Mai 20, 2016, 5:38 p.m.,
Dale, J.,
Allgemein.
The Gregorian reform movement in general, and events at Canossa in 1077 in particular, have been credited with tarnishing the lustre of sacral kingship within the Empire. In this paper narrative, liturgical and material sources are drawn upon, to demonstrate the extent to which the image of kingship within the Hohenstaufen Empire continued to be rooted in biblical and liturgical soil. The paper focuses on the ritual of inauguration and draws a distinction between royal and imperial ceremonies. This makes it apparent that, while scholars have been right to stress the extent to which papal alterations to the imperial rite undermined the liturgical associations of the imperial office, the imperial liturgy developed by the papal curia in Rome had negligible impact on the royal inauguration liturgy used in Aachen. On the contrary, German monarchs continued to make lively use of inauguration liturgy to emphasize, in the face of papal opprobrium, the divinely ordained nature of their rule.
Quelle: http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/34/2/191?rss=1
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Mai 20, 2016, 5:38 p.m.,
Watanabe-OKelly, H.,
Allgemein.
Dynastic marriage in the Europe of the ancien régime is built upon the assumption that a high-born woman will leave her natal family and the territory she grew up in and travel to the court and territory of her spouse. Were these foreign-born queens consort able to graft elements that they had brought with them onto the culture they found when they arrived in their new country and so create a new cultural synthesis? What elements from their marital court did they send back home? In other words, did these women function as agents of cultural transfer between their natal and their marital courts, and to what extent was this an ongoing process? What were the factors—personal and political—that enabled one queen to be an active cultural agent and another not? What theories of cultural transfer are useful in examining the influence of these queens? Are there specific features of court culture that distinguish cultural transfer between courts from other cases of transfer? By the mid-eighteenth century is the influence of France so pervasive that the court has become a transnational space? The example chosen to illuminate these questions is Maria Amalia, Princess of Saxony and Poland (1724–1760), who on her marriage in 1738 became Queen of the Two Sicilies and from 1759 was Queen of Spain.
Quelle: http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/34/2/279?rss=1
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Mai 20, 2016, 5:38 p.m.,
German History - current issue,
Allgemein.
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Mai 20, 2016, 5:38 p.m.,
Keil, A.,
Allgemein.
The ‘Renaissance of Prussianism’ (Preußenrenaissance), which began in the late 1970s and continued throughout the 1980s in the German Democratic Republic, has received considerable scholarly attention. Discussions have focused on the involvement of academic historians in the revision of the official conception of history of the socialist East German state. This article offers new perspectives on hitherto neglected aspects of the Preußenrenaissance. It explores the German–German entanglements of this phenomenon by linking it with almost simultaneous events in West Germany. By the mid-1980s each German state had embraced Prussia as a part of its redefined collective identity and had entered into a competition for representing its historical heritage. Yet, this piece also looks at the ways in which the new conception of German national history was transmitted and popularized in the GDR media. From 1978, state television promoted a positive view of Prussian history with opulent productions such as Sachsens Glanz and Preußens Gloria. An analysis of viewers’ letters offers some insight into the popular perception of the new course. Against this backdrop, this article also highlights that the ideological volte-face regarding Prussia’s history was not unanimously supported within the rank and file of the ruling Socialist Unity Party. In fact, the Preußenrenaissance in the late GDR proved to be a chequered and often contradictory process, shaped by the many self-willed actors. The article concludes with a brief consideration of the interplay between these various actors involved in the Preußenrenaissance and their specific motivations.
Quelle: http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/34/2/258?rss=1
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Mai 20, 2016, 3:00 p.m.,
Schlesier, S.,
Allgemein.
<span class="paragraphSection"><span style="font-style:italic;">Ökonomisches Vertrauen und antisemitische Gewalt: Jüdische Viehhändler in Mittelfranken 1919–1939</span> . By FischerStefanie . Göttingen : Wallstein Verlag . 2014 . 368 pp. 34.90€ (hardback). </span>
Quelle: https://academic.oup.com/gh/article/34/3/498/2237700/%C3%96konomisches-Vertrauen-und-antisemitische-Gewalt?rss=1
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Mai 20, 2016, 12:00 p.m.,
Labyrinthe,
Allgemein.
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Mai 20, 2016, 10:00 a.m.,
Adelman J.,
Allgemein.
<span class="paragraphSection"><div class="boxTitle">Summary</div>Studies of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia influenced the formation of ideas about disease transmission in Dublin between 1862 and 1882. Public health officials used their experience with pleuropneumonia to try to understand the media by which diseases might pass between bodies. The story of pleuropneumonia in Dublin shows how practical experience in meat inspection shaped medical ideas. The slaughterhouse served not only as an important arena of public health action but also as a site of knowledge formation. However, attempts to use ideas about pleuropneumonia to push for changes to public health practices fell short of expectations. A number of obstacles slowed change including special interest groups, poor finances, scientific confusion, and the division of duties between civic bodies and Poor Law Unions.</span>
Quelle: https://academic.oup.com/shm/article/30/1/71/2991133/Contagious-Bovine-Pleuropneumonia-Germs-and-Public?rss=1
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Mai 20, 2016, 2:09 a.m.,
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies current issue,
Allgemein.
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Mai 20, 2016, 2:09 a.m.,
Fitzgerald, C. M.,
Allgemein.
The Croxton Play of the Sacrament paradoxically enacts anxieties about the propriety of Passion drama. Framing the play's central action—the Jews' testing of the Communion wafer in a parody of the Passion—with the story of a Christian merchant who enables or even sponsors those acts, the Croxton play provides critical distance on the very performance it enacts. Ultimately, it replaces the Passion play with, and judges it inferior to, a more decorous and authoritative processional ritual. Moreover, in presenting a Christian merchant as the catalyst for the Jews' actions, the play not only reinforces the anti-Semitic association of Jews with commerce, but also directs part of its antiludic anxieties at Christian mercantile culture, thus deploying its anti-Semitism to criticize the culture that largely underwrote late medieval drama. In all of this, the play participates in an antiludic discourse that may be broader and earlier than previously supposed.
Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/46/2/315?rss=1
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Mai 20, 2016, 2:09 a.m.,
Byker, D.,
Allgemein.
This essay explores how Shakespeare's Measure for Measure investigates the possibilities of intercessory speech and action. Intercession was a crucial and diversely realized component to many forms of late medieval religious expression, in which a person would seek the aid of another to procure his or her desires. This fundamental structure animated, for example, prayers for the dead, confession, and petitions to the saints. Yet these intercessory practices would be largely dismantled by Protestant Reformers, who argued that human intercession "darkens, and almost buries, the intercession of Christ," as Calvin wrote. In its staging of a plot in which characters frequently depend on others to speak for them (most importantly Angelo for the Duke, and Isabella for Claudio), Measure for Measure explores the consequences of a theological insistence on speaking for oneself, while scrutinizing the capabilities and costs of an intercessory ethic.
Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/46/2/405?rss=1
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