Daniel Jütte
Biographic Data
| ID | 335326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Jütte |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Jütte |
| SIGNATURE | JÜTTE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5074-1769 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Early Modern Stagecoach Revolution: Causes, Innovations, Cultural Controversies
When historians speak of major turning points in the history of mobility and transportation, they often refer to transformational moments in modern times, such as the ‘railway revolution’ or the ‘automobile revolution’. What tends to be forgotten in such technocentric narratives is that the premodern period saw ‘transport revolutions’ of its own kind. One such consequential transformation was what may be called the ‘stagecoach revolution’ in seve…
The stagecoach as social experiment: Gender, class, and the history of travel
Eingegangene Bücher
Pillar-Biters” and Beyond: Images of Columnar Devotion between Trope and Reality in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
A common motif in late medieval and early modern Northern European art is the “pillar-biter.” Usually, the pillar-biter is depicted as a man who clings to a column while biting into it, but there are also representations of men and women who embrace or kiss columns. In the iconographic literature, the motif is usually linked to religious hypocrisy and the dissimulation of piety. But why did premodern Europeans associate columns and pillars with r…
Contested Caryatids: Architecture, Modernity, and Race around 1900
In the nineteenth century, caryatids saw an unprecedented renaissance in European architecture. This article explores the cultural history of these female column-statues in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Europe. The focus is on central Europe, and three cities—Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, and Vienna—play a particularly important role in this exploration. Through a reading of historical, visual, and literary sources, the article probes how …
The Age of Secrecy: Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400†“1800
The fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries were truly an Age of Secrecy in Europe, when arcane knowledge was widely believed to be positive knowledge that extended into all areas of daily life, from the economic, scientific, and political spheres to the general activities of ordinary people. So asserts Daniel Jütte in this engrossing, vivid, and award-winning work. He maintains that the widespread acceptance and even reverence for this “econo…
Survivors of Witch Trials and the Quest for Justice in Early Modern Germany
This article explores the trauma that early modern witchcraft trials inflicted on survivors and their communities. The point of departure is the case of Margareth Los, a widow accused of witchcraft in 1520s Württemberg. Subjected to brutal torture, Los was acquitted provisionally after three years in jail. Remarkably, she had the strength to produce an account of her ordeal and to bring her case before the highest court of justice in the Empire. …
J oshua T eplitsky . Prince of the Press: How One Collector Built History’s Most Enduring and Remarkable Jewish Library
The Oppenheim Collection, housed in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, ranks among the most important and comprehensive Jewish libraries from the premodern period. It consists of more than four thousand printed books and one thousand manuscripts. The creator of this collection, David Oppenheim (1664–1736), was a renowned Jewish leader in eighteenth-century Europe. From 1703 until his death, he served as chief rabbi of Prague. Oppenheim also wielded …
Sleeping in Church: Preaching, Boredom, and the Struggle for Attention in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
The word “boredom” was not used in English before the eighteenth century. Does this mean that pre-eighteenth-century people did not experience boredom? Or did their experience of boredom differ from ours? This article approaches these questions by exploring the history of people falling asleep in church, and asking whether boredom played a role in their slumber. Across the confessional spectrum in premodern Europe, religious somnolence was depict…
Toward a history of the corner
Comfort, Class and Climate Change: The Rise of Glass in Late Medieval and Early Modern Domestic Architecture
In the modern world, glass windows are considered an indispensable element of the built environment. Throughout premodern times, however, glass was not universally used in European architecture. This article argues that the rise of glass in Western architecture was neither an inevitable nor a linear process, but rather a response to certain social, cultural and environmental factors that gained increasing relevance from the late medieval period o…
Defenestration as Ritual Punishment: Windows, Power, and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe
Previous articleNext article FreeDefenestration as Ritual Punishment: Windows, Power, and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe*Daniel JütteDaniel JütteNew York University Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreOne of the most cataclysmic wars in European history began at a window. On May 23, …
AHR Conversation: Walls, Borders, and Boundaries in World History
Since 2006, the AHR has published nine “Conversations,” each on a subject of interest to a wide range of historians.1 For each the process has been the same: the Editor convenes a group of scholars with an interest in the topic, who, via e-mail over the course of several months, conduct a conversation, which is then lightly edited and footnoted, finally appearing (with one exception) in the December issue. The goal has been to provide readers wit…
They Shall Not Keep Their Doors or Windows Open’: Urban Space and the Dynamics of Conflict and Contact in Premodern Jewish–Christian Relations
Jewish houses, and especially their apertures, were frequent targets of assault in premodern Europe. Were these attacks just a matter of Christians letting off steam, as some historians have argued, or were they signs that ‘Jewish life was a perennial struggle for survival’? This question leads into a much larger methodological issue – namely, how historians should approach and frame violence in premodern Christian-Jewish relations. This article …
Living Stones: The House as Actor in Early Modern Europe
This article investigates the metaphor of the “living house” and its concrete ramifications on everyday life in late medieval and early modern Europe. For premodern Europeans, the house was an actor that occupied an important and natural role in their social life and in the urban space in which they lived. Human attributes were explicitly assigned to the house: it had a name and life story, displayed bodily features, and was invested with a speci…
Window Gazes and World Views: A Chapter in the Cultural History of Vision
Age of Secrecy: Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400-1800
Visual Cultures of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe
Timothy McCall, Sean E. Roberts, and Giancarlo Fiorenza, eds. Visual Cultures of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe. Early Modern Studies 11. Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2013. x + 238 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 978-1-61248-092-3. - Volume 67 Issue 2
Entering a city: On a lost early modern practice
City gates and walls were among the most striking features of the pre-modern city, yet we still know relatively little about their impact on daily life and what it meant to enter a city at that time. The present article explores precisely these questions. The first section outlines the general significance of city gates and walls in pre-modern times. In the second, I examine the four distinct functions of city gates in the early modern period. Th…
Interfaith Encounters between Jews and Christians in the Early Modern Period and Beyond: Toward a Framework
THE STUDY OF JEWISH HISTORY has come a long way since Salo Baron, in a seminal 1928 essay, demanded a break with the "lachrymose conception" of the history of the Jews in premodern Europe. 1 Today, pre-Enlightenment Jewish history is no longer depicted as an uninterrupted chain of conflict and oppression-although, of course, those aspects cannot and should not be overlooked.On the other hand, it has been rightly stated that Baron's "challenge was…
Trading in Secrets: Jews and the Early Modern Quest for Clandestine Knowledge
This essay explores the significance and function of secrecy and secret sciences in Jewish-Christian relations and in Jewish culture in the early modern period. It shows how the trade in clandestine knowledge and the practice of secret sciences became a complex, sometimes hazardous space for contact between Jews and Christians. By examining this trade, the essay clarifies the role of secrecy in the early modern marketplace of knowledge. The attri…
Wie „höfisch” war die Verbürgerlichung der deutschen Juden: Zur Bedeutung des höfischen Musikbetriebs und der Hoftheater in der deutsch-jüdischen Geschichte
The social advancement of German Jews in the 19th century has often been described by historians as a process of embourgeoisement. Many studies have been devoted to the role of bourgeois institutions for the acculturation of German Jewry. In contrast, the impact of the courts on German Jews in the 19th century has been rather neglected. The article addresses the role of the court theatres with regard to the entry of Jews into the music profession…
Juden als Virtuosen: Eine Studie zur Sozialgeschichte der Musik sowie zur Wirkmächtigkeit einer Denkfigur des 19. Jahrhunderts
The starting point of the article is Friedrich Nietzsche’s aphoristic label “Virtuosos (Jews).” An initial social history of Jewish virtuosos from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries reveals that a genuine “ideal of virtuosity” existed among the German-Jewish bourgeoisie in the first half of the nineteenth century, and that Jewish virtuosos of the time played an important role in contemporary music culture. Since this evidence does not suff…
Handel, Wissenstransfer und Netzwerke: Eine Fallstudie zu Grenzen und Möglichkeiten unternehmerischen Handelns unter Juden zwischen Reich, Italien und Levante um 1600. Trade, Transfer of Knowledge and…
The study of networks constitutes a seminal albeit intricate task for the historian of Jewish economic life in the early modern period. The article illustrates this complexity, revisiting the case of the Italian-Jewish inventor and entrepreneur Mag(g)ino Gabrielli (1561-?) who has been dismissed by some historians as a ‘shadowy figure’. A careful examination of his networks, using previously neglected sources, offers a different picture. For exam…
Disziplin, Ehre und Raum als Kategorien der Hoftheaterforschung: Eine Exploration des heuristischen Potentials von Hoftheaterquellen
Contested Caryatids: Architecture, Modernity, and Race around 1900
In the nineteenth century, caryatids saw an unprecedented renaissance in European architecture. This article explores the cultural history of these female column-statues in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Europe. The focus is on central Europe, and three cities—Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, and Vienna—play a particularly important role in this exploration. Through a reading of historical, visual, and literary sources, the article probes how …
AHR Conversation: Walls, Borders, and Boundaries in World History
Since 2006, the AHR has published nine “Conversations,” each on a subject of interest to a wide range of historians.1 For each the process has been the same: the Editor convenes a group of scholars with an interest in the topic, who, via e-mail over the course of several months, conduct a conversation, which is then lightly edited and footnoted, finally appearing (with one exception) in the December issue. The goal has been to provide readers wit…
Trading in Secrets: Jews and the Early Modern Quest for Clandestine Knowledge
This essay explores the significance and function of secrecy and secret sciences in Jewish-Christian relations and in Jewish culture in the early modern period. It shows how the trade in clandestine knowledge and the practice of secret sciences became a complex, sometimes hazardous space for contact between Jews and Christians. By examining this trade, the essay clarifies the role of secrecy in the early modern marketplace of knowledge. The attri…
Comfort, Class and Climate Change: The Rise of Glass in Late Medieval and Early Modern Domestic Architecture
In the modern world, glass windows are considered an indispensable element of the built environment. Throughout premodern times, however, glass was not universally used in European architecture. This article argues that the rise of glass in Western architecture was neither an inevitable nor a linear process, but rather a response to certain social, cultural and environmental factors that gained increasing relevance from the late medieval period o…
Defenestration as Ritual Punishment: Windows, Power, and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe
Previous articleNext article FreeDefenestration as Ritual Punishment: Windows, Power, and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe*Daniel JütteDaniel JütteNew York University Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreOne of the most cataclysmic wars in European history began at a window. On May 23, …
Living Stones: The House as Actor in Early Modern Europe
This article investigates the metaphor of the “living house” and its concrete ramifications on everyday life in late medieval and early modern Europe. For premodern Europeans, the house was an actor that occupied an important and natural role in their social life and in the urban space in which they lived. Human attributes were explicitly assigned to the house: it had a name and life story, displayed bodily features, and was invested with a speci…
Window Gazes and World Views: A Chapter in the Cultural History of Vision
Entering a city: On a lost early modern practice
City gates and walls were among the most striking features of the pre-modern city, yet we still know relatively little about their impact on daily life and what it meant to enter a city at that time. The present article explores precisely these questions. The first section outlines the general significance of city gates and walls in pre-modern times. In the second, I examine the four distinct functions of city gates in the early modern period. Th…
Interfaith Encounters between Jews and Christians in the Early Modern Period and Beyond: Toward a Framework
THE STUDY OF JEWISH HISTORY has come a long way since Salo Baron, in a seminal 1928 essay, demanded a break with the "lachrymose conception" of the history of the Jews in premodern Europe. 1 Today, pre-Enlightenment Jewish history is no longer depicted as an uninterrupted chain of conflict and oppression-although, of course, those aspects cannot and should not be overlooked.On the other hand, it has been rightly stated that Baron's "challenge was…
Handel, Wissenstransfer und Netzwerke: Eine Fallstudie zu Grenzen und Möglichkeiten unternehmerischen Handelns unter Juden zwischen Reich, Italien und Levante um 1600. Trade, Transfer of Knowledge and…
The study of networks constitutes a seminal albeit intricate task for the historian of Jewish economic life in the early modern period. The article illustrates this complexity, revisiting the case of the Italian-Jewish inventor and entrepreneur Mag(g)ino Gabrielli (1561-?) who has been dismissed by some historians as a ‘shadowy figure’. A careful examination of his networks, using previously neglected sources, offers a different picture. For exam…
Abramo Colorni, jüdischer Hofalchemist Herzog Friedrichs I., und die hebräische Handelskompanie des Maggino Gabrielli in Württemberg am Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts. Ein biographischer und methodologisch…
Über dreihundert Jahre hat es in Württemberg kaum eine nennenswerte Siedlung von Juden gegeben. Im Zeitraum vom Ende des 15. Jahrhundert bis ins frühe 19. Jahrhundert waren Juden gemäß der württembergischen Landesordnung offiziell nicht geduldet, ihre Niederlassung blieb allenfalls vereinzelt. Eine kurze und schillernde Ausnahme hat es kurz vor 1600 gegeben, und sie ist von der württembergischen Landesgeschichtsschreibung gelegentlich am Rande er…
Handel, Wissenstransfer und Netzwerke: Eine Fallstudie zu Grenzen und Möglichkeiten unternehmerischen Handelns unter Juden zwischen Reich, Italien und Levante um 1600. Trade, Transfer of Knowledge and…
The study of networks constitutes a seminal albeit intricate task for the historian of Jewish economic life in the early modern period. The article illustrates this complexity, revisiting the case of the Italian-Jewish inventor and entrepreneur Mag(g)ino Gabrielli (1561-?) who has been dismissed by some historians as a ‘shadowy figure’. A careful examination of his networks, using previously neglected sources, offers a different picture. For exam…
Disziplin, Ehre und Raum als Kategorien der Hoftheaterforschung: Eine Exploration des heuristischen Potentials von Hoftheaterquellen
Juden als Virtuosen: Eine Studie zur Sozialgeschichte der Musik sowie zur Wirkmächtigkeit einer Denkfigur des 19. Jahrhunderts
The starting point of the article is Friedrich Nietzsche’s aphoristic label “Virtuosos (Jews).” An initial social history of Jewish virtuosos from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries reveals that a genuine “ideal of virtuosity” existed among the German-Jewish bourgeoisie in the first half of the nineteenth century, and that Jewish virtuosos of the time played an important role in contemporary music culture. Since this evidence does not suff…
Wie „höfisch” war die Verbürgerlichung der deutschen Juden: Zur Bedeutung des höfischen Musikbetriebs und der Hoftheater in der deutsch-jüdischen Geschichte
The social advancement of German Jews in the 19th century has often been described by historians as a process of embourgeoisement. Many studies have been devoted to the role of bourgeois institutions for the acculturation of German Jewry. In contrast, the impact of the courts on German Jews in the 19th century has been rather neglected. The article addresses the role of the court theatres with regard to the entry of Jews into the music profession…
Trading in Secrets: Jews and the Early Modern Quest for Clandestine Knowledge
This essay explores the significance and function of secrecy and secret sciences in Jewish-Christian relations and in Jewish culture in the early modern period. It shows how the trade in clandestine knowledge and the practice of secret sciences became a complex, sometimes hazardous space for contact between Jews and Christians. By examining this trade, the essay clarifies the role of secrecy in the early modern marketplace of knowledge. The attri…
Entering a city: On a lost early modern practice
City gates and walls were among the most striking features of the pre-modern city, yet we still know relatively little about their impact on daily life and what it meant to enter a city at that time. The present article explores precisely these questions. The first section outlines the general significance of city gates and walls in pre-modern times. In the second, I examine the four distinct functions of city gates in the early modern period. Th…
Interfaith Encounters between Jews and Christians in the Early Modern Period and Beyond: Toward a Framework
THE STUDY OF JEWISH HISTORY has come a long way since Salo Baron, in a seminal 1928 essay, demanded a break with the "lachrymose conception" of the history of the Jews in premodern Europe. 1 Today, pre-Enlightenment Jewish history is no longer depicted as an uninterrupted chain of conflict and oppression-although, of course, those aspects cannot and should not be overlooked.On the other hand, it has been rightly stated that Baron's "challenge was…
Visual Cultures of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe
Timothy McCall, Sean E. Roberts, and Giancarlo Fiorenza, eds. Visual Cultures of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe. Early Modern Studies 11. Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2013. x + 238 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 978-1-61248-092-3. - Volume 67 Issue 2
Age of Secrecy: Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400-1800
They Shall Not Keep Their Doors or Windows Open’: Urban Space and the Dynamics of Conflict and Contact in Premodern Jewish–Christian Relations
Jewish houses, and especially their apertures, were frequent targets of assault in premodern Europe. Were these attacks just a matter of Christians letting off steam, as some historians have argued, or were they signs that ‘Jewish life was a perennial struggle for survival’? This question leads into a much larger methodological issue – namely, how historians should approach and frame violence in premodern Christian-Jewish relations. This article …
Living Stones: The House as Actor in Early Modern Europe
This article investigates the metaphor of the “living house” and its concrete ramifications on everyday life in late medieval and early modern Europe. For premodern Europeans, the house was an actor that occupied an important and natural role in their social life and in the urban space in which they lived. Human attributes were explicitly assigned to the house: it had a name and life story, displayed bodily features, and was invested with a speci…
Window Gazes and World Views: A Chapter in the Cultural History of Vision
Defenestration as Ritual Punishment: Windows, Power, and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe
Previous articleNext article FreeDefenestration as Ritual Punishment: Windows, Power, and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe*Daniel JütteDaniel JütteNew York University Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreOne of the most cataclysmic wars in European history began at a window. On May 23, …
AHR Conversation: Walls, Borders, and Boundaries in World History
Since 2006, the AHR has published nine “Conversations,” each on a subject of interest to a wide range of historians.1 For each the process has been the same: the Editor convenes a group of scholars with an interest in the topic, who, via e-mail over the course of several months, conduct a conversation, which is then lightly edited and footnoted, finally appearing (with one exception) in the December issue. The goal has been to provide readers wit…
Comfort, Class and Climate Change: The Rise of Glass in Late Medieval and Early Modern Domestic Architecture
In the modern world, glass windows are considered an indispensable element of the built environment. Throughout premodern times, however, glass was not universally used in European architecture. This article argues that the rise of glass in Western architecture was neither an inevitable nor a linear process, but rather a response to certain social, cultural and environmental factors that gained increasing relevance from the late medieval period o…
The Age of Secrecy: Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400†“1800
The fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries were truly an Age of Secrecy in Europe, when arcane knowledge was widely believed to be positive knowledge that extended into all areas of daily life, from the economic, scientific, and political spheres to the general activities of ordinary people. So asserts Daniel Jütte in this engrossing, vivid, and award-winning work. He maintains that the widespread acceptance and even reverence for this “econo…
Survivors of Witch Trials and the Quest for Justice in Early Modern Germany
This article explores the trauma that early modern witchcraft trials inflicted on survivors and their communities. The point of departure is the case of Margareth Los, a widow accused of witchcraft in 1520s Württemberg. Subjected to brutal torture, Los was acquitted provisionally after three years in jail. Remarkably, she had the strength to produce an account of her ordeal and to bring her case before the highest court of justice in the Empire. …
J oshua T eplitsky . Prince of the Press: How One Collector Built History’s Most Enduring and Remarkable Jewish Library
The Oppenheim Collection, housed in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, ranks among the most important and comprehensive Jewish libraries from the premodern period. It consists of more than four thousand printed books and one thousand manuscripts. The creator of this collection, David Oppenheim (1664–1736), was a renowned Jewish leader in eighteenth-century Europe. From 1703 until his death, he served as chief rabbi of Prague. Oppenheim also wielded …
Sleeping in Church: Preaching, Boredom, and the Struggle for Attention in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
The word “boredom” was not used in English before the eighteenth century. Does this mean that pre-eighteenth-century people did not experience boredom? Or did their experience of boredom differ from ours? This article approaches these questions by exploring the history of people falling asleep in church, and asking whether boredom played a role in their slumber. Across the confessional spectrum in premodern Europe, religious somnolence was depict…
Toward a history of the corner
Eingegangene Bücher
Pillar-Biters” and Beyond: Images of Columnar Devotion between Trope and Reality in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
A common motif in late medieval and early modern Northern European art is the “pillar-biter.” Usually, the pillar-biter is depicted as a man who clings to a column while biting into it, but there are also representations of men and women who embrace or kiss columns. In the iconographic literature, the motif is usually linked to religious hypocrisy and the dissimulation of piety. But why did premodern Europeans associate columns and pillars with r…
Contested Caryatids: Architecture, Modernity, and Race around 1900
In the nineteenth century, caryatids saw an unprecedented renaissance in European architecture. This article explores the cultural history of these female column-statues in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Europe. The focus is on central Europe, and three cities—Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, and Vienna—play a particularly important role in this exploration. Through a reading of historical, visual, and literary sources, the article probes how …
The Early Modern Stagecoach Revolution: Causes, Innovations, Cultural Controversies
When historians speak of major turning points in the history of mobility and transportation, they often refer to transformational moments in modern times, such as the ‘railway revolution’ or the ‘automobile revolution’. What tends to be forgotten in such technocentric narratives is that the premodern period saw ‘transport revolutions’ of its own kind. One such consequential transformation was what may be called the ‘stagecoach revolution’ in seve…
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