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When scholars discuss the medieval past, the temptation is to
become immersed there, to deepen our appreciation of the nuances of
the medieval sources through debate about their meaning. But the
past informs the present in a myriad of ways and medievalists can,
and should, use their research to address the concerns and
interests of contemporary society. This volume presents a number of
carefully commissioned essays that demonstrate the fertility and
originality of recent work in Medieval Studies. Above all, they
have been selected for relevance. Most contributors are in the
earlier stages of their careers and their approaches clearly
reflect how interdisciplinary methodologies applied to Medieval
Studies have potential repercussions and value far beyond the
boundaries of the Middles Ages. These chapters are powerful
demonstrations of the value of medieval research to our own times,
both in terms of providing answers to some of the specific
questions facing humanity today and in terms of much broader
considerations. Taken together, the research presented here also
provides readers with confidence in the fact that Medieval Studies
cannot be neglected without a great loss to the understanding of
what it means to be human.
This volume explores 'unknown time' as a cultural phenomenon,
approaching past futures, unknown presents, and future pasts
through a broad range of different disciplines, media, and
contexts. As a phenomenon that is both elusive and fundamentally
inaccessible, time is a key object of fascination. Throughout the
ages, different cultures have been deeply engaged in various
attempts to fill or make time by developing strategies to
familiarize unknown time and to materialize and control past,
present, or future time. Arguing for the perennial interest in
time, especially in the unknown and unattainable dimension of the
future, the contributions explore premodern ideas about eschatology
and secular future, historical configurations of the perception of
time and acceleration in fin-de-siecle Germany and contemporary
Lagos, the formation of 'deep time' and 'timelessness' in
paleontology and ethnographic museums, and the representation of
time-past, present, and future alike-in music, film, and science
fiction.
Ritualised action a " the use of gestures and ceremonial processes
a " were a central means of creating and expressing social order in
pre-modern societies in particular. The present volume is divided
into the three core areas of liturgy, law and politics and presents
an interdisciplinary view of selected aspects of the arrangement
and effect of rituals. An introductory section uses exemplars to
present fundamental methodological questions from the perspectives
of art history, theatre history and historiology.
Ob Juristen, Mediziner oder oekonomen Expertenfiguren pragen
bereits seit Jahrhunderten die okzidentalen Gesellschaften. Als
Trager und Verwalter exklusiver Wissensbestande haben sie eine
soziale Sonderstellung inne. Denn sie bestimmen massgeblich die
Zuganglichkeit, Organisation und Ausformung des verfugbaren Wissens
und behaupten auf diese Weise eine weitreichende Machtposition, die
haufig Kritik provoziert. Gleichwohl sind sie ihrerseits ebenso von
den Nicht-Experten abhangig, ist die Expertenrolle doch wesentlich
ein Produkt sozialer Aushandlungsprozesse: Experte ist man nicht,
man wird es durch die eigene wie auch die fremde Zuschreibung
spezifischen Wissens. Der Expertenstatus beruht so zu weiten Teilen
auf Momenten der Selbstdarstellung und Inszenierung, auf Symboliken
und Habitus. Die Beitrage des vorliegenden Bandes nehmen aus der
Perspektive unterschiedlicher Disziplinen europaische und
aussereuropaische Kulturen diese Mechanismen in Expertenkulturen
vom 12. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert in den Blick. Anhand etwa von
Wirtschaftsexperten der Gegenwart und von mittelalterlichen
Astrologen, niederlandischen Nautik-Expertisen der fruhen Neuzeit
und japanischen Rechtsexperten werden Legitimations- und
Kommunikationsstrategien sowie Wissens- und Handlungsformen von
Experten sichtbar gemacht.
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