The publishing house and bookshop Treuttel & Würtz was a hub of European exchange par excellence around 1800. While the publishing house targeted a transcultural elite audience with publications by ...Johann Wolfgang von Goethe or Germaine de Staël, the bookshop supplied customers throughout Europe with its branches in Strasbourg, Paris and London as well as its widely ramified trade network. For the first time, this study examines the working and influence of the publishing bookshop and embeds it in the cultural-historical context: from the organisation of the book trade and the cooperation between booksellers to library history and the emergence of new academic disciplines such as the modern philologies at the beginning of the 19th century. All these areas were characterised by a transnational market, which was served by Treuttel & Würtz in a way that can be described as practised world literature.
Die Verlagsbuchhandlung Treuttel & Würtz war um 1800 eine Drehscheibe des europäischen Austauschs par excellence. Während der Verlag mit Publikationen von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe oder Germaine de Staël ein transkulturelles Elitepublikum anvisierte, belieferte die Buchhandlung mit ihren Filialen in Straßburg, Paris und London sowie ihrem weit verzweigten Handelsnetzwerk Kunden in ganz Europa. Erstmals werden in dieser Studie Funktionsweise und Einfluss der Verlagsbuchhandlung untersucht und in den kulturhistorischen Kontext eingebettet: von der Organisation des Buchhandels und den Kooperationen der Buchhändler über Bibliotheksgeschichte bis zur Entstehung neuer akademischer Disziplinen wie der modernen Philologien zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts. All diese Bereiche zeichneten sich durch einen transnationalen Markt aus, der von Treuttel & Würtz in einer Weise bedient wurde, die als praktizierte Weltliteratur bezeichnet werden kann.
Genealogisches Wissen war in der Vormoderne eine wichtige Ressource. Adlige und bürgerliche Akteur:innen benötigten es im Ringen um Rang und Ämter, Gelehrte nutzten es für die Geschichtsschreibung. ...Zahlreiche Zeitgenossen bemühten sich, dieses Wissen zu gewinnen, zu präsentieren oder zurückzuweisen. Der Band untersucht den Umgang diverser Akteursgruppen mit genealogischem Wissen und fragt nach dessen Konstruktion, Darstellung und Rezeption. Mit Blick auf die genealogischen Wissenskonstruktionen rücken die Kenntnisse und Absichten der Akteure in den Blick: Woher bezogen und wozu benötigten Adlige und Gelehrte, aber auch Handwerker und Rechtspraktiker genealogische Informationen? Damit verknüpft sind die medialen Darstellungsformen genealogischer Wissensbestände. Die Beiträge fragen daher, welche sprachlichen Fähigkeiten und handwerklichen Fertigkeiten die Akteure mitbrachten, welche Materialien und Konventionen sie nutzten. Fokussiert werden zudem Rezeptionsprozesse, denn genealogisches Wissen wurde oftmals übertragen, modifiziert oder angefochten. Der Band leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zum Verständnis vormoderner Wissenskulturen. ; Genealogisches Wissen war in der Vormoderne eine wichtige Ressource. Adlige und bürgerliche Akteur:innen benötigten es im Ringen um Rang und Ämter, Gelehrte nutzten es für die Geschichtsschreibung. Zahlreiche Zeitgenossen bemühten sich, dieses Wissen zu gewinnen, zu präsentieren oder zurückzuweisen. Der Band untersucht den Umgang diverser Akteursgruppen mit genealogischem Wissen und fragt nach dessen Konstruktion, Darstellung und Rezeption. Mit Blick auf die genealogischen Wissenskonstruktionen rücken die Kenntnisse und Absichten der Akteure in den Blick: Woher bezogen und wozu benötigten Adlige und Gelehrte, aber auch Handwerker und Rechtspraktiker genealogische Informationen? Damit verknüpft sind die medialen Darstellungsformen genealogischer Wissensbestände. Die Beiträge fragen daher, welche sprachlichen Fähigkeiten und handwerklichen Fertigkeiten die Akteure mitbrachten, welche Materialien und Konventionen sie nutzten. Fokussiert werden zudem Rezeptionsprozesse, denn genealogisches Wissen wurde oftmals übertragen, modifiziert oder angefochten. Der Band leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zum Verständnis vormoderner Wissenskulturen.
Professionals and Marginals in Slavic and Jewish Cultural Traditions is the annual publication of the Slavic & Jewish Cultures: Dialogue, Similarities, Differences’s project for 2022. It includes ...papers from the international conference of the same name held in Moscow on December 1–3, 2021. The book includes twelve articles by Russian and Israeli scholars who work on the social and cultural role of professionals and marginals in various ethno-confessional traditions. The question of the perception of professionals in culture falls under the opposition “one’s own/another’s,” where belonging to “one’s own” or a “foreign community or class” becomes a defining marker. Traditionally, “social strangers,” to which representatives of various professions belong, were assigned a special role in calendar, magical, and occasional rites. Thus, professionals and social marginals were not considered outcasts: society assigned them a particular place and role, delegating special cultural functions to them. Like previous publications in this series, Professionals and Marginals in Slavic and Jewish Cultural Traditions is notable for the large amount of field and archival material that it makes publically available for the first time.
This open access book brings together an eclectic cast of scholars in related disciplines to examine ageing in the Soviet Union, covering the practice of geriatrics, the science of gerontology, and ...the experience of growing old. Chapters in the book focus on concepts and themes that analyse Soviet ageing in its medical, political and social contexts, both in the Soviet Union and internationally. Ageing was hardly a uniquely Soviet phenomenon: over the past fifty years, moreover, governments and societies have been dealing with steady increases in their ageing populations. Almost paradoxically, however, societal focus on this ageing population, its lives, and its social impact remains extremely limited. Compared to most sciences, gerontology is pitifully underfunded; geriatrics is amongst the least prestigious branches of medicine; and while the world’s population is growing undeniably older, great disagreement remains over what can and should be done in response. These were the same challenges that the USSR faced in the post-war decades (1945-1991), and the contributions included in this volume help to flesh out and contextualize the example of Soviet gerontology and geriatrics as one possible model of response. Geriatrics and Ageing in the Soviet Union captures the growing interest in this important subject, demonstrating the influence of ageing on Soviet science and society and the impact of Soviet gerontology and geriatrics at a global level. The book is available under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Wellcome Trust and Liverpool John Moores University.
This open access book explores the history of asylums and their civilian patients during the First World War, focusing on the effects of wartime austerity and deprivation on the provision of care. ...While a substantial body of literature on ‘shell shock’ exists, this study uncovers the mental wellbeing of civilians during the war. It provides the first comprehensive account of wartime asylums in London, challenging the commonly held view that changes in psychiatric care for civilians post-war were linked mainly to soldiers’ experiences and treatment. Drawing extensively on archival and published sources, this book examines the impact of medical, scientific, political, cultural and social change on civilian asylums. It compares four asylums in London, each distinct in terms of their priorities and the diversity of their patients. Revealing the histories of the 100,000 civilian patients who were institutionalised during the First World War, this book offers new insights into decision-making and prioritisation of healthcare in times of austerity, and the myriad factors which inform this.
The Indo-European tripartite social structure, understood as the partition of the archaic society into three main groups, the king/priest, the warrior and the producer, may be projected into the ...structural development visible in the initiation’s three step process: separating from parents, instruction and trials, ending with settling into a certain social status. The initiation rites of passage introduced adolescents into the complexities of the social and religious world of the community, preparing the novices for their new status within the adult group, be that of a warrior, a bride, a groom, or a king. This paper will attempt to identify among a few examples of youth initiation rituals patterns, separation from the previous social status, inclusion in a clan or a group, and marriage, in line with the tripartite social classification. On the descriptive level I will analyze the Romanian folk stories ‘The Apprentice at the Wizard’s School’, (‘Vrăjitorul și ucenicul său’), in which the transformations flight through embodying animals from all realms of nature suggests a youth initiation ritual into the entire spectrum of existence, reminiscence of a creation myth. The mythical motif of the flight of transformations is discussed in Greek and Hindu heritage. The ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (‘Povestea porcului’) story presents the initiation of a wife through the trials of finding her departed husband, and of a husband parting after the burning of the animal skin. From the social structure perspective these folk stories describe the youth initiation into husband and wife position. The songs ‘Iovan Iorgovan,’ and ‘The Snake Song’ (‘Cântecul șarpelui,’) represent the youth initiation into the warrior fraternity. On the action level I discuss the youth bands Romanian ‘ceată’ and their ritual training for holiday ceremonies, Christmas, Easter and such, including the Brașov Youth, Romanian ‘Junii brașoveni’; other youth bands that form the Romanian wedding entourage, the reciters of the poem ‘oratio nuptiae,’ are compared with the escort formed during the ancient Greek wedding ceremony.
Russia's large-scale invasion on the 24th of February 2022 once again made Ukraine the focus of world media. Behind those headlines remain the complex developments in Ukraine's history, national ...identity, culture and society. Addressing readers from diverse backgrounds, this volume approaches the history of Ukraine and its people through primary sources, from the early modern period to the present. Each document is followed by an essay written by an expert on the period, and a conversational piece touching on the ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine. In this ground-breaking collection, Ukraine's history is sensitively accounted for by scholars inviting the readers to revisit the country's history and culture. With a foreword by Olesya Khromeychuk.
In the Shadow of War and Empire offers a site-specific history of Ottoman and Turkish industrialisation through the lens of a mid-nineteenth-century cotton factory in the “Turkish Manchester,” the ...name chosen by the Ottomans for the industrial complex they built in the 1840s in Istanbul, which, in the contemporary words of one of the country’s most prominent contemporary Marxist theorists, became “the secret to and the basis of Turkish capitalism" in the 1930s.
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