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Landmarks in the History of the German Language
Some essays were originally delivered as lectures at the University of Cambridge.
Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians?
The application of digital technologies to historical newspapers has changed the research landscape historians were used to. An Eldorado? Despite undeniable advantages, the new digital affordance of historical newspapers also transforms research practices and confronts historians with new challenges. Drawing on a growing community of practices, the impresso project invited scholars experienced with digitised newspaper collections with the aim of encouraging a discussion on heuristics, source criticism and interpretation of digitized newspapers. This volume provides a snapshot of current research on the subject and offers three perspectives: how digitisation is transforming access to and expl...
Lexicography in the Borderland between Knowledge and Non-Knowledge
The book contains a state-of-the-art summary of the theoretical discussions within the field of lexicography during the last decades. On this basis it presents and argues for a new general theory, called the function theory. It goes on to develop this theory in one single field, i.e. learners lexicography where it both formulates the basic elements of a general theory for learners’ dictionaries as well as a number of specific theories for special subfields such as selection, meaning, semantic relations, morphology, syntactic properties and word combinations. It contains a big number of examples extracted from existing dictionaries which are discussed from the point of view of the theories formulated.
A Companion to German Pietism, 1660-1800
A Companion to German Pietism offers an introduction to recent Pietism scholarship on both sides of the Atlantic, in German, Dutch, and English. The focus is upon early modern German Pietism, a movement that arose in the late 17th century German Empire within both Reformed and Lutheran traditions. It introduced a new paradigm to German Protestantism that included personal renewal, new birth, women-dominated conventicles, and millennialism. The “Introduction” offers a concise overview of modern research into German Pietism. The Companion is then organized according to the different worlds of Pietist existence—intellectual, devotional, literary-cultural, and social-political.
Lay Prophets in Lutheran Europe (c. 1550–1700)
Lay prophets in Lutheran Europe (c. 1550–1700) is the first transnational study of the phenomenon of angelic apparitions in all Lutheran cultures of early modern Europe. Jürgen Beyer provides evidence for more than 350 cases and analyses the material in various ways: tracing the medieval origins, studying the spread of news about prophets, looking at the performances legitimising their calling, noting their comments on local politics, following the theological debates about prophets, and interpreting the early modern notions of holiness within which prophets operated. A full chronology and bibliography of all cases concludes the volume. Beyer demonstrates that lay prophets were an accepted part of Lutheran culture and places them in their social, political and confessional contexts.
Invisibilising Austrian German
This book provides an insight into the standardisation process of German in eighteenth-century Austria. It describes how norms prescribed by grammarians were actually implemented via a school reform carried out by educationalist Johann Ignaz Felbiger on the order of Empress Maria Theresa. Quantitative and qualitative analyses were undertaken of certain Upper German features (e-apocope, the absence of the prefix ge- and the ending -t in past participles, and variants of the verb form sind) in reading primers, issues of the Wienerisches Diarium / Wiener Zeitung and petitionary letters. These reveal how such variants became increasingly 'invisible' in writing. This process of 'invisibilisation', i.e. a process of stigmatization which prevents the use of certain varieties and variants in writing, can be attributed to a number of factors: Empress Maria Theresa's appeal for a language reform, the normative work by eighteenth-century grammarians, the implementation of educational reforms, and the early introduction of East Central German variants in newspaper issues.
Somebody's Daughter
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Pietismus und Neuzeit Band 34 – 2008
»Pietismus und Neuzeit«, das seit 1974 im Auftrag der Historischen Kommission zur Erforschung des Pietismus herausgegebene Jahrbuch, bietet ein international und (inter)disziplinär breites, kulturwissenschaftliches Spektrum von Forschungsbeiträgen zur Geschichte des neueren Protestantismus, vor allem des Pietismus im Kontext europäischer Frömmigkeitsbewegungen seit der Frühen Neuzeit. Neben theologie-, frömmigkeits- und kirchengeschichtlichen Untersuchungen finden sich hauptsächlich allgemeinhistorische (mit den Schwerpunkten Sozial-, Mentalitäts- und Institutionengeschichte), musik- und literaturwissenschaftliche sowie medizin- und pädagogikgeschichtliche Untersuchungen. Besondere Serviceleistungen stellen die zahlreichen Rezensionen und die umfangreiche, historisch und systematisch gegliederte Bibliographie von (im Schnitt 350) Neuerscheinungen dar. Beiträge, Rezensionen und Bibliographie werden durch Personen- und Ortsregister erschlossen.
