Associated Scientists

In 2024, three internationally renowned researchers in the field of vita religiosa were appointed as associate researchers at FOVOG. They are art historian Dr. Vera Henkelmann (Erfurt), historian and medievalist Prof. Dr. Matthias M. Tischler MAE (ICREA/UAB, Barcelona/Bellaterra), and historian Prof. Dr. Marko Jerković (Zagreb).
We would like to take this opportunity to introduce them and their projects

Jerković, Marko

Project: Disciplinary Authority in Religious Communities

Tischler, Matthias M.

Project: The Social Intelligence of the Monks: The Transformation of Monastic Networks and Collective Memory in the Post-Visigothic World (9th–13th Centuries)

Henkelmann, Vera

Project: Between Ideal and Reality: Light, the Use of Light, the Staging of Light, and Lighting Equipment Among the Cistercians of the Middle Ages

Paul Sarich

Rebecca Hoppe

Project: Between Self-Determination and Social Expectations —The Concept of Solitude in the Female vita religiosa in the Middle Ages