts, as they can be observed in medieval and early modern narratives. At the centre will be narrative fictional (‘literary’) texts from the 12th to the 17th century that refer to (fictional) inscriptions. Aside from the as comprehensive as possible collection of the thousands of instances in European Literature, the main focus is on the imaginary dimension, that is on forms of fantastic scripturality that are hardly or not at all conceivable in reality.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 933: Material Text Cultures. Materiality and Presence of Writing in Non-Typographic Societies
• Applicant Institution: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Ludger Lieb