Der Antiklerikalismus verfolgte im 19. Jahrhundert eine grundlegende Neuordnung des Verhältnisses von Staat, Gesellschaft, Kirchen und Religion. Lisa Dittrich erörtert erstmals anhand dreier Länder ...vergleichend die europäischen Dimensionen der Kirchenkritik und ihre nationalen Spielarten in Presse, Publizistik und persönlichen Netzwerken. Sie zeigt, dass die zentrale Forderung der Antiklerikalen nach Säkularisierung nicht in einem einfachen Gegensatz zu Religion und Kirchen aufging, und liefert damit eine neue Lesart der europäischen Kulturkämpfe des 19. Jahrhunderts.
Hermann Suchier, since the year 1876 Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Halle, was one of the most prominent scholars of his generation. Since he preserved all his correspondence, we ...are able to study his various international written relationships with his French colleagues, including Gaston Paris and Paul Meyer. However, a temporary disagreement between Suchier with Paris and Meyer did arise. This conflict was due to Suchier supporting the work of Wendelin Foerster, whose edition of
was severely criticized by Paris and Meyer. Subsequently, Suchier once again changed support back to Paris and Meyer and then was invited to publish in their house journal,
, and additionally to contribute two editions in ancient French to the
which had also be founded by Paris and Meyer. In this way Suchier became one of the most important intermediaries between German and French Philology in the years following the Franco-German war and the outbreak of World War I.
This article discusses the timing and character of women's philanthropy in Carniola, now part of Slovenia, in the period from 1848 to 1914. Based on primary research, it explores the beginnings of ...women's work for the poor; the impact of religion, especially Catholicism, on women's involvement in charity; and finally the rise of women's secular social care. I argue that in Carniola, Catholic women's organizations largely filled the space that opened up for women's philanthropic initiatives. By the late nineteenth century, a re-Catholicization of modern industrial society took place, which particularly focused on women, as seen in the phenomenon of the feminization of the Catholic religion. Catholic women's associations started to proliferate; some of these associations were charity associations that introduced new principles to charity work. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
Handbücher, illustrierte Broschüren von Werbeagenturen, Briefe und Reiseberichte von Auswanderern, Reportagen in Zeitungen und Journalen, öffentliche Debatten sowie nicht zuletzt eine Vielzahl von ...literarischen Texten - all dies sind Bestandteile eines komplexen Diskurses, der mit den umfangreichen Wanderungsbewegungen von Deutschland nach den USA ab der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts einhergeht. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes arbeiten den bis heute allenfalls für Teile der so genannten Populärliteratur erschlossenen Diskurs auf und zeigen dabei insbesondere, dass auch für die Literatur des Bürgerlichen Realismus das fremde Amerika und die Wanderungen dorthin vielfach konstitutiv für das Erzählen sind. Texte von Auerbach, Fontane, Keller, Raabe oder Spielhagen zeichnen sich in viel stärkerem Maße als bislang angenommen durch inter- und transkulturelle Bezüge aus, was sie zum einen durchaus als Bestandteil von Globalisierungsbewegungen erscheinen lässt, zum anderen aber auch in eine größere Nähe zu Autoren rückt, die sich auf Abenteuerromane spezialisiert haben.
Die "Historische Kommission zu Berlin" betreibt die Erforschung der Landesgeschichte und der Historischen Landeskunde Berlin-Brandenburgs bzw. Brandenburg-Preußens in Form von wissenschaftlichen ...Untersuchungen, Vorträgen, Tagungen und Veröffentlichungen sowie durch Serviceleistungen. Dabei kooperiert die Kommission auch mit anderen Institutionen und begleitet wissenschaftliche und praktische Vorhaben von allgemeinem öffentlichen Interesse. In der Schriftenreihe werden die Ergebnisse der einzelnen wissenschaftlichen Projekte der Kommission veröffentlicht.
How do peasants come to think of themselves as members of a nation? The widely accepted argument is that national sentiment originates among intellectuals or urban middle classes, then trickles down ...to the working class and peasants. Keely Stauter-Halsted argues that such models overlook the independent contribution of peasant societies. She explores the complex case of the Polish peasants of Austrian Galicia, from the 1848 emancipation of the serfs to the eve of the First World War. In the years immediately after emancipation, Polish-speaking peasants were more apt to identify with the Austrian Emperor and the Catholic Church than with their Polish lords or the middle classes of the Galician capital, Cracow. Yet by the end of the century, Polish-speaking peasants would cheer, Long live Poland and celebrate the centennial of the peasant-fueled insurrection in defense of Polish independence. The explanation for this shift, Stauter-Halsted says, is the symbiosis that developed between peasant elites and upper-class reformers. She reconstructs this difficult, halting process, paying particular attention to public life and conflicts within the rural communities themselves. The author's approach is at once comparative and interdisciplinary, drawing from literature on national identity formation in Latin America, China, and Western Europe. The Nation in the Village combines anthropology, sociology, and literary criticism with economic, social, cultural, and political history.
Die seit 1925 erscheinenden Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte bilden eine der traditionsreichsten historischen Buchreihen im deutschsprachigen Raum. Sie enthalten Forschungen zur Kirchen- und ...Dogmengeschichte des Christentums aller Epochen, veröffentlichen aber auch Arbeiten aus verwandten Disziplinen wie beispielsweise der Archäologie, Kunstgeschichte oder Literaturwissenschaft. Kennzeichnend für die Reihe ist der durchgängige Anspruch, historisch-methodische Präzision mit systematischen Kontextualisierungen des jeweiligen Gegenstandes zu verbinden. In jüngerer Zeit erscheinen verstärkt Arbeiten zu Themen einer Kultur- und Ideengeschichte des Christentums in einem methodisch offenen christentumsgeschichtlichen Horizont.
This book examines the role played by statistics and cartography in defining the German national imaginary across the long nineteenth century. It asks how spatially specific knowledge about the ...nation was constructed, showing the contested and difficult nature of objectifying this frustratingly plastic substance. Here ideology and politics were not in and of themselves capable of providing satisfactory answers to questions about the geography and membership of the nation. Rather, technology also played a key role in this process, helping to produce the scientific authority needed to make such images believable. In this sense, the book is about how the abstract idea of the nation was transformed into a something that seemed practically discoverable and politically manageable. At the same time, however, the book also looks at the birth of radical nationalism in central Europe, advancing the novel argument that it was changes to the optics of seeing nationality rather than economic anxieties or ideological shifts that radicalized nationalist practice at the close of the nineteenth century. Numbers and maps enabled activists to “see” nationality in local and spatially specific ways, enabling them to make (and then evaluate) strategic decisions about where to best direct their resources. In essence, they transformed nationality into something that was actionable – a substance whose historical development could be shaped by the actions of ordinary people.
