Thesis--Tübingen. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-387) and index.

Review of Making and Moving Sculpture in Early Modern Italy edited by Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio

The Anglo-American interpretation of the Second World War has continuously overlooked the significance of the Scandinavian region to the outcome of the war. This thesis seeks to address some of the more glaring errors of omission that have dampened the Anglo-American understanding of the war. Attention will first be paid to Finland and how its war against the Soviet Union in 1939-1940, known as the Winter War, influenced Adolf Hitler and his decision to launch Operation ‘Barbarossa.’ In regards to Sweden, attention will be paid to how critical Swedish iron ore was to the Nazi war economy. Finally, the thesis will examine how the Anglo- American interpretation of the German invasion of Norway is flawed. The thesis seeks to change the way that the role Scandinavia played during the Second World War is understood amongst Anglo-American historians and begin a new conversation on the story of World War II.

Book Summary:This volume celebrates the considerable contributions of Edward Muir to the history of Renaissance Italy and early modern Europe. In keeping with Muir’s signature interdisciplinary approach to history, the fifteen essays in this volume include contributions on the ritual dimensions of early modern politics, religion, literature, and art and range from the Venetian and Florentine capitals of Renaissance high culture to Germany, Spain, the Low Countries, and China. Janus-faced, like all good historians, the volume looks forward and back, combining distinguished senior scholars and new voices with venerable debates and new fields. In doing so, the collection testifies to the vibrancy, vitality, and significance of early modern studies today and the degree to which Muir’s scholarship over the past thirty years has powerfully fueled the field’s dynamism.

Michael Talbot, British-Ottoman Relations, 1661-1807: Commerce and Diplomatic Practice in Eighteenth-Century Instanbul, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2017, 270 pp. ISBN 978-1-783-27202-0. $120.00.

This thesis examines the concept of “speaking bodies” in the early modern European world, primarily in the seventeenth century. Demoniacs and corpses that bled due to cruentation are examined comparatively through the lens of gender. Utilizing sources that include pamphlets, broadsheets, witness testimonies, and legal records, this thesis performs a close textual analysis to reveal that the gender of the speaking bodies informed contemporaries’ beliefs in the validity of a body’s speech. This thesis also argues that one form of speaking bodies – bleeding corpses – survived over another form – demoniacs – because of gender differentials. In order for a body to speak and be heard, whether through literal demonic speech or metaphorical blood, this body either had to be male, or possessed by a male spirit such as a demon.

This work offers a panoramic sweep of the use of Roman Imperial Iconographies and literary traditions from the 14th through 17th centuries.

This study argues that religious orders in early modern Spain developed informal sets of procedures to handle the consequences of melancholia in their communities. It also argues that three influential members of these orders, San Ignacio de Loyola of the Jesuits, and San Teresa de Avila and San Juan de la Cruz of the Discalced Carmelites, tailored these protocols according to their own private concerns and experience with the disease. The changing discourse surrounding melancholia and similar diseases during the early modern period, alongside the unique environmental concerns of these newly founded orders, created a need for new methods of dealing with the disruptions caused by melancholic members of the clergy. These solutions formed out of the immediate needs within each order, but ultimately defined the relationship between melancholic brothers and sisters and their communities.

Esta dissertação investiga alguns aspectos da história das bebidas no século XVIII. A partir de uma caracterização inicial do processo de domesticação da embriaguez na Europa moderna, fornecemos a descrição de elementos do moralismo lusitano respeitantes à questão dos usos de vinho e aguardentes. Disso extraímos a hipótese de que a moderação teria sido o valor que orientou o comportamento alcoólico na sociedade portuguesa. Já na sociedade colonial, examinada nos dois capítulos finais, defendemos que o referido valor cumpriu a função ideológica de mascarar a experiência etílica dos habitantes daquelas paragens, experiência esta marcada por diferentes formas de beber e de embriaguez. Numa sociedade organizada para a expropriação de recursos valendo-se de mão-de-obra escrava, o beber moderado entrou em choque com as diversas circunstâncias apresentadas aos colonizadores nos trópicos. / This study investigates some aspects of the history of drinks in the eighteen century. From an initial characterization of the domestication process of being drunk in the modern era, provides the key element of moralism Lusitanian relating to the question of the uses of wine and spirits. From this we extract the hypothesis that moderation would be the value that guided the alcoholic behavior in Portuguese society. In the colonial society, examined in the last part, we argue that the value of the ideological function served to mask the experience of the inhabitants of those areas, this experience marked by different forms of drinking and drunkenness. In a society organized for the expropriation of resources by availing itself of slave labor, moderate drinking has clashed with the different circumstances presented to the colonists in the tropics.

Esta dissertação investiga alguns aspectos da história das bebidas no século XVIII. A partir de uma caracterização inicial do processo de domesticação da embriaguez na Europa moderna, fornecemos a descrição de elementos do moralismo lusitano respeitantes à questão dos usos de vinho e aguardentes. Disso extraímos a hipótese de que a moderação teria sido o valor que orientou o comportamento alcoólico na sociedade portuguesa. Já na sociedade colonial, examinada nos dois capítulos finais, defendemos que o referido valor cumpriu a função ideológica de mascarar a experiência etílica dos habitantes daquelas paragens, experiência esta marcada por diferentes formas de beber e de embriaguez. Numa sociedade organizada para a expropriação de recursos valendo-se de mão-de-obra escrava, o beber moderado entrou em choque com as diversas circunstâncias apresentadas aos colonizadores nos trópicos. / This study investigates some aspects of the history of drinks in the eighteen century. From an initial characterization of the domestication process of being drunk in the modern era, provides the key element of moralism Lusitanian relating to the question of the uses of wine and spirits. From this we extract the hypothesis that moderation would be the value that guided the alcoholic behavior in Portuguese society. In the colonial society, examined in the last part, we argue that the value of the ideological function served to mask the experience of the inhabitants of those areas, this experience marked by different forms of drinking and drunkenness. In a society organized for the expropriation of resources by availing itself of slave labor, moderate drinking has clashed with the different circumstances presented to the colonists in the tropics.