Cooperation Partners

The Department for Interdisciplinary and Multiscale Area Studies - DIMAS emerged from CITAS in 2023. CITAS was founded in 2017 with the aim of promoting cooperation between different institutions, projects and researchers in the field of Area Studies in Regensburg.

DIMAS continues this academic tradition with six professorships and an engaged and diverse team of academic staff, who seek to define Area Studies in multiscalar perspectives and methodologies and interdisciplinary ways.

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Founded in 2003, the ‘Forum Mittelalter’ Centre for Medieval Studies is an interdisciplinary research network within the University of Regensburg. Its focus lies on academic exchange and networking among medieval studies disciplines at university level, as well as on cooperation with regional and international research institutions. Interdisciplinary teaching programmes and study opportunities are just as much a part of its profile as regular guest lectures, doctoral workshops and annual conferences. The joint research focuses on urban cultures, institutions and spaces from a comparative pan-European perspective. Since 2005, the papers from the international annual conference have been published annually in the series Forum Mittelalter-Studien (Verlag Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg).

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Major cities are the hallmarks of urbanisation processes worldwide. The nature and multifaceted significance of major cities – their ‘metropolitan character’ – are shaped by specific historical and cultural conditions, which have changed dramatically, particularly over the last 150 years, under the influence of industrialisation and globalisation.

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Metropolität in der Vormoderne (external link, opens in a new window)

The Revelation Reception Network is an international scholarly network that focuses on the historical and contemporary reception of John’s Revelation (Apocalypse). The network was founded to create and maintain an open and welcoming international environment in which scholars can collaborate, share ideas, communicate new literature and projects, stay current with conferences, and develop new events, collaborations, projects, and publications. All relevant languages, research topics, methodologies, time periods, and disciplines are welcome. The group, which was founded in 2023, is led by Nathan Betz (external link, opens in a new window), Régis Burnet (external link, opens in a new window), Cristian Cardozo (external link, opens in a new window), and Tom C. Schmidt (external link, opens in a new window).

Learn more about the Revelation Reception Network (external link, opens in a new window) on the Faculty's website and connect via their Socail Media channels:

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The recent surge of interest in parabiblical literature has prompted a reevaluation of approaches to textual fluidity. This shift is fueled by recent advances in digital humanities and the increased accessibility of manuscripts in multiple languages, which have illuminated the complex landscape of textual fluidity within the transmission history of parabiblical texts. Textual fluidity, characterized by variant text forms arising from intentional and unintentional alterations during copying and translation, presents both new challenges and opportunities for scholarly inquiry, necessitating a nuanced approach to understanding the evolution of these texts. What is needed, therefore, is a change of mentality in our study of these writings. They need to be examined with a greater awareness of the whole landscape of evidence, and thus with a positive approach that does not try to overcome the various forms of fluidity in order to recover an original textual form only, but to study them in a more comprehensive way. The fundamental goal of the project is to better understand and describe the textual fluidity of parabiblical texts. To achieve this goal, this project will combine a vertical approach, i.e., individual projects studying one case of a text in detail, with a horizontal approach, i.e., focusing broadly on three select dimensions of textual fluidity that we will explore through research workshops involving other specialists working on other parabiblical texts.

This is a cooperation between Charles University (Prague) (external link, opens in a new window) and the University of Regensburg with David Cielontko (external link, opens in a new window) and Tobias Nicklas as Principal Investigators. 

SNTS (Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas) is an international academic society founded in 1938 ‘for the furtherance of New Testament studies internationally’.

The society is a members only society with several yearly activities. 

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The commentary series Novum Testamentum Patristicum (NTP) documents, section by section, the reception of the entire New Testament in ancient Christian literature and explains it within its respective contexts.

The NTP is planned as a 45-volume series (39 commentary volumes and six special volumes), published in German or English. The project was initiated in 1993 by Kurt Niederwimmer in collaboration with Gerhard May (d. 2007), Henning Paulsen (d. 1994) and Basil Studer (d. 2008). The first volume (M. Meiser, Galatians, NTP 9) was published in 2007 and was awarded the “Pope Benedict XVI” Academic Prize, endowed with 15,000 euros and sponsored by the Bavarian Minister-President, on 17 August 2008 (together with another work).

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The series ‘Commentaries on Apocryphal Literature’ offers, for the first time, systematic scholarly commentaries on key Christian apocrypha, on a par with the established Critical-Exegetical Commentary and the Commentary on the Apostolic Fathers. The series is edited by Joseph Verheyden, Tobias Nicklas and Christopher Tuckett. Aimed at an academic audience, it seeks to document the interest in Christian apocrypha, which has grown significantly in recent decades, and to give it fresh impetus.
Based on new translations of the original text produced by the respective authors, all commentaries provide an account of the textual tradition of the text in question, an overview of its structure, an introduction to its historical context and theological profile, and the latest state of research. At the heart of each volume are detailed commentaries on the relevant texts following the verse-by-verse principle.

The series is published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen. 
 

“They fill everything with their graves” – Research into the transformation of funerary culture and conceptions of the afterlife in Late Antiquity.

In Late Antiquity, burial culture and attitudes towards the dying and the dead underwent upheavals as profound as those seen today. Researchers at the Chair are investigating these far-reaching cultural and mental shifts. Particular attention is paid to the influence of Christian ideas and beliefs.

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Metamorphoses of Death (external link, opens in a new window)

Generously funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation for a total of three years (2015–2018), this project makes the core repertoire of the Gregorian Mass Proprium accessible for the first time in a synoptic edition of text and music; the clear transcription of the most important manuscripts provides a solid foundation for research. A word concordance, an index of biblical passages and a detailed catalogue of liturgical usage enable an interactive exploration of the repertoire.

• Synoptic tables document the variants of text and melody at a glance; significant variants are distinguished from peculiarities of specific manuscripts.
• The critical comparison yields a proposed reconstruction of the melody, which is also adapted for practical use with neographies of square notation and the neumes of the most important East Frankish manuscript (St. Gallen 359 or Einsiedeln 121).
• Comprehensive search functions provide access to the repertoire: a lemmatised word concordance (search by root words and specific forms), an index of biblical passages, liturgical usage, mode, and the catalogue numbers of existing editions.

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Graduale Synopticum (external link, opens in a new window)