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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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Vita religiosa & Popkultur– Klöster­liches Lebens und religiöse Gemeinsch­aften des europäis­chen Mittelal­ters in populären Medien
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 Spirituality in the Middle Ages: Virtue, Power, and Representation” (KuG)

The Cistercian Institute for Lay Sisters: The Tension Between Ideal and Reality. A Comparison of Monasteries in the Rhineland, Northern Germany, and Flanders from the 12th to the 14th Century

Dictionary of Cistercian Saints

The Representation of the Other: New Worlds in the Texts of Early Travelers to Asia and the Americas (13th–16th Centuries)

Disciplinary Authority in Religious Communities

FOSTER Project: Rules and Realities: A Comparative Study of Ideals, Lifestyles, and Duties in the Communities of the Franciscans, Johannites, Celestines, and Cistercians (both men and women)

Generational Transition and Transgenerational Identity. A Comparative Analysis of a Tipping Point in Institutional Stability Using Selected Religious Communities as Examples

Holy Monk-Bishops: Discourses on the Reconciliation of Monasticism and the Episcopal Office in Hagiographies from the 11th–13th Centuries

Indigenous Children as Agents of Evangelization—The Franciscan Educational Project in Colonial Mexico, as Exemplified by the Yucatán Peninsula

Light, the Use of Light, Lighting Design, and Lighting Equipment Among the Cistercians

Monasteries in Modern Media

Normative Order and Symbolic Presence of the Antonites: An Edition of Their Statutes and an Analysis of Their Symbols

Religious Orders and Societies Entangled (ROSE)

Conceptions of Resilience in Monastic Historiography of the High Middle Ages (11th–13th Centuries)

​​​​​​​Saints and the Shaping of Religious Identities

St. Mary’s in Helfta. A Monastery within the Networks of Its Time (13th–16th Centuries)

Saxonia Cisterciensis: Networks and Interconnections of Saxon Cistercian Monasteries from the 12th to the 16th Centuries

​​​​​​​Encyclopedia of the Knights Templar

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

Religious Life & Pop Culture

Between Self-Will and Social Pressure—The Concept of Solitude in the Female vita religiosa in the Middle Ages

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