Knowledge Commons | Boris Queckboerner | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/borisqb/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Boris Queckboerner is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:43:54 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 4c8d2b57cd5bdac17a3dc5e4713a87da Laura Francis started the topic CFP: Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire (June 10-12, 2026 @ NUIM) in the forum Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/groups/early-modern-history/forum/topic/cfp-migration-and-the-early-modern-spanish-empire-june-10-12-2026-nuim-4/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:09:14 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

I am excited to announce the following call for papers for a conference on “Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire” that will take place from June 10th-12th, 2026 at the National University of Ireland in Maynooth.

Please see the attached PDF for further details. The deadline for submissions is December 19th, 2025.

I am…[Read more]

]]> 32822022795a7796181be9c59ab59c18 Ana Dumitran deposited Ecclesia super omnia in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897871/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:00:31 -0400 The volume includes some of the papers presented in the Museikon section of the Annual Scientific Conference organised in 2023 by the Alba Iulia National Museum of the Great Union (Romania). The studies cover topics such as: the pious behavior of women in the Transylvanian Middle Ages, the possession of slaves and gypsies by the Wallachian…[Read more]

]]> 0 d427495c6787eef766487a2654de47e2 Peter van Druenen deposited CLIO’S ABACUS (On the Arrival of the Annales School in the Netherlands and the Development of Historical Arithmetic) in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896631/ Sun, 18 Aug 2024 03:00:07 -0400 Clios’Abacus is an intriguing exploration in literature into the way quantitative historical research in the Netherlands over the past half-century has been shaped, largely based on outdated and never updated source material. In the background, the implementation of ideas from the French Annales School (Febvre, Braudel, Le Roy Ladurie, among o…[Read more]

]]> 0 f1b57e142936b276fd9acb0699e92a2c Ana Dumitran deposited Intercultural and Visual Art Transfer in Central Europe and the Balkans. Ruthenian-Ukrainian and Romanian Art from the 15th to the Early 19th Century in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881047/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 03:00:33 -0400 The book is part of the ERC Consolidator Grant RICONTRANS editorial programme (grant agreement no. 818791) and contains 11 studies on cultural and artistic transfers between the former Polish-Lithuanian Community and the Romanian territories (Moldova, Muntenia and Transylvania).

]]> 0 2411cee12051be1610fd522b136bae1d Ana Dumitran deposited Museikon. A Journal of Religious Art and Culture in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1877122/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 03:00:56 -0500 The 7th issue of the Museikon journal contains articles signed by Ileana Sasu, Alina Kondratiuk, Elisabeta Negrău, Alessia Chapel, Vladimir Agrigoroaei, Daniel Dumitran, Sidonia Olea, Claudiu Stoian, Ana Dumitran, Laura Jiga-Iliescu, Luiza Zamora, Levente Nagy, Csaba Szabo and Dragoș Ursu.

]]> 0 aa28d809e21399ebd272b3cd1c9b5c02 Ana Dumitran deposited Russian Icons from Transylvania. Exhibition Catalogue in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862612/ Thu, 26 Oct 2023 03:00:12 -0400 This publication is part of the project “Ricontrans – Visual Culture, Piety and Propaganda. Transfer and Reception of Russian Religious Art in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean (16th to Early 20th Century)”, funded from the European Research Council (erc) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant…[Read more]

]]> 0 680e1d56fd6d317e33dc6b819578e03b Sarah Lowengard deposited Ordering Colours in 18th and Early 19th Century Europe in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861721/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 03:00:51 -0400 I co-edited this collection of essays about color order and color ordering systems based on a workshop held at TU-Berlin in 2020.
https://bit.ly/Ordering_Colours

]]> 0 fcbb8bf33f85ed6638044bc0b780904b Paulino Capdepon deposited La música en la Colegiata de Santa María la Mayor de Talavera de la Reina durante el siglo XVIII, Talavera de la Reina: Ayuntamiento, 2012, pp. 1-806. in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1858159/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 01:08:09 -0400 This work won the 'XX Premio de Investigación Fernando Jiménez de Gregorio', awarded by the City Council of Talavera de la Reina in 2011. Reviews: 1) Reseña de Josep Maria Gregori Cifré en Critica Bibliographica (vol. C, febrero 2013): http://www.academiaeditorial.com/web/talavera 2) Reseña de Leticia Yustos en DoceNotas. Revista de Música y Danza…[Read more]

]]> 0 bb85e6d30b8cea1810f71237f482887b Sarah Lowengard deposited Expanding on the (Already Global) History of Turkey Red in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1857413/ Tue, 05 Sep 2023 07:33:10 -0400 This essay, which expands on my talk at the Colors and Cultures / Couleurs et Cultures conference in April 2021, charts the history and my plans for a broad exploration of Turkey red as both subject and as object in global history. In it, I move between the personal—the compulsions that led me to undertake this series of studies, and which c…[Read more]

]]> 0 da9e97ae85fc993f4c64861f9fae4b13 Katrina Grant deposited Planting ‘Italian Gusto’ in ‘a Gothick country’: The influence of Filippo Juvarra on William Kent in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1851613/ Thu, 13 Jul 2023 02:23:40 -0400 After a lacklustre attempt to become a painter,William Kent (1685–1748) developed a career as a garden designer, working mainly for Lord Burlington and other patrons in his circle. His gardens represent some of the earliest gardens of a style that became known as the ‘English Landscape Garden’, exemplified by Stourhead in Wiltshire, Rousham in Ox…[Read more]

]]> 0 df84ef72afdb972f10b768c30b049237 Ana Dumitran deposited Vision de Varnava. Înțăleptului Varnava minunată arătare a vederii lui cu pildă tuturor in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1850420/ Wed, 28 Jun 2023 02:25:04 -0400 Du sage Varnava la merveilleuse apparition de sa vision avec exemple pour tous, cette traduction-recréation roumaine en vers du Dialogus du poète baroque hongrois Nyéki Vörös Mátyas, effectuée en Transylvanie en 1670, peut être considérée comme la première œuvre du pope Ioan de Vintz. Sur le plan européen, sa Vision de Varnava représente l…[Read more]

]]> 0 726cdca854b855a48f42433c7139c02d Sarah Lowengard deposited On the Disappearance of the Animal Body in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1850417/ Wed, 28 Jun 2023 02:24:43 -0400 Part of a special issue "Making Animal Materials in Time" (HSNS 53, no. 3)

]]> 0 45c82e2a166dcac157de6140b42ceb4b Joachim Berger deposited Hercules Vinariensis : Aneignungen eines europäischen Mythos in der frühen Neuzeit in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1848481/ Wed, 07 Jun 2023 02:24:01 -0400 For the 16th birthday of the hereditary prince Carl August of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach on 3 September 1773, his teacher Christoph Martin Wieland had the play "The Choice of Hercules", a "dramatic cantata", performed at the Weimar court theatre. Did Wieland thus connect to a tradition of the Hercules myth connected with the dynasty or the place…[Read more]

]]> 0 ae8c498010c9f2ab8ca7eeb9bba10288 Joachim Berger deposited Von der russischen Großfürstin zur deutschen »Landesmutter«. Zur Akkulturation des europäischen Hochadels im 19. Jahrhundert in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1848479/ Wed, 07 Jun 2023 02:23:41 -0400 This essay traces the transformations of aristocratic representation using the example of the Russian Tsar's daughter Maria Pavlovna (1786–1859), who was married to the Weimar court in 1804. Maria Pavlovna endeavoured to put her informal ruling techniques, charitable undertakings as well as her patronage and memorial ambitions in Weimar's '…[Read more]

]]> 0 aef896321daf34e3d9d2e666b648cf05 Paulino Capdepon deposited La capilla musical de la Catedral de Segorbe en los siglos XVI y XVII [The chapel music at the Segorbe Cathedral in 16th and 18th centuries] in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1836381/ Sun, 05 Mar 2023 02:24:38 -0500 The music chapel of the Cathedral of Segorbe has historically played a primordial role in the history of Spanish music, constituting a focus of musical activity that attracted a numerous group of singers, instrumentalists, organists and chapel masters who formed part of the aforementioned chapel, whose antecedents date back to the mid-13th…[Read more]

]]> 0 a7053a92ff71b4aa601cff81f3618488 Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Iglesia, mar y Casa Real: Imaginario de la odisea en la épica del Siglo de Oro in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834639/ Fri, 17 Feb 2023 02:24:43 -0500 In this book chapter, Dr. Davis examines the depiction of a dissimulated desire for material improvement (mejora) as it is expressed in the epic poetry of imperial Spain, particularly in Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana. She shows that within the aristocratic context of the times, the desire for personal betterment or "mejora" is always contingent…[Read more]

]]> 0 29e08796f493a60ab82d5e4d50af734c Elizabeth B. Davis deposited La promesa del náufrago: el motivo marinero del ex-voto, de Garcilaso a Quevedo in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834635/ Fri, 17 Feb 2023 02:24:07 -0500 The nautical motif of the ex-voto (votive offering) is a lyric genre that reflects poetically the possible experience of a shipwreck survivor. Paradoxically, many of the poets who evoke the perils of sea travel never left Spain or, at most, sailed only the waters of the Mediterranean. Their writing of the sea remained consistently codified in…[Read more]

]]> 0 bcd6d0252f231525219cf4f2a10a5a56 Paulino Capdepon deposited Josquin Des Prez: Un legado culminante del Renacimiento in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834313/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:34:23 -0500 The biographical trajectory of the Franco-Flemish composer Josquin des Prez can be described as exciting and his musical contribution as transcendent in an era of sublime creativity that coincided with the artistic and intellectual rediscovery of the values of classical Greco-Latin antiquity. A contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo,…[Read more]

]]> 0 f800b7a58b97240bc927f87ff696f406 Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Hagiographic Jest in Quevedo: Tradition and Departure in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834266/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:26:23 -0500 Several of Francisco de Quevedo's hagiographic poems are puzzling because of their irreverent tone. Edward M. Wilson and Jose Manuel Blecua both noted that "la relacion entre las dos caras de un Quevedo es cuestión difícil y delicada para los modernos;" indeed, the writer's particular blend of "las burlas con las veras" has attracted attention s…[Read more]

]]> 0 e04fbf60c32a181ec23dd9136ee651f5 Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Time of catastrophe: temporalities in the transatlantic relación of Diego Portichuelo de Ribadeneyra in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834262/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:26:06 -0500 Using the transatlantic relación of Diego Portichuelo de Ribadeneyra (1657) as an example, this essay tracks some of the ways in which several religious passengers narrated their experience crossing the Atlantic Ocean in the Spanish Indies fleets during the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries. Of particular importance here are the ways in…[Read more]

]]> 0 4d1f19333c5052aa6d5d7a32a73eccf5 Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Travesías peligrosas: escritos marítimos en España durante la Época Imperial, 1492-1650 in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834255/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:25:11 -0500 This chapter is the product of a Keynote Address that Dr. Davis offered at the VII Conference of the Asociación Internacional Siglo de Oro which took place at Robinson College, Cambridge, 18-22 July, 2005. Here the author examines a variety of kinds of early modern Spanish maritime writing (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries).

]]> 0 e2ffba1172bbcacc1f41f7db9446f04a Joachim Berger deposited Anna Amalia und das »Ereignis Weimar-Jena« in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1832173/ Wed, 01 Feb 2023 02:24:21 -0500 Duchess Anna Amalia (1739-1807) was a central figure in the duchies of Weimar and Eisenach for over fifty years - as wife of the reigning duke, then as custodial regent and finally as mother of the reigning duke. The article comes to the conclusion that the duchess could barely affect the emergence of the configuration that has been referred to in…[Read more]

]]> 0 19f9e5ea378810bf3708fe151c90ad5a Joachim Berger deposited Hofordnungen in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1831970/ Tue, 31 Jan 2023 02:23:38 -0500 The article examines regulations for »order« at the princely courts in the Holy Roman Empire in the 16th century and asks how these prescriptive documents sought to establish "good order" at court. Special attention is paid to the theological justifications of order as well as the confessionality and the confessional character of court orders. T…[Read more]

]]> 0 229c4b3dec9f22eaaf3c525209f74d05 Joachim Berger deposited Repräsentationsstrategien deutscher Fürstinnen in der Spätaufklärung in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1831113/ Tue, 24 Jan 2023 02:23:40 -0500 After the Seven Years War German petty courts increasingly felt obliged to justify their very existence. Therefor members of the reigning dynasties developped strategies to represent themselves as ›enlightened‹ rulers. Especially for non-reigning princesses, practice and patronage of the fine arts – theatre, music, landscape gardening, liter…[Read more]

]]> 0 5efa22987d87b36fe37061d99eded39e Joachim Berger deposited Festarbeit, Tafelloge, Zeremonial. Freimaurerei und höfische Gesellschaft in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1829043/ Tue, 10 Jan 2023 02:23:38 -0500 Freemasonry has traditionally been seen as a key influence in the rise of the Bourgeoisie, since it allegedly subdued social boundaries and behavioural norms of the Ancien Régime. This paper, however, argues that the masonic lodges at least in the smaller German court towns, adopted various elements of court society – organizational structures, my…[Read more]

]]> 0 55dc9a5354bf90ef1a868e412c9bd98d Joachim Berger deposited Herkules in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827157/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 02:24:52 -0500 Heracles/Hercules is a particularly striking example of how European societies have received, appropriated and reshaped classical heroic myths into the early 21st century. Is the ancient hero thus also a European site of memory? It will be shown that it was a specific aspect of the myth that was evoked particularly frequently and became a topos by…[Read more]

]]> 0 070e7099f92b6ae02d677bd0cfdd7496 Joachim Berger deposited Herkules – Held zwischen Tugend und Hybris. Ein europäischer Erinnerungsort der Frühen Neuzeit? in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1818094/ Wed, 19 Oct 2022 02:24:16 -0400 This essay traces some of the contexts and media in which "Heracles-Hercules" - as a hero between virtue and hubris - was visible in European societies from the end of the middle ages onwards. It discusses whether this example of the reception, appropriation and transformation of classical myths in the early modern period can be understood as a…[Read more]

]]> 0 f1eace521744f23748b876de00afcd59 Joachim Berger deposited Reisen zwischen Autopsie und Imagination. Herzogin Anna Amalia als Vermittlerin italienischer Kultur in der Residenz Weimar (1788–1807) in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1818092/ Wed, 19 Oct 2022 02:23:58 -0400 For two years, from 1788 to 1790, Duchess Anna Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1739-1807) exchanged her familiar surroundings with Rome and Naples. She undertook her furthest and most ambitious journey at the age of almost 49. For the only time the princely widow left Germany or the German territories of the Reich. During her stay, the Duchess…[Read more]

]]> 0 8756ba49f653041e412fe86123d1ca07 Manuel Loyola deposited 200 años después. Los Andes en la encrucijada de las Independencias. Panamá, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Bolivia, Chile, España in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1778609/ Thu, 14 Apr 2022 02:25:19 -0400 Entre los años 2020-2022 se han llevado a cabo diversos eventos conmemoratorios de las independencias nacionales, regionales o locales, sin que se haya efectuado un encuentro que los englobara. Este fue el objetivo del Seminario Internacional 200 años después. Los Andes en la encrucijada de las Independencias (Sevilla, diciembre 2021) que ahora da…[Read more]

]]> 0 c82e59a8f49153b86224e9a9192c026d Manuel Loyola deposited Jorge Insunza Becker. Escritos políticos e ideológicos 1980-2015, T.3 in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1778600/ Thu, 14 Apr 2022 02:24:19 -0400 Jorge Insunza Becker (21 de abril de 1936-17 de marzo de 2019) fue uno de los principales dirigentes del Partido Comunista chileno desde los años 60. Ingresó a las Juventudes Comunistas en 1954. En 1962 fue promovido al Comité Central del PC y desde 1965 fue parte de su Comisión Política, aquella que encabezó el triunfo de Salvador Allende de 19…[Read more]

]]> 0 81ced0783939ec62d99ae59b84fcde72 David Amelang deposited David J. Amelang, “Gente de la Parroquia: identidad social del barrio teatral en el Madrid del Siglo de Oro” in Fernando Andrés, Mauro Hernández and Saúl Martínez (eds.), Mirando desde el puente. Estudios en homenaje al profesor James S. Amelang (UAM Ediciones, 2019), pp. 357-366 in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1717519/ Thu, 19 Nov 2020 02:24:45 -0500 "Hace ya veintiséis años se publicó una colección de ensayos en homenaje a la historiadora Natalie Zemon Davis que incluía un capítulo llamado “People of the Ribera: Popular Politics and Neighborhood Identity in Early Modern Barcelona”. En él, su autor, a quien ahora dedicamos esta obra, delinea brevemente una metodología para analizar el perfil s…[Read more]

]]> 0 447db52f74e47310705485e0ff095799 David Amelang deposited David J. Amelang, “Comparing the Commercial Theaters of Early Modern London and Madrid” (Renaissance Quarterly 71.2, 2018), pp. 610-644 in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1717510/ Thu, 19 Nov 2020 02:24:05 -0500 Comparative studies have revealed uncanny similarities between the theatrical cultures of Shakespearean England and Golden Age Spain, and in particular between the Elizabethan amphitheaters and the Spanish corrales de comedia (courtyard playhouses). Contrary to conventional wisdom, however, Spain’s (and, in particular, Madrid’s) courtyard the…[Read more]

]]> 0 c4e70e7a6da708dac1055ea76ea96521 David Amelang deposited David J. Amelang, "A Day in the Life: The Performance of Playgoing in Early Modern Madrid and London" (Bulletin of the Comediantes 70.2, 2018), pp. 111-127 in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1716895/ Mon, 16 Nov 2020 02:25:03 -0500 Going to the theater was one of the most distinctive-as well as conspicuous-cultural activities to take place regularly in early modern european cities. Precisely because so many people from all walks of life partook of this highly visible pastime, public theaters became spaces wherein social and cultural boundaries between spectators were easily…[Read more]

]]> 0 1f48bad0b1126f120286be8dcece2db8 Boris Queckboerner started the topic Homeoffice - challenges and solutions in the discussion Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/groups/early-modern-history/forum/topic/homeoffice-challenges-and-solutions/ Wed, 22 Apr 2020 19:52:43 -0400 Dear all,

working at home can be quite difficult these days. My institution provides some help in the form of information and references to various materials. I would like to share these things with you all. If you have further information on good tutorials and the like, please feel free to share alike!

The first paper actually is in German. Any…[Read more]

]]> d8d0916eb5dac0105a23d2f862fbac50 Boris Queckboerner created the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1682953/ Sun, 05 Apr 2020 11:10:59 -0400 0