The Construction of Textual Authority in German Literature of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods »

Current interest in the intersections of various kinds of discourse provides the basis for a fresh look at diverse textual strategies of cultural legitimation. This collection presents an introductory essay and eleven studies (written in English and German) that address claims to authority associated with differing kinds of texts from such varied perspectives as political performance, popular culture, history of science, interrelations between verbal texts and other arts, and artistic professionalism. Read together, these studies illuminate historical contingencies and reveal important changes in the "technologies of authority" from the twelfth through the eighteenth centuries.

The contributors are Claire Baldwin, Thomas Cramer, Arthur Groos, Walter Haug, C. Stephen Jaeger, Jane O. Newman, James F. Poag, David Price, Rudiger Schnell, Lynne Tatlock, Horst Wenzel, and Gerhild Scholz Williams.

Foreword / Abraham F. Lowenthal
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction / David Pion-Berlin
2 Reason, Culture, or Structure?: Assessing Civil-Military Dynamics in Brazil / Wendy Hunter
3 Military Attitudes toward Democracy in Latin America: How Do We Know If Anything Has Changed? / J. Samuel Fitch
4 Latin America: Objective and Subjective Control Revisited / Ernesto L¢pez
5 The Organizational Dynamics of Militaries and Military Movements: Paths to Power in Venezuela / Deborah L. Norden
6 Civil-Military Circumvention: How Argentine State Institutions Compensate for a Weakened Chain of Command / David Pion-Berlin
7 Crafting Civilian Control in Argentina and Venezuela / Harold A. Trinkunas
8 Institutions, Transitions, and Bargaining: Civilians and the Military in Shaping Postauthoritarian Regimes / Felipe Agero
9 Latin American Economic Integration and Democratic Control of the Military: Is There a Symbiotic Relationship? / David R. Mares
10 Historical Foundations of Civil-Military Relations in Spanish America / Brian Loveman
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