Bøger udgivet af Thorbecke Jan Verlag

In this volume, we follow the coat of arms into situations and zones of contact. Since inception, communication has been in the very nature of the heraldic phenomenon. Hence its remarkable ability to adapt to the circumstances that, from the 15th century onwards, brought populations from all over the world into contact. Our overarching question serves as an attempt to learn more about the modalities of negotiation in contact zones. To what extent were local actors able to develop their own attitude towards invasive and invading colonizers and missionaries by adopting and transforming the European image form of the coat of arms? This departure point leads even further: to think of heraldic emblems as a visual instrument capable of establishing communication not only between different cultures, but also between different eras, and even between the human and divine spheres. The book's interdisciplinarity, the temporal breadth of the collected case studies, and the variety of methodological approaches reflect the dynamism and diversity of the topic itself.

Die Sinne rücken in das Blickfeld der Mittelalterforschung und werfen kaum erforschte, hoch anregende Fragen auf. Im Fokus der dreizehn Aufsätze dieses Sammelbands steht die mittelalterliche Akustik. Die Autorinnen und Autoren erforschen zeitgenössische Haltungen zu Lärm und Schweigen; sie untersuchen den Einsatz von Geräuschen als Mittel der Repräsentation und der gesellschaftlichen Ordnung; und sie analysieren, wie im Mittelalter die Erzeugung und Wahrnehmung von Klängen besprochen, beschrieben, gemalt oder gedeutet wurden. Die Beiträge liefern Einblicke in entfernte Räume - von Byzanz bis zur Iberischen Halbinsel, von Mitteleuropa bis in den Nahen Osten ¿ aus der Perspektive unterschiedlicher historischer Teildisziplinen: der Geschichtswissenschaft und der Rechtsgeschichte, der Literaturwissenschaft, der Kunst- und der Musikgeschichte.Within medieval studies, the senses are turning into a booming field of research, raising highly stimulating and hardly researched questions. The thirteen essays in this anthology focus on the broad field of medieval acoustics. The authors explore contemporary attitudes to noise and silence; they examine the use of sound as an instrument of representation and social order; and they analyse how the production and perception of sounds were discussed, described, depicted and interpreted in the Middle Ages. The contributions provide insights into distant spaces - from Byzantium in the East to the Iberian Peninsula in the West, from Central Europe to the Middle East ¿ from the perspective of different historical sub-disciplines: historiography and legal history, literary studies, art history and music history.Sprachen: Englisch, Deutsch