Focal areas of research and research projects

Research projects

• since 7/2017
  "Sacredness and sacrilege. The disparagement of the sacred within the interconfessional dispute of the 16^th century" (Sub-project E of CRC SFB 1285)
• 7/2011 - 7/2014
  "The Ethos of Friendship. The Spirit of Community in Medieval Discourses and Narrations" (Sub-project S of CRC SFB 804)

General focal areas of research

• Invectivity
• Narratives and cultural memory
• Communications and risk narratives
• Integration and societal change
• Alterity and inter-culturalism
• Experience of the foreign
• Friendship and societal change
• Dialogue research

Specific areas of research

• Faust books of the 15^th to 17^th century
• Discovery and conquest
• Dialogism in Minnesang
• Discourses of friendship in medieval and early modern literature