Regina Schulte

Ulrike Krampl

Sinne gehören zur anthropologischen Grundausstattung des Menschen, ihre Definition, Erfahrung und Verwendung sind jedoch kulturell und historisch je unterschiedlich: Sinnesordnungen sind gesellschaftliche Ordnungen. Was geschieht nun mit den damit verbundenen Geschlechterordnungen, wenn die Sinneswahrnehmung Störungen ausgesetzt ist, sei es infolge von Kriegserlebnissen oder Gotteserfahrung, im Kulturkontakt oder im Zuge von Konsumwandel? Zu dieser Frage versammelt das Themenheft neben einer Rubrik zu Archiven der Sinnesgeschichte vier Beiträge, die exemplarisch von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert untersuchen, ob und wie durch die Verunsicherung der sinnlichen Gewissheit zuweilen die Gewissheit um die Geschlechterverhältnisse ins Wanken geraten konnte. Aus dem Inhalt: Sinnesregime und Körper der Athene bei Homer / Sinnesirritationen in englischen Reiseberichten über Nordamerika im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert / Soldatische Hysterie und Narkohypnose in britischen und US-amerikanischen Lehrfilmen (1943–1945) / Geruchslandschaften in der Volksrepublik Polen im Wandel / Unternehmerisch tätige Frauen im Wiener Vormärz / Streitende Freundinnen / Archivrecherchen zu David P. Boders Interviews mit Displaced Persons im Sommer 1946 / The Corona Crisis, Informal Gendered Support and Vulnerable Migrant Women in India. Senses are part of the anthropological basic equipment of humans. However, their definition, experience and usage vary throughout history and different cultures: sense orders are social orders. What happens to the gender roles associated when the sensory perception is disturbed, either due to war or God experiences; in cultural contact or due to consumption change? This issue not only assembles four contributions which concern themselves with these questions but also a section with archives on the history of senses. The contributors try to analyse how the confusion of the sensual certainty might shake the certainty of the gender roles from ancient times to the 20th century.

Verstörte Sinne

Schulte provides a new and original interpretation of village life in rural Europe through a close study of the court proceedings for the three most important rural crimes: arson, infanticide, and poaching.

Arson, Infanticide, and Poaching in the Court Records of Upper Bavaria 1848-1910

The Village in Court

Studien zu Geschlecht, Religion und Tod

Die verkehrte Welt des Krieges

How many “bodies” does a queen have? What is the significance of multiple “bodies”? How has the gendered body been constructed and perceived within the context of the European courts during the course of the past five centuries? These are some of the questions addressed in this anthology, a contribution to the ongoing debate provoked by Ernst H. Kantorowicz in his seminal work from 1957, The King’s Two Bodies. On the basis of both textual self-presentations and visual representations a gradual transformation of the queen appears: A sacred/providential figure in medieval and early modern period, an ideal bourgeois wife during the late-18th and 19th Centuries, and a star-like (re-) presentation of royalty during the past century. Twentieth-century mass media has produced the celebrity and film star queens personified by the contested and enigmatic Nefertiti of ancient Egypt, the mysterious Elizabeth (Sisi) of Austria, Grace Kelly as Queen of both Hollywood and Monaco and Romy Schneider as the invented Empress.

Gender and Rule in the Courtly World, 1500-2000

The Body of the Queen

How many "bodies" does a queen have? What is the significance of multiple "bodies"? How has the gendered body been constructed and perceived within the context of the European courts during the course of the past five centuries? These are some of the questions addressed in this anthology, a contribution to the ongoing debate provoked by Ernst H. Kantorowicz in his seminal work from 1957, The King's Two Bodies. On the basis of both textual self-presentations and visual representations a gradual transformation of the queen appears: A sacred/providential figure in medieval and early modern period, an ideal bourgeois wife during the late-18th and 19th Centuries, and a star-like (re-) presentation of royalty during the past century. Twentieth-century mass media has produced the celebrity and film star queens personified by the contested and enigmatic Nefertiti of ancient Egypt, the mysterious Elizabeth (Sisi) of Austria, Grace Kelly as Queen of both Hollywood and Monaco and Romy Schneider as the invented Empress.

Regina Schulte

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