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Sites of Knowledge
Sites of Knowledge combines the history of the University of Vienna with the history of its buildings. The evolution of one of Central Europe"s oldest universities is laid out in essays on the Alma Mater Rudolphina from the points of view of history of architecture and of art, history of science and of the university. This history sets off from the former Duke"s College in Vienna"s inner city district of Stubenviertel and continues via the "Palace of Knowledge" on the Ringstrasse and the glass building Juridicum at Schottenbastei to more recent buildings erected in the Alsergrund district. Each of these buildings represents its own era and at the same time constitutes a lasting expression of the way the university, which is now the largest in the German-speaking realm, has actively shaped its own role.
Brahms and His World
As an influential and well-connected composer, Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) had encountered, befriended, and collaborated with hundreds of people over his significant career. In Brahms and His World: A Biographical Dictionary, author Peter Clive provides extensive and up-to-date information on the composer's personal and professional association with some 430 persons. These persons include relatives, friends, acquaintances, and physicians; fellow musicians and composers whom Brahms particularly admired and in the editions of whose works he was involved; conductors, instrumentalists, and singers who took part in notable or first performances of his works; poets whose texts he set to music; pub...
A Companion to Medieval Vienna
This volume provides a multidisciplinary view on the complexity of an emerging city, offering, for the first time in English, an overview of the current state of research on Vienna in the Middle Ages.
The Man of Many Devices, who Wandered Full Many Ways--
More than sixty friends and colleagues pay tribute to the distinguised professor Janos M. Bak's 70th birthday."
The Concerto
Twelve-tone and serial music were dominant forms of composition following World War II and remained so at least through the mid-1970s. In 1961, Ann Phillips Basart published the pioneering bibliographic work in the field.
The City & the Crown
Spielman presents the role of the Habsburg court in the rise of Vienna the early modem period. His study clearly shows the extraordinarily complex web of interrelationships and interdependencies between the court, its servants, and the city as each strove to protect its privileges. The author's innovative approach consists in identifying the specific role that the court quartering system played in the expansion of the government's involvement in the development of the city. in so doing, Spielman ties in the two approaches traditionally used in histories of early modem Germany and Austria: the growth of the modem bureaucracy and the development of the Baroque.
Die materielle Kultur der Stadt in Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit
Der "material turn" hat inzwischen auch die Forschung zur Vormoderne erreicht. Im vorliegenden Sammelband untersuchen Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aus den Bereichen der Geschichte und Kunstgeschichte die materielle Kultur der Stadt. Dieser neue methodische Ansatz führt zu ganz neuen Ergebnissen in Bezug auf so traditionelle Quellen wie Chroniken, Rödel, Rechnungs- und Eidbücher. Er lenkt das Augenmerk auf Artefakte im Besitz von Bürgern und Rat, seien sie als Objekte erhalten oder nur schriftlich dokumentiert. So werfen die Beiträge ein neues Licht auf Aspekte der städtischen Kultur: Sie untersuchen die Rolle von Harnischen und Totenschilden, fragen nach der Bedeutung von Stoffqualitäten der Kleidung, erörtern Polster, Wandmalereien und Glasfenstern in Ratssälen als Medien der städtischen Kommunikation.
