Prof. Dr. Christian Kiening

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Current research projects

Project leader	Project title
Fuhrmann	Configurations of time in revelation literature of the late Middle Ages. (Diss.)
Grap	The beeline into the heavenly Jerusalem (Diss.) From the biblical text to the image to the code of practice: The scheme of the wall paintings in the nun’s choir of the convent of Wienhausen (1335)
Herberichs	Late Medieval Literatures and Practices of Religiousness: Medialities and Textualities. (Habil.)
Kiening	Modern Middle Ages
	Mediality. Historical Perspective (NCCR)
	Mediality. Historical Perspectives (NCCR)
	Media Metonymies
Leuzinger Weiss	Heroic beginnings (Diss.)
Oehri	Metonymies of Objects in Early New High German Prose Novels
Prica	Figuration and decay. Fragments of a cultural history of the ruin from late antiquity to the early modern period (Habil.)
Riedi	Disposable Heroes – The (Im)Possibility of a Hero Giant. (Diss.).
Scherrer	The Tautological Promise. Speech Acts in Texts by Hyginus, Schiller and in 'Gesta Romanorum'. (Diss.)
Stridde	"Studies on narrative and poetological meaning and function of game-scenes in medieval epic poetry" (working title) (Habil.)
Waldmeier	Mediation of Salvation in the Lancelot-Grail Cycle (with Particular Focus on a Theory of Metonymic Narration)

Completed research projects

Project leader	Project title
Chabr	The messenger in 'Parzival' by Wolfram von Eschenbach (Diss.)
Haeseli	Magic Performativity. The strategies of old high german spells in the context of their manuscripts (Diss.).
Herberichs Kiening	Religious Medialities in the Late Middle Ages (Congress)
Herberichs Reichlin	No Coincidence. Concepts of Contingency in Medieval Literature (Congress)
Kiening	The absolute film
	Complexe Medialities of the Late Middle Ages: The Example of Vernacular Religious Plays
	Textual Dimensions: Mediality – Function – Performance
	The Vergaenglichkeitsbuch of Wilhelm Werner von Zimmern
	Rudolf Kurtz, Expressionismus und Film (Re-edition)
	Mai und Beaflor (Edition)
	Mystical Books
	The Absolute Film. Documents of the Media Avantgarde (1912-1938)
	Primal Scenes of Mediality
Mertens Fleury	Appearance and Signification. Approaches to Allegorical Narratives of the Middle Ages (Habil.)
Prica	Salvation (Hi)stories. Studies on Medieval Interpretations of the Bible Between Poetics and Exegesis (Diss.).
Reichlin	Economies of Desire: Poetics of Exchange in German Fabliaux of the late Middle Ages. (Diss.).
	Aesthetics of Inclusion. The discursive practices of Middle High German Crusade Lyric Poetry (Habil.)
Schmid Heer	Space in Jesuit Travel Reports (Diss.)
	Anton Sepp SJ: Paraquarischer Blumengarten ( First Edition)
Uhl	Skin and tactility in medieval secular and clerical literature (Habil.)
Uhl (Bruegel)	The exterior of the interior – Minnereden as a medium of reflection. An investigation on the narrative structure of Johanns von Konstanz 'Minnelehre' and further short Minnereden. (Diss.).