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Entangled History! Making Ordinances Searchable. To open up early modern legal historical sources (ordinances), the Entangled History project will run from May-October 2019. Its aim is to systematically categorise the normative texts (according to MPIeR-standards). It will be the starting point to identify influencers throughout the Low Countries and maybe – in due time – even outside of that. It will, too, show what may be the true nature – identity – of a province. This presentation/ poster will describe this Digital Humanities-Project and ask participants to think along and come with suggestions for the project – and future DH-projects. It involves the (1) improvement of the currently applied OCR-technique to a much higher recognition-standard with HTR. It (2) enhances readability by systematically segmenting individual texts, recognising text-sections – beginning or end, columns, titles, dates, summaries, the body of the text. In order to improve the searchability, I suggest the (3) application of a standard categorisation (metadata) with a machine-learned algorithm. A categorisation by a machine-learned algorithm will offer ample possibilities to computer-search for similar topics within texts and do content-based longitudinal searches, whereas the actual title may not be so helpful to modern readers. The KB-library hosts at least 42 digitised plakkaatboeken (bundles of normative texts – ca.1540s-1800s) and near 5000 individual plakkaten (16th-19th century). These texts contain indications of how governments of burgeoning states dealt with unexpected threats to safety, security, and order through home-invented measures, borrowed rules, or adjustments of what was established elsewhere.

Entangled History! Making Ordinances Searchable. To open up early modern legal historical sources (ordinances), the Entangled History project will run from May-October 2019. Its aim is to systematically categorise the normative texts (according to MPIeR-standards). It will be the starting point to identify influencers throughout the Low Countries and maybe – in due time – even outside of that. It will, too, show what may be the true nature – identity – of a province. This presentation/ poster will describe this Digital Humanities-Project and ask participants to think along and come with suggestions for the project – and future DH-projects. It involves the (1) improvement of the currently applied OCR-technique to a much higher recognition-standard with HTR. It (2) enhances readability by systematically segmenting individual texts, recognising text-sections – beginning or end, columns, titles, dates, summaries, the body of the text. In order to improve the searchability, I suggest the (3) application of a standard categorisation (metadata) with a machine-learned algorithm. A categorisation by a machine-learned algorithm will offer ample possibilities to computer-search for similar topics within texts and do content-based longitudinal searches, whereas the actual title may not be so helpful to modern readers. The KB-library hosts at least 42 digitised plakkaatboeken (bundles of normative texts – ca.1540s-1800s) and near 5000 individual plakkaten (16 th -19 th century). These texts contain indications of how governments of burgeoning states dealt with unexpected threats to safety, security, and order through home-invented measures, borrowed rules, or adjustments of what was established elsewhere.

"Nordic Fascism is the first comprehensive history in English of fascism in the Nordic countries. Transnational cooperation between radical nationalists has especially been the case in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland, where fascism has not only developed through interdependent processes but through interactions between and beyond national boundaries, and where "racial relationship" has been a core argument. With chapters ranging from the inception of fascism in the interwar years up to the present day, this book offers the first fragments of an entangled history of Nordic fascism. It illuminates how The North occupies a special place in the fascist imagination, articulating ideas about the Nordic people resisting the supposed cultural degeneration, replacement, or annihilation of the white race. The authors map ideological exchange between fascist organisations in the Nordic countries and outline past and present attempts at pan-Nordic state building. This book will appeal to scholars of fascism and Nordic history, and readers interested in the general history of fascism"--

"Nordic Fascism is the first comprehensive history in English of fascism in the Nordic countries. Transnational cooperation between radical nationalists has especially been the case in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland, where fascism has not only developed through interdependent processes but through interactions between and beyond national boundaries, and where "racial relationship" has been a core argument. With chapters ranging from the inception of fascism in the interwar years up to the present day, this book offers the first fragments of an entangled history of Nordic fascism. It illuminates how The North occupies a special place in the fascist imagination, articulating ideas about the Nordic people resisting the supposed cultural degeneration, replacement, or annihilation of the white race. The authors map ideological exchange between fascist organisations in the Nordic countries and outline past and present attempts at pan-Nordic state building. This book will appeal to scholars of fascism and Nordic history, and readers interested in the general history of fascism"--

This first English-language synthesis of the history of Dnipro (until 2016 Dnipropetrovsk, until 1926 Katerynoslav) locates the city in a broader regional, national, and transnational context and explores the interaction between global processes and everyday routines of urban life. The history of a place (throughout its history called 'new Athens', 'Ukrainian Manchester', 'the Brezhnev`s capital' and 'the heart of Ukraine') is seen through the prism of key threads in the modern history of Europe: the imperial colonization and industrialization, the war and the revolution in the borderlands, the everyday life and mythology of a Soviet closed city, and the transformations of post-Soviet Ukraine. Designed as a critical entangled history of the multicultural space, the book looks for a new analytical language to overcome the traps of both national and imperial history-writing.

This article considers the methodology of entangled history and its potential for nuancing or circumventing scholarly controversies over the nature and extent of the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century religious thought. After sketching the development of entangled history theory and its potential applicability to studying the Enlightenment, the rest of the article provides a case study of one way in which the insights discussed in the first parts of the article can be applied to current controversies about how historians construct the concept of Enlightenment. As will be shown, the transdiscursive entanglement of Jesuit missionary output with the debates between Voltaire and Bergier illustrates the mutability and rhetorical malleability of historical paradigms concerning the Enlightenment and religion.

Abstract
Cultures, and especially medical cultures, did not develop in isolation from one another, indebted only to their own dynamics, but in constant interchange. A history of the body hence can only be written as a history of entanglements. The article elaborates this thesis with reference to Unani medicine, a cluster of medical systems still today widely in use among the Muslims (and a good number of Hindus) of South Asia. The history of Unani medicine shows that the "Indian body" is the site of a long tradition of multiple influences and entanglements, Greek, Arabic, Persian, Central Asian, Western and Ayurvedic.

The relationship between Namibia and Germany is marked by intense exchanges about the meaning and the consequences of the colonial wars of the early twentieth century in the erstwhile German colony. This engages various state and civil society actors including groups from across the political spectrum in Germany, whereas in Namibia the debate concerns the descendants of the victims on the one hand and German-speaking Namibians on the other. The article explores this discursive situation and brings out a range of relationships and interactions to be understood as expressions of an entangled history that eschews attempts of appropriation on one side. The problems emerge most poignantly in terms of the still ongoing exchanges around the denial of genocide in 1904-8 which, given that the framework of the debate is predicated to considerable measure on German history, inevitably points to the Holocaust. A further strand of acting out and negotiating historical responsibility concerns the mode of apology and redress which remains a contended question. Not least, this involves an incoherent set of state and non-state actors on both sides. Here, the call for dialogue made particularly by Namibians raises the sensitive issues of intercultural communication. Adapted from the source document.