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Beauvoir in Time
Beauvoir in Time situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex in the historical context of its writing and in later contexts of its international reception, from then till now. The book takes up three aspects of Beauvoir's work more recent feminists find embarrassing: "bad sex," "dated" views about lesbians, and intersections with race and class. Through close reading of Beauvoir's writing in m…
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Blood Libel : The Ritual Murder Accusation at the Limit of Jewish History
The ritual murder accusation is one of a series of myths that fall under the label blood libel, and describes the medieval legend that Jews require Christian blood for obscure religious purposes and are capable of committing murder to obtain it. This malicious myth continues to have an explosive afterlife in the public sphere, where Sarah Palin's 2011 gaffe is only the latest reminder of its po…
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- 305.892 400 9 JOH b
Wounds and Wound Repair in Medieval Culture
The spectacle of the wounded body figured prominently in the Middle Ages, from images of Christ’s wounds on the cross, to the ripped and torn bodies of tortured saints who miraculously heal through divine intervention, to graphic accounts of battlefield and tournament wounds—evidence of which survives in the archaeological record—and literary episodes of fatal (or not so fatal) wounds. Th…
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Die Thun-Hohenstein’sche Universitätsreformen
The book gathers 14 articles on the reforms of the Austrian University system from 1848 to 1860 named after Leo Thun Hohenstein. The reforms mark a turning point in the history of the Austrian educational landscape. The book provides new perspectives on the work of Leo Thun-Hohenstein, using to date unknown sources and new approaches
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- 9783205204114
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Die Matrikel der Universität Wien: VIII
Register (matriculation book) of the University of Vienna, 1746/47-1777/78 with university records, chronicles and enrollments.
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Die Matrikel der Universität Wien: VII
The seventh volume of the Matriculation Book of the University of Vienna includes the period from 1715/16 to 1745/46. It represents the follow-up of the edition of the central student enrollments of the rectors of the University of Vienna, that was initially established in 1377. It is a first-class source for studies of the history of persons and the institution of the University of Vienna, as …
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What Literature Knows
This volume sheds light on the nexus between knowledge and literature. Arranged historically, contributions address both popular and canonical English and US-American writing from the early modern period to the present. They focus on how historically specific texts engage with epistemological questions in relation to material and social forms as well as representation. The authors discuss liter…
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Zwischen Authentizität und Fiktion: Die private Korrespondenz spanischer Emi…
The main focus of this study is a methodological analysis of private letters written by Spanish emigrants from the Americas to their relatives and friends back in Europe, with an intensive discussion about the interaction and blurring between the public and the private spheres in private correspondences, kept and preserved in a public space (the archive). Questions of source criticism and a det…
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Wolfgang von Weisl: Schauspiel und Roman im Zeichen des modernen politischen …
Der Band präsentiert zwei von dem Wiener Zionisten Wolfgang von Weisl verfasste historisch-fiktionale Werke: das Schauspiel Erlöser und den Roman Der Anfang der Wandlung Israels, deren Zentralfiguren, Simon Bar Kochba und der aus Russland nach Palästina eingewanderte Joseph Trumpeldor, als glorifizierte Nationalhelden und Märtyrer bis heute im kollektiven Gedächtnis Israels gegenwärtig si…
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Framing French Culture
Throughout this book, the concept of framing is used to look at art, photography, scientific drawings and cinema as visually constituted, spatially bounded productions. The way these genres relate to that which exists beyond the frame, by means of plastic, chemically transposed, pencil-sketched or moving images allows us to decipher the particular language of the visual and at the same time cir…
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