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Medieval Cologne
In Anglophone literature, historical questions about urban, socio-economic, political, religious, and cultural development have often been answered using Anglo-French, Anglo-Low Countries, and Anglo-Italian paradigms and sources. Medieval Germany has been largely overlooked, seen as a peripheral and irrelevant anomaly. Conversely, scholars from the German Rhineland have mostly remained within the traditions of civic public history and Landesgeschichte. As a result, they rarely engage with the historical questions raised in wider European discourses. This volume challenges these historiographical propensities by offering a fresh perspective on medieval urban Germany. It aims to integrate Cologne and the Rhineland more accurately and equitably into the wider histories of medieval Europe. The book engages with historical questions of wider relevance across both German and European medieval histories. It invites all scholars and students of medieval Europe to utilize Cologne as a key source for their research and writing.
Performative Figures of Queer Masculinity
This is a German history of cinema and film from the 1890s to 1945 with a focus on queer masculinity. Using media studies approaches, the study shows how film as a new medium is constituted through performative re-enactments of spectacular elements from the entertainment and knowledge cultures of the 19th century. In it, bodies, desires and identities are constantly remodelled through the formation of difference. Therefore, male queerness here does not mean the representation of male homosexuality. Rather, it is the dynamic result of complex medial processes, affects and (self-)knowledge on and off the screen. Building on Eve K. Sedgwick's queer-feminist concept of queer performativity, the ...
Material Fantasies
"This study of East German fantasies of material abundance across the border, both before and after the fall of communism, shows the close and intricate relation between ideology and fantasy in upholding social life. In 1989, news broadcasts all over the world were dominated for weeks by images of East Germans crossing the Berlin Wall to West Germany. The images, representing the fall of communism and the democratic will of the people, also showed East Germans' excitement at finally being able to enter the western consumer paradise. But what exactly had they expected to find on the other side of the Wall? Why did they shed tears of joy when for the first time in their lives, they stepped ins...
National-Socialist Archaeology in Europe and its Legacies
This edited volume is dedicated to national-socialist archaeology as a Europe-wide phenomenon. It analyses national-socialist attempts to denationalize the archaeologies of European nations by creating a new unifying European archaeology on a racial basis. From the beginning of the nineteenth century, archaeology began to develop into an important force behind processes of nation building. At the same time, structures of transnational academic collaboration contributed strongly to the internal dynamics of the research field, which was primarily organized on a national basis. In those European countries that were confronted with national-socialist occupation and repression between 1939 and 19...
Learning, Curriculum and Life Politics
Having spent the last thirty years researching, thinking and writing about some of the key issues in education, Professor Ivor Goodson presents twenty of his most important writings in this single volume.
Life Politics
This book on life politics comprises a collection of interviews and commentaries. The notion of life politics covers a number of different meanings within the book. Most importantly is the way that the genre of interviews helps cover a range of cultural contexts and intellectual milieu. Part of the life politics represented in this book is built around the belief that if we are to act as public intellectuals in the field of education and culture in the current globalised setting we need to travel. This book shows how public intellectual work gets interrogated and implemented in different social and cultural settings.
Prefects and Governors in Nineteenth-century Europe
This edited collection presents a pan-European history of intermediary government and administration in nineteenth-century Europe. Taking a closer look at senior government officials who represented the sovereign or state far away from the capital, the book highlights the intermediary nature of their roles, which fell somewhere between the municipality and central bureaucracy. Against the backdrop of revolution and upheaval brought about by the Enlightenment and the First World War, the nineteenth century was a crucial period for reform and political change. Taking a transnational approach, the contributors examine the similarities between the challenges that faced government officials in di...
Politics and Peasants in Interwar Romania
The volume discusses the integration of peasants into the nation building project of Greater Romania with a focus on social and cultural practices. Thus, it addresses one of the key questions of the new political system in post-imperial East Central and Southeast Europe. It advocates a shift from a multiple top-down perspective (capital – province, urban political elites – rural voters) to an analysis concentrating on regionally diverse rural societies with a special interest in the predominantly ethnic Romanian population.
Die Macht der Kunstkritik
Wien um 1900 – Hier befand sich nicht nur das Zentrum der Habsburgermonarchie, sondern auch das Herzstück des europäischen Kunstlebens. In dieser Stadt wurde Kunstgeschichte geschrieben, und zwar vor allem von einem Mann: Ludwig Hevesi. Der in Ungarn geborene Journalist Ludwig Hevesi (1843-1910) war der bedeutendste Kunstkritiker seiner Zeit. Sein untrügliches Gespür für Qualität machten ihn zum führenden Kenner der zeitgenössischen Malerei. Sein Urteil bestimmte über die Langlebigkeit von künstlerischen Karrieren und beeinflusste sogar Kaiser Franz Joseph. Hevesi verhalf Gustav Klimt und dem Wiener Jugendstil zum Erfolg und prägte auch das Motto der Wiener Secession: "Der Zeit ihre Kunst, der Kunst ihre Freiheit". Seine Texte erwecken vergangene Epochen zum Leben – sie erzählen von jenen Erfolgen, Misserfolgen, Skandalen und Sensationen, die die Wiener Kunstszene in Atem hielten – und bestimmen noch heute unser Bild von der Wiener Moderne.
Geschichte in Köln 65 (2018)
Seit dem ersten Heft im April 1978 ist Geschichte in Köln ein wichtiges Forum für Themen der Stadt- und Regionalgeschichte, das sowohl die Fachöffentlichkeit als auch ein historisch interessiertes Publikum anspricht. Das aktuelle Heft widmet sich beispielweise der römischen Erfolgsgeschichte in Germanien und ihrem schlussendlichen Scheitern, den Heiligen Drei Königen, der Frage was einen Kölner Bürger im 15. Jh. definierte, einem wiedergefundenen Manuale des 17. Jh. aus dem Kölner Stift St. Aposteln, Findelkindern in Köln um 1810, der rheinischen HJ-Zeitung "Die Fanfare" 1933-37, dem "Bund Neudeutschland" in Köln 1933-45, der Rolle der Bergischen IHK bei der "Arisierung" jüdischer Firmen in Wuppertal und den Berufungsvorgängen an der Kölner Universität in der frühen Nachkriegszeit.
