Jerusalem, the Distant Origin: Palestinian Orders of the Middle Ages and their Concepts of Home (A04)

• Subject Area: Medieval History
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 517096657

The work program consists of four main elements: the writing of a qualification thesis (second monograph, habilitation) on the conceptions of home developed by Christian Orders of the Holy Land; the publication of the proceedings of an international conference on the material artefacts of twelve spiritual corporations of the so-called Crusader States; supplementary essays written by the project leader and the project associate; and the creation of the database "Patria Hierosolymitana" (PH) with relevant texts, image sources and material artefacts.

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