The Discovery of Home. Literary Concepts and Imaginations of Belonging in the Middle Ages (A03)

• Subject Area: General and Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 517096657

Without using the term home in the modern sense, medieval literature also describes phenomena of a mainly sensual-emotional connection to ‚place and people‘. The subproject uses digital tools to identify such phenomena in German-language secular and sacred literature from the 9th to the 15th century. Based on typologies and interpretations of significant texts and passages found in the medieval archive, we identify patterns of modeling home, genre- and gender-specific differences and diachronic developments in literary constructions of home.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1671: Home(s): Phenomena, Practices, Representations
• Applicant Institution: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Ludger Lieb