Research projects in Research Area B

Topics of Editorial Interventions II: The Parallel Passage Method

Department: German Studies
Job Vacancy: 1x PhD-Position (65% E13)
Project Description: The project examines the “parallel passage method” as a fundamental philological technique in which text passages are systematically compared with one another. Despite theoretical emphasis on the uniqueness of works, practices of creating parallels have dominated philological work from antiquity to the present day. The project analyzes from a praxeological perspective through historical case studies how these comparative practices have developed.
Responsible PI: Prof. Dr. Carlos Spoerhase
Research Area: B (Practices in the Layout, Preservation, and Archiving of texts)

Department: Early Modern History (with a focus on Spanish and Latin American history); History of Humanities and/or German Philology
Job Vacancy: 1x Postdoc (100% E13); 1x PhD-Position (65% E13)
Project Description: The project examines methods of text abbreviation and summarization in the Spanish imperial administration (16th-18th centuries) and in the philologies of the European Republic of Letters (17th-19th centuries). We are interested in how texts were compressed and expanded, as well as in the historical development of such practices. This also includes media-related and layout aspects, such as blank spaces and tables. The project employs Digital Humanities methods to determine the relationships between long and short versions of texts with greater seriality.
Responsible PIs: Prof. Dr. Arndt Brendecke; Prof. Dr. Carlos Spoerhase
Research Area: B (Practices in the Layout, Preservation, and Archiving of texts)