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The roots of "Western European societal evolution". A concept of Europe by JenĆ SzƱcs
JenĆ SzƱcs wrote his essay entitled Sketch on the three regions of Europe in the early 1980s in Hungary. During these years, a historically well-argued opinion emphasising a substantial difference between Central European and Eastern European societies was warmly received in various circles of the political opposition. In a wider European perspective SzƱcs used the old âliberty toposâ which claims that the history of Europe is no other than the fulfillment of liberty. In his Sketch, SzƱcs does not only concentrate on questions concerning the Middle Ages in Western Europe. Yet it is this stream of thought which brought a new perspective to explaining European history. His picture of the Middle Ages represents well that there is a way to integrate all typical Western motifs of post-war self-definition into a single theory. Mainly, the âliberty motifâ, as a sign of âEuropeanismâ â in the interpretation of BibĂłâs concept, Anglo-saxon Marxists and Weberâs social theory â, developed from medieval concepts of state and society and from an analysis of economic and social structures. SzƱcsâs historical aspect was a typical intellectual product of the 1980s: this was the time when a few Central European historians started to outline non-Marxist aspects of social theory and categories of modernisation theories, but concealing them with Marxist terminology
The Bishopric of Bamberg in the Medieval World
Der Band âDas Bistum Bamberg in der Welt des Mittelaltersâ bietet den um bibliographische Hinweise erweiterten Text der VortrĂ€ge, die im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung des Zentrums fĂŒr Mittelalterstudien (ZEMAS) der UniversitĂ€t Bamberg im Jahr des tausendjĂ€hrigen Bestehens der (Erz-)Diözese Bamberg gehalten wurden. AusfĂŒhrlich behandelt wird die GrĂŒndung des Bistums 1007 und seine Entwicklung im weiteren Verlauf des Mittelalters. Neben den historischen kommen auch baugeschichtliche, kunsthistorische und literaturgeschichtliche Aspekte zur Sprache. Alle VortrĂ€ge sind vergleichend angelegt und zeigen auf, in welche gröĂeren Prozesse GrĂŒndung und Entwicklung des Bistums Bamberg sich einfĂŒgen. Der Blick reicht daher von Bamberg und Oberfranken ĂŒber Merseburg, Magdeburg, Prag, Regensburg, KĂ€rnten, Konstanz und Eger bis nach Burgund, Istrien, Apulien und in die WerkstĂ€tten arabischer Elfenbeinschnitzer in Andalusien.The volume "The Diocese of Bamberg in the Medieval World" collects extended versions of papers presented in the Centre for Medieval Studies (ZEMAS) at the university of Bamberg lecture series commemorating the millenary anniversary of the (arch) diocese of Bamberg. The lectures address, in detail, the founding of the diocese in 1007 and its subsequent development over the course of the Middle Ages. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, the papers emphasize political history, architectural history, art history, and literary history. All the lectures are presented comparatively and demonstrate how the foundation and the development of the diocese of Bamberg are integrated in larger processes and developments. This perspective extends the scope of these papers from Bamberg and Upper Franconia to Merseburg, Magdeburg, Prague, Regensburg, Carinthia (Austria), Constance, and Cheb (Czech Republic) to Burgundy (France), Apulia (Italy), Istria (Croatia), and the workshops of Arab ivory carvers in Andalusia
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