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Here you can find all current projects of the Research Centre for the Comparative History of Religious Orders.

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Ansicht des franziskanischen Klosters in Dubrovnik in Kroatien. Im Vordergrund das Kloster mit Blick von oben in den Innenhof mit Kreuzgang, im Hintergrund viele Häuser, dahinter ein Hügel und das Meer. © Bernard Gagnon (Wikimedia Commons)
Religious Orders and Societies Entangled. The Examples of the Croatian Historical Lands and the Holy Roman Empire (ROSE)
Der hl. Benedikt übergibt seine Regel an seinen Nachfolger in Subiaco
Generation­enwechsel und transgener­ationale Identität. Ver­gleichende Analyse eines Kipppunkts institu­tioneller Festigkeit am Beispiel ausgewähl­ter religiöser Gemeinsch­aften
Auf dem Foto sind die fünf Projektmiglieder zu sehen: Marie Wogawa, Laura-Marie Lang, Rebecca Hoppe, Alina Schaarschmidt, Philipp Marko © Dominik Pogrzeba
FOSTER-Projekt: Regeln und Realitäten
_El Escorial_Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo, Ms. d. I. 1._fol. 361v_detail_Institutio canonicorum Aquisgranensis.jpg © Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo
The Social Intelli­gence of the Monks (SIM): The Transforma­tion of Monastic Networks and Collective Memory in the Post-Visigothic World

(9th–13th Century)
Resilien­zvorstel­lungen in der Klostergeschichtsschreibung des Hochmit­telalters (11.-13. Jahrhundert)
Das franziskan­ische Erziehungs­projekt im kolonialen Mexiko
Der Bischof Hugo von Grenoble steht zentral im Bild und hält einen Stab in der Hand. © Bischof Hugo von Grenoble, als Kartäuser dargestellt, Holzschnitt aus: Hartmann Schedel, Weltchronik, Nürnberg 1493; München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Rar. 287, fol. 194r.; Lizenz: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Heilige Mönchsbis­chöfe
Templer Logo © Quelle gallica.bnf.fr / BnF
Knights Templar Encyclope­dia
Collage aus verschiedenen Medien mit monastischem Bezug, darunter Comics, Ausmalbücher und Bücher zu Filmen © FOVOG
Monasteries in Modern Media

Projects of the Research Centre for the Comparative History of Religious Orders

Working group "Body and clergy in the Middle Ages. Virtue, power and representation." (KuG)

The Cistercian Conventual Institute in the field of tension between claim and reality. A comparison of Rhineland / North German and Flemish monasteries from the 12th to 14th centuries

Dictionary of Cistercian Saints

The Inscription of the Other. New worlds in the texts of early travelers to Asia and America (13th-16th century)

Disciplinary Authority in Religious Communities

FOSTER Project: Rules and Realities: A Comparative Study of Ideals, Lifestyles and Duties in Franciscan, Johanniter, Cölestiner and Cistercian Communities

Holy monk-bishops. On discourses on the reconciliation of monasticism and episcopal office in 11th-13th century saints' vitae

Indigenous children as agents of evangelization - The Franciscan educational project in colonial Mexico using the example of the Yucatán Peninsula

Light, the use of light, the staging of light and light devices among the Cistercians

Monasteries in Modern Media

Normative order and symbolic presence of the Antonites. Edition of their statutes and analysis of their signs

Religious Orders and Societies entangled (ROSE)

Ideas of resilience in the monastic historiography of the High Middle Ages (11th-13th century)

Saints and Shaping of Religious Identities

St. Mary's at Helfta. A monastery in the networks of its time (13th to 16th century)

Saxonia Cisterciensis. Networks and interconnections of Saxon Cistercian monasteries from the 12th to the 16th century

Templar lexicon

The Social Intelligence of the Monks. The Transformation of Monastic Networks and Collective Memory in the Post-Visigothic World (9th-13th Century)

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