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Family, Friends and Followers
Political life in the middle ages was influenced heavily by the bonds people had to one another. Among these, the bonds of kinship, friendship and lordship were by far the most important. Ritual was also often used to create and strengthen these bonds, and conduct and behaviour within social groups was shaped by unwritten rules. People bound in these ways had a right to expect help and support from one another. Such bonds were both a fact and a necessity of life in the middle ages. Over time, however, these bonds and relationships changed, as did the rules and norms which governed them. The aim of this book is to document and describe the history of these crucial bonds, and the ways in which they shaped political life in Europe in the early and high middle ages.
The Ceremonial of Audience
Audiences are among the dominant elements of courtly life and may be referred to as a central aspect of representation of power in many societies. Audiences also served as a stage for negotiation and political decision-making. Beyond that, the ceremonial of audience acted as an integrative factor, strengthening the connections between the ruler and his subjects, the élite and his dynastic background. It thus reflects the structure, or at least the intended structure of rule, and allows us to get insight into the perception of the ruler in the respective society. This volume offers an approach to forms and structures of audiences in different epochs and regions. Choosing a transcultural and ...
The Interaction of Contract Law and Tort and Property Law in Europe
Against the background of the creation of an EU-wide frame of reference for private law relevant to the Common Market, this study, which was requested by the EU Commission, analyses the dovetailing between contract and tort law on the one hand, and between contract and property law on the other. The study examines the legal orders of almost all the Member States of the EU, illustrates the differences between contractual and non-contractual liability and evaluates the different systems of the transfer of property, of movable and immovable securities as well as trust law. The study comes to the conclusion that the intensive considerations on the creation of a model-law in the area of European private law do not allow these thoughts to be limited to contract law. Such a limitation to the scope of the regarding of this area would probably cause more problems than it would solve, or at any rate not do justice to the needs of the Common Market.
FEMALE VAMPIRE, WITCH AND HERETICAL, DURING THE MIDDLE AGES
In A. D. 1300 in Poland, more precisely in the region of Kashubia, was coined the term "nachzeher" to define the female vampire, or "chewing the shroud" or "devourer of the night." The Nachzehrer would be a special kind of vampire who lives in a constant state of numbness in his grave, without understanding what is happening around and just like a child, chewing spasmodically his dress. Martin Böhm wrote in 1601: "We have seen in times of the plague how dead people especially women - who have died of the plague make smacking noises in their graves, like a pig that is eating, and that while this smacking is going on the plague becomes much worse, usually in the same family, and people die one after the other." The theologian Philip Rohr's in 1679, in his presentation at the University of Leipzig, "Historico-Dissertatio Philosophica de Mastication Mortuorum" also known as "chewing Mortuorum", describes in detail the behavior of these dead.
Food and the Traveller
Proceedings of the 11th conference of the International Commission for Ethnological Food Research held in Cyprus, June 8-14, 1996.
A Personal Touch
Essays by Mienke Simon Thomas, Eric Turner, Lynn Springer Roberts, Veena Duncker, Reinhard Sanger.
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Doing Integration
Die Annahme, Sport wirke besonders integrativ, beschäftigt nicht nur Sportorganisationen und politische Institutionen, sondern auch die Sportwissenschaft. Doch welche Rolle spielt Integration im Prozess der kollektiven Verfertigung eines Sportprojekts? Micòl Feuchter untersucht aus einer feldanalytischen Perspektive, inwiefern sich die unterschiedlichen Projektakteur*innen aus Schule, Wirtschaft und Sport strategisch auf Integration beziehen (müssen). Dies ermöglicht ihnen, das Projekt an Antrags- und Förderlogiken auszurichten sowie ihre jeweiligen Interessen durchzusetzen. Dabei zeigt sich, dass in dieser Konstellation Integration auch zu den Problematisierungen führen könnte, die sie zu lösen beansprucht.
