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Patterns in the History of Polycentric Governance in European Cities
The autonomy granted to local communities (such as towns, municipalities, and city-states) by larger, central powers (such as empires, kings, lords, and central states) is a recurrent feature of European history over time, from Antiquity to the contemporary period. This volume explores the political, social, and cultural aspects of this feature in a diachronic and comparative perspective, from the Roman Empire to today's city partnerships. To this end, it uses the concept of polycentric governance. Originally developed by political economist Vincent Ostrom in the 1960s and then expanded by the 2009 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, political scientist Elinor Ostrom, this concept charac...
Correspondence of Herrmann Schuricht
Letters, chiefly in German, from Americans of German birth or descent, to Schuricht who wrote about the German element in Virginia. Correspondents include Paul B. Barringer, Richard Bartholdt, Gustav Brühl, Constantin Grebner, W. N. Hailmann, Burghardt Hassel, the Rev. Socrates Henkle, Friedrich Albin Hoffmann, L. R. Klemm, S. R. Koehler, Louis Prang, Hermann Raster, John Edwin Roller, J. G. Rosengarten, William Henry Ruffner, Maximilian Schele de Vere, Henry Villard, and Simon Wolf.
The Giant Hero in Medieval Literature
In The Giant Hero in Medieval Literature Tina Boyer counters the monstrous status of giants by arguing that they are more broadly legible than traditionally believed. Building on an initial analysis of St. Augustine’s City of God, Bernard of Clairvaux’s deliberations on monsters and marvels, and readings in Tomasin von Zerclaere’s Welsche Gast provide insights into the spectrum of antagonistic and heroic roles that giants play in the courtly realm. This approach places the figure of the giant within the cultural and religious confines of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and allows an in-depth analysis of epics and romances through political, social, religious, and gender identities tied to the figure of the giant. Sources range from German to French, English, and Iberian works.
The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460-1560
Much of early-modern Europe was built up gradually by a series of leagues and alliances, and this volume seeks to demonstrate that the Swiss Confederation was one such composite polity, surviving until the end of the ancien regime by accommodating and absorbing internal conflicts through a sense of common identity and mutual obligation.
Three Preludes to the Song of Roland
The first English translation of three chansons de geste inspired by the Romance epic, the Song of Roland. The success of the eleventh-century Song of Roland gave rise to a series of around twenty related chansons de geste, known collectively as the Cycle of the King. In addition to reworkings of the Song of Roland in Old French and other medieval languages, these poems are devoted to the numerous military campaigns of Charlemagne against the Muslims before and after the tragic Battle of Roncevaux. These texts provide valuable insights into the medieval reception of the Roland material, exemplifying the process of cycle formation and attesting to the diversity of the Romance epic. Far from p...
Collapsed Empires
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Bündnisdynamik
Dieser Band stellt die gesellschaftliche Wirkung von Bund und Bündnis im späten Mittelalter in den Mittelpunkt. Bündnisse sind Resultate und Ausgangspunkte politischen Handelns zugleich. Damit richtet sich die Aufmerksamkeit auf die Akteure, welche zum Mittel des Bündnisses griffen, im Bündnis handelten und vom Bündnis betroffen waren, und deren Leben durch das Bündnis geprägt war. Die gemeinsame Betrachtung von Trägern, Mitteln und Zielen zeigt die erhebliche soziale Wirkungskraft und die Dynamik politischer Bünde im Mittelalter.
Papes et Papauté
Si l'on se penche sur les phénomènes de contestation de l'autorité politique par la littérature ou les arts qui constitue un axe de recherche majeur du Laboratoire aux travaux duquel contribue ce volume, il appert que, dans bien des pays d'Europe, l'autorité politique s'est identifiée avec celle du Monarque, alors qu'en Italie, cas exceptionnel – et pour cause, puisque le siège de la papauté y est implanté depuis deux millénaires sans autre interruption que le demi-siècle avignonnais –, c'est la papauté qui s'est constituée en pouvoir politique, se revendiquant d'une double autorité, spirituelle et morale, et s'incarnant en un véritable organisme étatique. Le pape et la p...
"Moult a sans et vallour"
William W. Kibler is one of the most productive and versatile medievalists of his generation. Some scholars and students think of him primarily as a specialist in the medieval epic, whereas others consider him to be an Arthurian scholar. He is of course both, but he is also much more: a consummate philologist and editor of texts and also a prolific and accomplished translator. Above all, those who know him best know him as an extraordinarily generous and modest man. The present volume represents an effort by thirty medievalists, specialists in fields as diverse as William Kibler’s interests, to indicate our respect for him, aptly described in the foreword as “scholar, teacher, friend.”
