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Hugener Rainer |
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Buchführung für die Ewigkeit : totengedenken, verschriftlichung und traditionsbildung im spätmittelalter / / Rainer Hugener |
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Chronos Verlag, 2014 |
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Zurich : , : Chronos, , 2014 |
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1 online resource (486 pages) |
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Dead - Switzerland - History - Social aspects - To 1500 |
Dead - Switzerland - History - To 1500 - Religious aspects - Catholic Church |
Obituaries - Switzerland - History - To 1500 |
Prayers for the dead - Switzerland - History - To 1500 |
Necrologies - History - To 1500 |
Anthropology |
Social Sciences |
Manners & Customs |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Rainer Hugener Books of Life. Commemorating the Dead in Medieval Switzerland
How were religious practices of remembering the deceased connected to the admin-istration of landholdings and the writing of history in the Middle Ages? Based on intertextual relations between necrologies, rent-rolls, and chronicles from Swiss regions, this study shows how commemorating the dead required new techniques of writing that were not only meant to promote salvation, but also helped enforce local lordship. By celebrating the anniversaries of battles and other crucial events, the authorities of the Swiss cantons propagated a historical concept of identity which continues to influence Switzerland's self- |
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perception even today. Rainer Hugener emphasizes the role of religious commemoration for the development of "modern" bureaucracy and offers a new perspective on the founding myths of the Swiss Con-federacy. The book is completed by an exhaustive catalogue of more than 1000 pre-modern necrologies from Swiss monasteries, cathedrals, collegiate and parish churches. |
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UNINA9910166643903321 |
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Autore |
Weber Florian |
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Die amerikanische verheissung : Schweizer aussenpolitik im wirtschaftskrieg 1917/18 / / Florian Weber |
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Zürich, : Chronos Verlag, 2016 |
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Zürich, Switzerland : , : Chronos Verlag, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (271 pages) ; : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s) |
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Die Schweiz im Ersten Weltkrieg ; 1 |
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World War (1914-1918) |
World War, 1914-1918 - Switzerland |
United States Foreign relations Switzerland |
Switzerland Foreign relations United States |
Switzerland Foreign relations Germany |
Switzerland Economic conditions 1918- |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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The promise of America Swiss foreign policy amidst the economic warfare of 1917-18 The book tells the dramatic history of the final two years of World War I, during which Switzerland was in between the fronts of the world powers. The surrounding struggle for global domination caused serious difficulties for the small state. Cut off from important food imports, resulting from the indiscriminate German submarine warfare, it turned for help to the USA. The pleas of a high- |
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ranking “Swiss Mission” sent across the Atlantic were heeded: The USA supplied the landlocked country with grain thus averting famine. While America thus boosted its reputation, the German empire became more of a threat. Agitation increased when German agents were convicted in spy scandals and trials of bombers in Zurich. Despite German propaganda, the German empire was unable to maintain its influence in Switzerland. German diplomats, as representatives of the unpopular old order, were expelled from Switzerland when the Central Powers collapsed in the fall of 1918. The USA under President Woodrow Wilson was, in contrast, enthusiastically celebrated. This study, just barely one hundred years later, enables a new view of one of the most animated periods in Swiss history, offering an opportunity to reflect on the relation of this small country to the rest of the world. |
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