ALAN S ROSS
Biographic Data
| ID | 5520933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | ALAN S ROSS |
| GIVEN NAMES | ALAN S |
| FAMILY NAME | ROSS |
| SIGNATURE | ROSS A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Beastly Ambiguity
This article examines live animals as symbolic media in early modern and eighteenth-century Europe. Animal performances had become a common phenomenon in European cities by the eighteenth century. Since the influential debate that Robert Darnton’s article “Workers Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre of the Rue Saint Severin” triggered in The Journal of Modern History, the extent to which historians could read accounts of such performances as anthropol…
The Animal Body As Medium
This article examines how the preserved animal body, with its roots in anatomy and the eighteenth-century culture of curiosity, came to evolve into a medium of European expansion by the mid-nineteenth century. It does so by concentrating on surviving specimens of preserved primates stemming from eighteenth and nineteenth-century collections which also produced documentation concerning the practices of their exhibition. Most historians now agree t…
Learning by wrong-doing
Early modern schools have long been known to have been unruly places. Yet historians have struggled to contextualize violence and other forms of transgressive behaviour committed by pupils, either interpreting such behaviour as part of a virtually timeless culture of children and youth or as a reflection of a decline in morals due to macro-historical events. This article adopts the sociological concept of aspirational reference groups to analyse …
Pupils’ Choices and Social Mobility After the Thirty Years War
This article presents the main findings of the first detailed reconstruction of the pattern of attendance at an early modern German school, based on the exceptionally preserved matriculation records of the Latin (grammar) school of Zwickau/Saxony in the second half of the seventeenth century. It investigates pupils’ social background, their geographical mobility, and reconstructs their educational choices. Prevailing top-down perspectives on earl…
The Animal Body As Medium
This article examines how the preserved animal body, with its roots in anatomy and the eighteenth-century culture of curiosity, came to evolve into a medium of European expansion by the mid-nineteenth century. It does so by concentrating on surviving specimens of preserved primates stemming from eighteenth and nineteenth-century collections which also produced documentation concerning the practices of their exhibition. Most historians now agree t…
Pupils’ Choices and Social Mobility After the Thirty Years War
This article presents the main findings of the first detailed reconstruction of the pattern of attendance at an early modern German school, based on the exceptionally preserved matriculation records of the Latin (grammar) school of Zwickau/Saxony in the second half of the seventeenth century. It investigates pupils’ social background, their geographical mobility, and reconstructs their educational choices. Prevailing top-down perspectives on earl…
Pupils’ Choices and Social Mobility After the Thirty Years War
This article presents the main findings of the first detailed reconstruction of the pattern of attendance at an early modern German school, based on the exceptionally preserved matriculation records of the Latin (grammar) school of Zwickau/Saxony in the second half of the seventeenth century. It investigates pupils’ social background, their geographical mobility, and reconstructs their educational choices. Prevailing top-down perspectives on earl…
Learning by wrong-doing
Early modern schools have long been known to have been unruly places. Yet historians have struggled to contextualize violence and other forms of transgressive behaviour committed by pupils, either interpreting such behaviour as part of a virtually timeless culture of children and youth or as a reflection of a decline in morals due to macro-historical events. This article adopts the sociological concept of aspirational reference groups to analyse …
The Animal Body As Medium
This article examines how the preserved animal body, with its roots in anatomy and the eighteenth-century culture of curiosity, came to evolve into a medium of European expansion by the mid-nineteenth century. It does so by concentrating on surviving specimens of preserved primates stemming from eighteenth and nineteenth-century collections which also produced documentation concerning the practices of their exhibition. Most historians now agree t…
Beastly Ambiguity
This article examines live animals as symbolic media in early modern and eighteenth-century Europe. Animal performances had become a common phenomenon in European cities by the eighteenth century. Since the influential debate that Robert Darnton’s article “Workers Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre of the Rue Saint Severin” triggered in The Journal of Modern History, the extent to which historians could read accounts of such performances as anthropol…
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