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Conviviality at the Crossroads
Conviviality has lately become a catchword not only in academia but also among political activists. This open access book discusses conviviality in relation to the adjoining concepts cosmopolitanism and creolisation. The urgency of today’s global predicament is not only an argument for the revival of all three concepts, but also a reason to bring them into dialogue. Ivan Illich envisioned a post-industrial convivial society of ‘autonomous individuals and primary groups’ (Illich 1973), which resembles present-day manifestations of ‘convivialism’. Paul Gilroy refashioned conviviality as a substitute for cosmopolitanism, denoting an ability to be ‘at ease’ in contexts of diversity...
Biographies of a Reformation
Biographies of a Reformation. Religious Change and Confessional Coexistence in Upper Lusatia, c. 1520-1635 introduces the region of Upper Lusatia, where Lutherans, Catholics and a range of other groups coexisted in a largely peaceful manner.
Local Societies in Bronze Age Northern Europe
This book aims to understand the process of the Bronze Age societies of Northern Europe which are often regarded as the periphery and a bleak contrast to the Central European Bronze Age. The Bronze Age is the first "globalised" period with new types of societies and new modes of exchange and trade. In this context there is considerable local variation and diversity within the Bronze Age societies of Northern Europe which is poorly understood, although there have been advances and changes in this research. Therefore this book challenges some of the mainstream opinions on the Bronze Age of Northern Europe, and focus on local and regional aspects. This is done by a series of articles from signi...
A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean
A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean presents a comprehensive collection of essays contributed by Classical Studies scholars that explore questions relating to ethnicity in the ancient Mediterranean world. Covers topics of ethnicity in civilizations ranging from ancient Egypt and Israel, to Greece and Rome, and into Late Antiquity Features cutting-edge research on ethnicity relating to Philistine, Etruscan, and Phoenician identities Reveals the explicit relationships between ancient and modern ethnicities Introduces an interpretation of ethnicity as an active component of social identity Represents a fundamental questioning of formally accepted and fixed categories in the field
From Handwriting to Footprinting
How do we currently preserve and access texts, and will our current methods be sustainable in the future? In From Handwriting to Footprinting, Anne Baillot seeks to answer this question by offering a detailed analysis of the methods that enable access to textual materials, in particular, access to books of literary significance. Baillot marshals her considerable expertise in the field of digital humanities to establish a philological overview of the changing boundaries of ‘access’ to literary heritage over centuries, deconstructing the western tradition of archiving and how it has led to current digital dissemination practices. Rigorously examining the negative environmental impact of di...
Bronze Age Lives
The Bronze Age of Europe is a crucial formative period that underlay the civilisations of Greece and Rome, fundamental to our own modern civilisation. A systematic description of it appeared in 2013, but this work offers a series of personal studies of aspects of the period by one of its best known practitioners. The book is based on the idea that different aspects of the Bronze Age can be studied as a series of “lives”: the life of people and peoples, of objects, of places, and of societies. Each of these is taken in turn and a range of aspects presented that offer interesting insights into the period. These are based on recent research (for instance on the genetic history of the Old World) as well as on fundamental earlier studies. In addition, there is a consideration of the history of Bronze Age studies, the “life of the Bronze Age”. The book provides a novel approach to the Bronze Age based on the personal interests of a well-known Bronze Age scholar. It offers insights into a period that students of other aspects of the ancient world, as well as Bronze Age specialists and general readers, will find interesting and stimulating.
Wider die Frau
Misogynie ist kein zeitgebundenes Phänomen. Die angeblichen Vorzüge und Fehler von Frauen sind seit der Antike fortwährend Gegenstand und Motiv von Erörterungen gewesen. Frauenfeindlichkeit manifestiert sich auf vielfältige Weise in allen Lebensbereichen und stellt in Geschichte und Gegenwart ein repressives Machtmittel dar. Allerdings manifestiert sich Misogynie niemals als absolute Kategorie, sondern nur in diversen Ausprägungen misogynen Sprechens. Es hat bestimmte diskursive Funktionen zu erfüllen sowie zur Ordnung und Hierarchisierung von Diskursen beizutragen. Die vielfältigen Aspekte misogynen Sprechens in den unterschiedlichen Epochen, Regionen und Kontexten werden in diesem Band aus literaturwissenschaftlicher, sozial- und kulturgeschichtlicher Perspektive beleuchtet.
Briefe als Laboratorium der Literatur im deutsch-jüdischen Kontext
Am Beispiel zahlreicher deutsch-jüdischer Autorinnen und Autoren analysieren die Beiträge dieses Bandes aufschlussreiche Briefwechsel, die als Seismograph für gesellschaftliche Prozesse, geistige Bewegungen und geschichtliche Entwicklungen betrachtet werden können. Sie konzentrieren sich auf Inhalt und Form, wobei Gattungsübergänge und die Berührungspunkte zwischen fließenden Genres beleuchtet werden. Die ausgewählten Briefkorpora werden u. a. anhand der folgenden Fragestellungen untersucht: Welche Rolle spielen die Briefe in der Fundierung neuer ästhetischer, literarischer und kultureller Bewegungen? Inwiefern fördern Briefwechsel den literarischen Austausch über kulturelle, spr...
"Jüdinnen" - Literarische Weiblichkeitsentwürfe im 20. Jahrhundert
The series European-Jewish Studies reflects the international network and competence of the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Jewish studies (MMZ). Thanks to the highly interdisciplinary character of the series, which is edited in collaboration with the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg, particular emphasis is placed on the way in which history, the humanities and cultural sciences approach the subject, as well as on fundamental intellectual, political and religious questions that inspire Jewish life and thinking today, and have influenced it in the past. The CONTRIBUTIONS publish excellent monographs and anthologies on the entire spectrum of themes from Jewish studies. The series is peer-reviewed.
