Around 1738 the young Carl Linnaeus cut away the redundant decorations from the folios with dried plants he had received as a token of gratitude from George Clifford for describing the banker’s hortus and herbarium in the Netherlands. The young naturalist had no interest in the printed adornments like vases, cartouches and banderols when he […]
Mein Projekt soll die Bestände der Herzog August Bibliothek im Rahmen von zwei altnordistischen Forschungsvorhaben fruchtbar machen. Zum einen wird für die Version der Eyrbyggja saga im Cod. Guelf. 9.10 Aug. 4to ermittelt, ob und inwiefern sich ihre literarische Gestalt von anderweitiger Texttradition unterscheidet. Dadurch führe ich mein Langzeitprojekt über Ambiguität als Erzählstrategie in den […]
The project investigates the ways in which Chalcedonian and Monophysite thinkers adopted conflicting physical paradigms to establish and clarify their Christological positions. The paradigms in questions are (a) the Stoic doctrine concerning the total blending of physical bodies, widely used by Chalcedonians to support their Christology; and (b) the doctrine of bodily mixing characteristic of […]
Anneke de Bont’s PhD dissertation, titled ‘The Christian Epistemic Image in Northern European Print, c.1570–1700’, is concerned with the printed visualisation of subjects on the boarders between science and religion in late-sixteenth- and seventeenth-century northern Europe. Expanding upon existing research into the ways in which religion was implicit in the visual culture of the ‘Scientific […]
Around 1738 the young Carl Linnaeus cut away the redundant decorations from the folios with dried plants he had received as a token of gratitude from George Clifford for describing the banker’s hortus and herbarium in the Netherlands. The young naturalist had no interest in the printed adornments like vases, cartouches and banderols when he […]
The development of the Duchy of Württemberg, 1590-1800 The project deals with the research of the history of one of the small German states of modern times – the Duchy of Württemberg, which arose on the territory of the historical region of Sw...
Heimkehr als Herausforderung. Das Leben deutschsprachiger Sklav:innen nach der Freilassung (1600–1800)In der Frühen Neuzeit gerieten mehrere zehntausend Menschen aus dem Alten Reich in osmanische bzw. maghrebinische Lösegeldsklaverei. Das Proj...
In the eighteenth century, Medea entered the stage throughout Europe. She was the protagonist of French ballet d’action (Noverre) and opera (Hoffmann & Cherubini), German melodrama (Gotter), and British, French, and German tragedy (Glover;...
Henry of Herford on Epidemics and Contagious DiseasesMy research project focuses on the medical teachings of Henry of Herford (1300-1377). He was a prominent figure in the intellectual debates in late-medieval Germany, author, among other thin...
Lessing als Herausgeber der Zeitschrift der herzoglichen Bibliothek zu Wolfenbüttel (1770-1778)Das Projekt hat zum Ziel, die Herausgebertätigkeit Lessings in der herzoglichen Bibliothek von 1770 bis 1778 zu rekonstruieren. Eine detaillierte Da...
