FOR 2539:  Resilience

• Subject Area: Humanities ; Social and Behavioural Sciences
• Term: from 2016 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 313809822

The research group examines social upheavals between the 13th and 16th centuries and investigates how the concept of resilience, initially tailored to examine potentials of coping, adaptation, and transformation in contemporary societies, can be transferred to analyses in the Humanities and in Sociology concerning historical constellations. At the same time, the group explores the question whether the empirical and conceptual results of such analyses can be applied to the formation of a typology and the development of a theory relevant for both historical and contemporary issues. Medievalist research will be systematically connected with sociological theory building informed by approaches in the sociology of knowledge, so that the analysis will develop historic-empirical typologies of processes, resources, strategies, and dispositions of resilience. These concepts will thus be made accessible for research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. In particular, the research group is designed so as to investigate the significance of different forms of social patterns of interpretation and self-description for the progression as well as for the results of resilience processes. This is made possible through a threefold analytical design, which considers social upheavals in the socio-political, socio-economic and socio-cultural perspectives.

• DFG Programme: Research Units

Projects

• A resilient city: The Republic of Venice in the 15th century (Applicant Schulte, Petra )
• Ashkenazi Jewry in the later Middle Ages. Potentials of Regional Networks towards Coping, Adaptation, and Transformation (Applicant Clemens, Lukas )
• Coordination Funds (Applicant Endreß, Martin )
• Criminal justice in Western Territories of the Old Reich (15th–17th c.). Resilience Processes and the persecution of witchcraft and fornication (Applicant Voltmer, Rita )
• Legal Transplants and Resilience. Lay Courts in 15th and 16th Century Germany (Applicant Rüfner, Thomas )
• Resilience in Southern Italy under the Early Angevin Rulers (1266–1309) (Applicant Clemens, Lukas )
• Resilience Processes in the Face of Disruptive Phenomena. On the Societal Perception of Security Policies and Terrorist Threats (Applicant Endreß, Martin )
• Theory of Resilience (Applicant Rampp, Benjamin )
• Urban Culture and Resilience: The Shrovetide Play on Nuremberg's stages before and after the Reformation (Applicant Przybilski, Martin )

• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Martin Endreß