Exploitation of ressources and the establishment of power in the Middle Ages: Monasteries and castles (B03)

• Subject Area: Medieval History ; Prehistory and World Archaeology
• Term: since 2013
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 215859406

The project investigates castles and monasteries as resources of noble rule in the High and Late Middle Ages. In the first funding phase, the focus was on the economic and spiritual resources of medieval monasteries and the nobility interacting with them in Upper Swabia. In the second phase, the focus was on castles and the formation of low nobility between Rems, Fils and Danube. In the third phase, the interplay between castle and monastery will be systematically and comparatively examined in order to identify socio-cultural, spatial and temporal similarities, differences and changes in the resource structures and ResourceCultures associated with them.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1070: Resource Cultures. Socio-Cultural Dynamics in Relation to Resources
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Sigrid Hirbodian; Professor Dr. Steffen Patzold, until 6/2017; Professor Dr. Rainer Schreg, until 6/2021; Professor Dr. Jörn Staecker, until 6/2017 (†); Privatdozent Dr. Lukas Werther, since 7/2021