Inscription of the Body: Text and Body in pre-modern Iberian literature (C09)

• Subject Area: European and American Literary and Cultural Studies
• Term: from 2015 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 178035969

The project undertakes an archaeology of medieval and early modern writings on/of the body in the Iberian World. In premodern epistemology, the human body is understood as a particular writing ‘material’ or ‘support’; somatic writing is a technology of the self that constitutes subjectivity, related to historically specific notions of writing. Literary texts mark the limitations and potential of this concept of the somatic, material writing, in that they supplement cultural practices with what was considered possible and imaginable. In the third funding period, the research perspective is supplemented and widened by two aspects which illustrate the changes in the relation of body and writing beyond the transition to the early modernity: mystic and colonial writing.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 933: Material Text Cultures. Materiality and Presence of Writing in Non-Typographic Societies
• Applicant Institution: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Robert Folger