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

该项目的重点是Sidonius Apollinaris，利摩日的Ruricius和Vienne的Avitus从5世纪末到6世纪初的高卢人信件收藏。到目前为止，人们的研究兴趣主要集中在个别书信或书信的个别章节上，但缺乏系统的整体分析。此外，该项目引入了“偶然性”一词，为西罗马帝国的衰落、延续和转型等备受争议的模式引入了一种启发式的有希望的替代方案。通过考察偶然性及其应对的文本表现，该项目主要关注高卢-罗马同时代人的感知及其文学转变。该项目采用有条不紊的方法分析书信收藏的叙事模式，一方面可以检查各个书信收藏的内部结构及其内在发展，另一方面可以对三个书信收藏进行比较。因此，该项目对文学传播的研究以及5世纪末6世纪初高卢人感知和解释模式的可能变化的研究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.