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Three Political Tales From Medieval Germany
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Book Synopsis Three Political Tales from Medieval Germany by : Brian Murdoch
Download or read book Three Political Tales from Medieval Germany written by Brian Murdoch and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2024 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fresh, accurate, and accessible translations of three texts that reveal much about medieval political thought and are surprisingly relevant to the precariousness of present-day political systems. Recent political events around the world, not least January 6, 2021, have shown that political systems long thought to be resilient can be surprisingly at risk. This edition offers an introduction to and prose translations of three texts that demonstrate just how precarious things can be even in a rigidly structured society (here the medieval Holy Roman Empire). The texts, the anonymously authored Duke Ernst, Konrad of Wèurzburg's Henry of Kempten, and Heinrich's Reynard the Fox, are also literary works, designed to entertain. Two of them are adventure stories, but carry a message about the care needed to prevent the escalation of violence; the third is a bleak warning against unscrupulous advisors. As works of literature they are varied. The first moves from recognizable history to develop into an early fantasy novel, as the central character goes boldly to distant places outside the known world and meets, fights with, and learns from strange and alien creatures, before returning to the "real" world. The second, a novella, is ostensibly about chivalric bravery, but it is set in a pre-chivalric period, and shows how (then as now) a trivial incident can escalate towards disaster. The third is an animal fable, part of the extensive tradition of Reynard the Fox, initially familiar, but developing into a violent and dark tale that ends with the death of a king"--
Book Synopsis Medieval Things by : Bettina Bildhauer
Download or read book Medieval Things written by Bettina Bildhauer and published by Interventions: New Studies Med. This book was released on 2020 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates broadly the conceptions of material things as represented in medieval literature.
Book Synopsis A Source Book for Mediæval History by : Oliver J. Thatcher
Download or read book A Source Book for Mediæval History written by Oliver J. Thatcher and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Source Book for Mediæval History is a scholarly piece by Oliver J. Thatcher. It covers all major historical events and leaders from the Germania of Tacitus in the 1st century to the decrees of the Hanseatic League in the 13th century.
Book Synopsis The End-times in Medieval German Literature by : Ernst Ralf Hintz
Download or read book The End-times in Medieval German Literature written by Ernst Ralf Hintz and published by Camden House (NY). This book was released on 2019 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon the most current methodologies, the essays in this book pursue the multifarious functions of end-times in medieval German texts.
Download or read book Treason written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the framework of modern political concerns, Treason: Medieval and Early Modern Adultery, Betrayal, and Shame considers the various forms of treachery in a variety of sources, including literature, historical chronicles, and material culture creating a complex portrait of the development of this high crime.
Book Synopsis German Literature of the High Middle Ages by : Will Hasty
Download or read book German Literature of the High Middle Ages written by Will Hasty and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2006 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New essays on the first flowering of German literature, in the High Middle Ages and especially during the period 1180-1230.
Download or read book Hitler's Dancers written by Lilian Karina and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nazis burned books and banned much modern art. However, few people know the fascinating story of German modern dance, which was the great exception. Modern expressive dance found favor with the regime and especially with the infamous Dr. Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda. How modern artists collaborated with Nazism reveals an important aspect of modernism, uncovers the bizarre bureaucracy which controlled culture and tells the histories of great figures who became enthusiastic Nazis and lied about it later. The book offers three perspectives: the dancer Lilian Karina writes her very vivid personal story of dancing in interwar Germany; the dance historian Marion Kant gives a systematic account of the interaction of modern dance and the totalitarian state, and a documentary appendix provides a glimpse into the twisted reality created by Nazi racism, pedantic bureaucrats and artistic ambition.
Book Synopsis Family, Friends and Followers by : Gerd Althoff
Download or read book Family, Friends and Followers written by Gerd Althoff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political life in the middle ages was influenced heavily by the bonds people had to one another. Among these, the bonds of kinship, friendship and lordship were by far the most important. Ritual was also often used to create and strengthen these bonds, and conduct and behaviour within social groups was shaped by unwritten rules. People bound in these ways had a right to expect help and support from one another. Such bonds were both a fact and a necessity of life in the middle ages. Over time, however, these bonds and relationships changed, as did the rules and norms which governed them. The aim of this book is to document and describe the history of these crucial bonds, and the ways in which they shaped political life in Europe in the early and high middle ages.
Download or read book Gentile Tales written by Miri Rubin and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2004-05-03 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late medieval period, accusations that Jews had abused Christ by desecrating the Eucharist created a powerful anti-Jewish movement and violent clashes quickly spread throughout Europe.
Book Synopsis Trial by Fire and Battle in Medieval German Literature by : Vickie L. Ziegler
Download or read book Trial by Fire and Battle in Medieval German Literature written by Vickie L. Ziegler and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2004 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well after the condemnation of ordeals by the Fourth Lateran Council, the Kunigunde legend preserves the ordeal by fire in a sort of hagiographic amber, much as it was portrayed in the mid-twelfth-century Richardis legend, while Stricker's short secular burlesque "The Hot Iron," written in the mid-thirteenth century, makes sport of this formerly serious legal proceeding, reflecting the almost immediate abandonment of trial by fire as a legal proof in many areas after the council's decision."
Book Synopsis Where Ghosts Walked by : David Clay Large
Download or read book Where Ghosts Walked written by David Clay Large and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The capital of the Nazi movement was not Berlin but Munich, according to Hitler himself. In examining why, historian David Clay Large begins in Munich four decades before World War I and finds a proto-fascist cultural heritage that proved fertile soil later for Hitler's movement. An engrossing account of the time and place that launched Hitler on the road to power. Photos.
Download or read book The Arthur of the Germans written by and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the twelfth century onwards the legends of King Arthur and his knights, including the Tristan legend, spread across Europe, producing a vast range of adaptations and new stories. German and Dutch literature were of central importance in this expansion of Arthurian material from the 12th to 16th century. This title deals with this topic.
Book Synopsis The Story of the Middle Ages by : Samuel Harding
Download or read book The Story of the Middle Ages written by Samuel Harding and published by Perennial Press. This book was released on 2018-03-04 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the period Rome was old and worn out with misgovernment and evil living. But planted in this dying Rome there was the new and vigorous Christian Church which was to draw up into itself all that was best and strongest of the old world. The Germans were rude and uncivilized, but they were strong in mind and body, and possessed some ideas about government, women, and the family which were better than the ideas of the Romans on these subjects.
Book Synopsis Prostitution and Subjectivity in Late Medieval Germany by : Jamie Page
Download or read book Prostitution and Subjectivity in Late Medieval Germany written by Jamie Page and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prostitution played an important part in structuring gender relations in medieval Germany. Prostitutes were often viewed as an example of the extreme female sinfulness which all women risked falling into, yet their social role was also seen as vital to the unmarried men for whom they provided a sexual outlet. Prostitution and Subjectivity in Late Medieval Germany is the first full-length study of medieval prostitution to focus primarily on how gender discourse shaped the lives of prostitutes themselves. Based on three legal case studies from the late medieval Empire, Prostitutes and Subjectivity in Late Medieval Germany examines constructions of subjectivity between 1400 and 1500. This period saw the rapid rise of tolerated prostitution across much of western Europe and the emergence of the public brothel as a central institution in the regulation of social order, followed by its equally rapid suppression from the early 1500s. By analysing how individuals interacted with cultural discourses surrounding the body, sexuality, and sin, the book explores how the concepts which defined prostitution in the Middle Ages shaped individual lives, and how individuals were able - or not - to exert agency, both within the circumstances of their own lives, and in response to official attempts to regulate sexual behaviour.
Book Synopsis Germany in the High Middle Ages by : Horst Fuhrmann
Download or read book Germany in the High Middle Ages written by Horst Fuhrmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-10-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes and explains the conditions and changes happening in Germany from 1050-1200.
Book Synopsis The Nature of German Imperialism by : Bernhard Gissibl
Download or read book The Nature of German Imperialism written by Bernhard Gissibl and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, the East African state of Tanzania is renowned for wildlife preserves such as the Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and the Selous Game Reserve. Yet few know that most of these initiatives emerged from decades of German colonial rule. This book gives the first full account of Tanzanian wildlife conservation up until World War I, focusing upon elephant hunting and the ivory trade as vital factors in a shift from exploitation to preservation that increasingly excluded indigenous Africans. Analyzing the formative interactions between colonial governance and the natural world, The Nature of German Imperialism situates East African wildlife policies within the global emergence of conservationist sensibilities around 1900.
Book Synopsis The Literary Politics of Mitteleuropa by : Yvonne Zivkovic
Download or read book The Literary Politics of Mitteleuropa written by Yvonne Zivkovic and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how postwar writers in Austria and Yugoslavia re-imagined Mitteleuropa as a cultural space between nostalgia and totalitarianism.
