Charles W. Connell, Popular Opinion in the Middle Ages. Channeling Public Ideas and Attitudes. (Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, Vol. 18.) Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2016

2018 ◽  
Vol 307 (1) ◽  
pp. 190-192
Author(s):  
Klaus Oschema
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Popular Opinion ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
The Middle Ages

Charles W. Connell, Popular Opinion in the Middle Ages. Channeling Public Ideas and Attitudes. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 18. Berlin and Boston: Walterde Gruyter, 2016, 347 S.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 270-271
Author(s):  
Bea Lundt
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Popular Opinion ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
The Middle Ages

Seit Jürgen Habermas 1962 in seinem epochalen Werk ,,Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit“ die Herausbildung der öffentlichen Sphäre im Gegensatz zur Privatheit des Hauses seit der Aufklärung beschrieben hat, gibt es eine rege Forschungsliteratur zu der Frage, ob für das Mittelalter vergleichbare Phänomene nachweisbar sind. Antworten zu diesem Problemkomplex sind von weitreichender Bedeutung: vor allem für die Genderforschung, die polare Geschlechterwelten in der Moderne beschrieben hat. Der Lebensbereich Öffentlichkeit, verbunden mit Beruf, Politik, Macht, sei Männern zugeteilt worden, während Frauen auf die Privatheit und Aufgaben in einem Innenraum begrenzt wurden. Ein solcher Dualismus der Kommunikationsfähigkeit hat aber wohl, so der Forschungsstand, auch in der Moderne nur für bestimmte Gruppen bestanden. In der Postmoderne mit ihrer Ubiquität medialer Kommunikation sind die beiden Bereiche erneut durchlässig geworden. Damit erhält die Frage nach einer kollektiven Meinungsbildung in den mittelalterlichen Jahrhunderten mit ihren begrenzten Lesewelten eine neue Aktualität und Brisanz.

Allegra Iafrate, The Long Life of Magical Objects: A Study in the Solomonic Tradition. The Magic in History Series. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019, xi, 235 pp., 19 b/w images, 2 tables.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 252-254
Author(s):  
Albrecht Classen
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Modern World ◽  
State University ◽  
Eastern Culture ◽  
Historical Objects ◽  
History Of ◽  
Religious Objects ◽  
The Middle Ages

Throughout times, magic and magicians have exerted a tremendous influence, and this even in our (post)modern world (see now the contributions to Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time, ed. Albrecht Classen, 2017; here not mentioned). Allegra Iafrate here presents a fourth monograph dedicated to magical objects, primarily those associated with the biblical King Solomon, especially the ring, the bottle which holds a demon, knots, and the flying carpet. She is especially interested in the reception history of those symbolic objects, both in antiquity and in the Middle Ages, both in western and in eastern culture, that is, above all, in the Arabic world, and also pursues the afterlife of those objects in the early modern age. Iafrate pursues not only the actual history of King Solomon and those religious objects associated with him, but the metaphorical objects as they made their presence felt throughout time, and this especially in literary texts and in art-historical objects.

The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Book Production ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The Middle Ages

The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography provides a comprehensive overview of the development of Latin scripts from Antiquity to the Early Modern period, of codicology, and of the cultural setting of the mediaeval manuscript. The opening section, on Latin Palaeography, treats a full range of Latin book hands, beginning with Square and Rustic Capitals and finishing with Humanistic minuscule. The Handbook is groundbreaking in giving extensive treatment to such scripts as Old Roman Cursive, New Roman Cursive, and Visigothic. Each article is written by a leading expert in the field and is copiously illustrated with figures and plates. Examples of each script with full transcription of selected plates are frequently provided for the benefit of newcomers to the field. The second section, on Codicology, contains essays on the design and physical make-up of the manuscript book, and it includes as well articles in newly-created disciplines, such as comparative codicology. The third and final section, Manuscript Setting, places the mediaeval manuscript within its cultural and intellectual setting, with extended essays on the mediaeval library, particular genres and types of manuscript production, the book trade in antiquity and the Middle Ages, and manuscript cataloguing. All articles are in English. The Handbook will be an indispensable guide to all those working in the various fields concerned with the literary and cultural dynamics of book production in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period.

Apocalypticism and Globalization in the Early Modern World: A Medievalist’s Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Rubenstein
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
World History ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Early Modernity ◽  
Age Of Discovery ◽  
The Middle Ages

Abstract The apocalyptic belief systems from early modernity discussed in this series of articles to varying degrees have precursors in the Middle Ages. The drive to map the globe for purposes both geographic and symbolic, finds expression in explicitly apocalyptic manuscripts produced throughout the Middle Ages. An apocalyptic political discourse, especially centered on themes of empire and Islam, developed in the seventh century and reached extraordinary popularity during the Crusades. Speculation about the end of world history among medieval intellectuals led them not to reject the natural world but to study it more closely, in ways that set the stage for the later Age of Discovery. These broad continuities between the medieval and early modern, and indeed into modernity, demonstrate the imperative of viewing apocalypticism not as an esoteric fringe movement but as a constructive force in cultural creation.

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