Trading Values in Early Modern Antwerp

In his Descrittione di tutti i Paesi Bassi of 1567, the Italian merchant and humanist Ludovico Guicciardini described Antwerp as the warehouse of the world where all kinds of commodities were traded and displayed. Early modern Antwerp’s pre-eminent position depended upon links between material trade and exchange and the circulation of information, knowledge and beliefs. In this multidisciplinary volume of the NKJ, articles by leading scholars in the fields of art and material culture, literature and history explore ways in which value was propagated in the city from its so-called golden age, before the Revolt of the Netherlands, far into the seventeenth century.

Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History Volume 6: Western Europe (1500-1600)

Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, volume 6 (CMR 6), covering the years 1500-1600, is a continuing volume in a history of relations between followers of the two faiths as it is recorded in their written works. Together with introductory essays, it comprises detailed entries on all the works known from this century. This volume traces the attitudes of Western Europeans to Islam, particularly in light of continuing Ottoman expansion, and early despatches sent from Portuguese colonies around the Indian Ocean. The result of collaboration between numerous leading scholars, CMR 6, along with the other volumes in this series, is intended as a fundamental tool for research in Christian-Muslim relations.

Schaut hin! Missbrauchsprävention in Seelsorge, Beratung und Kirchen

Wie kann Missbräuchen in Seelsorge, Beratung und Kirchen vorgebeugt werden? Vor dem Hintergrund der erschütternden Missbrauchsfälle auch in der Schweiz befassen sich Expertinnen und Experten aus Theologie, Sozialarbeit, Psychologie und Medizin mit dieser drängenden Frage. Die gesammelten Beiträge sind im Rahmen einer Kooperationsveranstaltung zwischen der Abteilung Seelsorge, Religionspsychologie und Religionspädagogik und der nationalen verbandsübergreifenden Arbeitsgruppe Prävention an der Universität Bern entstanden. Sie vermitteln nicht nur interdisziplinäre Erkenntnisse zur effektiven Prävention von Grenzverletzungen aller Art, sondern zeugen auch vom engagierten gemeinsamen Bemühen über alle Disziplinen hinweg, hinzuschauen und Leiden zu verhindern.

Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History, and the Demise of Empires

Empires as political entities may be a thing of the past, but as a concept, empire is alive and kicking. From heritage tourism and costume dramas to theories of the imperial idea(l): empire sells. Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History, and the Demise of Empires presents innovative scholarship on the lives and legacies of empires in diverse media such as literature, film, advertising, and the visual arts. Though rooted in real space and history, the post-empire and its twin, the post-imperial, emerge as ungraspable ideational constructs. The volume convincingly establishes empire as welcoming resistance and affirmation, introducing post-empire imaginaries as figurations that connect the archives and repertoires of colonial nostalgia, postcolonial critique, post-imperial dreaming.