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The Literary Court: Reading Queen Charlotte
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 509-524, December 2025.Abstract This article investigates the literary culture revolving around Queen Charlotte (1744–1818) between 1761 and 1818. The Queen's library, sold after her death in 1818, contained more than 4500 volumes, and the sales catalogue (1819) offers a fascinating glimpse into her collecting habits and reading interests. This article uses the catalogue, as
Mascha Hansen
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Amateur justice in Carolingian Bavaria
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 497-521, November 2025.This paper examines judges and judgement in Bavarian dispute charters from the first decades of the ninth century. It argues that justice in Carolingian Bavaria was an amateur affair, in which of primary importance was the ability to create a stable consensus around an outcome. Accordingly, distinctions between judges and other participants in judicial
Amos Bronner
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Government from below / Herrschaft als soziale Praxis / Domination au quotidien
Calenda, 2011 Colloque international en hommage aux travaux d'Alf Lüdkte. Le colloque (en présence d'Alf Lüdkte) est organisé autour de cinq axes / The conférence is structured around five sessions : histoire par en bas, genre et domination masculine, gouvernement, pouvoir d'État et voix dissidentes, Eigen-Sinn et/ou résistance.
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Letters, gifts and messengers. The epistolary strategies of St Radegund
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 309-340, August 2025.This article studies the ways the sixth‐century queen and monastic founder Radegund (c.520–87) managed the non‐textual elements of communication by letter. While Radegund’s role as a writer and commissioner of letters has been well studied, her efforts as an orchestrator of letter deliveries, gift exchanges and other associated acts of public ...
Robert Flierman, Hope Williard
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The concept that went viral: Using machine learning to discover charisma in the wild
The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 65-82, January 2025.Abstract The term “charisma” is recognized as sociology's most successful export to common speech. While sociologists habitually dismiss popular uses of the word, we address its vernacularity head on as a worthy object of study and as a potential resource for conceptual development.
Paul Joosse, Yulin Lu
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German Life and Letters, Volume 77, Issue 4, Page 514-537, October 2024.ABSTRACT Gerhard Gundermann was an East German open cast miner and ‘Liedermacher’ who died prematurely in 1998 at the age of forty‐three. Although he is known for his controversial involvement with the Stasi in his early career, very little has been written about his art, including the ‘Liedertheater’ work he performed with Brigade Feuerstein in the ...
David Robb
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Sexuality and Domination in Franz Kafka's Novels 'The Trial' and 'The Castle'
, 2004 "Sexuality and Domination in Franz Kafka's Novels The Trial and The Castle" The work is divided into four parts: introduction, exploration of the two novels with regard to the two main issues: sexuality and domination, and as a fourth part the conclusion. The work shows the women's figures in their relation to the main characters, the "K.s".
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Präparierte Emotionen: Formen der Trauer im Umgang mit der Stellerschen Seekuh
The German Quarterly, Volume 97, Issue 3, Page 299-318, Summer 2024.Abstract Wie werden Emotionen im Kontext des Artenverlusts eingesetzt? In welchem Ausmaß sind sie steuerbar und für welche Zwecke werden sie genutzt? Anhand des Beispiels der Stellerschen Seekuh fragt der Artikel nach Formen der Trauer im Umgang mit der Auslöschung und den Überresten des marinen Säugetiers.
Romana Bund
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Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 191-207, March 2024.Abstract Whether trans people – especially trans women – were persecuted by the Nazi regime remains a contested yet under‐researched topic. But the wider political backdrop (including the culture wars and Holocaust memorialisation practices) steers this historical question with a monolithic value: victimisation.
Zavier Nunn
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The Grammar of Social Power: Power-to, Power-with, Power-despite and Power-over. [PDF]
Polit Stud (Oxf), 2023 Abizadeh A.
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