Kim Siebenhüner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3767007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kim Siebenhüner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kim |
| FAMILY NAME | Siebenhüner |
| SIGNATURE | SIEBENHUNER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Basel |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 10 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
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Inquisitions
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Precious things in motion
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Calico Craze? Zum geschlechtsspezifischen Konsum bedruckter Baumwollstoffe im 18. Jahrhundert. Ein Blick von England zur Alten Eidgenossenschaft
The history of printed cottons has become a widely noticed topic at the interface between global history, history of material culture and history of commodities. In this history, the role of Switzerland has largely been neglected, although this region became one of the most important places of production of printed cottons in Europe. This paper approaches the history of these textiles both from a comparative perspective and from a perspective of …
Introduction Autobiographical Writings in Pre-modern Europe and Asia
Juwelen. Kostbare Objekte zwischen Alltagsökonomie und Sinnstiftung
The paper takes an object-centred approach that combines perspectives of social and economic history with those of cultural history. In looking at the urban environment of an imperial town in early modern Germany, this paper investigates the many ways in which ordinary and noble men and women interacted with gems and jewels, assigning them economic, social, imaginary, or personal meaning. While the circulation of jewels sheds further light on wha…
Approaching Diplomatic and Courtly Gift-giving in Europe and Mughal India
This article deals with courtly gift-giving practices in Europe and Mughal India from a comparative and interwoven perspective. Given the historiographical lacunae on Mughal gift-giving, the article presents preliminary observations for further research. Unlike most contributions to this volume, this article understands the notion of diversity in terms of an intercultural diversity that came to the fore in courtly contexts and in diplomatic encou…
Conversion to Christianity in African History before Colonial Modernity
This article examines different paradigms of conversions to Christianity in regions of Africa prior to the advent of colonial modernity. Religious change, in general, connected converts and various intermediaries to resources and power within specific settings. Even though African cultures were oral, conversions generated the production of texts which became important print media and were at least partly responsible for prompting conversions else…
The Materiality of Difference
The article seeks to retrace the processes by which Jewish converts and their descendants in the late medieval Kingdom of Naples were included into and/or excluded from Christian society. It focuses on a case study of the Apulian seaport of Trani. Following a systems theoretical perspective, it conceives exclusion as a multidimensional process of (re-)production of differences in social practices that affect the position and action of an individu…
The Christianisation of Latin Europe as Seen by Medieval Arab-Islamic Historiographers
The article aims at defining what Arab Muslims of the crusading period knew about the conversion of Latin Europe to Christianity through an analysis of Arabic-Islamic sources written up to the fourteenth century. Whereas Christianity seems to have interested the first generations of Muslims mainly as a theological phenomenon, the emergence of more comprehensive forms of Muslim historiography led to the creation of Arabic texts dealing with the fo…
Christian Conversion in Late Ming China
Using letters written by the Italian Jesuit missionary Niccolo Longobardo, this article explores in depth the encounter between the Christian mission and different strata of early seventeenth century Chinese society in Shangdong province. It follows Longobardo’s evangelical activities among Ming feudatory princes, Muslim mullahs, Confucian literati and leaders of secret popular religious sects. By using Jesuit records and Chinese documents of the…
Conversion and Coercion
This article examines the conflict between two understandings of conversion: one which saw it as a voluntaristic transformation, free from compulsion and another which claimed that coerced conversions could be valid. Rival Catholic and Protestant churches believed that true conversion resulted from an individual’s search for truth while also recognising a role for constraint in maintaining conformity. Theological traditions underpinned both views…
Fatima Hatun née Beatrice Michiel
During the last decades of the sixteenth century, Beatrice Michiel fled an unhappy marriage in Venice for Constantinople. She converted to Islam, taking the name of Fatima, remarried, and because of her access to the imperial harem, played a significant role in Veneto-Ottoman relations in this troubled period. Beatrice/Fatima’s experience provides a suggestive window into the often ignored experience of renegade women on the Mediterranean frontie…
Returning to Judaism
The last century of Jewish life in the Iberian Peninsula (1391–1492) was marked by continuous persecutions leading to the conversion of a large number of Jews to Christianity. Known as ‘New Christians’, they escaped from the Iberian Peninsula to the Ottoman Empire, where—under Muslim dominion—they could return to their ancestral creed, reconverting to Judaism. This article examines the three waves of migration that took place during the last deca…
Catholic–Lutheran–Catholic
This article undertakes a comparative analysis of two conversion narratives of Johannes Ferdinand Franz Weinberger, who converted in 1687 from Catholicism to Lutheranism and returned to the Catholic church one year later. After his reconversion, Weinberger found himself confronted by those who doubted his credibility and was consequently under considerable pressure to justify the path he had taken. At the same time, he felt impelled to explain hi…
Conversion Historiography in South Asia
Conversion as a historical process is discussed in South Asian post-independence historiography mostly following the demands of the political present. In the present article, I first try to trace a fragmentary and in-complete history of what I will call conversion historiography in and about South Asia, referring mostly to conversion to Christianity from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Then, I discuss a particular case of religious and cul…
Shrines, Cultivators, and Muslim ‘Conversion’ in Punjab and Bengal, 1300–1700
This article discusses the growth of predominantly Muslim populations in two regions of South Asia—western Punjab and eastern Bengal. No evidence supports conventional understandings that Islamisation in these areas resulted from a desire for social liberation on the part of the lower orders of the Hindu caste system. Nor should Islamisation in these regions be characterised as instances of ‘conversion’, a term embedded in the nineteenth century …
Conversion, Mobility and the Roman Inquisition in Italy Around 1600
Early modern Europe was a world on the move, where travellers and merchants, soldiers and pilgrims, men and women met on the roads every day.1 Many left their homes for journeys short or long, and they did so for a variety of reasons — travelling as part of their work or to look for work, or fleeing plague or religious repression. Some had more personal motives: they wished to improve their lot, or to escape the narrowness of village life or an u…
Shrines, Cultivators, and Muslim ‘Conversion’ in Punjab and Bengal, 1300–1700
This article discusses the growth of predominantly Muslim populations in two regions of South Asia—western Punjab and eastern Bengal. No evidence supports conventional understandings that Islamisation in these areas resulted from a desire for social liberation on the part of the lower orders of the Hindu caste system. Nor should Islamisation in these regions be characterised as instances of ‘conversion’, a term embedded in the nineteenth century …
Approaching Diplomatic and Courtly Gift-giving in Europe and Mughal India
This article deals with courtly gift-giving practices in Europe and Mughal India from a comparative and interwoven perspective. Given the historiographical lacunae on Mughal gift-giving, the article presents preliminary observations for further research. Unlike most contributions to this volume, this article understands the notion of diversity in terms of an intercultural diversity that came to the fore in courtly contexts and in diplomatic encou…
Conversion and Coercion
This article examines the conflict between two understandings of conversion: one which saw it as a voluntaristic transformation, free from compulsion and another which claimed that coerced conversions could be valid. Rival Catholic and Protestant churches believed that true conversion resulted from an individual’s search for truth while also recognising a role for constraint in maintaining conformity. Theological traditions underpinned both views…
Conversion Historiography in South Asia
Conversion as a historical process is discussed in South Asian post-independence historiography mostly following the demands of the political present. In the present article, I first try to trace a fragmentary and in-complete history of what I will call conversion historiography in and about South Asia, referring mostly to conversion to Christianity from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Then, I discuss a particular case of religious and cul…
The Materiality of Difference
The article seeks to retrace the processes by which Jewish converts and their descendants in the late medieval Kingdom of Naples were included into and/or excluded from Christian society. It focuses on a case study of the Apulian seaport of Trani. Following a systems theoretical perspective, it conceives exclusion as a multidimensional process of (re-)production of differences in social practices that affect the position and action of an individu…
The Christianisation of Latin Europe as Seen by Medieval Arab-Islamic Historiographers
The article aims at defining what Arab Muslims of the crusading period knew about the conversion of Latin Europe to Christianity through an analysis of Arabic-Islamic sources written up to the fourteenth century. Whereas Christianity seems to have interested the first generations of Muslims mainly as a theological phenomenon, the emergence of more comprehensive forms of Muslim historiography led to the creation of Arabic texts dealing with the fo…
Christian Conversion in Late Ming China
Using letters written by the Italian Jesuit missionary Niccolo Longobardo, this article explores in depth the encounter between the Christian mission and different strata of early seventeenth century Chinese society in Shangdong province. It follows Longobardo’s evangelical activities among Ming feudatory princes, Muslim mullahs, Confucian literati and leaders of secret popular religious sects. By using Jesuit records and Chinese documents of the…
Conversion, Mobility and the Roman Inquisition in Italy Around 1600
Early modern Europe was a world on the move, where travellers and merchants, soldiers and pilgrims, men and women met on the roads every day.1 Many left their homes for journeys short or long, and they did so for a variety of reasons — travelling as part of their work or to look for work, or fleeing plague or religious repression. Some had more personal motives: they wished to improve their lot, or to escape the narrowness of village life or an u…
Conversion, Mobility and the Roman Inquisition in Italy Around 1600
Early modern Europe was a world on the move, where travellers and merchants, soldiers and pilgrims, men and women met on the roads every day.1 Many left their homes for journeys short or long, and they did so for a variety of reasons — travelling as part of their work or to look for work, or fleeing plague or religious repression. Some had more personal motives: they wished to improve their lot, or to escape the narrowness of village life or an u…
Conversion to Christianity in African History before Colonial Modernity
This article examines different paradigms of conversions to Christianity in regions of Africa prior to the advent of colonial modernity. Religious change, in general, connected converts and various intermediaries to resources and power within specific settings. Even though African cultures were oral, conversions generated the production of texts which became important print media and were at least partly responsible for prompting conversions else…
The Materiality of Difference
The article seeks to retrace the processes by which Jewish converts and their descendants in the late medieval Kingdom of Naples were included into and/or excluded from Christian society. It focuses on a case study of the Apulian seaport of Trani. Following a systems theoretical perspective, it conceives exclusion as a multidimensional process of (re-)production of differences in social practices that affect the position and action of an individu…
The Christianisation of Latin Europe as Seen by Medieval Arab-Islamic Historiographers
The article aims at defining what Arab Muslims of the crusading period knew about the conversion of Latin Europe to Christianity through an analysis of Arabic-Islamic sources written up to the fourteenth century. Whereas Christianity seems to have interested the first generations of Muslims mainly as a theological phenomenon, the emergence of more comprehensive forms of Muslim historiography led to the creation of Arabic texts dealing with the fo…
Christian Conversion in Late Ming China
Using letters written by the Italian Jesuit missionary Niccolo Longobardo, this article explores in depth the encounter between the Christian mission and different strata of early seventeenth century Chinese society in Shangdong province. It follows Longobardo’s evangelical activities among Ming feudatory princes, Muslim mullahs, Confucian literati and leaders of secret popular religious sects. By using Jesuit records and Chinese documents of the…
Conversion and Coercion
This article examines the conflict between two understandings of conversion: one which saw it as a voluntaristic transformation, free from compulsion and another which claimed that coerced conversions could be valid. Rival Catholic and Protestant churches believed that true conversion resulted from an individual’s search for truth while also recognising a role for constraint in maintaining conformity. Theological traditions underpinned both views…
Fatima Hatun née Beatrice Michiel
During the last decades of the sixteenth century, Beatrice Michiel fled an unhappy marriage in Venice for Constantinople. She converted to Islam, taking the name of Fatima, remarried, and because of her access to the imperial harem, played a significant role in Veneto-Ottoman relations in this troubled period. Beatrice/Fatima’s experience provides a suggestive window into the often ignored experience of renegade women on the Mediterranean frontie…
Returning to Judaism
The last century of Jewish life in the Iberian Peninsula (1391–1492) was marked by continuous persecutions leading to the conversion of a large number of Jews to Christianity. Known as ‘New Christians’, they escaped from the Iberian Peninsula to the Ottoman Empire, where—under Muslim dominion—they could return to their ancestral creed, reconverting to Judaism. This article examines the three waves of migration that took place during the last deca…
Catholic–Lutheran–Catholic
This article undertakes a comparative analysis of two conversion narratives of Johannes Ferdinand Franz Weinberger, who converted in 1687 from Catholicism to Lutheranism and returned to the Catholic church one year later. After his reconversion, Weinberger found himself confronted by those who doubted his credibility and was consequently under considerable pressure to justify the path he had taken. At the same time, he felt impelled to explain hi…
Conversion Historiography in South Asia
Conversion as a historical process is discussed in South Asian post-independence historiography mostly following the demands of the political present. In the present article, I first try to trace a fragmentary and in-complete history of what I will call conversion historiography in and about South Asia, referring mostly to conversion to Christianity from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Then, I discuss a particular case of religious and cul…
Shrines, Cultivators, and Muslim ‘Conversion’ in Punjab and Bengal, 1300–1700
This article discusses the growth of predominantly Muslim populations in two regions of South Asia—western Punjab and eastern Bengal. No evidence supports conventional understandings that Islamisation in these areas resulted from a desire for social liberation on the part of the lower orders of the Hindu caste system. Nor should Islamisation in these regions be characterised as instances of ‘conversion’, a term embedded in the nineteenth century …
Approaching Diplomatic and Courtly Gift-giving in Europe and Mughal India
This article deals with courtly gift-giving practices in Europe and Mughal India from a comparative and interwoven perspective. Given the historiographical lacunae on Mughal gift-giving, the article presents preliminary observations for further research. Unlike most contributions to this volume, this article understands the notion of diversity in terms of an intercultural diversity that came to the fore in courtly contexts and in diplomatic encou…
Introduction Autobiographical Writings in Pre-modern Europe and Asia
Juwelen. Kostbare Objekte zwischen Alltagsökonomie und Sinnstiftung
The paper takes an object-centred approach that combines perspectives of social and economic history with those of cultural history. In looking at the urban environment of an imperial town in early modern Germany, this paper investigates the many ways in which ordinary and noble men and women interacted with gems and jewels, assigning them economic, social, imaginary, or personal meaning. While the circulation of jewels sheds further light on wha…
Precious things in motion
A summary 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.
Calico Craze? Zum geschlechtsspezifischen Konsum bedruckter Baumwollstoffe im 18. Jahrhundert. Ein Blick von England zur Alten Eidgenossenschaft
The history of printed cottons has become a widely noticed topic at the interface between global history, history of material culture and history of commodities. In this history, the role of Switzerland has largely been neglected, although this region became one of the most important places of production of printed cottons in Europe. This paper approaches the history of these textiles both from a comparative perspective and from a perspective of …
Inquisitions
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