Making sense as a cultural practice : historical perspectives

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Author:

Rogge, Jörg, editor.

ISBN:

9783837625318

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Physical Description:

243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

Mainzer historische Kulturwissenschaften ; v. 18 = Mainz historical cultural sciences ; v. 18

Mainzer historische Kulturwissenschaften ; Bd. 18.

General Note:

"The collections of papers presented in this volume are the reworked contributions to the conference "Making Sense as a Cultural Practice - Historical Perspectives" which took place in Mainz, 18-20th September 2012."

Contents:

The parables of Jesus as media of collective memory / Ruben Zimmerman -- Social groups, personal relations, and the making of communities in Medieval vita monastica / Christina Lutter -- Writing a life : the 'family book' by Bartolomeo Dal Bovo / Paolo Perantoni -- Knowledge making and authorization strategies / Ane Ohrvik -- Making sense of Europe / Anne Eriksen -- How to create political meaning in public spaces? / Jörg Rogge -- Making sense of autocracy / Jan Kusber -- The dissemination of news in early modern Venice / Simone Lonardi -- Political information and religious skepticism in early modern Italy / Federico Barbierato -- How to read a Renaissance fool / Anu Korhonen -- Sixteenth-century classifications of passions and their historical contexts / Alessandro Arcangeli -- Making sense of illness / Marjo Kaartinen -- Making sense of the confinement of the poor / Eivind Engebretsen -- Making sense of diabetes / Cay-Rüdiger Prüll.

Subject Term:

Sense (Philosophy)

Added Author:

Rogge, Jörg,

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Summary

In the cultural and social formations of the past, practices exist for the generation and integration of moments having and giving sense with the objective of strengthening the cultural and social cohesion. Such practices and processes have a constructive character, even if this is not always the intention of the actors themselves. As the production of sense is one of the central fields of action of cultural and political practice, the articles examine with an interdisciplinary perspective how, in different contexts, the construction of sense was organized and implemented as a cultural practice.