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Commemorating the Dead in Late Medieval Strasbourg
The Book of Donors for Strasbourg cathedral is an extraordinary medieval document dating from ca. 1320-1520, with 6,954 entries from artisan, merchant and aristocratic classes. These individuals listed gifts to the cathedral construction fund given in exchange for prayers for the donors' souls. The construction administrators (the Oeuvre Notre-Dame) also built a chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary in the nave that housed the book and showcased prayers and masses for the building benefactors. Chapel, book and west front project formed a three part commemorative strategy that appealed to the faithful of the city and successfully competed against other religious establishments also offe...
History Education at the Edge of the Nation
This edited volume explores the evolution of history education from a transnational perspective, focusing on border regions in Europe that are considered on the "periphery" of the Nation-State. By introducing this concept and taking into consideration the dynamics of decentralization and the development of minorities’ teaching practices and narratives, the book sheds light on new challenges for history education policy and curriculum design. Chapters take a comparative approach, dissecting and analyzing specific case studies from school systems in France, Germany, Italy, the UK, and Scandinavian countries. In doing so, the editors and their authors weave a systematic account of the impact of local autonomy on educational culture, on the civic remit of schools, and on the narratives embodied by history school canons.
Medieval Clothing and Textiles
The study of medieval clothing and textiles reveals much about the history of our material culture, as well as social, economic and cultural history as a whole.
War in an Age of Revolution, 1775-1815
The essays in this volume examine the historical place of revolutionary warfare on both sides of the Atlantic, focusing on the degree to which they extended practices common in the eighteenth century or introduced fundamentally new forms of warfare.
The Garden of Delights
In The Garden of Delights, Fiona J. Griffiths offers the first major study of the Hortus deliciarum, a magnificently illuminated manuscript of theology, biblical history, and canon law written both by and explicitly for women at the end of the twelfth century. In so doing she provides a brilliantly persuasive new reading of female monastic culture. Through careful analysis of the contents, structure, and organization of the Hortus, Griffiths argues for women's profound engagement with the spiritual and intellectual vitality of the period on a level previously thought unimaginable, overturning the assumption that women were largely excluded from the "renaissance" and "reform" of this period. ...
L'Hôpital civil de Haguenau
Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.
Conflict in Medieval Europe
Conflict is defined here broadly and inclusively as an element of social life and social relations. Its study encompasses the law, not just disputes concerning property, but wider issues of criminality, coercion and violence, status, sex, sexuality and gender, as well as the phases and manifestations of conflict and the behaviors brought to bear on it. It engages, too, with the nature of the transformation spanning the Carolingian period, and its implications for the meanings of power, violence, and peace. Conflict in Medieval Europe represents the 'American school' of the study of medieval conflict and social order. Framed by two substantial historiographical and conceptual surveys of the field, it brings together two generations of scholars: the pioneers, who continue to expand the research agenda; and younger colleagues, who represent the best emerging work on this subject. The book therefore both marks the trajectory of conflict studies in the United States and presents a set of original, highly individual contributions across a shifting conceptual range, indicative of a major transition in the field.
Die Klostergründungen der Etichonen im Elsass
Die Etichonen, die Herzogsfamilie des Elsass, prägte die Geschichte dieser Region vom siebten bis zum achten Jahrhundert. Die heilige Odilia, Tochter des Herzogs Eticho, gilt noch heute als die Schutzheilige des Elsass, ihr Kloster Hohenburg auf dem Odilienberg ist nach wie vor eine bedeutende Pilgerstätte. Die Familie trat vor allen Dingen durch zahlreiche Klostergründungen hervor, u.a. mit der bedeutenden Gründung Murbach im südlichen Elsass. Klöster waren im frühen Mittelalter nicht nur geistliche Stützpunkte, vor allem rodeten und verwalteten die darin lebenden Mönche das noch wilde Land. Außerdem dienten Monasterien oft als militärische Zentren und Herrschaftssitze. Die Arbeit analysiert sämtliche etichonischen Gründungen im Elsass, angefangen bei Hohenburg, Niedermünster, Ebersmünster, St. Stephan bis hin zu Honau und Murbach. Dabei stehen nicht nur religiöse, sondern ebenso politische und wirtschaftliche Aspekte im Vordergrund.
Communities and Conflict in Early Modern Colmar
From 1575 to 1730, the citizens of the Alsatian Imperial city of Colmar were divided between Protestant and Catholic communities, plagued by chronic warfare, and ultimately subjugated by the kingdom of France. Drawing on a rich collection of serial archival sources, Wallace reconstructs the collective biography of 6,700 civic officials, merchants, artisans, and agricultural workers in order to examine the local impact of confessionalization in a religiously mixed town, the effect of warfare on the economic interdependence of town and country, and the tensions between French absolutism and traditional civic political culture. Economic historians, scholars of the Reformation, and students of French and German history will find many valuable insights in this multifaceted analysis.
