The Institute for Early Medieval Studies
Established in 1964 as institute of interdisciplinary research
Archaeologists, historians, philologists, and theologians of several departments of the university of Münster, all medievalists, have collaborated in the Institute of Early Medieval Studies since 1964. Research projects are outlined in the course of constant interdisciplinary exchange of methods and results. The Institute's facilities contribute to the realization of these projects. However, they are only made possible by permanent additional fund raising. In this way, the following research work has been carrried out under full responsibility of or in cooperation with the Institute:
- between 1968 - 1985: Special Research Unit (Sonderforschungsbereich) SFB 7 "Medieval Studies" (Visual representation, interpretation of meaning, objects, terms and language, prosopography);
- since 1986: Special Research Unit (Sonderforschungsbereich) SFB 231 "Representatives, fields, and forms of pragmatic written record in the Middle Ages";
- since 2000: Special Research Unit (Sonderforschungsbereich) SFB 496 "Symbolic Communication and Social Value Systems from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution";
- since 1990: Postgraduate Seminar Group: Graduiertenkolleg "Characteristics of written record and society in the Middle Ages (Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies)"
- since 1999: Postgraduate Seminar Group: Graduiertenkolleg "Symbols in Medieval Society";
- several other projects financed by the "German Society for the Advancement of Research in the Arts and Sciences" (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) [DFG] and by additional public funding.
