Papusza / Bronisława Wajs. Tears of Blood : A Poet's Witness Account of the Nazi Genocide of Roma /
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Ratfale Jasfa (Romani: 'Tears of Blood') is a poem by the Romani poet Papusza (Bronisława Wajs) who survived the German occupation and the Second World War in Volhynia, currently Ukraine. It is also one of the earliest known testimonies by a Romani genocide survivor and a Romani woman. This book introduces the recently re-discovered manuscript which is four times longer than the previously known text. The volume includes a transcript of the poem in Romani, a translation into English, extensive historical-philological commentaries, alongside stand-alone chapters on the poet, manuscript and the historical context.
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1 online resource (424 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9783657791316
The Civilization of Modernity: An Anthology of Carlo Cattaneo's Writings /
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Carlo Cattaneo was one of the most prominent Italian intellectuals of the nineteenth century. Known for his prominent role in the Five Days of Milan uprising in 1848, he combined a vivid intelligence with a reform-oriented mind and a strong civic passion. This volume offers an exhaustive selection of Cattaneo's writings, which cover a wide range of issues and advance highly innovative theories, such as the achievement of republican federalism in Italy and Europe, thought as a principle of political economy, and the psychology of associated mind. The two introductory essays examine how his ideas developed through the time and argue for their enduring vitality See Less
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1 online resource (462 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004711181
Die Landeskinderheilstätte Mammolshöhe und ihr Direktor Werner Catel : Fürsorge, Therapie und unethische Forschung 1927-1954 /
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Die Landeskinderheilstätte Mammolshöhe in Mammolshain/Taunus war von 1927 bis 1947 ein Sanatorium, in dem an Tuberkulose erkrankte Kinder und Jugendliche behandelt wurden. Ab 1947 nahm die Einrichtung einen klinischen Charakter an und wurde zu einer Stätte der TBC-Forschung. Dieser Umschwung war das Werk des neuen Direktors Werner Catel, der vor 1945 in zentraler Funktion an der NS-Kinder-"Euthanasie" mitgewirkt hatte. Er begann auf der Mammolshöhe mit einer Versuchsreihe zur Erprobung eines neu entwickelten Präparats gegen TBC. Die Vorgänge rund um die Versuchsreihe wurden im Zusammenhang mit einer von Verleugnung und Verharmlosung der Fakten geprägten Neuerfindung der Biographie Catels umgedeutet. Die Studie zeigt exemplarisch, wie sich die ausbleibende kritische Auseinandersetzung der Medizin mit der eigenen Rolle im NS-Staat nach 1945 auswirken konnte.
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1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9783657796786
Border Fears in the Baltic Sea Region since 1918 /
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Collective fear is probably the most productive emotion in shaping international relations not only in short-term political decision-making processes, but also in the deeper layers of intercultural communication based on social and cultural memory. Taking into account the Baltic Sea Region as an area of multi-layered interdependencies, identities, and interests is the starting point to consider the emotional factors of international relations in this macro-region. Given the deep territorial changes in the Baltic Sea Region throughout the twentieth century, one of the most burning issues would concern political, geopolitical, cultural, ethnical, and linguistic borders. The multi-perspectivity of the volume including studies by historians, political scientists, and sociologists aims at casting a new light on bordering, de-bordering and re-bordering processes in the Baltic Sea Region since 1918.
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1 online resource (214 pages) : illustrations. :
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9783657798223
Vices of the Learned : Towards a Long-Term History of Scholarly Vices /
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Why are professors still warning their students against dogmatism, prejudice, pedantry, and other centuries-old vices? What explains the persistence of these scholarly vices across the ages? With case studies from medieval Europe to twenty-first century America, Vices of the Learned offers a panoramic overview of qualities, habits, and inclinations that scholars at various times and places saw as detrimental to their work. Innovative is the volume's longue durée approach. The volume breaks new ground in highlighting the importance of "low" genres (aphorisms, proverbs, anecdotes) and stereotypical figures (the pedant, the charlatan, the mammon) in transmitting vices over time.
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1 online resource (354 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004725058
Presse als Medium des Kulturtransfers : Das Journal Thornische Nachrichten von gelehrten Sachen (1762-1766) im preußisch-polnischen Kulturraum /
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Die "gelehrten Journale" des 18. Jahrhunderts ermöglichen es, Einblicke in den europäischen Informations- und Ideentransfer während der Zeit der Aufklärung zu gewinnen. Die "Thornischen Nachrichten von gelehrten Sachen" (1762-1766) tun dies - dank ihrer Prägung durch mehrere Kulturräume - auf eine ganz besondere Weise. Konzipiert in deutscher Sprache und nach dem Muster der deutschen Rezensionszeitschriften, herausgegeben auf dem Gebiet Polen-Litauens, aber in einer Region (Königliches Preußen) deren Bewohner sich als Preußen identifizierten, hatte sich das Journal Informationsvermittlung über Neuerscheinungen aus Polen und Preußen auf die Fahne geschrieben. Katarzyna Chlewicka erschließte ihrer Leserschaft den komplexen Charakter dieser Publikationen, indem sie darstellt, wie sich regionale preußische Identität, Konzepte der Literaturkritik sowie die Rezeption der polnischen und preußischen Aufklärung in den Journalen niederschlugen.
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1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations. :
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9783657796663
Nicole Oresme, Questiones in Meteorologica de prima lectura : Study of the Manuscript Tradition and Critical Edition /
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The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Nicole Oresme, a mathematician, philosopher, and theologian, stood as one of the most original and influential thinkers of the Late Middle Ages. This volume presents the critical edition of Oresme's earliest work, his first cycle of lectures on Aristotle's Meteorology (1346). Transcribed directly by one of his students at Paris Arts Faculty, this text explores problems of physics, cosmology, geology, and optics, providing invaluable insights into late medieval philosophy of nature.
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1 online resource (500 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004689237
The Call of Albion : Protestants, Jesuits, and British Literature in Poland-Lithuania, 1567-1775 /
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An in-depth look at British-Polish literary pre-Enlightenment contacts, The Call of Albion explores how the reverberations of British religious upheavals in distant Poland-Lithuania surprisingly served to strengthen the impact of English, Scottish, and Welsh works on Polish literature. The book argues that Jesuits played a key role in that process. The book provides an insightful account of how the transmission, translation, and recontextualization of key publications by British Protestants and Catholics served Calvinist and Jesuit agendas, while occasionally bypassing barriers between confessionally defined textual communities and inspiring Polish-Lithuanian political thought, as well as literary tastes.
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1 online resource (462 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004687653
The Correspondence of Zwingli and Oecolampadius : Translated and introduced by Nigel Harris and Sharon van Dijk /
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The 183 letters which Huldrych Zwingli and Johannes Oecolampadius exchanged between 1522 and 1531 are a major resource for students of the Swiss Reformation. They have, however, been largely neglected because they have hitherto been available only in the original Latin. This volume translates them all into modern English, along with explanatory notes and a substantial introduction. The book as a whole proposes and initiates a significant re-assessment of several aspects of early Reformation history, such as the extent of Oecolampadius's contribution, the precise nature of his relationship with Zwingli, and the strong connections that existed between the reformers of Zürich, Basel and Strasbourg.
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1 online resource (450 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004537910
France and the Destruction of the Jesuits, 1759-65 : Three Treatises /
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The second volume in the Anti-Jesuit Literature series at Brill casts a revealing light on a crucial moment in eighteenth-century France: the suppression of the Jesuits. Through the expert translation of three representative treatises by Jotham Parsons and Patricia M. Ranum, this collection delves into the heart of the conflict, presenting views from Jansenist-Gallican magistrates, conservative clerics, and Enlightenment thinkers. Edited with contextual commentary by Robert A. Maryks and Jotham Parsons, the volume not only navigates the complexities of the Jesuits' decline but also places it in the context of the broader Enlightenment critique, exploring the intricate interplay between evolving ideas of governance, faith, and intellectual freedom.
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1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004707467
Vitreous Vitae : St. Margaret of Antioch in Thirteenth-Century Stained Glass /
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In Vitreous Vitae: St. Margaret of Antioch in Thirteenth-Century Stained Glass , Ashley J. Laverock considers the representation of the virgin martyr St. Margaret in thirteenth-century stained-glass windows in Europe. These windows appeared at a moment when Margaret's cult was expanding but before the motif of the saint with the ragon became normative. They offer insight into the rich narrative potential of Margaret's life in a monumental medium seen by wide audiences. Examining these windows not only reveals shared emphases on Margaret's imitatio Christi , corporeal suffering, and encounters with the dragon and demon, but also shows how distinct site-specific hagiographies of Margaret were tailored to each church's context. Multi-faceted Margarets contributed to the wider cult of the saint.
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1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004702202
Quellen zur Geschichte der Rätebewegung in Deutschland 1918/19. 1. Der Zentralrat der deutschen sozialistischen Republik 19.12.1918-8.4.1919, vom ersten zum zweiten Rätekongress. U...
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Neuanfang in Buda : Deutsche Familien in der ehemaligen ungarischen Hauptstadt nach der osmanischen Herrschaft 1686-1736 /
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Mit der osmanischen Besetzung 1541 nahm die Geschichte der ungarischen Hauptstadt und königlichen Residenz Buda (Ofen) ein tragisches Ende. Die Rückeroberung war von den Habsburgern seit langem geplant, doch erst 1686 konnten die christlichen Heere die Stadt befreien. Gleich danach wanderten Menschen in die Stadt ein. Als Folge der Ansiedlung von katholischen Deutschen konzentrierte sich die politische Macht hauptsächlich in den Händen der deutschen Bewohner, doch die Stadt wurde dennoch als ein multiethnischer und multireligiöser Ort wiedergeboren. Dieses Buch ist kein stadtgeschichtliches Werk im klassischen Sinne, denn Eleonóra Géra nähert sich der Epoche nicht aus der Perspektive der öffentlichen Verwaltung, sondern stellt aus einer mikrohistorischen Perspektive ihre Kulturgeschichte vor.
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1 online resource (232 pages) : illustrations. :
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9783657797455
After the Fall : Classical Antiquity in Polish Intellectual History, 1795-1825 /
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This book deals with the perception of the heritage of Greco-Roman antiquity by Polish poets, historians, philologists, thinkers, translators, and scholars after 1795 when the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ceased to exist. Maciej Junkiert deals with the new political and social situation brought by the loss of independence, which prompted a rethinking of Polish intellectual traditions related to antiquity. He also examines how this process was influenced by the new vision of antiquity that was emerging in German, French, British, and other European countries from the mid-18th century onwards and was linked to the development of philology, ancient history, and the history of philosophy. This new vision of antiquity, which was a result of the dominance of historicism in the humanities, involved constructing an image of the past from the perspective of contemporary needs.
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9789004693272
Jesuit Rhetoric across Space and Time : Local and Global Perspectives /
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A product of Renaissance educational thought, Jesuit rhetoric has trained generations of churchmen and lay citizens right up to the present day. This book aims to show the wealth of current international research on Jesuit rhetoric, in its pedagogical dimension (from sixteenth-century manuals to today's university writing courses), its practical implementation (in speeches, music or theology). These dialogues span both religious contexts-engagements with Protestants, Jews, Orthodox Christians, and Dominicans-and geographical ones, including encounters between Europe and regions such as Sri Lanka, China, and Japan.
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1 online resource (534 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004744516
From Byzantium to the Early Greek Enlightenment : Books, Writers, and Ideologies in Early Modern Greek Contexts (Late 15th − Early 18th Centuries) /
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This book explores early modern Greek literary and wider cultural production and its connections with different traditions and sociocultural or political networks in the multicultural milieus where it emerged and circulated, especially in parts of the Greek world under Venetian and Ottoman rules, or in major centers of the Greek diaspora across Western Europe. Particular emphasis is placed on scholarly debates about issues of historical and cultural continuities and discontinuities; the transition from manuscript production and circulation to print networks; and the negotiation of ethnic and cultural ideologies and broader mentalities as articulated in representative, but not necessarily 'canonical,' works of the period.
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1 online resource (364 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004423312
Au coeur du harem : Les princesses ottomanes à l'aune du pouvoir (XVe-XVIIIe s.) /
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Les femmes ottomanes n'auraient pas leur place en politique ; recluses dans leur harem, elles passeraient leur temps en distractions superficielles ou en intrigues pernicieuses : tel est l'héritage de l'orientalisme et de l'historiographie traditionnelle. Loin de ces poncifs, cet ouvrage propose une plongée dans les cadres institutionnels et sociaux ottomans, qui commandent le spectre des interactions sociales et politiques des femmes de la cour ottomane, en prenant pour champ d'étude une figure largement ignorée de l'historiographie : les filles de sang des souverains ottomans - les sultanes. Ottoman women would have no place in politics; recluse in their harem, they would pass their time in superficial distractions or in pernicious intrigues: such is the heritage of Orientalism and traditional historiography. Far from these clichés, this work offers a dive into the Ottoman institutional and social frameworks, which govern the spectrum of social and political interactions of the women of the Ottoman court, taking as a field of study a figure largely ignored by historiography: the blood daughters of the Ottoman rulers - the sultanas.
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Ce livre propose une analyse historique des conditions politiques et sociales des princesses ottomanes à l'époque moderne, au cœur d'une société de cour dominée par les logiques de discrimination sexuelle. This book offers a historical analysis of the political and social conditions of the Ottoman princesses in modern times, at the heart of a court society dominated by the logic of sexual discrimination. :
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9789004500402
9789004500396
Revolution as Realpolitik : Ernst Meyer (1887-1930) - Biography of a KPD Chairman /
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Ernst Meyer was one of the most important figures of the German Communist Party in the Weimar Republic. He was a founding member of the Spartacus League, a member of the KPD Centre after the First World War and party chairman in 1921-22. A passionate defender of the necessity of inner-party democracy against the "ultra-left" leadership around Ruth Fischer and later the Thälmann Central Committee, as well as a supporter of revolutionary realpolitik, Meyer played a significant role in the development of the communist united front strategy and, as a critic of Stalin, later argued against the disastrous thesis of "social fascism". Despite this, Meyer has largely been forgotten. Florian Wilde now traces for the first time the political and private life and work of this disciple of Rosa Luxemburg, highlighting the strategic debates within the KPD and the alternatives to its Stalinisation, inherent in the development of the party.
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1 online resource (520 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004750678
Jacobus Montanus: 'Centuria epistolarium formularum' / 'Eine Hundertschaft Briefmuster' /
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Dass die Mistforke leichter sei als die Schreibfeder und der Schweinestall besser rieche als die Stube der Studenten" - gegen diesen Irrtum kämpft 1525 Jacobus Montanus mit einhundert Musterbriefen an. Seine Schüler sollen sie aus ihrer Muttersprache ins Lateinische übersetzen. Ergänzende Formulierungshilfen aus antiken Autoren bahnen ihnen den Weg zu gelehrter Eloquenz. Obwohl unter Zeitgenossen hoch angesehen, liegt keines der Werke des westfälischen Humanisten in moderner Ausgabe vor. Die ,Centuria epistolarium formularum' / ,Hundertschaft Briefmuster' führt ins Zentrum seines Schaffens. Sie wird hier erstmals in kritischer Ausgabe vorgelegt. Ihre Briefe bieten alltagsnahe Einblicke in die Lebens- und Bildungswelt Westfalens, und ihre Lektüre bereitet oft Vergnügen. Eine moderne Übersetzung erleichtert den Zugang. Ein ausgiebiger Kommentar erschließt sie dem an vormoderner Alltags-, Bildungs- und Regionalgeschichte Interessierten.
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1 online resource (462 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004539945