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«Widrige Winde»: Der Abbruch der schonischen Expedition aus der Sicht des preußischen Gesandten, des Freiherrn Friedrich Ernst von Cnyphausen
2017
There are two interpretations of Peter the Great’s motives for refusing to land on the Swedish island of Schonen in historiography: that the tsar feared unforeseen military risks and that he did not trust his allies, Denmark and Great Britain. In this article, the author attempts to analyse in a more detailed way the reasons and consequences for the mistrust in the Northern Alliance by looking at communications by Baron Friedrich Ernst von Cnyphausen, the Prussian ambassador in Copenhagen. It is shown that the Russophobic hysteria which grasped the Danish royal court in September 1716 looks completely irrational when we consider parallel attitudes in the Prussian court. Cnyphausen does not …
Salomó Saporta: un mercader judío ante la Inquisición valenciana
2017
La persecución inquisitorial contra los judíos no ha sido un tema abordado sistemáticamente por la historiografía, porque las investigaciones sobre la represión de los tribunales inquisitoriales en el tránsito entre los siglos XV y XVI se han centrado en el grupo judeoconverso. Y si bien es cierto que la Inquisición moderna utilizó algunos procesamientos a hebreos de manera ejemplarizante para resaltar el peligro que representaban para la comunidad cristiana, y que han sido recogidos posteriormente por los investigadores, el caso de Salomó Saporta ha sido estudiado y comentado como un caso aislado. Por esa razón quizás sea el momento de plantear la necesidad de estudiar los mecanismos coerc…
Who’s afraid of Mihai Iovănel? Regimes of Relevance and New Literary Historiography
2021
The present article addresses Mihai Iovănel’s recently published History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020 while pursuing a series of similarities with other contributions to postcommunist national literatures in the Central and Eastern European cultural space, on the one hand, and with previous ways of understanding the concept of literary history, on the other. The article argues that Iovănel’s History is one of the first to assess the importance of the social in the production, study, and national, as well as transnational dissemination of Romanian literature, an emphasis without which the study of literary phenomena risks falling into the blindness of aesthetic autonomy, wh…
Designing Dissensual Common Sense: Critical Art, Architecture, and Design in Jacques Rancière’s Political Thought
2021
How can design be socially engaged and politically efficient, as proposed by discourses labeled as critical design? This article introduces a conceptualization and historiography of politically charged design discourse based on philosopher Jacques Rancière’s work on the intersections of politics, aesthetics, and critical artistic practices. By focusing especially on Rancière’s reading of the genealogy of design from Ruskin to constructivism and the Bauhaus, the article aims to show that there is an important connection between design and politics present in Rancière’s thought. Rather than solely revealing the oppressive dimension embedded in designed forms, for Rancière, design is itself a …
Ethnography and ancient history
2012
Romanticism is the starting point of modern scientific historiography in the field of Greek ethnography. Muller, steeped in the intellectual climate of his time, wrote of the “spiritual nature of a people,” in reference to the Dorians, and attempted an approach to the literary sources that in certain respects foreshadowed the positivist school. Keywords: cultural history; ethnicity; exploration; race and ethnicity
La guerra de sucesión en Valencia. Retrospectiva historiográfica y estado de la cuestión
2007
Se cumplen 300 años de la batalla de Almansa, un hito que marcó el cambio de rumbo de la historia de los valencianos tras el fracaso de la rebelión austracista. Es el momento de hacer un recorrido historiográfico desde el siglo XVIII hasta nuestros días, con especial atención a la etapa que se abre en los años 1960, destacando las distintas aportaciones y los interrogantes que aún siguen abiertos. There are fulfilled 300 years of the battle of Almansa, a milestone that changed the course of Valencian's history after the defeat of the austracist rebellion. It is the moment to do an historiographic revision from the 18th century until our days, giving special attention to the period beginning…
Kurzemes un Zemgales hercogiste no 1561. - 1795.gadam latviešu historiogrāfijas vērtējumā
2018
Bakalaura darbs ir uzrakstīts ar mērķi analizēt Kurzemes un Zemgales hercogistes vēstures atspoguļojumu latviešu historiogrāfijā un apzināt vērtējumu galvenās tendences. Darbs veidots, ievērojot hronoloģiskos atskaites punktus, sākot ar hercogistes izveidošanos 1561.gadā un beidzot ar hercogistes inkorporāciju Krievijas impērijā 1795.gadā, atsevišķas nodaļas veltot galvenajai problēmai visā hercogistes pastāvēšanas laikā, proti hercogu cīņai ar muižniecību par varu un hercogu cīņai par dinastijas saglabāšanu un hercogistes pastāvēšanu. Analizējot zināmākā hercoga Jēkaba personības un darbības aprakstu un vērtējumu 20.gs. 20. – 30.gadu, trimdas un mūsdienu latviešu autoru darbos, tika konsta…
Reconstruction of the Rib Vaults of the Hypostyle Hall in the Maniace Castle of Siracusa After the 1693 Earthquake
2016
ABSTRACTBuilt in the first half of the 13th century on behalf of the Emperor Frederick II, the Maniace Castle of Siracusa focuses its enigma in the hypostyle hall (which was composed of 25 quadripartite rib vaults) and the design criteria adopted for its implementation. Recent research and a careful rereading of the documentary “restoration project” after the earthquake of 1693 have offered new tools to understand the construction techniques and building procedures for the entire organism. It has been possible to demonstrate that the different material (white limestone and volcanic stone) used for the vaults is, in fact, a product of reconstruction. The constructive node, which historiograp…
Lost in Enthusiasm? An Elementary Qualitative Analysis of 44 Years of Research in Order to Show Why Even Today Educational Historiography is Not an U…
2021
The statement from this article that historical reflection remains essential in educational research will not be demonstrated by one or another theoretical reasoning, but by four illustrations taken from my 44-year-old research career in the history of education. Each one of these illustrations represents an important research line of my career. The first deals with the history of primary education (mainly in Belgium, but also elsewhere). It concentrates on the relationship between continuity and change within the educational practices, in general, and on the irony and immunisation of educational innovations, in particular. The second deals with the history of educational sciences from the …
Potere, consenso e dissenso nell’Ystoriola Langobardorum Beneventum degentium di Erchemperto
2021
Diversamente da quella narrata da Paolo Diacono nella «Historia Langobardorum», la storia dei Longobardi di Benevento fra l’VIII e il IX secolo, raccontata da Erchemperto nell’«Ystoriola Langobardorum Beneventum degentium», è una storia nella quale si alternano continuamente il bene e il male, Dio e Satana, il coraggio, la virtù, l’abnegazione da un lato e, dall’altro, la viltà, il tradimento, la perfidia. Personaggi positivi e personaggi negativi – insieme alle vicende delle quali, di volta in volta, essi sono protagonisti – si susseguono nell’«Ystoriola» a ritmo incalzante, e lo storico beneventano, talora in modo palese e scoperto, più spesso in maniera ellittica e sottintesa, manifesta …