495 research outputs found
Beate Sigriddaughter’s Story of Sigrid
No full textdeath of childNorth VancouverteachingWorld War II1910’sEurop
At the Threshold of Painting. The Man of Sorrows by Albrecht Dürer
No full textThe young Dürer leads the viewer to the tenuous threshold between life and death in one of the oldest paintings attributed to him. One can thus view the panel as the master work with which Dürer meant to demonstrate his artistic prowess on his arrival in Strasbourg. That desire became the painting’s most salient theme: the divine artifex enters the image as Dürer reveals the complexity of representation through his playful rendering of ambiguous layers that challenge our understandings of what paint, space, and time can be. In other words, the painter refers to the medium and the limits of its artifice by creating visual “obstacles” (in the form of painted matter, barriers, ‘fresh’ blood traces), which function as visual thresholds that the beholder transgresses in his imagination. These thresholds within the image refer to the various layers of representation and problematize the relationship between representation and reality. This artistic play with polyvalence is an important predecessor to what Victor Stoichita has described as “meta-painting”, whose late medieval roots he did not explore
Damages under the CISG - selected problems
No full textThis paper addresses different contentious issues arising in the context of the right to damages under the CISG. The paper will therefore start with a brief description of the CISG, Art. 74 CISG et seq. as the basic provision on damages in the Convention and Art. 7 CISG as the provision regulating the interpretation and gap-filling of the Convention. Subsequently, selected specific problems of damages will be examined in Chapter III. Where thought appropriate, the paper will give a brief outline of how the specific question is regulated in domestic laws, followed by an overview of the debate on the issue under the CISG among courts and scholars, ending with the author's own position
Mixing Methods: Practical Insights from the Humanities in the Digital Age
No full textDigitality is a cause and a consequence of different data cultures. It applies to the 10 research projects that are included in this volume. They are rooted in various humanities disciplines such as art history, philosophy, musicology, religious studies, architectural history, media studies, and literature studies. As diverse as the disciplines are the objects and their formats, which are the subject of this book. The cultural data of the projects include recordings of music and spoken word, photographs and other types of images, handwriting, typoscripts and maps. The oldest material dates back to 500 BCE, followed by medieval times, the 18th and 19th centuries, early 20th century and the present. All projects share that they study their material with digital methods, although digitality comes into play at different moments and layers in each of the projects. Hardly readable manuscripts from the 18th century have to be treated with specialized OCR-methods while Plato’s texts are already available in digital form, and therefore open up other affordances for analysis. Special analysis possibilities had to be developed for certain image sources. For all projects, however, it is equally true that only the digitization of the objects makes them accessible to the methods that are the subject of this book.History, Form & Aesthetic
Opera Hrosvite, illvstris virginis et monialis germane, gente Saxonica orte, nvper a Conrado Celte inventa.
No full text"In hoc libro haec co[n]tinent[ur]. Comedie sex in emulatio[n]em Therencii. Prima Galli[c]anus. Secunda Dulcicius. Tercia Callimachus. Quarta Abraham. Quinta Paffnucius. Sexta Fides & Spes. Octto sacrae hystorie uersu hexa. & pe[n]tha. Hystoria beate Marie uirginis. Hystoria Resurrectionis domini. Hystoria & uita sancti gandolfi. Hystoria sancti Pelagii. Hystoria co[n]uersionis sancti Theophili. Hystoria Proterii & sancti Basilii. Hystoria passionis sancti dyonisii. Hystoria passionis sancte agnetis. Panegiricus uersu hexametro in laude[m] & gesta Oddonis magni primi in germania imp[er]atoris."Illustrations: 8 full-page woodcuts. The 1st (showing Celtis presenting this book to Friedrich, Elector of Saxony) and the 2nd (showing Hrosvita presenting her work to Emperor Otto the Great) derive from sketches by Albrecht Dürer, but were not cut by him. The remaining 6 serve as title ill. to the 6 "comedies." They have been ascribed in the past to various artists but are mostly probably by Hans von Kulmbach; see Meister um Albrecht Dürer.Imprint from colophon.Meister um Albrecht Dürer,Besterman, T. Art books,Mode of access: Internet.Binding: modern speckled paper over pasteboard, half calf. Front board detached. Spine title tooled in gold: HROSVITE / OPERA. Marbled edges. Booksellers' annotations on both front free endpapers
Investigation of family (un)truths: memory, trauma and testimony in the study "My good father: life with his past" by Beate Niman
No full textOsnovna namera rada jeste analitičko raslojavanje sadržine studije "Moj dobri otac: život sa njegovom prošlošću" Beate Niman. Autorka studije je kćerka Bruna Zatlera, šefa Gestapoa i zločinca Drugog svetskog rata, koji je, pored mnogobrojnih zverstava, rukovodio operacijom ubijanja žena i dece u dušegupkama u Beogradu (1942-1944). Uočavajući praznine i nelogičnosti u svojim sećanjima, autorka započinje proces istraživanja o ocu u nameri da napiše njegovu biografiju. Beatin narativ sučelјava prošlost sa sadašnjošću, kao i porodičnu kreiranu prošlost sa potencijalnim porodičnim nasleđem. Osim toga, baveći se istorijom, činjenicama, dokazima, otac postaje predmet svojevrsne kćerkine istrage. Počevši od dekonstrukcije (Beatinih) sećanja, najpre je istaknuta prošlost Bruna Zatlera. Biće dati uvidi u autorkine procese istraživanja kojima se dospelo do razotkrivanja istorijske i porodične istine o Zatleru. Istraživanje neće biti striktno fiksirano na lik Bruna Zatlera, budući da narativ kao takav daje prostor istraživanju psiholoških aspekata ličnosti same Beate Niman. Na račun rečenog, ali i u vezi sa samim narativom, biće tematizovani odnosi istorije i prošlosti, funkcije sećanja, dometi trauma, aspekti (auto)biografije, kao uvidi u postojanje dvostrukog svedočenja i dvostrukog istražnog postupka na nivou narativa kao celine.The main purpose of the work is the analytical stratification of the content of the study "My good father: life with his past" by Beate Nieman. The author of the study is the daughter of Bruno Sattler, head of the Gestapo and a criminal of the Second World War, who, in addition to numerous atrocities, led the operation of killing women and children in the dušegupka’s in Belgrade (1942-1944). Noticing gaps and illogicalities in her memories, the author begins the process of researching her father with the intention of writing his biography. Beata’s narrative confronts the past with the present, as well as the family’s created past with the potential family legacy. In addition, dealing with history, facts, evidence, the father becomes the subject of his daughter’s investigation. Starting with the econstruction of (Beat’s) memories, Bruno Sattler’s past is highlighted first. Insights will be given into the author’s research processes that led to the uncovering of the historical and family truth about Sattler. The research will not be strictly fixed on the character of Bruno Sattler since the narrative as such gives space to research the psychological aspects of the personality of Beate Niemann herself. The work will be focused on the relations of history and the past, the functions of memory, the scope of trauma, aspects of (auto)biography, as insights into the existence of double testimony and double investigative procedure at the level of the narrative.Tema broja: "Holokaust: nove perspektive, nova saznanja, novi izazovi" (topic of the issue: "Holocaust: new perspectives, new knowledge, new challenges")
The Fabric of Gifts: Culture and Politics of Giving and Exchange in Archaic Greece
No full textWhen the Greek leader Agamemnon took for himself the woman awarded to Achilles as his spoils of battle, the warrior’s resulting anger and outrage nearly cost his side the war. Beyond the woman herself was what she symbolised — a matter of esteem rather than material value. In Archaic Greece the practices of gift giving existed alongside an economy of market relations. The value of gifts and the meanings of exchange in ancient societies are fundamental to the debates of 19th-century economists, to Marcel Mauss’s famous Essai sur le don (1923-4), and to the definition of experiential value by modern philosopher Yanis Varoufakis.
In this book Beate Wagner-Hasel analyses the sensory content and the social context of many examples of Greeks bearing gifts: to guests, at sacrificial rituals and at funerals, to brides and to heroes. The fabric of these gifts unfolds a panorama of social networks and models of rulership embedded in a world of pastoral and textile economy. Among the gifted objects that represent this world, textiles offer the clearest representation of social cohesion — the key value ascribed to the gift by the earliest theorists of gift-giving.
Beate Wagner-Hasel was Professor of Ancient History at the Leibniz University of Hannover 2001–2018, specializing in economic history and gender studies. She is the author of Antike Welten (2017), Alter in der Antike (2012), Die Arbeit des Gelehrten (2011), and Der Stoff der Gaben (2000), and co-editor (with Marie-Louise Nosch) of Gaben, Waren und Tribute (2019).
The Fabrics of Gifts is a revised edition of her study of gifts in Early Greece (Der Stoff der Gaben, 2000).https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/zeabook/1092/thumbnail.jp
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