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The question of whether Britain is "apart from or a part of Europe" (D. Abulafia) has gained significance in recent years. This book reassesses an underexplored field of early modern transnational history: the variety of ways in which connections between Britain and German-speaking Europe shaped developments.

After a comprehensive introduction, this book is divided into three parts: cross-border transfers and appropriations of knowledge; coping with alterity in intergovernmental contacts; and ideologising the cultural nation. The topics range from the exchange of religious and political ideas over court life, diplomacy, and espionage to literary and philosophical debates. Particular attention is paid to the media processes involved and to the practical value of knowledge about the "other" in different historical contexts. The picture emerging from the case studies reveals an intriguing dynamic: Mutual interest and ambiguous entanglements deepened precisely at a time when the British and German worlds diverged evermore from each other in terms of social and political structures.This fascinating volume sheds new light on Anglo-German relations and will be essential reading for students of early modern European history.

The question of whether Britain is "apart from or a part of Europe" (D. Abulafia) has gained significance in recent years. This book reassesses an underexplored field of early modern transnational history: the variety of ways in which connections between Britain and German-speaking Europe shaped developments.

After a comprehensive introduction, this book is divided into three parts: cross-border transfers and appropriations of knowledge; coping with alterity in intergovernmental contacts; and ideologising the cultural nation. The topics range from the exchange of religious and political ideas over court life, diplomacy, and espionage to literary and philosophical debates. Particular attention is paid to the media processes involved and to the practical value of knowledge about the "other" in different historical contexts. The picture emerging from the case studies reveals an intriguing dynamic: Mutual interest and ambiguous entanglements deepened precisely at a time when the British and German worlds diverged evermore from each other in terms of social and political structures.This fascinating volume sheds new light on Anglo-German relations and will be essential reading for students of early modern European history.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, objects, texts and people travelled around the world on board Dutch ships. The essays in this book explore how these circulations transformed knowledge in Asian and European societies. They concentrate on epistemic consequences in the fields of historiography, geography, natural history, religion and philosophy, as well as in everyday life. Emphasizing transformations, the volume reconstructs small semantic shifts of knowledge and tentative adjustments to new cultural contexts. It unfolds the often conflict-ridden, complex and largely global history of specific pieces of knowledge as well as of generally-shared contemporary understandings regarding what could or could not be considered true. The book contributes to current debates about how to conceptualize the unsettled epistemologies of the early modern world.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, objects, texts and people travelled around the world on board Dutch ships. The essays in this book explore how these circulations transformed knowledge in Asian and European societies. They concentrate on epistemic consequences in the fields of historiography, geography, natural history, religion and philosophy, as well as in everyday life. Emphasizing transformations, the volume reconstructs small semantic shifts of knowledge and tentative adjustments to new cultural contexts. It unfolds the often conflict-ridden, complex and largely global history of specific pieces of knowledge as well as of generally-shared contemporary understandings regarding what could or could not be considered true. The book contributes to current debates about how to conceptualize the unsettled epistemologies of the early modern world.

Aufbauend auf einer umfassenden Analyse des frühneuzeitlichen Urbanisierungsgeschehens behandelt der Band u.a. die Fundamentalvorgänge der frühneuzeitlichen dt. Stadtgeschichte: die "Beziehungsgeschichte" von Stadt und frühmodernem Staat sowie das spannungsreiche Geschehen im Überschneidungsfeld von Stadt, Kirche und Religion. Ein Nachtrag zur jüngsten Forschung und die aktualisierte Bibliographie runden den Band ab.

Der Band rückt eine bislang kaum wahrgenommene vormoderne Quelle in den Blick: sogenannte „Seelenbeschreibungen". Sie sind das schriftliche Produkt von Hausbesuchen und Prüfungen der Gemeindeglieder durch Pfarrer und fungierten als Messinstrumente des persönlichen Glaubenswissens. Außer über katechetische Kenntnisse geben sie in einzigartiger Weise Auskunft über Lebensumstände (Geschlecht, Alter, Familie, Beruf etc.) sowie über Lese- und Schreibfähigkeiten von Dorf- und Stadtbewohnern. Die Beiträge des Bandes untersuchen ausgewählte　Seelenbeschreibungen vor dem Hintergrund der frühneuzeitlichen Alphabetisierungsforschung."　

Schwerpunkt sind zum einen die Beziehungen zwischen jüdischem Binnenraum und nicht-jüdischer Umwelt, zum anderen das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Landesherrschaft und den imperialen, durch Kaiser und Reich bestimmten Rahmenbedingungen jüdischer Existenz. Beiträge von: Anette Baumann, J. Friedrich Battenberg, Stefan Ehrenpreis, Rainer S. Elkar, Andreas Gotzmann, André Griemert, Karl Härter, Vera Kallenberg, Verena Kasper-Marienberg, Thomas Lau, Gerhard Rechter (†), Ursula Reuter, Stephan Wendehorst