Desacralization, resacralization, and othering: Protestant saints and ’the turks‘ in the interconfessional dispute of the 16th century (E)

• Subject Area: German Medieval Studies (Medieval German Literature)
• Term: from 2017 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 317232170

The project researches the mutual practices of disparagement between adherents of the Reformation and the Roman church from the beginning of the Reformation to the end of the 16th century. The focus of the analyses is on the disputes regarding saints and legends as well as the mutual degradation as ‘turks’. The methodological approach of the project is to investigate the interrelations between the processes of degradation and upgrading, as well as the related practices of othering, which can be referred to both as the ’foreign’ and the previously ‘own’.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1285: Invectivity. Constellations and Dynamics of disparagement
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Dresden
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Marina Münkler