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).
Two-stage project on the Klosterneuburg
goldsmithery work of Nicholas of Verdun
("Verdun Altarpiece")
Furniture in the Strategies of the Pictorial Narrative in Medieval Visual Media
on medieval art in Lower Austria
bottom of things!
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
Sensing Materiality and Virtuality
In the research perspective Sensing Materiality and Virtuality we investigate, primarily focusing on the German-language afterlife journeys of the High and Late Middle Ages, the thought form of the virtual and its interaction with the materiality and sensuality of the body and world. read more
Grasping the Meaning of Things
Seizing Materiality
Practising Interdisciplinarity
Our Research Projects
on Medieval Art in Lower Austria
in the Wachau Region
of the Middle Ages
Our Partners
