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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2013Eleventh-century Germany
The Swabian chronicles
by I. Robinson
Three of the most important chronicles of eleventh-century Germany were composed in the south-western duchy of Swabia. The chronicles reveal how between 1049 and 1100 the centripetal attraction of the reform papacy became the dominant fact of intellectual life in German reformed monastic circles. In the abbey of Reichenau Herman 'the Lame' composed a chronicle of the reign of Emperor Henry III (1039-56). His pupil, Berthold of Reichenau, continued his master's work, composing a detailed account of 1076-1079 in Germany. Bernold, a clergyman of Constance, continued the work of Herman and Berthold in a text containing the fullest extant account of 1080-1100. Herman's waning enthusiasm for the monarchy and growing interest in the newly reformed papacy were intensified in Berthold's chronicle, and writing in the new context of the reformed monasteries of south-western Germany, Bernold preached total obedience to the Gregorian papacy. The Swabian chronicles are an indispensable resource to the student of the changing loyalties and conflicts of eleventh-century Germany.
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September 2010Jahre am Bodensee
Erinnerungen, Betrachtungen, Briefe und Gedichte
by Hermann Hesse, Volker Michels
Hermann Hesse war ein Weltreisender und zugleich an eine Heimat gebunden. Diese Doppelrolle erlaubte es ihm, seine jeweilige Umgebung und deren Bewohner in ihren Besonderheiten, ihre Landschaft im Laufe der Geschichte und im Wechsel der Jahreszeiten präzise zu erfassen. Besonders intensiv und in überwältigenden literarischen Zeugnissen erwies sich Hermann Hesses Sinn für Orte und Stimmungen am Bodensee. Von 1904 bis 1912 lebte er in Gaienhofen, nachdem ihm sein erster Roman "Peter Camenzind" den literarischen Durchbruch gebracht hatte. In dieser Zeit kamen seine drei Söhne zur Welt, hier baute er sich 1907 sein einziges eigenes Haus, nachdem Jahr für Jahr jene Romane, Erzählungen und Gedichtsammlungen erschienen waren, die seinen frühen Ruhm als einen der eigenwilligsten und einflußreichsten Autoren des 20.Jahrhunderts begründet hatten. Dieser reich bebilderte Band versammelt alle poetischen und prosaischen Beschäftigungen Hesses mit dieser alten Kulturlandschaft. Eindringlich kommt in Hesses Berichten das Unverwechselbare dieser Region zum Ausdruck: in der ganzen Vielfalt ihrer landschaftlichen und klimatischen Erscheinungsformen vom tiegfelegenen Seeufer bis zu den Spitzen der Alpen. Doch nicht nur das Leben am See im Wechsel der Jahreszeiten, die Menschen und ihren Alltag vergegenwärtigen diese Aufzeichnungen, sondern auch Hesses Erfahrungen beim Gartenbau oder beim Flug in einem der ersten Zeppelin-Luftschiffe. Das von Volker Michels zusammengestellte Lese- und Bilderbuch zeigt also den Dichter und seine Landschaft – es ist somit ein Buch von und über Hermann Hesse sowie ein Buch zum Reisen mit Hermann Hesse am Bodensee.
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May 2012Geschichten vom Bodensee
by Johannes Winter
Der Bodensee – von hier ist der Süden zum Greifen nah: blühende Obstgärten, sonnendurchflutete Rebhänge, die Blütenpracht auf der Mainau, die glitzernde Wasserfläche des Sees … Martin Walser, Arnold Stadler, Hermann Hesse, Robert Gernhardt und viele andere mehr erzählen vom See, seiner Umgebung und seinen Menschen, entführen in eine der schönsten und vielfältigsten Landschaften Deutschlands. Die schönsten Bodenseegeschichten für Urlauber und Ausflügler, Sehnsüchtige und Träumer!
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Business, Economics & LawOctober 2008Terrorism and democratic stability revisited
by Jennifer S. Holmes
Can terrorism and state violence cause democratic breakdown? Although the origins of violence have been studied, only rarely are its consequences examined. In this detailed comparative study of Uruguay, Spain, and Peru, Holmes claims that to understand the consequences of violence on democratic stability, terrorism and state responses to terrorism must be studied together. This extensively revised and expanded second edition takes advantage of new historical sources, an extended time span, and new theories that have emerged since the original publication. In addition to adding new data sources in the Peruvian and Spanish cases, the time period covered has been expanded from the late 1990s to early 2007, allowing a more comprehensive treatment of the consequences of state and non-state violence on democratic stability and the prospects for stability. The literature reviews have been significantly revised and updated and an entirely new chapter covers the special case of Spain, which faces both a domestic and an international threat. ;
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January 1971Der Ritt über den Bodensee
by Peter Handke
Der Ritt über den Bodensee, obwohl ein Stück gegen das Theater, zumindest gegen seine herkömmlichen Formen, trägt dennoch höchst theatralische Züge. Es enthält eine Vielzahl minuziöser Beschreibungen, Beschreibungen von Vorgängen auch aus der Theaterwelt.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2001Aspects of English Protestantism C.1530–1700
by Nicholas Tyacke, Peter Lake, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda
During the sixteenth century, England underwent a religious revolution. This book examines the reverberations of this Protestant Reformation, which continued to be felt until at least the end of the seventeenth century. Brings together twelve essays by Nicholas Tyacke about English Protestantism, which range from the Reformation itself, and the new market-place of ideas opened up, to the establishment of freedom of worship for Protestant nonconformists in 1689. For this collection the author has written a substantial introduction, and updated the essays by incorporating new research. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2020Representation, recognition and respect in world politics
by Constance Duncombe
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The ArtsJune 2021Claire Denis
by Martine Beugnet
Claire Denis is one of France's most acclaimed and original filmmakers. Since her remarkable debut success with 'Chocolat' (1986), she has produced an impressive series of features which have been intriguing, visually striking, and often highly controversial (including 'Beau Travail' (2000) and 'Trouble Every Day' (2001)). Beugnet provides a thematic and stylistic framework within which to consider Denis' work, as well as a comprehensive analysis of individual films. She highlights the resonance of Denis' films in relation to ongoing debates about French national identity and culture, and issues of postcolonial identity, alienation and transgression, as well as examining their exploration of the interface between sexuality, desire and sensuality. This is an essential introduction to Denis, and a sophisticated and illuminating study of her work to date.
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April 2022Corona Chaos. Confessions from a pharmacist
by Simon Krivec
More than two years of pandemic is more than two years of corona clutter. Only a staggering level of helpfulness, improvisation and flexibility prevented the healthcare system from collapsing completely. In this highly topical book, pharmacist Simon Krivec tells of his incredible experiences and the stormy ups and downs of pandemic madness, missing masks and disinfectants, and the feeling of having been totally abandoned by a helpless state. We learn, for instance, of the short-term procurement of large quantities of ethanol and the transportation of the highly flammable substance, and just what lured the author – and 71,400 euros in cash – to visit the port of Neuss at night.
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceNovember 2023David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the sun machine
by Nicholas Royle
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2023The gift of narrative in medieval England
by Nicholas Perkins
This invigorating study places medieval romance narrative in dialogue with theories and practices of gift and exchange, opening new approaches to questions of storytelling, agency, gender and materiality in some of the most engaging literature from the Middle Ages. It argues that the dynamics of the gift are powerfully at work in romances: through exchanges of objects and people; repeated patterns of love, loyalty and revenge; promises made or broken; and the complex effects that time works on such objects, exchanges and promises. Ranging from the twelfth century to the fifteenth, and including close discussions of poetry by Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet and romances in the Auchinleck Manuscript, this book will prompt new ideas and debate amongst students and scholars of medieval literature, as well as anyone curious about the pleasures that romance narratives bring.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2013The Papal Reform of the Eleventh Century
Lives of Pope Leo IX and Pope Gregory VII
by I. Robinson
The eleventh-century papal reform transformed western European Church and society and permanently altered the relations of Church and State in the west. The reform was inaugurated by Pope Leo IX (1048-54) and given a controversial change of direction by Pope Gregory VII (1073-85). This book contains the earliest biographies of both popes, presented here for the first time in English translation with detailed commentaries. The biographers of Leo IX were inspired by his universally acknowledged sanctity, whereas the biographers of Gregory VII wrote to defend his reputation against the hostility generated by his reforming methods and his conflict with King Henry IV. Also included is a translation of Book to a Friend, written by Bishop Bonizo of Sutri soon after the death of Gregory VII, as well as an extract from the violently anti-Gregorian polemic of Bishop Benzo of Alba (1085) and the short biography of Leo IX composed in the papal curia in the 1090s by Bishop Bruno of Segni. These fascinating narrative sources bear witness to the startling impact of the papal reform and of the 'Investiture Contest', the conflict of empire and papacy that was one of its consequences. An essential collection of translated texts for students of medieval history.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2026Translating hell
Vernacular theology and apocrypha in the medieval North Sea
by Stephen C. E. Hopkins
In the Middle Ages, hell was useful because it was vaguely defined. Canonical scriptures scarcely mention hell, leaving much to the imaginations of early Christians, who used it to sort out who belonged within the faith. This book explores how hell became a place for literary experiments with local challenges in theology and identity. Following the reception and transformations of two popular hell apocrypha, it argues that they served as this role because of their liminal textual authority. As noncanonical scriptures, apocrypha afforded medieval writers space to revise their hells (since they were not actually scripture), while also encouraging readers to revere those experiments as valid (since they seemed like scripture). The book brings together adaptations from early medieval England, Iceland, Ireland, and Wales, placing the early vernacular theologies of the North Sea in comparative conversation.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2008Eleventh-century Germany
The Swabian chronicles
by Rosemary Horrox, Simon Maclean, I. Robinson
Three of the most important chronicles of eleventh-century Germany were composed in the south-western duchy of Swabia. The chronicles reveal how between 1049 and 1100 the centripetal attraction of the reform papacy became the dominant fact of intellectual life in German reformed monastic circles. In the abbey of Reichenau Herman 'the Lame' composed a chronicle of the reign of Emperor Henry III (1039-56). His pupil, Berthold of Reichenau, continued his master's work, composing a detailed account of 1076-1079 in Germany. Bernold, a clergyman of Constance, continued the work of Herman and Berthold in a text containing the fullest extant account of 1080-1100. Herman's waning enthusiasm for the monarchy and growing interest in the newly reformed papacy were intensified in Berthold's chronicle, and writing in the new context of the reformed monasteries of south-western Germany, Bernold preached total obedience to the Gregorian papacy. The Swabian chronicles are an indispensable resource to the student of the changing loyalties and conflicts of eleventh-century Germany. ;
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