{"title":"Multisensory Perspectives on Central European Ceramics","authors":"Zuzanna Sarnecka","doi":"10.1177/02656914261459766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914261459766","url":null,"abstract":"The inquiries into the agency of artworks, sensory experience and craftsmanship draw attention of art historians to previously little-studied artefacts, such as tin-glazed objects produced since the sixteenth century in various parts of Central Europe. The shift away from questions of attribution challenges the arbitrary choices made by international institutions to promote art of clearly identifiable individuals or artistic geniuses. The multisensory perspective levels the field and diverts the narrative from an idealized or supposedly universal aesthetic. It allows us to redefine the artistic output of specific communities and to highlight collaborative modes of production in early modern artisanal workshops. This article focuses on sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century ceramics produced in Moravia and discusses them from the multisensory perspective. The focus on the characteristics of the glazes, ecology of production and non-canonical artefacts underlines the specificity of the historic local art scene, or the visual culture to which these objects belonged. The aim is to challenge previous master narratives that remain nationalistic and ideological.","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148499216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paper Matters: Jewish Recipes and Ephemeral Objects in Early Modern East-Central Europe","authors":"Agata Paluch","doi":"10.1177/02656914261459783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914261459783","url":null,"abstract":"Paper has long been recognized as a crucial resource for knowledge production in post-medieval Europe. Historians have emphasized its importance in accumulating intellectual and political capital through practices such as learning and information management, which heavily relied on the material availability of paper in early modern Europe. Recent research on ‘recipe knowledge’ has expanded this narrative of premodern knowledge-making by exploring household know-how and common folk traditions underlain by ephemeral ‘paper-stuff’ technologies. This article builds upon this research by examining a previously unexplored corpus of early modern Jewish recipe books from East-Central Europe. These books, written in a functional patchwork of languages including Hebrew, Latin, Yiddish, Polish, and Ruthenian, provide insights into the affordances of paper as a medium for local cross-cultural contact and the lived experiences of its users, transcending national, religious, or linguistic divisions defined through modern scholarly categories. Premodern Ashkenazi (i.e., Jewish East-Central European) recipes archive everyday attitudes towards powerful paper objects that used to furnish working environments and households, participate in rituals and daily habits, negotiate social identities and control human health and bodies. While these paper objects are barely visible today, extant recipes for creating them reflect complex social and cultural ecosystems of premodern Europeans that were attuned to the lasting effects of momentary experiences, intertwined with paper and other similarly evanescent materialities. This article emphasizes the materiality of deliberately ephemeral objects that no longer exist, highlighting the significance of seemingly insignificant items that once connected the East-Central European world through its local Jewish inhabitants.","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"246 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148475972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mapping Connected Central Europe: Colour and Cartography in the Margins of Early Modern Atlases","authors":"Robyn Dora Radway","doi":"10.1177/02656914261459782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914261459782","url":null,"abstract":"Early modern atlases left the printer's workshop as a series of uncoloured projections surrounded by a textual apparatus. Translucent washes of blue, green, yellow, and pink were applied by professional illuminators on behalf of consumers. Different copies of the same edition often contained their own internal logic. These differences in colouring, though subtle, reflect remarkably divergent understandings of connected, entangled, and divided Central Europe. They suggest that the competing interpretations of culture, politics, and belonging that were discussed among humanists and ruling elites were being interpreted on the commercial book market for and by consumers. This article argues that historians need to take these differences seriously and systematically study the range of options available for colouring hand-painted atlases. Comparing the colouring of several examples of Europa and Germania from the <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Theatrum Orbis Terrarum</jats:italic> (1570), including a few whose original ownership is documented, I show how the political geography of atlas consumers was highly subjective, relational, and embedded in ongoing discourses about legitimacy, legal status, and notions of belonging. These political biases, humanistic arguments, and indeed the limits of geopolitical literacy are essential to understanding how central and eastern Europe was conceptualized, personalized, and rejected in paint.","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148355632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Popular Arming and National Sovereignty: The Origin of Armed Militias Since the American War of Independence and their Role in Prussia and France Following the Threshold of 1814/1815","authors":"Axel Dröber","doi":"10.1177/02656914261454492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914261454492","url":null,"abstract":"The threshold of 1814/1815 in France and Prussia was marked by the return of the traditional monarchy after the experience of the American and French Revolutions. The Crown relied on the armed forces to maintain public order and establish the monopoly of the state. However, the Revolutions had led to the creation of citizen militias that played a crucial role in the independence of the free nation. The present article focuses on the American colonists’ troops, the French National Guard and the Prussian <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Landwehr</jats:italic> and <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Landsturm</jats:italic> in order to investigate how a new form of popular arming emerged during the <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Sattelzeit</jats:italic> , which significantly changed the military institutions of the <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">ancien régime</jats:italic> . This study emphasizes the aspect of military discipline and analyses the complex incorporation of popular arming into the state. The concept of loyalty was instructive for the understanding of social relationships within society, and the Revolution deeply changed the commitment of the militiamen. This reveals the conflicting interpretation of the sacrifice that citizens made for the establishment of a free nation. During the Restoration, exclusive obedience to the sovereign still existed, but the attachment to liberal institutions had become an integral part of the identity of the modern citizen-soldier, as the example of German liberals and members of the French National Guard show.","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148285638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Female Athletes in the Spotlight: Women's Challenges and Performances in Sports Competitions in Interwar Romania","authors":"Cosmin-Ștefan Dogaru","doi":"10.1177/02656914261447624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914261447624","url":null,"abstract":"Young upper-class Romanians, encouraged by British and French sports club models, created select gentlemen's clubs in the second part of the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. They practised sports as they observed and travelled to countries they admired for study and leisure. Romanian sports clubs embraced important benefits, including health, socialization, and leisure pursuits, creating a platform for male and female participants to compete in sports matches. Following World War I, women from both the upper and elite middle classes, as well as those from the lower middle class, contributed to women's emancipation by participating in national and international sports competitions. This article examines an overlooked subject in the literature, concentrating on the progress of women and the development of gender roles in sports in Romania during the interwar period.","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"140 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148285640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Religion on the Margins: Embodied Moravian Pieties on the Edges of the Atlantic World Empire by Benjamin M. Pietrenka PietrenkaBenjamin M., Religion on the Margins: Embodied Moravian Pieties on the Edges of the Atlantic World Empire , Pennsylvania State University Press: State College, PA, 2024; 244 pp., 2 colour illus; 9780271098821, $65.95 (hbk)","authors":"Paul Peucker","doi":"10.1177/02656914261436910f","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914261436910f","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"29 1","pages":"299-300"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148285644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity by Diarmaid MacCulloch MacCullochDiarmaid, Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity , Allen Lane: London, 2024; 688 pp.; 9780141990958, £18.99 (pbk); 9780241400951, £7.99 (ebook)","authors":"Amanda Dillon","doi":"10.1177/02656914261436910d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914261436910d","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"69 1","pages":"294-297"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148285650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: How Russia Got Big: A Territorial History by Paul W. Werth WerthPaul W., How Russia Got Big: A Territorial History , Bloomsbury Academic: London, 2025; 184 pp.; 9781350284012, £45.00 (hbk); 9781350284005, £12.99 (pbk); 9781350284029, £11.69 (ebook)","authors":"Janet Hartley","doi":"10.1177/02656914261436910i","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914261436910i","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"46 1","pages":"305-306"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148285647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: The Culture of the Second Cold War by Richard Sakwa SakwaRichard, The Culture of the Second Cold War , Anthem Press: London, 2025; 198 pp.; 9781839992971, £20.00 (pbk); 9781839992995, £19.99 (ebook)","authors":"Anton Fedyashin","doi":"10.1177/02656914261436910h","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914261436910h","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"137 1 1","pages":"303-305"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148285649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Hitler’s Deserters: Breaking Ranks with the Wehrmacht by Douglas Carl Peifer PeiferDouglas Carl, Hitler ’ s Deserters: Breaking Ranks with the Wehrmacht , Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2025; 312 pp., 5 b/w illus; 9780197539668, £26.99 (hbk)","authors":"Ben Shepherd","doi":"10.1177/02656914261436910e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914261436910e","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"33 1","pages":"297-298"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148285659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}