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Graffiti Scratched, Scrawled, Sprayed
Over the last two decades, the study of graffiti has emerged as a bustling field, invigorated by increased appreciation for their historical, linguistic, sociological, and anthropological value and propelled by ambitious documentation projects. The growing understanding of graffiti as a perennial, universal phenomenon is spurring holistic consideration of this mode of graphic expression across time and space. Graffiti Scratched, Scrawled, Sprayed: Towards a Cross-Cultural Understanding complements recent efforts to showcase the diversity in creation, reception, and curation of graffiti around the globe, throughout history and up to the present day. Reflecting on methodology, concepts, and terminology as well as spatial, social, and historical contexts of graffiti, the book’s fourteen chapters cover ancient Egypt, Rome, Northern Arabia, Persia, India, and the Maya; medieval Eastern Mediterranean, Turfan, and Dunhuang; and contemporary Tanzania, Brazil, China, and Germany. As a whole, the collection provides a comprehensive toolkit for newcomers to the field of graffiti studies and appeals to specialists interested in viewing these materials in a cross-cultural perspective.
Spaces of Adolescence
Adolescence is a phase of transition, change and upheaval. These processes are often translated into movements through space in literary representations. The narrated space is to be read in its construction and semantics as a complex symbol carrier that is able to connect different dimensions with one another. The study develops, with reference to cultural-scientific spatial theories, a methodical model to analyze current youth novels from a topographical perspective and thus to discuss the interweaving of space, movement and growing up. In the cultural studies and narratological view of (narrative) spaces of adolescence, new trends and developments in youth literature after 2000 manifest th...
The Ancient World Revisited: Material Dimensions of Written Artefacts
Written artefacts are traditionally studied because of their content. Material aspects of these artefacts enrich the study of ancient history in many ways. Eleven case studies in five sections on the ancient world, including the Near East, Egypt, the Mediterranean, China and India, demonstrate the impact of a holistic approach that considers materiality and content alike. Following an introductory sketch of relevant research, the first section, ‘Methodological Considerations’, critically examines the limitations the evidence available imposes on our understanding. ‘Early Uses of Writing’ addresses material and spatial aspects of inscriptions, and their communicative functions over th...
Der Niederrheinische Orientbericht, C.1350
First English translation and detailed commentary of a fourteenth-century Low-German work about the Near and Middle East. That extensive travel took place during the Middle Ages has long been established, via such accounts as, for example, Marco Polo's Devisement du Monde; but there remains a relative paucity of documents or narratives confirming and dealing with this phenomenon. Der Niederrheinische Orientbericht ("An Account of the Middle East"), composed around 1350/55 by an anonymous author in Low German, is powerful evidence of international relations between east and west during this period; it provides extensive information, dealing with such matters as the local culture, fauna and fl...
Female Agency in Manuscript Cultures
Manuscript cultures have frequently forgotten, neglected, or even erased women’s contributions from memory. Women’s agency has also been a glaring blind spot in the scholarly pursuit of gender perspectives on the production of written artefacts. This volume addresses these lacunae by highlighting manuscripts and inscriptions by and for women, their active participation and enabling sponsorship, and their role in the circulation and dissemination of written artefacts. Seven papers present case studies from East Asian inscriptions to ancient cuneiform epigraphic, Egyptian graffiti from late antiquity to individual specimen and large-scale collections in medieval Europe, focusing on how wom...
Digital Scholarly Editions Beyond Text
Scholarly editions contextualize our cultural heritage. Traditionally, methodologies from the field of scholarly editing are applied to works of literature, e.g. in order to trace their genesis or present their varied history of transmission. What do we make of the variance in other types of cultural heritage? How can we describe, record, and reproduce it systematically? From medieval to modern times, from image to audiovisual media, the book traces discourses across different disciplines in order to develop a conceptual model for scholarly editions on a broader scale. By doing so, it also delves into the theory and philosophy of the (digital) humanities as such.
Das ›Anegenge‹ – Text und Studien
Das Anegenge ist ein frühmittelhochdeutscher geistlicher Text, der unikal in der Wiener Sammelhandschrift 2696 überliefert ist. Thematisch stehen vor allem Fragen nach Gott vor der Schöpfung, dem Zusammenwirken der Trinität im Kontext von Schöpfung, Sündenfall und Erlösung oder der Erlösbarkeit des Menschen nach dem Lapsus im Fokus. Die vorliegende Arbeit unternimmt eine umfassende Revision des in der Forschung häufig als problematisch erachteten Anegenge: Auf der Grundlage einer handschriftennahen Neuedition wird das Anegenge philologisch wie interpretatorisch neu erschlossen.
Inscribing Knowledge in the Medieval Book
This collection of essays examines how the paratextual apparatus of medieval manuscripts both inscribes and expresses power relations between the producers and consumers of knowledge in this important period of intellectual history. It seeks to define which paratextual features – annotations, commentaries, corrections, glosses, images, prologues, rubrics, and titles – are common to manuscripts from different branches of medieval knowledge and how they function in any particular discipline. It reveals how these visual expressions of power that organize and compile thought on the written page are consciously applied, negotiated or resisted by authors, scribes, artists, patrons and readers. This collection, which brings together scholars from the history of the book, law, science, medicine, literature, art, philosophy and music, interrogates the role played by paratexts in establishing authority, constructing bodies of knowledge, promoting education, shaping reader response, and preserving or subverting tradition in medieval manuscript culture.
Das Jüngste Gericht in den Konfessionen und Medien der Frühen Neuzeit
Das Jüngste Gericht wurde in der Frühen Neuzeit konfessionsübergreifend mit größter Aufmerksamkeit bedacht und in allen verfügbaren Medien thematisiert – sei es in der Literatur, der geistlichen Musik, der bildenden Kunst oder auf der Theaterbühne. Der Band dokumentiert die Ergebnisse einer interdisziplinären Tagung, die das DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2008 "Interkonfessionalität in der Frühen Neuzeit" der Universität Hamburg gemeinsam mit der Reformationsgeschichtlichen Forschungsbibliothek Wittenberg veranstaltete, um die frühneuzeitliche Reflexion des Jüngsten Gerichts aus historisch-theologischer, literaturwissenschaftlicher, kunst- und musikhistorischer sowie geschichtswissensc...
Transkulturelle Annäherungen an Phänomene von Macht und Herrschaft
Vom antiken China über das mittelalterliche England bis ins 18. Jahrhundert Tibets: Macht und Herrschaft prägen jede Gesellschaft in entscheidender Weise. Überkommende Strukturen wirken oft bis in die heutige Zeit weiter; ihre Untersuchung bietet die Möglichkeit, Chancen und Probleme der sogenannten Globalisierung besser zu verstehen. Zudem hilft ein transkultureller Zugang, eurozentrische Perspektiven bei der Erforschung politischer Strukturen zu überwinden. Fachleute aus vielen historisch ausgerichteten Disziplinen analysieren dazu verschiedene Erscheinungsformen von Macht und Herrschaft und ermöglichen damit einen spannenden Blick auf das Panorama politischer Ordnungen vor unserer Z...
