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The edition of the Council Acts of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages is the basis for research into the history of churches and dogmas in the first millennium. The project made available the protocols and documents of the seven ecumenical councils, whose faith decisions were recognized as binding by both the Western and the Eastern Church, in scientifically reliable editions.
In the Middle Ages, Old Occitan (formerly “Old Provençal”) was a literary and cultural language, the influence of which extended far beyond the frontiers of Southern France. It was also the language of the troubadours, whose songs had a decisive impact on the love poetry of the European literatures during the Middle Ages.
The only comprehensive portrayal of the Old Occitan vocabulary to have…
The research project is dedicated to the material appearance of ancient cities, which is investigated as a mirror as well as a formative component of social structures and processes. Furthermore, the commission develops and supports projects on the archaeology of ancient cities and the testing of interdisciplinary methods.
The Bavarian Dictionary covers the vocabulary of Bavarian dialects from the early Middle Ages to the present. While the linguistic forms of the past are testified from literary sources, the Bavarian dialects of the present are mainly collected through written interviews with dialect speakers. The articles are structured according to their meanings. In addition to information on grammar, age,…
Ceiling and mural paintings are constitutive elements in the design of baroque interiors. Unlike all other forms of pictorial art, these truly three-dimensional artistic media define early modern architecture literally from above, through colourful and complex iconographic programmes: in ecclesiastical as well as secular environments, in residential palaces and ceremonial halls, churches and…
Medieval and early modern inscriptions crafted before 1650, in Latin and German language, situated in German-speaking areas are at the heart of this project. Inscriptions are significant and unique historical sources because they are often preserved in an authentic state and in their original setting. For the premodern era, script which was affixed to stone, wood, metal, glass as well as textiles…
In this project, a central genre of medieval German literature is for the first time systematically examined from the point of view of the history of tradition.
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 WMU makes available the vocabulary of the German language of documents which came into use in the 13th century. The dictionary supplements the lexica and grammars of Middle High German for an excerpt of 13th-century prose, which were predominantly compiled on the basis of poetic texts.
The research project “Die frühbuddhistischen Handschriften aus Gandhāra: religiöse Literatur an der Schnittstelle von Indien, Zentralasien und China” was established in 2012. On the basis of philological and historical methods, it provides new insight into the early history of Buddhism on its way to becoming a world religion. The project studies manuscripts found in the 1990s in northern Pakistan…
In international collaboration with researchers from the USA, Canada, and Austria, the project produces the critical edition of the sentence commentaries of the Dominican theologian Richard Fishacre (founded in Oxford in the 1240s) and the Franciscan theologian Robert Cowton (founded about 1309-1311 in Oxford). The edition of the Sentences Commentary of the Franciscan Wilhelm de la Mare (written…
The project currently attends to the complete edition of the works of Ernst Troeltsch, a classical diagnostician of modern culture. His wide-ranging oeuvre has been widely effective in various disciplinary discussions.
The ad hoc group "Facticity of the World", established in 2017, takes up the current discussion on "post-truth politics". The often conscious denial of reality in political discourse challenges science just as much as the negligent handling of truths. For it is precisely one of the tasks of science to inform the public about facts and connections, on the basis of which democratic decisions can…
In the Forum Ökologie current questions in the field of ecology are taken up and discussed interdisciplinary in symposia, as far as possible solution suggestions for upcoming problems are pointed out. The conferences and report volumes, which appear in the series "Rundgespräche Forum Ökologie", serve among other things to advise members of the Bavarian State Parliament and employees in the state…
The Forum Technologie organizes symposia on current, sometimes controversially discussed, technical-scientific issues and developments for the interested public. These information events, to which exalted scientists are invited as speakers, also serve to improve technology acceptance and appreciation in society. In order to promote young talent in technical and scientific subjects, the…
The aim of the project is the complete documentation of dialect vocabulary in the form of a database published on the Internet. The data material used for this purpose is primarily based on written surveys which took place from 1927 to 2001. In the editorial team, the semantic, grammatical, and etymological determination takes place. The original questionnaire material has been lexicographically…
The aim of the project “Gelehrte Journale und Zeitungen als Netzwerke des Wissens im Zeitalter der Aufklärung”, running since 2011, consists in indexing the major representatives of interdisciplinary polyhistoric German-language periodicals and making them accessible as digital copies. The long-term research project of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences, carried out in Göttingen, Leipzig and…
Geodesy comprises the surveying of the earth and the recording of its dynamic changes globally, regionally and locally; the analysis, evaluation and visualisation of the data and processes acquired together with other spatial information; the development of strategies and concepts for sustainable spatial development as well as the support of spatial decision-making processes and their realisation.…
The project advisory board on geoscientific high-pressure research accompanies the scientific work of the Bavarian Research Institute for Experimental Geochemistry and Geophysics (Bayerisches Geoinstitut) at the University of Bayreuth. It provides advice on callings as well as budget and structural issues.
The project focuses on alpine glaciers and their role in the continental hydrologic cycle, as climate indicators and their interaction with the solid earth. In addition to many years of intensive research work on the Vernagtferner, the "house glacier" in the Ötztal Alps, investigations are being carried out in various glacier regions, e.g. Iceland, Norway, the Pamir, and the Karakorum. Along with…