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Modern Protestant debates about spousal relations and the meaning of marriage began in a forgotten international dispute some 300 years ago. The Lutheran-Pietist ideal of marriage as friendship and mutual pursuit of holiness battled with the idea that submission defined spousal roles. Exploiting material culture artifacts, broadsides, hymns, sermons, private correspondence, and legal cases on three continents -- Europe, Asia, and North America -- A. G. Roeber reconstructs the roots and the dimensions of a continued debate that still preoccupies international Protestantism and its Catholic and Orthodox critics and observers in the twenty-first century.
This is the first global history of dress regulation and its place in broader debates around how human life and societies should be visualised and materialised. Sumptuary laws were a tool on the part of states to regulate not only manufacturing systems and moral economies via the medium of expenditure and consumption of clothing but also banquets, festivities and funerals. Leading scholars on Asian, Latin American, Ottoman and European history shed new light on how and why items of dress became key aspirational goods across society, how they were lobbied for and marketed, and whether or not sumptuary laws were implemented by cities, states and empires to restrict or channel trade and consumption. Their findings reveal the significance of sumptuary laws in medieval and early modern societies as a site of contestation between individuals and states and how dress as an expression of identity developed as a modern 'human right'.
Vatsaa kivistää ja posket punoittavat. Häpeän tunne on sekä tuskallisen yksityinen että kaikille tuttu. Häpeän kokemus ja pelko on ohjannut ihmisten käyttäytymistä halki vuosisatojen. Aikoinaan Egyptissä yritettiin sopeutua kauneusihanteisiin poistamalla ihokarvoja, ja keskiajan Euroopassa häpeän pelättiin tarttuvan ihmisestä toiseen. Vaikka häpeää vältellään, toisten kokemana se myös kiehtoo. Häpäiseminen onkin ollut osa niin 1800-luvun freak show -esityksiä kuin nykyajan tv-viihdettä. Häpeä! on historioitsija Satu Lidmanin syväluotaava katsaus vaikeaan tunteeseen. Kirja tutkii häpeän merkityksiä niin historian, eri kulttuurien kuin nykyihmisten haastatteluj...
Based on legislation and legal practice from the period c. 1250-1600 the book takes issue with the most important viewpoints in earlier research by early modernists: that the Reformation represented a watershed in a development characterized by greater criminalisation of sexual acts, increase in the severity of sentences and deterioration of the position of women. According to this study, in principle all or mostly all factors were already in place in the Middle Ages. In Norwegian historiography the period investigated is characterized by paucity of sources, and the period has tended to fall between two stools, respectively the medievalist and the early modernist. The ambition of this book has been to bridge the gap.
Die facettenreiche Disziplin Altnordistik zielt darauf ab, den nordgermanischen Raum im ersten Jahrtausend nach Christus und im Mittelalter umfassend kulturhistorisch zu erschließen. Da die dortigen Menschen aber länger als die der kontinentalen Kulturen bis zum Spätmittelalter überwiegend mündlich organisiert waren, sind Forscher darauf angewiesen, ihre materielle Kultur, also archäologische Quellen, Bilddarstellungen sowie Runeninschriften, in die Untersuchungen einzubeziehen. Als einer der renommiertesten Altskandinavisten hat sich Wilhelm Heizmann in seinem Oevre intensiv mit den Bereichen Altertumskunde, Ikonographie, Runologie und Literaturwissenschaft befasst. Dabei sind auch produktive interdisziplinäre Kooperationen entstanden. Die vielen disparaten, auch im vorliegenden Band angesprochen Themen gelten als Annäherung an die Kultur der Nordgermanen aus unterschiedlicher Perspektive. Mittelalter-Forscher können durch die Beiträge gute Einblicke in die breite Palette der Altnordistik bekommen; daraus ergeben sich deutliche Berührungspunkte und Gemeinsamkeiten mit benachbarten Fächern, die zu einer fruchtbaren Interdisziplinarität beitragen.
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This book presents linguistic evidence for many aspects of pre-Christian and early medieval European culture.
Seksuele taboes en stigmatisering in de Noormannentijd.