As a cultural studies research institute we focus on subjects of material culture addressing the manifold interactions between people and the material world in a historical perspective (12th to 17th century).
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Chess - a game for isolation
Social Approaching
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CfP Conference - Potentials of New Approaches in Research
on Image & Text in the Premodern Era
Transmedial - Digital?
New Date - Framing-Deframing-Reframing
Ways, mechanisms and strategies of cultural adoption
in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
International Conference in Krems, September 15-17, 2021
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Volume 1 of the Series formate -
Forschungen zur materiellen Kultur
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Object links - Dinge in Beziehung
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Our Research Approaches
In our research projects, we engage in interdisciplinary discussions about the objects. We take a perspective that allows us to look at things in different ways: The research perspective does not describe what is looked at, but the direction in which we look at research objects.
Object Links
The Object Links research approach does not analyse the objects themselves, but the links between the objects and between objects and people. read more
Material(i)ties
The Materialities research approach addresses material culture with an increased focus on materials as matter from which artefacts are made. read more
Digital Humanities
At the IMAREAL, we use the potentials of digitisation for research and teaching in cultural studies. read more
Grasping the Meaning of Things
Seizing Materiality
Practising Interdisciplinarity
Our Research Projects
Religious Wearables
ONAMA
Monastic Estates
in the Wachau Region
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Furniture on visual media
of the Middle Ages
Administering Sanctity
Breadcrumbs for the Poor?
From house to farmyard
Domesticated space
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