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Rules and Observance
This collection of essays focuses on rules and observances in medieval monasteries and provides a survey of how the efficacy of religious communities could be ensured. The volume offers a rich variety of perspectives, ranging from the role of paraenetic literature and education, the problem of maintaining obedience and the implementation of reform to the importance of architectural features and the relative merits of the eremitical and the coenobite form of the vita religiosa. While the emphasis is on the history of the Franciscan order between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, articles on other monastic communities provide a comparative approach. The volume gives a closer insight into European research projects and casts light on manifold aspects of monastic rules and observances as "devising forms of communal life."
India and Southeast Asia in a Changing World
This book presents a comprehensive analysis of India’s relationship with the Southeast Asian nations in the context of the changing dynamics of international relations and the emergence of Indo-Pacific as the theatre of world politics. It covers a wide range of themes, from strategic to political, economic, diplomatic and security aspects, and assesses how India’s redefining of its role in world politics unfolds through its posture towards the Southeast Asian region. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of Asian studies, both South Asian and Southeast Asian studies, and politics and international relations. It will also be useful for public policy analysts and think tanks and policymakers.
Integration und Desintegration der Kulturen im europäischen Mittelalter
Das mittelalterliche Europa war keine christliche Einheitskultur, sondern geprägt von vielfältigen Prozessen des Kontakts und der Abgrenzung zwischen Kulturen, bei denen die drei monotheistischen Religionen Christentum, Judentum und Islam eine herausragende Rolle spielten. Seit 2005 erforscht das DFG-Schwerpunktprogramm "Integration und Desintegration der Kulturen im europäischen Mittelalter" die Geschichte Europas als Geschichte kultureller Differenzen. Der Band dokumentiert die Dynamiken und Erträge eines wissenschaftsorganisatorischen Experiments: Gegliedert in fächerübergreifende Arbeitsgruppen, erforschten 24 Einzelprojekte aus 14 Disziplinen Integrations- und Desintegrationsproze...
Historiography and Identity
The Carmelites' role as one of the four great mendicant orders was not unchallenged. Originating as an association of hermits on Mount Carmel, the order experienced a dramatic transformation in the thirteenth century while its name was a reminder to origins which were obscure and its first form of religious life was diametrically opposed to the mendicant ministry. In addition the 'White Friars' were unable to find legitimization in a charismatic founder figure, unlike the Franciscans and the Dominicans. These factors led the Carmelites to create an identity finding their roots with the prophets Elijah and Elisha, who appear in texts and were represented in altar pieces and other works of art...
Papierherstellung im deutschen Südwesten
Die Einführung der Papierherstellung gilt als zentrale Voraussetzung für die Durchsetzung des Papiergebrauchs im spätmittelalterlichen Europa. In weiten Teilen unerforscht ist jedoch, wie sich die Papiermacherei etablierte und wie sich die Papiermacher als Vertreter eines neuen Berufs in die Gesellschaft integrierten. Die Studie untersucht daher den Etablierungsprozess dieses neuen Gewerbes am Beispiel des deutschen Südwestens, der früh erste Papiermühlenreviere im Reich nördlich der Alpen ausbildete. Mit technikhistorischen Aspekten befasst sich der erste Teil. Er beleuchtet die Papierherstellung von der materiellen Seite, indem er danach fragt, welche Spuren in historischen Papieren...
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Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia
Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia offers a comparative approach to understanding the spread of Islam and Muslim culture in medieval Anatolia. It aims to reassess work in the field since the 1971 classic by Speros Vryonis, The Decline of Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization which treats the process of transformation from a Byzantinist perspective. Since then, research has offered insights into individual aspects of Christian-Muslim relations, but no overview has appeared. Moreover, very few scholars of Islamic studies have examined the problem, meaning evidence in Arabic, Persian and Turkish has been somewhat neglected at the expense of Christian sources, and too ...
Kleine Geschichte der Kurpfalz
Rund um Heidelberg und Mannheim, von Landau bis Worms, von Bensheim bis Walldorf, vom Pfälzer Wald bis Mosbach – die Kurpfalz gehörte zu den mächtigsten Staaten des Alten Reiches. In Heidelberg wurde 1386 die erste Universität Deutschlands gegründet und in Mannheim entstand im 18. Jahrhundert die prachtvolle, neue Residenzstadt der Kurfürsten, die mit ihrem streng quadratischen Grundriss die Macht der absolutistischen Herrscher bis heute eindrucksvoll veranschaulicht. Ein prägnantes historisches Porträt der Kurpfalz, die als Staat vor über 200 Jahren unterging, aber als Kultur- und Identitätsraum bis heute lebendig bleibt. Dass Geschichte nicht langweilig und verstaubt sein muss, sondern im Gegenteil spannend und hochinteressant sein kann, beweist Armin Kohnle in dem vorliegenden Band. Er bietet dem Leser eine wissenschaftlich fundierte und dennoch gut lesbare Einführung in die Geschichte der Kurpfalz. Ein lebendiger Überblick – ein Muss für alle historisch und landeskundlich Interessierten.
Contact and Conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean, 1204-1453
The conquest of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade shattered irreversibly the political and cultural unity of the Byzantine world in the Greek peninsula, the Aegean and western Asia Minor. Between the disintegration of the Byzantine Empire after 1204 and the consolidation of Ottoman power in the fifteenth century, the area was a complex political, ethnic and religious mosaic, made up of Frankish lordships, Italian colonies, Turkish beyliks, as well as a number of states that professed to be the continuators of the Byzantine imperial tradition. This volume brings together western medievalists, Byzantinists and Ottomanists, combining recent research in the relevant fields in order to provide...
Abbots and Abbesses as a Human Resource in the Ninth- to Twelfth-Century West
This volume provides a record of the response, by eight expert scholars in the field of medieval monastic studies, to the question "To what extent did abbots and abbesses contribute as a `human resource' to the development of reformed monastic communities in the ninth- to twelfth-century west?" Covering a broad geographical area, papers consider one or several of three key points of interest: the direct contribution of abbots and abbesses to the shaping of reformed realities; their influence over future modes of leadership; and the way in which later generations of monastics relied upon the memory of a leader's life and achievements to project current realities onto a legitimizing past.
