Project Details
Projekt
Vigilance and renunciation. Conflicts over fasting in early modern Russia and Poland-Lithuania (C06)
Subject Area
Early Modern History
Term
from 2019 to 2023
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 394775490
This project examines fasting and the voluntary abstaining from food as a practice as well as an object of political, medical and religious debate in early modern Russia and Poland-Lithuania. It will analyze the everyday practice of eating or not eating as a tool in political and social negotiations of power. The project focuses on multi-religious and multi-ethnic regions and thus centers the question of how the practice of abstaining from food produces identity.
DFG Programme
Collaborative Research Centres
Applicant Institution
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Project Head
Professorin Dr. Julia Herzberg
