Cluster 2: History of Mediterranean Representation

The cluster Mediterrane Deutungs(ge)schichten focuses on the history of ideas and knowledge of the Mediterranean region, its artistic representations and its discourses. It takes account of the fact that the Mediterranean has been tangible from the earliest times as a highly semanticised region charged with all kinds of mythological, religious, cultural or ideological attributions. It therefore became a centre of great significance with different narratives and their respective interpretations. One task of the cluster will be to identify and systematise figures of interpretation of the Mediterranean, to determine their origins and observe their evolution in order to trace their links with other discourses and with the history of Mediterranean knowledge.
 

Speaker of the cluster:

Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Julia Zimmermann

Research topics at a glance:

• Spiritual landscapes in antiquity (Ursula Gärtner)
• The Mediterranean in the literature of Russian-speaking emigration: an ambivalent place of longing (Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl)
• Varying images of the 'heiden'. On the representation of the pagan and oriental in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Willehalm, Ulrich von dem Türlin's Arabel and Ulrich von Türheim's Rennewart (Juliana Reinisch)
• On the conceptualization of the Mediterranean in political discourse (Sabine Heinemann)
• The 'just' war as a phenomenon of ancient Mediterranean states and its (after)effect on Immanuel Kant's teachings (Margit Linder)
• Imaginations of the Mediterranean in fantasy novels (Isabella Managò)
• Poetics and knowledge of the Adriatic (Tatjana Petzer)
• Dimensions of maritime connectivity and transculturality in literary texts and historical sources of the Middle Ages (Julia Zimmermann)
• Cultures of the Early Eastern Mediterranean - Interaction of Language and Writing Systems (Michaela Zinko)
• Virtual Mediterranean collections: between provenance research and linked data (Chiara Zuanni)