Ulinka Rublack
Biographic Data
| ID | 963983 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ulinka Rublack |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ulinka |
| FAMILY NAME | Rublack |
| SIGNATURE | RUBLACK U |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. John's College of Nursing |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1183-5436 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction
Une mode avant la mode
En Chine du temps de la dynastie Jin (266-420), un homme d’une trentaine d’années, brun et exceptionnellement grand, fut momifié à Yingpan alors qu’il avait succombé à une maladie mortelle. Yingpan, située dans le bassin du Tarim dans le nord-est de la Chine, était un nœud commercial sur les florissantes routes de la soie. Découvert en 1995, celui que l’on a appelé « l’homme de Yingpan » est devenu le résident le plus célèbre du cimetière (fig. 1…
Introduction
This introduction outlines the key themes of this Special Issue, which responds to a need to formulate nuanced accounts of material cultures in relation to social life, religion and politics in the Holy Roman Empire. It approaches ‘the material’ through different themes in relation to sites of production, consumption and practices that created specific material regimes and communities throughout time. It also explores fundamental changes in the c…
Craft, Labour and Cabinets of Curiosities
This article asks how we should best historically situate processes of making and knowing in early modern luxury crafts. It focuses on the Augsburg merchant Philipp Hainhofer (1578–1647) and his celebrated cabinets of curiosities. The article methodologically argues for the need to cross-fertilize scholarship on ‘the body of the artisan’ (Pamela H. Smith) with the history of labour. The notion of the European ‘artisan’ involved in ‘making and kno…
Materialized Identities in Early Modern Culture, 1450-1750
Knowledge Production, Image Networks, and the Material Significance of Feathers in Late Humanist Heidelberg
Examining the three volumes of birds assembled by Marcus zum Lamm (1544–1606), a Calvinist lawyer, court official, and church councillor in Heidelberg, this article explores visual and material cultures at a Calvinist court. We argue that Lamm was a pioneer in the production of new ornithological knowledge, an entrepreneur and enthusiast who experimented with colors and the arts in order to develop a means of representation that captured the vibr…
Befeathering the European
This article contributes to the material turn. It shows how an inquiry into the social life of materiality, with distinctive methodologies such as reconstruction and object-led-approaches, changes our understanding of the past. It advances our thinking about the emergence and significance of cross-cultural objects in the context of cultural exchange. The article charts the spectacular rise in importance of feathers in dress during the Renaissance…
Protestant Empires
Protestantism during the early modern period is still predominantly presented as a European story. Advancing a novel framework to understand the nature and impact of the Protestant Reformations, this volume brings together leading scholars to substantially integrate global Protestant experiences into accounts of the early modern world created by the Reformations, to compare Protestant ideas and practices with other world religions, to chart colon…
Philipp Hainhofer
Philipp Hainhofer (1578–1647) was one early modern Germany’s most influential art agents. He is best known for perfecting the cabinet of curiosities as actual cabinet piece—a highly intricate and beautifully executed piece of furniture that contained hundreds of objects ranging from rare shells to ivory combs, miniature paintings and birds, all placed in visible or secret drawers with complex opening mechanisms. Uppsala University houses the only…
The Right to Dress
This is the first global history of dress regulation and its place in broader debates around how human life and societies should be visualised and materialised. Sumptuary laws were a tool on the part of states to regulate not only manufacturing systems and moral economies via the medium of expenditure and consumption of clothing but also banquets, festivities and funerals. Leading scholars on Asian, Latin American, Ottoman and European history sh…
Right to Dress
Reformation Europe
Sehen und gesehen werden
This excellent study of the political and social function of dress in late medieval and sixteenth-century courts charts the role of clothing in symbolic communication. Kirsten O. Frieling focuses on Brandenburg, Saxony and Württemberg to argue that, around 1500, German territorial rulers visualised their rank through dress in increasingly regulated and static forms. Dress strategies served to extend their claim to power, and the versatility of cu…
Comparisons and Consequences in Global Perspective, 1500–1750
This chapter places the Protestant Reformation in a global perspective in two ways, using methods and examining themes common in world history as a field. First, it compares the Reformation to other religious transformations that were occurring at roughly the same time, including the early development of Sikhism, reform movements within Chinese Confucianism, and the reinvigoration of Islam in the Songhay Empire by King Askia the Great. Second, it…
The Natural and Supernatural
This chapter provides an overview of the historiography on the natural and supernatural in early modern Europe with a particular emphasis on Protestantism. It considers the ways in which this subject is closely intertwined with other major research areas in early modern historiography, especially the subject of popular and elite religion and the question of Protestantism and desacralization/secularization. Next, this chapter introduces a case stu…
The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations
The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations covers the “long Reformation” period from ca.1400 to 1750 in its European and global dimensions. Thirty-eight contributors offer cutting-edge research. This is the most comprehensive handbook of Protestant Reformations ever published to investigate the beliefs, practices, and institutions which followed medieval reform movements and Martin Luther’s Reformation in Germany. The sixteenth and sevent…
Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations
"This is the first Handbook of the Reformations to include global Protestantism, and the most comprehensive Handbook on the development of Protestant practices which has been published so far. The volume brings together international scholars in the fields of theology, intellectual thought, and social and cultural history. Contributions focus on key themes, such as Martin Luther or the Swiss reformations, offering an up-to-date perspective on cur…
Explaining Change
Delineations of the causes of the Reformation have long been synonymous with claims about its significance on a personal, spiritual, confessional, national, or world-historical level. Conversely, these levels have presented a single clear or overriding account of the causes of the Reformation (e.g., "Luther's Reformation was the work of the devil"; or "the Reformation reflected the rise of the bourgeoisie"), rather than a complex story of equal p…
Paper Memory
This is a fascinating study, which brings to life the tragic force of male honour codes for early modern families. It is the most extensive account available yet of the Cologne merchant, lawyer, city councillor and churchwarden Hermann Weinsberg (1518–1597), who assembled an unparalleled amount of information about his lineage, personal views and habits throughout much of his very long life. Lundin’s book emerges from Harvard doctoral work superv…
Making Sense as a Cultural Practice
The production of sense is a central field of action of cultural and political practice. The articles examine how, in different contexts, the construction of sense and its outcome as a cultural practice
Matter in the Material Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement with few clear-cut distinctions between fine art and the decorative, design, and high craft.1 Alongside painting and sculpture, many crafted objects possessed a marked visual appeal. Central period concepts, such as ingenuity, civility, artful decorousness, neatness and the revival of antiquity, were explored in interaction with a new world of things skilfully produced and diversified by a range of makers. …
Celebrity as Concept
Keywords: celebrityfameearly modernReformationFugger merchantstheatre
In Relation
What is an ‘ego-document’? The answer might at first sight seem simple: a source or ‘document’—understood in the widest sense—providing an account of, or revealing privileged information about, the ‘self’ who produced it. The term itself, which is of relatively recent coinage—just over half a century old—has variants: while it is a term originating in Dutch that works well in several languages including both English and German, some scholars pref…
The Chancery of God
Every specialist of German Reformation history will be puzzled when reading the title of this book, which immediately—and literally—brings to mind a book published in 2003 by the leading church historian Thomas Kaufmann entitled Das Ende der Reformation: Magdeburgs ‘Herrgotts Kanzlei’ (1548–1551/2). Kaufmann's book was based on a large and encompassing research project by him and a team of helpers to investigate the unique pamphlet campaign in wh…
Grapho-Relics
Religions are historically specific ways of investigating what cultures take to be the supernatural. But how do beliefs resolve into gestures, habits, and temperament, ingrained by rituals of spiritual preparation, communication, or of learning? 1 Religious identities hinge on practices, which embody and build up specific ideals about the way in which communities of believers locate themselves on earth in relation to the divine. In Lutheranism th…
In Relation
What is an ‘ego-document’? The answer might at first sight seem simple: a source or ‘document’—understood in the widest sense—providing an account of, or revealing privileged information about, the ‘self’ who produced it. The term itself, which is of relatively recent coinage—just over half a century old—has variants: while it is a term originating in Dutch that works well in several languages including both English and German, some scholars pref…
Matter in the Material Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement with few clear-cut distinctions between fine art and the decorative, design, and high craft.1 Alongside painting and sculpture, many crafted objects possessed a marked visual appeal. Central period concepts, such as ingenuity, civility, artful decorousness, neatness and the revival of antiquity, were explored in interaction with a new world of things skilfully produced and diversified by a range of makers. …
Grapho-Relics
Religions are historically specific ways of investigating what cultures take to be the supernatural. But how do beliefs resolve into gestures, habits, and temperament, ingrained by rituals of spiritual preparation, communication, or of learning? 1 Religious identities hinge on practices, which embody and build up specific ideals about the way in which communities of believers locate themselves on earth in relation to the divine. In Lutheranism th…
Female Spirituality and the Infant Jesus in Late Medieval Dominican Convents
Craft, Labour and Cabinets of Curiosities
This article asks how we should best historically situate processes of making and knowing in early modern luxury crafts. It focuses on the Augsburg merchant Philipp Hainhofer (1578–1647) and his celebrated cabinets of curiosities. The article methodologically argues for the need to cross-fertilize scholarship on ‘the body of the artisan’ (Pamela H. Smith) with the history of labour. The notion of the European ‘artisan’ involved in ‘making and kno…
Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Female Body in Early Modern Germany
PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH AND THE FEMALE BODY IN EARLY MODERN GERMANY Get access Ulinka Rublack Ulinka Rublack St John's CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 150, Issue 1, February 1996, Pages 84–110, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/150.1.84 Published: 01 February 1996
Knowledge Production, Image Networks, and the Material Significance of Feathers in Late Humanist Heidelberg
Examining the three volumes of birds assembled by Marcus zum Lamm (1544–1606), a Calvinist lawyer, court official, and church councillor in Heidelberg, this article explores visual and material cultures at a Calvinist court. We argue that Lamm was a pioneer in the production of new ornithological knowledge, an entrepreneur and enthusiast who experimented with colors and the arts in order to develop a means of representation that captured the vibr…
Celebrity as Concept
Keywords: celebrityfameearly modernReformationFugger merchantstheatre
The Chancery of God
Every specialist of German Reformation history will be puzzled when reading the title of this book, which immediately—and literally—brings to mind a book published in 2003 by the leading church historian Thomas Kaufmann entitled Das Ende der Reformation: Magdeburgs ‘Herrgotts Kanzlei’ (1548–1551/2). Kaufmann's book was based on a large and encompassing research project by him and a team of helpers to investigate the unique pamphlet campaign in wh…
Erzählungen vom Geblüt und Herzen. Zu einer Historischen Anthropologie des frühneuzeitlichen Körpers
Metze und Magd
Female Spirituality and the Infant Jesus in Late Medieval Dominican Convents
Women and Crime in South-West Germany 1500-1700
Women and Crime in South-West Germany 1500-1700
Women and Crime in South-West Germany 1500-1700 Ulinka Rublack Ulinka Rublack St John's College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 13, Issue 3, July 1995, Page 372, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/13.3.372 Published: 01 July 1995
Metze und Magd
Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Female Body in Early Modern Germany
PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH AND THE FEMALE BODY IN EARLY MODERN GERMANY Get access Ulinka Rublack Ulinka Rublack St John's CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 150, Issue 1, February 1996, Pages 84–110, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/150.1.84 Published: 01 February 1996
Reordering Marriage and Society in Reformation Germany
Reordering Marriage and Society in Reformation Germany Ulinka Rublack Ulinka Rublack Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 15, Issue 1, January 1997, Pages 134–135, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/15.1.134 Published: 01 January 1997
Wench and maiden
Journal Article Wench and maiden: women, war and the pictorial function of the feminine in German cities in the early modern period Get access U Rublack U Rublack St John's College, Cambridge, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 44, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1997, Pages 1–21, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/1997.44.1 Published: 01 January 1997
Reformation als Modifikation
Gender in Early Modern German History
Journal Article Gender in Early Modern German History: An Introduction Get access Ulinka Rublack Ulinka Rublack St John's College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 17, Issue 1, January 1999, Pages 1–8, https://doi.org/10.1191/026635599676335951 Published: 01 January 1999
Claudia Ulbrich, Shulamit und Margarete. Macht, Geschlecht und Religion in einer ländlichen Gesellschaft des 18. Jahrhunderts
Susanna Burghartz, Zeiten der Reinheit - Orte der Unzucht. Ehe und Sexualität in Basel während der Frühen Neuzeit
Erzählungen vom Geblüt und Herzen. Zu einer Historischen Anthropologie des frühneuzeitlichen Körpers
Peter Burke und Jack Goody im Gespräch über Geschichte, Anthropologie und die Historische Anthropologie
Fluxes
Where did this mixture of urine and blood come from? The rattling of the coach over stones and ruts in the road had jostled and shaken the ambassador, and his bodily fluids along with him. He believed that an outflow was generally purifying, and one did well to give it time. Early modern perceptions of the body were marked by this attentiveness to bodily fluids and juices, to their motions, interruptions, consistency and purity in interaction wit…
Gender in Early Modern German History
Preface 1. Introduction Ulinka Rublack Part I. Masculinities: 2. What made a man a man? Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century findings Heide Wunder 3. Men in witchcraft trials: towards a social anthropology of 'male' understandings of magic and witchcraft Eva Labouvie Part II. Transgressions: 4. Monstrous deception: midwifery, fraud and gender in early modern Rothenburg ob der Tauber Alison Rowlands 5. 'Evil imaginings and fantasies': child witches …
In Relation
What is an ‘ego-document’? The answer might at first sight seem simple: a source or ‘document’—understood in the widest sense—providing an account of, or revealing privileged information about, the ‘self’ who produced it. The term itself, which is of relatively recent coinage—just over half a century old—has variants: while it is a term originating in Dutch that works well in several languages including both English and German, some scholars pref…
The Chancery of God
Every specialist of German Reformation history will be puzzled when reading the title of this book, which immediately—and literally—brings to mind a book published in 2003 by the leading church historian Thomas Kaufmann entitled Das Ende der Reformation: Magdeburgs ‘Herrgotts Kanzlei’ (1548–1551/2). Kaufmann's book was based on a large and encompassing research project by him and a team of helpers to investigate the unique pamphlet campaign in wh…
Grapho-Relics
Religions are historically specific ways of investigating what cultures take to be the supernatural. But how do beliefs resolve into gestures, habits, and temperament, ingrained by rituals of spiritual preparation, communication, or of learning? 1 Religious identities hinge on practices, which embody and build up specific ideals about the way in which communities of believers locate themselves on earth in relation to the divine. In Lutheranism th…
Celebrity as Concept
Keywords: celebrityfameearly modernReformationFugger merchantstheatre
Making Sense as a Cultural Practice
The production of sense is a central field of action of cultural and political practice. The articles examine how, in different contexts, the construction of sense and its outcome as a cultural practice
Matter in the Material Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement with few clear-cut distinctions between fine art and the decorative, design, and high craft.1 Alongside painting and sculpture, many crafted objects possessed a marked visual appeal. Central period concepts, such as ingenuity, civility, artful decorousness, neatness and the revival of antiquity, were explored in interaction with a new world of things skilfully produced and diversified by a range of makers. …
Paper Memory
This is a fascinating study, which brings to life the tragic force of male honour codes for early modern families. It is the most extensive account available yet of the Cologne merchant, lawyer, city councillor and churchwarden Hermann Weinsberg (1518–1597), who assembled an unparalleled amount of information about his lineage, personal views and habits throughout much of his very long life. Lundin’s book emerges from Harvard doctoral work superv…
Comparisons and Consequences in Global Perspective, 1500–1750
This chapter places the Protestant Reformation in a global perspective in two ways, using methods and examining themes common in world history as a field. First, it compares the Reformation to other religious transformations that were occurring at roughly the same time, including the early development of Sikhism, reform movements within Chinese Confucianism, and the reinvigoration of Islam in the Songhay Empire by King Askia the Great. Second, it…
The Natural and Supernatural
This chapter provides an overview of the historiography on the natural and supernatural in early modern Europe with a particular emphasis on Protestantism. It considers the ways in which this subject is closely intertwined with other major research areas in early modern historiography, especially the subject of popular and elite religion and the question of Protestantism and desacralization/secularization. Next, this chapter introduces a case stu…
The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations
The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations covers the “long Reformation” period from ca.1400 to 1750 in its European and global dimensions. Thirty-eight contributors offer cutting-edge research. This is the most comprehensive handbook of Protestant Reformations ever published to investigate the beliefs, practices, and institutions which followed medieval reform movements and Martin Luther’s Reformation in Germany. The sixteenth and sevent…
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