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Representing Royalty
Since the early days of cinema, filmmakers have been intrigued by the lives and loves of British monarchs. The most recent productions by ITV and Netflix show that the fascination with British royalty continues unabated both in Britain and around the world. This book examines strategies of representing power and the staging of myths of power in seven popular films about British monarchs that were made after the mid-1990s revival of the “royal biopic” genre. By combining approaches from cultural studies with concepts and theories from the humanities, such as film studies and art history, it offers a comprehensive understanding of the cinematic portraits of royalty. In addition, the volume...
Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 17701914
Interrogates the belief that the clergy defined German Catholic reading habits, showing that readers frequently rebelled against their church's rules.
The Inquisitor in the Hat Shop
Early modern Venice was an exceptional city. Located at the intersection of trade routes and cultural borders, it teemed with visitors, traders, refugees and intellectuals. It is perhaps unsurprising, then, that such a city should foster groups and individuals of unorthodox beliefs, whose views and life styles would bring them into conflict with the secular and religious authorities. Drawing on a vast store of primary sources - particularly those of the Inquisition - this book recreates the social fabric of Venice between 1640 and 1740. It brings back to life a wealth of minor figures who inhabited the city, and fostered ideas of dissent, unbelief and atheism in the teeth of the Counter-Refo...
Europe and the Other and Europe as the Other
This book contributes to the debate on what Europe means by demonstrating the complexities and contradictions inherent in the concept. They are seen most clearly when Europe is viewed from a long historical perspective. During the closing decades of the twentieth century Europe emerged as one of the main points of reference in both the cultural and the political constructs of the global community. An obsession with the concept of European identity is readily discernible. This process of identity construction provokes critical questions which the book aims to address. At the same time the book explores the opportunities offered by the concept of Europe to see how it may be used in the constru...
Histories of French Sexuality
Histories of French Sexuality contends that the history of sexuality is at a crossroads. Decades of scholarship have shown that sexuality is implicated in a wide range of topics, such as studies of reproduction, the body, sexual knowledge, gender identity, marriage, and sexual citizenship. These studies have broadened historical narratives and interpretations of areas such as urbanization, the family, work, class, empire, the military and war, and the nation. Yet while the field has evolved, not everyone has caught on, especially scholars of French history. Covering the early eighteenth century through the present, the essays in Histories of French Sexuality show how attention to the history...
Women and the Circulation of Texts in Renaissance Italy
The first comprehensive guide to women's promotion and use of textual culture, in manuscript and print, in Renaissance Italy.
La censure négociée
Etude sur le contrôle de l'imprimerie à Genève, de la censure des lecteurs et de la politique éditoriale des autorités de la ville, faisant surgir les rapports de force et les négociations permanentes opposant pouvoir civil et autorité religieuse. Rend compte d'une censure négociée par les magistrats, pasteurs, imprimeurs et libraires, qui cherchent à se concilier des pouvoirs extérieurs.
The Devotion and Promotion of Stigmatics in Europe, c. 1800–1950
In the nineteenth century a new type of mystic emerged in Catholic Europe. While cases of stigmatisation had been reported since the thirteenth century, this era witnessed the development of the ‘stigmatic’: young women who attracted widespread interest thanks to the appearance of physical stigmata. To understand the popularity of these stigmatics we need to regard them as the ‘saints’ and religious ‘celebrities’ of their time. With their ‘miraculous’ bodies, they fit contemporary popular ideas (if not necessarily those of the Church) of what sanctity was. As knowledge about them spread via modern media and their fame became marketable, they developed into religious ‘celebrities’.
Politik – Theorie – Erfahrung
Dieser Band versammelt Gespräche, die in den 30 Jahren des Bestehens von "L'Homme. Z. F. G." mit namhaften Akteur*innen der feministischen Geschichtswissenschaft geführt wurden. Es werden Feminismen und Frauenbewegungen, Lebens- und Forschungswege, neue Themenfelder, Methoden und Konzepte sowie Inter-/Disziplinarität und postkoloniale Perspektiven beleuchtet und mit den persönlichen Erfahrungen der Forscher*innen verknüpft. So entsteht ein faszinierendes Kaleidoskop differenter Positionierungen und Kontexte weit über Europa hinaus, das Hürden bei der Verankerung der Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung ebenso deutlich macht wie Erfolge und künftige Herausforderungen. Auch darum eignet s...
Reassembling the Republic of Letters in the Digital Age
Between 1500 and 1800, the rapid evolution of postal communication allowed ordinary men and women to scatter letters across Europe like never before. This exchange helped knit together what contemporaries called the ‘respublica litteraria’, a knowledge-based civil society, crucial to that era’s intellectual breakthroughs, formative of many modern values and institutions, and a potential cornerstone of a transnational level of European identity. Ironically, the exchange of letters which created this community also dispersed the documentation required to study it, posing enormous difficulties for historians of the subject ever since. To reassemble that scattered material and chart the hi...
