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Matthaeus Merian der Ältere
Landschaft ist der thematische rote Faden im Werk von Matthaeus Merian d. Ä. Ein Querschnitt zeigt die Entwicklung des Motivs unter dem Eindruck des 30jährigen Krieges. Der Wechsel von lieblicher Landschaft zur topographischen Erfassung (belagerter) Städte charakterisiert Merians OEuvre. Während frühe Bilder noch auf niederländischen Manierismus verweisen, stehen späte Radierungen in einer topographischen Tradition, in der sich Kunst und «Historia» zu einer eigenen Gattung frühneuzeitlicher Wissenschaft verbinden. Für das Frühwerk ist die Frage der Vorbilder, u.a. H. Bock, G. v. Coninxloo, A. Tempesta und H. Bol, zentral. Die Untersuchung der Topographien fokussiert demgegenüber kulturhistorische Aspekte. Sie stellt die Funktion der Stadtansicht als Buchillustration unter Bezug auf die älteren Topographien dar und analysiert die «Bildberichterstattung zum Krieg» im Theatrum Europaeum.
History in Dutch Studies
History in Dutch Studies re-considers the central role of history within the discipline of Dutch Studies as viewed from a range of specializations within the field. Contributions by scholars of Dutch history, art history, literature and linguistics all illustrate how the past, and one's theories and views of history, affect the practice of each part of the discipline. One reflection of the history of the Low Countries in "Dutch Studies" is the range of the field: it is interpreted broadly in this volume to include studies of Afrikaans as well as Dutch literature- poetry as well as prose- in light of their histories, the history of Flanders and that of the Netherlands, approaches within Dutch linguistics as well as a history of language contact and its influence on Dutch. This breadth continues in the range of institutions and nationalities that are represented. The volume presents work from major scholars from the Netherlands, Belgium, and South Africa as well as from the United States of America. These articles therefore provide a good cross-section of ongoing research in the Netherlandic Studies the world over.
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Gunpowder, Masculinity, and Warfare in German Texts, 1400-1700
How gunpowder technology exploded heroes, heroics, and war stories from 1400 to 1700, and how German writers tried to glue them back together
City Walls
The essays presented in this volume, first published in 2000, describe a phenomenon so widespread in human time and space that its importance is easily overlooked. City walls shaped the history of warfare; the mobilisation of manpower and resources needed to build them favoured some kinds of polities over others; and their massive strength, appropriately ornamented, created a visual language of authority. Previous collective volumes on the subject have dealt mainly with Europe, but the historians and art historians who collaborate here follow a comparative agenda. The millennial practice of wall building that branched out from the ancient Near East into India, Europe, and North Africa shows continuities and points of contact of which the makers of urban fortifications were scarcely aware; separate traditions in China, sub-Saharan Africa, and North America illustrate universal themes of defensive strategy and the symbolism of power, each time embedded in a distinctive local context.
Gateways to the Book
Gateways to the Book investigates the complex image–text relationships between frontispieces and illustrated title pages on the one hand and texts on the other, in European books published between 1500 and 1800. Although interest in this broad field of research has increased in the past decades, many varieties of title pages and a great deal of printers and books remain as yet unstudied. The fifteen essays collected in this volume tackle this field with a great variety of academic approaches, asking how the images can be interpreted, how the texts and contexts shape their interpretation, and how they in turn shape the understanding of the text.
Ways of Knowing in Early Modern Germany
Gerhild Scholz Williams's Ways of Knowing in Early Modern Germany: Johannes Praetorius as a Witness to His Time, reviews key discourses in eight of Praetorius's works. She introduces the modern reader to the kinds of subjects, the intellectual and spiritual approaches to them, and the genres that this educated and productive German scholar and polymath presented to his audience in the seventeenth century. By relating these individual works to a number of contemporaneous writings, Williams shows how Praetorius constructed a panorama in print in which wonders, the occult, the emerging scientific way of thinking, family and social mores are recurrent themes. Included in Praetorius's portrait of...
Diplomatic Intelligence on the Holy Roman Empire and Denmark during the Reigns of Elizabeth I and James VI
Year of publication on title page is 2016; title page verso has the statement: "First published 2015."
