Uni-Tübingen

Marlene Zierke

Research Associate

Contact

Universität Tübingen
SFB 1391 „Andere Ästhetik“
Keplerstr. 17
D-72074 Tübingen

Room 16

+49 (0)7071 29-75106
marlene.barth@uni-tuebingen.de

Short CV

seit 2023

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im SFB 1391 "Andere Ästhetik" an der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

2021

Abschluss Master Kunstgeschichte (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)

2018

Abschluss Bachelor Kunstgeschichte (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)

Research

Research Project

Combinatorics as an Aesthetic Strategy. Personification and Allegory in Medieval Literature and Art

Late medieval housebooks and calendars are multilayered objects that provide comprehensive knowledge of the world and life instructions. They typically relay this information via vernacular texts and a multitude of images, as well as complex cosmological visual programs. Vital to these works are representations of the ‘Children of the Planets,’ which illustrate the effects of planetary forces on humans. The research project examines depictions of the ‘Children of the Planets’ with their abstract and often diagrammatical visual arrangements. These arrangements assign textual and visual elements to semantically coded image locations, thus rendering new meaning by connecting them to overarching allegorical concepts. The focus lies also on their integration into the medium of the housebook as an intertextual and intervisual reference system. These specific relationships are unlocked through the model of combinatorics, which reveals the aesthetic reflective potential of combination, compilation, configuration, and visual arrangement.

Research Focus

  • Astronomical and astrological knowledge in images
  • Late medieval housebooks and calendars
  • Incunabula

Publications

Astronomisches und astrologisches Wissen im 15. Jahrhundert, in: Andrea Worm / Sandra Linden / Kristina Stöbener (Hgg.): Drucksachen. Inkunabeln und Einblattdrucke der Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen, Tübingen 2024 (Ausstellungskatalog des MUT Tübingen), S. 80–93.

Worm, A. / Linden, S. / Stöbener, Kristina (Hgg.): Drucksachen. Inkunabeln und Einblattdrucke der Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen, Tübingen 2024 (Ausstellungskatalog des MUT Tübingen).

  • V.2 Albumasar: Introductorium in astronomiam, S. 332–333.
  • V.3 Albumasar: De magnis coniunctionibus, S. 334–335.
  • V.4 Alehabitius: Libellus isagogicus, S. 336–337.
  • V.5 Hygnius Mythographus: Poetica astronomica, S. 338–339.
  • V.6 Almanach auf das Jahr 1478, S. 340–341.
  • V.7 Johannes Hugo: Practica auf das Jahr 1506, S. 342–343.
  • V.8 Kalendertafel für 1531, S. 344–345.

Talks

Astronomisches und astrologisches Wissen im Buch vor 1500 (as part of the interdisciplinary workshop Drucksachen. Inkunabeln und Einblattdrucke der Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen, 23.06.2023)

Astronomie im Druck. Die Inkunabel Bd 23.4 und ihre Sternbilder (as part of the event series Born In The Bonatzbau, 03.02.2023)

Public Relations

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