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/)