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In looking at the history of collecting, one may be excused for regarding it as an activity in which, traditionally, women have shown little interest or in which they have not been involved. As the present volume shows, women—particularly aristocratic women—not only resisted this discrimination through the ages, but also built important collections and used them to their own advantage, in order to make statements about their lineage, power, cultural heritage or religious preferences. That is not to say that there was not an increasing number of middle-class women who became draughtswomen, painters and natural scientists and who found it equally beneficial for their chosen profession to c...
Pál Ács discusses various aspects of the cultural and literary history of Hungary during the hundred years that followed the Battle of Mohács (1526) and the onset of the Reformation. The author focuses on the special Ottoman context of the Hungarian Reformation movements including the Protestant and Catholic Reformation and the spiritual reform of Erasmian intellectuals. The author argues that the Ottoman presence in Hungary could mean the co-existence of Ottoman bureaucrats and soldiers with the indigenous population. He explores the culture of occupied areas, the fascinating ways Christians came to terms with Muslim authorities, and the co-existence of Muslims and Christians. Ács treat...
The first in-depth analysis of how early modern people produced and consumed images of revolts and political violence, drawing on evidence from Russia, China, Hungary, Portugal, Germany, North America and other regions.
Through both longer essays and shorter case studies, this book examines the relationship of European women from various countries and backgrounds to collecting, in order to explore the social practices and material and visual cultures of collecting in eighteenth-century Europe. It recovers their lives and examines their interests, their methodologies, and their collections and objects—some of which have rarely been studied before. The book also considers women’s role as producers, that is, creators of objects that were collected. Detailed examination of the artefacts—both visually, and in relation to their historical contexts—exposes new ways of thinking about collecting in relation to the arts and sciences in eighteenth-century Europe. The book is interdisciplinary in its makeup and brings together scholars from a wide range of fields. It will be of interest to those working in art history, material and visual culture, history of collecting, history of science, literary studies, women’s studies, gender studies, and art conservation.
A Magyar Királyságnak és az Erdélyi Nagyfejedelemségnek egy új európai rendezést (utrechti béke, 1713) követően – a Német-Római Birodalmon belül, a török kiűzése, a Thököly Imre, majd a II. Rákóczi Ferenc vezette Habsburg-ellenes felkelés és szabadságharc után – vesztett helyzetben kellett elkezdenie az ország újjáépítését. Úgy, hogy az Európa nyugatibb feléről érkező modernizálási szándék ambivalens érzések mentén és csak részben valósult meg. A mindenki által üdvözölt változások mellett ugyanis a külső hatalom kiterjesztésének nem is nagyon leplezett kísérlete, sokszor gyakorlata visszatetszést keltett azokban a vezetőkben ...
The main aim of the work is to present emblematics in Hungary in its European context, and to show the reciprocal influence between that phenomenon and mainstream literature. The description of the theoretical and historical development in Hungary is supplemented by a series of case studies examining the effect of emblematics upon various literary genres. The final chapter analyzes the link between literary emblematics and the visual arts by looking at a specific example. As in most European countries, emblematics in Hungary is part of a complex labyrinth of literary modes of thought and expression. A relative poverty of theoretical writing went hand in hand with a considerable range of embl...
Kiemelt évfordulók: Batthyány Lajos gróf Kodály Zoltán Évfordulók: I. Apafi Mihály, Ámos Imre, Árpád-házi Szent Erzsébet, Barényi Béla, Dsida Jenő, Esterházy János gróf, Esterházy Miklós gróf, Fényes Elek, Ferencsik János, Fuchs Jenő, Gothard Jenő, Gulácsy Lajos, Gyöngyösi Gergely, Hollósy Simon, Horváth Keresztély János, Hunyadi János, Kálmán Imre, Kemény János, Kitaibel Pál, Klebelsberg Kuno gróf, Kollonich Lipót gróf, Lendvay Márton, Mányoki Ádám, Mechwart András, Melius Juhász Péter, Nadányi János, Petzval József, Podmaniczky Frigyes báró, Révai Miklós, Szarvas Gábor, Vámbéry Ármin, Veress Ferenc, Veress Sándor, Verseghy Ferenc
Jacob Böhme (1575–1624) has been recognized as one of the internationally most influential German authors of the Early Modern period. Even today, his writings continue to impact fields as diverse as literature, philosophy, religion and art. Yet Böhme and his reception remain understudied. As a lay author, his works were often suppressed and circulated underground. Borrowing Böhme’s idea of “three worlds” or planes of existence, this volume traces the transmission of his thought through three stations: from his first underground readers in Central and Eastern Europe, to the Netherlands, where most of his writings were first published, to Britain, where early translations made him a...
The art of the emblem is a pan-European phenomenon which developed in Western and Central Europe in the early modern period. It adopted meanings and motifs from Antiquity and the Middle Ages as part of a general humanistic impulse. Technological developments in printing that permitted the combination of letterpress with woodblock, and later copperplate, images, ensured that the emblem spread rapidly by way of printed collections. With time, emblematic ideas moved beyond Europe, conveying their insights and wisdom in the compact form of the book. These same books came to influence artists and designers working in the decoration of buildings, furniture, and household items, so that emblems ent...
A Magyar Királyság és Erdély a XV. század végétől a XVII. század közepéig több alapvető átalakuláson ment át. A történelmi keretet ehhez a középkori Magyar Királyság három részre szakadása adta, valamint a mohácsi csatától kezdődően folyamatos hadjáratok, a kulturális és művelődési intézmények többszöri lerombolása. Az ország(ok)ban élő értelmiség és városi polgárság ebben az időben, dacára a politikai és gazdasági állapotoknak, megpróbálta követni a nyugati kereszténység területén kialakuló szellemi áramlatokat – az időben előre haladva egyre kevesebb sikerrel. A Hunyadi Mátyás országlását követő fél évszázadban az itáliai és a dél-német humanizmus hatott a legerőteljesebben, majd az ezt követő egy évszázadban a protestáns reformáció eszméi. A könyv azt a folyamatot követi végig a lutheránus városi polgárság és a protestáns iskolák könyvtárainak tematikus összetételét vizsgálva, hogy a humanista szövegkiadásokat és a humanista kegyességi irodalmat miként váltják fel a reformáció kiadványai.