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The Slavic Religion in the Light of 11th- and 12th-Century German Chronicles (Thietmar of Merseburg, Adam of Bremen, Helmold of Bosau)
In this volume, Stanisław Rosik focuses on the meaning and significance of Old Slavic religion as presented in three German chronicles (the works of Thietmar of Merseburg, Adam of Bremen, Helmold of Bosau) written during the time of the Christianization of the Western Slavs. The source analyses show the ways the chroniclers understood, explained and represented pre-Christian beliefs and cults, which were interpreted as elements of a foreign, “barbarian”, culture and were evaluated from the perspective of Church doctrine. In this study, individual features of the three authors are discussed– including the issue of the credibility of their information on Old Slavic religion– and broader conclusions on medieval thought are also presented.
Histories of Laughter and Laughter in History
Laughter is often no laughing matter, and, as such, it deserves continued scholarly attention as a social, cultural and historical phenomenon. This collection of essays is a meeting ground for scholars from several disciplines, including historians, philologists, and scholars of social sciences, to discuss places and roles of laughter in history, in historical narratives, and in cultural anthropology from prehistory to the present. The common foci of the papers gathered in this volume are to examine laughter and its meanings, to reflect on the place of laughter in Western history and literature, to disclose laughter’s manipulative potential in historical and literary narratives, to see it in the light of the concepts of carnivalesque and playfulness, to see it as a reflection of hysterical historicizing, to see its place in comedy, farce, grotesque and irony, and to see it against its broadly understood theoretical, philosophical and psychological aspects. The book will appeal chiefly to an academic readership, including students, historians, literary and cultural scholars, sociologists, and cultural anthropologists.
Andersens Märchen Update 1.1
Meerjungfrauen sind wunderschön. Meerjungfrauen sind bezaubernd. Meeerjungfrauen sind leidenschaftlich. Meerjungfrauen sind tödlich. Nicht alle Meerjungfrauen sind so duldsam, naiv und tragisch wie die von Andersen. Lernen Sie die Meerjungfrau von einer ganz anderen Seite kennen! Auch sonst wird Ihnen dieses Buch die Äugen öffnen. Waren es wirklich die Kleider, für die der Kaiser und seine Untertanen kein Auge hatten? Das geheimnisvolle Feuerzeug des ausgemusterten Soldaten - war es tatsächlich Magie, oder doch nur hochentwickelte Technik? Müssen Sie sich wirklich vor Ihrem Schatten fürchten? Das kleine Mädchen, will es seine Streichhölzer tatsächlich nur verkaufen? Und nicht zuletzt: Hatte der Zinnsoldat nicht doch eine echte Chance, das Herz seiner Tänzerin zu gewinnen? In diesem Buch finden Sie die Antwort.
Mammals and Birds as Bioindicators of Trace Element Contaminations in Terrestrial Environments
The population explosion that began in the 1960s has been accompanied by a decrease in the quality of the natural environment, e.g. pollution of the air, water and soil with essential and toxic trace elements. Numerous poisonings of people and animals with highly toxic anthropogenic Hg and Cd in the 20th century prompted the creation of the abiotic environment, mainly in developed countries. However, the system is insufficient for long-term exposure to low concentrations of various substances that are mainly ingested through food and water. This problem could be addressed by the monitoring of sentinels – organisms that accumulate trace elements and as such reflect the rate and degree of environmental pollution. Usually these are long-lived vertebrates – herbivorous, omnivorous and carnivorous birds and mammals, especially game species. This book describes the responses of the sentinels most commonly used in ecotoxicological studies to 17 trace elements.
Marxism and Medieval Studies
This volume is a unique publication as it examines the Marxist attitudes in East Central European historiography and archaeology for the first time, with an emphasis on the co-existence of Marxist and other methodologies between the 1950s and 1970s in the local historiographies in question. Its approach is to distinguish between pseudo-Marxism as an ideological tool on the one hand, and Marxism in the form of historical materialism as a way to interpret the medieval world on the other. Contributors are: Florin Curta, Piotr Guzowski, Adam Hudek, Tereza Johanidesová, Jitka Komendová, Jiří Macháček, Andrzej Marzec, Martin Nodl, Attila Pók, David Radek, Tadeusz Paweł Rutkowski, Iurie Stamati, Rafał Stobiecki, Gábor Thoroczkay, Przemysław Wiszewski, Piotr Węcowski, Martin Wihoda, and Dušan Zupka.
Die Illyrer
In the first millennium BCE, the Illyrians settled in the area between Bosnia and central Albania. They left behind impressive archaeological remains, such as the magnificently decorated giant burial mounds of their princes. These archaeological finds are evidence of a warlike people of seafarers and farmers. Although there is no textual evidence of the Illyrian language, rudimentary features of it can be derived from names of persons, for example, and their presumed continuation in later times can be verified. In this well-founded study, Andreas Lippert and Joachim Matzinger present for the first time a systematic account of the Illyrians, taking into account both onomastic and also archaeological sources.
Gruppenidentitäten in Ostmitteleuropa
Die nationale Identität ist eines der wichtigsten Merkmale unserer Gesellschaften. In den letzten Jahrhunderten, aber auch bereits davor entwickelten sich Identitäten verschiedener Gruppen, die sich nach unterschiedlichen Kriterien gestalteten (wie kulturellen und ethnischen Merkmalen). Seit Jahrtausenden haben Menschen nach solchen Kriterien Gruppen und Gemeinschaften gebildet und dadurch ihre Zugehörigkeit und Gruppenidentität ausgedrückt. In zwölf Beiträgen beschäftigen sich ArchäologInnen und HistorikerInnen der Nikolaus-Kopernikus-Universität Toruń mit der Frage nach der ethnischen, nationalen und vornationalen Gruppenidentität in ausgewählten Gebieten Polens und Mitteleuropas von der Vorgeschichte bis ins 20. Jahrhundert.
