https://stemedplus.hcommons.org/members/bergerj/activity/ Activity feed for Joachim Berger. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:31:12 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 dccbfb9e3977d43c0262684d5ad0223a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1945348/ Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:38:33 +0000 0 448d1d6033266fa03cb38b56a120409f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1857163/ Fri, 01 Sep 2023 01:13:03 +0000 The edited volume "Ordering and delimiting knowledge – from analogue to digital Europe?" asks how knowledge orders confirm, reinforce, question or create new social differentiations, and to what extent the digital transformation changes such differentiation processes gradually or in principle. Knowledge orders are understood here as i…[Read more]

]]> 0 f68ac848107071f2cdc05ef240be5a91 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1857086/ Thu, 31 Aug 2023 13:50:10 +0000 The edited volume "Ordering and delimiting knowledge – from analogue to digital Europe?" asks how knowledge orders confirm, reinforce, question or create new social differentiations, and to what extent the digital transformation changes such differentiation processes gradually or in principle. Knowledge orders are understood here as i…[Read more]

]]> 0 8a256638065288e48fa8cd68a58e5364 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1848482/ Wed, 07 Jun 2023 02:24:02 +0000 For the 16th birthday of the hereditary prince Carl August of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach on 3 September 1773, his teacher Christoph Martin Wieland had the play "The Choice of Hercules", a "dramatic cantata", performed at the Weimar court theatre. Did Wieland thus connect to a tradition of the Hercules myth connected with the dynasty or the place…[Read more]

]]> 0 45c82e2a166dcac157de6140b42ceb4b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1848481/ Wed, 07 Jun 2023 02:24:01 +0000 For the 16th birthday of the hereditary prince Carl August of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach on 3 September 1773, his teacher Christoph Martin Wieland had the play "The Choice of Hercules", a "dramatic cantata", performed at the Weimar court theatre. Did Wieland thus connect to a tradition of the Hercules myth connected with the dynasty or the place…[Read more]

]]> 0 d88ab27800a9a9bd33e81fb519544565 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1848480/ Wed, 07 Jun 2023 02:23:43 +0000 This essay traces the transformations of aristocratic representation using the example of the Russian Tsar's daughter Maria Pavlovna (1786–1859), who was married to the Weimar court in 1804. Maria Pavlovna endeavoured to put her informal ruling techniques, charitable undertakings as well as her patronage and memorial ambitions in Weimar's '…[Read more]

]]> 0 ae8c498010c9f2ab8ca7eeb9bba10288 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1848479/ Wed, 07 Jun 2023 02:23:41 +0000 This essay traces the transformations of aristocratic representation using the example of the Russian Tsar's daughter Maria Pavlovna (1786–1859), who was married to the Weimar court in 1804. Maria Pavlovna endeavoured to put her informal ruling techniques, charitable undertakings as well as her patronage and memorial ambitions in Weimar's '…[Read more]

]]> 0 e091045b9946d6761c9d4e222508d8eb https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1848393/ Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:29:40 +0000 For the 16th birthday of the hereditary prince Carl August of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach on 3 September 1773, his teacher Christoph Martin Wieland had the play "The Choice of Hercules", a "dramatic cantata", performed at the Weimar court theatre. Did Wieland thus connect to a tradition of the Hercules myth connected with the dynasty or the place…[Read more]

]]> 0 d2003c19f46cbc71b3a849dd53b0babf https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1848390/ Tue, 06 Jun 2023 12:58:46 +0000 This essay traces the transformations of aristocratic representation using the example of the Russian Tsar's daughter Maria Pavlovna (1786–1859), who was married to the Weimar court in 1804. Maria Pavlovna endeavoured to put her informal ruling techniques, charitable undertakings as well as her patronage and memorial ambitions in Weimar's '…[Read more]

]]> 0 e2ffba1172bbcacc1f41f7db9446f04a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1832173/ Wed, 01 Feb 2023 02:24:21 +0000 Duchess Anna Amalia (1739-1807) was a central figure in the duchies of Weimar and Eisenach for over fifty years - as wife of the reigning duke, then as custodial regent and finally as mother of the reigning duke. The article comes to the conclusion that the duchess could barely affect the emergence of the configuration that has been referred to in…[Read more]

]]> 0 c63cb3a333f6617e55774f2a3447b327 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1832012/ Tue, 31 Jan 2023 15:52:47 +0000 Duchess Anna Amalia (1739-1807) was a central figure in the duchies of Weimar and Eisenach for over fifty years - as wife of the reigning duke, then as custodial regent and finally as mother of the reigning duke. The article comes to the conclusion that the duchess could barely affect the emergence of the configuration that has been referred to in…[Read more]

]]> 0 de3d9383a3d85e2a1fd0883d230e22f3 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1831971/ Tue, 31 Jan 2023 02:23:41 +0000 The article examines regulations for »order« at the princely courts in the Holy Roman Empire in the 16th century and asks how these prescriptive documents sought to establish "good order" at court. Special attention is paid to the theological justifications of order as well as the confessionality and the confessional character of court orders. T…[Read more]

]]> 0 19f9e5ea378810bf3708fe151c90ad5a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1831970/ Tue, 31 Jan 2023 02:23:38 +0000 The article examines regulations for »order« at the princely courts in the Holy Roman Empire in the 16th century and asks how these prescriptive documents sought to establish "good order" at court. Special attention is paid to the theological justifications of order as well as the confessionality and the confessional character of court orders. T…[Read more]

]]> 0 95dd4a9b7e60dd38d3b463b1e1bb89d8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1831855/ Mon, 30 Jan 2023 14:37:51 +0000 The article examines regulations for »order« at the princely courts in the Holy Roman Empire in the 16th century and asks how these prescriptive documents sought to establish "good order" at court. Special attention is paid to the theological justifications of order as well as the confessionality and the confessional character of court orders. T…[Read more]

]]> 0 b7ab99708869741e2fad132298f967e3 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1831114/ Tue, 24 Jan 2023 02:23:42 +0000 After the Seven Years War German petty courts increasingly felt obliged to justify their very existence. Therefor members of the reigning dynasties developped strategies to represent themselves as ›enlightened‹ rulers. Especially for non-reigning princesses, practice and patronage of the fine arts – theatre, music, landscape gardening, liter…[Read more]

]]> 0 229c4b3dec9f22eaaf3c525209f74d05 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1831113/ Tue, 24 Jan 2023 02:23:40 +0000 After the Seven Years War German petty courts increasingly felt obliged to justify their very existence. Therefor members of the reigning dynasties developped strategies to represent themselves as ›enlightened‹ rulers. Especially for non-reigning princesses, practice and patronage of the fine arts – theatre, music, landscape gardening, liter…[Read more]

]]> 0 b176382f5aa6513fb500dc56f4e00fc0 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1830988/ Mon, 23 Jan 2023 09:05:05 +0000 After the Seven Years War German petty courts increasingly felt obliged to justify their very existence. Therefor members of the reigning dynasties developped strategies to represent themselves as ›enlightened‹ rulers. Especially for non-reigning princesses, practice and patronage of the fine arts – theatre, music, landscape gardening, liter…[Read more]

]]> 0 91ebcb9aa1a179acea6ff35b1dcedb64 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1829045/ Tue, 10 Jan 2023 02:23:42 +0000 Freemasonry has traditionally been seen as a key influence in the rise of the Bourgeoisie, since it allegedly subdued social boundaries and behavioural norms of the Ancien Régime. This paper, however, argues that the masonic lodges at least in the smaller German court towns, adopted various elements of court society – organizational structures, my…[Read more]

]]> 0 91ebcb9aa1a179acea6ff35b1dcedb64 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1829044/ Tue, 10 Jan 2023 02:23:42 +0000 Freemasonry has traditionally been seen as a key influence in the rise of the Bourgeoisie, since it allegedly subdued social boundaries and behavioural norms of the Ancien Régime. This paper, however, argues that the masonic lodges at least in the smaller German court towns, adopted various elements of court society – organizational structures, my…[Read more]

]]> 0 5efa22987d87b36fe37061d99eded39e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1829043/ Tue, 10 Jan 2023 02:23:38 +0000 Freemasonry has traditionally been seen as a key influence in the rise of the Bourgeoisie, since it allegedly subdued social boundaries and behavioural norms of the Ancien Régime. This paper, however, argues that the masonic lodges at least in the smaller German court towns, adopted various elements of court society – organizational structures, my…[Read more]

]]> 0 b0aad7317daee7045a93c2179d919ee3 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1828891/ Mon, 09 Jan 2023 09:31:04 +0000 Freemasonry has traditionally been seen as a key influence in the rise of the Bourgeoisie, since it allegedly subdued social boundaries and behavioural norms of the Ancien Régime. This paper, however, argues that the masonic lodges at least in the smaller German court towns, adopted various elements of court society – organizational structures, my…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b9808294bde623c364479c9f2728fc7 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1828352/ Thu, 05 Jan 2023 02:24:33 +0000 This essay focuses on territorial conflicts between European masonic bodies outside Europe, and on the impact of these conflicts on inner-European masonic relations. The period between c. 1870 and c. 1930 marks the height of the European expansion respectively the age of ‘high imperialism’. It also marks the first wave of decolonization. The tid…[Read more]

]]> 0 e4d382adcff481454c7a6a3c9216803c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1828351/ Thu, 05 Jan 2023 02:24:27 +0000 This essay focuses on territorial conflicts between European masonic bodies outside Europe, and on the impact of these conflicts on inner-European masonic relations. The period between c. 1870 and c. 1930 marks the height of the European expansion respectively the age of ‘high imperialism’. It also marks the first wave of decolonization. The tid…[Read more]

]]> 0 76de75f14d48492cc511ef30e91d1c49 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1828350/ Thu, 05 Jan 2023 02:24:19 +0000 This essay focuses on territorial conflicts between European masonic bodies outside Europe, and on the impact of these conflicts on inner-European masonic relations. The period between c. 1870 and c. 1930 marks the height of the European expansion respectively the age of ‘high imperialism’. It also marks the first wave of decolonization. The tid…[Read more]

]]> 0 76de75f14d48492cc511ef30e91d1c49 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1828349/ Thu, 05 Jan 2023 02:24:19 +0000 This essay focuses on territorial conflicts between European masonic bodies outside Europe, and on the impact of these conflicts on inner-European masonic relations. The period between c. 1870 and c. 1930 marks the height of the European expansion respectively the age of ‘high imperialism’. It also marks the first wave of decolonization. The tid…[Read more]

]]> 0 4de1a8ddcdafcd8c1e88db7d8582092b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1828348/ Thu, 05 Jan 2023 02:24:18 +0000 This essay focuses on territorial conflicts between European masonic bodies outside Europe, and on the impact of these conflicts on inner-European masonic relations. The period between c. 1870 and c. 1930 marks the height of the European expansion respectively the age of ‘high imperialism’. It also marks the first wave of decolonization. The tid…[Read more]

]]> 0 0ff0fc408f70beb60cfeb3abab5d6b49 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1828347/ Thu, 05 Jan 2023 02:24:03 +0000 How did (Western) European freemasonries on a transnational level came to terms with the idea of a closer union of the European peoples? Concepts of “Europe” and “Europeanness” were the background music of the formation of masonic pan-European networks, building on transnational encounters either by individual freemasons (in the Universala Framaso…[Read more]

]]> 0 ef0c0f697b36827d385071217a6ed9ef https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1828346/ Thu, 05 Jan 2023 02:23:42 +0000 How did (Western) European freemasonries on a transnational level came to terms with the idea of a closer union of the European peoples? Concepts of “Europe” and “Europeanness” were the background music of the formation of masonic pan-European networks, building on transnational encounters either by individual freemasons (in the Universala Framaso…[Read more]

]]> 0 ef0c0f697b36827d385071217a6ed9ef https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1828345/ Thu, 05 Jan 2023 02:23:42 +0000 How did (Western) European freemasonries on a transnational level came to terms with the idea of a closer union of the European peoples? Concepts of “Europe” and “Europeanness” were the background music of the formation of masonic pan-European networks, building on transnational encounters either by individual freemasons (in the Universala Framaso…[Read more]

]]> 0 ddfbc3348fd7572c9abfc42e3b1b79ec https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1828344/ Thu, 05 Jan 2023 02:23:39 +0000 How did (Western) European freemasonries on a transnational level came to terms with the idea of a closer union of the European peoples? Concepts of “Europe” and “Europeanness” were the background music of the formation of masonic pan-European networks, building on transnational encounters either by individual freemasons (in the Universala Framaso…[Read more]

]]> 0 e977ecbd174879e4aa70b900e39e16ef https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1828226/ Wed, 04 Jan 2023 11:14:01 +0000 This essay focuses on territorial conflicts between European masonic bodies outside Europe, and on the impact of these conflicts on inner-European masonic relations. The period between c. 1870 and c. 1930 marks the height of the European expansion respectively the age of ‘high imperialism’. It also marks the first wave of decolonization. The tid…[Read more]

]]> 0 3f6b3b197e6d8466d26720d671825ec3 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1828225/ Wed, 04 Jan 2023 10:51:42 +0000 How did (Western) European freemasonries on a transnational level came to terms with the idea of a closer union of the European peoples? Concepts of “Europe” and “Europeanness” were the background music of the formation of masonic pan-European networks, building on transnational encounters either by individual freemasons (in the Universala Framaso…[Read more]

]]> 0 d05527f012fec7b41e86c9ec47a9715e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827158/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 02:24:54 +0000 Heracles/Hercules is a particularly striking example of how European societies have received, appropriated and reshaped classical heroic myths into the early 21st century. Is the ancient hero thus also a European site of memory? It will be shown that it was a specific aspect of the myth that was evoked particularly frequently and became a topos by…[Read more]

]]> 0 55dc9a5354bf90ef1a868e412c9bd98d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827157/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 02:24:52 +0000 Heracles/Hercules is a particularly striking example of how European societies have received, appropriated and reshaped classical heroic myths into the early 21st century. Is the ancient hero thus also a European site of memory? It will be shown that it was a specific aspect of the myth that was evoked particularly frequently and became a topos by…[Read more]

]]> 0 ab4271ebbf1cb13b79a4eb15a004c1cf https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827156/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 02:24:44 +0000 This article demonstrates the interplay between national, international and transatlantic dimensions within fraternalism. From the late nineteenth century, masonic lodges took part in the broader push towards the formation of transnational organisations and institutions. They were mainly based in western and southwestern Europe. However,…[Read more]

]]> 0 fbcc7ffd0aa1e0f1706f00c9bca180c2 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827155/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 02:24:31 +0000 This article demonstrates the interplay between national, international and transatlantic dimensions within fraternalism. From the late nineteenth century, masonic lodges took part in the broader push towards the formation of transnational organisations and institutions. They were mainly based in western and southwestern Europe. However,…[Read more]

]]> 0 c3ffa16a2748b9de815169f6f1fa515a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827154/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 02:24:13 +0000 This article demonstrates the interplay between national, international and transatlantic dimensions within fraternalism. From the late nineteenth century, masonic lodges took part in the broader push towards the formation of transnational organisations and institutions. They were mainly based in western and southwestern Europe. However,…[Read more]

]]> 0 86600c95400df5dd90d827f374187248 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827153/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 02:24:12 +0000 This article demonstrates the interplay between national, international and transatlantic dimensions within fraternalism. From the late nineteenth century, masonic lodges took part in the broader push towards the formation of transnational organisations and institutions. They were mainly based in western and southwestern Europe. However,…[Read more]

]]> 0 7f8f7d47bbe41e6481afa5c87c8ef4e0 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827152/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 02:24:10 +0000 This article demonstrates the interplay between national, international and transatlantic dimensions within fraternalism. From the late nineteenth century, masonic lodges took part in the broader push towards the formation of transnational organisations and institutions. They were mainly based in western and southwestern Europe. However,…[Read more]

]]> 0 45ab838713cb6818e1e695429eb03324 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827018/ Mon, 19 Dec 2022 09:51:59 +0000 Heracles/Hercules is a particularly striking example of how European societies have received, appropriated and reshaped classical heroic myths into the early 21st century. Is the ancient hero thus also a European site of memory? It will be shown that it was a specific aspect of the myth that was evoked particularly frequently and became a topos by…[Read more]

]]> 0 e11eac0ed0ae3a12a2a298893c8433f1 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827016/ Mon, 19 Dec 2022 09:25:02 +0000 This article demonstrates the interplay between national, international and transatlantic dimensions within fraternalism. From the late nineteenth century, masonic lodges took part in the broader push towards the formation of transnational organisations and institutions. They were mainly based in western and southwestern Europe. However,…[Read more]

]]> 0 43446fad4c519edfdb2b8111abb47de8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827014/ Mon, 19 Dec 2022 09:15:42 +0000 0 68e989688d0ec2a8046de3f6db0c91b0 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1818095/ Wed, 19 Oct 2022 02:24:17 +0000 This essay traces some of the contexts and media in which "Heracles-Hercules" - as a hero between virtue and hubris - was visible in European societies from the end of the middle ages onwards. It discusses whether this example of the reception, appropriation and transformation of classical myths in the early modern period can be understood as a…[Read more]

]]> 0 070e7099f92b6ae02d677bd0cfdd7496 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1818094/ Wed, 19 Oct 2022 02:24:16 +0000 This essay traces some of the contexts and media in which "Heracles-Hercules" - as a hero between virtue and hubris - was visible in European societies from the end of the middle ages onwards. It discusses whether this example of the reception, appropriation and transformation of classical myths in the early modern period can be understood as a…[Read more]

]]> 0 cce5ca93a7fbc1d1caa771eb5b0b683c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1818093/ Wed, 19 Oct 2022 02:24:00 +0000 For two years, from 1788 to 1790, Duchess Anna Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1739-1807) exchanged her familiar surroundings with Rome and Naples. She undertook her furthest and most ambitious journey at the age of almost 49. For the only time the princely widow left Germany or the German territories of the Reich. During her stay, the Duchess…[Read more]

]]> 0 f1eace521744f23748b876de00afcd59 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1818092/ Wed, 19 Oct 2022 02:23:58 +0000 For two years, from 1788 to 1790, Duchess Anna Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1739-1807) exchanged her familiar surroundings with Rome and Naples. She undertook her furthest and most ambitious journey at the age of almost 49. For the only time the princely widow left Germany or the German territories of the Reich. During her stay, the Duchess…[Read more]

]]> 0 7a469184433c324cfcef8b062ded5890 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1817991/ Tue, 18 Oct 2022 13:21:38 +0000 This essay traces some of the contexts and media in which "Heracles-Hercules" - as a hero between virtue and hubris - was visible in European societies from the end of the middle ages onwards. It discusses whether this example of the reception, appropriation and transformation of classical myths in the early modern period can be understood as a…[Read more]

]]> 0 ef88ae6c5e2899733946cff67dee4761 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1817989/ Tue, 18 Oct 2022 12:58:43 +0000 For two years, from 1788 to 1790, Duchess Anna Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1739-1807) exchanged her familiar surroundings with Rome and Naples. She undertook her furthest and most ambitious journey at the age of almost 49. For the only time the princely widow left Germany or the German territories of the Reich. During her stay, the Duchess…[Read more]

]]> 0 c3cd1885fde3a78baf6550756f4f1ddc https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1817169/ Tue, 11 Oct 2022 02:24:18 +0000 The period of masonic internationalism in the last third of the 19th and first third of the 20th centuries saw the most visible - and controversial - attempts to organisationally model the "cosmopolitan imperative" of freemasonry. The various freemasonries in Europe saw themselves as links in a world-spanning "chain of brothers" forged by the…[Read more]

]]> 0 6e31bfc3c810e3e9cccefec9aa5a5272 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1817168/ Tue, 11 Oct 2022 02:24:02 +0000 The period of masonic internationalism in the last third of the 19th and first third of the 20th centuries saw the most visible - and controversial - attempts to organisationally model the "cosmopolitan imperative" of freemasonry. The various freemasonries in Europe saw themselves as links in a world-spanning "chain of brothers" forged by the…[Read more]

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