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The Witness Tree
A Labor Day storm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, topples a rare witness tree-a 150-year-old white oak rooted near afamed Civil War battleground. Breanne Walker, a new preservationist at the National Military Park's museum, is roused from her bed to view the remarkable findings below the tree's massive roots-a diary dating back to the Battle of Gettysburg...along with a body in an unmarked grave. Breanne's boss tasks her with authenticating and connecting the two discoveries, but she is given only days, and she must work in secret so as not to alert the senior curator to whom the project rightly belongs. Succeeding in the task will validate her single-minded focus on her career. If caught with the diary, her professional life is over. But the further Breanne dives into its pages, the more the mysterious diarist seems to transform her life.
Heinrich Heshusius and Confessional Polemic in Early Lutheran Orthodoxy
Heinrich Heshusius (1556-97) became a leading church superintendent and polemicist during the early age of Lutheran orthodoxy, and played a major role in the reform and administration of several German cities during the late Reformation. As well as offering an introduction to Heshusius's writings and ideas, this volume explores the wider world of late-sixteenth-century German Lutheranism in which he lived and worked. In particular, it looks at the important but inadequately understood network of Lutheran clergymen in North Germany centred around universities such as Rostock, Jena, Königsberg, and Helmstedt, and territories such as Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, in the years after the promulgat...
Johann Ernst Gerhard (1621-1668)
This biography of Johann Ernst Gerhard (1621-1668) studies of the richly documented life and work of a lesser-known seventeenth-century orientalist, setting them within the broader intellectual, confessional, and institutional contexts of his day.
Johann Jakob Schütz und die Anfänge des Pietismus
English summary: This work centers upon Johann Jakob Schutz (1640-1690), a legal expert and lyrical poet from Frankfurt. Using newly-discovered sources, Andreas Deppermann succeeds in giving the first complete portrayal of this fascinating but almost forgotten figure of church history. Apart from Philipp Jakob Spener, Schutz can be regarded as the originator and co-founder of Pietism, the most important religious revival movement in Protestantism since the Reformation. He was the person who initiated the development of the typical characteristics of Pietism: concentration on the Bible, the emphasis on spiritual priesthood, especially in the form of private gatherings of the pious outside of ...
Science and Religion
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Das Eigentum der Frauen
Welche Eigentumsrechte hatten Frauen um 1800? Wie funktionierte die Rechtssprechung, wenn sie ihre Rechte am Erbe, an Grundstücken oder an Wegen und Bächen einklagten? Vor dem Jenaer Schöppenstuhl wurden zwischen 1780 und 1800 zahlreiche solcher Fälle der zivilen Gerichtsbarkeit begutachtet. Wie dabei der Spagat zwischen zeitgenössischen Vorstellungen über das Geschlechterverhältnis und die Eigentumsfähigkeit von Frauen auf der einen Seite sowie juristischen Normen und fakultativ anzuwendenden Rechten auf der anderen Seite gelang, zeigt diese Studie.
Canadian - American Slavic Studies
A quarterly journal devoted to Russia and East Europe.
The Science of the Swastika
"The swastika and similar symbols were employed by the ancestors of the modern-day Germans. With the Nazi seizure of power, studies of such ideographs became directly supported by the state. The Science of the Swastika is the first theoretically informed study of the relationship between an academic discipline and what the Nazis termed their Weltanschauung. It surveys the fate of Old Germanic studies under the Nazis, a discipline of especial interest to the forces of German reaction. German swastika studies also gave rise to the SS-Ahnenerbe, the antiquarian research organization through which medical experiments were later to be performed on the inmates of concentration camps. The Old Germanic studies of the Nazi period proved to be a creative foil to the almost overwhelmingly destructive side of National Socialism."--BOOK JACKET.
