"Power, Knowledge, and Communication in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period" Working Group

How are power and knowledge communicated and how do they contribute to establishing, maintaining, and challenging existing cultural orders? The members of the working group grapple with this tightly knit complex of problems within the research focus “Systems of Belief and Knowledge” as well as with related historical questions on the communication and exercise or use of power and knowledge in medieval and early modern Europe.
The interdisciplinary working group “Power, Knowledge, and Communication in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period” developed out of the working group “Communication and Power in Old Europe” of the former Graduate School of Cultural and Social Sciences with a slightly different focus. Since its establishment, the group has held regular theory seminars and organized several workshops and one excursion.
The working group unites doctoral candidates from various fields in the humanities with topics from various geographical areas and epochs who are investigating aspects, forms, and processes of power, communication, and knowledge within the context of their dissertation projects.