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Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 326

Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills

Essays on the history of girlhood in modern Europe.

Being poor in modern Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 544

Being poor in modern Europe

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

Edited papers from an international conference at the University of Trier, 2003.

Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2857

Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction

Autobiographical writings have been a major cultural genre from antiquity to the present time. General questions of the literary as, e.g., the relation between literature and reality, truth and fiction, the dependency of author, narrator, and figure, or issues of individual and cultural styles etc., can be studied preeminently in the autobiographical genre. Yet, the tradition of life-writing has, in the course of literary history, developed manifold types and forms. Especially in the globalized age, where the media and other technological / cultural factors contribute to a rapid transformation of lifestyles, autobiographical writing has maintained, even enhanced, its popularity and importanc...

Negotiations of Gender and Property through Legal Regimes (14th-19th Century)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 461

Negotiations of Gender and Property through Legal Regimes (14th-19th Century)

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-04-26
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume offers a cross-period (14th-19th century) European comparison of different property regimes brought into conversation with inheritance patterns and resulting gender-specific negotiations and conflicts.

Living in Two Worlds
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 373

Living in Two Worlds

The personal writings of a remarkable couple who lived parallel lives during the Second World War, surviving persecution and exile.

Beyond the Battlefield
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

Beyond the Battlefield

This volume draws together an international team of scholars to explore the experience and significance of early modern European continental warfare from an interdisciplinary perspective. Individual essays add to the lively fields of War and Society and the New Military History by combining the history of war with political and diplomatic history, the history of religion, social history, economic history, the history of ideas, the history of emotions, environmental history, art history, musicology, and the history of science and medicine. The contributors address how warfare was entwined with European learning, culture, and the arts, but also examine the ties between warfare and ideas or ide...

Performance and the Politics of Space
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Performance and the Politics of Space

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-05-20
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  • Publisher: Routledge

From its very beginnings, theatre has been both an art and a public space, shared by actors and spectators. As a result, its entity and history is intimately tied to politics: a politics of inclusion and exclusion, of distributions and placements, of spatial appropriation and utopian concepts. This collection examines what is at stake when a theatrical space is created and when a performance takes place; it asks under what circumstances the topology of theatre becomes political. The book approaches this issue from various angles, taking theatre as a cultural paradigm for political dimensions of space in its respective historical context. Visiting the political dimensions of theatrical space ...

Duncan Liddel (1561-1613)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

Duncan Liddel (1561-1613)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-18
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This collective volume in the history of early-modern science and medicine investigates the transfer of knowledge between Germany and Scotland focusing on the Scottish mathematician and physician Duncan Liddel of Aberdeen. It offers a contextualized study of his life and work in the cultural and institutional frame of the northern European Renaissance, as well as a reconstruction of his scholarly networks and of the scientific debates in the time of post-Copernican astronomy, Melanchthonian humanism and Paracelsian controversies. Contributors are: Sabine Bertram, Duncan Cockburn, Laura Di Giammatteo, Mordechai Feingold, Karin Friedrich, Elizabeth Harding, John Henry, Richard Kirwan, Jane Pirie, Jonathan Regier.

A Seventeenth-Century Odyssey in East Central Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 325

A Seventeenth-Century Odyssey in East Central Europe

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-11-16
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  • Publisher: BRILL

In A Seventeenth-Century Odyssey Gábor Kármán reconstructs the life story of a lesser-known Hungarian orientalist, Jakab Harsányi Nagy. The discussion of his activities as a school teacher in Transylvania, as a diplomat and interpreter at the Sublime Porte, as a secretary of a Moldavian voivode in exile, as well as a court councillor of Friedrich Wilhelm, the Great Elector of Brandenburg not only sheds light upon the extraordinarily versatile career of this individual, but also on the variety of circles in which he lived. Gábor Kármán also gives the first historical analysis of Harsányi’s contribution to Turkish studies, the Colloquia Familiaria Turcico-latina (1672).