Interconfessionality in the Early Modern Period
Research Training Group
Supervisory Commission Member: Prof. Dr. Susanne Rupp
Taking a new approach, the Group’s scholars of German, English, Romance studies, modern Greek and Byzantine studies, Latin, history, the history of philosophy, Chinese studies, musicology, art history, Jewish studies, Protestant and Catholic theology research inter- and transconfessional permeabilities from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Of particular interest are the theological, literary, political, and artistic phenomena that define or overcome the boundaries between the emerging confessions (interconfessionality) or that are common to both (transconfessionality). A key aspect of the Group’s activities focuses also on investigating how these phenomena featured in various media. The goal is to understand how heterogeneous artefacts express different confessional precepts and to analyze how literature, theater, the fine arts, and sacred music have documented, varied, influenced, and reinforced these precepts. The Group investigates regions from which the Reformation originated as well as early modern European and non-European regions characterized by other confessional events and processes: Italy as the heartland of Catholic reform, England with its Anglican Church headed by the state, the Greek-speaking provinces of Venice, the Ottoman Empire as the heartland of Greek Orthodoxy, and the Viceroyalty of Peru and New Spain together with China as sites of post-Tridentine missions.
Duration: Since 2012
Funder:
- Forschungs- und Wissenschaftsstiftung Hamburg
- DFG – Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
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