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Officers, Entrepreneurs, Career Migrants, and Diplomats
“Money, money, and more money.” In the eyes of early modern warlords, these were the three essential prerequisites for waging war. The transnational studies presented here describe and explain how belligerent powers did indeed rely on thriving markets where military entrepreneurs provided mercenaries, weapons, money, credit, food, expertise, and other services. In a fresh and comprehensive examination of pre-national military entrepreneurship – its actors, structures and economic logic – this volume shows how readily business relationships for supplying armies in the 17th and 18th centuries crossed territorial and confessional boundaries. By outlining and explicating early modern military entrepreneurial fields of action, this new transnational perspective transcends the limits of national historical approaches to the business of war. Contributors are Astrid Ackermann, John Condren, Jasmina Cornut, Michael Depreter, Sébastien Dupuis, Marian Füssel, Julien Grand, André Holenstein, Katrin Keller, Michael Paul Martoccio, Tim Neu, David Parrott, Alexander Querengässer, Philippe Rogger, Guy Rowlands, Benjamin Ryser, Regula Schmid, and Peter H. Wilson.
L'horloge flétrie
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Ritual Dynamics in Jewish and Christian Contexts
In the past decades, the dynamics of rituals has been a productive topic of research. This volume investigates questions surrounding the ritual dynamics in (holy) Jewish and Christian texts, and cases where rituals of different religious communities interacted.
A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities
A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities presents confraternities as fundamentally important venues for the acquisition of spiritual riches, material wealth, and social capital in early modern Europe and Post-Conquest America.
Le grand Fred : récit
Traversée par l'autoroute depuis près de soixante ans, la ville de Morges l'a été plus longtemps encore par les éclats de voix et les éclats de rire d'Alfred Friderici. Directeur avec son frère Paul de la plus grande structure de transport routier en Suisse, le Grand Fred, qui se présentait toujours comme chauffeur, se dépensa sans compter pour les siens, pour ses amis, son métier et son entreprise. Seule celle-ci, qui lui échappa finalement, ne lui rendit pas ce qu'elle avait reçu de lui.Son fils Pierre, avec la complicité du journaliste Jean Steinauer, raconte la vie ordinaire d'un homme qui ne l'était pas, et soulève le capot des poids lourds. Voici des aventures picaresques, des personnages hauts en couleurs, des secrets de famille et des luttes de pouvoir. Chabrol aurait adoré. [payot.ch]
Le Sauvage
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Fribourg à un tournant
50 personnalités fribourgeoises s'expriment sur la vie culturelle de leur canton.
Refugees
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Nature in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Times
The study of pre-modern anthropology requires the close examination of the relationship between nature and human society, which has been both precarious and threatening as well as productive, soothing, inviting, and pleasurable. Much depends on the specific circumstances, as the works by philosophers, theologians, poets, artists, and medical practitioners have regularly demonstrated. It would not be good enough, as previous scholarship has commonly done, to examine simply what the various writers or artists had to say about nature. While modern scientists consider just the hard-core data of the objective world, cultural historians and literary scholars endeavor to comprehend the deeper meani...
