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The Cult of Saint Katherine of Alexandria in Late-Medieval Nuremberg
Katherine of Alexandria was a major object of devotion within medieval Europe, ranking second only to the Virgin Mary in the canon of female saints. Yet despite her undoubted importance, relatively little is known about the significance and function of her cult within the German-speaking territories that stood at the heart of Europe. Anne Simon's study adds a welcome new interdisciplinary perspective to the study of Saint Katherine and the wider ecclesiastical landscape of a medieval Europe poised on the edge of religious change. Taking as a case study the wealthy and politically influential merchant city of Nuremberg, this book draws on a wide variety of textual and visual sources to explor...
Reforming the Church before Modernity
Reforming the Church before Modernity considers the question of ecclesial reform from late antiquity to the 17th century, and tackles this complex question from primarily cultural perspectives, rather than the more usual institutional approaches. The common themes are social change, centres and peripheries of change, monasticism, and intellectuals and their relationship to reform. This innovative approach opens up the question of how religious reform took place and challenges existing ecclesiological models that remains too focussed on structures in a manner artificial for pre-modern Europe. Several chapters specifically take issue with the problem of what constitutes reform, reformations, and historians' notions of the periodization of reform, while in others the relationship between personal transformation and its broader social, political or ecclesial context emerges as a significant dynamic. Presenting essays from a distinguished international cast of scholars, the book makes an important contribution to the debates over ecclesiology and religious reform stimulated by the anniversary of Vatican II.
Strategies of Sanity and Survival
It is an unusual book in many respects. It is a specific study based on original and in most cases unedited sources, but it can also be read as a general introduction. It crosses boundaries between different fields of learning and traditionally accepted time periods of history. Even if it is essentially a book on medieval man, it stretches far beyond the middle ages as conventionally understood. The final chapter traces the slow disappearance of the medieval mentality until the early nineteenth century.
Sword, Miter, and Cloister
Bouchard provides a fresh perspective on social and ecclesiastical life in the High Middle Ages, drawing on a vast range of primary sources to reveal the surprisingly close relationship between monasteries and the nobility.
Consorting with Saints
Prayer reflected a network of relationships that bound together the intercessor, the dead, and the divine.
Church Reform and Social Change in Eleventh-Century Italy
Winner of the John Gilmary Shea Prize of the American Catholic Historical Association
The Birth of a Stereotype
In early Medieval Western Europe intellectuals were used to indicate the external location of Slavic countries, as though outside civilization, with the term ‘the North’. The problem did not only concern nomenclature. The stereotype associated with ‘the North’ pointed at the obvious cold weather, but also the primeval nature of the land and people. This study shows the detailed image of Poland created by German authors in the earliest period of existence of the Piast state (963-1034). An important aim of this work was also to identify the wider context of written opinions. Another purpose was to gather information illustrating actions taken by the Polish rulers aimed at creating an image of themselves as civilized men and true Christians.
Political Censorship of the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-Century Europe
In this comprehensive account of censorship of the visual arts in nineteenth-century Europe, when imagery was accessible to the illiterate in ways that print was not, specialists in the history of the major European countries trace the use of censorship by the authorities to implement their fears of the visual arts, from caricature to cinema.
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Aus dem Vorwort: Wer mit Michael Salewski arbeitete, erlebte ein seltenes Verstandnis fur das Exzentrische und die Bereitschaft, in der Universitat den Freiraum zu verteidigen, der notig ist, damit das Unkonventionelle und nicht Stromlinienformige wachsen kann. Schuler, Freunde und Kollegen der verschiedensten Couleur haben diese Liberalitat erlebt und wollen sie mit dieser Festschrift ehren. Mit Beitragen von Hans Eberhard Mayer, Robert Bohn, Helmut Grieser, Wolf D. Gruner, Erich Hoffmann, Klaus Hildebrand, Klaus Schwabe, Josef Schroder, Heiner Timmermann, Carl August Luckerath, Thomas Riis, Gerhard Fouquet, Olaf Morke, Josef Wiesehofer, Thomas Stamm-Kuhlmann, Lars U. Scholl, Jens Hohensee, Frank-Lothar Kroll, Heinrich Walle, Ernst Opgenoorth, Sonke Neitzel, William F. Sheldon, Julius H. Schoeps, Birgit Aschmann, Hans Hattenhauer, Bernd Sosemann, Imanuel Geiss, Peter Kruger, Bernd Kasten, Guntram Schulze-Wegener, Michael Epkenhans, Otmar Franz, Joachim H. Knoll, Bea Lundt, Heinrich Dormeier, Jurgen Elvert, Christian Ostersehlte, Gotz Bergander, Thomas E. Fischer, Rudolf Jaworski, Ilona Stolken-Fitschen. (Franz Steiner 2003)
The Man of Many Devices, who Wandered Full Many Ways--
More than sixty friends and colleagues pay tribute to the distinguised professor Janos M. Bak's 70th birthday."
