Books written by Bernhard Jussen
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Blood and Kinship: Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present
This volume challenges the idea that blood can be understood as a stable entity, and shows how concepts of blood and kinship moved in both parallel and divergent directions over the course of European history.
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Negotiating the Gift: Pre-modern Figurations of Exchange
logical » bracketing , « we should first adequately interpret the gift constellations recorded in the documents . ... These different social constellations also speak against the concept of an ordered reciprocal inequality as it is ...
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Love after Death: Concepts of Posthumous Love in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Might some Greeks who had loved very intensely during their lives have seized upon the themes of initiation, dedication, and salvation that had their original home in the mystery religions (after all, such ideas had already exerted an ...
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Ordering Medieval Society: Perspectives on Intellectual and Practical Modes of Shaping Social Relations
Arbeitskreis für Mittelalterliche Geschichte , Reinhard Schneider chose to follow Graus . ... In his study , Les trois ordres ou l'imaginaire du féodalisme , Duby describes the history of the trifunctional scheme as an " image de ...
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Love after Death: Concepts of Posthumous Love in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Around the year 1300, probably somewhere in the diocese of Thérouanne in northern France, a seemingly eccentric artist experimented with a visual representation of a quite conventional fantasy of intimate reunion in the hereafter: the ...
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Signal - Christian Boltanski
Charakteristisch für Boltanskis verfremdende Methode ist überdies , dass er die Originalphotos des Albums durch einen ... is his Album de photos de la famille D. , 1939-1964 [ Photo album of the family D. , 19391964 ) , from 1971/1972 .