Imitatio Christi

The heroization and contemplation of Jesus Christ as a suffering, painful victor was meaningful for stagings and political interpretations. The conference “Christ as Hero and His Heroic Succession - To the imitatio of Christ in the Early Modern Period” pays special attention to the phenomenon that the faithful in the imitatio of Christ not only found a way to imitate Christ, but could themselves become Christian fighters for their hero. Lecturers from fields such as history, theology and German studies will look at and analyze sources from the early modern period, including Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

• What: Conference
  
  
• When: May 30, 2019, 9:30 am until June 1, 2019, 1:30pm
  
  
• Where:               
  Caritas-Tagungszentrum (Caritas Conference Center)
  Wintererstraße 17
  79104 Freiburg
  
  
• The event is open to the general public.
  
  
• Host: Collaborative Research Centre 948 “Heroes – Heroizations – Heroisms” at the University of Freiburg and Research Training Group “Interconfessionality in the Early Modern Period” at the Universität Hamburg
  
  
• Contact information:  Sebastian Meurer, Tel.: +49 (0) 761 / 203-67602

• Registration via e-mail is requested at imitatiochristi@sfb948.uni-freiburg.de

• Participation is free of charge.
  
  
• The event will be held in German.
  
  
• For more information and the program