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Repetition dynamically shaped important modes of thought and action in early modern British and European cultures. The centrality and often problematic ambiguity of repetition as they converge in ritual, routine, and regime, however, are rarely assessed accurately because repetition is often dismissed as quaintly primitive or embarrassingly visceral.

Ritual, Routine, and Regime is a collection of essays that reveals varied meanings given to and created by repetition from a range of disciplinary perspectives. The contributors reveal repetition at work in evolving definitions of the self and of the emotions, in political rhetoric used to assert a nation’s history, in values ascribed to musical styles, in religious verse grounded in practices of prayer, in the aesthetics created by the poetry of work and by rhyme in general, in the recreation of British classics through French translations, and in the repeated but significantly varied sculpture of the portrait bust.

Edited by Lorna Clymer, Ritual, Routine, and Regime juxtaposes early modern practices with twentieth- and twenty-first century theoretical accounts of the institutions of repetition. Providing a stimulating, new perspective on early modern culture, the collection describes repetition’s often peculiar demands, its surprising gratifications, and its contested interpretations.

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A Collection of Essays on National Identity within Europe

A book edited by two Swedes with considerable study experience
as Social Scientists and who have looked to other contributors
for a survey of the differences in European Cultures.

Professor Daun, of Stockholm University, Sweden has also written
SVENSK MENTALITET, a book well acclaimed.

Distances within Europe may not be great, but differences in the
mentalities and cultures of most Europeans is striking.

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It's rude to interrupt! Swedish communication style: unequal
portions? the British at table: the Irish; Poles' Banter about
heroes: setting boundaries; Icelandic national identity; the
Austrification of Austria - promoting differences; one country -
two cultures - Germany after unification; Danes in the middle of the world; what about the Finns?; does a Belgian national identity
exist? ETC.

This book helps to elude to the age-old phenomenons and it does it
very well!

Dag Stomberg
St. Andrews, Scotland ... Read more

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Ever since the first exploratory expeditions in the early modern period, North America has epitomized to Europeans a promise and the hope for the fulfilment of great expectations, be it of more freedom, greater wealth, social liberation or religious tolerance. While numerous features in this dialogic intercontinental relationship will hold true for North America in its entirety, the vast northern territories which we know as Canada today began to emerge early on as a specific iconic location in European mind-maps, and they definitely acquired a distinctive profile after the formation of the USA. As a rich source of cultural exchange and an important partner in political and economic cooperation Canada has come to occupy an important position in the cultural discourses of many European nations. It is these refractions and images of Canada which this volume thoroughly explores in European literature and culture. The contributions include literature, philosophy, language, life-writing and the concept of 'Heimat' (homeland) as well as the cultural impact of the World Wars. While there is an emphasis on literary texts, other fields of cultural representation are also included. ... Read more

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This booklet aims at serving as a practical guide for those interested in medieval Latin texts, and in particular their editing techniques. Far from dealing with general theories and theoretical principles, its aim is to assist in gaining experience and in making the best use of scant resources by signaling pitfalls and suggesting methodologies. Examples are mostly taken from the writer's own editions, several of which have appeared in the Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis. In spite of its modest size, Ars edendi deals with the numerous problems editors find themselves confronted with, and reflects the experience its author has accumulated in over forty years in the field. ... Read more

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Exploring the significance of Rome from the late eighteenth century to 1945, scholars from several disciplines, including English literature and history of art as well as classics, discuss a wide range of images and texts, from statues of Napoleon to Freud's dream analysis. Rome's astonishing range of meanings has made it a fertile paradigm for making sense of--and also for problematizing--history, politics, identity, memory and desire. ... Read more

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This illustrated annual brings together essays, poetry, reportage and interviews that explore the mix and clash of cultures and nationalities in the centre of Europe. In this issue, for example, the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal gibes at Joseph Brodsky's assertion that there is a clear "border" between East and West through Central Europe, Luise von Flowtow tours the counterculture of the former East Berlin in the aftermath of reunification with the West, and Tiina Kirss reports on the cultural ferment in the Baltic republic of Estonia. The Croatian novelist Dubravka Ugresic reflects on her own and Western reactions to the destruction of her homeland in the war in Yugoslavia, Aneta Georgievska and Victor Miesel examine trends in the visual arts in Croatia and Czechoslovakia and Herbert Eagle surveys the course of East European cinema under the former communist regimes.Articles on Franz Kafka, Christa Wolf, Walter Benjamin, Frantisek Halas, Zbigniew Herbert, Jerzy Kosinski, Miklos Radnoti and Peter Esterhazy point to the deep cultural heritage of the region and struggle for identity - artistic, political, national and personal - that has occupied generations of writers and thinkers in Central Europe. ... Read more

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This volume brings together ten essays by leading scholarsabout Jewish messianic ideas and movements in the early modern world.While much of the previous literature in this field has focused on theinternal dynamics of Jewish thought, these essays stress thebroader historical and philosophical context. The papers deal withsuch topics as messianic ideology in the wake of the SpanishExpulsion, messianism and Renaissance philosophy, the Sabbateanmovement and its impact on Christian thought, messianism andconversion, the relationship of Christian kabbalists to Jewishmessianic ideas, the Frankist movement, and Freemasonry. As a group,the essays here represent a challenge to Gershom Scholem's reading ofJewish messianism in this era, offering a rich tapestry ofrelationships between the religious imagination of Jews and that oftheir neighbors. Scholars and students of early modern history,eschatology and religion will find much food for thought here. ... Read more

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Jewish messianism
This book, edited by Goldish and Popkin, presents essays on messiahs and messianism from a conference at the Clark Library.It covers a period from the late 15th century to the mid-18th century. Included are:Eric Lawee on Isaac Abarbanel's messianic theory; Matt Goldish, "Patterns in Converso Messianism"; Kenneth Krabbenhoft on Herrera's Kabbalah; Jacob Barnai's discussion of Sabbatian polemics; Richard Popkin on Christian reactions to Sabbatai Zevi; Allison Coudert, "Kabbalistic Messianism versus Kabbalistic Enlightenment"; Elisheva Carlebach on failed messiahs and Jewish conversion to Christianity; Elliot Wolfson the convert Johann Kemper's use of messianism to try and convert other Jews; Harris Lenowitz on Jacob Joseph Frank in Offenbach; and Martha Keith Schuchard, "Dr. Samuel Jacob Falk: A Sabbatian Adventurer in the Masonic Underground."Although these are separate essays, various themes recur.These include the interplay between Christian and Jewish ideas, and the common hope for an end to history as we know it.This volume contains much information not readily available elsewhere and I highly recommend it. ... Read more

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Das Anknüpfen an Traditionen ist keine Rückwärtswendung, sondern verleiht einer gemeinsamen Identität neue Dynamik diese Nachricht sollen die Bauten aus dem österreichischen Architekturbüro Ortner & Ortner vermitteln. Europäische Kultur wird dabei als exemplarische Situation verstanden, in der sich Altes und Neues besonders facettenreich miteinander vereint.

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What do Europeans have in common apart from the rights and duties deriving from the treaties? Is there such a thing as 'Europeanness' in the sense of a common identity? Can rights serve as a unifying factor in the new EU of 27 member states? And what are the sources of human identity as such? This book addresses these topical issues through a combination of theoretical and philo-sophical enquiry and empirical analysis. The nature of Political Man is investigated, as well as the sources of identity. The author argues in favour of a broad conception of political rationality and develops a new individualistic approach to the study of identity and culture summarised in the formulation 'culture is choice - and choice is culture'. The notion that culture and identity are holistic phenomena, something that citizens have to accept as a kind of destiny, is challenged, because with the exception of gender, identity and culture are very much chosen. While the existing literature tends to define culture in terms of customs and habits, the author argues that the emphasis ought to be shifted towards subjective meanings and tastes (broadly defined). But choice is also culture in the sense that humans are cultural beings with cultural needs and the simplistic notions of rational choice and globalisation, which assume that human beings are utility maximisers in a narrow, materialistic sense, must therefore be abandoned. From this perspective European identity suddenly looks quite solid. It is based on a variety of sources of identity, and some of the strongest sources of identity are immaterial and cultural. There is such a thing as a cultural community of distance; a sharing of outlook, memories and not least aesthetic experiences. ... Read more

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With a long, detailed historical record, a large corpus of archaeological data, and, more recently, a number of sophisticated analyses of current and previous environmental conditions, the Aegean region of the eastern Mediterranean offers a unique setting to explore the evolution of a landscape through time. As expanding world markets continue to encroach upon even the most remote and delicate ecological zones, anthropologists across all sub-disciplines are beginning to find common theoretical and methodological ground within their own discipline and with other ecologically oriented sciences. This volume examines the value of such collaborative research by bringing together archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, ethnoarchaeologists, and ecologists to discuss environmentally related issues that affect the European fringe, with an emphasis on the Aegean region. The contributors bring to light the subtleties involved in understanding the interactive relationship between humans and their environment over time. Students and scholars in a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, ecology, classics, and history, will find this book to be a valuable and original investigation of a dynamic and complex region. ... Read more

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Modern perceptions of texts are often not related to the way in which medieval readers understood them - conventional titles, for example, are often those supplied by early modern editors rather than by the manuscript tradition. This essay on the fundamental principles of medieval bibliography argues that the tituli and colophons accompanying a text in manuscript should be treated as evidence for the text's bibliographical data and therefore recorded in descriptive catalogues of manuscripts and in bibliographical repertories of texts. The value of medieval library catalogues in showing medieval bibliographical perceptions is illustrated. Bibliographical co-ordinates of author, title, and incipit are discussed in some detail, and the historical accumulation of bibliographical tradition is examined. Reference books intended to assist manuscript cataloguers and students of medieval Latin texts are subjected to criticism; an annotated handlist of such books is included. Many texts in the middle ages were ascribed to various writers, and the habits of titling were far from constant, but the evidence of the manuscripts provides a better basis for understanding the changing perception of texts than has been recognized in the reference literature. Two extended examples demonstrate, on the one hand, a text consistently ascribed in the manuscripts but much misattributed by modern scholars and, on the other, one whose authorship and title were the subject of much medieval alteration but can none the less still be recovered from the tituli. ... Read more

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The most successful dating system the world has ever known is that based on the 'Year of the Lord' (Anno Domini) - the Christian era. It was created in AD 525 by a Scythian monk, Dionysius Exiguus, primarily as a means of numbering Easters. Today, this system for reckoning time is used globally and is by no means restricted to adherents of Christianity. The present essay aims to describe not only the origins and the early development of the Dionysian system, from its invention until its adoption throughout Western Europe in the course of the eleventh century, but also its antecedents in Late Antiquity and the general context in which this era was conceived. The result is a broad chronological and geographical survey, encompassing developments over a period of a thousand years in both Latin Christendom and the Byzantine East. Georges Declercq takes the reader through the emergence of the Alexandrian and Byzantine ears of creation, the vexed question of the Easter or Paschal controversy, the computistical works of Victorius of Aquitaine and Dionysius Exiguus, and the role of the Anglo-Saxons in the manner in which Dionysius came to fix the incarnation of Christ in AD 1. This comprehensive survey is directed to both specialists and non-specialists and will be indispensable for any reader interested in early Christian chronology. Georges Declercq is a lecturer at the University of Brussels, and teaches medieval history at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and medieval palaeography at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He has published on the medieval history of the county of Flanders, and works mainly in the field of charters and diplomatics. ... Read more