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Confronting Kabbalah: Studies in the Christian Hebraist Library of Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter
Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter (1506–1557), humanist and privy councillor to popes and kings, has remained an enigmatic figure among Christian Hebraists whose views were little understood. This study leverages Widmanstetter's remarkable collection consisting of hundreds of Jewish manuscripts and printed books, most of which survive to this day. Explore in the first half the story of Jewish book production and collecting in sixteenth-century Europe through Widmanstetter's book acquisitions, librarianship, and correspondence. Delve into his unique perspective on Jewish literature and Kabbalah as the latter half of the study contextualizes the marginal notes in his library with his published works.
Europe
With the publication of this 2nd edition of the World guide to foundations an indispensable guide to 41,000 foundations in 115 countries is available once again. This reference work offers a reliable overview of an impressive number of foundations and their aims.In the main section, foundations are grouped according to country and, within countries, the entries are arranged alphabetically. There is a subject index divided into 220 different areas which can be used to search for foundations active in a particular area, such as education, peace studies, building technology or consumer protection.
Geschichte des Buchhandels in Italien
In den vergangenen Jahren ist das Interesse an buchwissenschaftlichen Studien bemerkenswert gestiegen. Diese Entwicklung kann damit begrundet werden, dass bessere Kenntnisse uber die Protagonisten der Branche - Autoren, Verleger, Buchhandler und naturlich vor allem das lesende Publikum - dazu beitragen, die Geschichte der Kultur in ihren unterschiedlichen Aspekten besser zu verstehen und zu dokumentieren.Marco Santoro gibt mit seiner Arbeit einen grundlichen Abriss des italienischen Buchhandels vom 15. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert. Sein Ziel ist es, nicht nur die Rolle von Schlusselfiguren des Buchhandels zu beleuchten, sondern vielmehr auch eine zeitgemasse Interpretation der sozialen und kulturellenFunktion des Buches durch die Jahrhunderte zu leisten
Imperiled Heritage: Tradition, History and Utopia in Early Modern German Literature
The most prolific historian of early modern German literature in the twentieth century, Klaus Garber has largely remained unknown to English-language scholars. The seven essays selected here are translated into English for the first time and represent the ’essence’ of Garber’s work. Central to Garber’s outlook is a break with the traditional canonization of culture into national categories. Moreover, he argues that literary history consists not only of intellectual history, but also political and social history. As he states in his preface to this volume: ’To bring Old Europe to life in all the variety of its cultural landscapes; to hear across space and time the voices that praised this multiplicity as a valuable possession; to be inspired by the past to respond to our own needs - these tasks constitute the noblest goal of early modern literary studies today.’
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Early Modern Age
In this volume, 8 lively, original essays by eminent scholars trace the kaleidoscopically shifting dramatic forms, performance contexts, and social implications of tragedy throughout the period and across geographic, political, and social references. They attend not only to the familiar cultural lenses of English and mainstream Continental dramas but also to less familiar European exempla from Croatia and Hungary. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.
German Baroque Writers, 1661-1730
Essays on authors of the German Baroque period, defined in varied ways to include the expression of a worldview that stresses extremes, the formulation of tension between desires, the Counter-Reformation, and the art of courtly culture. Discusses the further developments of the genres of the first half of the seventeenth century, including lyric poetry, tragedies, school plays and novels.
The Intervention of Philology
An examination of the interplay of history, textuality, dramaturgy and politics in the transvestite school dramas of Daniel Casper von Lohenstein. It discusses the ideological complexity of gender, politics and learned culture in the early modern period as it emerges from these plays.
