Historical Identity Research

Fresco from the foot of the Oppian Hill, Rome, 8th/9th c. Vatican Museums, 31448 (ex 119). © Genevra Kornbluth
Fresco from the foot of the Oppian Hill, Rome, 8th/9th c. Vatican Museums, 31448 (ex 119). © Genevra Kornbluth [http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/OppianHillFresco.html]

The division Historical Identity Research is dedicated to the research on the European Middle Ages in general. Special emphasis is laid on the formation of ethnic and political groups, identity and alterity, as well as structural change. This is achieved on the basis of careful study of the extant source texts, of their manuscript transmission and their context. Moreover, an interdisciplinary, comparative approach is applied, which is employed in a global perspective.

The division consists of three working groups: "Visions of Community", "Formation and Transformation of the Carolingian World" and "Vernacularisation and the Transformation of Identities".

Historical Identity Research Blog

16.12.2019

Uses of the Past in Times of Transition: Forgetting, Using and Discrediting the Past & Approaches to Global Epigraphy

Odile Kommer

December 15, 2019 | Odile Kommer | HI Research Blog |

On 1 December volume 10 of Medieval Worlds entitled Uses of the...

05.12.2019

Small Worlds and Wide Horizons

Bernhard Zeller

December 1, 2019 | Bernhard Zeller | HI Research Blog |

Only a couple of weeks ago, the volume Kleine Welten....

Events

17.02.2020

Allies and Foes

Political and Religious Encounters between Scandinavians and Slavs in the 10th-12th Centuries

Lecture by Jakub Morawiec (University...

16.03.2020

Saint Martial, Disciple of Christ

Apostolic Conversion Stories and the Hypogée des Dunes in Nineteenth-Century France

Lecture with Bonnie Effros (University of...