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Nobles and Nation in Central Europe
This is a study of Central European nobles in revolution. As one of Germany's richest, most insular and most autonomous nobilities, the Free Knights in Electoral Mainz represented the early modern noble ideal of pure bloodlines and cosmopolitan loyalties in the old society of orders. But this world came to an end with the outbreak of the revolutionary wars in 1792. Quite apart from the social, economic and political dislocations and loss, the era from 1789 to 1815 also meant a cultural reorientation for the nobility. William D. Godsey, Jr here explores how nobles in post-revolutionary Germany gradually abandoned their old self-understanding and assimilated with the new cultural 'nation' while aristocrats in the Habsburg Empire, which had taken in many emigres from Mainz, moved instead towards supranationalism. This is a major contribution to debates about the relationship between identity, cultural nationalism, supranationalism and religion in Germany and the Habsburg Empire.
Extravagant Inventions
Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition "Extravagant Inventions: the Princely Furniture of the Roentgens" on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from October 30, 2102, through January 27, 2013.
A German Life in the Age of Revolution
The story of Joseph Gorres's life is in many ways the story of German political culture in the revolutionary epoch. Indeed, his dates, 1776-1848, frame the "Age of Revolution" and, like the age in which he lived, Gorres's life was marked by great upheavals. One of the most prominent German journalists of his age, Gorres pioneered political journalism, or what was called Publizistik in Germany. He was a founder of political Catholicism, and was in no small part responsible for the fact that Germany eventually developed a party based on the Catholic confession. Gorres was also an extraordinarily prolific scholar with an almost dizzying range of interests. His life provides a window into an inc...
Connecting Histories
Whether forced by governmental decree, driven by persecution and economic distress, or seeking financial opportunity, the Jews of early modern Europe were extraordinarily mobile, experiencing both displacement and integration into new cultural, legal, and political settings. This, in turn, led to unprecedented modes of social mixing for Jews, especially for those living in urban areas, who frequently encountered Jews from different ethnic backgrounds and cultural orientations. Additionally, Jews formed social, economic, and intellectual bonds with mixed populations of Christians. While not necessarily effacing Jewish loyalties to local places, authorities, and customs, these connections and ...
A Book of European Writers
A Book of European Writers A-Z By Country Published on June 12, 2014 in USA.
Geist und Macht: Die Brentanos
Das Buch präsentiert anhand ausgewählter Persönlichkeiten die Geschichte der Familie Brentano, in der sich italienische, reichsstädtische und hessische Elemente zu einem einzigartigen Stück europäischer Geistesgeschichte verdichten. Die einzelnen Porträts ausgewiesener Autoren erstrecken sich dabei von den Romantikern Clemens und Bettine über den Philosophen Franz Brentano und den Volkswirtschaftler Lujo Brentano bis zur hessischen Linie der Familie, die bedeutende Politiker hervorgebracht hat, zu denen u. a. der langjährige Außenminister der Adenauerzeit, Heinrich von Brentano, zählt. Die Aufsätze machen deutlich, dass die Brentanos aus Literatur, Philosophie, Wissenschaft und Politik der Deutschen nicht mehr wegzudenken sind und nahezu idealtypisch die Synthese von Geist und Macht repräsentieren.
Fürstäbtissinnen
Im Heiligen Römischen Reich deutscher Nation bot das Amt als Äbtissin und Fürstin eines kaiserlich frei-weltlichen Damenstiftes hochadligen Frauen eine der wenigen Möglichkeiten eigenständiger Herrschaftsausübung. Bisher galt die Institution Stift in der Frühen Neuzeit vor allem als Versorgungseinrichtung für adelige Töchter. Teresa Schröder-Stapper betrachtet hingegen die Äbtissinnen der Stifte Essen, Herford und Quedlinburg als politische Akteure und rekonstruiert deren Verflechtung in verwandtschaftliche, lokalpolitische und reichsständische Beziehungsnetze. Sie zeigt die Auswirkungen des Nebeneinanders konkurrierender Rechte und Herrschaftsverständnisse auf die Stiftsherrschaften und die Langlebigkeit zunehmend dysfunktionaler Elemente des Alten Reiches am Beispiel der Damenstifte.
