Mundtlig historie

Bogen er en enestående undersøgelse af dødsstraffens danske kulturhistorie fra reformationen og frem til den sidste danske henrettelse i fredstid i 1892.Henrettelserne var mange i 1500-tallet og første halvdel af 1600-tallet, og i hele Vesteuropa var dødstraffen indtil midten af 1700-tallet fast forankret i et religiøst verdensbillede og dens udførelse indskrevet i et ritual, som sikrede hele samfundetsopslutning. Ud over de forskellige former for henrettelse var udviklet et system af skærpelser, som blev brugt til at graduere straffen, alt efter forbrydelsens alvor. Det kunne være tortur og lemlæstelse både før og efter aflivningen eller den måde, som den døde kom eller ikke kom i jorden på. Fra midten af 1700-tallet ophørte den tætte binding imellem henrettelse og religion, og med forandrede forestillinger om straf og indførelsen af et egentligt fængselsvæsen blev henrettelse efterhånden erstattet af fængselsstraf.På baggrund af et kolossalt materiale og mange års studier af lokalhistorisk litteratur, erindringer, dagbogsoptegnelser, præsters henrettelsesbeskrivelser i kirkebøger, tingbøger m.m. har forfatteren kortlagt henrettelsens danmarkshistorie, med registrering af henved 2900 danske henrettelser. Dermed kommer læseren helt tæt på henrettelsernes hverdag og de forestillinger og traditioner, der knyttede sig til dem. Forfatteren præsenterer de dømte, deres baggrund og forbrydelsersamt den straffelovgivning og de retsinstanser, som de var underlagt. Han følger de dømte i arresten og på den sidste dag foran mestermanden på retterstedet, og endelig behandles også de spor, som de dramatiske begivenheder har sat sig isagn og talemåder mv.

The powerful story of an art form that has transformed the cultural landscape, by an award-winning poet, professor, and slam champion. 'AN ENGAGING HISTORY' New York Times | 'A RICH HYBRID OF MEMOIR AND HISTORY' The New Yorker | 'A MUST-READ' Roger Robinson | 'GALVANISING' Luke Kennard | 'CAPTURES LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE' Therí A. Pickens | 'MAGNIFICENT' Cornel WestIn 2009, at only twenty years old, Joshua Bennett was invited to recite a poem for President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House's Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word. Spike Lee and Saul Williams were in the audience, and it turned out to be the very same event where Lin-Manuel Miranda first performed a work-in-progress that revolutionised musical theatre - Hamilton. Blending memoir and literary analysis, Bennett shows how a handful of visionaries altered modern culture. With passion, wit and erudition, he charts the history of spoken-word poetry, as well as his coming-of-age journey as a writer. From the early influence of Miguel Algarín and the Nuyorican Poets Café to Amanda Gorman's inauguration poem for President Joe Biden, he celebrates the contributions of legendary figures such as Ntozake Shange, Nikki Giovanni and Miguel Piñero, as well as how artists like MF DOOM, Jill Scott and Mos Def were inspired to develop their craft within their shared tradition. Spoken Word illuminates the profound influence that poetry has had everywhere melodious words are heard, from the West End to academia, from the podiums of political protest to cafés, from schools to rooms full of strangers all across the world.

Zwei oberbayerische Gemeinden, Hubenstein und Moosen, geraten in den Fokus der Bayerischen Staatsregierung. Die beiden ¿Zwerggemeinden¿ sollen per Regierungsbeschluss zusammengelegt werden. Die Staatskasse ist nach dem 1. Weltkrieg klamm. Die kommunale Selbstverwaltung soll reformiert werden. Dagegen regt sich erbitterter Widerstand, der seit Generationen zerstrittenen Nachbargemeinden. Alte Wunden brechen auf. Argwohn, Misstrauen und handgreifliche Auseinandersetzungen greifen um sich. Plötzlich verschwindet ein Bürger spurlos. War es Mord? Der Flusslauf im Vilstal wird für die nachkriegsgeplagte Bevölkerung zur natürlichen Konfliktlinie. Trotz der Uneinigkeit wird ein Vertreter des Bezirksamts Erding bei einer Versammlung aus Moosen gemeinsam verjagt. Ein Handeln in Eintracht gegen die Obrigkeit bleibt allerdings schwierig. Nur dem Geschick der beiden Bürgermeister ist es zu verdanken, dass ein Gerichtsverfahren gegen die Bayerische Regierung erfolgen kann. Die Bürgermeister der rivalisierenden Gemeinden haben einen Balanceakt zwischen einer feindseligen Gegenwart und einer hoffnungs-vollen Zukunft zu meistern. Der hiesige Pfarrer und christliche Hirte sieht mit Sorge auf seine Schäfchen und hat dabei eigene Kriegstraumata zu bewältigen. Der neue junge Schullehrer am Ort ist nicht nur für die Schüler eine Bereicherung. Seine Leidenschaft ist die regionale Geschichte: ein vergangenes mittelalterliches Schloss und ein Abenteuer liebender Ritter animieren sein Interesse. Und die Entdeckung eines Tunnels erweckt die Legende über einen im verborgen gebliebenen unterirdischen Wehrgang von neuem. Jedoch sehen den Lehrer nicht alle ohne Vorbehalt und so sieht er sich mit dem aufkeimenden Nationalsozialismus und Antisemitismus der frühen 1920er Jahre konfrontiert. Es ist eine Zeit des dramatischen Wandels, für mache sogar wie eine politische und gesellschaftliche Abrisskante. Aber die Welt drehte sich weiter!

Når familie og venner samles til den traditionsrige påskefrokost, tænker man nok sjældent på, at fasten er slut, og at man nu skal fejre den kristne verdens vigtigste højtid – Jesu død og opstandelse. Påske er fortællingen om nyt liv og håb.Historiker, ph.d. Torben Svendrup beretter på sin karakteristiske og smittende måde om, hvordan Jesu lidelser fandt sted under den jødiske påske, som er en gammel frugtbarhedsfest og markerer afslutningen på slaveriet i Egypten. Vor tids kristne påske har elementer af farvestrålendeog forskelligartede middelalderskikke fra både den kirkelige og den verdslige livsverden.Fastelavn er oprindelig en stor, larmende folkefest med rod i førkristne vinter- og nytårsskikke. Efter kristendommens indførelse begyndte man denne aften før fastetiden at spise og drikke i overflod og dyrke grænseoverskridende adfærd: Fx stammer skikken med at slå en levende kat aftønden fra forestillingen om, at man herigennem kunne beskytte sig mod pestudbrud i det kommende år.Forfatteren viser gennem fund i kilder og arkiver, hvordan traditioner, skik og brug er under evig forandring. Samtidig holder vi af at kunne samles om noget årligt tilbagevendende."Da påsken kom til Danmark" kortlægger forbindelserne mellem fest og højtid og alt det, som minder os om, at foråret er på vej med sit lys, sine farver og dufte.

Why are the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke so similar, yet different? Modern scholars have developed four main approaches to the synoptic problem: That the evangelists tapped into testimonies about Jesus, or drew from many written fragments, or used a common exemplar, or modified each other's work. The first three approaches find solid support in antiquity, yet ironically, the fourth approach dominates gospel scholarship, without producing any consensus. In this study, Paul A. Rainbow reclaims the discarded proto-gospel hypothesis of the earliest modern critics, based on a fresh reading of traditions recorded by Papias in the early second century CE. He challenges the Utilization hypotheses - that the synoptists adapted the work of each other, in various theoretical configurations - by offering an historically nuanced hypothesis of a proto-gospels, which the three evangelists independently translated into Greek from Hebrew and enriched with oral testimonies and written fragments available to them.

If your teacher commuted to school in a plane; if you had to watch out for rogue bulls rather than traffic; if your daily pick-up was done by a horse - you probably went to an outback school. this collection of more than sixty stories, gathered by Bill 'Swampy' Marsh in his travels across Australia, perfectly captures the experience of life growing up in the outback. Whether you loved school or not, these stories will bring a smile to your face and maybe even a tear to your eye, as students and teachers alike share their yarns and memories of a time gone by. ...this little kid, he spun around at me and he snapped, 'Piss off, Miss.' Of course, I immediately replied with, 'Excuse me. In this school we always use our best manners when we talk to teachers and adults. So what should we say, then?' And this little kid, well, he looked up at me all sheepish and he said, 'Well then, Miss, piss off, PLEASE.'

'Where's your thumb?' the doctor asked the injured ringer. 'Oh, we stuck it over there on the gatepost, fer safe keepin'.' And just as the doctor turned around to the gatepost, he saw a crow heading skyward, thumb and all. So I don't know how the ringer actually lost his thumb in the first place, but it had certainly gone missing after the crow had flown off with it. From the pilots, doctors and nurses who spread their 'mantle of safety' throughout the remote inland of Australia, as well as the men and women they treat on the ground, comes a brand-new collection of Flying Doctor yarns as told to master storyteller Bill 'Swampy' Marsh. Hear of those whose very lives depend on the Royal Flying Doctor Service, like the man suffering from extreme burns who rode his motorbike eighteen kilometres back across his property to get help while opening and closing every gate along the way because you 'always leave gates as you find them'. Out here, stoicism and a sense of humour go hand in hand, as in the case of the stockman with a compound leg fracture who, when asked by the Flying Doctor if it hurt, replied, 'Oh, it itches a bit.' through fog, lightning, thunder, flooding rains and dust storms, the Flying Doctor braves the elements to get to the remote outback landing strips where they're needed and the tales they live to tell will have you shaking your head in amazement. Featuring the colourful and funny work of legendary Broken Hill artist Howard William Steer, master storyteller Bill 'Swampy' Marsh once again reaches into the the heart and soul of outback Australia with stories of heroism and heartbreak and everything else it takes to live and work in this vast land of ours.

In welchem Verhältnis standen Sport, Ideologie und Mobilisierung in Südosteuropa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert zueinander? Bereits in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts dienten auch in dieser Region Sport und Körperbewegung als ein Vehikel ethnischer, nationaler und sozialer Aspirationen, die als solche medial kommuniziert und von der Öffentlichkeit wahrgenommen wurden. In der Zwischenkriegszeit bestanden gleichzeitig Tendenzen einer uniformierenden und letztlich paramilitärischen Auffassung vom Sport sowie vielfältige Formen transnationaler Kooperation. Die totalitären Regime des 20. Jahrhunderts implizierten eine ideologische Vereinnahmung von Sport und Bewegung. Die Texte internationaler Autor/innen beleuchten diese Prozesse im historischen Kontext mit Blick auf verschiedene Epochen, Staatsformen und Ideologen sowie diverse Sportarten. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf Vereinen und Bewegungen, die sich als "deutsch" verstanden bzw. (zumindest zeitweise) deutschsprachig waren.

Focusing on the attitudes and experiences of American female diplomats and spouses, this book examines the social, political, and cultural dimensions of American interactions with the Middle East and North Africa in the five decades after the Second World War. A turbulent period, marked by conflicts associated with the Cold War and decolonization, it was also characterized by changing attitudes to women at odds with those in Moslem societies. The impact of those changes is explored throughout this book, principally drawing on personal oral histories included in the 'Frontline Diplomacy' collection, but reinforced by cables passing between regional U.S. embassies and the State Department in Washington DC.

In his inimitable style, gifted folklorist Kevin Danaher invites the reader to call on people of a former generation in their homes, to sit around the hearth, to listen to their tales and gossip and sample their food and drink, to marvel at their implements, to meet a water diviner, to join a faction fight, hurry to a wedding and bow down in remembrance of the dead. For over thirty years, this book has charmed, informed and surprised successive generations of readers, in Ireland and abroad.

Child survivors of the Armenian Genocide, jewish child survivors of the Holocaust, non-jewish slavic children, and war children of the Second World WarEHS Volume 5 presents child-oriented research approaches by scholars from the fields of Holocaust Studies, Genocide Studies, and Second World War History. The authors highlight key concepts of Childhood Studies, arguing that children are historical actors with their own ideas, identity-forming experiences, and agency. The contributions demonstrate the importance of children`s accounts of war and postwar experiences for deeper understanding of the history of war and society in the twentieth century. The volume showcases a variety of children`s voices including child survivors of the Armenian Genocide, Jewish child survivors of the Holocaust, non-Jewish Slavic children, and war children of the Second World War by utilising testimonies from lesser-known archival and oral history collections.Includes:Edita Gzoyan: Forcibly Transferred and Assimilated: Experiences of Armenian Children during the Armenian Genocide.Dieter Steinert: Echoes from Hell: Jewish Child Forced Labourers and the Holocaust.Oksana Vynnyk: Surviving Starvation in Soviet Ukraine: Children and Soviet Healthcare in the early 1930s.

Women came through the doors at a community-based birthing center in the South Bronx seeking prenatal care. They had heard about the center from a neighbor, a parents' group at their children¿s school, or the local mosque or church. What they found when they arrived was a brightly-colored waiting area that resembled a living room, children immersed in games in a corner, and staff that reflected the mosaic of cultures living in the surrounding apartments. They also met midwives who asked about their lives, their children, their families and traditions. If pregnancies developed complications, back-up obstetricians were there to give higher levels of care, with the women returning to the midwifery center afterwards. The results were healthy mothers and healthy babies. For over twenty years the center became a haven for women¿s health care and a national exemplar. It is a tragic and unjust paradox that the United States, the highest income country in the world and the country with the largest budget for perinatal care, has rising rates of maternal mortality that disproportionately affect women of color. Yet an inner-city maternity center with midwifery care found solutions to the challenge of making birth safe for low-income populations, especially women of color. This oral history presents the stories of twelve women who participated in this care. As they tell it, the experience changed their lives and their understanding of what safe, quality maternal care can achieve. Jennifer Dohrn examines the systems that perpetuate disparities in care, from global to local, and describes essential components needed for change, using oral histories as evidence for the way forward towards maternal health as a human right.

This book offers a collection of innovative methodological approaches to Memory Studies in Russia and Eastern Europe. Providing insights into the relationship between memory and identity, the twelve chapters provide multidisciplinary analysis of how history is used to reinforce, remould, and reinvent national and group identities. This analysis includes a strong emphasis on interrogating the role of the researcher and the impact of methodology, exploring the field¿s most pressing challenges, such as the subjectivity of remembrance, reception versus production of discourse, and the inclusion of marginal perspectives. By focussing on countries in which the past is highly politicised, including Serbia, Ukraine, Poland, Russia and the Baltic States, the volume also analyses the diverse ¿ and often conflicting ¿ ways in which historical narratives emerge from these states¿ efforts to create new pasts that shape their respective visions of the future, with pressing ramifications across this region and beyond.

'Read this book. Don't put it off until you'll supposedly be strong enough and ready for the reading. If you put it off, you'll find yourself defenseless in the face of evil.'- Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Chernobyl PrayerIn the darkest of times, in the midst of it all, a journalist has one single task: to document everything that is happening. It is time to slow down and listen to the voice of a human being.On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Since that day, prize-winning independent journalist Katerina Gordeeva has travelled to refugee centres across Europe to record the human voice and cost of war. Take My Grief Away reveals twenty-four raw, heartbreaking first-person accounts from people united in grief and their first-hand experiences of the brutality and senselessness of war. These twenty-four voices will transform what you think you know about war, grief and human nature.

This book analyzes two Romanian villages ¿ 2 Mai and Vama Veche ¿ as spaces of relative freedom during the last decades of socialist rule. This microhistorical study refutes simplistic views of the communist past which focus on political figures and events, and instead explores ordinary people and everyday life. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, it considers a broad range of sources, including official Communist Party documents, secret police files, personal memoirs, oral history interviews, ethnographic films, songs, and artistic performances. This book intertwines three narrative threads: that of the visitors (mainly members of the Romanian intelligentsia, young people, and hippies); that of the local inhabitants; and that of 'authority' (local and central state agents actively engaged in surveillance and supervision). In doing so, it interrogates the spectrum of consent/dissent and resistance/collaboration hitherto neglected in scholarship.

Eighty years on, D-Day The Oral History is a fresh and significant new history of arguably the most important day of the 20th Century.On 6th June 1944, the Allied invasion began. For hours, wave after wave of soldiers, sailors, and airmen crossed the channel and stormed the Normandy coast, fighting to gain a foothold in Nazi-occupied Northwest Europe. It was the largest combined air and seaborne invasion ever, involving over 150,000 Allied troops on the ground, and its eventual success became a critical turning point in the war, spelling the beginning of the end for the Third Reich.As the events of that day fade from living memory, it's more important than ever to understand what it felt like to be there and to live through it, on both sides. In this definitive work, Garrett M. Graff, the bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky: The Oral History of 9/11, compiles hundreds of US, Canadian, UK, French and German voices to tell the full story of exactly how that historic day unfolded, in visceral detail. From paratroopers to fighter pilots to nurses, generals, French villagers, German Defenders to Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, this is the most intimate re-telling of D-Day published to date. Praise for THE ONLY PLANE IN THE SKY: "The most moving and chilling oral history you will read." The Times"Incredibly evocative and compelling." The Washington Post"A hugely powerful new book." Dan Snow"Astonishing book about an astonishing, terrifying atrocity, relived in real time by those who were there. I read it in one sitting & was utterly gripped from start to finish." Piers Morgan

This book translates and contextualizes the recollections of men and women who built, lived, and worked in some of the factory compounds relocated from Chinäs most cosmopolitan city¿Shanghai. Small Third Line factories became oases of relatively prosperous urban life among more impoverished agricultural communities. These accounts, plus the guiding questions, contextual notes, and further readings accompanying them, show how everyday lives fit into the sweeping geopolitical changes in China and the world during the Cold War era. Furthermore, they reveal how the Chinese Communist Party¿s military-industrial strategies have shaped Chinäs economy and society in the post-Mao era. The approachable translations and insight into areas of life rarely covered by political or diplomatic histories like sexuality and popular culture make this book highly accessible for classroom use and the general-interest reader.

This book uncovers the history of a group of Jewish workers and merchants in the Amsterdam diamond industry during the Holocaust. They and their families were exempt from deportation for a long time, but were eventually deported to Bergen-Belsen. In the end, almost all of the men perished, and the women barely survived slave-labour. Their children were left to die in the camp, but were miraculously saved by the intervention of a Jewish Polish woman, ¿nurse Lubä. The main sources on which this book is based are video testimonies of the surviving members of this group, personal interviews, minutes of interviews taken down in shorthand shortly after the war, and personal documents such as letters, archival documents, and autobiographical books.

Discover the incredible myths and legends of Ireland in this wonderful selection of tales, collected and retold by Lady Wilde, the mother of Oscar Wilde. Lady Wilde was an accomplished folklorist who sought to preserve Irish culture through recording their enchanting myths, rituals and beliefs. This collection contains over 100 of these enthralling and eerie tales including, "The Horned Women," "The Holy Well and the Murderer," and "The Bride's Death-Song," Each showcase the strange and mystical superstitions spread by Irish peasantry in the ancient tongue. This edition also includes a chapter on the ancient peoples of Ireland written by her husband Sir William Wilde which forms part of the original manuscript. It will appeal to anyone interested in Ireland and its oral history.

Esta es una nueva edición española del libro que se publicó por primera vez en 1989, con un nuevo Prefacio y Prólogo

Forgetting is forbidden. Unpunished, a continent, a "race" wants justice and reparation.It is important to know what actually happened and to record it.It is a deluge that has come over the black people. The most brutal, appalling and shocking crimes were committed against these people, which have not been properly condemned, excused and repaired to this day. So far, these crimes against humanity have gone unpunished, called genocide in other ethnic groups. On the contrary, the perpetrators deal with their crimes arrogantly and almost proudly, that even centuries after the numerous crimes they still make fun of the victims and thereby treat them derogatorily. This is unique in history. The whites who committed such crimes against life and humanity have no sensitivity to the fact that they systematically and according to plan abused, raped, mutilated, tortured and killed hundreds of millions of their (the victims') fathers, mothers, daughters, wives, children, babies, destroyed entire cultures, stole their wealth, soil, agriculture and stole much of the labor force.The historical reappraisal of the slavery and colonial past is very inadequate. Although this western world still owes its boom, development, social prosperity and stability, but also Africans:inside and blacks owe their impoverishment, social destruction, instability and their phenomena to these colonial times. This means that the consequences of slavery and colonialism are still very present today. On one hand, they bring privileges to the colonial masters and their societies that they do not want to lose, and on another hand, they still bring immense disadvantages to the victims and largely explain why they are the way they are and why they still cannot free themselves today. Every white person benefits from the crimes of their ancestors and every:r black person loses because of it."With my book, I want to contribute so that a terrible injustice against the continent of Africa and all the people who come from there is not forgotten and considered like "peanuts"." Dantse Dantse

Entering the Frame is the first complete study of the cinema of Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, pioneers of archival and found-footage films that testify to war, genocide and colonialism in the twentieth century. It explores their early performance-based «scented films» of the 1970s, before focusing on the historical films, such as From the Pole to the Equator, for which they are best known. The book analyses how Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi manipulate rare footage through re-photographing, hand-tinting and altering film speeds, to produce work of an other-worldly quality.Retrospectives of the films of Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi at the Jeu de Paume in Paris (2006) and at MoMA in New York (2009) have signalled international recognition at the highest level, as have appraisals by leading scholars of cinema such as Scott MacDonald and Raymond Bellour. Their work is unusual in attracting different audiences, and in relating art practices to wider ethical, historical and political issues. Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi have transformed old documentary footage into works that resonate in debates about postcolonialism as well as about the documentary form, the corporeality of the viewing experience and the metamorphoses of cinema.The volume includes a preface by the cultural historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of Italian and History at New York University.