The Lord of Heaven in the Inner Chambers: Jesuits, Women, and Domestic Christianity (ca. 1580-1690)

The study focuses on gender norms and practices in Chinese Christian communities established by Jesuit missionary activity during the long seventeenth century. It analyzes how European and Chinese gender norms and practices affected each other in the context of the Sino-Western cultural contact initiated by the missionaries. The thesis consists of two parts. First, it analyzes the ways in which European Jesuits engaged with Chinese gender relations in the course of their mission in China. The study demonstrates that the Jesuits’ adoption of the Chinese scholar-gentry’s habitus entailed a partial adaptation to Confucian gender norms. The latter placed great emphasis on gender segregation and therefore discouraged direct communication between missionaries and Chinese women. This resulted in the emergence of organizational and devotional arrangements of Christian communities specific to China. Second, the study discusses Chinese Christian women's religious culture that emerged in the absence of a strong missionary presence among female devotees. It points out that Chinese Christian women created their own ritual culture and religious sociability in the domestic context, and that they actively took part in shaping Chinese Christianity as masters of domestic rituals.

Moses Ezekiel [Illustration] : (Porträt)

Scan von Monochrom-Mikroform

Moses Ezekiel

Georg Borchardt

Atelier des Bildhauers Moses Ezekiel in Rom [Illustration]

Scan von Monochrom-Mikroform

Abbildung deß in Irrland von Lemmerich, gefangnen und von Ihro Königlichen Majest. von Groß-Britannien Wilhelm, den 20. Septemb. Anno 1690 nach Londen gebrachten Menschen-Fressers

Enth.: Relation von unterschiedlichen denckwürdigen Wunder-Begebenheiten : vorgestellt in einem traurigen Buß- und Warnungs-Lied

Christlicher Wunsch zu einem Glückseligen Fried- und Freudenreichen Neuen Jahr 1690

Kupferst. zeigt Ansicht Nürnbergs

Unparteysche beschreibung, gemeinister Victualien, was dieselben in̄ zeit Augspurgischer Bloqvierung, von vngefahr anfang deß Monats Novemb. Anno 1634 biß fast zu ende deß Martii, Anno 1635 ... gegolten : Vnd entgegen wie dergleichen Sachen, die zwey Jar, Anno 1640 vnd 1641 ... nach der menge, in ringem Preß, sein zubekom̄en gewesen ...

[C. A. A. ; JE scu.]

Eygendtlicher abriß Des haupttreffens, so Zwischen der Keyserischen vnd Schwedischen Armeen bei Nörlingen[!] geschehen : Den 6. Septemb. ... Ao. 1634

Mit Porträtmedaillon eines Feldherrn

Eine Schlangen-Naturgeschichte 1690

Von Wolfgang Bötticher

Edward John Hopkins, Brustbild

Signatur des Originals: S 36/F08855

Horizontal profiles of longwave and shortwave radiation components over sea ice near Barrow, Alaska during the 2011 melt

An integrated instrument package for measuring and understanding the surface radiation budget of sea ice is presented, along with results from its first deployment. The setup simultaneously measures broadband fluxes of upwelling and downwelling terrestrial and solar radiation (four components separately), spectral fluxes of incident and reflected solar radiation, and supporting data such as air temperature and humidity, surface temperature, and location (GPS), in addition to photographing the sky and observed surface during each measurement. The instruments are mounted on a small sled, allowing measurements of the radiation budget to be made at many locations in the study area to see the effect of small-scale surface processes on the large-scale radiation budget. Such observations have many applications, from calibration and validation of remote sensing products to improving our understanding of surface processes that affect atmosphere-snow-ice interactions and drive feedbacks, ultimately leading to the potential to improve climate modelling of ice-covered regions of the ocean. The photographs, spectral data, and other observations allow for improved analysis of the broadband data. An example of this is shown by using the observations made during a partly cloudy day, which show erratic variations due to passing clouds, and creating a careful estimate of what the radiation budget along the observed line would have been under uniform sky conditions, clear or overcast. Other data from the setup's first deployment, in June 2011 on fast ice near Point Barrow, Alaska, are also shown; these illustrate the rapid changes of the radiation budget during a cold period that led to refreezing and new snow well into the melt season.