Thomas Wallnig – författare

The close relationship between scholarship, politics and religious denomination is currently one of the major issues in research devoted to the Early Modern Age. In this context, increasing attention is being given to the scientific and cultural-historical context of European historiography and historical research. This volume presents new routes for achieving a cultural-studies-based understanding of the European approach to history around 1700. It illuminates the political, denominational and social backgrounds to historicity, as is revealed for instance in Biblical exegesis by Calvinist and Jewish writers.

Präsentationsvideo (4. Folge der Reihe 'ÖGE18 Update') Anyone wishing to look beyond the paradigm of Western progress needs to understand how it came into being. In the intellectual culture of the 17th and 18th centuries, the competitive comparison of Ancients and Moderns and their respective relations to civilization and barbarism constituted one of the formative discourses. Yet alternative ideas of time and historicity are encountered not only in cultural contexts outside of Europe but also in the largely forgotten professional knowledge of the Old World: Thomism, Peripatetism, moderate forms of criticism, political theory, and legal practice. This book introduces a broad panorama of such intellectual cultures in Central Europe. It situates theological, historical, and philosophical scholarship in its institutional and epistemological environments: the Church, the Holy Roman Empire, and the emerging Habsburg Monarchy. In doing so, it identifies struggles over competing pasts – Christian, ethnic, legal – as the core of those domains' intellectual development.

Präsentationsvideo (4. Folge der Reihe ''ÖGE18 Update'')

Anyone wishing to look beyond the paradigm of Western progress needs to understand how it came into being. In the intellectual culture of the 17th and 18th centuries, the competitive comparison of Ancients and Moderns and their respective relations to civilization and barbarism constituted one of the formative discourses. Yet alternative ideas of time and historicity are encountered not only in cultural contexts outside of Europe but also in the largely forgotten professional knowledge of the Old World: Thomism, Peripatetism, moderate forms of criticism, political theory, and legal practice.

This book introduces a broad panorama of such intellectual cultures in Central Europe. It situates theological, historical, and philosophical scholarship in its institutional and epistemological environments: the Church, the Holy Roman Empire, and the emerging Habsburg Monarchy. In doing so, it identifies struggles over competing pasts – Christian, ethnic, legal – as the core of those domains'' intellectual development.

Präsentationsvideo (4. Folge der Reihe ''ÖGE18 Update'')

Anyone wishing to look beyond the paradigm of Western progress needs to understand how it came into being. In the intellectual culture of the 17th and 18th centuries, the competitive comparison of Ancients and Moderns and their respective relations to civilization and barbarism constituted one of the formative discourses. Yet alternative ideas of time and historicity are encountered not only in cultural contexts outside of Europe but also in the largely forgotten professional knowledge of the Old World: Thomism, Peripatetism, moderate forms of criticism, political theory, and legal practice.

This book introduces a broad panorama of such intellectual cultures in Central Europe. It situates theological, historical, and philosophical scholarship in its institutional and epistemological environments: the Church, the Holy Roman Empire, and the emerging Habsburg Monarchy. In doing so, it identifies struggles over competing pasts – Christian, ethnic, legal – as the core of those domains'' intellectual development.

Aufklärung und administrative Reformen prägten in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts Gesellschaft und Staat, sodass die Legitimität kirchlicher Strukturen und Akteure zunehmend an ihrer "Nützlichkeit" gemessen wurde. Vor diesem Hintergrund befasst sich der Band mit Diskursen und Praktiken rund um kirchliche Einrichtungen im "aufgeklärten Absolutismus", wobei der Schwerpunkt auf unterschiedlichen Teilen der Habsburgermonarchie liegt. Hier ergaben sich spannungsreiche Interaktionen zwischen den vielfältigen Institutionen und Formen katholischen Lebens und dem etatistischen Reformwillen Wiens und seiner Behörden. Neben Beiträgen zu diesem Themenkomplex beinhaltet das Jahrbuch auch mehrere Artikel, die auf das Auswahlverfahren zu den Franz-Stephan-Preisen 2020 zurückgehen. Ebenso finden sich Projekt- und Tagungsberichte, Miszellen und Rezensionen, die ein umfassendes Bild der gegenwärtigen Forschung zum 18. Jahrhundert in Österreich vermitteln.

Benedictine scholars around 1700, most prominently proponents of historical criticism, have long been regarded as the spearhead of ecclesiastical learning on the brink of Enlightenment, first in France, then in Germany and other parts of Europe.Based on unpublished sources, this book is the first to contextualize this narrative in its highly complex pre-modern setting, and thus at some distance from modernist ascriptions ex posteriori. Challenged by Protestant and Catholic anti-monasticism, Benedictine scholars strove to maintain control of their intellectual tradition. They failed thoroughly, however: in the Holy Roman Empire, their success depended on an anti-Roman and nationalized reading of their research. For them, becoming part of an Enlightenment narrative meant becoming part of a cultural project of “Germany”.

This book explores the life of Sebastian Tengnagel, the imperial librarian who established Vienna's first major collection of Arabic, Turkish, Persian, and Hebrew manuscripts. By examining his correspondence and interactions with European scholars and Ottoman subjects, it sheds light on his pursuit of knowledge. Highlighting the significance of his manuscript collection and his political and religious positions, this book provides fresh insights into seventeenth-century Vienna as a center for the acquisition and dissemination of Oriental scholarship.