FWB-online – a brief insight into an online dictionary revealing information on historical linguistics, cultural history and the impact of time and geography on the German language in the early modern era

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-245
Author(s):  
Henning Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Added Value ◽  
German Language ◽  
Early Modern Era ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Scientific Questions ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract This essay will show, by the example of FWB-online (the online version of Frühneuhochdeutsches Wörterbuch), some possibilities to enhance the added value of traditional printed historical dictionaries published online by providing their data with deep structured semantic mark-up. This semantic mark-up can basically be used as a foundation for elaborated search and in a further advanced step also for visualizing specific aspects of the dictionary data, thus allowing for new perspectives on it. It will be shown, how these search methods and especially this kind of visualization of dictionary data can enable advanced approaches on both old and new scientific questions.

Law and Architecture: The Pollution Crisis in the Italian Ghetto

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-284
Author(s):  
David Malkiel
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Jewish Law ◽  
Early Modern Italy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Physical Presence ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Early Modern Era ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Modern Era

AbstractMuch has been written about the establishment of ghettos in Italy and some attention has been paid to social structures and cultural forms that emerged during the ghetto period, but there is a great deal more to be learned about how living in a ghetto affected the Jewish family, society and culture. The present study sheds light on the ghetto’s physical presence, specifically on the impact on religious life of the architecture and urban development of this uniquely Jewish space.Rabbinic responsa published in the Pahad Yitzhak, an encyclopedia of Jewish law published by Isaac Lampronti of Ferrara in the mid-eighteenth century, represent an eruption of anxiety, expressed in a flurry of intense literary activity, about the ostensible impossibility of escaping “tent pollution,” contracted by anyone present under the same roof as someone deceased. The pollution seemed inescapable because the architecture and urban layout seemed to allow for it to pass from building to building across the entire ghetto. The tent pollution material is thus an instance of the interplay of architecture, urban development and Jewish law.Tent pollution particularly exercised the Jews of early modern Italy. Jews living both before and after the age of the Italian ghetto evinced virtually no interest in the tent pollution problems posed by urban development. There is a smattering of writing on the subject from northern Europe and the Ottoman Empire, which only underscores that this was a particularly Italian problem.The present study spotlights this moment in early modern Jewish life, which stands out for the agitation it aroused among Italy’s Jews, and explores its implications for the social and cultural concerns of Jews in the early modern era. Lampronti’s encyclopedia affords us entrée, serving as a kind of seismograph to draw attention to areas which were the focus of heightened concern and activity in his historical setting.

Ships and Military Power on Land

Atlantic Wars ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 81-102
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Plank
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Military Power ◽  
Military Leaders ◽  
Military Commanders ◽  
Early Modern Era ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Modern Era

Chapter 4 examines amphibious operations and the impact of naval forces on the balance of military power on land. Ships were essential tools for overseas invasion, but navigational challenges limited their ability to operate safely, communicate effectively, and supply fighters on land. Military commanders launching seaborne raids, sieges, or invasions used their ships as weapons platforms, but the most important military function of ships was to transport soldiers, settlers, and supplies. Military commanders deployed ships to evacuate colonists from conquered territory and to remove war captives from the regions where they were taken. Military leaders in Africa supplying the slave trade adopted a similar logic to imperial and colonial commanders in the Americas by taking advantage of ocean-going transportation to banish their adversaries. Over the course of the early modern era mass evacuations and small-scale banishments cumulatively affected millions of people.

Shakespearean Boyhood from the Early Modern Era to the Present

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-129
Author(s):  
Mary Beth Benbenek
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Early Modern Era ◽  
Modern Era

Katie Knowles. 2014. Shakespeare’s Boys: A Cultural History. Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137005366 (hb) 9781137005373 (e-bk)

Foreign Trade as a Means of Overcoming Environmental Problems in the Early Modern Era: the Possible Application of the Concept of Kenneth Pomeranz to Trade Relations between Western and Eastern Europe

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-240
Author(s):  
Arseny Ju. Ermolov
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Precious Metals ◽  
Trade Relations ◽  
Great Divergence ◽  
Early Modern Era ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Modern Era

Introduction. The article discusses the impact of trade with Eastern Europe on the British industrial revolution. The author uses the concept of K. Pomeranz described in the book “The Great Divergence”. But the author does not agree with his assessment of the role of Eastern Europe. Discussion and Conclusion. The author proves that the dynamics of trade between Eastern and Western Europe in the Early Modern era was not always stagnant. The hundred-year period of stagnation was not caused by bad Eastern European institutions, but was part of the global crisis of the XVII century. Trade with Eastern Europe was important as a source of “phantom acres” that reduced the environmental burden. It provided Britain with more “phantom acres” and did so during the critical period of the beginning of the industrial revolution. The importance of trade with America was also critical, as it provided the precious metals and colonial goods needed to trade with Eastern Europe. Both these regions were important for saving the West from falling into the Malthusian trap.

Philosophic Pride

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Brooke
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Marcus Aurelius ◽  
Hugo Grotius ◽  
History Of ◽  
Early Modern Era ◽  
Modern Era

This is the first full-scale look at the essential place of Stoicism in the foundations of modern political thought. Spanning the period from Justus Lipsius's Politics in 1589 to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile in 1762, and concentrating on arguments originating from England, France, and the Netherlands, the book considers how political writers of the period engaged with the ideas of the Roman and Greek Stoics that they found in works by Cicero, Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius. The book examines key texts in their historical context, paying special attention to the history of classical scholarship and the historiography of philosophy. The book delves into the persisting tension between Stoicism and the tradition of Augustinian anti-Stoic criticism, which held Stoicism to be a philosophy for the proud who denied their fallen condition. Concentrating on arguments in moral psychology surrounding the foundations of human sociability and self-love, the book details how the engagement with Roman Stoicism shaped early modern political philosophy and offers significant new interpretations of Lipsius and Rousseau together with fresh perspectives on the political thought of Hugo Grotius and Thomas Hobbes. The book shows how the legacy of the Stoics played a vital role in European intellectual life in the early modern era.

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