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Die Einfachheit, die Langsamkeit und die Einsamkeit ben in einer materiell bers ttigten, aber oberfl chlichen und unter notorischer Zeitknappheit leidenden Lebensumwelt eine starke Anziehung aus. Der Pilger, der auf dem R cken das tr gt, was er tragen kann und will, wird durch die Reduktion "beschenkt." Er begibt sich daf r in eine Auszeit, in der er nicht produzieren muss: keine Worte, keine Projekte, keine Leistung. Die Grenzen zwischen Wall- und Pilgerfahrt auf der einen Seite und jener zwischen Pilgern und Touristen auf der anderen Seite verschwimmen dabei oft, im Unterschied zum Tourismus im herk mmlichen Sinn dient diese Auszeit jedoch nicht der reinen Erholung oder dem Vergn gen, sond...
Kingship and Masculinity in Late Medieval England explores the dynamic between kingship and masculinity in fifteenth century England, with a particular focus on Henry V and Henry VI. The role of gender in the rhetoric and practice of medieval kingship is still largely unexplored by medieval historians. Discourses of masculinity informed much of the contemporary comment on fifteenth century kings, for a variety of purposes: to praise and eulogise but also to explain shortcomings and provide justification for deposition. Katherine J. Lewis examines discourses of masculinity in relation to contemporary understandings of the nature and acquisition of manhood in the period and considers the exten...
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The Catholic Church and the Bible: From the Council of Trent to the Jansenist Controversy studies the impact of Jansenism and anti–Jansenism on vernacular Bible reading and Bible production in the Low Countries in the sixteent and seventeenth centuries.