The task is the complete indexing and scientific processing of the Old High German vocabulary of all over-deliveries, with documentation of all variants and document locations, as basis for further philological research of vocabulary in literary history, linguistic and cultural history.
The document archive contains a quarter of a million glossy documents from 1250 manuscripts, one of which a…
The Jewish diaspora in medieval northern France mastered Hebrew and Aramaic, since their main knowledge resources (Bible, Talmud, and Responsa literature) were written in these languages. However, Old French was their vernacular as it was for the Christian population. This medieval Judeo-French literacy is documented in various literary, scientific, and religious texts dating from the 11th to the…
Ecclesiastical law had a lasting influence on Western and Central Europe until the 20th century and contributed fundamentally to the emergence of common European legal foundations. The ways in which these influences were transmitted are manifold and go back a long way. For it was not only since the 12th century - as is often claimed - that Europe developed into a unified area in many respects in…
Historical-critical edition of the philosophical, theological, mathematical church political writings as well as the sermons of Nicholas of Cusa (1401 – 1464). Besides the Opera omnia, the sources for the life story (Acta Cusana) and the series "Cusanus-Texte" and "Cusanus-Studien" were published.
The Verfasserlexikon represents a fundamental and encompassing work of reference on German literature of the Middle Ages as well as a selection of German, Latin writing authors of the period. It contains more than 5000 articles by numerous scholars from Germany and abroad, arranged alphabetically by author and anonymous work title.
All German-language authors and works from the beginning of…
The aim of this research project is to work on the Reichstage from 1532 - 1555, i.e. to index and record, edit and publish the relevant, widely scattered archive material, in order to make a source of central importance for the German and European history of the epoch of Emperor Charles V and the Reformation usable. In addition to its value for the study of general and political history, the…
The editions of the German texts of the Middle Ages are compiled partly by staff of the Berlin office and partly by authors from all over the world. The current editions deal with medieval verse epics (Albrecht's Jüngerer Titurel), verse or prose chronicles (Christherre-Chronik, Weltchronik Heinrichs von München, Eisenacher Stadtchronik und Thüringische Landeschronik von Johannes Rothe),…
One of the urgent desiderata of German, French and Italian medieval studies has long been to close the tangible gap that still exists in the diploma series of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica for the Carolingian period: the critical edition of the diplomas of Louis the Pious. For a reliable assessment of the history of the Carolingian Empire between the death of Charlemagne and the Treaty of…
Greek etymological lexica ("Etymologika") are among the most important lexicographic achievements pertaining to the history of ancient and medieval knowledge in Europe. They continued to be produced, used and extended even into the Renaissance and the early modern period. The term used for these lexica is derived from Classical Antiquity’s philosophical and grammatical analysis of language in…
The Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig took over the project initiated by the Saxon Commission for History in 1896 with the establishment of a office site in 1992. The "Atlas zur Geschichte und Landeskunde von Sachsen" is being produced in cooperation between the Academy, the Saxony State Surveying Office and the Dresden University of Applied Sciences (FH).
The task of the project is to compile the German and foreign-language new publications on all subject areas of German history on the basis of the autopsy principle as completely as possible and to make them accessible in form and content. The reporting period covers the period from the birth of Christ to the present day. It covers the entire range of scientific publications such as monographs,…
The extensive teaching activities of Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804) from 1755 to 1796 resulted in a copious listener transcripts. The value of these texts for knowledge and understanding of Kant's philosophy was long disputed. Today, the general opinion is that the lectures complement the printed work in important points and illustrate Kant's wide-ranging literary horizon. The original strategy,…
The Commission for Bavarian Regional History at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences is a scientific institution for the study of the history of Old Bavaria, Franconia and Swabia. The Institute for Folklife Studies and the Svabian research site Augsburg are affiliated to the Commission. In the following you can inform yourself about the structure and activities of the commission and make use of its…
Documentary handbook on the tradition of ancient and medieval literature in the early modern period. A bibliographical and at the same time documentary repertory is being compiled, which covers the entire field of the literary reception history of antiquity and the Middle Ages for the period between 1500 and 1630, including later reprints (up to the 19th century). In accordance with the…
The writings of Martin Luther, collected in 70 volumes in the "Weimarer Ausgabe", represent the most important work of a German author before Goethe in terms of volume and weight. Their national and international impact reaches far beyond the history of church and theology into the general cultural and intellectual history. No writer before or after Luther has had a comparable influence on the…
As part of a new project, the BBAW has been devoting itself since January 2004 to "Prussia as a Cultural State" and thus to the ambiguous image of Prussia in history. The range of interpretations extends from the militarily organized authoritarian state to the tolerant enlightenment state to the multi-ethnic integration state. The BBAW's approach to Prussian history not only corresponds to its…
Currently, the main focus of the project is the political correspondence of the Duke and Elector Moritz of Saxony. Duke Moritz (1521 - 1553), first Albertine elector since 1547, was one of the most important imperial princes and politicians in the 16th century. The edition lays the foundations for further research into the history of the country and the empire. Numerous - often previously…
In the 16th century, especially in Germany, we come across the phenomenon of religious colloquy as a means of religous denominational and political debate. Until 1539 (Leipzig), this initially had the character of a scholarly and council disputation. Following the Augsburg Imperial Diet (1530), since 1540 we encounter imperial religious colloquy in Hagenau, Worms and Regensburg in 1540/41, in…
The Repertorium Academicum Germanicum (RAG) is a research department which pursues the goal of registering all graduate theologians, lawyers, physicians, and artists-masters in a prosopographic database. In this way, a new empirical basis for a person-oriented history of knowledge in a European context is created.
The aim of the project is the investigation of the residence and court in the late medieval German Empire (1200-1600) in European comparison. The federal structure of Germany, the competition between its numerous cities is investigated at its roots: the origin of the sovereign residences in the late Middle Ages. This is closely linked to the growth of courts, the most important centres of power in…