GRK 258:  Ars and Scientia in the Middle Ages and in Early Modernity - Science, University, Education an Literature in Context

• Subject Area: History ; Philosophy
• Term: from 1996 to 2005
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 271351

The research interest of this research training group is the interdisciplinary investigation into developments in medieval and early modern science and culture from the close of the 11th century to the middle of the 18th century. Its main emphases include the understanding of science, the development of universities, intellectual currents, and their literary and artistic manifestations. The aim of this course is to open research plans to interdisciplinary questions and thus to contribute to a general understanding of the above developments.

• DFG Programme: Research Training Groups
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Georg Wieland
• Participating Researchers: Professor Peter Godmann, Ph.D.; Professor Dr. Wilfried Hartmann; Professor Dr. Heinz Hofmann; Professor Dr. Christoph Huber; Professor Dr. Ulrich Köpf; Professor Dr. Sönke Lorenz; Professor Dr. Anton Schindling (†); Professor Dr. Manfred Hermann Schmid; Professor Dr. Jan Schröder; Professor Dr. Burghart Wachinger