Associated Scientists

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

Dr. Marko Jerković 

Project: Disciplinary Authority in Religious Communities

Prof. Dr. Matthias M. Tischler MAE 

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

Dr. Vera Henkelmann 

Project: Zwischen Anspruch und Realität: Licht, Lichtgebrauch, Lichtinszenie­rung und Lichtgerät bei den Zisterziensern des Mittelalters [Between Aspiration and Reality: Light, Use of Light, Light Staging and Light Devices among the Cistercians of the Middle Ages]