Gaul between imperium and regna. The representation of contingency and its coping

该项目的重点是5世纪末6世纪初Sidonius Apollinaris，利莫日的Ruricius和Vienne的Avitus的高卢信件集。迄今为止，研究兴趣主要集中在个别信件或信件的个别部分，但仍然缺乏系统的整体分析。此外，随着“偶然性”一词的出现，该项目为西罗马帝国的衰落、延续和转型等有争议的模型引入了一个有希望的替代方案。通过考察偶然性的文本表征及其应对，该项目主要关注高卢-罗马同时代人的感知及其文学转换。该项目的有条不紊的方法来分析的信件集合的叙事模式，一方面可以检查各自的信件集合的内部结构和其impermeability的发展，另一方面比较三个信件集合。因此，该项目为文学交流的研究以及世纪高卢晚期和6世纪早期感知和解释模式的可能变化提供了一个尚未完成的贡献。

The project focuses on the Gallic letter collections of Sidonius Apollinaris, Ruricius of Limoges and Avitus of Vienne from the late 5th and early 6th century. Up until today research interests have mainly concentrated on individual letters or individual sections of letters but a systematic overall analysis is still lacking. Furthermore, with the term 'contingency' the project introduces a heuristically promising alternative to the controversial models of decline, continuity and transformation of the Western Roman Empire. By means of examining the textual representation of contingency and its coping the project primarily focuses on the perception of the Gallo-Roman contemporaries and its literary conversion. The methodical approach of the project to analyse the narrational mode of the letter collections on the one hand allows to examine the internal structure of the respective letter collection and its immanent developments and on the other hand to compare the three letter collections. Thus, the project provides an as yet missing contribution to the research of literary communication and of possible changes of perception and interpretation patterns in late 5th and early 6th century Gaul.