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New Publications from CAS

Embodiments of Power: Building Baroque Cities in Europe

Edited by Gary B. Cohen and Franz A.J. Szabo

Volume 10, Austrian and Habsburg Studies. 320 pages.

The period of the baroque (late sixteenth to mid-eighteenth centuries) saw extensive reconfiguration of European cities and their public spaces. Yet, this transformation cannot be limited merely to signifying a style of art, architecture, and décor. Rather, the dynamism, emotionality, and potential for grandeur that were inherent in the baroque style developed in close interaction with the need and desire of post-Reformation Europeans to find visual expression for the new political, confessional, and societal realities. Highly illustrated, this volume examines these complex interrelationships among architecture and art, power, religion, and society from a wide range of viewpoints and localities. From Kraków to Madrid and from Naples to Dresden, cities were reconfigured visually as well as politically and socially. Power, in both its political and architectural guises, had to be negotiated among constituents ranging from monarchs and high churchmen to ordinary citizens. Within this process, both rulers and ruled were transformed: Europe left behind the last vestiges of the medieval and arrived on the threshold of the modern.

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Austrian History Yearbook, Vol. XL (2009)

This volume again demonstrates the vigor and originality of current research on the cultural and intellectual history of the lands of the Habsburg monarchy alongside the fruitful continuing work of scholars to develop new understandings of political and social development.

Besides articles and review essays, the editors are particularly pleased to present two stimulating forum sections. The first forum honors R. J. W. Evans, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, on the thirtieth anniversary of his path-breaking book, The Making of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1550–1700 (Oxford, 1979). Suitably, the forum casts new light on what Evans identified as the chief factors in forming the early modern Habsburg state: individual rulers and the dynasty, the nobility, and the church, tied together by bonds of law, administrative practice, social customs, and beliefs.

The second forum takes up another great concern of the monarchy in the early modern era, the “Ottoman menace”—not as a matter of actual warfare and diplomacy from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, but rather as a factor in historical memory, mythology, and ideology during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

AHY Vol. XL table of contents (PDF).

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Working Papers in Austrian Studies

The CAS Working Papers in Austrian Studies seeks to stimulate discussion in the field and to provide a vehicle for circulating work in progress. Recently published papers:

07-2. David Gallagher, "Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the transformation of metamorphosis in Christoph Ransmayr’s novel Die letzte Welt"

07-1. David S. Luft, "Das Intellektuelle Leben Österreichs in seiner Beziehung zur deutschen Sprache und der Modernen Kultur" (PDF).

06-2. John Murray and Lars Nilsson, "Risk Compensation for Workers in Late Imperial Austria" (PDF).