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Medieval Cologne
In Anglophone literature, historical questions about urban, socio-economic, political, religious, and cultural development have often been answered using Anglo-French, Anglo-Low Countries, and Anglo-Italian paradigms and sources. Medieval Germany has been largely overlooked, seen as a peripheral and irrelevant anomaly. Conversely, scholars from the German Rhineland have mostly remained within the traditions of civic public history and Landesgeschichte. As a result, they rarely engage with the historical questions raised in wider European discourses. This volume challenges these historiographical propensities by offering a fresh perspective on medieval urban Germany. It aims to integrate Cologne and the Rhineland more accurately and equitably into the wider histories of medieval Europe. The book engages with historical questions of wider relevance across both German and European medieval histories. It invites all scholars and students of medieval Europe to utilize Cologne as a key source for their research and writing.
Brain Science Under the Swastika
80 years ago the greatest mass murder of human beings of all time occurred in Nazi occupied Europe. This began with the mass extermination of patients with neurological and psychiatric disorders. This book is the only comprehensive and scholarly published work regarding the ethical and professional abuses of neuroscientists during the Nazi era.
Legal Literacy in Premodern European Societies
This book analyses the legal literacy, knowledge and skills of people in premodern and modernizing Europe. It examines how laymen belonging both to the common people and the elite acquired legal knowledge and skills, how they used these in advocacy and legal writing and how legal literacy became an avenue for social mobility. Taking a comparative approach, contributors consider the historical contexts of England, Finland, France, Germany, Italy and Sweden. This book is divided into two main parts. The first part discusses various groups of legal literates (scriveners, court of appeal judges and advocates) and their different paths to legal literacy from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. The second part analyses the rise of the ownership and production of legal literature – especially legal books meant for laymen – as means for acquiring a degree of legal literacy from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century.
Die Macht der Kunstkritik
Wien um 1900 – Hier befand sich nicht nur das Zentrum der Habsburgermonarchie, sondern auch das Herzstück des europäischen Kunstlebens. In dieser Stadt wurde Kunstgeschichte geschrieben, und zwar vor allem von einem Mann: Ludwig Hevesi. Der in Ungarn geborene Journalist Ludwig Hevesi (1843-1910) war der bedeutendste Kunstkritiker seiner Zeit. Sein untrügliches Gespür für Qualität machten ihn zum führenden Kenner der zeitgenössischen Malerei. Sein Urteil bestimmte über die Langlebigkeit von künstlerischen Karrieren und beeinflusste sogar Kaiser Franz Joseph. Hevesi verhalf Gustav Klimt und dem Wiener Jugendstil zum Erfolg und prägte auch das Motto der Wiener Secession: "Der Zeit ihre Kunst, der Kunst ihre Freiheit". Seine Texte erwecken vergangene Epochen zum Leben – sie erzählen von jenen Erfolgen, Misserfolgen, Skandalen und Sensationen, die die Wiener Kunstszene in Atem hielten – und bestimmen noch heute unser Bild von der Wiener Moderne.
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