SFB 496: Symbolic Communication and Social Value Systems from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution

496合作研究中心的研究集中在中世纪和近代早期的符号传播过程及其所基于的价值体系。政治，法律，宗教和日常交流的主要领域与文学，艺术和哲学的关系进行了研究，作为相关现象的接受，反映和投射的主要媒介。所有子项目的共同目标是确定可以在不同形式的符号沟通及其传达价值体系的方式中找到哪些类型的反思和何种程度的推理。因此，社会学和民族学的流行观点是测试，认为象征性的沟通，缺乏理性的品质和反思。13个子项目对中心问题进行了历史性的研究（主题是冲突与和平仪式，接待仪式，等级和地位及其代表，以及近代早期和法国大革命前后的过渡仪式）;文学（宫廷戏剧和说教文学）;在神学（中世纪礼仪中的仪式元素）;艺术（艺术理论中的“virtus”）;以及哲学（美德的伦理学）。

Research at the collaborative research centre 496 centres on the process of symbolic communication in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, and the value systems it was based upon. The main areas of politics, law, religion and everyday communication are studied in relation to literature, the arts and philosophy as the main media for the reception, reflection and projection of relevant phenomena. Common goal for all subprojects is to determine what type of reflections and what degree of reasoning can be found in and attributed to the different forms of symbolic communication and the way they convey value systems. Thereby the prevailing opinion in sociology and ethnology is tested which sees symbolic communication as void of rational qualities and reflection. The thirteen subprojects study the central issue historically (topics are conflict and peace rituals, reception ceremonies, rank and status and their representation as well as transition rites in Early Modern Times and around the French Revolution); in literature (court plays and didactic literature); in theology (ritual elements in medieval liturgy); in the arts ('virtus' in artistic theory); and in philosophy (the ethics of virtue).