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Freedom and the Cage
Spurred by ideals of individual liberty that took hold in the Western world in the late nineteenth century, psychiatrists and public officials sought to reinvent asylums as large-scale, totally designed institutions that offered a level of freedom and normality impossible in the outside world. This volume explores the “caged freedom” that this new psychiatric ethos represented by analyzing seven such buildings established in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy between the late 1890s and World War I. In the last two decades of the Habsburg Empire, architects of asylums began to abandon traditional corridor-based plans in favor of looser formations of connected villas, echoing through design the...
Critical Monks
In Critical Monks Wallnig offers a new, contextualized interpretation of German Benedictine scholarship around 1700.
Order and Disorder: The Poor Clares between Foundation and Reform
In Order and Disorder: The Poor Clares between Foundation and Reform, Bert Roest provides an up-to-date and comprehensive history of the Poor Clares from their early beginnings until the sixteenth century. With recourse to the available secondary literature and a wealth of primary sources, this book shows how the early history of the Poor Clares cannot be reduced to Franciscan initiatives, and that the institutionalization of the order was characterized by prolonged conflicts and a series of important papal interventions. The work also provides insight in the expansion of the order, the complexities of religious reforms, and the significant cultural production of the women involved.
Wir Schwestern
1133 gründeten Markgraf Leopold III. und seine Gemahlin Agnes in Klosterneuburg ein Männerkonvent der Augustiner-Chorherren und eine Gemeinschaft von Chorfrauen als Doppelkloster. Während andernorts Frauenkonvente spätestens im 13. Jh, aufgelöst wurden, blieb der Klosterneuburger bis 1568 erhalten. In die 1133 gegründete Gemeinschaft traten Mädchen, junge Frauen und adelige Witwen ein. Ehefrauen lebten auf Zeit beim Konvent, wenn ihre Männer abwesend waren. Während andernorts die Doppelklosterkonstruktion meist im 12. oder spätestens 13. Jh. aufgegeben und der Frauenkonvent aufgelöst wurde, blieb er in Klosterneuburg bis 1568 erhalten. Die Frauen waren hier so erfolgreich, dass sie sich 1261 um das Frauenstift Sankt Jakob in Klosterneuburg erweiterten. Nach der Auflösung im 16. Jh. fielen ihr Hab und Gut, ihre Kunst, ihre Bücher und der Grundbesitz an das Augustiner Chorherrenstift. Was waren die Aufgaben der Schwestern? Welche Heiligen haben sie verehrt? Was haben sie gelesen, gebetet und gelehrt? Das Buch beleuchtet das Leben der lange vergessenen Chorfrauen aus unterschiedlichen Blickwickeln.
A Companion to Medieval Miracle Collections
A companion volume for the usage of medieval miracle collections as a source, offering versatile approaches to the origins, methods, and techniques of various types of miracle narratives, as well as fascinating case studies from across Europe.
Medieval Buda in Context
Medieval Buda in Context discusses the character and development of Buda and its surroundings between the thirteenth and the sixteenth centuries, particularly its role as a royal center and capital city of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary. The twenty-one articles written by Hungarian and international scholars draw on a variety of primary sources: texts, both legal and literary; archaeological discoveries; architectural history; art history; and other studies of material culture. The essays also place Buda in the political, social, cultural and economic context of other contemporary central and eastern European cities. By bringing together the results of research undertaken in recent decades ...
Prometheus Tamed
Large city fires were a huge threat in premodern Central European every-day life; only quite late, institutional forms of fire insurances emerged as a post-disaster instrument of damage recovery. During the nineteenth century, insurance agencies spread through the World forming a plurality of modernities, safe or unsafe.
