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Faces of Community in Central European Towns
Concepts of visual communication form an explanatory framework for discussing the visual expressions of urban symbolic communication in urban life in towns in the center of Europe in the late medieval and early modern period, including the dramatic times of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. This book examines the role of images and visual representation by concentrating on the varieties of symbolic communication in towns that made a range of relationships visual: the status and role of urban civic, professional, and religious communities and the relations between the town and its lord or powerful families and individuals. The geographical framework of this book is the region in the fo...
Stadtmauern in der Schweiz : Kataloge, Darstellungen
Betr. Basel-Landschaft, S. 27-40. - Basel-Stadt, S. 41-60.
Annual Report
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Demons of Urban Reform
A comparative analysis of early witch trials in Lucerne, Nuremberg and Basel, within the context of criminal justice and social control. The case of Lucerne presents a fascinating interplay between witch trials and a transformation in the city's criminal procedure on one hand, and between witchcraft fears and social control on the other.
Interspecies Interactions
Interspecies Interactions surveys the rapidly developing field of human-animal relations from the late medieval and early modern eras through to the mid-Victorian period. By viewing animals as authentic and autonomous historical agents who had a real impact on the world around them, this book concentrates on an under-examined but crucial aspect of the human-animal relationship: interaction. Each chapter provides scholarly debate on the methods and challenges of the study of interspecies interactions, and together they offer an insight into the part that humans and animals have played in shaping each other’s lives, as well as encouraging reflection on the directions that human-animal relati...
The Routledge History of Witchcraft
The Routledge History of Witchcraft is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the belief in witches from antiquity to the present day, providing both an introduction to the subject of witchcraft and an overview of the on-going debates. This extensive collection covers the entire breadth of the history of witchcraft, from the witches of Ancient Greece and medieval demonology through to the victims of the witch hunts, and onwards to children’s books, horror films, and modern pagans. Drawing on the knowledge and expertise of an international team of authors, the book examines differing concepts of witchcraft that still exist in society and explains their historical, literary, religiou...
Kirche, Macht und der letzte Ketzer
Die Schweiz kann nicht nur den traurigen Ruhm für sich in Anspruch nehmen, mit Anna Göldin die letzte «Hexe» Europas hingerichtet zu haben. Zu einer Zeit, als in England bereits an Dampfmaschinen gebastelt wird, als in Frankreich Diderot und D'Alembert mit ihrer Encyclopédie den Boden für die Revolution bereiten, wird in Luzern der Bauer Jakob Schmidli wegen «Irrlehren und Verführung» verurteilt, stranguliert und auf einem Scheiterhaufen verbrannt. In der Folge argumentieren Aufklärer, Freisinnige und Pietistinnen mit Jakob Schmidli gegen die katholische Kirche, Vertreter des Klerus sahen in ihm ein Opfer eines rückständigen Staats. Leicht lesbar, aber wissenschaftlich fundiert zeichnet Gregor Emmenegger den Fall Jakob Schmidli und seine Rezeption nach. Er zeigt, welche Mechanismen 1747 zur Hinrichtung führten, und verdichtet in exemplarischer Weise die Schweizer Kirchengeschichte der letzten 300 Jahre.
Coins in Churches
This book focuses on the formative period of Church reform in the Middle Ages in Northern Europe, when the Church paved the way for the development of money economy on its own doorstep. Church archaeology provides evidence for patterns of monetary use related to liturgy, church architecture and devotional culture through the centuries. This volume encompasses Alpine European evidence, with emphasis on Gotland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Switzerland, which opens up a new field of research on religion and money for an international audience. Based on 100,000 single finds of coins from the 11th to 18th centuries from 650 Scandinavian churches, the volume offers an in-depth discussion of the concepts of ritual, liturgy and devotional uses of money, monetary space and spiritual economy within the framework of Christendom, the medieval church and church architecture. Written by international scholars, Coins in Churches will be a valuable resource for readers interested in the history of religion, money, the economy, and church architecture in Northern Europe in the Middle Ages.
