"In this accessible appraisal of contemporary globalization, Steger draws on global theory and history to engage pressing issues such as digitization, ideological polarization, education, demographics, development, and the environment. This big-picture view supports the practical efforts of setting the globe on a more equitable and sustainable path."
Offering a broad exploration of the cultural history of democracy in the medieval age, this volume claims that, though not generally associated with the term, the Middle Ages deserve to be included in a general history of democracy. The term was never widely employed during this period, the dominant attitude towards democracy was outright hostility, and none of the medieval polities thought of itself as a democracy. Despite this, this study highlights a wide variety of ideas, practices, procedures, and institutions that, although different from their ancient predecessor (direct democracy) or modern successor (liberal representative democracy), played a significant role in the history of democracy. This volume covers almost 1,000 years and a wide range of territories. It deals with different political spheres (ecclesiastical and secular) and socio-political settings (courtly, urban, and rural) and examines the phenomenon from the local level up to the universal realm. This volume adopts a broad cultural approach and is structured thematically. Each chapter takes a theme as its focus: sovereignty; liberty and the rule of law; the common good; economic and social democracy; religion and the principles of political obligation; citizenship and gender; ethnicity, race, and nationalism; democratic crises, revolutions, and civil resistance; international relations; and the scalability of democracy beyond the limits of a single city. These ten themes add up to an extensive, synoptic coverage of the subject
Introduction : peacemaking and the restraint of violence in high medieval Europe / Simon Lebouteiller and Louisa Taylor -- The submission of rebellious cities in the Roman-German Empire / Hermann Kamp -- Peace or punishment in medieval England : from 1215 to 1322 / Stephen D. White -- 'Be at peace with God and me' : violence, war, and royal responses to insurrection in medieval Scotland, c. 1100-1286 / Iain MacIness -- Conflicts and the use of exile as a means of restraining violence in eleventh- and twelfth-century / Castile-León -- The 'old peace' as a peacemaking institution in thirteenth-century German-Russian trade treaties / Tobias Boestad -- Encounters at the water's edge : peace meetings on rivers, bridges, and islands in medieval Scandinavia / Simon Lebouteiller -- God's peace and the king's peace in high medieval Norway / David Brégaint -- Food, peacemaking, and maintenance in twelfth- and thirteenth-century England / Lars Kjær -- Food and clothing in rituals of peacemaking in medieval Europe and the Latin East / Yvonne Friedman -- Cloth, clothing, and peacemaking in Byzantium : from the second part of the eleventh century to the middle of the thirteenth century / Nicolas Drocourt.
This book aims to rewrite the narrative of women and power in medieval society. Based on a rich corpus of sources – systematically collected for the first time – it reveals female monasteries as central and economically able agents in feudal society. With a chronological focus on the late Middle Ages, this book focuses on four powerful convents located in modern-day France, Germany, and Switzerland. Three of these institutions were aristocratic convents founded in the early Middle Ages. They were endowed with far-ranging feudal prerogatives that were largely, but not exclusively, derived from landed possessions. The fourth convent originated in the thirteenth century and disposed of a primarily monetary economy. Observed from a longue-durée perspective, Monastic Women and Secular Economy in Later Medieval Europe reveals strategies of adaptations that allowed these different institutions to weather the significant economic changes of the late Middle Ages. Within the context of medieval feudal society, these abbesses and prioresses were authoritative figures. They ruled over territories, dispensed justice, appointed priests, and even sent soldiers to war. Late medieval convents acted as urban landlords and gave credits – they were thus major economic players in the rising cities. These observations of this monograph will force medievalists to reconsider the traditional image of both the "male" feudal Middle Ages and medieval monetary economy.
Medieval chronicles are significant sources not just for the study of history, but also for the fields of literature, linguistics and art history. These papers, with broad chronological and geographical range, represent current approaches in the study of medieval historiography
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Sapiential rulership in the Carolingian Renaissance and its Anglo-Saxon and Ottonian continuators (c. 800-1000) -- The Salian Reich and frontier Europe: the reception of sapiential sacral rulership around the Year Thousand -- The king as miles literatus: literacy, knighthood, and feudal rulership -- The twelfth-century Renaissance: culture and statecraft -- The clerk king: administrative kingship and royal knowledge in the Norman kingdoms and Capetian France (c. 1050-1250) -- The Hohenstaufen emperors: empire and wisdom in the twelfth century -- Two philosopher-kings in the thirteenth century: Frederick II of Sicily and Alfonso X of Castile -- Bibliography.
Introduction : non-linear historicizing as a method for studying health films -- The interwar obsession with family : eugenic pathos vs. humanistic skepticism -- Collective care vs. the "backward" family in Jak Vašíček přišel k nohám -- The institutionalized child as a precondition for the healthy nation in the films of Mladen Širola -- Central and Eastern European film in the search for deconstructing the institutionalized child -- The complex legacy of early animated health films in Eastern Europe -- Bacilínek (1922) on the stage of the national and global orders of health security -- Health films for children : between cultural reciprocity and popular scientism -- Health films as Bildungsroman for teaching men -- Masculinity in health films for the rural population -- Health films in the service of eugenic surveillance over women -- Sion ve světle as the first health film for the periphery : the birth of the canon -- Ikina sudbina and Dobro za zlo : extending the canon of health films to the Muslim periphery -- Films of the National Tuberculosis Association : rooting health films for the periphery in the racial hierarchies of the interwar United States.
The burgeoning scholarship on Western health films stands in stark contrast to the vacuum in the historical conceptualization of Eastern European films. This book develops a nonlinear historical model that revises their unique role in the inception of national cinematography and establishing supranational health security.
Readers witness the revelation of an unknown history concerning how the health films produced in Eastern European countries not only adopted Western patterns of propaganda but actively participated in its formation, especially with regard to those considered "others": Women and the populations of the periphery. The authors elaborate on the long "echo" of the discursive practices introduced by health films within public health propaganda, as well as the attempts to negate and deconstruct such practices by rebellious filmmakers. A wide range of methods, including the analysis of the sociological biographies of filmmakers, the historical reconstruction of public campaigns against diseases and an investigation into the production of health films, contextualizes these films along a multifaceted continuum stretching between the adaptation of global patterns and the cultivation of national authenticities.
The book is aimed at those who study the history of film, the history of public health, Central and Eastern European countries and global history.
"This work provides a new narrative for Orsanmichele in the era before the Renaissance. It examines Orsanmichele from the mid-thirteenth century, as the piazza transformed into the city's grain market. It considers the market's tandem confraternity, with its stunning Madonnas over three successive loggias. It examines the grain market and confraternity from a social, economic, political, and artistic perspective. It provides extensive data on the Florentine grain trade, sales at the market, and the nexus between traders, political leaders, and the confraternity. The work suggests that developments at Orsanmichele during the medieval period formed the basis for the Renaissance structure"--
"Anti-Fascism and Ethnic Minorities explores how, and to what extent, fascist ultranationalism elicited an anti-fascist response among ethnic minority communities in Eastern and Central Europe. The edited volume analyses how identities related to class, ethnicity, gender and political ideologies were negotiated within and between minorities through confrontations with domestic and international fascism. By developing and expanding the study of Jewish anti-fascism and resistance to other minority responses, the book opens the field of anti-fascism studies for a broader comparative approach. The volume is thematically located in Central and Eastern Europe, cutting right across the continent from Finland in the North to Albania in the Southeast. The case studies in the fourteen research chapters are divided into five thematic sections, dealing with the issues of 1) minorities in borderlands and cross-border antifascism, 2) minorities navigating the ideological squeeze between communism and fascism, 3) the role of intellectuals in the defence of minority rights, 4) the anti-fascist resistance against fascist and Nazi occupation during World War II, as well as 5) the conflictual role ascribed to ethnicity in post-war memory politics and commemorations. The editors describe their intersectional approach to the analysis of ethnicity as a crucial category of analysis with regard to anti-fascist histories and memories. The book offers scholars and students valuable historical and comparative perspectives on minority studies, Jewish studies, borderland studies, and memory studies. It will appeal to those with an interest in the history of race and racism, fascism and anti-fascism, and Central and Eastern Europe"--
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"This book provides an up-to-date interdisciplinary assessment of the accountability of the executive power in different European States and at the European Union level. From a legal perspective, it wonders to what extent the forms of responsibility and accountability of executive power have evolved in terms of legal technique or framework. From a historical perspective, it looks at the evolution of responsibility paradigms. From a political science perspective, it examines responsibility and the expectations of European democracies in terms of authority and efficiency. The volume also has a quantitative aspect identifying, gathering and analysing statistical material on responsibility and accountability in current political regimes. The book will be a valuable resource for researchers, academics and policy-makers in Constitutional Law and Politics, Public Law, Comparative Law, Comparative Politics, Legal History and Government"--
This collection explores the intersection of gender and mobility across the Global Middle Ages. Medieval Mobilities questions how medieval people, texts, images, and ideas move across physiological, geographical, literary, and spiritual boundaries. In what ways do these movements afford new configurations of gender, sexuality, and being? Enacting a dialogue between medieval studies, feminist thought, and queer theory, Medieval Mobilities proposes that attending to the undulations of premodern gender and sexuality may help destabilize unstated assumptions about ways of being and loving in the Middle Ages. This volume also brings together emergent and established scholars to challenge an increasingly static academy and instead envision a scholarly practice focused on intergenerational, international, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Drawing upon wide range of primary sources and theoretical frameworks, the resultant essays unsettle the imagined fixity of gender and propose alternative conceptualizations of embodiment, identity, and difference in the medieval world