Archiv für Februar 2016

The Impact of Hollywood Film Imports in East Germany and the Cultural Surrender of the GDR Film Control in the 1970s and 1980s

When the first and only Film Week of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was held in New York City in 1975, East Germany saw it as another major success on the road to normalization and international recognition. However, trouble was already brewing …

From Unfit Imperialists to Fellow Civilizers: German Colonial Officials as Imperial Experts in the League of Nations, 1919-1933

At the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was publicly excluded from the European ‘civilizing mission’. The victorious Allies stripped Germany of its overseas empire. The German colonies were awarded to other imperial powers as mandates under t…

Why does Music Matter?

This essay reviews recent works on the cultural history of music. Arguing that there are not one but several discrete interdisciplinary interfaces at which such work is undertaken, it explores work that analyses musical culture as a site at which ideo…

Affectionate Authorities: Fathers and Fatherly Roles in Late Medieval Basel

Quelle: http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/34/1/131?rss=1

Are Things ‚Indifferent? How Objects Change Our Understanding of Religious History

The largest cache of medieval liturgical furnishings that survives is in Protestant Germany. This survival has sometimes been attributed to Martin Luther’s doctrine of the ‘indifference’ of objects. Using several examples, one from s…

Konfessionelle Selbst- und Fremdbezeichnungen: Zur Terminologie der Religionsparteien im 16. Jahrhundert

Quelle: http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/34/1/134?rss=1

Die Welt des Johannes Letzner: Ein lutherischer Landpfarrer und Geschichtsschreiber des 16. Jahrhunderts

Quelle: http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/34/1/136?rss=1

Baptism, Brotherhood, and Belief in Reformation Germany

Quelle: http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/34/1/133?rss=1

Fragile Minds and Vulnerable Souls: The Matter of Obscenity in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Quelle: http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/34/1/140?rss=1

Die Semantik des Schicksals. Zur Relevanz des Unverfügbaren zwischen Aufklärung und Erstem Weltkrieg

Quelle: http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/34/1/141?rss=1