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This book examines discourses around infertility and views of childlessness in medieval and early modern Europe. Whereas in our own time reproductive behaviour is regulated by demographic policy in the interest of upholding the intergenerational contract, premodern rulers strove to secure the succession to their thrones and preserve family heritage. Regardless of status, infertility could have drastic consequences, above all for women, and lead to social discrimination, expulsion, and divorce. Rather than outlining a history of discrimination against or the suffering of infertile couples, this book explores the mechanisms used to justify the unequal treatment of persons without children. Exploring views on childlessness across theology, medicine, law, demonology, and ethics, it undertakes a comprehensive examination of 'fertility' as an identity category from the perspective of new approaches in gender and intersectionality research. Shedding light on how premodern views have shaped understandings our own time, this book is highly relevant interest to students and scholars interested in discourses around infertility across history

This book examines discourses around infertility and views of childlessness in medieval and early modern Europe. Whereas in our own time reproductive behaviour is regulated by demographic policy in the interest of upholding the intergenerational contract, premodern rulers strove to secure the succession to their thrones and preserve family heritage. Regardless of status, infertility could have drastic consequences, above all for women, and lead to social discrimination, expulsion, and divorce. Rather than outlining a history of discrimination against or the suffering of infertile couples, this book explores the mechanisms used to justify the unequal treatment of persons without children. Exploring views on childlessness across theology, medicine, law, demonology, and ethics, it undertakes a comprehensive examination of fertility as an identity category from the perspective of new approaches in gender and intersectionality research. Shedding light on how premodern views have shaped understandings our own time, this book is highly relevant interest to students and scholars interested in discourses around infertility across history. Regina Toepfer is Chair of Medieval German Literature at Julius-Maximilians-Universitat Wurzburg, Germany.

Einleitung -- Introduction -- Sektion I: Zeichen und mediale Transformationen / Sign Systems and Medial Transformations -- Sektionseinleitung I: Zeichen und mediale Transformationen -- Introduction to Section I: Sign Systems and Medial Transformations -- "in the most common and familiar speech among the Welsh". Robert Gwyn and the Translation of Biblical Quotations -- Liedkultur des 17. Jahrhunderts als Übersetzungskultur. Gegenstand, Methoden und Perspektiven eines interdisziplinären Forschungsfeldes -- (Un-)Sichtbare Routen. Reiseberichte und die Kartierung Nordamerikas durch Claude und Guillaume Delisle um 1700 -- Die Wissenschaftsübersetzung als Generator symbolischen Kapitals. Das translatorische Dreieck Bonnet-Spallanzani-Senebier -- Übersetzungen in Enzyklopädien – am Beispiel der Encyclopédie (1751–72) von Diderot und D'Alembert und der Encyclopédie Méthodique (1782–1832) -- Sektion II: Anthropologie und Wissen / Anthropology and Knowledge -- Sektionseinleitung II: Anthropologie und Wissen -- Introduction to Section II: Anthropology and Knowledge -- Der Heros und die starken Frauen. Eine intersektionale Analyse von Geschlecht und Göttlichkeit in Schaidenreissers Odyssee-Übersetzung -- 'Alī al-Sharafī's 1551 Atlas: A Construct Full of Riddles -- Translationsstrategien in Texten der Evangelisierung und der indigenen Rechtsprechung in Neu-Spanien. Vergleichende Untersuchungen am Beispiel der Übersetzung des Konzepts der 'Dreieinigkeit' -- Die Entstehung von Johann Michael Moscheroschs Insomnis Cura Parentum (1643). Eine konfessions- und medienhistorische Fallstudie zum Übersetzen im 17. Jahrhundert -- Spanische Enzyklopädie-Übersetzungen als Orte der selbstbewussten Partizipation an aufgeklärter Wissensproduktion: Perspektiven und Fallstudie -- Sektion III: Kulturelle Zugehörigkeiten und Gesellschaft / Cultural Affiliations and Society -- Sektionseinleitung III: Kulturelle Zugehörigkeiten und Gesellschaft -- Introduction to Section III: Cultural Affiliations and Society -- König, Königin, Königinmutter: Strategien kultureller Übersetzung im Londoner St James' Palace, 1625–42 -- Cultural Translation as a Multidirectional Process in the Seventeenth-Century Madurai Mission -- Kultureller Vermittler, homme de lettres, Vagabund? Zur Selbstdarstellung arabischer Christen in Europa am Beispiel Salomon Negris (1665–1727) -- Birth, Berat, and Banishment. Translating Subjecthood between the Ottoman and Habsburg Empires at the End of the Eighteenth Century -- Die kommentierte jiddische Übersetzung des Römerbriefs (1733): Ein "Reservoir" der pietistischen Judenmission. .

Research communication has been gaining public attention in recent years. Therefore, medievalists also need to focus on the transfer of their research topics to the public both within and outside the university. Based on current political demands calling for a change in communication culture, the article first of all deals theoretically with two different concepts of research communication, by distinguishing between forms of translation and those of popularization. Numerous public events, exhibitions, and cooperative projects with cities, schools, adult education centres, museums, and other educational institutions show that knowledge about the Middle Ages has been transmitted to interested laypersons for a long time. The authors see a particular challenge in the alterity of medieval culture, which at the same time provides an excellent opportunity for transferring research findings into society. The fascination with medieval materiality facilitates the transfer of knowledge by those disciplines that work with concrete objects, addressing issues of visuality and aesthetic experience. The article pinpoints conditions, strategies, and perspectives of successful research communication in medieval studies, and when focussing on current topics, the authors refer to concrete occasions and regional examples, showing why medieval research is still relevant today. ; Research communication has been gaining public attention in recent years. Therefore, medievalists also need to focus on the transfer of their research topics to the public both within and outside the university. Based on current political demands calling for a change in communication culture, the article first of all deals theoretically with two different concepts of research communication, by distinguishing between forms of translation and those of popularization. Numerous public events, exhibitions, and cooperative projects with cities, schools, adult education centres, museums, and other educational institutions show that knowledge about the Middle Ages has been transmitted to interested laypersons for a long time. The authors see a particular challenge in the alterity of medieval culture, which at the same time provides an excellent opportunity for transferring research findings into society. The fascination with medieval materiality facilitates the transfer of knowledge by those disciplines that work with concrete objects, addressing issues of visuality and aesthetic experience. The article pinpoints conditions, strategies, and perspectives of successful research communication in medieval studies, and when focussing on current topics, the authors refer to concrete occasions and regional examples, showing why medieval research is still relevant today.

Aufbruch in die Schriftlichkeit. Zur volkssprachliche Überlieferung im 12. Jahrhundert -- Von der vocalité zur schriftgesetzte Kommunikation. Zum volkssprachlichen Literalisierungsprozess (1200-1300) -- Verortung im kulturellen Kontext : eine andere Sicht auf die Literatur um 1200 -- Fern von Braunschweig und fern von Herzogen Heinriche? Zum A-Prolog des "Lucidarius" -- Text im Bild, Bild im Text : Beispiele mittelalterlicher Rechtsikonographie -- Zur ältesten Überlieferung des Sachsenspiegels -- Muget ir schowen, waz dem meien... Zur frühen Rezeption von Walthers Liedern -- Das Budapester Fragment und die Lyrik-Überlieferung im bairisch-österreichischen Raum bis 1300 -- Das "Hausbuch" des Michael de Leone. Zu Programm und Struktur der Sammlung -- Beten und Betrachten, Schreiben und Malen. Zisterzienserinnen und ihr Beitrag zum Buch im 13. Jahrhundert -- Audi filia et vide. Frauenkonvente nach der monastischen Reform -- Steinhöwels "Griseldis" im Kontext der europäischen Hofkultur des 15. Jahrhunderts -- Zur Rezeption des lateinischen und volkssprachlichen Boccaccio im deutschen Frühhumanismus