While earlier historians have seen the elaborate public rituals of the Burgundian dukes as stagnant forms held over from the chivalric world of the High Middle Ages, Peter Arnade argues that they ...were a vital theater of power through which the ducal.
R. Israel Najara (Safed c.1550 – Gaza c.1628) was the founder of a new school of poetry in the East after the Expulsion from Spain. As in most new beginnings, tradition and innovation are intertwined ...in his poetry. This article examines the extent to which Najara was faithful to the tradition of Spanish Hebrew poetry, which he knew so well and cherished, primarily with respect to the structure of his poems.
A re-examination of ‘Zemirot Yisrael’ and ‘Sheerit Yisrael’, Najara’s two major poetic collections, suggests that, contrary to the general consensus in research, including that of the present author, it seems that Najara consciously and deliberately deviated from the canonical structures of Spanish poems, at times only slightly but at others much more radically. This tendency was further amplified in his later poems. Short selections from his poems illustrate this trend.
Between 1548 and 1551, controversies over adiaphora, or indifferent matters, erupted in both Germany and England. Matthias Flacius Illyricus in Germany and John Hooper in England both refused to ...accept, among other things, the same liturgical vestment: the surplice. While Flacius' objections to the imperial liturgical requirements were largely contextual, because the vestments and rites were forced on the church and were part of a recatholicizing agenda, Hooper protested because he was convinced that disputed vestments and rites lacked a biblical basis. The Devil behind the Surplice demonstrates that, while Flacius fought to protect the reformation principle of justification by grace alone through faith alone, Hooper strove to defend the reformation principle that Scripture alone was the source and norm of Christian doctrine and practice. Ultimately, Flacius wanted more Elijahs, prophets to guide a faithful remnant, and Hooper wanted a new Josiah, a young reform king to purify the kingdom and strip it of idolatry.
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1, 100 titles from Penn Press's ...distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Mining private writings and humanist texts, Erin Maglaque explores the lives and careers of two Venetian noblemen, Giovanni Bembo and Pietro Coppo, who were appointed as colonial administrators and ...governors. InVenice's Intimate Empire, she uses these two men and their families to showcase the relationship between humanism, empire, and family in the Venetian Mediterranean.
Maglaque elaborates an intellectual history of Venice's Mediterranean empire by examining how Venetian humanist education related to the task of governing. Taking that relationship as her cue, Maglaque unearths an intimate view of the emotions and subjectivities of imperial governors. In their writings, it was the affective relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children, humanist teachers and their students that were the crucible for self-definition and political decision making.Venice's Intimate Empirethus illuminates the experience of imperial governance by drawing connections between humanist education and family affairs. From marriage and reproduction to childhood and adolescence, we see how intimate life was central to the Bembo and Coppo families' experience of empire. Maglaque skillfully argues that it was within the intimate family that Venetians' relationships to empire-its politics, its shifting social structures, its metropolitan and colonial cultures-were determined.
This article reappraises the experience of the visionary Angelic Paola Antonia Negri (1508–1555) in order to reconstruct the missing links of a hidden genealogy of charismatic women. Birgitta of ...Sweden (1303–1373), celebrated author of eight books of revelations, played a major role in this genealogy, establishing the canon of women’s prophetic history and thus making it possible to talk of a Birgittine prophetic model. This article investigates how Negri, by exercising charismatic authority and developing her authorial voice, revived and ‘reactivated’ Birgitta’s prophetic model in its critique and legitimation of spiritual and temporal powers, its textual agency and its challenge to male hierarchies. Through the analysis of Negri’s Spiritual Letters (published posthumously in 1576), her hagiography, her milieu and the Inquisition’s and the Barnabites’ documents, this article shows how Negri made the Birgittine model available to all Christians, thus intensifying its potential to question the ecclesiastical and male monopoly of truth and spiritual power and the hierarchical nature of the early modern concept of authority.
Krieg und Karten gehören untrennbar zusammen. Sie sind dabei nicht bloß militärische Instrumente, sondern transportieren stets auch politische Raumbilder. Diesen bislang wenig beachteten Aspekten des ...Ersten Weltkriegs geht die Untersuchung nach.
Der Erste Weltkrieg wurde wie kein anderer Konflikt zuvor in allen räumlichen Dimensionen geführt. Karten trugen ihren entscheidenden Anteil dazu bei. Die deutschen Operationsplanungen fußten auf den strategischen Generalstabskarten, während insbesondere die Kriegführung im Westen neue Raummedien erforderte. Im gleichen Maße stiegen die Anforderungen an die Soldaten, sich mit den neuen Kartentypen im Stellungskrieg zurechtzufinden. Das führte zu Bildungsanstrengungen in der »Heimat«, von denen insbesondere die Schulgeographie profitierte. Erdkundelehrer stellten ihre Expertise bereitwillig in den Dienst des Krieges und instrumentalisierten geographisches Wissen zu Propagandazwecken.
