ALBERT

All Library Books, journals and Electronic Records Telegrafenberg

Your email was sent successfully. Check your inbox.

An error occurred while sending the email. Please try again.

Proceed reservation?

Export
Filter
  • Böhlau
  • U of M Center For Japanese Studies
  • English  (57)
  • Latin  (3)
  • Japanese  (2)
  • Chinese
  • 2020-2024  (60)
Collection
Language
Years
  • 2020-2024  (60)
Year
  • 1
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    University of Michigan Press | U of M Center For Japanese Studies
    Publication Date: 2023-02-14
    Description: Tales of Times Now Past is a translation of 62 outstanding tales freshly selected from Konjaku monogatari shu, a Japanese anthology dating from the early twelfth century. The original work, unique in world literature, contains more than one thousand systematically arranged tales from India, China, and Japan. It is the most important example of a genre of collections of brief tales which, because of their informality and unpretentious style, were neglected by Japanese critics until recent years but which are now acknowledged to be among the most significant prose literature of premodern Japan. “Konjaku” in particular has aroused the enthusiasm of such leading 20th-century writers as Akutagawa Ryunosuke and Tanizaki Jun’ichiro. The stories, with sources in both traditional lore and contemporary gossip, cover an astonishing range—homiletic, sentimental, terrifying, practical-minded, humorous, ribald. Their topics include the life of the Buddha, descriptions of Heaven and Hell, feats of warriors, craftsmen, and musicians, unsuspected vice, virtue, and ingenuity, and the ways and wiles of bandits, ogres, and proverbially greedy provincial governors, to name just a few. Composed perhaps a century after the refined, allusive, aristocratic Tale of Genji, Konjaku represents a masculine outlook and comparatively plebeian social orientation, standing in piquant contrast to the earlier masterpiece. The unknown compiler was interested less in exploring psychological subtleties than in presenting vivid portraits of human foibles and eccentricities. The stories in the present selection have been chosen to provide an idea of the scope and structure of the book as a whole, and also for their appeal to the modern reader. And the translation is based on the premise that the most faithful rendering is also the liveliest.
    Keywords: Sociology and anthropology ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 2
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    Böhlau
    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: The attraction of crises keeps going an entire sector of the media industry. Authors, painters, photographers and directors tell fascinating stories about the decline of empires and democracies as much as earthquakes and infectious diseases. Hereby, catastrophe and collapse evolve as a complex construct of experience, interpretation and emotion. The resulting narrative combines analyses of facts about the collapse with a retrospect evaluation, update and confirmation of these facts in the cultural memory of a given society. The random occurrence becomes a memorable event. The contributors of this volume have taken a narratological approach in examining collapse, disaster, catastrophe and how these in turn manifest themselves across different types of media.
    Keywords: History ; Social History ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 3
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    University of Michigan Press | U of M Center For Japanese Studies
    Publication Date: 2024-03-29
    Description: Society and social sciences;Sociology;Veterinary medicine: infectious diseases and therapeutics
    Keywords: Society and social sciences ; Sociology ; Veterinary medicine: infectious diseases and therapeutics ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 4
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    University of Michigan Press | U of M Center For Japanese Studies
    Publication Date: 2023-02-14
    Description: Nowhere has there been a discussion of the confusion necessarily generated by the rapidity of the change or of the agony created in the lives of many whose attitudes, expectations, and even success depended on the continuance of now abolished institutions. Historians have ignored the settled conditions of most samurai and instead concentrated on the study of the minority of activist samurai leaders who, with the backing of only a few Han (feudal domains) sought to overthrow the old order and whose success in doing so has made the study of the modernization of Japan the prime concern of historians. The history of the Meiji period may have been an overall political and industrial success story, but for a fuller understanding of the conditions of that success it is also necessary to understand "what it was really like" for the members of the old elite to be estranged from the proponents of revolution and what many members did to assure their own social and psychological position in a world they had not expected.In this book the author attempts to show that the impact of the Meiji Restoration destroyed the meaningfulness of the Confucian doctrine for these declasse samurai. Through Christianity, the samurai attempted to revive their status in society by finding a doctrine that offered a meaningful path to power. But in doing so, they had to accept a new theory of social relations. Ultimately, as the convert's understanding of society became totally informed by the Christian doctrine, they accepted a transcendent authority that brought them into conflict with society about them. Therefore, to understand the development of a Christian opposition in Meiji society we must begin with the conversion experience itself.
    Keywords: Veterinary medicine: infectious diseases and therapeutics
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 5
    Publication Date: 2023-07-18
    Description: This volume consists of conference papers from the Vienna conference about Habsburg representation which took place in June 2015. The theme is the different forms of representation of the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty in art and music from the 17th to the early 20th centuries. The many forms of representation employed are discussed in four sections, dealing with the themes and media used, with the relationship between ruler, state and nation, with the networks of the actors involved and with the relationship between ceremonial spaces and the diverse ‘publics’ being addressed.
    Description: Die vorliegende Publikation der Beiträge der Wiener Konferenz zur habsburgischen Repräsentation (Juni 2015), ist den unterschiedlichen Formen der Repräsentation der Habsburg-Lothringischen Dynastie in Kunst und Musik vom 17. bis in das frühe 20. Jahrhundert gewidmet. In vier Blöcken werden die breiten Anwendungsformen von Repräsentation hinsichtlich der verwendeten Themen und Medien, des Verhältnisses zwischen Regent, Staat und Nation, der Netzwerke der Akteure und des Verhältnisses zwischen den zeremoniellen Räumen und den vielfältigen darauf Bezug nehmenden ‚Öffentlichkeiten‘ thematisiert.
    Keywords: representation ; Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty ; architecture ; fine arts ; music ; media ; state ; nation ; networks ; ceremonial spaces ; public ; Repräsentation ; Habsburg-Lothringische Dynastie ; Architektur ; bildende Kunst ; Musik ; Medien ; Staat ; Nation ; Netzwerke ; Zeremonielle Räume ; Öffentlichkeit ; Imre Kertész ; Weimar
    Language: English , German
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 6
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    University of Michigan Press | U of M Center For Japanese Studies
    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: This volume presents 18 eighteen essays, written by scholars from six countries, on Tanizaki Jun’ichiro (1886–1965), one of the great writers of the 20th century. The essays were originally prepared for a landmark international symposium in Venice in 1995, at which 22 speakers addressed an audience of about two hundred students and scholars in the Aula Magna of the University of Venice. Topics include Tanizaki’s fiction, plays, and film scenarios; his aesthetics; his place in Japanese intellectual history; his depiction of the West; his use of humor; and film adaptations of his works. In 1964 Tanizaki was elected to honorary membership in the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the first Japanese to be so honored; and it is widely believed that he was being considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
    Keywords: Literature: history and criticism ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 7
    Publication Date: 2024-03-30
    Description: Barely known in public is the life of long-distance commute workers who extract the „blue and black gold” for the export to Europe. They are travelling people who work and live rotationally for a few weeks at the extraction sites before they go back again to their families in the southern regions. This ethnography takes the reader from the Volga Region to the Arcitc “Russian Gas Capital” Novy Urengoy and provides critically insights into the Russian petroleum industry.
    Description: Nahezu unbekannt sind der Öffentlichkeit die Lebensweisen jener ArbeiterInnen, die das „schwarze und blaue Gold“ für den Export nach Europa fördern. Sie sind fahrende und fliegende Menschen, die zyklisch für Wochen oder Monate in den Fördergebieten leben und arbeiten, um wieder für eine Weile zu ihren Familien heimzukehren. Die Ethnographie führt von der Wolgaregion in die subarktische „russische Gashauptstadt“ Novy Urengoy und gibt einen kritischen Einblick in die russische Petroleumindustrie.
    Keywords: Crude oil ; natural gas ; Russia ; Siberia ; Arctic ; long-distance commuting (LDC) ; fly-in/fly-out (FIFO) ; mobility ; normality ; multi-locality ; Erdöl ; Erdgas ; Russland ; Sibirien ; Arktis ; Fernpendleln ; Mobilität ; Normalität ; Multilokalität ; Gazprom ; Novy Urengoy ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics
    Language: English , German , Russian
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 8
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    Böhlau
    Publication Date: 2024-03-24
    Description: Although the fundamental meaning of basic terminology is well established for every scholarly discipline, many concepts are often questioned and redefined. In the case of ethnomusicology, this process is all too familiar, as researchers within the discipline focus on the most diverse of music cultures. The manifold worldviews of the resource persons, as holders and presenters (in both meanings of the word) of a tradition make the matter more complex. Such a situation has particular significance in the context of multipart singing because of the specific musical aesthetics and vocabularies established among singing groups. Additionally, it is accentuated by processes of change within every musical culture and those of ethnomusicology. Examining this question from the viewpoint of folk terminology means primarily considering specific and individual concepts of cultural listening, in the sense of 'paying attention', 'con-centrating' and 'focusing on'. These concepts are established on the one hand through the processes of music listening and music making and on the other hand through the local dis-course, in which singers and musicians as well as local communities are very much involved. The discourse as a communication category with which people communicate about the claim to validity of rules also plays an important role in processes of legitimating and power within the community. An essential part of the discourse is singing itself. The music therefore becomes the object and subject of research. Of particular relevance in this framework are questions of gender, applying to communities in which women practice multipart singing and others where they are mostly listeners, although contributing decisively in the discourse processes. A specific role become issues of brain research. In this context the functionality of an exact motor control system within the body for precise timing, sequencing and the spatial organisation of movements during musical performance become particularly important. Performing and listening to music are culturally conditioned, but they are at the same time natural human abilities. Therefore the study of underlying processes is crucial and promises to uncover fun-damental properties of the human brain. The different theoretical viewpoints in the first three chapters of the book are followed by ap-proaches of a "Lexicon of Local Terminology on Multipart Singing in Europe". These reflect the situation of a few but different communities and areas in Europe, helping to obtain additional insights into the topics in question.
    Description: Die grundlegende Bedeutung der Terminologie steht für jede Wissenschaft zwar außer Streit, viele Termini werden aber oft in Frage gestellt und immer wieder neu definiert. In der Ethnomusikologie ist dieser Vorgang eine all zu bekannte Erscheinung, beschäftigen sich doch die Forscher dieser Disziplin mit unterschiedlichsten Musikkulturen. Die mannigfaltigen Weltanschauungen der Gewährspersonen, die gleichzeitig Träger und Darsteller (im doppelten Sinn des Wortes) der jeweiligen Tradition sind, machen die Frage noch komplexer. Dieser Zustand nimmt in Fragen vokaler Mehrstimmigkeit eine besondere Stellung ein, auf Grund der eigenen musikalischen Ästhetik und des eigenen Vokabulars, die sich unter Sängergruppen etabliert haben. Er wird zusätzlich durch Änderungsprozesse in jeder Musikkultur und jene in der Ethnomusikologie betont. Diese Frage vom Blickwinkel der Volksterminologie zu erkunden, erfordert zuerst spezifische und individuelle Konzepte des kulturellen Hörens im Sinne von ‚Aufmerksamkeit schenken', ‚sich konzentrieren auf' und ‚Aufmerksamkeit ausrichten auf' in die Untersuchungen mit einzubeziehen. Diese Konzepte sind einerseits durch Prozesse des Musikhörens and Musikmachens, andererseits durch den lokalen Diskurs, in dem Volkssänger- und -musikanten, wie auch die jeweilige lokale Gemeinschaft mitwirken, etabliert. Der Diskurs als jene Art der Kommunikation, durch die sich Personen über den Geltungsanspruch von Normen verständigen spielt eine wichtige Rolle in den Prozessen von Legitimation und Macht innerhalb einer Gemeinschaft. Ein wesentlicher Teil des Diskurses ist das Singen selbst. Die Musik wird daher Objekt und Subjekt der Untersuchungen. Von besonderer Bedeutung sind in diesem Zusammenhang Gender-Fragen. Sie betreffen Gemeinschaften in denen Frauen aktiv in der Praxis der vokalen Mehrstimmigkeit teilnehmen sowie andere, in denen sie vor allem Zuhörerinnen sind, trotzdem aber eine entscheidende Rolle in den Diskurs-Prozessen spielen. Eine spezifische Rolle kommt Fragen der Hirnforschung zu. Besonders wichtig in diesem Zusammenhang ist die Funktionalität eines exakten motorischen Kontrollsystems innerhalb des Körpers für die präzise Zeitmessung, die Sequenzbildung und die Raumorganisation der Bewegungen während der musikalischen Interpretation. Musikinterpretation und -hören sind kulturell bedingt, aber sie sind gleichzeitig natürliche menschliche Fähigkeiten. Die Untersuchung der zugrunde liegenden Prozesse ist daher entscheidend und verspricht die Entdeckung grundlegender Merkmale des menschlichen Gehirns. Die unterschiedlichen theoretischen Blickwinkeln in den drei ersten Kapitel des Buches werden von Annäherungen an ein "Lexikon der lokalen Terminologie zur vokalen Mehrstimmigkeit in Europa" gefolgt. Diese widerspiegeln die Situation weniger aber unterschiedlicher Gemeinschaften und Regionen in Europa und helfen zusätzliche Einsichten zu den gestellten Fragen zu gewinnen.
    Keywords: cultural listening ; local discourse ; multipart singing ; European multipart music ; local terminology ; musical phenomena ; Daina (Lithuania) ; Melody ; Music of Lithuania ; Polyphony ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 9
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    University of Michigan Press | U of M Center For Japanese Studies
    Publication Date: 2023-02-14
    Description: Japan is the only country in the world where women writers laid the foundations of classical literature. The Kagero Diary commands our attention as the first extant work of that rich and brilliant tradition. The author, known to posterity as Michitsuna’s Mother, a member of the middle-ranking aristocracy of the Heian period (794–1185), wrote an account of 20 years of her life (from 954–74), and this autobiographical text now gives readers access to a woman’s experience of a thousand years ago. The diary centers on the author’s relationship with her husband, Fujiwara Kaneie, her kinsman from a more powerful and prestigious branch of the family than her own. Their marriage ended in divorce, and one of the author’s intentions seems to have been to write an anti-romance, one that could be subtitled, “I married the prince but we did not live happily ever after.” Yet, particularly in the first part of the diary, Michitsuna’s Mother is drawn to record those events and moments when the marriage did live up to a romantic ideal fostered by the Japanese tradition of love poetry. At the same time, she also seems to seek the freedom to live and write outside the romance myth and without a husband. Since the author was by inclination and talent a poet and lived in a time when poetry was a part of everyday social intercourse, her account of her life is shaped by a lyrical consciousness. The poems she records are crystalline moments of awareness that vividly recall the past. This new translation of the Kagero Diary conveys the long, fluid sentences, the complex polyphony of voices, and the floating temporality of the original. It also pays careful attention to the poems of the text, rendering as much as possible their complex imagery and open-ended quality. The translation is accompanied by running notes on facing pages and an introduction that places the work within the context of contemporary discussions regarding feminist literature and the genre of autobiography and provides detailed historical information and a description of the stylistic qualities of the text.
    Keywords: Sociology and anthropology ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology
    Language: English , Japanese
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 10
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    University of Michigan Press | U of M Center For Japanese Studies
    Publication Date: 2023-02-14
    Description: This report was prepared for the Policy Board by the U.S. and Japanese research staffs of the Joint U.S.–Japan Automotive Study under the general direction of Professors Paul W. McCracken and Keichi Oshima, with research operations organized and coordinated by Robert E. Cole on the U.S. side, in close communication with the Taizo Yakushiji on the Japanese side. [preface] In view of the importance of stable, long-term economic relationships between Japan and the United States, automotive issues have to be dealt with in ways consistent with the joint prosperity of both countries. Furthermore, the current economic friction has the potential to adversely affect future political relationships. Indeed, under conditions of economic stagnation, major economic issues inevitably become political issues. With these considerations in mind, the Joint U.S.–Japan Automotive Study project was started in September 1981 to determine the conditions that will allow for the prosperous coexistence of the respective automobile industries. During this two-year study, we have identified four driving forces that will play a major role in determining the future course of the automotive industry of both countries. These are: (1) consumers’ demands and aspirations vis-à-vis automobiles; (2) flexible manufacturing systems (FMS); (3) rapidly evolving technology; and (4) the internationalization of the automotive industry. [exec. summary]
    Keywords: Industry and industrial studies ; bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KN Industry & industrial studies
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 11
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    University of Michigan Press | U of M Center For Japanese Studies
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: For centuries, scholars have wondered what daily life was like for the common people of Japan, especially for long bygone eras such as the ancient age (700–1150). Using the discipline of historical demography, William Wayne Farris shows that for most of this era, Japan’s overall population hardly grew at all, hovering around six million for almost five hundred years. The reasons for the stable population were complex. Most importantly, Japan was caught up in an East Asian pandemic that killed both aristocrat and commoner in countless numbers every generation. These epidemics of smallpox, measles, mumps, and dysentery decimated the adult population, resulting in wide-ranging social and economic turmoil. Famine recurred about once every three years, leaving large proportions of the populace malnourished or dead. Ecological degradation of central Japan led to an increased incidence of drought and soil erosion. And war led soldiers to murder innocent bystanders in droves. Under these harsh conditions, agriculture suffered from high rates of field abandonment and poor technological development. Both farming and industry shifted increasingly to labor-saving technologies. With workers at a premium, wages rose. Traders shifted from the use of money to barter. Cities disappeared. The family was an amorphous entity, with women holding high status in a labor-short economy. Broken families and an appallingly high rate of infant mortality were also part of kinship patterns. The average family lived in a cold, drafty dwelling susceptible to fire, wore clothing made of scratchy hemp, consumed meals just barely adequate in the best of times, and suffered from a lack of sanitary conditions that increased the likelihood of disease outbreak. While life was harsh for almost all people from 700 to 1150, these experiences represented investments in human capital that would bear fruit during the medieval epoch (1150–1600).
    Keywords: History ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 12
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    University of Michigan Press | U of M Center For Japanese Studies
    Publication Date: 2024-03-29
    Description: Society and social sciences;Politics and government;Sociology
    Keywords: Society and social sciences ; Politics and government ; Sociology ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 13
    Publication Date: 2023-07-19
    Description: The Archive of the City of Vienna keeps three folio-volumes of a manuscript in conservation of her archive, which in common was marked as “Wiener Testamentsbücher” (Viennese Last Wills-Register). The source, comprising the period of 1395 to 1430, at this time was named “Stadtbuch”, and this appoints the character of such registers, which served for registration of legal transactions in urban space. In total the “Stadtbuch” embodies more than 4.500 registrations, in most cases last wills (“Geschäfte”), but also a lot of registrations about transactions concerning private law as well as matters of pubic law.
    Description: Das Archiv der Stadt Wien verwahrt drei Foliobände einer spätmittelalterlichen Handschrift, die üblicherweise als „Wiener Testamentsbücher“ bezeichnet wird. Die Quelle umfasst den Zeitraum von 1395 bis 1430, nennt sich selbst „Stadtbuch“ und ist ihrem Charakter nach auch diesem Rechtsquellentypus zuzuordnen. Sie enthält auch keineswegs nur letztwillige Verfügungen („Testamente“), welche in der spätmittelalterlichen Rechtssprache „Geschäfte“ heißen, sondern weitere Eintragungen Eintragungen privatrechtlicher Natur sowie andere mit öffentlichrechtlichem Charakter.
    Keywords: Legal History ; Medieval History ; Social & Cultural History (municipality governance ; material culture ; urban communities ; economic constitution) ; Mediävistik ; Rechtsgeschichte ; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte (Alltagskultur ; Bürgergemeinde ; Stadtverfassung ; Wirtschaftsordnung) ; Sigel ; Stadtbuch ; Wien
    Language: Latin , German
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 14
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    University of Michigan Press | U of M Center For Japanese Studies
    Publication Date: 2024-03-29
    Description: Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan focuses on women’s activities in the new public spaces of Meiji Japan. With chapters on public, private, and missionary schools for girls, their students, and teachers, on social and political groups women created, on female employment, and on women’s participation in print media, this book offers a new perspective on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Japanese history. Women’s founding of and participation in conflicting discourses over the value of women in Meiji public life demonstrate that during this period active and vocal women were everywhere, that they did not meekly submit to the dictates of the government and intellectuals over what women could or should do, and that they were fully integrated in the production of Meiji culture. Mara Patessio shows that the study of women is fundamental not only in order to understand fully the transformations of the Meiji period, but also to understand how later generations of women could successfully move the battle forward. Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan is essential reading for all students and teachers of 19th- and early 20th-century Japanese history and is of interest to scholars of women’s history more generally.
    Keywords: Sociology and anthropology ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 15
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    University of Michigan Press | U of M Center For Japanese Studies
    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: Kurihara Sadako was born in Hiroshima in 1913, and she was there on August 6, 1945. Already a poet before she experienced the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, she used her poetic talents to describe the blast and its aftermath. In 1946, despite the censorship of the American Occupation, she published Kuroi tamago (Black Eggs), poems from before, during, and immediately after the war. This volume includes a translation of Kuroi tamago from the complete edition of 1983. But August 6, 1945, was not the end point of Kurihara’s journey. In the years after Kuroi tamago she has broadened her focus—to Japan as a victimizer rather than victim, to the threat of nuclear war, to antiwar movements around the world, and to inhumanity in its many guises. She treats events in Japan such as politics in Hiroshima, Tokyo’s long-term complicity in American policies, and the decision in 1992 to send Japanese troops on U.N. peacekeeping operations. But she also deals with the Vietnam War, Three Mile Island, Kwangju, Greenham Common, and Tiananmen Square. This volume includes a large selection of these later poems. Kurihara sets us all at ground zero, strips us down to our basic humanity, and shows us the world both as it is and as it could be. Her poems are by turns sorrowful and sarcastic, tender and tough. Several of them are famous in Japan today, but even there, few people appreciate the full force and range of her poetry. And few poets in any country—indeed, few artists of any kind—have displayed comparable dedication, consistency, and insight.
    Keywords: Asian history ; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 16
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The origins of World War I were different and varied. But it was Austria-Hungary which unleashed the war. After more than four years the Habsburg Monarchy was defeated and ended as a failed state.
    Description: Die Ursachen des Ersten Weltkriegs sind vielfältig. Die Entfesselung des Kriegs geschah jedoch durch Österreich-Ungarn. Nach mehr als vier Jahren zerfiel die Habsburgermonarchie als Folge innerer Auflösung und der militärischen Niederlage.
    Keywords: First World War, Austria-Hungary, Habsburg Monarchy, 1914-1918 ; Erster Weltkrieg, Österreich-Ungarn, Habsburgermonarchie, 1914-1918 ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 17
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    University of Michigan Press | U of M Center For Japanese Studies
    Publication Date: 2024-03-29
    Description: Despite the economic and political importance of the U.S.-Japan relationship and the extensive attention paid to automotive trade, few American scholars or policy makers are familiar with the history of Japanese government-business relations, either generally or for specific industries such as passenger cars. This book hopefully helps in a small way to fill that gap in our knowledge and, thus, to help strengthen the foundation from which we make public policy decisions about bilateral trade. [ix]
    Keywords: Sociology and anthropology ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 18
    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: Parchment, inks, dyes and pigments of the Vienna Genesis were investigated. The results formed the basis for conservation and storage of the illuminated manuscript
    Description: Pergament, Tinten, Farbstoffe und Pigmente der Wiener Genesis wurden erforscht. Auf Basis dieser Ergebnisse erfolgte die Konservierung und Aufbewahrung der illuminierten Handschrift.
    Keywords: Illuminated manuscript, Late Antiquity, purple parchment, silver ink, miniature painting, manuscript conservation ; ÖFOS 2012, Conservation, restoration ; ÖFOS 2012, Historical technology ; ÖFOS 2012, Analytical chemistry ; Illuminierte Handschrift, Spätantike, Purpurpergament, Silbertinte, Miniaturmalerei, Handschriftenkonservierung ; ÖFOS 2012, Konservierung und Restaurierung ; ÖFOS 2012, Historische Technologie ; ÖFOS 2012, Analytische Chemie ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AB The arts: general topics::ABC Conservation, restoration and care of artworks ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology::GLZ Museology and heritage studies ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PN Chemistry::PNF Analytical chemistry
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 19
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    Böhlau
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: In early modern times, the city of Seville was the most important entrepôt between the Old and the New World, attracting numerous merchants from all of Europe. They provided the American market with European merchandise, especially with textiles and metalware from Flanders and France. This book investigates the networks of Flemish and French merchants in Seville, displaying overall structures of trade as well as collective strategies of both merchant colonies.
    Description: Die Stadt Sevilla war in der frühen Neuzeit die wichtigste Schnittstelle zwischen der Alten und der Neuen Welt und zog zahlreiche Kaufleute aus ganz Europa an. Von Sevilla aus versorgten diese den amerikanischen Markt mit europäischen Produkten, wobei Textilien und Metallwaren aus Frankreich und Flandern besonders nachgefragt waren. Dieses Buch untersucht die Netzwerke der französischen und flämischen Kaufleute in Sevilla und zeigt dabei allgemeine Handelsstrukturen sowie kollektive Verhaltensstrategien der beiden Kaufmannskolonien auf.
    Keywords: History ; Spain ; America ; France ; Flanders ; Seville ; trade ; merchants ; early modern age ; networks ; social network analysis ; Geschichte ; Spanien ; Amerika ; Frankreich ; Flandern ; Sevilla ; Handel ; Kaufleute ; Frühe Neuzeit ; Netzwerke ; Soziale Netzwerkanalyse ; Antwerp ; Ducat ; Flemish people ; French people ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 20
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    University of Michigan Press | U of M Center For Japanese Studies
    Publication Date: 2023-02-14
    Description: By the late Meiji period Japanese were venturing abroad in great numbers, and some of those who traveled kept diaries and wrote formal travelogues. These travelogues reflected a changing view of the West and changing artistic sensibilities in the long-standing Japanese literary tradition of travel writing (kikoōbungaku). This book shows that overseas Meiji-period travel writers struck out to create a dynamic new type of travel literature, one that had a solid foundation in traditional Japanese kikōbungaku yet also displayed influence from the West. Musashino in Tuscany specifically examines the poetic imagery and allusion in these travelogues and reveals that when Japanese traveled to the West in the mid-nineteenth century, the images they wrote about tended to be associated not with places initially discovered by the Japanese traveler but with places that already existed in Western fame and lore. And unlike imagery from Japanese traveling in Japan, which was predominantly nature based, Japanese overseas travel imagery was often associated with the manmade world.
    Keywords: Society and social sciences
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 21
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    University of Michigan Press | U of M Center For Japanese Studies
    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: First published in Japan in 1983, this book is now a classic in modern Japanese literary studies. Covering an astonishing range of texts from the Meiji period (1868–1912), it presents sophisticated analyses of the ways that experiments in literary language produced multiple new—and sometimes revolutionary—forms of sensibility and subjectivity. Along the way, Kamei Hideo carries on an extended debate with Western theorists such as Saussure, Bakhtin, and Lotman, as well as with such contemporary Japanese critics as Karatani Kojin and Noguchi Takehiko. Transformations of Sensibility deliberately challenges conventional wisdom about the rise of modern literature in Japan and offers highly original close readings of works by such writers as Futabatei Shimei, Tsubouchi Shoyo, Higuchi Ichiyo, and Izumi Kyoka, as well as writers previously ignored by most scholars. It also provides a new critical theorization of the relationship between language and sensibility, one that links the specificity of Meiji literature to broader concerns that transcend the field of Japanese literary studies. Available in English translation for the first time, it includes a new preface by the author and an introduction by the translation editor that explain the theoretical and historical contexts in which the work first appeared.
    Keywords: Literature: history and criticism ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 22
    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: The volume contains 18 contributions to an international conference of archivists and historians dealing with the current situation of archives and archival science generally and specifically with the impact of digitization on archival core tasks and on the societal roles of archives.
    Description: Der Band enthält 18 Beiträge einer internationalen Tagung von ArchivarInnen und HistorikerInnen, die sich mit der aktuellen Situation von Archivwesen und Archivwissenschaft allgemein und speziell mit den Auswirkungen der Digitalisierung auf die archivischen Kerntätigkeiten und die gesellschaftlichen Rollen der Archive befassen.
    Keywords: Information Science ; Informationsverarbeitung ; Quellenforschung ; Archiv ; Digital ; Humanities ; Digitale ; Medien ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHA History: theory and methods
    Language: English , German
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 23
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    University of Michigan Press | U of M Center For Japanese Studies
    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: Fujiwara Teika is known as the premier poet and literary scholar of the early 13th century. It is not so widely known that he also tried his hand at fiction: Mumyōzōshi (Untitled Leaves; ca. 1201) refers to “several works” by Teika and then names Matsura no miya monogatari (The Tale of Matsura; ca. 1190) as the only one that can be considered successful. The work is here translated in full, with annotation. Set in the pre-Nara period, The Tale of Matsura is the story of a young Japanese courtier, Ujitada, who is sent to China with an embassy and has a number of supernatural experiences while there. Affairs of the heart dominate The Tale of Matsura, as is standard for courtly tales. Several of its other features break the usual mold, however: its time and setting; the military episode that would seem to belong instead in a war tale; scenes depicting the sovereign’s daily audiences, in which formal court business is conducted; a substantial degree of specificity in referring to things Chinese; a heavy reliance on fantastic and supernatural elements; an obvious effort to avoid imitating The Tale of Genji as other late-Heian tales had done; and a most inventive ending. The discussion in the introduction briefly touches upon each of these features, and then focuses at some length on how characteristics associated with the poetic ideal of yōen inform the tale. Evidence relating to the date and authorship of the tale is explored in two appendixes.
    Keywords: Society and social sciences ; Literature: history and criticism ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 24
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    University of Michigan Press | U of M Center For Japanese Studies
    Publication Date: 2024-03-29
    Description: In fall 1997 the Center for Japanese Studies at The University of Michigan celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. The November symposium featured more than fifty speakers, moderators, and musicians who celebrated the occasion and offered reminiscences on the Center's multifaceted scholarly and professional missions, discussions of the accomplishments of its al-umni/ae, and perspectives on wartime and postwar Japan-U.S. relations. As the first American interdisciplinary institute devoted to education and research on Japan, The University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies has a path-making legacy. This volume, which includes the public presentations from the November 1997 symposium, reflects that legacy and the university's long and continuing involvement in Asia, which dates back to the 1870s.
    Keywords: Sociology and anthropology ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 25
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    Böhlau
    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: A survey of the role played by jewish architects working in Vienna in the period between 1868-1938.
    Description: Eine Zusammenschau über die Bedeutung und das Werk von in Wien tätigen jüdischen ArchitektInnen in der Periode von 1868-1938.
    Keywords: architecture - Viennese history – jewish society ; Architektur - Wiener Geschichte - Judentum ; Jews ; Synagogue ; Vienna ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 26
    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: The publication focuses on the – for Europe - radical and influential new installation of the Imperial Picture Gallery in Vienna at the turn of the 19th century, a seminal time of change both for art-history and European civilization. Function, internal structure and presentation of the Imperial Picture Gallery evolved in a way that was to prove exemplary: the princely gallery was transformed into a public art museum, with a new installation at Belvedere Palace that reflected art-historical principles.
    Description: Der im späten 18. Jahrhundert in Wien vollzogene Übergang von einer höfischen Sammlung zum öffentlichen Kunstmuseum ist Bestandteil eines komplexen historischen Prozesses: Ausgehend von der exemplarischen Situation der kaiserlichen Galerie wird dieser museumsgeschichtliche Umbruch im Vergleich mit anderen wichtigen Schauplätzen in Europa untersucht und auf seine institutions- und mediengeschichtlichen Implikationen befragt. Diese Ergebnisse sollen die aktuelle Debatte um Funktionen und Aufgaben des Kunstmuseums bereichern.
    Keywords: Museology ; History of Collections ; Art History ; Visual Memory ; Display of Art ; Museologie ; Sammlungsgeschichte ; Kunstgeschichte ; Bildgedächtnis ; Ausstellungspraxis ; Christian von Mechel ; Joseph II ; Holy Roman Emperor ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art
    Language: English , German
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 27
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    University of Michigan Press | U of M Center For Japanese Studies
    Publication Date: 2023-02-14
    Description: "Tomiyama Taeko, a Japanese visual artist born in 1921, is changing the way World War II is remembered in Japan, Asia, and the world. Her work deals with complicated moral and emotional issues of empire and war responsibility that cannot be summed up in simple slogans, which makes it compelling for more than just its considerable beauty. Japanese today are still grappling with the effects of World War II, and, largely because of the inconsistent and ambivalent actions of the government, they are widely seen as resistant to accepting responsibility for their nation’s violent actions against others during the decades of colonialism and war. Yet some individuals, such as Tomiyama, have produced nuanced and reflective commentaries on those experiences, and on the difficulty of disentangling herself from the priorities of the nation despite her lifelong political dissent. Tomiyama’s sophisticated visual commentary on Japan’s history—and on the global history in which Asia is embedded—provides a compelling guide through the difficult terrain of modern historical remembrance, in a distinctively Japanese voice. Laura Hein is Professor of Japanese History at Northwestern University. This is her fifth edited book on the politics of war remembrance. Rebecca Jennison is Professor of Literature and Gender Studies at Kyoto Seika University. She has been assisting Tomiyama Taeko as a translator since 1990, and has published several articles and translations on the artist’s work."
    Keywords: Society and social sciences
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 28
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    Böhlau | Böhlau
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Dogface Soldiers is an interdisciplinary and image centered cultural history of the Army of the United States‘ infantry riflemen in the Mediterranean- and European Theaters of Operations of World War II. Its methods transcend the boundaries of conventional historiography and make use of Clifford Geertz’s anthropological method of thick description as well as military used comprehensive analysis methods.
    Description: Dogface Soldiers ist eine interdisziplinäre und bildbasierte Kulturgeschichte US-amerikanischer Infanterieschützen des europäischen Zweiten Weltkriegs. Methodisch werden konventionelle Grenzen der Histriogarpahie überschritten und Anleihen bei Clifford Geertz und seiner anthropologischen „Thick Description“, sowie bei comprehensive analysis-Modellen militärisch-operativer Provenienz genommen.
    Keywords: World War II ; Army of the United States ; Infantry Riflemen ; European Theater of Operations ; Mediterranean Theater of Operations ; Bill Mauldin ; Cartoons ; Willie & Joe ; Zweiter Weltkrieg ; US Army ; Infanterie ; Frontsoldaten ; Bill Mauldin ; Cartoons ; Nordwesteuropa ; Mittelmeerraum ; Willie & Joe ; Dogface (military) ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 29
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    Böhlau
    Publication Date: 2024-03-24
    Description: This book gathers international voices from the field of ethnomusicology discussing the socio-political relevance of the discipline. The articles draw from contemporary discourses that take into account the role of music and dance in shaping social and political realities. An important field connected to political relevance is heritage, either in connection with the UNESCO or with archives. Ontologies of indigenous groups and their relevance in knowledge production is discussed in ethnomusicology nowadays as well as the possibilities of decolonising the discipline. Two articles from ethno-choreology explore dance from the gender perspective and in the post-socialist political structures. Different approaches from applied ethnomusicology deal with social justice, participatory dialogical practice, and the socio-political relevance of performance. Forced migration is seen as comprehensive topic for future ethnomusicology. The contents of the book mirror influential discourses of ethnomusicology today that will definitely shape the future development of the discipline.
    Keywords: Music ; Ethnomusicology ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVA Theory of music and musicology
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 30
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    University of Michigan Press | U of M Center For Japanese Studies
    Publication Date: 2024-03-29
    Description: As the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies reflected on the deteriorating position of the domestic auto industry in the fall of 1980, and the strong competitive threat being posed by the Japanese automakers, we were struck by the extraordinary low quality of the public discussion of these critical issues. The national importance of the issues seemed only matched by the superficiality of the analyses being offered. The tendency to think in terms of scapegoats was particularly evident. The Japanese as the basic cause of our problems has been a particularly notable theme. To be sure, cooperation with the Japanese in formulating a rational overall trade policy may be an important part of the solution. It has also been fashionable to blame it all on American auto industry management for not concentrating on the production of small cars when "everyone knew" that was the thing to do. Alternatively, government meddling was blamed for all our problems. Clearly, the complex problem we faced required more penetrating analyses. It seemed therefore, that the time was ripe for a public seminar which moved beyond the rhetoric of the moment and probed some of the deeper causes of our problems and possible directions for future policy.
    Keywords: Sociology and anthropology ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 31
    Publication Date: 2024-03-24
    Description: With famous music manuscripts such as the St Emmeram codex or the Trent codices and the rise of a musical elite with singer-composers around Dufay and Binchois, the years around 1430 belong to a crucial period in late-medieval music history. The present volume comprises 13 case studies on polyphonic as well as monophonic repertories with a particular focus on the city of Vienna. For the first time, the ‘simultaneity’ of ‘non-simultaneous’ phenomena is scrutinized for Central Europe and for the cultural exchange with neighbouring territories of the Holy Roman Empire, of England, Bohemia and Northern Italy.Due to its specific urban profile and the geographical position, late-medieval Vienna offers an excellent starting point for the study of musical repertories in Central Europe and their appropriation as cultural practice in the first half of the fifteenth century. The ‘simultaneity’ of ‘non-simultaneous’ phenomena is closely connected to the coexistence of different patterns of music patronage within court and nobility, the university, a variety of ecclesiastical institutions (among them the collegiate church of All Saints, later St Stephen’s Cathedral), and diverse strands of upper- and middle-class citizens on the one hand, cultural exchange with neighbouring territories of the Holy Roman Empire, of England, Bohemia and Northern Italy on the other. Manifold strands of polyphonic and monophonic repertories (both sacred and profane), compositional techniques, regionally bound stylistic peculiarities, strategems of music patronage, institutional (or even personal) collectionism, furthermore aspects of music iconography and the role of music within the history of ideas are scrutinized in thirteen chapters, which are conceived as case-studies, plus a detailed thematical introduction. In sum, this is an invaluable contribution to a better understanding of a crucial period of late-medieval music history.
    Description: Mit berühmten Repertoire-Handschriften wie dem Mensuralcodex St. Emmeram oder den Trienter Codices und der Entstehung einer musikalischen Elite um Sängerkomponisten wie Dufay und Binchois gehören die Jahrzehnte um 1430 zu einer Schlüsselphase der abendländischen Musikgeschichte. Der Band vereint 13 Fallstudien zur polyphonen Kunstmusik sowie zum einstimmigen Lied, wobei ein besonderer Fokus auf den Verhältnissen in Wien liegt. Erstmals wird so die Gleichzeitigkeit ungleichzeitiger Phänomene für Zentraleuropa beleuchtet – auch hinsichtlich der Wechselwirkungen mit England, Böhmen, Oberitalien und dem franko-flämischen Raum.
    Keywords: Music history ; Late Middle Ages ; musical repertories ; music patronage ; ritual ; identity ; awareness of time ; Trent codices ; Hermann Poetzlinger ; mensural codex St. Emmeram ; England ; John Dunstaple ; Guillaume Dufay ; Gilles Binchois ; Central Europe ; Vienna ; Hermann Edlerawer ; Urbanus Kungsperger ; Johannes Brassart ; Johannes de Sarto ; Frederick III (IV) of Habsburg ; Albert II (V) of Habsburg ; Rudolf Volkhardt ; Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz ; Bohemia ; Veneto ; motet ; devotional motet ; genre transformation ; Marian devotions ; musical iconography ; chapel ; Sangvers ; Oswald von Wolkenstein ; Hugo von Montfort ; Michel Beheim ; Heinrich der Teichner ; Peter Suchenwirt ; Monk of Salzburg ; Liebhard Eghenvelder ; Neidhart (Nithart) ; Austrian National Library ; University of Vienna ; Council of Constance ; Council of Basle ; Nibelungenlied ; Johannes Lupi ; Johannes Wiser ; Johannes Prenner ; Regensburg ; St Stephen ; St Martin ; Jan Hus ; isorhythmic motet ; Ghent altarpiece ; Jan van Eyck ; Hubert van Eyck ; Musikgeschichte ; Polyphony ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music
    Language: English , German
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 32
    Publication Date: 2023-08-08
    Description: A comprehensive secularisation process in the course of the Josephinian reforms led to a complete restructuring of church assets. As early as 1783 a Greek-Oriental Religious Fund attributed to the Bukovina was established. Its growing economic and political role made this institution a major factor in the development of the region. It kept this important position until its eventual dissolution in the course of socialist restructuring of Romania in 1949.
    Description: Im Zuge der Josephinischen Reformen kam es im gesamten habsburgischen Herrschaftsbereich zur Umgestaltung kirchlichen Eigentums. Entsprechend wurde bereits 1783 ein dezidiert der Bukowina zugeordneter griechisch-orientalischer Religionsfonds eingerichtet. Über seine wachsende wirtschaftliche und politische Bedeutung entwickelte sich diese Institution bis zu ihrer Auflösung 1949 zu einem die Region maßgeblich prägenden Faktor.
    Keywords: Habsburg Monarchy, Bucovina, Josefinism, Religious Fund ; Religionsfonds, Bukowina, Josephinismus, Habsburgermonarchie
    Language: English , German , Miscellaneous languages
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 33
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    Böhlau
    Publication Date: 2023-07-19
    Description: This books deals with the Italian opera business in nineteenth century-London. A special emphasis lies on the opera singers as the most important protagonists of the London system. This special role will be examined through the analysis of the opera audience in London, the contractual practice and the tradition of the adaptation of operas to the likes of the London market as well as the substitution of arias.
    Description: Die Publikation beschäftigt sich mit dem italienischen Opernwesen im London des 19. Jahrhunderts. Im Vordergrund stehen die Sänger als tragende Protagonisten des Londoner Opernsystems. Deren Bedeutung für den Londoner Opernmarkt wird mithilfe einer Analyse des Londoner Opernpublikums, der Vertragspraxis der Zeit und der Adaptions- und Einlagearienpraxis festgemacht.
    Keywords: Italian opera ; London ; nineteenth century ; singers ; singers contracts ; court proceedings ; Her Majesty’s Theatre ; Royal Italian Opera House Covent Garden ; adaptation of operas ; substitution of arias ; opera audience ; opera market ; Italienische Oper ; London ; 19. Jahrhundert ; Sänger ; Sängerverträge ; Gerichtsprozesse ; Her Majesty’s Theatre ; Royal Italian Opera House Covent Garden ; Adaptionspraxis ; Einlagearienpraxis ; Opernpublikum ; Opernmarkt ; Italy ; Libretto ; Pauline Viardot
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 34
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    Böhlau
    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: Simone Verovio was the first printer to produce a substantial number of musical prints using engraved copper plates. This intaglio printing technique not only allowed him to print on demand, but also to combine different kinds of notation on one page opening: voice parts with corresponding harpsichord and lute intabulations. This detailed comparison of intaglio and relief printing techniques in the editions associated with Verovio sheds light on the production of sheet music around 1600 and the comparison of the vocal and instrumental parts provides ground-breaking insights into historical performance practice.
    Keywords: Music ; Music History ; 16th Century ; 17th Century ; Partituren ; Musical Scores ; Musikgeschichte ; AVGC3 ; AVGC4 ; Baroque music (c. 1600 to c. 1750) ; Classical music (c. 1750 to c. 1830) ; Music ; Music History ; 16th Century ; 17th Century ; Partituren ; Musical Scores ; Musikgeschichte ; AVGC3 ; AVGC4 ; Baroque music (c. 1600 to c. 1750) ; Classical music (c. 1750 to c. 1830) ; Bass (voice type) ; Cadence ; Canzonetta ; Figured bass ; Harpsichord ; Intabulation ; Lute ; Rome ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 35
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The main topics of the correspondence between Ferdinand I and his siblings Charles V and Mary of Hungary edited in this volume are Ferdinand's attempts to achieve peace with Johann Szapolyai in Hungary; the clashes with the Ottomans; the Tunis campaign of Charles V; the conflict with Francis I of France after the death of the last Sforza Duke of Milan; and the confessional division in the Holy Roman Empire.
    Description: Der in diesem Band edierte Briefverkehr zwischen Ferdinand I. und seinen Geschwistern Karl V. und Maria von Ungarn, wird von den folgenden Problemkreisen bestimmt: von Ferdinands Versuchen, mit Johann Szapolyai einen Frieden in Ungarn zu erreichen; von den Auseinandersetzungen mit den Osmanen und dem Tunis-Feldzug Karls V.; vom Konflikt mit Franz I. von Frankreich nach dem Tod des letzten Sforza-Herzogs in Mailand; und von der konfessionellen Spaltung im Reich.Edition der Korrespondenz Ferdinands I. mit seinen Geschwistern Karl V. und Maria von Ungarn. Sprache der Publikation: Deutsch, Englisch (Einleitung, Regesten, Kommentar); Französisch, Deutsch, Spanisch, Latein (Korrespondenzsprachen)
    Keywords: Ferdinand I (1503-1564). Correspondence ; Edition ; 1535 ; 1536 ; Ferdinand I. (1503-1564). Korrespondenz ; Edition ; 1535 ; 1536 ; France ; Innsbruck ; Mons ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English , German
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 36
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    University of Michigan Press | U of M Center For Japanese Studies
    Publication Date: 2023-02-14
    Description: Essays on the Modern Japanese Church (Gendai Nihon kyokai shiron), published in 1906, was the first Japanese-language history of Christianity in Meiji Japan. Yamaji Aizan’s firsthand account describes the reintroduction of Christianity to Japan—its development, rapid expansion, and decline—and its place in the social, political, and intellectual life of the Meiji period. Yamaji’s overall argument is that Christianity played a crucial role in shaping the growth and development of modern Japan.
    Keywords: Society and social sciences ; Medical anthropology ; Veterinary medicine: infectious diseases and therapeutics
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 37
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    University of Michigan Press | U of M Center For Japanese Studies
    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: Shotetsu monogatari was written by a disciple of Shotetsu (1381–1459), whom many scholars regard as the last great poet of the courtly tradition. The work provides information about the practice of poetry during the 14th and 15th centuries, including anecdotes about famous poets, advice on how to treat certain standard topics, and lessons in etiquette when attending or participating in poetry contests and gatherings. But unlike the many other works of that time that stop at that level, Shotetsu’s contributions to medieval aesthetics gained prominence, showing him as a worthy heir—both as poet and thinker—to the legacy of the great poet-critic Fujiwara no Teika (1162–1241). The last project of the late Robert H. Brower, Conversations with Shôtetsu provides a translation of the complete Nihon koten bungaku taikei text, as edited by Hisamatsu Sen'ichi. Steven D. Carter has annotated the translation and provided an introduction that details Shôtetsu’s life, his place in the poetic circles of his day, and the relationship of his work to the larger poetic tradition of medieval Japan. Conversations with Shotetsu is important reading for anyone interested in medieval Japanese literature and culture, in poetry, and in aesthetics. It provides a unique look at the literary world of late medieval Japan.
    Keywords: Literature: history and criticism ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 38
    Publication Date: 2024-03-24
    Description: The essays in this volume present art historical methods for research on the conditions in which books were produced and decorated in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. The consideration of the multiple factors impacting on the production and dissemination of illustrated books serves to improve our understanding of the works and helps to place them more accurately in the cultural discourse of their time.
    Description: Die in diesem Band zusammengestellten Aufsätze präsentieren kunsthistorische Methoden zur Untersuchung der Entstehungsbedingungen mittelalterlicher und frühneuzeitlicher Buchmalerei. Die Berücksichtigung der verschiedenen Faktoren, die beim Herstellungsprozess der Bücher und bei deren Verbreitung eine Rolle spielen - von Auftraggeberwünschen über Arbeitsumstände der Buchmaler bis hin zur Organisation des Buchhandels - führt zu einem besseren Verständnis der Werke und zu ihrer präzisieren Platzierung im damaligen kulturellen Diskurs.
    Keywords: Middle ages Illuminated books Art Methodology Germany France Italy Manuscripts Incunables ; Mittelalter Buchmalerei Kunst Methodik Deutschland Frankreich Italien Handschriften Inkunabeln ; Austrian National Library ; Bologna ; Paris ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
    Language: English , German
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 39
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    University of Michigan Press | U of M Center For Japanese Studies
    Publication Date: 2023-02-14
    Description: Amid the gloom, indeed the despair, that prevailed among auto industry spokesmen during early 1981, the University of Michigan held the first U.S.-Japan Auto Conference. With all the uncertainty that accompanies a march into new territory, the conference very much resembled a call to arms as industry, union, and government officials sought to comprehend and respond to the Japanese challenge. In the subsequent two conferences in 1982 and 1983, the concerned parties displayed an impressive willingness to roll up their sleeves and get on with creating the conditions for a renewal of the industry. Yet success seemed to elude their efforts, and frustrations mounted as the national recession lengthened and deepened. It was not until the March 1984 conference that definite change in tone became apparent. By this time, it was clear that the industry was beginning to reap the fruits of its efforts. As Paul McCracken notes in his remarks, the market for new cars was manifesting its traditional high-geared response to improved business conditions, and the voluntary trade restraints were contributing to the ability of the industry to take advantage of this renewed prosperity. In addition, those who know the industry well knew that the major improvements in quality and productivity had been made, and many of the changes responsible for these improvements seem unlikely to be reversed. All this was much on the minds of speakers and participants during the March conference. The various speakers presented an image of people who thought that they were pretty much on the way toward addressing successfully their internal problems of productivity, quality, and marketing. All that remained was to dispose of the external factors that prevented the, from competing on that well-known if elusive "level playing field." [ix]
    Keywords: Industry and industrial studies ; bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KN Industry & industrial studies
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 40
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Register (matriculation book) of the University of Vienna, 1746/47-1777/78 with university records, chronicles and enrollments.
    Description: Matrikelbuch der Universität Wien für den Zeitraum 1746/47-1777/78 mit Universitäts Akten, Chronikeintragungen und Immatrikulationen.
    Keywords: Vienna, University of Vienna, register, matriculation book, history of science, edition ; Wien, Universität Wien, Matrikel, Universitätsgeschichte, Edition ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Latin , German
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 41
    Publication Date: 2023-07-19
    Description: The book gathers 14 articles on the reforms of the Austrian University system from 1848 to 1860 named after Leo Thun Hohenstein. The reforms mark a turning point in the history of the Austrian educational landscape. The book provides new perspectives on the work of Leo Thun-Hohenstein, using to date unknown sources and new approaches.
    Description: Der Band untersucht in 14 Aufsätzen die Planung, Umsetzung und Rezeption der Thun-Hohenstein’schen Universitätsreformen in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Die Reformen legten den Grundstein für einen wissenschaftlichen Aufschwung der damaligen österreichischen Universitäten. Der Band untersucht die Reform anhand neuer Quellen und bietet neue Perspektiven auf die Reform.
    Keywords: History of Universities ; Austrian History ; Austria 1849-1860 ; Neoabsolutism ; Educational Reform ; Count Leo Thun-Hohenstein ; Universitätsgeschichte ; Bildungsgeschichte ; Österreichische Geschichte ; Österreich ; Neoabsolutismus ; Leo Thun-Hohenstein ; Vienna
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 42
    Publication Date: 2023-07-19
    Description: The fifth Volume of the Edition of the Collected Works of Viktor Frankls unites Frankl’s writings, notes, lectures and interviews on the border area of psychology, psychiatry, and religion.
    Description: Der fünfte Band der Edition der Gesammelten Werke von Viktor Frankl vereint Frankls Schriften, Vorträge, Notizen und Gespräche über den Grenzbereich zwischen Psychologie, Psychiatrie und Religion.
    Keywords: Psychotherapy ; Psychology ; Psychiatry ; Religion ; Logotherapy ; Existential Analysis ; Viktor Frankl ; Psychotherapie ; Psychologie ; Psychiatrie ; Religion ; Logotherapie ; Existenzanalyse ; Viktor Frankl ; Nikolai Jakowlewitsch Mjaskowski ; Weimar
    Language: English , German
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 43
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    University of Michigan Press | U of M Center For Japanese Studies
    Publication Date: 2024-03-29
    Description: The mood of the first U of M U.S.-Japan Auto conference in January 1981 could only be described as electric. People wanted to know what our problems were and how we could begin to solve them. Inherent in the latter issue was the questions, what could we learn from the Japanese? One left the conference with a sense that there was a call for action, a mandate to address the problems facing industry. The mood, about a year later, at the March 1982 U.S.-Japan Auto Conference was far more subdued. While undoubtedly this reflected the stream of statistics confirming the continually depressed state of the industry, another dynamic was possibly operating as well. Whereas the 1981 conference was "electric," a state of mind which flowed from a certain frustration at seemingly overwhelming difficulties and often vague expectations of what we might learn from the Japanese, the 1982 conference was more "workmanlike" in the sense that speakers discussed specifically what progress was being made in addressing problems. This more subdued, pragmatic approach continued throughout wand was reinforced by workshops held the day after the main conference. Instead of discussing the virtues of the Just-In-Time system in Japan, speakers addressed the practical problems of introducing such a system in the U.S. firms. Instead of railing about the benefits or failings of regulation of the industry, they discussed what we could reasonably expect from regulation. Instead of exhorting the industry to adopt Japanese practices willy-nilly, they focused on some of the limitations of the Japanese model in a range of different areas. Instead of trying to identify some magic key to Japanese success in the automotive industry, they discussed the interrelationships among various factors. At the same, they continued to explore the basic issues transforming the auto industry worldwide. In this connection, they sought to unravel some of the complexities associated with the internalization of the auto industry and trade obligations under the GATT.
    Keywords: Sociology and anthropology ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 44
    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: When the cold war was over, a vehement discussion of the new alternatives in security policy started in almost all former Warsaw-Pact States and in the neutral and nonaligned nations, Austria and Hungary among the latter. These nations' entry into the NATO has been the pivotal question. These discussions were the subject of comparative research that was done in Hungary and Austria. The results are presented in the book "NATO, Neutrality and National Identity - the Case of Ausria and Hungary". The book does not focus on the manifold security problems that the concerned nations' joining of NATO would entail but deals with the discourses and debates on neutrality and NATO. The argumentation strategies that were applied in these discourses and debates touch on important motives of national identity and are thus creating identity. Moreover, the NATO discussion is a discussion on security policy and national identity at the same time. The authors' intention was to clarify the dimension relating to identity in the NATO discussion by analyzing the argumentation strategies that were used by the advocates and opponents of NATO membership and the reception of typical arguments in various public opinions. In many cases the argumentation strategies are based on historicizing ways of thinking which claim that there are historical reasons for choosing either of the alternatives (NATO or neutrality). In Hungary, discussions focus on the question whether Hungary is historically an organic part of Europe or whether its own identity will only materialize if the nation adopts a special course between the western and the eastern world. In Austria, the consequences of a potential renunciation of neutrality, one of the most important elements of modern Austrian identity, has been made a subject of passionate discussion. The book analyzes the issues of creating identity by discussion both from a historical-sociological standpoint and from the angle of discourse analysis. The individual chapters deal with comparative studies of the change and upheaval in the national identities in Hungary and Austria. Although these specific analyses are intended to be case studies, they allow generalizations on all of central Europe. The individual corpora (opinion surveys, political speeches, focus groups, talk-shows, newspapers), having been selected so as to ensure comparability, are subjected to a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis and interpretation. Following the introduction - problems are defined from the standpoint of history and political science - the complex discourses from focus group discussions and the outcomes of opinion surveys are presented and analyzed, and newspapers, TV talk-shows and speeches held on days of remembrance are presented applying the methods of discourse analysis. Against this backdrop a comprehensive picture of the identity discourses develops. In the introduction and concluding remarks the two editors draw theoretical and methodical conclusions for interdisciplinary and comparative studies.
    Description: Nach dem Ende des kalten Krieges entfalteten sich heftige Diskussionen über die neuen sicherheitspolitischen Alternativen fast in allen Ländern des ehemaligen Warschauer Paktes und in den neutralen und blockfreien Staaten, unter ihnen in Österreich und in Ungarn. Zentraler Punkt der Diskussion ist der Beitritt der betroffenen Länder zur NATO. Diese Diskussionen bildeten den Gegenstand einer vergleichenden Forschung in Ungarn und Österreich, aus der das Buch "NATO, Neutrality and National Identity - the Case of Austria and Hungary" entstand. Im Mittelpunkt des Buches stehen nicht die vielfältigen sicherheitspolitischen Probleme des NATO-Beitritts der betroffenen Länder. Vielmehr sind es die Diskurse und Debatten über Neutralität und NATO, womit sich die Beiträge des Buches beschäftigen. Die in ihnen angewandten Argumentationsstrategien betreffen wichtige Momente nationaler Identität und sind demnach identitätskonstruierend. Die NATO-Diskussion ist daher gleichzeitig eine sicherheitspolitische und identitätspolitische Diskussion. Die Absicht der Autoren war es, die identitätspolitische Dimension der NATO-Diskussion durch eine Analyse der von den Befürwortern und Gegnern der NATO-Mitgliedschaft angewandten Argumentationsstrategien und der Rezeption typischer Argumente in vielfachen Öffentlichkeiten zu klären. Die Argumentationsstrategien der Diskussionspartner beruhen häufig auf historisierenden Topoi, die eine Wahl zwischen den bestehenden Alternativen (NATO und Neutralität) historisch begründen wollen. In Ungarn steht die Frage im Mittelpunkt der Diskussion, ob Ungarn historisch organischer Bestandteil von Europa ist oder es seine eigene Identität nur mittels eines, zwischen der westlichen und östlichen Welt laufenden Sonderweges, verwirklichen kann. In Österreich werden heftig die Konsequenzen der möglichen Aufgabe der Neutralität, einer der wichtigsten Bestandteile der modernen österreichischen Identität thematisiert. Das Buch analysiert sowohl aus einer historisch-soziologischen Sicht, als auch aus diskursanalytischer Perspektive die Fragen der diskursiven Identitätskonstruktion. Die Kapiteln sind vergleichenden Studien zum Wandel und Umbruch nationaler Identitäten in Ungarn und Österreich gewidmet. Diese spezifischen Analysen sind zwar als "case studies" gedacht, lassen aber Generalisierungen auf den mitteleuropäischen Raum zu. Die Einzelcorpora (Meinungsumfragen, politische Reden, Fokusgruppen, Talkshows, Zeitungen) werden komparativ und interdisziplinär analysiert und interpretiert, die Corpora sind auch in Bezug auf eine Vergleichbarkeit erhoben worden. Nach einleitenden historischen und politikwissenschaftlichen Darstellungen der Problemlagen in beiden Ländern werden daher die komplexen Diskurse aus Fokusgruppendiskussionen und die Ergebnisse aus Meinungsumfragen vorgestellt und analysiert, Zeitungen, TV-Talkshows und Reden zu Gedenktagen diskursanalytisch aufgearbeitet. Auf diesem Hintergrund entsteht ein breites Bild der Identitätsdiskurse. In einer Einleitung und in den Schlussbemerkungen ziehen die beiden Herausgeber theoretische und methodische Konsequenzen für interdisziplinäre und komparative Studien.
    Keywords: NATO ; Neutrality ; National Identity ; Austria ; Europe ; European Union ; Hungary ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHW Military history
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 45
    Publication Date: 2024-03-29
    Description: This volume presents a critical edition of the register of the Faculty of Law at the University of Vienna between 1442 and 1557. This edition is made accessible with the aid of both a register of persons and a location register. The introduction contains amongst others a paleographic analysis of the various scribes of the registers, a statistical analysis and a prosopographical overview of the law students, a description of the conditions of studying and a short history of the Faculty of Law.
    Description: Im Zentrum des Bandes steht eine kritische Textedition, die die Fakultätsmatrikel der Juristen an der Wiener Universität der Jahre 1442 bis 1557 umfasst. Die kritische Edition des Matrikeltextes ist sowohl durch ein ausführliches Personen- als auch ein Ortsregister erschlossen. In der Einleitung finden sich unter anderem eine statistische Analyse, ein prosopographischer Überblick, eine Beschreibung des Studienverlaufs und des Alltags an der Wiener Fakultät sowie eine paläographische Analyse der unterschiedlichen Schreiber.
    Keywords: University of Vienna ; Faculty of Law ; Humanism ; critical edition ; Univeristät Wien ; Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät ; Humanismus ; Kritische Textdition ; Bachelor ; Doktor der Rechte ; Griechische Sprache ; Köln ; Magister ; Simon Petrus ; Weimar ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education
    Language: Latin , German
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 46
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    Böhlau
    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: The Vienna Genesis (Austrian National Library, Codex Theologicus graecus 31) is a fragmentary Greek manuscript of the Book of Genesis written on purple dyed parchment with silver ink. It is assumed that the book was created in the first half of the 6th century in the Near East. 24 folios with 48 miniatures have survived and have been stored at the Austrian National Library since 1664. The Vienna Genesis is famous for its rich cycle of biblical illuminations. The silver ink's degradation, which has resulted in extensive damage to the parchment, was already observed in the 17th century. In a three-year research project the parchment, the silver inks, the pigments and dyes were investigated. The detailed material analysis formed the base for conservation and preservation of the manuscript. The book describes the different studies of the project and their results: How was parchment made in Late Antiquity? How was parchment dyed purple? What is the purple dye of the Vienna Genesis? What is the composition of the silver ink and what are the causes of the severe damage? Which pigments were used by the different painters? How can the Vienna Genesis be best conserved for the future?
    Keywords: Art ; History ; General ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 47
    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: The ideology of purity-of-blood (limpieza de sangre) divided early modern Iberian society into two different classes: Old Christians and New Christians. New Christians, i.e. Conversos (converted Jews) and Moriscos (converted Muslims), but also their offspring, were thought to be inferior Christians and always tending towards apostasy. At the turn of the 17th century an increased interest in bodily markers to proof the presumed inferiority of the so-called New Christians can be observed. The book focusses on the question how the apologists of the purity-of-blood statutes used the idea of inherited bodily markers to promote a genealogical racism in early modern Iberia. German Version: https://e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:1377
    Description: Um Mechanismen der Ausgrenzung, Diskriminierung und Verfolgung zu durchschauen, ihnen vorzubeugen und sie beizeiten zu bekämpfen, müssen wir sie verstehen. Die Blutreinheitsideologie (span. limpieza de sangre) unterteilte die frühneuzeitliche iberische Gesellschaft in zwei Gruppen: Altchristen und Neuchristen. Julia Gebke analysiert in ihrer Arbeit anhand von drei durch die Blutreinheitsideologen propagierten körperlichen Markierungen im Schnittfeld von Theologie und Medizin die verstärkte Stigmatisierung des neuchristlichen Körpers. Neuchristliche Muttermilch, jüdisch-männliche Menstruation und neuchristlicher Körpergeruch wurden, speziell an der Schwelle vom 16. zum 17. Jahrhundert, von Befürwortern und Gegnern der Blutreinheitsideologie kontrovers diskutiert. Deutsche Version: https://e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:1377
    Keywords: Conversos, Moriscos, New Christians, Purity of Blood, Spain, Early Modern Period, Racism ; ÖFOS 2012, History of science ; ÖFOS 2012, Modern history ; ÖFOS 2012, European history ; Conversos, Morisken, Neuchristen, Blutreinheit Ilimpieza de sangre, Spanien, Frühe Neuzeit, Rassismus ; ÖFOS 2012, Wissenschaftsgeschichte ; ÖFOS 2012, Neuere Geschichte ; ÖFOS 2012, Europäische Geschichte ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day ; thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine ; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general::QRAX History of religion ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies::JBSL1 Ethnic groups and multicultural studies ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 48
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    University of Michigan Press | U of M Center For Japanese Studies
    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: The aim of this book is to show that seemingly illogical double identity of the townsman, Sukeroku, and the samurai, Soga Goro, in the play Sukeroku is a surviving element of what was once a complex and coherent structure based on a traditional performance calendar. To show how the calendar function and what Sukeroku's double identity signifies, the book is divided into two parts. Part One studies the structure of Edo kabuki. The first chapter, which outlines that structure, is based for the most part on writings of the Tokugawa period. The second chapter then looks at the concepts of sekai, "tradition," and shuko, "innovation." Kabuki was the product of material that had become a familiar part of Japanese culture by repeated use and dramatization over long periods of time, starting before kabuki began, and material that was relatively new and was used to transform the older, set material. The double identity in Sukeroku came about as a result of this interplay between what was received by way of traditional and what was added by way of innovation. Part Two considers the significance of the double identity. The author concludes that Sukeroku's double identity gave Edo audiences a hero who was an idealization of the contemporary Tokugawa townsman and at the same time a transformation of a samurai god-hero of the past. The first chapter of Part Two traces the development of Sukeroku's Soga Goro/samurai identity, from its origins in the early dramatic forms of no, kowaka, and ko-joruri, to the representation of Soga Goro in kabuki by Ichikawa Danjuro I. The seconds then looks at the transformation of Soga Gorointo Sukeroku by discussing the origins of Sukeroku and its introductions to Edo kabuki by Ichikawa Danjuro I and his son, Danjuro II, since their work was the basis of all later developments.
    Keywords: Society and social sciences ; Literature: history and criticism ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 49
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    University of Michigan Press | U of M Center For Japanese Studies
    Publication Date: 2023-02-14
    Description: "As a spokesman for disaffected youth of the post-1960s, Murakami Haruki has become one of the most important voices in contemporary Japanese literature, and he has gained a following in the United States through translations of his works. In Dances with Sheep, Matthew Strecher examines Murakami’s fiction—and, to a lesser extent, his nonfiction—for its most prevalent structures and themes. Strecher also delves into the paradoxes in Murakami’s writings that confront critics and casual readers alike. Murakami writes of “serious” themes yet expresses them in a relatively uncomplicated style that appeals to high school students as well as scholars; and his fictional work appears to celebrate the pastiche of postmodern expression, yet he rejects the effects of the postmodern on contemporary culture as dangerous. Strecher’s methodology is both historical and cultural as he utilizes four distinct yet interwoven approaches to analyze Murakami’s major works: the writer’s “formulaic” structure with serious themes; his play with magical realism; the intense psychological underpinnings of his literary landscape; and his critique of language and its capacity to represent realities, past and present. Dances with Sheep links each of these approaches with Murakami’s critical focus on the fate of individual identity in contemporary Japan. The result is that the simplicity of the Murakami hero, marked by lethargy and nostalgia, emerges as emblematic of contemporary humankind, bereft of identity, direction, and meaning. Murakami’s fiction is reconstructed in Dances with Sheep as a warning against the dehumanizing effects of late-model capitalism, the homogenization of the marketplace, and the elimination of effective counterculture in Japan."
    Keywords: Society and social sciences
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 50
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    University of Michigan Press | U of M Center For Japanese Studies
    Publication Date: 2023-02-14
    Description: The 1970s and 1980s saw a revolution in Japanese literary criticism. A new generation of scholars and critics, many of them veterans of 1960s political activism, arose in revolt against the largely positivistic methodologies that had hitherto dominated postwar literary studies. Creatively refashioning approaches taken from the field of linguistics, the new scholarship challenged orthodox interpretations, often introducing new methodologies in the process: structuralism, semiotics, and phenomenological linguistics, among others. The radical changes introduced then continue to reverberate today, shaping the way Japanese literature is studied both at home and abroad. The Linguistic Turn in Contemporary Japanese Literary Studies is the first critical study of this revolution to appear in English. It includes translations of landmark essays published in the 1970s and 1980s by such influential figures as Noguchi Takehiko, Kamei Hideo, Mitani Kuniaki, and Hirata Yumi. It also collects nine new essays that reflect critically on the emergence of linguistics-based literary criticism and theory in Japan, exploring both the novel possibilities such theory created and the shortcomings that could not be overcome. Scholars from a variety of disciplines and fields probe the political and intellectual implications of this transformation and explore the exciting new pathways it opened up for the study of modern Japanese literature.
    Keywords: Society and social sciences
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 51
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    Böhlau | Böhlau
    Publication Date: 2024-03-24
    Description: Local multipart music practices are based on the intentionally distinct and coordinated participation of music makers in the performing act. Following the rules of interaction while promoting at the same time their personal goals, the protagonists share their own treasure trove of experiences and cultural affiliations and shape sounds and values. Such complex and dynamic processes are central to the investigations of instrumentation and instrumentalization of sound. DVD: http://e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:1078
    Description: Lokale Musikpraktiken beruhen auf Bestrebungen der Musikmacherinnen und Musikmacher zur kennzeichnenden und abgestimmten Teilnahme in Aufführungsabläufen. Die Protagonistinnen und Protagonisten teilen ihre Erfahrungsschätze und kulturelle Zugehörigkeiten und gestalten Klänge und Werte während sie die Regeln der Interaktion folgen und gleichzeitig ihre persönlichen Ziele übermitteln. Diese komplexen und dynamischen Prozesse sind wesentlich für die Untersuchungen der Instrumentation und Instrumentalisierung des Klanges. DVD: http://e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:1078
    Keywords: Multipart Music ; Instrumentation of Sound ; Instrumentalization of Sound ; Sound and Society ; Performance as Instrumentation ; Tradition ; Revival ; Mehrstimmige Musik ; Instrumentation des Klanges ; Instrumentalisierung des Klanges ; Klang und Gesellschaft ; Aufführung als Instrumentation ; Tradition ; Revival ; Bagpipes ; Folk music ; Violin ; Weimar ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 52
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    University of Michigan Press | U of M Center For Japanese Studies
    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: Yosano Akiko (1878–1942) has long been recognized as one of the most important literary figures of prewar Japan. Her renown derives principally from the passion of her early poetry and from her contributions to 20th-century debates about women. This emphasis obscures a major part of her career, which was devoted to work on the Japanese classics and, in particular, the great Heian period text The Tale of Genji. Akiko herself felt that Genji was the bedrock upon which her entire literary career was built, and her bibliography shows a steadily increasing amount of time devoted to projects related to the tale. This study traces for the first time the full range of Akiko’s involvement with The Tale of Genji. The Tale of Genji provided Akiko with her conception of herself as a writer and inspired many of her most significant literary projects. She, in turn, refurbished the tale as a modern novel, pioneered some of the most promising avenues of modern academic research on Genji, and, to a great extent, gave the text the prominence it now enjoys as a translated classic. Through Akiko’s work Genji became, in fact as well as in name, an exemplum of that most modern of literary genres, the novel. In delineating this important aspect of Akiko’s life and her bibliography, this study aims to show that facile descriptions of Akiko as a “poetess of passion” or “new woman” will no longer suffice.
    Keywords: Society and social sciences ; Literature: history and criticism ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism
    Language: Japanese , English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 53
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    University of Michigan Press | U of M Center For Japanese Studies
    Publication Date: 2023-02-14
    Description: Adriana Boscaro and Tanizaki Jun’ichirô: two names firmly linked in my mind and in those of many others who feel connected to Boscaro either on a personal level or through a shared devotion to the work of Tanizaki. This book is primarily conceived as an homage to both the work of the “grand old man,” in all its inexhaustible richness, and to Boscaro’s tireless contributions to the study of Tanizaki in Italy and around the world.
    Keywords: Society and social sciences
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 54
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    University of Michigan Press | U of M Center For Japanese Studies
    Publication Date: 2023-02-14
    Description: This is the first monograph-length study in English of Kamo no Chōmei, one of the most important literary figures of medieval Japan. Drawing upon a wide range of writings in a variety of genres from the Heian and Kamakura periods, Pandey focuses on the terms kyōgen kigo (wild words and fancy phrases), shoji soku nehan (samsara is nirvana), hōben (expedient means), and suki (single-minded devotion to an art). She shows how these terms deployed by writers in an attempt to reconcile literary and artistic activities with a commitment to Buddhism. By locating Chōmei within this broad context, the book offers an original reading of his texts, while at the same time casting a light upon intellectual preoccupations that were central to the times. Writing and Renunciation in Medieval Japan is an important contribution to a growing body of work that challenges the rigid distinction between the religious and literary—a distinction that would have made little sense to medieval writers, many of whom were poets as well as priests—and sheds light on the particular ways in which a religio-aesthetic tradition came to be articulated in medieval Japan. Through an examination of records left by Chōmei's contemporaries, the book also traces the life of Chōmei, particularly his activities as a court poet and the circumstances that led to his taking the tonsure. Rajyashree Pandey is Professor of Japanese Studies in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Goldsmiths. She has published widely in the areas of medieval Japanese literature, Buddhism, gender, postcolonial studies and popular culture. Her latest monograph, published by University of Hawaii Press, is Perfumed Sleeves and Tangled Hair: Body, Woman, and Desire in Medieval Japanese Narratives (2016).
    Keywords: Society and social sciences ; Veterinary medicine: infectious diseases and therapeutics ; Medical anthropology
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 55
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    University of Michigan Press | U of M Center For Japanese Studies
    Publication Date: 2024-03-29
    Description: At the time of the U.S.-Japan auto conferences in March 1983, the hoped-for economic recovery as manifested in auto sales had revealed itself quite modestly. Three months later, the indicators were more robust and certainly long overdue for those whose livelihood depends on the health of the industry--some of whom are university professors. With Japanese import restrictions in place until March 1984 and drastically reduced break-even points for domestic manufactures, rising consumer demand holds great promise for the industry. The rapidly rising stock prices of the auto-makers captures well the sense of heightened optimism, as do the various forecasts for improved profits. While the news is certainly welcome, it nevertheless should be greeted with caution. As Mr. Perkins noted at the conference, "we have a tendency to forget things very quickly. If we have a boom market this year, there is a good chance that a lot of things we learned will be forgotten." To put the matter differently and more bluntly, with growing prosperity there is the risk that management will fall back into old habits, making impossible the achievement of sustained quality and productivity improvement. Similarly, the commitment to develop cooperative relations with workers and suppliers will weaken. The union will be under membership pressure to retrieve concessions rather than to take the longer-term view. This longer-term view recognizes that "up-front increases" and adherence to existing work rules increasingly come at the sacrifice of future job security. Government policymakers will turn their attention away from the industry. This may not mean a great deal given how weakly focused their attentions has been during the last three years and how mixed and contradictory government auto policies have been for over a decade.
    Keywords: Sociology and anthropology ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 56
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    University of Michigan Press | U of M Center For Japanese Studies
    Publication Date: 2023-02-14
    Description: This second, revised edition of a pioneering volume, long out of print, presents translations of Japanese Zen poems on sorrow, old age, homesickness, the seasons, the ravages of time, solitude, the scenic beauty of the landscape of Japan, and monastic life. Composed by Japanese Zen monks who lived from the last quarter of the thirteenth century to the middle of the fifteenth century, these poems represent a portion of the best of the writing called in Japanese gozan bungaku, “literature of the five mountains.” “Five mountains” or “five monasteries” refers to the system by which the Zen monasteries were hierarchically ordered and governed. For the monks in the monasteries, poetry functioned as a means not only of expressing religious convictions and personal feelings but also of communicating with others in a civilized and courteous fashion. Effacing barriers of time and space, the practice of Chinese poetry also made it possible for Japanese authors to feel at one with their Chinese counterparts and the great poets of antiquity. This was a time when Zen as an institution was being established and contact with the Chinese mainland becoming increasingly frequent—ten of the sixteen poets represented here visited China. Marian Ury has provided a short but substantial introduction to the Chinese poetry of Japanese gozan monasteries, and her translations of the poetry are masterful. Poems of the Five Mountains is an important work for anyone interested in Japanese literature, Chinese literature, East Asian Religion, and Zen Buddhism.
    Keywords: Sociology and anthropology ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 57
    Publication Date: 2023-07-19
    Description: This volume presents the results of a scholarly meeting which focused on the patronage of women in the Byzantine Empire. In their scope, the articles address broadly not only the founding or re-founding of churches and monasteries, but also their rich decoration, as well as numerous smaller donations. In spite of increased attention to gender research in recent years, a comparative treatment of the legal and economic potentiel that women in Byzantium could exercise in order to exert independent influence has been lacking; thus a gender-specific viewpoint for the volume was intentionally chosen.
    Description: Der Patronage von Frauen im byzantisischen Reich war eine Tagung gewidmet, deren Erkenntnisse hiermit vorgelegt werden. Die Beiträge umfassen den gesamten Berich der neuen oder erneuerten Gründung und Stiftung von Kirchen und Klöstern, aber auch deren reiche Ausstattung, sowie zahlreichere kleine Stiftungen. Die Betrachtung erfolgte bewusst aus geschlechterspezifischer Perspektive, da trotz vermehrter Genderforschung der vergangenen Jahre bisher der vergleichende Blick auf die Frage nach dem rechtlichen und ökonomischen Potential fehlt, welches Frauen in Byzanz einsetzen konnten, um eigenständigen Einfluss auszuüben.
    Keywords: Byzantium ; Donation/Foundation ; Gender ; Art ; Architecture ; Byzanz ; Stiftung ; Gender ; Kunst ; Architektur ; Byzantine Empire
    Language: English , German
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 58
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    Böhlau | Böhlau
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The Nako temple complex with its earliest structures dating back to the 11th century is an extraordinary testimony of early Tibetan Buddhism not anymore preserved in today’s Tibet. Endangered by the rough environment, improper treatment and frequent earthquakes, the outstanding monuments were re-discovered by scholars from Austrian universities in the 1980s. The transdisciplinary research project carried out over more than 20 years led to in-depth studies, preservation and model-like conservation of the temples and their artworks.
    Description: Der Nako Tempelkomplex, dessen früheste Gebäude auf das 11. Jahrhundert zurückgehen, ist ein außergewöhnliches Zeugnis des frühen tibetischen Buddhismus, das im heutigen Tibet nicht mehr erhalten ist. Gefährdet durch das rauhe Klima, unsachgemäßen restauratorischen Umgang und v.a. häufige Erdbeben wurden die bedeutenden Denkmäler in den 1980er Jahren von österreichischen WissenschaftlerInnen wiederentdeckt. Ein transdisziplinäres Forschungsprojekt, über mehr als 20 Jahre durchgeführt, führte zu intensiven Untersuchungen und Studien sowie einer modellhaften Konservierung und Restaurierung der Tempelanlage und ihrer Ausstattung.
    Keywords: Western Himalayas ; Research ; Art History ; Tibetology ; Conservation ; Restoration ; Wall Paintings ; Westlicher Himalaya ; Forschung ; Kunstgeschichte ; Tibetologie ; Konservierung ; Restaurierung ; Wandmalerei ; Gautama Buddha ; Institute of Conservation ; Mandala ; Nako ; Himachal Pradesh ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 59
    facet.materialart.
    Unknown
    University of Michigan Press | U of M Center For Japanese Studies
    Publication Date: 2023-02-14
    Description: Society and social sciences;Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
    Keywords: Society and social sciences ; Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 60
    Publication Date: 2023-07-19
    Description: Der zeiltiche Fokus liegt vor allem auf der postsozialistischen Zeit ab 1989/90 bis etwa 2012; die räumliche Ausdehnung der Forschungen schliesst Ungarn (Herberge- Patronagestaat), Slowenien, Kroatien (Slawonien), Serbien (Vojvodina), und Rumänien (Siebenbürgen sowie Deutschland und Österreich als Patronagestaaten für die Deutschen mit ein.
    Description: Die Theoriebildung zu den beiden Termini Identitäts- und Ethnomanagement legt das Fundament für dieses Werk und deren Akteursbezogenheit wiederum schlägt die Brücke zum empirischen Teil über die Deutschen und Ungarn im südöstlichen Europa. Kristallisationspunkte sind dabei die politischen und kulturellen Aktivitäten der Minderheitenvereine oder –selbstverwaltungen sowie die weiteren Vermittler und Instrumente wie die Minderheitenmedien, das Minderheitenschulwesen sowie die Minderheitenliteratur und –kunst.
    Keywords: Hungarian minority ; German minority ; Southeast Europe ; identity- and ethnomanagement ; minorities’ politics and -culture ; minorities’ societies and –self-governments ; Ungarische Minderheit ; Deutsche Minderheit ; Südosteuropa ; Identitäts- und Ethnomanagement ; Minderheitenpolitik und -kultur ; Minderheitenvereine und –selbstverwaltungen. ; Ethnic group ; Transylvania
    Language: English
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Format: image/jpeg
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
Close ⊗
This website uses cookies and the analysis tool Matomo. More information can be found here...