EXC 212 D2-8 - THE BOOK AS A WEAPON IN RELIGIO-POLITICAL CONFLICTS: DISCOURSES OF VIOLENCE AND THEIR TRANSMISSION IN 15TH- AND 16TH-CENTURY ENGLAND

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The project investigates discourses of violence and their transmission in the medium “book” in religio-political communication of 15th- and 16th-century England. Against the backdrop of the analysis of epoch-specific notions of the relationship of physical and non-physical violence, the centre of attention will be the question as to the role of language, particularly the language transmitted in writing in manuscripts and printed books. It focuses on violence made the subject of discussion at the level of what is represented, as well as on the forms of textual transmission as such, at the level of the representation, in which language itself – as acting and possibly as violent – becomes the object of attention.