Vigilance and attentiveness. Literary dynamics of self-observation and the observation of others in medieval religious literature. (C01)

• Subject Area: German Medieval Studies (Medieval German Literature)
• Term: since 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 394775490

The project investigates how Christian vigilance in the context of repentance, confession, and penance is thematised, propagated, and reflected upon in vernacular texts dating from the late Middle Ages, and how the dynamics of self-observation and the observation of others are expanded upon in the religious vernacular literature of that period. In the second phase of the project, the focus will not only be on the diversity of spiritual lyric texts, but the text corpus used will also be expanded to include catechetical texts. In keeping with the research goals set out in the application, special attention will be paid to the balance between vigilance and attentiveness.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1369: Cultures of Vigilance. Transformations - Spaces - Practices
• Applicant Institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Beate Kellner; Professorin Dr. Susanne Reichlin