Brepols Online Books Other Miscellanea Collection 2015 - bob2015miot
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Social Networks, Political Institutions, and Rural Societies
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Social Networks, Political Institutions, and Rural Societies show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Social Networks, Political Institutions, and Rural SocietiesThis book is a collection of essays on social networks, social capital, and kinship in historical and contemporary rural societies. They span a wide range of European countries and historical situations, from early modern Flanders and Italy to present-day Austria and Armenia. All the essays describe in detail how people on the countryside connected with one another in formal or informal relations. In doing so, the authors use and critically discuss methods of historical interpretation, social network analysis, and econometrics. The book analyses these topics in three steps. First, the authors address whether social relations can be of economic use. Secondly, they examine the institutional conditions for such a conversion of social into economic capital, reconstructing the often unexpected ways in which the economic and social spheres were connected both in ‘pre-modern’ and in ‘modern’ settings. Thirdly, they show how political institutions were constructed out of social networks.
Georg Fertig is professor of economic and social history at Halle University in Germany. He has worked extensively on 18th and 19th-century historical demography and agrarian history.
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The Seven Sorrows Confraternity of Brussels
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:The Seven Sorrows Confraternity of Brussels show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: The Seven Sorrows Confraternity of BrusselsDevotion to the Virgin of Seven Sorrows flourished in the Low Countries in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries under the auspices of the court of Philip the Fair. Quickly becoming a widespread phenomenon, the Seven Sorrows devotion generated dramatic plays, artistic works, music, and numerous miracles. Underlying the popularity of the devotion was the network of confraternity chapters dedicated to the Virgin of Sorrows. Of these chapters, the Seven Sorrows confraternity of Brussels was singled out, receiving the special patronage of Philip the Fair, Maximilian I, and Margaret of Austria. Taking the confraternity of Brussels as a focal point, this volume examines the Seven Sorrows devotion in its urban context. The essays of this collection explore the artistic, musical, and dramatic products of the Seven Sorrows devotion as created in and by the civic networks and artistic channels of Brussels. The structure of the confraternity and its historical importance for the city are also demonstrated. As an important counterpoint to work in Italian confraternity studies, this volume is the first interdisciplinary study of a confraternity in the Low Countries in English.
Emily S. Thelen is a musicologist specialising in music and liturgy of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the Low Countries. She received her PhD from Princeton University and most recently has held a post-doctoral fellowship at KU Leuven.
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