Conspiring in Dreams: between Misdeeds and saving one’s Soul

Thietmar, Bishop of Merseburg (1009-1018), was not an example of a virtuous, pious ecclesiastic; rather, he more closely exemplified an Amtsbischof and mentally anguished sinner. In the last book of his Chronicle, he narrates a dream in which he finds himself surrounded by a hostile crowd that incites him to consume a drink, which he considers suspicious and peculiar: allegedly, it causes him to feel unpleasant sensations while performing his duties. Thietmar believes this apparition (the crowd) is the result of his sinful weakness. The humility and exaggerated feelings of guilt shown by the chronicler have been properly attributed to the Christian fear of endangering the salvation of his soul. However, this concern is not an abstract one. I will analyse the textual framework within which the dream is narrated with the aim of assessing the role played by certain concrete situations related to local conflicts in fomenting Thietmar´s growing preoccupation with his salvation and the repercussions of his actions on his bishopric at large. In particular, I will point to Thietmar?s concern about restoring the rights of the see and insuring that it was well-administered.Fil: Neyra, Andrea Vanina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Historia y Ciencias Humanas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de San Martin. Escuela de Humanidades; Argentin

The companies of "Meistergesang" in Germany

In a charter issued on 5 May 1513, the mayor and city council of the city of Freiburg/Breisgau reported that several citizens wanted to be allowed to establish a bruderschaft der sengerye, a confraternity of singing. “God, the almighty, would be praised thereby, the souls would be consoled, and all men listening to the concerts would be kept from blasphemy, gaming and other secular vices” (“gott der allmechtig [würde] dardurch gelopt, die selen getröst und die menschen zu zyten, so sy dem gesang zuhorten, von gotslesterung, ouch vom spyl vnd anderer weltlicher uppigkeyt gezogen”). Considering not least the “positive effects on the pour souls” (“guettaeten, so den armen selen dardurch nachgeschechen mocht”), the request was allowed. But the petitioners had to establish their bruderschaft in exactly the form that is described in detail in the regulations (ordnung) added to the request and cited “word for word” (“von wort zu wort”) in 17 articles in the foundation charter of the confraternity

Karl Polanyi’s the great transformation: Perverse effects, protectionism and gemeinschaft

Drawing upon Karl Polanyi’s journalistic writings and unpublished lectures from the 1920s and 1930s, this article reconstructs the lineaments of his research programme that was to assume its finished form in The Great Transformation. It identifies and corrects a common misinterpretation of the thesis of that book, and argues that Polanyi’s basic theoretical framework is best conceived as Tönniesian: the ‘protective counter-movement’ of The Great Transformation is Gemeinschaft, understood dynamically, while the market society is Gesellschaft. It examines the two central mechanisms by which, in Polanyi’s understanding, Gesellschaft broke down in the mid-twentieth century: the ‘clash between democracy and capitalism,’ and a doctrine of ‘perverse effects’ whereby political intervention in markets impairs profitability and saps the vitality of the market system

Loris : Ola Hansson ; das junge Skandinavien ; vier Essays ; ein unbekannter Aufsatz Hugo von Hofmannsthals

In der "Allgemeinen Kunst Chronik" (Wien) findet sich in der 24. Nummer (zweites Novemberheft, S. 661f.) des Jahrgangs 1891 eine Buchbesprechung Hugo von Hofmannsthals, die er in der Folge nicht wieder erwähnt hat (etwa brieflich oder in einer der Titellisten für eine Ausgabe). Dadurch ist sie der Aufmerksamkeit der Forschung bislang entgangen und weder bibliographisch erfaßt noch jemals wieder gedruckt worden. Es handelt sich um eine Besprechung von Ola Hanssons Aufsatzsammlung "Das junge Skandinavien". Hofmannsthal hatte im Sommer desselben Jahres in der "Kunst Chronik" bereits seinen Bericht über "Die Mozart-Zentenarfeier in Salzburg" veröffentlicht. Alle weiteren Aufsätze aus dem Jahr 1891, soweit wir von ihnen wissen, sind in der "Modernen Rundschau" erschienen

History as Literature

This volume presents excerpts and translations of three thirteenth-century South German verse chronicles: Rudolf von Ems\u27s Weltchronik, the anonymous Christherre-Chronik, and the Weltchronik of Jans Enikel. These three works are close in language, in date, and in conception, yet they also differ significantly, representing the perspectives of three distinct sections of medieval society: courtly, monastic, and urban. The excerpts have been chosen from the beginning of Rudolf\u27s chronicle, the middle of the Christherre-Chronik and the end of Enikel, so that taken together they give something of an impression of the chroniclers\u27 arrangement of material in a continuum from the beginning to the end of history.https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/mip_teamsmgt/1002/thumbnail.jp

The Place of Polish Films on German market between 1920s and 1930s, with special emphasis on Borderlands

This book was financially supported by the National Programme for the Development of Humanities: project “Cinema: Intercultural Perspective. Western-European Cinema in Poland, Polish Cinema in Western Europe. Mutual Perception of Film Cultures (1918–1939)

Svevo, Freud, Dante. Und Hegel -?

Deutung der Novelle Svevos als Chronik der 1870er Generation, deren Lebens- und Weltkonzept mit dem Ersten Weltkrieg unwiderruflich zu Ende geht. Svevo setzt dabei ästhetische Codes ein, die auf Dante, Hegel und Freud Bezug nehmen

Off-resonance magnetisation transfer contrast (MTC) MRI using fast field-cycling (FFC)

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