SFB 1167:  Macht and Herrschaft – Premodern Configurations in a Transcultural Perspective

• Subject Area: Humanities ; Thermal Engineering/Process Engineering
• Term: from 2016 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 257731206

Under the impression of a growing complexity and interconnectedness regarding almost all areas of life, many historical and cultural assessments have focussed on so-called modernity. Yet the processes subsumed unter the keyword of 'globalisation' cannot be adequately understood without analysing past forms of political and social organisation. In this context categories of analysis which can be characterised as both transcultural and transtemporal such as Macht and Herrschaft, gain eminent importance. The intended DFG-Collaborative Research Centre 1167 therefore explicitly addresses premodern phenomena and configurations of Macht and Herrschaft in Asia, Europe and Northern Africa in a transcultural perspective. It is an integral part of the phenomenological description intended to reveal the interdependancy between an order that is factually established and its perception, depiction or annotation. In doing so, we aim to overcome or at least to mitigate the ubiquitous eurocentric approach to Macht and Herrschaft, questioning the boundaries set up by essentially European research disciplines. Thus the Collaborative Research Centre's main objective is to attain to a comprehensive phenomenology of premodern Macht and Herrschaft.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres

Completed projects

• 01 - Macht and Herrschaft of women in the ruler´s surroundings between private and public (Iberian Peninsula 1250–1350) (Project Head Albert, Mechthild )
• 02 - Between consensus and fidelitas. Political elites in the Frankish-German realm (Project Heads Becher, Matthias ;  Dohmen, Linda )
• 03 - Elites, residences and cities in the Mongolian Empire. A threefold approach (Project Head Bemmann, Jan )
• 04 - Merovingian Settlements between Local and supra-regional Elites. A Landscape Archaeological Comparison of the Rhineland with its Neighbouring Regions. (Project Head Bremer, Timo )
• 05 - Dynamics of Power. The Political Agency of Courtly Elites as reflected in German Literature of the 12th and 13th Centuries (Project Head Brüggen, Elke )
• 06 - Macht and Herrschaft in Indo-Persian Historiographical Texts from the Delhi Sultanate Period (1206 - 1526) (Project Head Conermann, Stephan )
• 07 - Metamorphoses of Power (Macht). Religious and secular elites in the Moscow multi-ethnic state of the 17th century. (Project Heads Aust, Martin ;  Dahlmann, Dittmar )
• 08 - Feminine Charisma. Figurations of Macht and Herrschaft in England and France (700 - 1500) (Project Head Dumitrescu, Irina )
• 09 - Delegated power: rise and fall of the "tusi" in Southwest China during the late imperial period (Project Head Kauz, Ralph )
• 10 - An intellectual elite at the end of the Middle Ages: 'Publicist activity' and its impact on 'public opinion‘ (Project Heads Kellermann, Karina ;  Zacke, Birgit )
• 11 - Courtly Elites in Medieval Kashmir According to the Rājataraṅgiṇīs written by Kalhaṇa, Jonarāja and Śrīvara (11) (Project Head Klaus, Ph.D., Konrad )
• 13 - Re-Fragmentation of the Pharonic State. The new power of the local elite(s) at the end of the third millennium (Project Head Morenz, Ludwig D. )
• 14 - Imperial Representation and Ceremonial at the Mughal Court (Project Head Orthmann, Eva )
• 15 - Criticising the King's Herrschaft. Scolding of tyrants in England (1066 - 1216) (Project Head Plassmann, Alheydis )
• 16 - Meritocracy and Dynasticism in Ancient and Medieval China (Project Head Schwermann, Christian )
• 17 - Centre or Periphery: Herrschaft between Imaginary and Real Order in Tibetan Societies Exemplified through the Namgyal Dynasty of Ladakh (16th - 19th Century) (Project Head Schwieger, Peter )
• 19 - Religious institutions and the formation of non-legitimate local elites and self-governing corporations from the 14th to the 15th century. (Project Heads Schley, Daniel Ferdinand Peter ;  Taranczewski, Detlev )
• 20 - Precarious Divinity: The Roman Emperor's Self-Definition as God in Relation to Competing Strategies of Legitimising Herrschaft (Project Head Vössing, Konrad )
• 21 - The house and its honour - Macht and Herrschaft in images and heraldic representations of the elites. (1300-1700) (Project Head Wolter-von dem Knesebeck, Harald )
• 22 - Images of Imperial Princes. Seals and Coins of Clerical and Secular Princes of the Holy Roman Empire as Objects of Representation and Legitimation. (Project Head Stieldorf, Andrea )
• Z - Central Tasks of the Collaborative Research Centre (Project Head Becher, Matthias )
• Ö - Communicating Macht and Herrschaft in a Transcultural Perspective (Project Head Becher, Matthias )

• Applicant Institution: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
• Participating University: Ruhr-Universität Bochum; Universität zu Köln
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Matthias Becher