The Marvellous as a Configuration of Knowledge in Medieval Literature
(B02)
Subject Area
German Medieval Studies (Medieval German Literature)
Term
from 2012 to 2024
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 191249397
The project examines literary portrayals of cultural and historical alterity in German medieval texts from the twelfth century to the early modern period. These depictions incorporate elements of knowledge of both European and non-European provenance that are re-contextualised in terms of mediality and genre as well as related to each other and aestheticized. The project uses the term ‘the marvellous’ to denote the specific literary form resulting from these processes. In considering this specific literary form as a category of knowledge, the project provides a novel way of interpreting the term.
DFG Programme
Collaborative Research Centres