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The Shi'i Ismaili Muslims of Central Asia have a complex political history. This open access book is the first English-language study of the Ismaili Muslims in this region, based on analysis of the Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet scholarship about them. It sheds new light on their history and heritage, and also shows how the Ismailis of Central Asia have been understood and presented in the academic literature. Divided into three parts, the first covers the spread of the Ismaili da'wa (mission) throughout Central Asia - known as Khurasan - from the 3rd/9th century until modern times. This part examines the prominent poet da'i Nasir-i Khusraw, who played an instrumental role in the expansion and development of Ismailism in Badakhshan in the eleventh century and reveals the impact of his religio-philosophical legacy in the life of the contemporary community. The second part examines the initial interest in Ismaili Studies engendered by Russian imperial rule. It also shows how approaches to the study of Ismailism were affected by 70 years of Communist atheist rule and the demise of the Communist political and ideological system. The third part presents an annotated bibliography of books, articles, and published and unpublished materials, including documents and oral materials on the history, thought and practices of the Ismailis of Central Asia, most of which has not been hitherto easily accessible to Western scholarship. The comprehensive survey and rich bibliography aims to illuminate the history and historiography of the Ismailis in Central Asia and facilitate further study on the subject by experts around the world.

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Die französische Königin Maria von Medici (1575-1642) blieb der Nachwelt als unfähig, machtbesessen und mutmaßliche Gattenmörderin in Erinnerung. Ihr kulturelles und politisches Wirken wurde in der Geschichtsschreibung häufig zu einer weiblichen und italienischen Klammer zwischen der Herrschaft Heinrichs IV. und dem Ministeriat Richelieus reduziert. Dieses Bild überdauerte die Revolution von 1789 und verfestigte sich im identitätsstiftenden historischen Diskurs einer sich zunehmend bürgerlich, republikanisch und laizistisch definierenden französischen Nation. Die bewegte Rezeption der zweiten Medici-Regentin im 19. Jahrhundert ist hier erstmals Gegenstand einer Untersuchung. Sie bietet tiefe Einblicke in die Verquickung von Historiographie, Gesellschaft und Politik in der europaweiten Krisen- und Umbruchszeit des Nationalismus. Successive generations have remembered Marie de' Medici (1575-1642), Queen of France, as an incompetent regent, obsessed with power and alleged to have murdered her husband. Moreover, historians often saw no more to her cultural work and politics than a female and Italian parenthesis between the reign of Henry IV and the ministry of Richelieu. This unfavourable image of the second Medici-regent survived the French Revolution and was solidified in the master narrative of an increasingly bourgeois, republican and secular French nation. The present volume provides the first-ever investigation into Marie de' Medici's colourful reception during the 19th century. It offers an in-depth analysis of historical writing, society and politics in the pan-European period of crisis and change called the Age of Nationalism. Marie de Médicis (1575-1642), reine de France, est restée dans les mémoires comme une souveraine incapable, obsédée par le pouvoir et soupçonnée d'avoir assassiné son mari. Ses actions culturelles et politiques ont souvent été réduites à une parenthèse féminine et italienne entre le règne d'Henri IV et le ministériat de Richelieu. Cette image a survécu à la Révolution et s'est consolidée dans le discours historique identitaire d'une nation française de plus en plus bourgeoise, républicaine et laïque.Pour la première fois, la réception mouvementée de Marie de Médicis au XIXe siècle fait ici l'objet d'une enquête approfondie. L'étude offre un vaste aperçu de l'imbrication de l'historiographie, de la société et de la politique pendant les crises et les bouleversements des nationalismes européens.

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"At a time when rapidly evolving technologies, political turmoil, and the tensions inherent in multiculturalism and globalization are reshaping historical consciousness, what is the proper role for historians and their work? By way of an answer, the contributors to this volume offer up an illuminating collective meditation on the idea of ethos and its relevance for historical practice. These intellectually adventurous essays demonstrate how ethos--a term evoking a society's "fundamental character" as well as an ethical appeal to knowledge and commitment--can serve as a conceptual lodestar for history today, not only as a narrative, but as a form of consciousness and an ethical-political orientation"--

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The volume, which has emerged from an international conference of the same title, unites a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary contributions on invasions of Goths and other Germanic tribes into the Roman Empire, focusing primarily on the third-century CE. The newly discovered fragments of the lost work Scythica by the third-century historian Dexippus of Athens, the so-called Scythica Vindobonensia alias Dexippus Vindobonensis, which survived in a Greek palimpsest kept in the Austrian National Library in Vienna, have great impact on the study of this field. The contributions explore the Vienna fragments in their historical and historiographical contexts, from the Roman to the Byzantine Era, and the history of the invasions themselves.

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Themen: Neuaufbau nach der Katastrophe; Altertum und Mittelalter; die zeitgeschichtliche Forschung; das Problem der deutschen Nationalgeschichte; zur Veränderung der deutschen Geschichtswissenschaft in den sechziger Jahren.

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