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Living I Was Your Plague
From the author of the acclaimed biography Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet, new perspectives on how Luther and others crafted his larger-than-life image Martin Luther was a controversial figure during his lifetime, eliciting strong emotions in friends and enemies alike, and his outsized persona has left an indelible mark on the world today. Living I Was Your Plague explores how Luther carefully crafted his own image and how he has been portrayed in his own times and ours, painting a unique portrait of the man who set in motion a revolution that sundered Western Christendom. Renowned Luther biographer Lyndal Roper examines how the painter Lucas Cranach produced images that made the reform...
Buying and Selling
Buying and Selling explores the many facets of the business of books across and beyond Europe, adopting the viewpoints of printers, publishers, booksellers, and readers. Essays by twenty-five scholars from a range of disciplines seek to reconstruct the dynamics of the trade through a variety of sources. Through the combined investigation of printed output, documentary evidence, provenance research, and epistolary networks, this volume trails the evolving relationship between readers and the book trade. In the resulting picture of failure and success, balanced precariously between debt-economies, sale strategies and uncertain profit, customers stand out as the real winners.
A Companion to Medieval Art
A fully updated and comprehensive companion to Romanesque and Gothic art history This definitive reference brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe and provides a clear analytical survey of what is happening in this major area of Western art history. The volume comprises original theoretical, historical, and historiographic essays written by renowned and emergent scholars who discuss the vibrancy of medieval art from both thematic and sub-disciplinary perspectives. Part of the Blackwell Companions to Art History, A Companion to Medieval Art, Second Edition features an international and ambitious range of contributions coverin...
Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion Volume 1, 2022
The Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion is an annual collection of double-blind peer-reviewed articles that seeks to provide a broad international arena for an intellectual exchange of ideas between the disciplines of philosophy, theology, religion, cultural history, and literature and to showcase their multifarious junctures within the framework of Jewish studies. Contributions to the Review place special thematic emphasis on scepticism within Jewish thought and its links to other religious traditions and secular worldviews. The Review is interested in the tension at the heart of matters of reason and faith, rationalism and mysticism, theory and practice, narrativity and normativity, doubt and dogma. This volume features contributions by Reimund Leicht, Gitit Holzman, Jonathan Garb, Anna Lissa, Gianni Paganini, Adi Louria Hayon, Mark Marion Gondelman, and Jürgen Sarnowsky. This volume features contributions by Jeremy Phillip Brown, Libera Pisano, Jeffrey G. Amshalem, Maria Vittoria Comacchi, Jonatan Meir, Rebecca Kneller-Rowe, Isaac Slater, Michela Torbidoni, Guido Bartolucci, and Tamir Karkason.
Publishing Sacrobosco’s De sphaera in Early Modern Europe
This open access volume focuses on the cultural background of the pivotal transformations of scientific knowledge in the early modern period. It investigates the rich edition history of Johannes de Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera, by far the most widely disseminated textbook on geocentric cosmology, from the unique standpoint of the many printers, publishers, and booksellers who steered this text from manuscript to print culture, and in doing so transformed it into an established platform of scientific learning. The corpus, constituted of 359 different editions featuring Sacrobosco’s treatise on cosmology and astronomy printed between 1472 and 1650, represents the scientific European shared knowledge concerned with the cosmological worldview of the early modern period until far after the publication of Copernicus’ De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in 1543. The contributions to this volume show how the academic book trade influenced the process of homogenization of scientific knowledge. They also describe the material infrastructure through which such knowledge was disseminated, and thus define the premises for the foundation of modern scientific communities.
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Archaeology
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Archaeology offers comprehensive perspectives on the origins and developments of the discipline of archaeology and the direction of future advances in the field. Written by thirty-six archaeologists and historians from all over the world, it covers a wide range of themes and debates, including biographical accounts of key figures, scientific techniques and archaeological fieldwork practices, institutional contexts, and the effects of religion, nationalism, and colonialism on the development of archaeology.
Babel in Russian and Other Literatures and Topographies
This study analyzes the biblical Tower of Babel story, a cautionary tale that accounts for the diversity of languages and peoples. The author pursues its linking of language, architecture, and society as well as its relevance in art and literature over centuries. To come to terms with a perceived disorder in the realm of language, alternative explanations and projects for remediation abound. The disorder and diversity themselves find expression in art, literature, and philosophical reflection and caused the emergence of a historical linguistics. The ambition of the builders—with its social and organizational premise—reemerges in both political and material form as cities, states, and monumental constructions. Utopian aspirations and linguistic claims permeate both revolutionary notions of universality and the romantic essentialism of the nation state. These in turn provoke dystopian critique in literature and film. As Martin Meisel reveals in this study, the wrestle with language in its recalcitrant instability and imperfect social function enters into dialogue with the celebration of its diversity, elasticity, and creativity.
Die Kurstadt als urbanes Phänomen
Kurstädte standen lange im Schatten der Stadtgeschichtsforschung: zu klein, zu idyllisch und in ihrer Bedeutsamkeit oszillierend. Eine vergleichende Perspektive auf Kurstädte enthüllt rasch, dass sie äußerst vielschichtige, ja sogar widersprüchliche Orte des entstehenden Tourismus waren. Kurstädte siedelten sich im Spannungsfeld von ländlicher Idylle und städtischer Moderne bzw. von Entsagung und Überfluss an: Kneippkuren standen neben rauschenden Theaterabenden, reiche Industrielle neben Armenbadbesuchern. Dieser Stadttypus galt als Experimentierfeld der urbanen Moderne, wo man bald zentralisierte Schlachthöfe, Fotografen und Telegrafen antraf. Kurstädte waren auch Orte der politischen Auseinandersetzung, des entstehenden Rassismus und der Fremdenfeindlichkeit.
Die ehemalige Frauenstiftskirche St. Salvator zu Susteren und ihre Stellung in der Architektur des 11. Jahrhunderts
Mit der hier vorliegenden Arbeit wird ein lange vernachlässigter Bau der Sakralarchitektur des 11. Jahrhunderts wieder in den Fokus der Forschung gerückt. Das im Jahr 714 vom fränkischen Hausmeier Pippin und seiner Frau Plektrud an den friesischen Missionsbischof Willibrord gestiftete Kloster Susteren ist nicht nur eines der ältesten der heutigen Niederlande, sondern durch seine Funktion als karolingische Grablege von besonderem Rang. So ist seit dieser Zeit eine Frauenkommunität im Kloster nachweisbar, das sich zu unbekannter Zeit verfassungsrechtlich zum freiweltlichen Stift wandelte. Der hier vorgestellte Bau weist direkte Bezüge zu einem der ranghöchsten Frauenstifte des Reiches in Essen auf und ist ein wesentlicher Vertreter der sogenannten Essen-Werdener Gruppe. Die bis auf den Westbau weitgehend erhaltene Bausubstanz der ehemaligen Frauenstiftskirche wird im Rahmen dieser Arbeit sowohl typologisch als auch stilgeschichtlich untersucht.
Kulturerbe und Denkmalpflege transkulturell
Seit Ende des europäischen Kolonialprojekts und mit den aktuellen Auswirkungen der Globalisierung ist die eurozentrische und nationalstaatlich orientierte Konzeption von »Kulturerbe« in eine konfliktgeladene Schieflage geraten, die auch die institutionalisierte Denkmalpflege vor neue Herausforderungen stellt. Dieser Band stellt mit Fallbeispielen aus aller Welt die kulturwissenschaftliche Denkfigur der »Transkulturalität« vor, mit der sich neue Zugangsformen zu Kulturerbe ergeben: mit einer Wertschätzung grenzüberschreitender Kontaktzonen, flüchtig-bildhafter Erscheinungsformen, hybrid-ephemerer Materialität und heterogener Identitätskonstruktionen.
