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The Templars and their Sources
Even 700 years after the suppression of the Order of the Temple and the execution of the last grandmaster, Jacques de Molay, there is no shortage of publications on this influential military order. Yet unlike other medieval institutions the Templars are subject to speculative fiction and popular myth which threaten to swamp the fruits of scholarly endeavour. Fortunately, recent years have produced a thriving academic scholarship which is challenging these myths. More and more sources are currently being edited, particularly those for the trial of the Templars (1307–1312). Others are still awaiting indepth study, among them, surprisingly, the greater part of the charters that cover more tha...
Digitale Edition in Österreich. Digital Scholarly Edition in Austria.
Between 2016 and 2020 the federally funded project "KONDE - Kompetenznetzwerk Digitale Edition" created a network of collaboration between Austrian institutions and researchers working on digital scholarly editions. With the present volume the editors provide a space where researchers and editors from Austrian institutions could theorize on their work and present their editing projects. The collection creates a snapshot of the interests and main research areas regarding digital scholarly editing in Austria at the time of the project.
The Crusade in the Fifteenth Century
Increasingly, historians acknowledge the significance of crusading activity in the fifteenth century, and they have started to explore the different ways in which it shaped contemporary European society. Just as important, however, was the range of interactions which took place between the three faith communities which were most affected by crusade, namely the Catholic and Orthodox worlds, and the adherents of Islam. Discussion of these interactions forms the theme of this book. Two essays consider the impact of the fall of Constantinople in 1453 on the conquering Ottomans and the conquered Byzantines. The next group of essays reviews different aspects of the crusading response to the Turks,...
Scientific Instruments between East and West
Scientific Instruments between East and West is a collection of essays on the transmission of knowledge about scientific instruments and the trade in such instruments between the Eastern and Western worlds.
Digital History
The series "Digital History and Hermeneutics" addresses key questions for historians in the digital age: - how do digital infrastructures and technologies interfere in our practices of thinking, doing, and narrating history? - what are the methodological and epistemological implications of using digital data and tools for historical interpretation and argumentation? - what new historical questions can be asked when exploring the big data of the past? In offering a platform for cutting edge scholarship in the emerging field of digital history and hermeneutics, the series aims at making a critical intervention in the field of digital humanities and introducing key debates and concepts of digital history to the historical community at large.
Imagined, Embodied and Actual Turks in Early Modern Europe
The confrontation between European countries and the expanding Ottoman Empire in the early modern era has played a major role in numerous fields of history. The aim of this book is to investigate the European-Ottoman interrelations from three angles. One deals with the circumstances: How did the Europeans meet the Turks in pragmatic and diplomatic connections? Another concerns imagery: how were the Turks depicted in literature and art? The third examines performativity: how were the Turks inserted into plays, operas and ceremonies? This book confronts mental, visual and embodied images with historical positions and conditions. The focus, therefore, is on the dynamic interactive processes of experience, embodiment and imagination in context. Bringing together Turkish and European scholars, it applies a number of research strategies used by historians to the history of art, literature, music and theatre. Contributions by Pál Ács | Robert Born | Asli Çirakman | Anne Duprat | Kate Fleet | Bent Holm | Marcus Keller | Maria Pia Pedani | Mogens Pelt | Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen | Günsel Renda | Pia Schwarz Lausten | Charlotte Colding Smith | Suna Suner | Dirk Van Waelderen
Auf der Suche nach Re/formen
Was braucht es, damit eine Reform gelingt? Die ›Reformatio Sigismundi‹ (1439) scheint diese Frage nicht zuletzt formal zu stellen, wenn ihr anonym gebliebener Verfasser seine Ideen auf Deutsch diskutiert und mit volkssprachigen Elementen aus Predigt, Prophetie und politischer Publizistik anreichert. Mitten in der auf dem Basler Konzil geführten lateinischen Debatte um eine Reform von Kirche und Reich entsteht so der erste umfassende Reformtext in deutscher Sprache. Unbeantwortet blieb bisher, weshalb der Anonymus die Volkssprache wählt und wie sich der Sprachwechsel auf Argumentation und Intention des Textes auswirkt. Die Studie arbeitet die ›Reformatio Sigismundi‹ erstmals literat...
Ablasskampagnen des Spätmittelalters
Martin Luthers Thesen gegen den Ablass gaben 1517 den Anstoß zur Reformation. Weniger bekannt ist die lange Vorgeschichte der Ablassverkündung in der spätmittelalterlichen Kirche. Der auf eine im Rahmen der Lutherdekade geförderte interdisziplinäre Tagung in Rom 2015 zurückgehende Band beleuchtet den Kontext des Ablassstreites vor dem Hintergrund der weitverbreiteten Ablasskampagnen, die schon in den beiden Jahrhunderten davor im Kirchenleben etabliert waren. Protagonisten der Ablassverkündung waren nicht nur die den Ablass ausstellenden Päpste und Bischöfe, sondern auch die Orden und diverse Laiengruppen, die die Erträgnisse in verschiedensten Bereichen – vom Brückenbau bis zur...
The Saved and the Damned
Thomas Kaufmann, the leading European scholar of the Reformation, argues that the main motivations behind the Reformation rest in religion itself. The Reformation began far from Europe's traditional political, economic, and cultural power centres, and yet it threw the whole continent into turmoil. There has been intense speculation over the last century focusing on the political and social causes that lay at the root of this revolution. Thomas Kaufmann, one of the world's leading experts on the Reformation, sees the most important drivers for what happened in religion itself. The reformers were principally concerned with the question of salvation. It could all have ended with the pope's cond...
#95vsWissZeitVG
Die jüngsten Twitter-Stürme unter den Hashtags #IchBinHanna und #95vsWissZeitVG haben gezeigt, dass immer weniger Wissenschaftler*innen bereit sind, die prekären Arbeitsbedingungen im deutschen Wissenschaftssystem hinzunehmen. Vorrangig das über das Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz 2007 eingeräumte Sonderbefristungsrecht bestimmt die Lebensläufe der Forschenden jenseits der Professur. Dieses Gesetz beeinflusst die Karrieren und das Privatleben der an den Hochschulen befristetet Beschäftigten massiv, hat aber auch enorme negative Effekte auf die Wissenschaft insgesamt. Nachhaltige und effiziente Forschung ist so kaum mehr möglich. Der Sammelband nähert sich in drei Essays den Problemen der gegenwärtigen Wissenschaft aus historischer, literaturwissenschaftlicher und philosophischer Warte sowie in zehn persönlichen Erfahrungsberichten verschiedener Perspektiven – von der Studentin bis zum Dekan. Zudem sind die im Herbst 2020 aufgestellten 95 Thesen gegen das Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz hier versammelt.
