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Von der Chronik zum Weltbuch
Zur sinnhaltigen Verknüpfung ihrer Fakten bedienen sich die Geschichtsschreiber des16. Jahrhunderts literarischer Gattungsmuster und Darstellungsstrategien. Anhand der Truchsessenchronik, Küngs Chronik der Württemberger, der Zollernchronik und der Zimmerischen Chronik werden die Funktion einer Literarisierung der Geschichte sowie die politisch-dynastischen Interessen, das Wahrheitsverständnis und die Weltdeutungsversuche der Autoren untersucht.
Collecting and Historical Consciousness in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany
This provocative book challenges long-held assumptions about the nature of historical consciousness in Germany. Susan A. Crane argues that the ever-more-elaborate preservation of the historical may actually reduce the likelihood that history can be experienced with the freshness and individuality characteristic of the early collectors and preservationists. Her book is both a study of the emergence in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Germany of a distinctively modern conception of historical consciousness, and a meditation on what was lost as historical thought became institutionalized and professionalized. Public forms of remembering the past which are familiar today, such as hi...
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Ancestors in German Archives
This is an exhaustive guide to family history sources in German archives at every level of jurisdiction, public and private. Anyone searching for data about people who lived in Germany in the past need only determine which archives today have jurisdiction over the records that were created by church or state institutions.
Homosexuality and Politics at the Court of Emperor Wilhelm II
Were the fates of the Wilhelmine Empire determined, at least at times, by a court camarilla, as contemporary publicists and even statesmen who bore responsibility at the time suspected? How far did Emperor Wilhelm II's influencing by the men in his immediate environment really go? Did homoeroticism also play a central role? In his carefully researched study the author explores these questions, which are usually ignored by historians, on the basis of extensive archival sources and sometimes arrives at surprising results.
