Current Projects

Byzantium between Orient and Occident: Appropriation, translation and dissemination of knowledge, ideas and objects

»Gurbet Istanbul«: Migranten in der osmanischen Hauptstadt (1453–1800) Mehr...
A regional study of the Christianization of Crete. Insularity and religious change Mehr...
Approaching Byzantium in Ottoman Istanbul: the Reception of the Byzantine Heritage of Constantinople by Scholars from the Holy Roman Empire in the 16th century Mehr...
Byzantine Literary History in a Eurasian Context Mehr...
Canon law and historiography as ways of disseminating Eastern Church norms in the Franconian Empire: Collectio Vetus Gallica and Liber Historiae Francorum Mehr...
Commentary on the Ecclesiastical History of John of Ephesus Mehr...
Crisis and Transformation of an Old Regime: Circulation of Ideologies and Institutions between Russian and Ottoman Empires, 1768–1774 Mehr...
Der hochmittelalterliche Silberkasten im Trierer Domschatz: Potenziale einer Objektbiographie Mehr...
Hagiotopographie und das Synaxar von Konstantinopel Mehr...
Ländliche Gemeinschaften der Sasanidenzeit. Fallstuden in der Shahrizor-Ebene (Irakisch-Kurdistan) Mehr...
Negotiating Byzantine Theology and Religious Difference in Russia’s Imperial Borderlands: Intercultural Contacts between the Russian Orthodox Church and Oriental Christianities in the Long Nineteenth Century Mehr...
Sakralarchitektur, Ritus und Musik zwischen Byzanz und dem Westen (6.–15. Jahrhundert) Mehr...
Shemarya ha-Ikriti and the Intellectual Cosmos of the Byzantine Jews in the 14th Century Mehr...
The Beginnings of Book Printing in the Ottoman Empire: The Role of Printed Books in the Transmission of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Heritage Mehr...
The earliest mosques: looking at the first three centuries of Islam Mehr...
The Greek Treatise 'On the Highly Appreciated and Famous Art of the Goldsmith' - Edition and Interdisciplinary Commentary Mehr...
The Iberian Peninsula between Toletum and Constantinople. Hybrid constellations of religious knowledge Mehr...
The relief- and appliqué-decorated north African terra sigillata in the LEIZA Mehr...
Zur Rezeption byzantinischer Rechtstraditionen im slawischen und arabischsprachigen Raum Mehr...

GRK 2304 Byzantium and the Euro-Mediterranean Martial Cultures (2019-2023)

Befestigte Höhenlagen in der Dioecesis Daciae (4.-7.Jh.) Mehr...
Byzantium as an argument. Legitimizing Rule and War from rulership of Ivan Grozniy until Feodor Alekseevich (16th and 17th centuries) Mehr...
Depiction of War in Early Modern Travelogues on the Ottoman Empire Mehr...
Die gelehrte Auseinandersetzung mit den Kreuzzügen anlässlich des Zweiten Hussitenkrieges 1467 Mehr...
Gerechtigkeit als konzeptuelle Legitimationsressource in der Propaganda der Kreuzzüge Mehr...
Inherited Intimate Bonds: Exploring Same-Sex Relationships in the Ottoman Janissary Corps Mehr...
Krieg und Gewalt im Bild. Visuelle Zeugnisse byzantinischer Kriegskultur Mehr...
Kriegertum in Grenzgesellschaften – Waffengräber des 4. –7. Jh. an der byzantinischen Donaugrenze Mehr...
Production and Dissemination of Byzantine Military Manuals in Early Modern Europe Mehr...
Slavery and the Systems of Unfreedom in the Church of Merovingian Francia (ca. 500 – 751) Mehr...
Studies concerning the role of Equidae within roman military context Mehr...
The Language of Peace? – Analysing the language of Tertullian Mehr...
The Singers and Music of the French Chapel at War (1494-1515) Mehr...
The transition of power in the Kingdom of Sicily. Practices of conquest (1189–1208) Mehr...
The war of the princes and the suffering of the monks and peasants. Perception of the consequences of war and the conceptualisation of actors and victims of military conflicts in sources from the Staufer period Mehr...
War Discourse in the Times of Crisis: Authorial Strategies in Byzantine Historical Literature of the 14th century Mehr...