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Early Modern European Diplomacy
New Diplomatic History has turned into one of the most dynamic and innovative areas of research – especially with regard to early modern history. It has shown that diplomacy was not as homogenous as previously thought. On the contrary, it was shaped by a multitude of actors, practices and places. The handbook aims to characterise these different manifestations of diplomacy and to contextualise them within ongoing scientific debates. It brings together scholars from different disciplines and historiographical traditions. The handbook deliberately focuses on European diplomacy – although non-European areas are taken into account for future research – in order to limit the framework and ensure precise definitions of diplomacy and its manifestations. This must be the prerequisite for potential future global historical perspectives including both the non-European and the European world.
Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918
Combining history of science and a history of universities with the new imperial history, Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918: A Social History of a Multilingual Space by Jan Surman analyzes the practice of scholarly migration and its lasting influence on the intellectual output in the Austrian part of the Habsburg Empire. The Habsburg Empire and its successor states were home to developments that shaped Central Europe's scholarship well into the twentieth century. Universities became centers of both state- and nation-building, as well as of confessional resistance, placing scholars if not in conflict, then certainly at odds with the neutral international orientation of academe. By ...
The Uses of the Middle Ages in Modern European States
An assessment of the role of the Middle Ages in national historiography and in modern conceptions of national identity, looking at relatively young nations, and regions which claim national traditions but were slow to achieve, or regain, separate statehood. Examples range from Ireland and Iceland through Austria and Italy to Finland and Greece.
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The Strange and Terrible Visions of Wilhelm Friess
Studying the prophecies of Wilhelm Friess and the interconnectedness of textual and print history
Das Kuttenberger Dekret von 1409
Im Kuttenberger Dekret verlieh König Wenzel IV. entgegen der Prager Universitätsverfassung den drei deutschsprachigen Universitätsnationen nurmehr eine Stimme in der Universitätsversammlung, der böhmischen Nation dagegen drei. Die nationale Geschichtsschreibung hat daher seit Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts dieses Dekret zu einem Höhepunkt ständiger Spannungen zwischen Deutschen und Böhmen stilisiert, auf den sie die deutsch-tschechischen Gegensätze des 19./20. Jahrhunderts zurückprojizieren konnte. In seiner Analyse weist der Autor dagegen nach, dass die Beziehung der Prager Universitätsnationen bis Anfang des 15. Jahrhunderts vom Bemühen um Eintracht geprägt war. Zudem behandelt er...
Golden Leaves and Burned Books
In religious reforms, books and other forms of written communication play a dominant role, both for individuals as well as for groups. Covering the period from the late Middle Ages to the early seventeenth century, the chapters of this volume reflect on the use of books in religious reform movements and their impact on lay people and monastic communities. For those committed to religious renewal, books are the necessary and often enthusiastically welcomed vehicles for the transmission of religious reform concepts. They are at the same time often the objects of severe opposition and negative reactions in attempts at hindering or reversing religious reform for others. The researchers make use of approaches from cultural history, book history and English studies, among others. Contributions range from theory and practices of religious reform with special regard to the interaction between the laity and religious orders in their search for models of 'good religious living' to research on the changing processes of communication from manuscript to print and their impact on religious renewal.
