Upheaval, Disruption, and Reinterpretation (S01*)

• Subject Area: Ancient History ; Early Modern History ; Islamic Studies, Arabian Studies, Semitic Studies ; Medieval History ; Modern and Contemporary History
• Term: from 2020 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 181750155

This project aims to understand the role of the heroic in periods of upheaval and disruption by synthesizing and reassessing the results of the SFB. Three types of upheaval and disruption will be explored: political and religious transformation, periods of war, and spatial reconstellations. Various forms of reinterpreting mytho-historical pasts in which heroes were active, or their agency was prefigured, will be investigated in this context, given the distinctive temporal structures of the heroic.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 948: Heroes - Heroisations - Heroisms. Transformations and Conjunctures from Antiquity to the Modern Age
• Applicant Institution: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Jürgen Dendorfer; Professor Dr. Peter Eich; Professor Dr. Tim Epkenhans; Professor Dr. Dietmar Neutatz; Professorin Dr. Johanna Pink; Professorin Dr. Sitta von Reden