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Early Modern Catholicism and the Printed Book
This collection of essays engages with a variety of aspects of early modern book culture in the 16th-17th centuries, considered in the Catholic context. The contributions reflect on the engagement of institutions and authorities in the process of book production, bringing to the fore the role of networks in this process; show the book as a tool of resistance to the Protestant Reformation; give insight into the content and design of book collections; showcase textual production in the context of cultural appropriation and shed light on the role of the image in the propagation of Catholicism. Together the sixteen contributions demonstrate the diversity of the Catholic book in its forms and functions, in various social and national contexts.
Money as a Social Institution
Money is usually understood as a valuable object, the value of which is attributed to it by its users and which other users recognize. It serves to link disparate institutions, providing a disguised whole and prime tool for the “invisible hand” of the market. This book offers an interpretation of money as a social institution. Money provides the link between the household and the firm, the worker and his product, making that very division seem natural and money as imminently practical. Money as a Social Institution begins in the medieval period and traces the evolution of money alongside consequent implications for the changing models of the corporation and the state. This is then follow...
Theological Libraries and Library Associations in Europe
During the past 50 years, theological libraries have confronted secularisation and religious pluralism, along with revolutionary technological developments that brought not only significant challenges but also unexpected opportunities to adopt new instruments for the transfer of knowledge through the automation and computerisation of libraries. This book shows how European theological libraries tackled these challenges; how they survived by redefining their task, by participating in the renewal of scholarly librarianship, and by networking internationally. Since 1972, BETH, the Association of European Theological Libraries, has stimulated this process by enabling contacts among a growing number of national library associations all over Europe.
Cui Dono Lepidum Novum Libellum?
This book presents an interdisciplinary study of the nature of the sixteenth-century dedication that will appeal to not only Neo-Latinists and musicologists but also historians of the book and philologists.
Tudo o que desejo
Perdidos pela tentação... Unidos pelas consequências O anonimato era tudo para o multimilionário Gabriel Serres e a princesa Alessia Berutti vivia permanentemente sob os holofotes. Mas Gabriel tinha visto o seu próprio desejo refletido nos olhos daquela mulher... E agora ela está à espera de um filho dele! Durante toda a sua vida, Alessia dera prioridade à família real, até à noite em que substituiu o dever pelo desejo. E o seu dever exigia um casamento rápido para evitar escândalos. Mas enquanto caminhava até ao altar, rezava pelo impossível: que fosse Gabriel a pô-la em primeiro lugar.
Großstadtflimmern
Anna arbeitet als erfolgreiche Escort-Dame in Stuttgart. Nur so kann die alleinerziehende Mutter sich und ihren kleinen Sohn gut über die Runden bringen. Und eigentlich möchte sie an diesem Zustand auch nichts ändern. Denn wer will schon gern seine Unabhängigkeit aufgeben? Doch da macht ihr Gabriel Bernard gehörig einen Strich durch die Rechnung. Der attraktive und selbstbewusste Immobilienmogul wusste schon immer was er wollte und sein neues Ziel heißt Anna! Doch leider lässt sich diese nicht auf seine Spielchen ein, denn eine Beziehung heißt Vertrauen! Und mit Vertrauen in Männer hat Anna ein großes Problem. Kann sie es schaffen ihr wohl gehütetes Geheimnis zu lüften und der Liebe eine Chance zu geben?
Wissenstransfer und Auctoritas in der frühneuzeitlichen niederländischsprachigen Literatur
Dieser Band beschäftigt sich mit dem exemplarischen Thema des Wissenstransfers und des Umgangs mit Autoritäten in der frühneuzeitlichen niederländischsprachigen Literatur. Er bietet eine breite Übersicht möglicher Felder des Wissenswandels auf dem Gebiet der kolonialen Literatur, der Entstehung naturwissenschaftlicher Texte, literarischer Netzwerke sowie theologischer und politischer Schriften. Die Autoren untersuchen den Gebrauch klassischer und/oder zeitgenössischer Quellen und damit die Entstehung und Veränderung der Auctoritas sowie die Bedeutung dieser Entwicklungen für den frühneuzeitlichen Wissensdiskurs. Thematische Schwerpunkte sind dabei die Konzepte des Spiels, des Wunders, der Konversion und der Imitation.
