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Modernisation and Tradition
This anthology is based on a symposium which had as its key issue a critical discussion of different theories of modernisation from the perspective of people's activities in local manorial societies. Modernisation can be studied in terms of changing values, norms and social relationships. From a theoretical point of view the book makes use of the possibility to change main macro-conceptions of the modernisation process, using dichotomies such as feudal/capitalist and individual/collective, and it also tries to integrate tradition and continuity perspective.
Keeping the Peace in the Village
Keeping the Peace in the Village describes the nature of conflicts among rural people in the period after the Thirty Years' War. These included property disputes, conflicts between employers and their workers, disputes over marriage promises, and, most often, honor disputes.
Heimat verhandeln?
Heimat – ein ebenso verführerisches wie verheißungsvolles Konstrukt – hat Konjunktur. In der Politik, den Medien, der Werbung. Doch nicht nur in massenmedial verbreiteten Diskursen, auch in Architektur, Landschaftsgestaltung, Kunst, Popkultur und im Alltäglichen findet eine permanente Aushandlung dessen statt, was Heimat sein oder verkörpern könnte. Heimat wird evoziert und in Szene gesetzt, tradierte Motive und Bedeutungen werden angeeignet, ironisiert, nicht selten instrumentalisiert. Der vorliegende Band trägt dieser medialen Breite des Phänomens vom 19. bis ins 21. Jahrhundert Rechnung.
Das Spital in der Frühen Neuzeit
Die Spitäler der Frühen Neuzeit waren vielschichtige Einrichtungen und lassen sich nicht einfach auf einen Nenner bringen: Siechenhäuser, Bürgerspitäler, adelige Spitäler für die Untertanen der Grundherrschaften, Pestspitäler, Waisenhäuser oder etwa Versorgungshäuser können unter dem Begriff "Spital", dem "Wartezimmer des Todes", gefasst werden. Die wirtschaftliche Bedeutung der Spitäler spiegelt sich in der genauen Kontrolle dieser Armen-, Kranken- und Altersversorgungseinrichtungen durch Spitalmeister wider. Das Personal der Spitäler, die Speisepläne, aber auch die Spitalakten ermöglichen Einblicke in das Innenleben dieser Häuser: sexueller Missbrauch von Insassinnen lässt sich etwa quellenmäßig belegen. Das vorliegende Handbuch erschließt diese vielschichtige Welt der Spitäler.
Thieves in Court
An exploration of how petty theft in the nineteenth-century German countryside contributed to the modern-day legal system and property laws.
Negotiations of Gender and Property through Legal Regimes (14th-19th Century)
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.
Reformation, Religious Culture and Print in Early Modern Europe
This collection of essays, commissioned in honour of Andrew Pettegree, presents original contributions on the Reformation, communication and the book in early modern Europe. Together, the essays reflect on Pettegree’s ground-breaking influence on these fields, and offer a comprehensive survey of the state of current scholarship.
Scholarly Self-Fashioning and Community in the Early Modern University
A greater fluidity in social relations and hierarchies was experienced across Europe in the early modern period, a consequence of the major political and religious upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. At the same time, the universities of Europe became increasingly orientated towards serving the territorial state, guided by a humanistic approach to learning which stressed its social and political utility. It was in these contexts that the notion of the scholar as a distinct social category gained a foothold and the status of the scholarly group as a social elite was firmly established. University scholars demonstrated a great energy when characterizing themselves socially as learned men. This book investigates the significance and implications of academic self-fashioning throughout Europe in the early modern period. It describes a general and growing deliberation in the fashioning of individual, communal and categorical academic identity in this period. It explores the reasons for this growing self-consciousness among scholars, and the effects of its expression - social and political, desired and real.
The Strait Gate
Exploring a chapter in the cultural history of the West not yet probed, The Strait Gate demonstrates how doors, gates, and related technologies such as the key and the lock have shaped the way we perceive and navigate the domestic and urban spaces that surround us in our everyday lives. Jütte reveals how doors have served as sites of power, exclusion, and inclusion, as well as metaphors for salvation in the course of Western history. More than any other parts of the house, doors are objects onto which we project our ideas of, and anxieties about, security, privacy, and shelter. Drawing on a wide range of archival, literary, and visual sources, as well as on research literature across various disciplines and languages, this book pays particular attention to the history of the practices that have developed over the centuries in order to handle and control doors in everyday life.
