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Childhood in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Earlier theses on the history of childhood can now be laid to rest and a fundamental paradigm shift initiated, as there is an overwhelming body of evidence to show that in medieval and early modern times too there were close emotional relations between parents and children. The contributors to this volume demonstrate conclusively on the one hand how intensively parents concerned themselves with their children in the pre-modern era, and on the other which social, political and religious conditions shaped these relationships. These studies in emotional history demonstrate how easy it is for a subjective choice of sources, coupled with faulty interpretations – caused mainly by modern prejudices toward the Middle Ages in particular – to lead to the view that in the past children were regarded as small adults. The contributors demonstrate convincingly that intense feelings – admittedly often different in nature – shaped the relationship between adults and children.
From the Material to the Mystical in Late Medieval Piety
Examining correlations between the material and the mystical, this books investigates collective writing and devotional culture in late medieval piety.
Anthropological Reformations – Anthropology in the Era of Reformation
The aim of the volume is to engage in an interdisciplinary discussion about the establishment and debates on anthropological concepts and their changes in the age of Reformation: How do anthropological concepts touch theological questions such as the freedom of will or the human likeness to God? In which ways is there a reflection on emotions? How is scientific knowledge received by theologians? How is contemporary thought on the conditio humana presented in literature and poetry? The volume combines selected papers of relevant experts with the research work of young graduate or postgraduate scholars. It tries to encourage a transdisciplinary, international discussion focused on exemplary case studies as well as systematic points of view. Thanks to the outstanding commitment of all participants of the conference we are able to present the results of this discussion, a rich and comprehensive spectrum of research work, which will encourage further research.
Spiritual Vegetation
This volume concerns premodern understandings of vegetal nature that encompass multiple semantics and perspectives. Scholars from the disparate fields of art history, literature, and religious studies present tantalizing studies of trees and plants in sacred and secular thought. Some discuss the concept of the Book of Nature and its implications. Others explore narratives of symbiosis between humans and vegetal material, tree-dwelling hermits, spirits metamorphosing into wood, flowers or trees that sprout from bodies or the dissolution of the self into the natural world. Complementary to these approaches are studies that suggest a collapsing of time and space in spiritually charged yet ambiguous natural motifs or topographies where forests or groves are spaces of transformative experience.
Writing Matters
This edited volume includes a compilation of new approaches to the investigation of inscriptions from different cultural contexts. Innovative research questions about "material text cultures" are examined with reference to Classical Athens, late ancient and Byzantine churches and urban spaces, Hellenistic and Roman cities, and medieval buildings.
Der „Geldjude“
Zäh hält sich die mittlerweile widerlegte Ansicht, die stereotypische Verknüpfung von Jüdinnen*Juden mit Gier, Reichtum und Wucher ginge auf ihre vermeintliche Rolle im vormodernen Geldhandel zurück. Diese Studie fragt nach den tatsächlichen Entstehungsgründen und konzentriert sich auf das deutsche Reich zwischen dem 12. Jahrhundert und der Großen Pest. Dabei werden christliche Vorstellungen von sündhafter Gier, jüdischem Materialismus und der Rolle des Judaslohns für den „Gottesmord“ in den Blick genommen, die sich während der sozioökonomischen Umbrüche des Hochmittelalters zum Bild des „Geldjuden“ verdichteten. Nicht antijüdische Hetze stand anfangs im Zentrum, sonde...
Metatexte
Der Sammelband zielt darauf ab, das heuristische Potential von Metatexten darzustellen, die aus vergangenen Kulturen stammen. Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aus der alttestamentlichen Wissenschaft, der Judaistik und der literaturwissenschaftlichen Mediävistik stellen exemplarische Analysen verschiedener Metatexte – schriftlicher Texte, die Schriftstücke thematisieren – vor. Sie fokussieren auf Erzählungen von schrifttragenden Artefakten. Damit nehmen sie die Schriftstücke, die in Metatexten vorgestellt werden, nicht nur als schriftliche Texte, sondern auch als materielle Artefakte in den Blick. Viele Metatexte beschreiben die materielle Dimension des Geschriebenen. Sie erzÃ...
Emergence of Mind
An anthology that traces the representation of consciousness and mind creation in English literature from 700 to the present.
Imagining the Text
In Imagining the Text, James Brown examines ekphrasis – the verbal representation of a visual representation – in Wirnt von Gravenberg’s thirteenth-century Arthurian romance Wigalois, one of the most popular and enduring stories in the Middle High German literary tradition. Through close reading of the text and examining illustrated Wigalois manuscripts, early print editions, and frescoes, Brown explores how ekphrasis structures the narrative, harmonizes potential conflicts in the text, and contributes to the construction of courtly identity. Imagining the Text demonstrates that the vibrant symbiosis of word and image is crucial to the poem’s sustained popularity for more than six hundred years, and contributes to the history of the book and to the study of medieval and modern modes of perception.
Codierungen von Emotionen im Mittelalter
The series in German medieval studies includes central topics of current research debates in medieval studies and provides a place for groundbreaking research in the subject literature. The series is intended to give international and young researchers/research teams the possibility to effectively present innovative surveys and discussions to the scientific community. The series sees itself as a 'young' research forum with a high standard of quality and is therefore also open to excellent degree theses, should they enhance the series.
