CRC 496 B7 - Book Gifts in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

Basic data for this project

Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster

Duration at the University of Münster: 01/01/2006 - 31/12/2011 | 1st Funding period

Description

This project investigates the distinctive characteristics of book gifts in England from the end of the fourteenth to the end of the sixteenth century on the basis of a general theory of gift-giving. The values attached to gift-giving in general, and to the book as gift in particular, are of special interest in assessing the functions of book gifts in processes of symbolic communication. Special attention will be paid to the media shift from the (late) medieval scribal culture to the print culture of Early Modern Times.

Keywords: Buchgeschenk; Spätmittelalter; frühe Neuzeit

Website of the project: http://www.uni-muenster.de/SFB496/projekte/b7.html

Funder / funding scheme:

DFG - Collaborative Research Centre (SFB)

Project management at the University of Münster

Müller-Oberhäuser, Gabriele

Professur für Buchwissenschaft (Prof. Müller-Oberhäuser)

Applicants from the University of Münster

Müller-Oberhäuser, Gabriele

Professur für Buchwissenschaft (Prof. Müller-Oberhäuser)

Research associates from the University of Münster

Bischof, Janika	Sonderforschungsbereich 496 - Symbolische Kommunikation und gesellschaftliche Wertesysteme vom Mittelalter bis zur französ. Revolution
Budke, Tobias	Sonderforschungsbereich 496 - Symbolische Kommunikation und gesellschaftliche Wertesysteme vom Mittelalter bis zur französ. Revolution
Meyer-Bialk, Kerstin	Sonderforschungsbereich 496 - Symbolische Kommunikation und gesellschaftliche Wertesysteme vom Mittelalter bis zur französ. Revolution
Rosenberg, Simon	Professur für Buchwissenschaft (Prof. Müller-Oberhäuser)
Wieschen, Torsten	Institute of Book Studies and Textual Research

Related main project

CRC 496 - Symbolic Communication and Social Value Systems from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution

Duration: 01/01/2000 - 31/12/2011 | 3rd Funding period

Funded by: DFG - Collaborative Research Centre

Type of project: Main DFG-project hosted at University of Münster

Publications of the University of Münster resulting from the project

Testaments, Donations, and the Values of Books as Gifts: A Study of Records from Medieval England before 1450

Bischof, Janika (2014)

Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

Book (monograph) | Published

Doctorates resulting from the project

Testaments, Donations, and the Values of Books as Gifts: a Study of Records from Medieval England Before 1450 Candidate: Bischof, Janika \| Supervisors: Müller-Oberhäuser, Gabriele Period of time: 01/04/2006 - 30/11/2011 Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Das Buchgeschenk im religiösen Kontext im England der Reformationszeit Candidate: Budke, Tobias \| Supervisors: Müller-Oberhäuser, Gabriele Period of time: 01/04/2006 - 11/04/2012 Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster