Frontmatter -- Editorial -- Content -- Preface -- Welcome Address / Dreyer, Mechthild -- Introduction / Rogge, Jörg ; Berlandi, Matthias ; Mengler, Judith -- The Parables of Jesus as Media of Collective Memory / Zimmermann, Ruben -- Social Groups, Personal Relations, and the Making of Communities in Medieval vita monastica / Lutter, Christina -- Writing a Life / Perantoni, Paolo -- Knowledge Making and Authorization Strategies / Ohrvik, Ane -- Making Sense of Europe / Eriksen, Anne -- How to Create Political Meaning in Public Spaces? / Rogge, Jörg -- Making Sense of Autocracy / Kusber, Jan -- The Dissemination of News in Early Modern Venice / Lonardi, Simone -- Political Information and Religious Skepticism in Early Modern Italy / Barbierato, Federico -- How to Read a Renaissance Fool / Korhonen, Anu -- Sixteenth-Century Classifications of Passions and their Historical Contexts / Arcangeli, Alessandro -- Making Sense of Illness / Kaartinen, Marjo -- Making Sense of the Confinement of the Poor / Engebretsen, Eivind -- Making Sense of Diabetes / Prüll, Cay-Rüdiger -- List of Contributors.

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.

Jörg Rogge (Prof. Dr.) teaches Medieval History at the University of Mainz, Germany, and is Speaker of the Research Focus "Historische Kulturwissenschaften". His research interests are methods and theory of cultural historical sciences, and social and cultural history of late medieval Europe.

In English.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed April 03 2015).

Includes bibliographical references.

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