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Karl Schmid (1907–1974) – ein Schweizer Citoyen
Karl Schmid ist eine der interessantesten und vielseitigsten Schweizer Persönlichkeiten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Germanist und Historiker, Professor und Rektor der ETH Zürich, Generalstabsoberst und Stabschef des Gebirgsarmeekorps, Präsident des Schweizerischen Wissenschaftsrates, Mitglied der Jury für die Vergabe des Charles-Veillon-Preises, Präsident der Schweizerischen Auslandhilfe, Publizist, Militärstratege und Bildungsreformer – Schmid bietet das Bild eines exemplarischen Staatsbürgers, der sich neben seiner beruflichen Tätigkeit für öffentliche Aufgaben immer neu zur Verfügung stellte. Die vorliegende Biografie zeichnet Schmids äusserlichen Werdegang und seine innere Entwicklung nach und verortet ihn in der Zeitgeschichte.
Consorting with Saints
Prayer reflected a network of relationships that bound together the intercessor, the dead, and the divine.
To Follow in Their Footsteps
When the First Crusade ended with the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099, jubilant crusaders returned home to Europe bringing with them stories, sacred relics, and other memorabilia, including banners, jewelry, and weapons. In the ensuing decades, the memory of the crusaders' bravery and pious sacrifice was invoked widely among the noble families of western Christendom. Popes preaching future crusades would count on these very same families for financing, leadership, and for the willing warriors who would lay down their lives on the battlefield. Despite the great risks and financial hardships associated with crusading, descendants of those who suffered and died on crusade would continue to take t...
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Episcopal Power and Ecclesiastical Reform in the German Empire
Focusing on the way bishops in the eleventh century used the ecclesiastical tithe - church taxes - to develop or re-order ties of loyalty and dependence within their dioceses, this book offers a new perspective on episcopacy in medieval Germany and Italy. Using three broad case studies from the dioceses of Mainz, Salzburg and Lucca in Tuscany, John Eldevik places the social dynamics of collecting the church tithe within current debates about religious reform, social change and the so-called 'feudal revolution' in the eleventh century, and analyses a key economic institution, the medieval tithe, as a social and political phenomenon. By examining episcopal churches and their possessions not in institutional terms, but as social networks which bishops were obliged to negotiate and construct over time using legal, historiographical and interpersonal means, this comparative study casts fresh light on the history of early medieval society.
