Cultural Heritage and International Law

Cultural Heritage and International Law
Author: Evelyne Lagrange,Stefan Oeter,Robert Uerpmann-Wittzack
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2018-07-04
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9783319787893

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This book explores the objects, means and ends of international cultural heritage protection. It starts from a broad conception of cultural heritage that encompasses both tangible property, such as museum objects or buildings, and intangible heritage, such as languages and traditions. Cultural heritage thus defined is protected by various legal regimes, including the law of armed conflicts, UNESCO Conventions and international criminal law. With a view to strengthening international protection, the authors analyze existing regimes and elaborate innovative concepts, such as blue helmets of culture and safe havens for endangered cultural heritage. Finally, the ends of international protection come to the fore, and the authors address possible conflicts between protecting cultural diversity and wishes to strengthen cultural identity.

The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages Identities and Borders

The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages  Identities and Borders
Author: Tomasz Kamusella,Motoki Nomachi,Catherine Gibson
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781137348395

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This book analyzes the creation of languages across the Slavophone areas of the world and their deployment for political projects and identity building, mainly after 1989. It offers perspectives from a number of disciplines such as sociolinguistics, socio-political history and language policy. Languages are artefacts of culture, meaning they are created by people. They are often used for identity building and maintenance, but in Central and Eastern Europe they became the basis of nation building and national statehood maintenance. The recent split of the Serbo-Croatian language in the wake of the break-up of Yugoslavia amply illustrates the highly politicized role of languages in this region, which is also home to most of the world’s Slavic-speakers. This volume presents and analyzes the creation of languages across the Slavophone areas of the world and their deployment for political projects and identity building, mainly after 1989. The overview concludes with a reflection on the recent rise of Slavophone speech communities in Western Europe and Israel. The book brings together renowned international scholars who offer a variety of perspectives from a number of disciplines and sub-fields such as sociolinguistics, socio-political history and language policy, making this book of great interest to historians, sociologists, political scientists and anthropologists interested in Central and Eastern Europe and Slavic Studies.

The Matica and Beyond

The Matica and Beyond
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: BRILL
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2020-05-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004425385

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The Matica and Beyond is a comparative study of the cultural associations established to further national movements in nineteenth-century Europe by publishing literary and scientific texts in the national language.

Landscapes and Landforms of the Czech Republic

Landscapes and Landforms of the Czech Republic
Author: Tomáš Pánek,Jan Hradecký
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2016-03-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9783319275376

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The book aims to present the unique geomorphological landscapes of the Czech Republic. The geomorphic uniqueness of this country benefits from the proximity to two distinct European geological domains: the old cratonized Bohemian Massif and the relatively young Tertiary fold and thrust belt of the Western Carpathians. Landscapes and Landforms of the Czech Republic introduces general physiographical characteristics of the landscape and presents the main driving factors leading to the evolution of the present landscape. The book contains twenty two chapters describing the most interesting geomorphic landscapes of the Czech Republic. The selection of individual landscapes was based on visual exceptionality (e.g. sandstone landscapes of the Northern Bohemia), scientific importance (e.g. patterned grounds in the Sudetic Mountains) and historical relevance (e.g. mining of the Nízký and Hrubý Jeseník Mountains). The final chapters of the book discuss the protection of geomorphic heritage in the Czech Republic.

Women in the Piast Dynasty

Women in the Piast Dynasty
Author: Grzegorz Pac
Publsiher: BRILL
Total Pages: 582
Release: 2022-03-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004508538

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This is the first comprehensive study of the role of women in the Polish Piast dynasty from 965 until c.1144, comparing them with female members of other contemporary medieval dynasties.

The Entry of the Slavs Into Christendom

The Entry of the Slavs Into Christendom
Author: A. P. Vlasto
Publsiher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1970-10-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521074592

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Dr Vlasto reviews the early history of the various Slav peoples (from about AD 500 onwards) and traces their gradual emergence as Christian states within the framework of either West or East European culture. Special attention is paid to the political and cultural rivalry between East and West for the allegiance of certain Slav peoples, and to the degree of cultural exchange within the Slav world, associated in particular with the use of the Slav liturgical language. His examination of all the Slav peoples and extensive use of original source material in many different languages enables Dr Vlasto to give a particularly comprehensive study of the subject.

Dynastic Change

Dynastic Change
Author: Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues,Manuela Santos Silva,Jonathan W. Spangler
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2019-08-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781351035125

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Dynastic Change: Legitimacy and Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Monarchy examines the strategies for change and legitimacy in monarchies in the medieval and early modern eras. Taking a broadly comparative approach, Dynastic Change explores the mechanisms employed as well as theoretical and practical approaches to monarchical legitimisation. The book answers the question of how monarchical families reacted, adjusted or strategised when faced with dynastic crises of various kinds, such as a lack of a male heir or unfitness of a reigning monarch for rule, through the consideration of such themes as the role of royal women, the uses of the arts for representational and propaganda purposes and the impact of religion or popular will. Broad in both chronological and geographical scope, chapters discuss examples from the 9th to the 18th centuries across such places as Morocco, Byzantium, Portugal, Russia and Western Europe, showing readers how cultural, religious and political differences across countries and time periods affected dynastic relations. Bringing together gender, monarchy and dynasticism, the book highlights parallels across time and place, encouraging a new approach to monarchy studies. It is the perfect collection for students and researchers of medieval and early modern monarchy and gender.

Tour in England Ireland and France

Tour in England  Ireland  and France
Author: Hermann Pückler-Muskau (Fürst von)
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 390
Release: 1832
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN: CHI:097533400

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