We kindly inform you that, as long as the subject affiliation of our 300.000+ articles is in progress, you might get unsufficient or no results on your third level or second level search. In this case, please broaden your search criteria.
This paper opens a new perspective of cooperation between linguists and a growing movie industry in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The authors have translated a Bosnian movie, I am from Krajina – the land of chestnut, an outline of turbulent Bosnian history in its very typical, western border-area, known as Krajina. The paper explores issues of translation of Bosnian culture into English, with an emphasis on translation problems and promotion of B&H culture in contemporary Bosnian movies. Through translation analysis, the authors point at translation solutions based on the criterion of their source-language vs. target-language orientation.
More...
Review of: Paul Fleming und das literarische Feld der Stadt Tallinn in der Frühen Neuzeit. Studien zum Sprach-, Literatur- und Kulturkontakt einer Region. Unter Mitarbeit von Heiko F. Marten hrsg. von Mari Tarvas . Königshausen & Neumann. Würzburg 2011. 250 S. ISBN 978-3-8260-4544-8 (€ 39,80.). Reviewed by Dorothee M. Goeze.
More...
Review of: Adel und Wirtschaft. Lebensunterhalt der Adeligen in der Moderne. Hrsg. von Ivo Cerman und Luboš Velek . (Studien zum mitteleuropäischen Adel, Bd. 2.) Meidenbauer. München 2009. 302 S., Ill., graph. Darst. ISBN 978-3-89975-056-0. (€ 44,–.). Reviewed by Eduard Kubů and Jiří Šouša.
More...
The adoption of Christianity as the dominant form of the religious world perception was the basis for fundamental changes in the field of socioeconomic, political, and spiritual life of the peoples of Central and Western Europe. This study is a reflection of the results of the scientific research on the problem of how the indicated transformations are conveyed in the culture and art of the period from the 12th to 14th centuries. The main tendencies of European perception of the hero image during the pagan era were singled out on the basis of the materials obtained during the analysis of texts from such sources as English church chronicles, Irish folklore, Scandinavian sagas, and other works of scaldic poetry. A wide range of general scientific and specialized methods and techniques necessary for the analysis of archaeographic data were used. The scientific relevance and novelty of the study lies in the fact that it represents an attempt to carry out a comprehensive analysis of the selected sources on the history of the German-Scandinavian peoples in the early and high Middle Ages. At the moment, an increased attention to the culture and life of the peoples of Northern Europe in the Middle Ages has taken place, both among humanitarian professionals and among non-specialists. In this regard, this work has a certain theoretical and practical significance for representatives of various humanitarian scientific disciplines – history, sociology, anthropology, religious studies, etc., as well as representatives of those research practices whose activities are directly or indirectly related to the study sociocultural background of the European Middle Ages.
More...
Review of: Geteilte Regionen – geteilte Geschichtskulturen? Muster der europäischen Identitätsbildung im europäischen Vergleich. Hrsg. von Burkhard Olschowsky . (Schriften des Bundesinstituts für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa, Bd. 47.) Oldenbourg. München 2013. 450 S., zahlr. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. ISBN 978-3-486-71210-0. (€ 54,80.). Reviewed by Felicitas Söhner.
More...
An extremely poorly known stage in the cultural life of Kharkov during the Civil War period was considered. The Free Faculty of Arts, which was headed by F.I. Shmit, an outstanding historian and art expert, was founded in the autumn of 1919. The brilliant scientists and teachers of Kharkov became the organizers and lecturers of the faculty. A number of examples were provided to prove that Kharkov of that period was very interested in studying cultural and art criticism. At the same time, the historical situation influenced both students and educational process. The schedule of classes and lecture topics were published in the local press one week prior. No diplomas of previous education were required for being admitted to the Free Faculty of Arts, and students who successfully finished the course were not given any diplomas either. Based on the results of the study, it was concluded that the Free Faculty of Arts turned out to be a remarkable phenomenon despite the difficult times and the short term of its existence. In the works dedicated to the study of the pedagogical and organizational activities of F.I. Shmit, A.I. Beletsky, S. A. Taranushenko, and other scientists, their contribution to the organization of the Free Faculty of Arts and their active participation in its life are emphasized.
More...
This paper is devoted to the 85th birth anniversary of Evegeny Petrovich Kazakov, a Kazan archaeologist, Leading Research Fellow at the A.H. Khalikov Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan, as well as the famous specialist in the Middle Ages and prehistory of the Volga-Kama region. The main milestones of his life and research were discussed. The research interests of E.P. Kazakov are the early Volga Bulgarians, the material culture of the Volga Bulgaria, and the ethnocultural interaction between the Finnish, Ugric, and Turkic peoples in the Volga-Kama region during the Middle Ages. Notably, E.P. Kazakov was the first to investigate the rural settlements of Volga Bulgaria and to draw attention to the problems of their emergence and early stages of existence. He studied a huge number of archaeological sites (many of which were discovered by E.P. Kazakov himself). The results of these studies are published on a regular basis, thereby providing his colleagues with the full complexes for further research discussion.
More...
Review of: Witold Mędykowski: W cieniu gigantów. Pogromy Żydów w 1941 roku w byłej sowieckiej strefie okupacyjnej. Kontekst historyczny, społeczny i kulturowy. [Im Schatten der Giganten. Judenpogrome 1941 in der ehemaligen sowjetischen Besatzungszone. Historischer, gesellschaftlicher, kultureller Kontext.] Inst. Studiów Politycznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk. Warszawa 2012. 445 S., zahlr. Ill., Kt. ISBN 978-83-60580-95-0. (PLN 42,–.). Reviewed by Ruth Leiserowitz.
More...
In the first years of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Kingdom of SHS), the educational situation in Herzegovina was very bad. The low level of literacy (in some areas over 90%) and the small number of educational institutions, gave a negative picture, which was further complicated by the incompetence and slowness of the state administration. From the mid-1920s, the situation began to change. The construction of schools and literacy through course teaching were significant, but still insufficient steps to solve all the accumulated problems in this area. Based on unpublished sources and relevant literature, the paper discusses the state of the school system in Herzegovina, during the first period of monarchist Yugoslavia (1918-1929).
More...
This research proposes a reflection on the contribution of new technologies to the plural diffusion of knowledge and valorization of cultural heritage. In relation to the world crisis that we are experiencing due to the spread of Covid-19, thanks to innovative technologies and methodologies it is possible to configure alternative landscapes and life experiences through the virtual world. The aim is to promote knowledge and, at the same time, to allow the remote fruition of the architectural heritage identified. In an area so rich in the archaeological and architectural heritage of great value, it seems important to invest in strategies aimed at the protection and preservation through innovative methodologies. The latter, in fact, could bring advantages in the management and divulgation of the culture of our places. This strategy would make the experience of knowledge unique through the possibility of creating a digital archive to catalog the heritage. The potential of these information models could be useful both by differentiating the levels of information required by the user within a database and through interactive models. These last could have a didactic and divulging function, using augmented reality to define a hypothesis of intervention. In addition, these models can be used for the diffusion of knowledge of the historical evolution of the artifact. These reflections aim to structure a path of knowledge of the interventions made on cultural heritage and to underline their impact on contemporary reality
More...
The article seeks to compare the functioning of cultures of remembrance in several cities. The choice of comparative perspective should particularly provide answers to two questions: a) is it true that formation and functioning of cultures of remembrance in the peripheral cities did not differ from those in a central city of the same national culture, as is argued in historiography?; and b) how did cultures of remembrance in cities under different conditions of social structure and political order function? For that purpose, three cities which belonged to the same state in two different periods, before and after WWI (until 1933), have been specially chosen for comparison: Berlin is considered to be central, Memel peripheral, and Königsberg peripheral in respect of Berlin and central in regard to Memel (in 1923-1939 Memel belonged to Lithuania but was still under strong German cultural influence). In the article, Memel is taken as the starting point for the comparison – not only because of relatively well-investigated processes of memory formation in this city in the 20th century but also with the intention of giving the role of starting point to a peripheral city situated in a frontier area. It is these attributes that often give rise to case-studies which examine the functioning of cultures of remembrance in a single city. The first part of the article investigates the contents of dominant cultures of remembrance. It states that during the Kaiserreich period in all three cities, the borussianistic historical master narrative constituted a basis for this content, while after WW1, its role was supplanted by the group experience of those who had lived through the war. However, this commonality was incident not because of the status of a city in the axis of centre-periphery but due to the peculiarities of the political and social order. The latter are analysed in the second and the third parts of the article where it is stated that a distinct role of the all-German network associations maintaining the dominant culture of remembrance can already be observed in the Kaiserreich period. Until 1918, the role of the authorities in determining the meaning of public remembrance was more pronounced only in Berlin. After 1918, the consensus on ideology and value-systems reached between the authorities and public societies became increasingly responsible for whether or not different communities of memory maintaining heterogeneous recollections would gradually develop into a homogenizing culture of remembrance and whether the latter would acquire an ambition to expand. This process was more effective in peripheral Memel for it was the only one of the three cities to be directly affected by WWI and in which such a consensus in the interwar period was encouraged by the national tensions between the Lithuanians and the Germans. The fourth part of the article is devoted to discussing the alternatives to the dominant culture of remembrance. This aspect of investigation is oriented towards the period before 1918, thus attempting to show that such alternatives may not necessarily form in pluralistic societies or under democratic circumstances. Before 1918, the most pronounced alternatives in all three cities were formed from the völkisch-nationalist discourse and the activities of the social democrats. In both cases, the network associations constructed on the same principles as those maintaining the dominant culture of remembrance constituted the structural basis of the communication milieus in which the alternative to the latter had formed. In Memel, however, already before WWI, there were attempts to form such an alternative expressing the ethnic peculiarities of the Prussian Lithuanians. Thus, in cities situated in the periphery and on the frontier of several nations, the possibility of competition between cultures of remembrance based on national differences is higher. On the other hand, this competition encourages the increase in demand to refer to the dominant meanings of national culture of remembrance in the periphery.
More...
Review of: Markus Cerman: Villagers and Lords in Eastern Europe, 1300-1800. Palgrave Macmillan. Basingstoke u.a. 2012. XVII, 156 S. ISBN 978-0-230-00460-3. (€ 20,99.). Reviewed by Marten Seppel.
More...
Review of: Memel als Brücke zu den baltischen Ländern. Kulturgeschichte Klaipėdas vom Mittelalter bis ins 20. Jahrhundert. Hrsg. von Bernhart Jähnig . (Tagungsberichte der Historischen Kommission für ost- und westpreußische Landesforschung, Bd. 26.) Fibre-Verl. Osnabrück 2011. 246 S., Ill., Kt. ISBN 978-3-938400-76-0. (€ 36,–.). Reviewed by Ralph Tuchtenhagen.
More...
Review of: Tallinn ajaloolistel linnaplaanidel 1634-1989/Maps of the City of Tallinn/Tallinn auf den Stadtplänen/Plany goroda Tallinna. Hrsg. von Tõnu R a i d . Grenader. Tallinn 2011. 184 S., überw. Kt. ISBN 978-9949-448-54-8. (€ 24,90.); Eesti linnade plaanid 1584-2011/Maps of the Towns of Estonia/Pläne der estnischen Städte/Plany gorodov Ėstonii (i Sankt Peterburga i Rigi). Hrsg. von Tõnu R a i d . Grenader. Tallinn 2013. 304 S., überw. Kt. ISBN 978-9949-512-09-6. (€ 39,–.). Reviewed by Wolfgang Kreft.
More...
Review of: Maximilian Eiden: Das Nachleben der schlesischen Piasten. Dynastische Tradition und moderne Erinnerungskultur vom 17. bis 20. Jahrhundert. (Neue Forschungen zur schlesischen Geschichte, Bd. 22.) Böhlau. Köln u.a. 2012. X, 460 S., Ill. ISBN 978-3-412-20694-9. (€ 59,90.). Reviewed by Norbert Conrads.
More...
Review of: Ion Lihaciu: Czernowitz 1848-1918. Das kulturelle Leben einer Provinzmetropole. (Bukowinastudien, Bd. 1.) Parthenon-Verl. Kaiserslautern u.a. 2012. 258 S. ISBN 978-3- 942994-00-2. (€ 29,80.). Reviewed by Jan Surman.
More...
Review of: Agnieszka Łuczak: Utracone decorum. Grabież dóbr kultury z majątków ziemiaństwa polskiego w Wielkopolsce w czasie okupacji niemieckiej w latach 1939-1945. [Verlorenes Dekorum. Der Raub von Kulturgütern aus den Landgütern polnischer Landadeliger in Großpolen während der deutschen Besatzung Polens 1939-1945.] (Monografie Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej. Komisji Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu, Bd. 72.) Instytut Pamięci Narodowej. Komisji Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu. Warszawa – Poznań 2011. 412 S. ISBN 978-83-7629-246-5. (PLN 41,99.). Reviewed by Andrzej Mycio.
More...
Review of: Marek Haltof: Polish Film and the Holocaust. Politics and Memory. Berghahn Books. New York u.a. 2012. XIV, 274 S., Ill. ISBN 978-0-85745-356-3. (€ 73,–.). Reviewed by Michael Zok.
More...