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Preservation, Tourism and Nationalism
Since its discovery by German romantics and nationalists, Rothenburg has been an established icon of the German nation and its medieval past. By tracing Rothenburg's historical development as a place of national importance, this book examines the cultural politics of historical preservation and tourism in general. In exploring the shifting practice and importance of tourism in Rothenburg and how this relates to broader debates about German culture and identity, Preservation, Tourism and Nationalism offers an important and original perspective on the changing dynamics of romanticized historical landscapes and how events are used to further national, cultural and political agendas. It also analyses the changing practices of historical preservation, and in particular, how historic preservation in Rothenburg reflects a desire to make it more historic and more German. With important insights into what it means to be German, how Germans relate to the past and how the answers to these questions have changed over time, this richly illustrated and detailed volume offers an important narrative of the rise, evolution and contestation of memory in German culture.
Gabriele
Schopenhauers berühmtestes Werk "Gabriele" erschien 1819-20. Goethe schrieb in Marienbad auf einsamen Spaziergängen seine Bemerkungen darüber nieder: "Gabriele setzt ein reiches Leben voraus und zeigt große Reife einer daher gewonnenen Bildung. Alles ist nach dem Wirklichen gezeichnet, doch kein Zug dem Ganzen fremd ... Der eigentümliche Charakter des tragischen Romans ist der Verfasserin auf schlichtem Wege sehr wohl gelungen, sie hat mit einfachen Mitteln große Rührung hervorzubringen gewußt; wie sie denn auch, im Gang der Ereignisse, das natürlich Rührende aufzufassen weiß, das uns nicht schmerzlich und jammervoll, sondern durch überraschende Wahrheit der Zustände höchst anmutig ergreift ... Keine Spur von Parteisinn, bösem Willen, Neckerei, vielmehr anmutiges Gefühl eines allgemeinen Wohlwollens; kein böses Prinzip, kein verhaßter Charakter, das Lobens- und Tadelnswerte mehr in seiner Erscheinung, in seinen Folgen, als durch Billigung oder Mißbilligung dargestellt. Nichts Phantastisches, sogar das Imaginative schließt sich rationell ans Wirkliche."
The Literature of Weimar Classicism
New essays providing an account of the shaping beliefs, preoccupations, motifs, and values of Weimar Classicism.
A Humanist in Reformation Politics
This book is the first contextual account of the political philosophy and natural law theory of the German reformer Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560). Mads Langballe Jensen presents Melanchthon as a significant political thinker in his own right and an engaged scholar drawing on the intellectual arsenal of renaissance humanism to develop a new Protestant political philosophy. As such, he also shows how and why natural law theories first became integral to Protestant political thought in response to the political and religious conflicts of the Reformation. This study offers new, contextual studies of a wide range of Melanchthon's works including his early humanist orations, commentaries on Aristotle's ethics and politics, Melanchthon's own textbooks on moral and political philosophy, and polemical works.
The Voice of the People?
Over the last two centuries, Europe has developed various forms of political representation from which democratic parliamentary systems gradually emerged. This book unravels the conditions, scale and impact under which political participation of common burghers and peasants emerged. Political participation in Europe before the Revolutions moved away from the traditional focus on ‘Three Estates’ which has often blurred the interpretation of popular participation’s role in societies. This book instead examines Europe’s key political variants such as high levels of commercialization and urbanization, combined with a balance of powers between competing categories of actors in society con...
Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance
Many small Renaissance portraits were richly adorned with covers or backs bearing allegorical figures, mythological scenes, or emblems that celebrated the sitter and invited the viewer to decipher their meaning. Hidden Faces includes seventy objects, ranging in format from covered paintings to miniature boxes, that illuminate the symbiotic relationship between the portrait and its pair. Texts by thirteen distinguished scholars vividly illustrate that the other “faces” of these portraits represent some of the most innovative images of the Renaissance, created by masters such as Hans Memling and Titian. Uniting works that have in some cases been separated for centuries, this fascinating volume shows how the multifaceted format unveiled the sitter’s identity, both by physically revealing the portrait and reading the significance behind its cover.
The Negotiated Reformation
Utilizing evidence from numerous imperial cities, this book offers an explanation for the spread and survival of urban reform during the sixteenth century. By analyzing the operation of regional political constellations, it reveals a common process of negotiation that shaped the Reformation in the Holy Roman Empire. It reevaluates traditional models of reform that leave unexplored the religious implications of flexible systems of communication and support among cities. Such networks influenced urban reform in fundamental ways, affecting how Protestant preachers moved from city to city, as well as what versions of the Reformation city councils introduced. This fusion of religion and politics meant that with local variations, negotiation within a regional framework sat at the heart of urban reform. The Negotiated Reformation therefore explains not only how the Reformation spread to almost every imperial city in southern Germany, but also how it survived imperial attempts to repress religious reform.
