The Zutang ji 祖堂集 (Collection of the Patriarchal Hall) is the earliest extant “lamp record” (denglu 燈錄) of the Chan tradition arranged around a full-fledged genealogical framework. Initially compiled as ...read more
In a majority of food studies, visual arts are used as documentary evidence for the analysis of culinary history. Although these valuable studies show a lot of scientific interest in the ...read more
Nietzsche associated Renaissance culture with force and greatness and saw it as an antidote to the slave morality of Christianity. The Renaissance had recovered the spirit of the Classics and had thus shown the ...read more
This project will investigate ideas about 'the people' and popular political participation in the works of a number of Greek intellectuals from the Roman Empire, viz. Plutarch of Chaeronea, Dio ...read more
From the late twelfth and early thirteenth century onwards, against the backdrop of demographic growth and urbanization, a growing number of laypeople started to pursue a religious life without actually ...read more
The project aims to contribute to the changing perspective on the history of Christian ethics by investigating the way in which economic, political and social developments influenced vernacular renditions of ...read more
This research aims to study how marvelous and miraculous anecdotes were used in a variety of medieval biographical texts of the three Mamluk sultans Baybars (r. 1260-1277), Qalawun (r. 1279-1290) ...read more
The project aims to study the literary works, published in the Russian emigration between 1917 and 1940, in which the October Revolution and the Civil War take up a central ...read more
Maaheen Ahmed's postdoctoral project is on trauma in contemporary comics, relying on a broad definition of trauma to encompass the aftermath of large-scale events (the two world wars, 9/11) as ...read more