After graduating as Magister Theologiae in Freiburg I now work as research assistant at the department of Patristics at the University of Tübingen. Parallel I am working on my doctoral thesis which is dealing with the reception of late antique Roman spectacles by the Latin Church of the fourth and fifth century. My research is influenced by methods of literary studies and semiotics. For more information feel free to contact me.
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From the rich abundance of floor mosaics of the basilica in Aquileia the motif 'Encounter of Rooster and Tortoise' stands out as an unlikely combination of figures in context of a christian basilica. For an interpretation the author turns to the concept of Thick Description by cultural anthropologist C. Geertz. As an approach of cultural semiotic nature, it centers around the interaction of elements in a historical tradition. History is hereby seen as a process of transformation in which the old transmutes into the new without fully disappearing. Using this approach the author shows how existing interpretations of the mosaic can be deconstructed and established knowledge can be viewed under a new perspective to create new insights.
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From the rich abundance of floor mosaics of the basilica in Aquileia the motif 'Encounter of Rooster and Tortoise' stands out as an unlikely combination of figures in context of a christian basilica. For an interpretation the author turns to the concept of Thick Description by cultural anthropologist C. Geertz. As an approach of cultural semiotic nature, it centers around the interaction of elements in a historical tradition. History is hereby seen as a process of transformation in which the old transmutes into the new without fully disappearing. Using this approach the author shows how existing interpretations of the mosaic can be deconstructed and established knowledge can be viewed under a new perspective to create new insights.