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Handwritten Newspapers
This book is the first edited volume focusing on handwritten newspapers as an alternative medium from a wide interdisciplinary and international perspective. Our primary focus is on handwritten newspapers as a social practice. The case studies contextualize the source materials in relation to political, cultural, literary, and economic history. The analysis reveals both continuity and change across the different forms and functions of the textual materials. In the 16th century, handwritten newspapers evolved as a news medium reporting history in the making. It was both a rather expensive public commodity and a gift exchanged in social relationships. Both functions appealed to public elites a...
Food Marketing and Selling Healthy Lifestyles with Science
This book sets out to historicise our understanding of contemporary trends by studying the long relationship between science, food and drink marketing and the promotion of healthy lifestyles. It aims to bring together contemporary and historical research from a multimodal perspective, considering how scientific discourse and ideas about health and nutrition are channelled through visual and material culture. Using examples of advertisements, commercials and posters, the 16 chapters in this book will foster a cross-disciplinary and cross-temporal dialogue, uncovering links between past and present ways that manufacturers have capitalised upon scientific innovations to create new products or r...
Life-stowing from a Digital Media Perspective: Past, Present and Future
While both public opinion and scholars around the world are currently pointing out the danger of increasingly popular life-logging devices, this book articulates this debate by distinguishing between automatic and manual life-logging approaches. Since new definitions of life-logging have excluded the latter approach and have been mainly focused on effortless life-logging technologies such as Google Glass and Quantified Self applications in general, this book theoretically frames life-stowing. Through extensive etymological research, this book defines life-stowing as a manual and effortful practice conducted by life-stowers, individuals who devote their life to sampling reality in predefined frameworks. Also as part of this book, an historical overview introduces life-stowers and distinguishes between Apollonian and Dionysian varieties of these practitioners. Lastly, in order to understand the future reception of lifestowing, particularly in relation to digital media, this book discloses the author’s ongoing life-stowing project to a small audience.
The Business of News
In the seventeenth century news was an investment in social relationships, a resource that concerned the interests of members of functional elites. Exchanging news entailed different forms of participation in functional elites and, thus, privilege. This business was part of the elites’ internal social structures; it constituted the fabric of all public institutions. This book questions notions of a print-based public sphere in the seventeenth century. It is based on contemporary tracts on newspapers, the court culture, and letter-writers, as well as news correspondences and other material from archives in the Baltic Sea Region and beyond. This book is a translation of: Das Geschäft mit Nachrichten: Ein barocker Markt für soziale Ressourcen (Bremen: edition lumière, 2018).
Defining the Identity of the Younger Europe
This book is available in open access thanks to the generous support of the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań Defining the Identity of the Younger Europe gathers studies that shed new light on the rich tapestry of early modern “Younger Europe” — Byzantine-Slavic and Scandinavian territories. It unearths the multi-dimensional aspects of the period, revealing the formation and transformation of nations that shared common threads, the establishment of political systems, and the enduring legacies of religious movements. Immersive, enlightening, and thought-provoking, the book promises to be an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the complexities of early modern Europe. This collection does not just retell history; it provokes readers to rethink it. Contributors: Giovanna Brogi, Piotr Chmiel,Karin Friedrich, Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz, Mirosława Hanusiewicz-Lavallee, Robert Aleksander Maryks, Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin, Maciej Ptaszyński, Paul Shore, and Frank E. Sysyn.
Alchemie, Exotismus und Fürstenhof
Der Arzt und Alchemiker Johann Otto von Helbig (1654–1698) verknüpfte in seinen theoretischen Schriften und seiner alchemischen Praxis europäisches mit ostindischem Wissen, das er während seines Aufenthaltes in Ostindien (Batavia) erworben hatte. Er verband beide Wissensbereiche in einer eigenen alchemischen Kosmologie. Mit der Substanz „Tessa" glaubte er den für Gesundung und Transmutation notwendigen Grundstoff geschaffen zu haben, der für kurze Zeit das Interesse der alchemisch interessierten Öffentlichkeit weckte und Helbig den Zugang zu den Fürstenhöfen eröffnete. Dort versuchte er seine naturphilosophischen Vorstellungen im Labor in die Realität umzusetzen. Eine annotierte Bibliographie, eine kommentierte Edition der bisher weitgehend unbekannten Briefe und Dokumente sowie alchemische Experimentaltexte geben Einblick in die alchemische Praxis Helbigs und die mit dem Scheitern verbundenen Schwierigkeiten. Die Edition leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Erforschung der frühneuzeitlichen Alchemie an Fürstenhöfen.
Manufacturing and Debating Coffee Substitutes in Nineteenth-Century Sweden
This book explores the development of coffee substitutes in nineteenth-century Sweden. In doing so, it considers the the threshold between the preindustrial and industrial periods by analyzing trade, consumption, social, economic, and environmental changes, and the Second Agricultural Revolution. By analyzing the development of coffee substitutes in Sweden, the project discovers even the social and gender norms connected to the usage of new beverages. Connecting developments in Sweden with wider European and global contexts, it provides a unique insight into the period's environmental and food histories. Finally, the book traces how reenactment takes place through growing plants and preparing historical beverages.
Handwritten Newspapers
This book is the first edited volume focusing on handwritten newspapers as an alternative medium from a wide interdisciplinary and international perspective. The primary focus is on handwritten newspapers as a social practice. The case studies contextualize the source materials in relation to political, cultural, literary, and economic history. The analysis reveals both continuity and change across the different forms and functions of the textual materials. The time span ranges from the 16th to the 20th century. During these centuries, handwritten newspapers changed from an expensive public commodity and a social gift for the elites to an internal or clandestine medium of communication for non-elite groups. The book targets researchers and students in media and literary history, and cultural and literacy studies.
