New Perspectives on Power and Political Representation from Ancient History to the Present Day

New Perspectives on Power and Political Representation from Ancient History to the Present Day
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2019-06-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004291962

New Perspectives on Power and Political Representation from Ancient History to the Present Day offers a unique perspective on political communication between rulers and ruled from antiquity to the present day by putting the concept of representation center stage. It explores the dynamic relationship between elites and the people as it was shaped by constructions of self-representation and representative claims. The contributors to this volume – specialists in ancient, medieval, early-modern and modern history – move away from reductionist associations of political representation with formal aspects of modern, democratic, electoral, and parliamentarian politics. Instead, they contend that the construction of political representation involves a set of discourses, practices, and mechanisms that, although they have been applied and appropriated in various ways in a range of historical contexts, has stood the test of time.

Foundation, Dedication and Consecration in Early Modern Europe

Foundation, Dedication and Consecration in Early Modern Europe
Author: M. Delbeke
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2011-12-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004217576

Bringing together contributions from art history, architectural history, historiography and history of law, this volume is the first comprehensive exploration of the manifold meanings of foundation, dedication and consecration rituals and narratives in early modern culture.

A Companion to Observant Reform in the Late Middle Ages and Beyond

A Companion to Observant Reform in the Late Middle Ages and Beyond
Author: James Mixson
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2015-06-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004297529

The Observant Movement was a widespread effort to reform religious life across Europe. It took root around 1400, and for a century and more thereafter it inspired or shaped much that became central to European religion and culture. The Observants produced many of the leading religious figures of the later Middle Ages—Catherine of Siena, Bernardino of Siena and Savonarola in Italy, Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros in Spain, and in Germany Martin Luther himself. This volume provides scholars with a current, synthetic introduction to the Observant Movement. Its essays also seek collectively to expand the horizons of our study of Observant reform, and to open new avenues for future scholarship. Contributors are Michael D. Bailey, Pietro Delcorno, Tamar Herzig, Anne Huijbers, James D. Mixson, Alison More, Carolyn Muessig, Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli, Bert Roest, Timothy Schmitz, and Gabriella Zarri.

The Decline and Fall of Medieval Sicily

The Decline and Fall of Medieval Sicily
Author: Clifford R. Backman
Publisher: Officina di Studi Medievali
Total Pages: 412
Release: 1995-09-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9788888615653

This 1995 book is a detailed study of Sicilian life and economy in the 'transitional' reign of Frederick III (1296-1337).

The Self-Perception of Early Modern Capitalists

The Self-Perception of Early Modern Capitalists
Author: M. Jacob
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230613802

A collection of essays by leading historians of early modern Europe and the U.S., this books explores how merchants, entrepreneurs, and other early modern capitalists viewed themselves.

Queens, Princesses and Mendicants

Queens, Princesses and Mendicants
Author: Nikolas Jaspert
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2019
Genre: History
ISBN: 3643910924

The decades between ca 1280 and ca 1380 were marked by a striking affinity to the Mendicant orders on the part of many female members of royal and princely courts. And yet, "Queens, Princesses and Mendicants" is both an innovative and comparatively neglected juxtaposition in medieval studies, for historical research has generally tended to neglect the relationship between Mendicants and aristocratic women. This volume unites twelve articles written by experts from seven European countries. The contributions cover a wide array of medieval European kingdoms in order to facilitate direct comparisons. Was affinity towards the Mendicants a prevalent phenomenon in the late Middle Ages? Can one even term "philomendicantism" a late medieval European movement? The collection of essays provides answers to these and other questions within the field of gender, religious and cultural history.

A Companion to the Spanish Scholastics

A Companion to the Spanish Scholastics
Author: Harald Ernst Braun
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 643
Release: 2021-12-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004296964

A much-needed survey of the entire field of early modern Spanish scholastic thought. Each chapter is grounded in primary sources and the relevant historiography, includes a useful bibliography, and serves as a point of departure for future research.

Rome and the Colonial City

Rome and the Colonial City
Author: Sofia Greaves
Publisher:
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2022
Genre: History
ISBN: 1789257824

According to one narrative, that received almost canonical status a century ago with Francis Haverfield, the orthogonal grid was the most important development of ancient town planning, embodying values of civilization in contrast to barbarism, diffused in particular by hundreds of Roman colonial foundations, and its main legacy to subsequent urban development was the model of the grid city, spread across the New World in new colonial cities. This book explores the shortcomings of that all too colonialist narrative and offers new perspectives. It explores the ideals articulated both by ancient city founders and their modern successors; it looks at new evidence for Roman colonial foundations to reassess their aims; and it looks at the many ways post-Roman urbanism looked back to the Roman model with a constant re-appropriation of the idea of the Roman.