Florian Riedler

Robert Born

Arkadiusz Blaszczyk

This volume analyzes historical processes of mobility by focusing on material objects. Mobility—as a shorthand for various related processes such as migration, transfer, entanglement, and translation—involves human actors, immaterial elements such as ideas and knowledge, but also objects in various forms and functions. For example, as material infrastructures they are the basis for transport and travel; as goods they are the object and purpose of trade or gift exchange. By focusing on the way objects determined certain processes of mobility and how their social meaning and materiality was transformed in these processes, the contributors hope to gain deeper insight into the historical relations between the Ottoman Empire, Eastern Europe, and Persia.

Objects Moving through Time, Space, and Meaning

Transottoman Matters

This volume analyzes historical processes of mobility by focusing on material objects. Mobility - as a shorthand for various related processes such as migration, transfer, entanglement, and translation - involves human actors, immaterial elements such as ideas and knowledge, but also objects in various forms and functions. For example, as material infrastructures they are the basis for transport and travel; as goods they are the object and purpose of trade or gift exchange. By focusing on the way objects determined certain processes of mobility and how their social meaning and materiality was transformed in these processes, the contributors hope to gain deeper insight into the historical relations between the Ottoman Empire, Eastern Europe, and Persia.

Objects Moving Through Time, Space, and Meaning

Beate Störtkuhl

Der Erste Weltkrieg war der erste militärische Konflikt, in dem die Geisteswissenschaften Aufgaben der Propaganda übernahmen. Im Herbst 1914, nach den Zerstörungen in Reims und Löwen/Leuven, starteten die Mittelmächte mit dem „Kunstschutz“ eine Kampagne, die den Vorwurf „deutscher Barbarei“ in der Kriegsführung widerlegen sollte. Die Aktivitäten des „Kunstschutzes“ umfassten alle Kriegsschauplätze, die bisherige Forschung blieb jedoch auf Belgien und Frankreich konzentriert. Dieser Band behandelt den Themenkomplex erstmals in vergleichender Perspektive und legt dabei den Schwerpunkt auf die Regionen des östlichen und südöstlichen Europa. Die Beiträge untersuchen, welche Interessen die deutschen und österreichischen Wissenschaftler – u. a. Kunsthistoriker, Archäologen, Ethnologen – in den jeweiligen Besatzungsgebieten leiteten, welche Schutz- und Wiederaufbaumaßnahmen sie tatsächlich initiierten, ob und in welcher Form es zu Interferenzen mit Fachkollegen vor Ort kam.

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