GRK 516:  Cultural Transfer in the European Middle Ages

• Subject Area: Linguistics ; Ancient Cultures ; History ; Art History, Music, Theatre and Media Studies ; Philosophy ; Theology
• Term: from 1999 to 2008
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 272707

The cohesion of the european 'Kulturraum' is based on the structures and connections which had already developed in the middle ages. But this is not to be imagined as a closed and unchangeable unity. Many parallel, cooperative or contending factors have been influencial in the constituion of this complicated web of relationships. The category of 'cultural transfer' offers the opportunity to analyse these processes. The mediaevistic research hasn't yet been fully taken advantage of.The aspect of 'Transfer' provides a way to analyse images, theories, patterns of literature, arts and religious works of art (to specify just a few of the topics treated within the research training group) notonly as subjects but also as the media of transfer. The program deals not only with transfer processes between the mediterranean countries and middle Europe, but also within the old European context, and it accentuates the relationship between the latin occident and the non-latin orient. Twelve different subjects from the faculties of philosophy, theology and medicine participate in the research training group.

• DFG Programme: Research Training Groups
• Applicant Institution: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Hartmut Kugler
• Participating Researchers: Professor Dr. Hartmut Bobzin; Professor Dr. Michele Camillo Ferrari; Professor Dr. Maximilian Forschner; Professor Dr.-Ing. Günther Görz; Professor Dr. Berndt Hamm; Professor Dr. Andreas Haug; Professor Dr. Klaus Herbers; Dr. Hinrich Hudde; Professorin Dr. Susanne Köbele; Professor Dr. Michael Lackner; Professorin Dr. Angelika Lutz; Professor Dr. Hubert Seelow; Professorin Dr. Heidrun Stein-Kecks; Professorin Dr. Renate Wittern-Sterzel