This cluster examines how the past is constructed and made meaningful through narrative. A01 (Conermann\/Bonn) edits and analyzes Mehmed Giray’s Crimean Tatar and Ottoman chronicle (1683\u20131703), probing its narrative strategies and forms of historical sense-making. A02 (Friede\/Bochum) develops the category of „narrative constellations“ to analyze the Old French prose Lancelot-Grail cycle. A03 (Krause\/Bochum) applies a diachronic narratological approach to prophetic books of the Hebrew Bible (Amos, Ezekiel). A04 (Morenz\/Bonn) studies how two major societal crises in Pharaonic Egypt generated new historiographic styles. A05 (Setzer-Mori\/Bochum) investigates history-telling under censorship in early modern Japan’s commercial book market. A06 (Tilg\/Freiburg) traces the origins and functions of the 17th-century roman-\u00e0-clef from John Barclay’s Latin novels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
More information<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n This cluster explores how concepts and arguments are turned into narrative. B01 (Baumbach\/Bochum) studies „first inventors“ in ancient literature as self-reflexive figures of poetic creation. B02 (Bezner\/Freiburg) develops a poetics of integumental narrative in 12th-century Latin literature, where philosophical concepts act as characters. B03 (Gunsenheimer\/Bonn) examines how indigenous authors in colonial Spanish America adopted the European concept of „nation.“ B04 (M\u00fcller\/Bonn) theorizes narrative within ancient philosophical dialogue (Plato, Cicero). B05 (R\u00fcggemeier\/Bonn) reassesses the „Holy Spirit“ as an off-stage character in Mark’s Gospel through cognitive narratology. B06 (Schwermann\/Bochum) analyzes allegories and exempla as arguments of governance in classical Chinese treatises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nNarrating Ideas (B)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n