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The world-famous architect leoh Ming Pei -- the creator of numerous icons of modern architecture such as the East Wing of the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. or the glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris -- recently completed his first building in Germany, an extension to the German Historical Museum in Berlin. It is a triumph of museum architecture in the new century. Book jacket.
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For almost thirty years the Pitts Theology Library has worked to build America?s finest German Reformation Collection, and this year it joins hands with four museums from the land of Luther in the exhibit,?Law and Grace: Martin Luther, Lucas Cranach, and the Promise of Salvation.? Building on the famous Cranach motif?Law and Grace,? which captured the essence of Luther?s message, this exhibit explores Luther?s call to repentance and links it to the lives and legacies of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King Jr. Such an exhibit that bridges centuries and continents provides a fitting prelude to the commemoration of the 500th anniversary of Luther?s Ninety-Five Theses in 2017.00Exhibition: Pitts Theology Library, Emory University, Atlanta, USA (11.10.2016-16.01.2017).
Aneignungen des Humanismus describes the reception and adaptation of new educational ideas at the University of Ingolstadt in the later Middle Ages. Based on manuscript research, this study explains how the process of adopting new educational procedures relates to the broader contexts for social, economic and institutional framework of teaching and learning in the 15th century.
A pioneering exploration of the origins of German Christian Democracy in the context of 19th- and 20th-century politics and religion
Essays published in conjunction with three concurrent U.S. exhibitions: "Martin Luther: Art and the Reformation", Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minn., October 30, 2016-January 15, 2017; "Word and Image: Martin Luther's Reformation", The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, N.Y., October 7, 2016-January 22, 2017; and "Law and Grace: Martin Luther, Lucas Cranach, and the Promise of Salvation", Pitts Theology Library of the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, Atlanta, Ga., October 11, 2016-January 16, 2017.
An exploration of how an official French visual culture normalized France’s colonial project and exposed citizens and subjects to racialized ideas of life in the empire. By the end of World War I, having fortified its colonial holdings in the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, the Indian Ocean, and Asia, France had expanded its dominion to the four corners of the earth. This volume examines how an official French visual culture normalized the country’s colonial project and exposed citizens and subjects alike to racialized ideas of life in the empire. Essays analyze aspects of colonialism through investigations into the art, popular literature, material culture, film, and exhibitions that ...
Das Spannungsverhältnis von Waffenbesitz und dem bürgerlichen Selbstverständnis steht im Zentrum der vor allem frühneuzeitlich ausgerichteten Beiträge. Neben dem Bürgerrecht, das in Bürgerbüchern aufgezeichnet wurde und verpflichtend Waffenbesitz einforderte, werden auch die Strategien des bürgerlichen Waffenerwerbs beleuchtet. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt sind die Orte der Waffen in der Stadt: Bürgerliche Schießstätten, Zeughäuser und Pulvertürme waren in vielen Städten anzutreffen. Die Waffen in den Händen der Bürger führten aber auch zu Problemen, die sich wiederum in Gerichtsakten niederschlugen. Verschiedene Bewohnergruppen in der Stadt werden zudem nach ihrem Verhältnis zum Waffenbesitz vorgestellt: Kleriker und Juden hatten, anders als dies die Normen vorsahen, vielfachen Umgang mit Waffen.