Studt, Birgit (ed. ): House and family books in the urban
society of the late medieval and early modern period. Cologne: Böhlau Verlag
/ Vienna 2007. ISBN 978-3-412-24005-9; XX, 166 p., EUR 27,90.
reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by: Sabine
Schmolinsky, Faculty of Arts, University of Erfurt
E-mail: \u0026lt; sabine.schmolinsky @ uni-erfurt.de >
In the wake of years interest in reinforcing their own
relevant sources are domestic, family and gender Books
come increasing attention to the late Middle Ages and Early Modern Studies
. They attract attention in the investigation of
autobiographies / Egodokumenten as diverse as sources for
history of representation of family and kinship in
patrician or aristocratic urban-living environments. They draw attention to the
especially designed for the hand-written tradition
carrier and their equipment.
The anthology, edited by Birgit Studt is these types of books in the urban space devoted
. In its creation, Studt
the question of the role of family-related literacy within the
urban culture of memory and pointed them to that
urban elites. Their family histories showed reciprocal influences
patrician-noble urban and rural environments. Terminology
she chooses "home and family books" as a generic term for
"Documentation Forms", in which family stories, autobiographical
, clerical, domestic and other
knowledge can be united (p. XIIf.). In her article "Memory and Identity
. The representation of urban elites in late medieval
home and family books, "they also discussed
examples and systematic" in the family as a social
accounting practice "(p. 6) [1], the STR ; dtischen elites that forms a part of their
"representation behavior" (p. 29). Studt it draws a clear dividing line between the
"dynastic [n] Raison"
(agricultural) and urban character of aristocratic families
"family consciousness" (p. 31).
Greg Rohmer contrast accentuated in his post "with great seer
Muhe VND write to ferre site. Knowledge production and knowledge networking
in the German family book of the 16 letters Century
this practice beyond the interests in genealogy or family
identity "as communicative as material substratum of social
relations" (p. 120). In several examples, he goes
issues of pragmatics to the family book case. Based on the historical
writing system of trivia, he developed concepts of knowledge, also
the implications of retrospective coverage of memory
simultaneously living generations together contain
("knowledge networking", "networked knowledge", "knowledge networking"). Rohmann
shows how oral and written knowledge of family mediated
a family man or someone was verschriftlicht in its role to a family book
, in the media networks or intertextual with
anderen Büchern, eigenen oder denen anderer Familien, gegebenenfalls
auch der städtischen Verwaltungsschriftlichkeit, verbunden war.[2] So
realisierten sich im Familienbuch als „Speicher“, als „Medium [von]
Kommunikation“ und als „Gegenstand dieser Kommunikation“ soziale
Netzwerke „dreifach im Wissensnetzwerk der Familienbuchschreibung“ (S.
109).
Die übrigen Beiträge des Bandes beschäftigen sich eingehender mit
einzelnen Quellen. Marc von der Höh („Zwischen religiöser Memoria
and family history. The family book of Werner Overstolzenhaus ") shows how the entanglement of
codicological-paleographical
observations and content analysis to statements about" human interaction
a late medieval patrician with the written text "(S may 37).
lead. Obviously created for purposes of family Totenmemoria,
was the first manuscript of copies of documents on Foundations
to the family altar in the church of the Cistercian monastery of St. Mary in
Seyne. These provisions were then added to the order of
altar service and facilities. Add notes
came over the graves of ancestors and relatives, as well as
family news, genealogy, heraldry, living relatives of the couple
Overstolzenhaus Werner and Elisabeth Rotstock. This knowledge as a proof of noble descent
own and solidarity with the city and its history indicates
from on high as symbolic capital,
accumulated at a time (1444/1445-1446), in which the social position of the old
gender in Cologne had become precarious.
the impending loss of social memory catch, took a
memory location, as it was Werner Overstolzenhaus in the form of his family created
book.
foundations and their related forms are part of Memoria
urban elites at the center of the contribution of Christian
Kuhn, "the dead and Stiftungsmemoria. Family legacy and memory formation
Tucher of Nuremberg (1450-1550) ". In particular he is interested
the likely result of the introduction of the Reformation
revaluations of foundations and foundation purposes and their impact on the
historiographic self-representation
patrician families. In the "large cloth book from the late 16 Century, he finds evidence of elements
Old Believers piety such as concern for the future
soul and those of caring for the spiritual salvation of
parish next to a detailed confession of the Lutheran Confession
.
The traces of the religious re-orientation to the Reformation
found in the manuscript that Alexa Renggli in her article "The Family Book Hans Vogler
the Elder and the Younger. Origin and
presents practical significance ". The book is entirely text-based
emerged since 1479 in the St. Gallen Rhine Valley and includes the part of the
Father Vogler family history records, a section on
the wine runs (the fixed price for wine) in the Rhine Valley,
annalistic records primarily from a regional perspective,
a collection of literary texts, prayers, religious
reflections, recipes and a list of governors of the rule
Rhine Valley. The son however, wrote a detailed retrospective
description of his life and Events of the Reformation in
Rhine Valley, where he had been a leading participant. In transcripts and calendars
he enclosed a vast collection of archives. went out after a few
records of the principal heirs of the third generation of the active
dealing with the book.
The article by Martin Scheutz and Harald Tersch, "Memoria and
, society '. The city as a stage in three Upper Austrian
autobiographies of women from the 17th Century figured
, self-certificate 'as a generic term for home and family books, here
the "Gerasch Book of Memory" and the so-called "Chronicle of Peisser.
The former consists of the records of the Protestant nobles of Gera
Esther (died 1611) and the 1647-1653
diarist notes written down their Catholic
granddaughter Maria Susanna from White Mountain. Both descriptions apply to the life of the landed gentry
and his network in Styria, and then the country
the Enns. Their world was divided by country and city, where
latter, especially main cities such as Linz, as the preferred platform
noble professional representation bei Übergangsriten wie Hochzeit, Taufe
oder Begräbnis figurierte. Dem Linzer Patriziat entstammt das etwa
zeitgleiche "Memori Piehel" für die Jahre 1653–1703, das von dem
Kaufmann Johann Peisser angelegt worden war und von seiner Frau Eva
Maria Schreiner detaillierter und betont moralisch-didaktisch
fortgeführt wurde. Sie schufen und dokumentierten die Präsenz der
Familie in den Linzer Sakralräumen durch religiöse Stiftungen. Scheutz
und Tersch charakterisieren Linz als „Textstadt“, da bei den Autorinnen
und Autoren Vorgaben verschiedener Schrifttraditionen flowed together, which also awarded
Linz in changing, socially and economically, if necessary
didactic moral connotations space sections as "the scene of a
status just acting" (p. 154) has its own reputation.
aristocrats and bourgeois lifestyle, such as family history
pointed to some common characteristics.
space is evident in all contributions as a fundamental category for
detection and description of home and family books. This
in an urban environment and its determinants and noble
observed in shaping, it is examined at one of their places of origin to
. In particular, this should be valid for at least the cities
Nuremberg, Augsburg, Frankfurt am Main, Cologne, Hamburg, Graz and Linz
as well as under regional aspect of the St. Gallen Rhine Valley and Upper Austria
. The volume therefore provides basic work for a little
researched source type, and it is highly desirable that he will find interdisciplinary
its due attention and stimulate further research
.
Notes:
[1] The concept of social practice in the self-testimony research
a reference point in the investigation by Gabriele Jancke,
autobiography as social practice. Relationship concepts in
autobiographies of the 15th and 16 Century in German-speaking
Cologne 2002.
[2] Barbara Schmid chooses a theme-related contribution to the
name, home directory 'and distinguishes this type of source
sex books (p. 613f.). Barbara Schmid, house
book as a literary genre. The records Johann Heinrich Waser
(1600-1669) and the Zurich House book tradition, in:
Daphnis 34 (2005), p. 603-656.
This review was supported editorially by: Karin Gottschalk
\u0026lt; k.gottschalk @ em.uni-frankfurt.de >
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