Team 1: Religion, cultural differentiation and cultural identities
After failing to unite its Latin and Orthodox branches during the 15th-century Ottoman threat, Christendom became profundly subdivided by confessional churches after the Protestant Reformation. Since religion incorporated old Europes largest cluster of cultural values, these comparative and interdisciplinary workshops will examine its effects, particularly in multi-confessional regions of east.
Team Leaders:
- HeinzSchilling
- Humboldt Universität zu BerlinPhilosophische Fakultät IDept. Of HistoryBerlinGermany
- IstvanToth
- University of EconomicsDepartment of SociologyBudapestHungary
Team 2: Cities and Cultural Exchanges
Concentrating on the physical locations where cultural goods circulated most intensively, these workshops will examine early modern European cities as centers of both cultural innovation and differentiation, employing a comparative and interdisciplinary approach.
Team Leaders:
- DonatellaCalabiE-Mail
- Università IUAV di VeneziaIstituto Universitario di Architettura di VeneziaDipartimento di Storia dell'ArchitetturaVeneziaItaly
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Team 3: Information and communication
These workshops will examine how texts and images were created, stored, and circulated throughout Europe between 1400 and 1700. It will privilege such new trends as the commercialization of information, exploring how information was socially produced, used, and transformed in both official and unofficial ways.
Team Leaders:
- FranciscoBethencourtE-Mail
- Centre Culturel Calouste GulbenkianParisFrance
- FlorikeEgmondE-Mail
- AmsterdamNetherlands
Team 4: Man and the exchange of material goods
Using symbolic and material objects (including both luxury and everyday goods), these workshops will explore the formation of new forms of individual self-presentation as the Italian Renaissance spread across early modern Europe and made "civility" an integral part a of a specifically European identity.
Team Leaders:
Professor Bernd Roeck
Historisches Seminar der Universität Zûrich, Switzerland
- HermanRoodenburgE-Mail
- Meertens Institute (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)Free University of AmsterdamFaculty of Social SciencesDepartment of Social and Cultural AnthropologyAmsterdamNetherlands
