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Handbook of Medieval Studies
This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last decades. The handbook is a reference work which enables the readers to quickly and purposely gain insight into the important research discussions and to inform themselves about the current status of research in the field. The handbook consists of four parts. The first, large section offers articles on all of the main disciplines and discussions of the field. The second section presents articles on the key concepts of modern medieval studies and the debates therein. The third section is a lexicon of the most important text genres of the Middle Ages. The fourth section provides an international bio-bibliographical lexicon of the most prominent medievalists in all disciplines. A comprehensive bibliography rounds off the compendium. The result is a reference work which exhaustively documents the current status of research in medieval studies and brings the disciplines and experts of the field together.
The Partisans and War
This book explores the rise of two resistance movements in Yugoslavia after its invasion and partition by Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria in April 1941: one led by Draža Mihailović's Chetniks, supporters of the Serb monarchy; and the Partisans, led by Josip Broz Tito and his Communist Party. Based on research by the author in Yugoslav, German, British, American, Italian, and Russian archives and libraries, including the unpublished war memoirs of Josip Broz Tito, the book traces the causes of the April War, the ensuing uprising in Western Serbia against the occupiers, and its aftermath. Tensions were inevitable between the Chetniks, who sought the restoration of the old regime, and t...
The Body Populace
How data gathered from national conscriptions in pre–World War I Europe influenced understandings of population fitness and redefined society as a collective body. In pre–World War I Europe, individual fitness was increasingly related to building and preserving collective society. Army recruitment offered the most important opportunity to screen male citizens' fitness, raising questions of how to define fitness for soldiers and how to translate this criteria outside the military context. In this book, Heinrich Hartmann explores the historical circumstances that shaped collective understandings of fitness in Europe before World War I and how these were intertwined with a fear of demograph...
Exemplarische Forschungsfelder aus 25 Jahren Zeitgeschichte an der Universität Graz
Continues Mapping contemporary history: Zeitgeschichte im Diskurs.
Crime and Madness in Modern Austria
This collection of essays explores the changing history, rhetoric, politics and representation of crime and madness in modern Austria. From the emergence of Viennese modernism to the post-modern moment, the myths, metaphors and realities of crime and madness have unfolded in the shadow of larger cultural questions regarding cultural norms, gender, war, and national identity. Historically based contributions illuminate such diverse cultural realities as the evolution of psychiatry as medical practice, asylum practices in the early twentieth century, and Austrian participation in and responses to terror and war crimes. From these investigations proceeds the clear insight that cultural response...
Grenzüberschreitungen
***Angaben zur beteiligten Person Sievers: Dr. Wiebke Sievers ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Sie ist Leiterin des WWTF-Projekts »Literature on the Move«, das sich mit Migration und Literatur in Österreich beschäftigt.
LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS – Volume I
Literature and the Fine Arts theme is a component of Encyclopedia of Social Sciences and Humanities in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. Literature and the fine arts exist as processes and are not the same as culture or cultural processes. The arts are by definition creative acts of human beings. The main elements of art processes are artists, audiences, and distribution, and as historical phenomena, they exist within a certain timeframe. Myth and themes like love and death do not fade over time. Changes in the arts come with new knowledge (including new materials), and with new forms of communication broug...
Conflict and Renewal: Europe Transformed
Conflict and Renewal: Europe Transformed brings together the views of policymakers, leading scholars, and practitioners of post-conflict management in Europe and the US - many of them active in the historic process underway in South-Eastern Europe and beyond. With this volume, Europe is viewed as an emerging global player against the backdrop of challenges posed by the delayed transition in the Western Balkans. In appraising the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the status conflict between Serbia and Kosovo, contours of a long overdue regional vision for the Balkans in the New Europe emerge. Conflict and Renewal: Europe Transformed, comprising insightful essays and the views of a diverse group of contributors, uniquely features the work of a select number of contemporary artists whose interventions both contrast and complement the essays. This festschrift honors Wolfgang Petritsch - the eminent Austrian diplomat, international Balkans 'trouble shooter, ' and author - on the occasion of his 60th birthday, offering fresh reflections and thought-provoking opinions on some of the most urgent policy issues facing the European Union at the start of the 21st century
Preis und Klage
Die Preisrede ist ein diskreditiertes Genre, beinhaltet sie ja zumeist freundlich gemeinte Verlogenheiten. Doch Armin Thurnher verblüfft als Laudator das Publikum mit Elogen in Hexametern und belebt so dieses missbrauchte Genre neu. In »Preis und Klage« sind nicht nur seine Lobpreisungen versammelt, sondern auch Nachrufe, satirische und an politischen Jubeltagen verfasste Hexameter. Die längeren und kürzeren Gedichte in »Preis und Klage« ergeben nicht nur das Bild einer anderen Seite von Thurnhers Schreiben, sondern auch ein Panorama österreichischen Geisteslebens.
Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of a New Europe
Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe surveys the intersection of music and nationalism by tracing its historical development and documenting its persistence today. Contrasting different types of music reveals how music expresses core ideas of nationalism, for example, folk music in the nineteenth century and popular music in the twenty-first.
