Invective asymmetrization. Diatribe duels in Italian and German humanism

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What ‚humanism‘ means and who belongs to the group of ‚humanists‘ was clarified not least in the medium of invectivity. The research project asks about the aspect of an elaborate invective language as a social distinctive feature or symbolic capital, with the help of which certain people and groups succeeded in achieving an asymmetry vis-à-vis opponents, who are disparaged, for example, as ‚barbarians‘ or ‚scholastics‘ and thus pushed out of the circle of recognition. The study is focused on the example of Francesco Petrarca, Jakob Wimpfeling and the Reuchlin controversy.