Jacob M Baum
Biographic Data
| ID | 1481396 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacob M Baum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacob M |
| FAMILY NAME | Baum |
| SIGNATURE | BAUM J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Tech University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2403-4478 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Blindness, Judicial Blinding, and Social Death in Early Modern Germany
This article examines the great age of corporal punishments in German-speaking lands to draw attention to the historical intersections between senses, disability, and social death. Between approximately 1400 and 1550, civic and territorial magistrates administered a wide variety of corporal punishments on subjects, including mutilating punishments such as blinding. This article sketches the history of judicial blinding through a close reading of …
A vernacular archive of early modern disability
This essay charts a key moment in the premodern cultural history of disability by mapping out how Martin Luther talked about deafness in his vernacular works. It employs a simple keyword search methodology to the digitized version of the Weimarer Ausgabe , compiling all references to taub and Taubhe it . Also included are references to taubstumm and stumm , reflecting premodern tendencies to blur distinctions between deafness and mutism. Analysis…
The Idea of Deafness as Disability in Renaissance Germany
This essay assesses the degree to which the deaf were regarded as a disabled population in medical, religious, and legal thought during the Renaissance, chronologically identified with the period between approximately 1500 and 1650. The primary geographic focus rests on the German-speaking lands of central Europe. Analysis shows that the idea of deafness as a disability here was composite one, making connections between inability to hear and inte…
Plague, Print, and the Reformation
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Prophetie als Partizipation am Heilsplan
Melanchthon und die Reformierte Tradition
The senses in the writings of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
Mark M. Smith (2007) exclaimed ten years ago that it was a “good moment to be a sensory historian” (841). Surveying the field of sensory history, one might have been inclined to agree, with some qu
A World Ablaze
"A World Ablaze: The Rise of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Reformation." History: Reviews of New Books, 46(6), pp. 154–155
Machtfelder
Machtfelder: Die Politik Herzog Albrechts IV. von Bayern (1447/1465–1508) zwischen Territorium, Dynastie und Reich. Christof Paulus. Forschungen zur Kaiser- und Papstgeschichte des Mittelalters; Beihefte zu J. F. Böhmer, Regesta Imperii 39. Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2015. viii + 752 pp. €90. - Volume 70 Issue 1
A Cultural History of the Senses in the Renaissance
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The Flower and the Scorpion
From Incense to Idolatry
This article builds on recent advances in sensory anthropology to examine the significance of smell in late medieval and early Reformation ritual. It argues that late medieval ritual reflected and reinforced the power of smell to affect senses of boundary demarcation and transition between bodies, the world, and the divine. By removing incense from their rituals, early Reformers challenged this paradigm, effectively desacralizing the sense of sme…
Are You Alone Wise? The Search for Certainty in the Early Modern Era
The Idea of Deafness as Disability in Renaissance Germany
This essay assesses the degree to which the deaf were regarded as a disabled population in medical, religious, and legal thought during the Renaissance, chronologically identified with the period between approximately 1500 and 1650. The primary geographic focus rests on the German-speaking lands of central Europe. Analysis shows that the idea of deafness as a disability here was composite one, making connections between inability to hear and inte…
Are You Alone Wise? The Search for Certainty in the Early Modern Era
The Flower and the Scorpion
From Incense to Idolatry
This article builds on recent advances in sensory anthropology to examine the significance of smell in late medieval and early Reformation ritual. It argues that late medieval ritual reflected and reinforced the power of smell to affect senses of boundary demarcation and transition between bodies, the world, and the divine. By removing incense from their rituals, early Reformers challenged this paradigm, effectively desacralizing the sense of sme…
Machtfelder
Machtfelder: Die Politik Herzog Albrechts IV. von Bayern (1447/1465–1508) zwischen Territorium, Dynastie und Reich. Christof Paulus. Forschungen zur Kaiser- und Papstgeschichte des Mittelalters; Beihefte zu J. F. Böhmer, Regesta Imperii 39. Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2015. viii + 752 pp. €90. - Volume 70 Issue 1
A Cultural History of the Senses in the Renaissance
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Prophetie als Partizipation am Heilsplan
Melanchthon und die Reformierte Tradition
The senses in the writings of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
Mark M. Smith (2007) exclaimed ten years ago that it was a “good moment to be a sensory historian” (841). Surveying the field of sensory history, one might have been inclined to agree, with some qu
A World Ablaze
"A World Ablaze: The Rise of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Reformation." History: Reviews of New Books, 46(6), pp. 154–155
Plague, Print, and the Reformation
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A vernacular archive of early modern disability
This essay charts a key moment in the premodern cultural history of disability by mapping out how Martin Luther talked about deafness in his vernacular works. It employs a simple keyword search methodology to the digitized version of the Weimarer Ausgabe , compiling all references to taub and Taubhe it . Also included are references to taubstumm and stumm , reflecting premodern tendencies to blur distinctions between deafness and mutism. Analysis…
The Idea of Deafness as Disability in Renaissance Germany
This essay assesses the degree to which the deaf were regarded as a disabled population in medical, religious, and legal thought during the Renaissance, chronologically identified with the period between approximately 1500 and 1650. The primary geographic focus rests on the German-speaking lands of central Europe. Analysis shows that the idea of deafness as a disability here was composite one, making connections between inability to hear and inte…
Blindness, Judicial Blinding, and Social Death in Early Modern Germany
This article examines the great age of corporal punishments in German-speaking lands to draw attention to the historical intersections between senses, disability, and social death. Between approximately 1400 and 1550, civic and territorial magistrates administered a wide variety of corporal punishments on subjects, including mutilating punishments such as blinding. This article sketches the history of judicial blinding through a close reading of …
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