In The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews the author explains how Christians with Jewish ancestry went within less than forty years from having a leading role in the foundation and development of the Society of Jesus to being prohibited from membership in it.
This open access book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe. It features essays that take a close look at key intellectuals and how they engaged with the main ideas of this qualitative introduction to geocentric cosmology. Johannes de Sacrobosco compiled his Tractatus de sphaera during the thirteenth century in the frame of his teaching activities a…
A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to provide an updated scholarly introduction to all aspects of his work. Arguably the most influential secular writer of medieval Britain, Geoffrey (d. 1154) popularized Arthurian literature and left an indelible mark on European romance, history, and genealogy. Despite this outsized influence, Geoffrey’s…
This open access book focuses on institutions that were produced and formed by the emerging welfare state. How were institutions experienced by the people who interacted with them? How did institutions as sites of experience shape and structure people’s everyday lives? Histories of institutions have mainly focused on the structures and power relations produced by institutional settings. Likew…
'At a historic moment, when religion shows all its social and political strength in various post-modern societies around our globe, this fascinating collection of studies from the Middle Ages to twentieth-century Europe demonstrates all the richness and innovative force of investigating individual and shared experiences when questioning the cultural, political and social place of religion in so…
Translation und Exil (1933–1945) III fragt nach Motiven, Funktionen und Wirkungen von Übersetzungen. Exil wird oft unter dem Stichwort des Verlusts verhandelt und der Exodus von Gelehrten und Künstlerinnen beklagt. Verlässt man diese nationalstaatlich angelegte Betrachtungsweise und untersucht Personen und Gegenstände konsequent aus der Perspektive des Exils, stellt sich heraus, dass der …
Die Edition des Briefwechsels von Guberniumspräsident Ludwig Folliot von Crenneville und Hofkanzler Franz von Nádasdy umfasst die Jahre 1861 bis 1863. Beide prägten die Politik ihrer Zeit. Ihre Korrespondenz ist eine bemerkenswerte Quelle zu den inneren Mechanismen von Verwaltung und Machtausübung im Habsburgerreich in der Endphase des gesamtstaatlichen Kaisertums Österreich. Mit dem Oktob…
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This is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license The history of Charismatic Christianity in the Nordic countries reaches as far back as Pentecostalism itself. The bounds of these categories remain a topic of discussion, but Nordic countries have played a vital role in developing this rapidly spreading form of world-wide Christianity. Until now, research on global Charismatic Christianity has lar…
This open access book explores the ambiguity of East Central Europe during the twentieth century, examining local contexts through a comparative and transnational reworking of theoretical models in postcolonial studies. Since the early modern period, East Central Europe has arguably been an object of imperialism. However, at the same time East Central European states have been seen to be coloni…