Facharbeit (Schule) aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europa - and. Lander - Mittelalter, Fruhe Neuzeit, Note: 15 Pkt, - (Gymnasium), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Renaissance wird haufig als einer der interessantesten Zeitabschnitte der Geschichte der Menschheit gesehen. Was geschah in Europa zwischen 1400 und 1600? Etwa in der Mitte des 15. Jh. begann mitten im Untergang und Zerfall des ausgehenden Mittelalters eine neue Zeit. Diese Zeit wurde mit dem Namen Wiedergeburt"im Franzosischen Renaissance"bezeichnet. Wiedergeboren wurde antikes Denken, Wissen und Forschen. Dieser Prozess vollzog sich dadurch, dass originale Bucher der antiken griechischen Philosophen wie Sokrates, Platon oder Aristoteles und Naturwissenschaftler z. B. Demokrit oder Thales den Weg nach Deutschland, Frankreich und England fanden, neu entdeckt und diskutiert wurden.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2001 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Note: 2,8, Universität Münster (Historisches Seminar), Veranstaltung: Karl V., Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Mittelalter gilt in der heutigen historischen Forschung als das "finstere Zeitalter". Es wurde bestimmt von Hexenverfolgungen, Kreuzzügen und von der streng gegliederten ständischen Gesellschaft. Die Bezeichnung finster richtet sich sehr oft auch auf die Bereiche Literatur, Wissenschaft und Dichtung. Und sehr oft trifft die These, dass das Mittelalter für die Weiterentwicklung dieser genannten Bereiche nicht sehr von Nutzen war, auch zu. Doch es gibt eine Epoche innerhalb des Mittelalters, auf die diese These auf gar keinen Fall zutrifft. Gemeint ist die Renaissance. Die Renaissance gilt als die Zeit der Wiederbelebung antiker Kulturen und Sprachen und als Wiedergeburt des in der Antike verbreiteten Denkens. Sie wirkte sich auf alle Bereiche des täglichen Lebens im ausgehenden Mittelalter aus. Die Zeit ab 1500 gilt heute auch als "Wendezeit zwischen Mittelalter und Neuzeit". Sie führte einen Wandel in der Gesellschaft, der Literatur und auch in der Kirche herbei, der für die sich anknüpfende Neuzeit von herausragender Bedeutung war. Inmitten dieser Renaissance prägte vor allen Dingen die Reformation von Martin Luther im Jahr 1517 und auch die Erfindung des Buchdrucks durch Johannes Gutenberg 1452 den Verlauf des alltäglichen Lebens und damit auch die Situation innerhalb der Gesellschaft in Europa. Diese Arbeit untersucht, auf welche Bereiche des Lebens die Renaissance Einfluss genommen hat. Um einen Überblick bewahren zu können, unterteilt sich diese Arbeit nach einer kurzen Erläuterung des Begriffes Renaissance in mehrere Kapitel. So beschäftigt sich ein Teil mit der Gliederung der Gesellschaft, ein weiterer wird sich mit der Entwicklung der Sprachen im Mittelalter auseinandersetzen. Neben der Betrachtung der Gebiete Kunst, Bildung und Literatur soll auch das Freizeitverhalten der Menschen im ausgehenden Mittelalter untersucht werden. Und auch die Analyse der Rolle der Frau und die der Position der Kirche in der Renaissance wird durchgeführt. Als Basis liegen dieser Arbeit viele erhaltene Schriftstücke bekannter Literaten und auch Herrscher zu Grunde, aus denen sich Aussagen über das alltägliche Leben zur Zeit der Renaissance herausfiltern lassen. [...]
The Getty Museum’s collection of illuminated manuscripts, featured in this book, comprises masterpieces of medieval and Renaissance art. Dating from the tenth to the sixteenth century, they were produced in France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, England, Spain, Poland, and the eastern Mediterranean. Among the highlights are four Ottonian manuscripts, Romanesque treasures from Germany, Italy, and France, an English Gothic Apocalypse, and late medieval manuscripts painted by such masters as Jean Fouquet, Girolamo da Cremona, Simon Marmion, and Joris Hoefnagel. Included are glistening liturgical books, intimate and touching devotional books for private use, books of the Bible, lively histories by Giovanni Boccaccio and Jean Froissart, and a breathtaking Model Book of Calligraphy.
"Hamburger's singular discovery of a group of devotional drawings made by an anonymous nun . . . is here presented with magisterial learning, theoretical sophistication, and deep human sympathy."—V. A. Kolve, University of California, Los Angeles
For the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental europe. Twenty-five years ago a new German state came into being. How much do we really understand this new Germany, and how do its people understand themselves? Neil MacGregor argues that, uniquely for any European country, no coherent, overarching narrative of Germany's history can be constructed, for in Germany both geography and history have always been unstable. Its frontiers have constantly shifted. Königsberg, home to the greatest German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, is now Kaliningrad, Russia; Strasbourg, in whose cathedral Wolfgang von Geothe, Germany's greatest writer, discovered the distinctiveness of his country's art and history, now lies within the borders of France. For most of the five hundred years covered by this book Germany has been composed of many separate political units, each with a distinct history. And any comfortable national story Germans might have told themselves before 1914 was destroyed by the events of the following thirty years. German history may be inherently fragmented, but it contains a large number of widely shared memories, awarenesses, and experiences; examining some of these is the purpose of this book. MacGregor chooses objects and ideas, people and places that still resonate in the new Germany—porcelain from Dresden and rubble from its ruins, Bauhaus design and the German sausage, the crown of Charlemagne and the gates of Buchenwald—to show us something of its collective imagination. There has never been a book about Germany quite like it.
“Blaedel has addressed himself to the task of writing a full-length biography that covers all facets of his subject and that emphasizes that they form part of one harmonious unity. I think that on the whole he has succeeded remarkably well. He gives an accurate picture of the man theorists of my generation both admired and loved. And not only of the physicist: Bohr’s relations with his family and in particular with his wife, an admirable woman, are drawn with sympathy and understanding. Blaedel’s sketch of the atmosphere at Bohr’s institute in Copenhagen... is true to life; it will raise nostalgic memories among those who, like myself, experienced it... [Blaedel] has produced a fitting tribute to a great scientist and a noble man.” — H.B.G. Casimir, Nature “The book is intended primarily for nonphysicists; nevertheless it offers extensive (albeit nontechnical) accounts of all aspects of Bohr’s scientific work. The consistent emphasis, however, is on Bohr as a person—his character, interests andWeltanschauung. Niels Blaedel was able to draw on matchless resources, both human and material: Bohr’s family (especially his widow, Margrethe Bohr, who shared both her memories and her correspondence), Bohr’s former friends and colleagues, and a rich supply of documentary and photographic material from Danish collections, as well as from the AIP Niels Bohr Library in New York. The result is a lavishly illustrated and affectionate account of Bohr from his earliest years until his death... as a general picture of Bohr and his work this book can be warmly recommended.” — Anthony P. French, Physics Today “Niels Bohr is generally regarded as a giant of twentieth-century physics... Bohr was securely entrenched in a Danish culture that is difficult for many historians to penetrate. It is important, then, that at last a biography has been written by a Dane with wide knowledge of the society in which Bohr lived and moved... The author had unprecedented access to Bohr’s family correspondence, primarily with his wife Margrethe, who, before she died at ninety-four in 1984, read Blaedel many letters from her husband... Blaedel’s book, written on commission for the Bohr centennial and published in Danish in 1985, contains valuable insights on Bohr, particularly as they relate to his previously unavailable family correspondence and his place in Danish culture.” — Finn Aaserud, Isis: A Journal of the History of Science “Though Niels Bohr is best known as a distinguished citizen of the international community of science, he was also a leading citizen of Denmark. This is the first biography of Bohr to deal with both of these dimensions to his life, without which it is hard to fully understand either the man or his work.” — Robert March, University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of Physics for Poets “... the book can be read without any background knowledge in physics. But its overwhelming number of photographs and rich use of letters and recollections make Niels Blaedel’s book closely resemble the great standard biography — a literary monument to Niels Bohr.” — Flemming Christian Nielsen, Jyllands-Posten “Niels Blaedel has solved an almost insoluble problem... thereby clarifying the life of Niels Bohr... a well-constructed piece of documentation and a coherent piece of scientific history.” — Jens Kistrup, Berlingske Tidende
This early work by Radclyffe Hall was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Well of Loneliness' is a novel that follows an upper-class Englishwoman who falls in love with another woman while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I. Marguerite Radclyffe Hall was born on 12th August 1880, in Bournemouth, England. Hall's first novel The Unlit Lamp (1924) was a lengthy and grim tale that proved hard to sell. It was only published following the success of the much lighter social comedy The Forge (1924), which made the best-seller list of John O'London's Weekly. Hall is a key figure in lesbian literature for her novel The Well of Loneliness (1928). This is her only work with overt lesbian themes and tells the story of the life of a masculine lesbian named Stephen Gordon.
