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The essays in this book, all by distinguished historians, illuminate the main activities, preoccupations and aspirations of the families whose territorial power and local leadership made them a central factor in medieval Scottish society. Issues discussed include the influence of Anglo-Norman England on earlier medieval Scotland, patterns of land accumulation by the aristocracy, noble residences, the legal and administrative aspects of baronial lordship, clientage, and dealings between magnates and the Church. Throughout, the essays stress the importance of recognising that, before the Wars of Independence, the nobility of Scotland was closely bound by ties of kinship and property with the nobility in England and emphasise that the common assumption of perpetual opposition between baronage and the Crown is a myth. First published in 1985, these essays remain essential reading on the subject.

Con ocasión del bimilenario de la muerte de Augusto en 2014, nos sumamos a la conmemoración internacional de esta efeméride con una serie de actividades que tomaron como hilo conductor el tratamiento interdisciplinar de la mujer en el saeculum augustum. Esta monografia se forja en ese concreto contexto; asi, desde los campos del Derecho romano, Historia del Derecho, Historia antigua, Historia medieval, Literatura, Arqueologia e Historia del arte, se recogen diversos trabajos de investigacion sobre mujeres reales en la frontera temporal y politica en la que convergen dos siglos, dos sistemas de poder: la Republica y el Imperio.

Este libro sobre censura y diálogo, o sobre el diálogo a la luz de la censura, explora de forma conjunta fenómenos relevantes de la historia cultural europea, desde la herejía al saber reservado. Nace de la confluencia de intereses de equipos dedicados de manera sostenida e independiente al estudio del genero dialogico en la Peninsula Iberica, y al analisis del pensamiento censorio y de las formas de vigilancia de la textualidad. La interseccion de estos dos campos de interes define un territorio apenas transitado por los historiadores de la literatura hispanica: del encuentro de los especialistas que participan en este volumen resulta una nueva perspectiva sobre las condiciones de escritura, lectura e interpretacion del corpus dialogico quinientista.

Documento etnográfico y político, económico y cultural de primer orden, esta obra es un arsenal precioso de datos para el estudio de la historia de los pueblos de la cuenca del Mediterráneo. Es cierto que Mommsen hacia hablar a las piedras. Y ellas le entregaron, en gran parte, el secreto de la intensa vida provincial, oculto hasta entonces bajo la superestructura de una tradicion basada en los escritos centralistas de los historiadores y los escritores romanos. Sus capitulos mejor logrados, con ser todos magistrales, son aquellos que versan sobre las partes del imperio, como los paises danubianos y las tierras del Asia menor, cuyas inscripciones estudio y edito dentro del gran Corpus inscriptionum.

In the 1920s, Adolf Rosenberger was one of Germanys best known racing car drivers. He was also co-founder and managing director of a design firm that had recently been launched by Ferdinand Porsche, and it was his job to ensure financing for the design firm a firm that provided important impetus during this time for technical innovation and racing car construction. When the firm fell into difficulties during the global business crisis, he ended up stepping away from his management role in the company, but remained active as partner and "foreign representative". The Jewish Rosenberger was however unable to escape the increasing persecution by the Nazis: in 1935 he lost his shares in the company and landed for a time in a concentration camp. After emigrating in 1938 he would go on over the following decades to develop a precarious new existence in the USA. Compensation and restitution proceedings that he initiated against the company would end up severing any remaining ties with the now internationally renowned sports car manufacturer. This book, drawing on documents that have remained unpublished until now, frames and analyses the exceptional and moving biography of Adolf Rosenberger.

The EHS issues are thematic. Each issue features a selection of peer-reviewed research articles, which offer novel perspectives on the main theme.Includes:- Andrea Low and Kim Wunschman: Film and the Reordering of City Space in Nazi Germany: The Demolition of the Munich Main Synagogue- Michal Frankl: Cast out of Civilized Society. Refugees in the No Man`s Land between Slovakia and Hungary in 1938- Beate Meyer: Foreign Jews in Nazi Germany - Protected or Persecuted? Preliminary Results of a New Study- Dominique Schroder: Writing the Camps, Shifting the Limits of Language: Toward a Semantics of the Concentration Camps?- Tal Bruttmann, Stefan Hordler, and Christoph Kreutzmuller: A Paradoxical Panorama: Aspects of Space in Lili Jacobs Album- Irina Rebrova: Jewish Accounts of Soviet Evacuation to the North Caucasus- Malena Chinski: A New Address for Holocaust Research: Michel Borwicz and Joseph Wulf in Paris, 19471951- Anna Engelking: "Our own traitor" as the Focal Point of Belarusian Folk Narrative on Local Perpetrators of the Holocaust- Hannah Wilson: The Memoryscape of Sobibor Death Camp: Commemoration and MaterialityDer Band erscheint vollstandig in englischer Sprache.

The defeat of the Scots in the Battle of Flodden in 1513 left many of the leaders of Scottish society, including King James IV, lying dead on the battlefield. The long and complex minority of King James V which followed is explored in detail in this book, bringing understanding to the evolving relationships among the Scots, English and French against the background of the wider European context of the early sixteenth century. The competing interests of England and France were personified in two of the Scottish Regents: Queen Margaret Tudor, the sister of Henry VIII, and John, Duke of Albany, James Vs nearest male heir, who had been brought up in France and represented the French connection as much as the Scots. The interests of leading Scots families, the Hamiltons and the Douglases, were also at the heart of the power struggle. The book offers a rare insight into a turbulent period of Scottish politics.

By comparison with their English counterparts, Scottish nineteenth-century railways have suffered from a degree of neglect by economic historians. Most of the existing literature is written for the railway enthusiast, concentrating mainly on topography, mechanical developments and entertaining episodes. Few of these books cover the whole of Scotland and most are treatments of single companies or of particular dramatic events. This study covers the earliest period of Scottish railway history, from the years of the first waggonway developments in the eighteenth century to the advent of the railway mania of the 1840s. It concentrates on the planning and formation of the various railways, the problems and achievements associated with their construction, and the financial records of the companies up to 1844. The first two chapters cover the horse-drawn waggonways of the eighteenth century and the coal railways of the early nineteenth century, while Chapters 35 cover the railways of the 1830s and 1840s.

What can the present tell us about the past? From 1968 to 1990, Edward Ochsenschlager conducted ethnoarchaeological fieldwork near a mound called al-Hiba, in the marshes of southern Iraq. In examining the material culture of three tribes--their use of mud, reed, wood, and bitumen, and their husbandry of cattle, water buffalo, and sheep--he chronicles what is now a lost way of life. He helps us understand ancient manufacturing processes, an artifacts significance and the skill of those who create and use it, and the substantial moral authority wielded by village craftspeople. He reveals the complexities involved in the process of change, both natural and enforced. Al-Hiba contains the remains of Sumerian people who lived in the marshes more than 5,000 years ago in a similar ecological setting, using similar material resources. The archaeological evidence provides insights into everyday life in antiquity. Ochsenschlager enhances the comparisons of past and present by extensive illustrations from his fieldwork and also from the University Museums rare archival photographs taken in the late nineteenth century by John Henry Haynes. This was long before Saddam Hussein drove one of the tribes from the marshes, forced the Bedouin to live elsewhere, and irrevocably changed the lives of those who tried to stay.

For more than four thousand years, empires have been geographically the largest polities on Earth, shaping in many respects the human past and present in different epochs and on different continents. Covering the time span from the second millennium B.C.E. to the sixteenth century C.E., and geographic areas from China to South America, the case studies included in this volume demonstrate the necessity to combine perspectives from the longue duree and global comparativism with the theory of agency and an understanding of specific contexts for human actions. Contributions from leading scholars examine salient aspects of the Hittite, Assyrian, Ancient Egyptian, Achaemenid and Sasanian Iranian, Zhou to Han Dynasty Chinese, Inka, and Mughal empires.

Simultaneously pervasive and evasive, rebellious and oppressive, transgressive and socially specific, humour is a vast and interdisciplinary field of research. Seeking to rethink this quintessentially human expression, this volume is bringing together established and emerging directions of medieval humour research. Each contribution explores different artistic expressions, receptions and functions of humour and identifies a series of problems in researching humour historically. Medieval Humour: Expressions, Receptions and Functions dissects humour in art and thought, literature and drama, society and culture, contributing to a deeper understanding of our cultural past.

Als im Marz/April 1945 Hitlers Grodeutsches Reich immer kleiner wurde, trieben die NS-Schergen Tausende ungarische Juden auf tagelangen Todesmarschen quer durch Osterreich in das Konzentrationslager Mauthausen und viele Nebenlager. Drei Autoren aus dem Groraum Steyr haben das bisher kaum erforschte Schicksal dieser Menschen thematisiert. Aus vielen Einzelinformationen entstand ein fast einheitliches Bild der Todesmarsche durch Oberosterreich. So zogen durch das Ennstal ein groer Transport und mindestens vier kleinere Kolonnen. Fur den Raum SteyrSierning gelang es, das Ratsel um das Massengrab zu losen.Die Autoren interviewten zahlreiche Zeitzeugen. Einige davon, damals noch Kinder, hatten noch nie offentlich uber ihre Beobachtungen gesprochen. Im Mittelpunkt des Buchs stehen auch jene Burger, die Zivilcourage bewiesen. Es waren meist Frauen, die trotz strikten Verbots und personlichen Risikos die Qualen der Gepeinigten zu lindern versuchten. Weiters im Fokus stehen Tater aus den Reihen der Zivilbevolkerung.Welche Auswirkungen haben Ereignisse des Nationalsozialismus auf nachfolgende Generationen? Was ist notwendig, um eine Gedenkkultur neuen Formats und ein neues Handeln zu ermoglichen? Auch diesen Fragen stellen sich die Autoren.

Jewish Presence on SemmeringThe Semmering the popular summer and winter holiday destination has a long association with Jewish guests. This history dates back to the Jewish trade routes in the Middle Ages when merchants passed through the area, and it continues to the present day. With the expansion of the railway, elegant hotels were constructed, kosher infrastructure was offered, Jewish doctors opened facilities for treatments and cures, and sports and leisure culture developed. The Semmering became a destination for health tourism, as well as the center of vibrant social life: Celebrities like Sigmund Freud, Arthur Schnitzler, Berta Zuckerkandl, and others turned into regular guests. Some even purchased property, built lavish villas, and dressed in local costumes as a sign of their affiliation. However, the rise of National Socialism marked the end of carefree vacations, leading to the expulsion and expropriation of many. After the Second World War, the Semmering attracted a new range of visitors: survivors of the Holocaust from neighboring countries and their children, who longed to forget their painful past as quickly as possible. For the first time, this book takes a detailed look at Jewish life in the Semmering region.

Vor dem "groen" Bauernkrieg von 1525 gab es im Alten Reich eine Vielzahl von Unruhen, Aufstanden und Revolten. Am bekanntesten sind die "Bundschuh"-Verschworungen und die Bewegung des "Armen Konrad" in Wurttemberg im Sudwesten, deren Bedeutung bis heute teilweise falsch eingeschatzt wird. Auch in den Stadten gab es damals eine regelrechte Aufstandskonjunktur, die bislang kaum vergleichend erforscht wurde. Das Buch gibt einen Uberblick zu diesen Phanomenen und stellt die Verbindung zur Reformation her, die insofern eine neue Phase einlautet, als sie den vormals fragmentierten Bewegungen eine gemeinsame Richtung gab. Schlielich wird der Bogen bis zum Beginn des Bauernkriegs geschlagen. Auf diese Weise werden Kontinuitaten und Bruche ebenso sichtbar wie Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede zwischen den "Voraufstanden" und dem Bauernkrieg.

"Die wissenschaftliche Welt wie alle an der Geschichte Griechenlands im klassischen Zeitalter Interessierten uberhaupt, haben B. fur einen wertvollen und originellen Beitrag zur althistorischen Diskussion, vor allem aber fur eine nutzliche und konzise Monographie uber eine trotz reicher Detailforschung nur selten in zusammenfassender Form dargestellte Epoche der athenischen Geschichte zu danken."Tyche"Although Thrasybulus of Steiria was a major player in some of the most important events of Athenian history, he has been largely neglected by ancient commentators and modern scholars alike. By way of giving Thrasybulus the attention his deeds warrant, Buck provides in his brief study a Thrasybulus-centered history of the period from 411389. [...] The reader will find a concise, clearly-written, and well-argued discussion of the events of the period."Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewContent:Sources and Scholarship Thrasybulus: His Early Life and Career Arginusae and the Thirty The Overthrow of the Thirty and the Restoration of Democracy The First Two Years of the Corinthian War: Thrasybulus and Conon The Corinthian War: Thrasybulus and the New Athenian Empire Thrasybulus and Athens Chronology

How immune is the Gulf region to the changes that have engulfed the Arab world since 2011? This volume responds to this question by examining the impact of the Arab Spring on Gulf regimes and societies and contributing to debates on political participation and citizenship; sectarianism, gender and identity formation; as well as the role of the media in exposing the paradoxes of the Gulf system and its relationship to international political actors.

Historia de la conservación de la naturaleza en Costa Rica 1754 – 2012 constituye el primer libro dedicado a esta temática en el país. Aunque existen algunos artículos sobre el tema, elaborados tanto

The spatial structure of diagrams can be described in algebraic, geometric, cognitive or semiotic terms. Based on the Ur-diagram of the Divided Line in Platos Republic, diagrams can be understood as representations of the visible and the intelligible world. However, the knowledge thus conveyed is subject to the contingency of material and contextual, i.e., period-specific circumstances. How is the spatial organization of diagrams in medieval manuscripts structured under such conditions? The examples dealt with in this essay range from diagrammaric glosses to the late antique Corpus Dionysiacum to visualizations of the powers of perception and cognition by the Renaissance scholar Charles Bovelles. Medieval spaces of knowledge encompassed not only the confines of libraries or the extended social networks within which books were written, exchanged, and read; they also took shape on the page, most persuasively in the form of diagrams.

Este livro centra-se na análise da cultura material de cerâmica arqueológica e etnográfica de povos originários e no estudo de indústrias líticas dos períodos pré-colonial e colonial no Brasil.Estas

The volume edited by the historian Aleksandra Skrzypietz presents seven queens from the early modern era in Europe. Seven contributions highlight the respective queens role within the complex web of court and family arrangements. Individual agency as well as the social structures of the courtly world of intrigue and shifting coalitions determined whether a queen was able to retain her position of power or lost it. Often enough, they became the victims of their own kind, new and old, in these struggles for power."Queens within Networks of Family and Court Connections" is ideal for students and scholars of royal history and early modern European history.