Pub Date : 2024-04-22DOI: 10.1017/s0067237824000614
Kathleen Chapman
{"title":"Megan Brandow-Faller, and Laura Morowitz, eds. Erasures and Eradications in Modern Viennese Art, Architecture and Design New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 278.","authors":"Kathleen Chapman","doi":"10.1017/s0067237824000614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0067237824000614","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":505241,"journal":{"name":"Austrian History Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140675136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-19DOI: 10.1017/s006723782400050x
Marie Basile McDaniel
{"title":"Jonathan Singerton. The American Revolution and the Habsburg Monarchy Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022. Pp. 366.","authors":"Marie Basile McDaniel","doi":"10.1017/s006723782400050x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s006723782400050x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":505241,"journal":{"name":"Austrian History Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140683170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-19DOI: 10.1017/s0067237824000584
Stephanie Porras
{"title":"Anna Koopstra. Jean Bellegambe (c. 1470–1535/36) Making, Meaning and Patronage of his Works Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. Pp. 160.","authors":"Stephanie Porras","doi":"10.1017/s0067237824000584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0067237824000584","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":505241,"journal":{"name":"Austrian History Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140681982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-19DOI: 10.1017/s0067237824000602
Christopher Brennan
{"title":"Mark Cornwall, ed. Sarajevo 1914: Sparking the First World War London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Pp. 320.","authors":"Christopher Brennan","doi":"10.1017/s0067237824000602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0067237824000602","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":505241,"journal":{"name":"Austrian History Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140683762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-19DOI: 10.1017/s0067237824000547
Jonathan Seelye Martin
{"title":"Marta Vaculínová, Ondřej Podavka, Bořek Neškudla, Lucie Storchová, Magda Králová, and Marcela Slavíková eds. Bohemian Editors and Translators at the Turn of the 16th Century Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. Pp. 492.","authors":"Jonathan Seelye Martin","doi":"10.1017/s0067237824000547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0067237824000547","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":505241,"journal":{"name":"Austrian History Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140684251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-19DOI: 10.1017/s006723782400047x
Tristan W. Sharp
This paper explains how a sanitized image of the late medieval German feud has come to predominate in contemporary German scholarship and explores its consequences for understanding the social implications of feuding violence. By tracing out the reception of Otto Brunner's seminal Land and Lordship (1939) in post-WWII German feud research, this paper shows how a complex interplay between democratic-liberal sensibilities, Brunner's feud as legal institution model, and his own historical vision of violence resulted in the sanitized model of feuding violence. This model divides feuding violence into categories of rational–functional violence and dysfunctional violence, which, as this article argues, do not map onto the empirical evidence for feuding violence. A series of case studies elucidates the limitations of this model, providing a de-sanitized and de-domesticated image of feuding by vividly demonstrating some overlooked realities of feuding violence: from high rates of interpersonal violence between elites to sexual violence against female non-combatants among others. On the basis of these case studies, this article argues for a fundamental revision of how medieval historians have hitherto approached the topic of violence more broadly.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-19DOI: 10.1017/s0067237824000511
Michal Frankl
As a part of the conversation in the forum “Austria and the Czech Republic as Immigration Countries: Transnational Labor Migration in Historical Comparison” this article revisits the history of refugees in the Bohemian Lands and Czechoslovakia, from World War I until the occupation by Nazi Germany in 1939. Taking stock of existing research, it suggests alternative lines of thinking about the management of migrants' labor and contributes to the wider discussion about how to conceptually combine refugee studies and research on labor migration. For analytical purposes, it focuses on three distinct state approaches to managing refugee labor that often existed in parallel: mobilization of refugee labor in a crisis situation, the support of labor as a pathway to future citizenship, and the denial of work as a sign of statelessness. These three approaches show how refugees' work impacted their status, communicated ideas about the future, and reproduced hierarchies defined by ethnicity, class, or political persuasion.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-17DOI: 10.1017/s0067237824000535
C. T. Jones
The Dominican friar Johannes Nider (1380–1438), known today as the father of witchcraft literature, played an important role at the Council of Basel (1431–49) on the Council's delegation to the Hussites and its deputation on religious reform. Despite Nider's reputation as a reformer of religious communities, his approach to communal liturgy has not attracted close attention. This article focuses on his broad theoretical treatise, De reformatione religiosorum or De reformatione status cenobitici (On the Reform of the Religious State), in which Nider articulates a philosophical concept of reform as the restoration of beauty, manifested in well-ordered and balanced proportion. In the interest of universal applicability, the treatise remains abstract. However, biographical descriptions of Nider from his contemporaries and the visitation letters he wrote to women's convents show Nider as an engaged liturgical leader, a talented singer with a robust voice, and a zealous expert in the legal particulars of Dominican liturgical regulations. In light of these contexts, De reformatione's sweeping laments over liturgical neglect and academic metaphors of well-disposed proportion are not just rule-hammering and scholastic fancy but rather universalized expressions of Nider's lived commitment to Dominican musical and ritual practice.
多明我会修士约翰内斯-耐德(Johannes Nider,1380-1438 年)是当今众所周知的巫术文学之父,他在巴塞尔会议(1431-1449 年)上扮演了重要角色,是会议胡斯派代表团和宗教改革代表团的成员。尽管奈德作为宗教团体的改革者享有盛誉,但他对社区礼仪的研究方法并未引起人们的密切关注。本文的重点是他的广义理论论文《De reformatione religiosorum or De reformatione status cenobitici》(《论宗教国家的改革》),在该论文中,尼德阐述了改革的哲学概念,即恢复美,表现为井然有序和平衡的比例。为了使其具有普遍适用性,该论文仍然是抽象的。不过,同时代人对奈德的传记描述以及他写给女修道院的探访信显示,奈德是一位积极的礼仪领导者、一位声音洪亮的天才歌手、一位热衷于多明我会礼仪法规细节的专家。在这些背景下,De reformatione 中对礼仪疏忽的滔滔不绝的哀叹,以及对分寸拿捏得当的学术隐喻,都不仅仅是规则的锤炼和学术的花哨,而是奈德对多明我会音乐和礼仪实践承诺的普遍表达。
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Pub Date : 2024-04-16DOI: 10.1017/s0067237824000365
Tomáš Dvořák
Foreign workers were a common feature in the economy of postwar Czechoslovakia in various periods of the second half of the twentieth century. This article focuses on foreign labor practices during the first economic plans, namely the two-year plan and the first five-year plan between 1947 and 1950. The number of foreign workers at this time didn't exceed twenty thousand persons and their stays in the country were, with only individual exceptions, short. Workers, who found employment in Czechoslovak agriculture and industry in this period, came from different countries including neighboring Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania, but also from Italy. Recruitment of other groups such as workers from Hungary, the Netherlands, or even China is also considered by the article. These foreign laborers worked in Czechoslovakia under various conditions depending on their methods of recruitment and contracting, the duration of their employment, and other important factors. The basic question this article aims to answer is what the role of Gastarbeit was in Czechoslovakia's communist economic policy. It also examines the motivations of countries that sent workers as well as those of the workers themselves. Finally, the article also attempts to analyze the opportunities and limits of these workers’ strategies in the Czechoslovak labor market.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-16DOI: 10.1017/s0067237824000468
J. Mixson
“Later” crusading has become a vibrant field in recent years, with a concern for our core theme, “patterns of conflict and negotiation,” at its center. Often, and rightly enough, those patterns have been focused on matters of high politics and diplomacy, military affairs, papal propaganda, and more. The approach adopted here complements these efforts by modulating their perspectives. This article explores patterns of conflict and negotiation as they played out in the realms of crusading experience, culture, and memory in the wake of the fall of Constantinople (1453) and the siege of Belgrade (1456). It does so through the lens of those particularly rich, but also challenging, fifteenth-century manuscript sources known as “miscellanies.”
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