Ethnonyms by Comparison

By starting from central authors, this interdisciplinary team project aims at examining how ethnonyms matter for the manifestation of ethnicity in medieval contexts of Southwestern Arabia and Western Europe, and where major similarities and differences occur.


Project leader:
Andre Gingrich, Walter Pohl, Christina Lutter, Stephan Prochazka

Collaborators:
Salvatore Liccardo, Odile Kommer, Andrea Nowak

Cooperations:
Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Vienna, Institute for Medieval Research (IMAFO) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Duration:
01.07.2014 - 30.06.2017

Financing:
DOC-team Stipendium (AAS)

Associated Project:
"Visions of Community. Comparative Approaches to Ethnicity, Region and Empire in Christianity, Islam and Buddhism (400-1600 CE)" (https://viscom.ac.at/)