Projektbeschreibung
Eine neue Studie zum Alten Rom setzt „Schaffen“ und „Sinn“ in Kontext zueinander
Wie Objekte im Alten Rom hergestellt wurden, ist ein faszinierendes Thema, wird meist jedoch nur als praktischer oder technischer Prozess erforscht. Über die kulturellen, ästhetischen und moralischen Aspekte ist kaum etwas bekannt. Das vom Europäischen Forschungsrat finanzierte Projekt FACERE wird untersuchen, welchen Sinn das Schaffen für die Menschen im Römischen Reich erfüllte. Konkret wird es den römischen Diskurs des Schaffens analysieren: literarische Schriften (Lyrik und Prosa in griechischer und lateinischer Sprache) sowie bildende Kunst wie Gemälde, Reliefs und Mosaiken, die den Prozess des Schaffens darstellen und uns mehr darüber verraten können, welche Gedanken, Gefühle und Meinungen sie in den Menschen des Alten Roms auslösten. FACERE wird außerdem untersuchen, wie die materielle Kultur die Betrachtenden im Alten Rom prägte, wie Objekte hergestellt wurden und wie diese Schaffensgeschichten dargestellt oder imaginiert wurden.
Ziel
How did the ancient Romans respond to the material world around them? This project, FACERE, proposes a new way of approaching this question. It studies ‘making’ – the processes by which the objects and buildings which surrounded Romans in their daily lives were produced. How things were made in ancient Rome is usually studied as a practical or technical process. However, making also has a wide range of culturally specific aesthetic and moral implications. FACERE breaks new ground by asking not how making was done, but what making meant to the inhabitants of the Roman empire. To answer this question, we analyse the Roman discourse of making: literary texts – poetry and prose in Greek and Latin – and visual art works, such as paintings, reliefs, and mosaics, which represent processes of making and can tell us how Romans thought, felt, and spoke about them. FACERE aims to achieve two key objectives.
First, we will write a new cultural history of ‘Roman making’, adding to our understanding of the technological, logistic, and economic dimensions the crucial new dimension of the cultural values involved in making, in particular its aesthetic and moral complexities. How did making relate to Roman notions about the environment? How did Roman writers and artists depict the ability and agency of different kinds of makers, and how does this relate to their gender, ethnicity, and social status? Were certain ways of making considered superior to others, and why?
Second, FACERE proposes a new way of investigating the impact of material culture on Roman viewers. How things were made, and how their stories of making were presented or imagined, was deeply relevant to what they meant to their ancient viewers, owners, and users. FACERE introduces the innovative analytical concept of ‘madeness’, which allows us to bring ‘making’ and ‘meaning’ together.
Wissenschaftliches Gebiet
Programm/Programme
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Thema/Themen
Finanzierungsplan
HORIZON-AG - HORIZON Action Grant Budget-BasedGastgebende Einrichtung
9712CP Groningen
Niederlande