Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1177/02656914231200432
Alessandra Quaranta
In the second half of the sixteenth century, many Italian learned physicians moved to the Habsburg courts, entering the service of the imperial family. This paper traces their professional itineraries, identifying the decisive socio-cultural factors which influenced their hiring at court. Most of the Italian physicians achieved significant advancements, enhanced their social status, and obtained economic privileges. In this context, they proved their professional versatility, carrying out non-medical tasks as well as providing medical services. However, pursuing a long-term career depended not only on a large spectrum of unpredictable factors – the Emperor's will, the economic means at his disposal, and the need of the imperial family for health assistance – but also on the physicians’ ability to earn the Emperor's favour and that of his entourage. Based on a comparison between Italian and non-Italian court and imperial physicians in terms of recruitment, tasks, remuneration, privileges, and duration of career, this article also tries to understand to what extent Italian physicians integrated into the Habsburg courts and what legacy they left there.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1177/02656914231199945u
Miloslav Szabó
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1177/02656914231199945p
Aileen Lichtenstein
figure in the woodcuts. Meserve demonstrates the volatility of the significations attached to the Holy House. The emphasis tended to be on the long-venerated and supposedly thaumaturgic Byzantine image of the Virgin which it contained rather than on the account, only crystallizing in the 1460s, of its transportation by angels from Nazareth to Italy via Dalmatia, an account which bolstered calls for crusades. Here is but one example of how this ambitious study is based on meticulous textual scholarship and the inter-relation of texts and imagery in the investigation both of the development of a Papal documentary style and of the mutations of legend.
{"title":"Book Review: <i>Revolutionary Europe: Politics, Community and Culture in Transnational Context, 1775–1992</i> by Gavin Murray-Miller","authors":"Aileen Lichtenstein","doi":"10.1177/02656914231199945p","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914231199945p","url":null,"abstract":"figure in the woodcuts. Meserve demonstrates the volatility of the significations attached to the Holy House. The emphasis tended to be on the long-venerated and supposedly thaumaturgic Byzantine image of the Virgin which it contained rather than on the account, only crystallizing in the 1460s, of its transportation by angels from Nazareth to Italy via Dalmatia, an account which bolstered calls for crusades. Here is but one example of how this ambitious study is based on meticulous textual scholarship and the inter-relation of texts and imagery in the investigation both of the development of a Papal documentary style and of the mutations of legend.","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134978167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-31eCollection Date: 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1055/s-0043-1772763
Nathan Beucler
Acute subdural hematoma (ASDH) is the most frequent intracranial traumatic lesion requiring surgery in high-income countries. To date, uncertainty remains regarding the odds of mortality or functional outcome of patients with ASDH, regardless of whether they are operated on. This review aims to shed light on the clinical and radiologic factors associated with ASDH outcome. A scoping review was conducted on Medline database from inception to 2023. This review yielded 41 patient series. In the general population, specific clinical (admission Glasgow Coma Scale [GCS], abnormal pupil exam, time to surgery, decompressive craniectomy, raised postoperative intracranial pressure) and radiologic (ASDH thickness, midline shift, thickness/midline shift ratio, uncal herniation, and brain density difference) factors were associated with mortality (grade III). Other clinical (admission GCS, decompressive craniectomy) and radiologic (ASDH volume, thickness/midline shift ratio, uncal herniation, loss of basal cisterns, petechiae, and brain density difference) factors were associated with functional outcome (grade III). In the elderly, only postoperative GCS and midline shift on brain computed tomography were associated with mortality (grade III). Comorbidities, abnormal pupil examination, postoperative GCS, intensive care unit hospitalization, and midline shift were associated with functional outcome (grade III). Based on these factors, the SHE (Subdural Hematoma in the Elderly) and the RASH (Richmond Acute Subdural Hematoma) scores could be used in daily clinical practice. This review has underlined a few supplementary factors of prognostic interest in patients with ASDH, and highlighted two predictive scores that could be used in clinical practice to guide and assist clinicians in surgical indication.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/02656914231180821
Yonca Köksal, D. Barlas
This article studies how and why the policies of the Bulgarian and Romanian states towards Muslim/Turkish minorities differed widely from each other between 1923 and 1936. Minority policies in Bulgaria shifted from tolerance during the Agrarian People's Union government in 1919, to assimilation and repression in the 1930s. In contrast, the Romanian state tolerated and favourably treated Muslim minorities throughout the interwar period. In order to account for this difference, we highlight the influence of Turkey's diplomatic relations on Bulgarian and Romanian state policies towards minorities and the responses of the latter. While Turkish-Bulgarian relations see-sawed, Turkish-Romanian relations constantly improved from the 1920s to 1930s. We argue that, whenever Turkey's diplomatic relations with Bulgaria and Romania ameliorated, Bulgaria's and Romania's minority policies improved. Yet, whenever diplomatic relations deteriorated, so did the minority policies.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/02656914231181305
Karl Kügle
The historiographical image of Anne of Cyprus (1418–1462), Duchess of Savoy, and her husband, Duke Louis of Savoy (1413–1465), is overwhelmingly negative. The couple undoubtedly encountered serious political difficulties during their reign, but the ‘black legend’ circulating about Anne and Louis since the seventeenth century appears far from justified. It originated with the so-called Chronica Latina Sabaudiae, a text completed shortly after 1487 and probably written by Étienne Morel (c. 1440–1499), a high-ranking cleric who was a supporter of the estranged son of Anne and Louis, Philippe of Savoy (1438–1497). Morel's narrative, its historical and literary context, and its reception in early-modern and modern historiography are examined against the background of contemporaneous Sabaudian and European politics. Morel's polemics seem inspired by the Commentarii genre of historiography cultivated by fifteenth-century humanists such as Enea Silvio Piccolomini. Both the genesis and the reception of Morel's text demonstrate the shifting but unshakeable alliance of historiography and dynastic politics, exemplifying historiography's role in the fabric of power.
萨伏伊公爵夫人塞浦路斯的安妮（1418-1462）和她的丈夫萨伏伊的路易公爵（1413-1465）的历史形象绝大多数都是负面的。毫无疑问，这对夫妇在统治期间遇到了严重的政治困难，但自17世纪以来流传的关于安妮和路易的“黑人传说”似乎远远没有道理。它起源于所谓的Chronica Latina Sabaudiae，该文本于1487年后不久完成，可能由高级神职人员Étienne Morel（约1440–1499）撰写，他是安妮和路易疏远的儿子萨伏伊的菲利普（1438–1497）的支持者。莫雷尔的叙事、其历史和文学背景，以及它在近代早期和现代史学中的接受，都是在同时代的沙特和欧洲政治背景下进行考察的。莫雷尔的论战似乎受到了十五世纪人文主义者埃内娅·西尔维奥·皮科洛米尼（Enea Silvio Piccolomini）培养的Commentarii史学流派的启发。莫雷尔文本的产生和接受都表明了史学与王朝政治之间不断变化但不可动摇的联盟，体现了史学在权力结构中的作用。
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/02656914231182021
Denis Vovchenko
After being dominant in the first two-thirds of the nineteenth century, the expectation of fellow Orthodox Russian saviours was then muted by the fears of Russian expansion but was never completely erased from the public discourse and popular memory. If ethnonationalism gradually sidelined religious identification among the educated, geopolitical changes brought it back to the fore. Subject to such contingencies, this kind of reversal does not support the accepted notion of the unstoppable disintegration of pre-modern religious communities into national ones. After the Crimean War, the obsession with the Panslav threat increasingly prevailed in educated society and influenced Greek policymakers who often sought to ally their kingdom with England and even the Ottoman Empire. The Russians and their Bulgarian agents came to be seen as implacable barbarian aggressors. But just before and during the First World War, the Ottoman Turks became the main national enemy again, as in the early 1800s. The Russian revolutions of 1917 also helped Greek elites discover another common foe – radical socialism. As a result, Greek-Russian ethnic tensions diminished – while World War I certainly created new ethnic hatreds it also healed some old ones. From 1918 at least until the abolition of Greek monarchy in 1924 significant numbers of Russian émigrés did not suffer from Russophobia. As such, this article contributes to the study of national indifference and of the effects of the Great War in Eastern Europe. The article is based on Greek and Russian archival sources as well as on the unique pamphlet collection of the Gennadios Library in Athens.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/02656914231181275
E. Natour
Seventeenth-century monarchy was performed, by ritual, by enactments, by sounds, and by visualizations. The crises of European monarchies of the 1620s and 1630s were met with splendid spectacles in which rulers and courtiers acted out idealized royal virtues and power. This article argues the case for the vital importance of music within these spectacles. Musical harmony was thought to mirror the harmony of the spheres, indicating God's plan for the universe. The ruler's ability to master or evoke musical harmony in aulic theatre could thus function as double representation of divine approval of his or her government. By comparing ballets and masques at the French Court of Louis XIII and the British Court of Charles I, music's centrality to political power in the performance of sacral kingship will be demonstrated. A focus on Britannia Triumphans (1638) and Merlaison (1635), works known for the extraordinary attention Charles I and respectively Louis XIII devoted to their performances, exemplifies how the handling of music offers valuable insights into the inner power structures of those courts. In both cases the musical performance was used to communicate and establish related political agendas.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/02656914231181293
Lana Martysheva
This article looks at court prelates at a moment of existential political crisis related to the ascension of the Protestant Henri IV to the French throne, traditionally occupied by Catholic Kings. The active support of a handful of high-ranking figures in the Catholic Church in France to the ‘heretic’ king constitutes a heuristic opportunity to observe the complex articulations between what can be defined as political and as religious. The paper thus demonstrates the crucial role of a multi-level action of Navarrist prelates in the process of legitimation of the first Bourbon as the sole rightful king at the end of the Wars of Religion. In doing so, it aims to contribute to the understanding of the broad spectrum of political influence that the high clergy could wield at the princely court.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/02656914231181245
Pascal W. Firges, Regine Maritz
The princely court is one of the most evocative subjects of premodern history, which in recent decades has attracted broad and enduring interest among historians and the wider public alike. The court and its society have been the topics on which the (often critical) discussion of ancien régime Europe has centred. Scandals and intrigues, personal vanity and consumption, as well as artistic and scienti fi c endeavour gain an explosive dimension when they take place at court because of their perceived proximity to political decision-making processes, which might affect great numbers of people. This is true for how the court fi gures in historical research, as well as in popular imagination. 1 When we ask about the political histories of the court, we fi nd ourselves confronted with an odd problem. Practically all historical studies that treat an aspect of life at the premodern princely court make reference to how their subject matter relates to the ongoing political processes at court. Yet despite this rich scholarship, as of now, there is little discussion about how these various approaches relate to each other in terms of a uni fi ed understanding of the political history of the premodern princely court. Partly this is due to the complexity of the subject matter. And, it should be said at the outset, it is not our aim to simplify the entangle-ments between the systems of relationships that constituted the late medieval and early modern court and the political practices they produced. For this would result merely in an(other) abstract model of the aulic space that imposes a rigid taxonomy on fl uid processes
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