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Subprojects D1
"Historicizing transcultural experiences of violence - The Mongolian invasion in medieval Poland and Hungary"
Coordinator: Katharina Schober
The subproject deals with the perception of the Mongols` invasion in Eastern Europe from the middle of the 13th century up to the Late Middle Ages. Using psychological concepts of memory and trauma the research project will show the various steps of historicizing traumatic memory in diachronic perspective. During the whole period the experience of the Mongolian invasion stayed alive in the Eastern European cultural memory and gained new functions in social life and identity.
"The Mongolian invasions of Japan and their visual adaption in modern period Japan"
- Kawanabe Kyôsai (1831-1889): Môko taiji ryakki ("Sketch of the elimination of the Mongols"). 1863, woodblock print (nishiki-e), Library of the Historiographical Institute, University Tôkyô
Coordinator: Julika Singer
The subproject investigates the ways in which these failed invasions were mythologized and represented as a prototype of foreign threat in Japanese visual media, focusing on the time span from late 19th to early 20th century. The project deals with a broad variety of visual media and art genres ranging from the "high arts" made by and for elite artistic circles, to popular woodblock prints and more function-oriented visual material such as votive picture tablets, bank notes and illustrations in schoolbooks.
"The End of the Caliphate. The Mongolian invasion across Asia as a political-religious challenge"
Coordinator: Frank Krämer
The subproject will analyze ancient texts and accounts of Persian and Arab medieval historians. The aim is to understand how the Mongolian invasion has been perceived by them and how the experienced violence has been historicized by writers from different derivations and perspectives. Does Mongolian violence have another quality than other acts of violence described by Eastern medieval historians? Is there a master narrative within the texts or are there various interpretations of the invasion?
