The RTG investigates the production and enforcement of truth between the 13th and 17th centuries. It focuses on a period characterized by social, political, and religious dynamics as well as by transformations of knowledge cultures, by media changes, and by changing public spheres. Complementing existing research, the RTG focuses on practices and processes of making truth and explores their dependence on bodies, natural things, and artefacts. It observes truth production as a bundle of practices and material arrangements in which people, media, things, and spatial arrangements interact. Bodies, instruments, tools, natural and artificial objects, texts, images, diagrams, architectures, workshops, courthouses, or theatre stages all participate in the assertion and negotiation of truth.
