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Mittelalter an Rhein und Maas
Die Geschichte des Niederrheins im Mittelalter wird in neuen und vielfach unbekannten Aspekten vorgestellt. Der Bogen spannt sich von der spätantik-frühmittelalterlichen Geschichte Xantens über die Geschichte niederrheinischer Klöster und Stifte des Früh- und Hochmittelalters bis hin zu stadthistorischen Untersuchungen. Die Geißlerbewegung der Pestjahre 1349/1350 wird ebenso thematisiert wie die Briefsammlung der Mechthild von Geldern und die Jerusalemfahrt des geldrischen Herzogs Arnold von Egmond in den Jahren 1451/1452. Die meisten Beiträge sind durch einen in der neueren Mediävistik mit Erfolg erprobten Forschungsansatz verknüpft, indem sie die Memoria, die Gedenk- und Erinnerungskultur des Mittelalters, zum Gegenstand der Betrachtung machen und danach fragen, wie sie sich im Selbstverständnis religiöser Gemeinschaften, sozialer Gruppen in der Stadt und des Adels der Region niederschlug. Mit Beiträgen von Matthias Böck, Thorsten Fischer, Heike Hawicks, Maren Hohn-Haider, N. Alexandra Holtschoppen, Claudia Kircher, Martina Klug, Jens Lieven, Uwe Ludwig, Ingo Runde, Thomas Schilp und Brigitte Sternberg.
Prosopography Approaches and Applications
This collection of 29 essays, ranging from ancient to modern history and including Arabic-Islamic prosopography, covers all aspects of prosopography as currently practised.
Charlemagne's Early Campaigns (768-777)
Charlemagne's Early Campaigns is the first book-length study of Charlemagne at war. The neglect of this subject has truncated our understanding of the Carolingian empire and the military success of its leader, a true equal of Frederick the Great and Napoleon.
Medieval Exempla in Transition
This study follows the transmission and reception of Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus miraculorum (1219–1223), one of the most compelling and successful Cistercian collections of miracles and memorable events, from the Middle Ages to the present day. It ranges across different media and within different interpretive communities and includes brief summaries of a number of the exempla.
The Archaeology and Material Culture of Queenship in Medieval Hungary, 1000–1395
This book explores an alternate history of the power and agency of 30 Hungarian queens over 400 years by a rigorous examination of the material culture connected with their lives. By researching the objects, images, and spaces, it demonstrates how these women expressed and displayed their power. Queens used material culture and space not only to demonstrate their own power to a wide, international audience, but also to consolidate their own position when it was weakened by external circumstances. Both the public and private image of the queen factors significantly in understanding in her own role at the strongly centralized Hungarian court, and, moreover, how her position and person strengthened and complemented that of the king.
Phonological Evidence from the Continental Runic Inscriptions
The linguistic analysis of runic inscriptions on the Continent tends to focus on individual texts or on groups of texts seen as parallel. We can advance our understanding of the state of Continental Germanic dialects in the 5th-7th centuries by examining the evidence for the major sound changes in a larger dataset. The study begins with a brief discussion of the Proto-Germanic phonemic system and the major processes by which the systems of Old High German (OHG) and Old Saxon (OS) develop from it. The main body of the work consists of the analysis of a corpus of 90 inscriptions (including, but not confined to, those conventionally labeled "South Germanic") for evidence of these changes. Rather than making the individual inscription the focus for analysis, the investigation groups together all possible witnesses to a particular phonological process. In many respects, the data are found to be consistent with the anticipated developments of OHG and OS; but we encounter some problems which the existing models of the sound changes cannot account for. There is also some evidence for processes at work in the dialects of the inscriptions which are not attested in OHG or OS.
The Long Morning of Medieval Europe
Scholars from Europe and North America convened at Harvard University in 2004 for an interdisciplinary conference aimed at Rethinking the Early Middle Ages. What are the issues and techniques of research defining the field today, and what will they be tom
Otto Meyerhof
More than 100 years ago, in 1922, Otto Meyerhof received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on muscle metabolism. Meyerhof lived in a time of groundbreaking scientific findings, but also, as a Jewish scientist, during the time of National Socialism in Germany. Despite his Nobel Prize, Meyerhof was only awarded an assistant position at his Kiel Institute at that time. Meyerhof managed to flee with his family to the USA in 1938, where he lived until his death in 1951. This book explores the question of how all this could have happened in such an excellent intellectual milieu. The collection brings together a biography of Otto Meyerhof; a summary of his research; and articles by well-renowned authors covering several aspects of anti-Semitism. It will be of interest to social, medical and scientific historians, as well as researchers on anti-Semitism. The work and life of this brilliant scientist has not been well-documented, and this volume makes an important addition to the literature.
Universitätsgeschichte als Projekt und Programm: Kategorien und Perspektiven
Längst ist die Erforschung der Geschichte der Universitäten bzw. der Geschichte einer speziellen Universität als eigene, als Teildisziplin der Geschichtswissenschaft anerkannt. Und doch verdient auch diese Disziplin einen noch präziseren Blick auf ihre Untersuchungsgegenstände, auf ihre Fragestellungen, auf ihre Methoden, auf ihre Ergebnisse. Eine Tagung des Universitätsarchivs München drehte sich 2018 um genau solche Themen. Wie zuvor bei der Tagung wird nun im vorliegenden Band u. a. nach Unterschieden und Gemeinsamkeiten etwa von Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Universitätsgeschichte gefragt, es wird ein besonders beliebtes Genre der Universitätsgeschichtsschreibung – der Professorenkatalog – in den Blick genommen, es wird versucht zu eruieren, wann bevorzugt universitätsgeschichtliche Themen bearbeitet wurden und werden. Und um all dies nicht im theoretischen Raum verharren zu lassen, kommen anschließend Kollegen anderer Universitäten zu Wort, die von nicht lange zurückliegenden universitären Jubiläumsaktivitäten und dem damit jeweils – kurzfristig? – verbundenen Aufschwung universitätsgeschichtlicher Bemühungen berichten.
Historical Social Research
International journal for the application of formal methods to history.
