Research

Ongoing and completed research projects of the institute: external funding, doctoral theses, habilitations

NOMOS

The ERC funded NOMOS aims to assemble a corpus of “Saracen law” provisions and utilizing cutting-edge, AI-supported technologies to create new editions of legal texts and their influence on Eastern Christian legal regimes.

The Influence of Islam on Christian Legal Regimes

The encounter with Islam constituted the most significant factor in the late antique development of Greek, Syriac, Coptic and Armenian legal regimes in the 500 years between the death of the Prophet Muhammad and the First Crusade

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MAMEMS

MAMEMS, "Mount Athos in Medieval Eastern Mediterranean Society: Contextualizing the History of a Monastic Republic (ca. 850-1550)", is funded by a Starting Grant of the European Research Council and hosted first at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (2020-2024) and now at the LMU Munich (from 2024). It constitutes the first comprehensive examination of the monastic communities of Mount Athos as independent actors in medieval Eastern Mediterranean society.

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