Project Details
Projekt
'Vindicta' (Vengeance resp. Punishment) as a Security Issue (B07)
Subject Area
Medieval History
Term
from 2018 to 2021
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 227068724
„Vindicta“ means vengeance as well as revenging punishment and thus points to an ambivalence fact: On the one hand, vengeance was partially integrated in the legal system of the late medieval German Reich, on the other hand, however, it presented – as any type of arbitrary violence – a threat to peace. On the basis of notably theological texts, the project analyses heuristics and repertoires which were applied to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate violence or to securitize arbitrary violence in general and vengeance in particular.
DFG Programme
CRC/Transregios
Applicant Institution
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Project Head
Professorin Dr. Christine Reinle
