Project Details
Projekt
Invective asymmetrization. Diatribe duels in Italian and German Humanism (D)
Subject Area
Medieval History
Term
from 2017 to 2022
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 317232170
What ‘humanism’ means and who belongs to the group of ‘humanists’ was clarified not least in the medium of invectivity. The research project asks about the aspect of an elaborate invective language as a social distinctive feature or symbolic capital, with the help of which certain people and groups succeeded in achieving an asymmetry vis-à-vis opponents, who are disparaged, for example, as ‘barbarians’ or ‘scholastics’ and thus pushed out of the circle of recognition. The study is focused on the example of Francesco Petrarca, Jakob Wimpfeling and the Reuchlin controversy.
DFG Programme
Collaborative Research Centres
Applicant Institution
Technische Universität Dresden
Project Head
Professor Dr. Uwe Israel (†)
