Social History

Visualising Communities. Possibilities of Network Analysis and Relational Sociology for the Survey and Analysis of Medieval Communities (in German)

by Johannes Preiser-Kapeller

Working Paper for a presentation for the SGB "Visions of Community" (http://www.univie.ac.at/viscom/index_viscom.php?seite=events) and the FSP "Gemeinschaftskonzepte, Identitäten und politische Integration", University of Vienna; slides online: http://oeaw.academia.edu/JohannesPreiserKapeller/Talks

Der Begriff des Netzwerkes erlebt spätestens seit der rasanten Verbreitung von „social
networks“ wie Facebook... more Der Begriff des Netzwerkes erlebt spätestens seit der rasanten Verbreitung von „social
networks“ wie Facebook einen fast inflationären Gebrauch in der öffentlichen Diskussion,
aber auch in verschiedenen Wissenschaftsdisziplinen, darunter der Geschichtsforschung.
Dabei ist es oft schwer zu entscheiden, wo dem Netzwerk-Begriff auch eine analytische
Aussagekraft zugrunde liegt und wo es sich nur um eine „Metapher“ oder ein „Schlagwort“
handelt, das Vergleichbarkeit mit Phänomenen der Gegenwart suggeriert, ohne
Wesentliches für den historischen Erkenntnisgewinn zu leisten.
Ein Ziel der sozialen Netzwerkanalyse ist es, Geflechte von Akteuren und Beziehungen in
strukturell und quantitativ fassbarer Form darzustellen. Darüber hinaus betrachtet aber die
„relationale Soziologie“ Akteure nicht nur als in soziale Netzwerke eingebettet; vielmehr
werden ihre Verhaltensweisen und Identitäten durch Interaktionen und Kommunikationsakte
im Netzwerk geprägt, ja überhaupt definiert. Die strukturell-quantitative Perspektive wird
damit wesentlich um qualitative Aspekte ergänzt; sowohl die Verknüpfungen zwischen
Akteuren als auch deren Rollen und Identitäten werden als Ergebnisse dynamischer
Prozesse verstanden.
In den letzten Jahren wurden diese Ansätze auch mit Konzepten der Systemtheorie (Niklas
Luhmann) und der Komplexitätsforschung verknüpft, um die Emergenz und Dynamik von
Gemeinschafts- und Identitätsbildungen von der individuellen Ebene über Gruppen bis hin zu
großen sozialen Formationen besser erfassen zu können. Diese Konzepte werden im
Vortrag präsentiert, diskutiert und durch auf der Grundlage mittelalterlicher Quellen erstellte
Fallbeispiele illustriert. Einige Ansätze und Beispiele wurden bereits in diversen Beiträgen
und Working Papers näher ausgeführt, die unter
http://oeaw.academia.edu/JohannesPreiserKapeller auch im Internet frei zugänglich sind.

Extending current boundaries between the private, domestic and public display of mourning, love and visual culture in Mexico City

by Marcel Reyes-Cortez

2012: Social History, (May, Routledge), pp. 117-141.

Writing and reading American football: culture, identity and sports studies.

by John Nauright

Published in Sporting Traditions, 13:1 (1996), 109-127.

The end of sports history?: from sports history to sports studies.

by John Nauright

Published in Sporting Traditions, 16:1 (1999), 5-13. Issue devoted to "The End of Sports History?" posed at the ASSH Conference held at the University of Otago in 1999.

The 1999 conference of the Australian Society for Sports History (ASSH)
sparked interesting and lively debate... more The 1999 conference of the Australian Society for Sports History (ASSH)
sparked interesting and lively debate before, during and after the
proceedings. Some ASSH members appeared uneasy discussing the ‘end’
of their field which, as an academic enterprise, is younger than most of
the participants. Yet, beyond the obvious reference to Francis Fukiyama’s
‘The End of History’, the topic is certainly relevant for a number of
reasons. Sports historians have not extensively debated the impact of the
postmodern assault on ‘History’ as either a tool of modernist discourse
and discursive power relationships,2 or a set of practices that follow what
Appleby, Hunt and Jacob call ‘the heroic model of science’.3 Many
postmodern critics have called for, or announced, the ‘end of history’. If
history is at an end, then surely the implication would be that there is also
an end to sports history as we know it.

For those who have been following the ‘mainstream’ historical
literature over the past decade or so, it is readily apparent that the
challenges of postmodernism and poststructuralism have been debated
extensively amongst historians, and between historians and critics of
‘(H)history’ who do not classify themselves as ‘historians’ (and who
‘historians’ reject as members of the historical profession). These debates
are perhaps best summarised in The Postmodern History Reader edited by
Keith Jenkins.4 Brian Palmer’s Descent into Discourse, published in 1990,
offers the best sustained critique from the left of the postmodernist attack
on history.5 For some, the end of history is to be welcomed; for others the
‘descent into discourse’ is problematic and serves only to obfuscate the
continuation of society and global capitalist development.

Lineamenti sulla regolamentazione del matrimonio del personale militare del Regio Esercito dall’Unità d’Italia allo scoppio della 1a G.M. (1861-1914)

by Flavio Carbone

published in AA.VV., Studi Storico – Militari 2003, Roma, Stato Maggiore dell’Esercito – Ufficio Storico, 2005, pp. 149-174.

some historical guidelines on the marriage regulation for Italian Army from the foundation of the Kingdom of Italy... more some historical guidelines on the marriage regulation for Italian Army from the foundation of the Kingdom of Italy till the beginning of the First World War.
The essay evaluates the regulation and try to explain some situation in the Army when officers and NCOs wanted to marry girls in the place in which they served.

Skilsmässor Som Samhällsspegel: Ett Försök, Att Utröna Vad Skilsmässorna I Stockholm år 1890 Kan Berätta Om Sin Samtid

by Ulf Hagen

" Af Ondska Och Motvilja...": Snabb-Skilsmässor I 1800-Talets Stockholm

by Ulf Hagen

The German Community in Manchester, Middle-Class Culture and the Development of Mountaineering in Britain, c. 1850–1914

by Jonathan Westaway

Originally published as Westaway, J. (2009) The German Community in Manchester, Middle-Class Culture and the Development of Mountaineering in Britain, c. 1850-1914. The English Historical Review, CXXIV (508). pp. 571-604.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cep144

The German community in Manchester formed the most significant international element in the Manchester bourgeoisie... more The German community in Manchester formed the most significant international element in the Manchester bourgeoisie c.1850-1914 and contributed significantly to the city's commercial and cultural life. This study examines German models of voluntary association that linked sport and recreation, education and culture in the context of the Germanophile cultural and intellectual life of the city. Nonconformist élites within Manchester shared liberal and reformist ideals with German émigré groups, not least in the area of education. The German-Unitarian contribution to the kindergarten system, progressive education and the gymnastics movement is examined in some detail. With their emphasis on the whole child, physical education, physical culture and the balance to be achieved between mind and body, these pedagogic innovations were to have a significant influence on the nascent outdoor movement in the region. A number of important implications for the historiography of mountaineering are drawn out. The presence of a gymnastic tradition in the city is relevant to the debates on the emergence of rock climbing as a sport distinct from mountaineering in the 1880s and 1890s. Historians of British mountaineering have tended to characterize the sport as dominated by the world view of the gentlemanly upper-middle class, shot through with the chivalric codes of manliness, athleticism and the exploratory impulse and intent on satisfying nationalistic and imperial preoccupations. This paper argues that, in the context of a regional middle-class sporting and recreational culture, cosmopolitan intellectual and cultural links were just as significant as the dominant national discourse. It opens up the possibility of understanding mountaineering as not just part of an imperial discourse of conquest but also one rooted in the Enlightenment tradition of inner exploration and intellectual bildung.

Contesting the commons - reconstructing the politics of English common land, c. 1550-1650 (Working Paper).

by Jonathan Healey

La struttura del matrimonio romano

by Roberto Fiori

in "Bullettino dell'Istituto di diritto romano Vittorio Scialoja" 105 (2011) pp. 197-234

The iustae nuptiae were the archetypal Roman marriage, but not the only with juridical relevance: the Romans... more The iustae nuptiae were the archetypal Roman marriage, but not the only with juridical relevance: the Romans considered to some extents 'marriage' also those unions which respected neither ius civile nor the leges, and even concubinate had a juridical structure. The difference between these two institutions was that only the first implied a condivision of dignitas by the couple, while both were opposed to other relationships for being stable unions. The commonly held distinction between legal and social/ethical rules and its application to ancient cultures show in this matter all their limits.

A Case of Integration in the Refuge: The Life of Melchior Seymour Teulon (1734 - 1806)

by Emmanuelle Chaze

upcoming publication in the Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland

The Stalin Cult between Center and Periphery: Structures of the Cult Community in the Empire of Socialism, 1949-1956 – the Case of GDR, in: Ennker B., Hein-Kircher H. (ed.), Der Führer im Europa des 20. Jahrhunderts, Marburg: Herder-Institut, 2010, pp.297-321.

by Alexey Tikhomirov

Sojourners and Refugees: The Emergence of the Italian and Jewish Working-Class Communities of Montreal, 1900-1929

by Michael Chiarello

She's Only A Bird in a Gilded Cage: Freedwoman at Trimalchio's Dinner Party

by Liz Gloyn

Published in Classical Quarterly (2012) 62.1: 260-280.

L'ufficio del giudice: mediazione, inquisizione, confessione nei processi matrimoniali veneziani, 1420-1532. In: Rivista Storica Italiana, 3, 2003, 851-898.

by Cecilia Cristellon

Pierre Bourdieu and the Distinctive Body

by Nadeem Fayaz

'The mere relation of the sufferings of others': Joseph Highmore, History Painting and the Foundling Hospital

by Jacqueline Riding

published in Art History, the journal of the Association of Art Historians (online March 2012, hardcopy June 2012)

The history paintings of the English artist Joseph Highmore (1692-1780) have received limited critical analysis within... more The history paintings of the English artist Joseph Highmore (1692-1780) have received limited critical analysis within art historical scholarship both past and present. Portrait painting dominated his professional practice from 1715 to 1762 and yet, as this article will contend, the study and production of history painting was both a significant intellectual pursuit and an important creative strand within his artistic output. This article will begin by exploring the role of history painting within Highmore’s art practice and career. It will then focus on the context, purpose and creation of the three extant examples of Highmore’s history painting: 'The Good Samaritan', 'Hagar and Ishmael' and an oil on canvas ‘sketch’ known as 'The Angel of Mercy'. All three reflect ideas surrounding charity in mid-Georgian Britain and further, have direct or indirect associations with one charitable institution in particular: London’s Foundling Hospital. The analysis presented here will reveal an artist employing and adapting the tools of traditional Western history painting as a means of engaging with and reflecting these contemporary contexts and issues.

La généralisation des enquêtes judiciaires et la construction du pouvoir princier dans le duché de Bourgogne (xiie-xiiie siècles)

by Armando Torres Fauaz

ESCLAVES TURCS A CADIX.

by Arturo Morgado García

The wars between the Ottomans, the Venetians and the Imperials during the late seventeenth century led to the... more The wars between the Ottomans, the Venetians and the Imperials during the late seventeenth century led to the enslavement of many Turks (mostly women), who have been sold around the Mediterranean countries and cities, such as in Cadiz. This paper aims at studying their integration into urban life. After being freed, especially when they were white, many remained in Cadiz, namely women often married Italian immigrants. They, however, never economically prospered.

EL MERCADO DE ESCLAVOS EN EL CADIZ DE LA EDAD MODERNA (1650-1750).

by Arturo Morgado García

Beginning in the mid-seventeenth century, slavery in Spain underwent a decline, although it remained active in Cadiz... more Beginning in the mid-seventeenth century, slavery in Spain underwent a decline, although it remained active in Cadiz until at least the early years of the eighteenth century. This work offers an analysis of the slave market in the city between 1650 and 1750, studying the condition of slaves sold, the prices, the merchants and the buyers.