Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Neglected Topic. Ed. Albrecht Classen (Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 2). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2007. Pp. 575. Cloth € 98.00

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosalind Field
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
The Middle Ages

scholarly journals ROYAL POWER SACRALIZATION IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND EARLY MODERN AGE AS STUDIED BY DOMESTIC HISTORIANS IN XX – EARLY XXI CENTURY

2018 ◽  
pp. 11-16
Author(s):  
E. N. Deniskevich
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Royal Power ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
European Experience ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
Objective Research ◽  
The Middle Ages

The author analyzes the main stages of the research process conducted by domestic historians in the sphere of the European  rulers’ power sacralization in the Middle Ages and early Modern Age.  The author estimates the level of interest of Soviet and Russian  specialists for the issue, determines the coherence between this  issue actualization, formation of new scientific approaches and  objective research conditions, as well as prevailing methods,  concepts and theories of historic science. It is indicated that study  methods have transformed due to a change of conjuncture and  possibility to use West-European experience, where socio-cultural  history has been developed by the use of postmodern trends,  anthropology data and interdisciplinary approaches for historic past.  The author estimates the contribution of contemporary Russian  medievalists into power sacralization studies and describes the most  significant domestic specialists in the field, their methods and works. 

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.

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