Script and Characters on and in Medieval Artwork (A05)

• Subject Area: Art History
• Term: from 2011 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 178035969

The investigation focuses on writing and characters employed in decoration of church buildings and liturgical space in Central and Western Europe. In the third funding-period, the sanctuary as the place of the missal sacrifice shall be taken into account. The leading question is: what contribution did the carved, chiselled or painted writings on, in and next to the altar make to the suggestion of sacrality and to the generation of 'presence'? The expected research results will be used to sharpen the definition of 'presence' as of one of the CRC's methodical key concepts.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 933: Material Text Cultures. Materiality and Presence of Writing in Non-Typographic Societies
• Applicant Institution: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• Project Heads: Privatdozent Dr. Tobias Frese; Professor Dr. Matthias Untermann