This is the first English translation of the 'Chronicle of Prussia', which was written by Nicolaus von Jeroschin, in middle German verse, during the period from 1330 to 1341. It is a history of the Teutonic Knights, encompassing the period between the foundation of the order, in 1190, and 1331. The translator's introduction sets the work in its historical and cultural context. The text was written at the instigation of the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, to make an account of the ethos and history of the order's conquest of Prussia available 'to all German people'. Its purpose was to remind the order's knight brothers and its supporters of its origins and past achievements, but above all it was intended to establish the legitimacy of Prussia as a locus for crusades, setting the scene for the order's 'golden age' in the second half of the fourteenth century. The chronicle's content is divided into three sections: it opens with a description of the founding of the order in Acre. There follows a discourse on the nature of spiritual and earthly warfare, which echoes the ideology of crusading warfare first articulated by Bernhard of Clairvaux in his treatise De laude novae militiae. The final, longest, section recounts the wars of the Teutonic Knights against the Prussians and Lithuanians from 1230 until the narrative breaks off abruptly in 1331. The chronicle is the main historical source document for the period it covers and was widely disseminated during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It is also an engaging and lively account of warfare and colonisation on the eastern frontier of Latin Christianity.

This is the first English translation of the first work of Otto von Gierke, arguably the greatest historian of ideas of the nineteenth century. Community in Historical Perspective includes much of the first volume of Das Deutsche Genossenschaftsrecht, originally published in 1868, and the texts translated here have become essential reading for anyone interested not only in the history of ideas and alternatives to conventional socialism and liberalism, but also, as recent experience has shown, contemporary European affairs. Von Gierke’s represented an unparalleled attempt to justify a political programme of structural pluralism, and to interpret the entire course of European history from the Dark Ages onwards as a progressive interaction between ‘fellowship’ (or ‘comradeship’) and ‘lordship’ (or ‘sovereignty’). This interaction was to generate a polity of autonomous associations within a constitutional state based upon consent and federal unity, and von Gierke here laid the basis for a distinctively Germanic programme of federalism and quasi-pluralism, with a strongly nationalist emphasis upon the unique capacity of Germans, despite long periods of absolute rule, for corporate self-management.

In diesem Sammelband widmen sich Archaologen, Historiker und Philologen den spezifischen Formen des Phanomens Gewalt im klassischen Griechenland: Wie tritt diese aandere Seiteo der Klassik in der Bildsprache hervor? Wie wurde Gewalt in verschiedenen sozialen Raumen und Situationen praktiziert, erfahren und bewertet? Offenbar war damals - im deutlichen Gegensatz zur modernen Auffassung - Gewalt eher akzeptables Mittel zum Zweck als etwas grundsatzlich Unmoralisches. Aus dem Inhalt A. Stahli: Die Rhetorik der Gewalt in Bildern des archaischen und klassischen Griechenland C. Kunze: Neue Erzahlperspektiven in der fruehklassischen Vasenmalerei S. Moraw: Hochzeit, Tieropfer und Sklaverei in der klassischen Kunst A. Ercolani: Gewalt in der griechischen Tragodie W. Schmitz: Gewalt in Haus und Familie M. Bentz: Gewalt und Athletik in klassischer Zeit K. Trampedach: Gewalt in Heiligtuemern S. Schmidt: Grausame Mythen auf Vasen aus Unteritalien und Sizilien S. Muth: Kampfdarstellungen in der attischen Vasenmalerei D. Steuernagel: Sieger und Besiegte in der etruskischen und mittelitalischen Bildkunst R. von den Hoff: Zur Problematisierung transgressiver Gewalt in klassischen Vasenbildern A. Klockner: Medea, Prokne und das Motiv der furchtbaren Rache im klassischen Athen S. Ritter: Menelaos und Helena in der attischen Vasenmalerei des 5. Jhs. v. Chr. K. Junker: Geschlechteropposition und Gewalt. Beobachtungen an der klassischen Bauplastik A.-B. Renger: Der Tyrannenmord des Jahres 541 v. Chr. und die Hetare Leaina. Von der griechischen Klassik ueber die romische Kaiserzeit bis in 20. Jahrhundert .