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Forum for Comparative Medieval Studies<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Comparative literature is an integral part of the study of medieval literature. It focuses not only on texts that are demonstrably interdependent or share the transmission and transformation of narratives and aesthetic traditions; comparative analysis also confronts and compares texts of independent origins on the basis of specific subjects or themes, moving beyond genres or textual traditions. Considering literature in a broader sense, this approach generally entails questions of intermediality and cultural studies.<\/p>\n

Yet the comparative approach to medieval studies is itself rarely the focus of scholarly activity. Our Forum for Comparative Medieval Studies<\/em> therefore aims to serve as a communicative space to discuss theories and practices of premodern comparative literature. We concentrate on and discuss existing research concerning the subjects, theories, and methods of this field, with the aim of developing new approaches of our own. We extend beyond western European culture and literature between the eighth and sixteenth centuries to also include broader transcultural research.<\/p>\n

In order to facilitate international cooperation on these topics, we would like to invite you to regular online presentations in English, German or French. You are very welcome to join us! The presentations will be announced via this website as well as a mailing list. If you are interested, please register via the contact form, which will provide you with the link to the lecture.<\/p>\n

The initiators:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Lea Braun<\/strong> is a medievalist focusing on German literature. She obtained her PhD at the Humboldt-University in Berlin in 2017 with a monography about the transformations of governance and space in Heinrich of Neustadt\u2019s \u201cApollonius von Tyrland\u201d. Lea was awarded a PhD-scholarship by the Excellence Cluster \u201cTopoi\u201d; she worked at the SFB 644 \u201cTransformations of Antiquity\u201d and at the University of Heidelberg. Since 2017, she works as a postdoc at the Humboldt-University. Her research interests include concepts of space and time in Middle High German literature, historical narratology, as well as medievalism.<\/p>\n

Julia R\u00fcthemann<\/strong> is an assistant professor of German medieval language and literature at the University of Geneva. She obtained her PhD with a thesis on the poetics of the heart and personification (published in 2021: Die <\/em>Geburt<\/em> der <\/em>Dichtung<\/em> im<\/em> Herzen<\/em>) and then worked at the University of Mannheim and Potsdam in a comparative DFG-project on German and French first-person allegorical narratives. As part of a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship of the Humboldt Foundation she spent two years at the \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris). In her current research she focuses on female authorship in allegorical first-person narratives as well as on hate speech\/invectivity in medieval literature and culture.<\/p>\n

Beatrice Tr\u00eenca<\/strong> is a scholar of Medieval German Literature as well as of the Study of Religion, with a research focus on aesthetics and cultural studies. From 2012 to 2020 she was Assistant Professor for \u201cReligion and Literature in Medieval European Culture and Its Reception, With a Focus on Gender Studies\u201d at the Freie Universt\u00e4t Berlin. In 2017, she received her \u2018Habilitation\u2019 in medieval German language and literature at the Universit\u00e4t Hamburg. The title of her second book is \u201cAmor conspirator. Zur \u00c4sthetik des Verborgenen in der h\u00f6fischen Literatur\u201d (published in 2019 by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht). Currently, she carries out her research within the Heisenberg Project \u201cProductive Barriers to Communication in the Literature of the High and Late Middle Ages\u201d at the Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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