Foucault's concepts, methods and arguments invite us to look as much before as behind and beyond both pragmatic policy formulations and abstract theoretical critiques, in order to investigate the everyday functioning and effects of relations of power, forms of knowledge and ways of relating ethically to oneself and others. Yet, despite a vast scholarship on the work of Foucault, the field of education has been relatively under-represented in terms of full-length studies as envisaged by this research project.

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Michel Foucault on education: a preliminary theoretical overview

“If we had organs, musical instruments and singers, all of Miyako and Sakai would be converted without any doubt within a year” – so said the Italian missionary GnecchiSoldo Organtino (1530–1609) in 1577 after seven years of proselytisation in Japan. The power attributed here to music as an intercultural communicative device is linked to the three weapons of the Catholic Reformation: rhetoric, cultural accommodation, and missionary formation. For the Society of Jesus, an itinerant order of men (known as Jesuits), the forging of these weapons was invoked by the command of Christ to spread the gospel to the ends of the earth (Matthew, 28:19). Indeed, apostolic mobility was woven into the very fabric of the Jesuits’ work by their founder, Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556), from the order’s institution in 1540. The Jesuits’ foundation of a truly global outlook and practice thus created remote contact zones where the friction of first encounters with indigenous populations propelled the development of unique approaches to apostolic work. No more clearly is this use of accommodatio over a tabula rasa approach to proselytisation demonstrated, than in the Jesuit mission to Japan during its so-called ‘Christian Century’ (1549–1650). Musical and theatrical practices by Jesuit missionaries in Japan are thus interpreted in this dissertation as part and parcel of the Society’s “cultural mission”. In engaging with recent debates over the ‘global turn’ in historical scholarship, the multifaceted nature of these cultural encounters reveal shared pathways for discussion about states of global interconnectedness in the early modern period. This dissertation overviews the treatment of globalisation in Jesuit historiography to date and offers a new theoretical synthesis, with a focus on the nexus between Jesuit ‘universalism’ and various forms of local ‘particularism’ in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. As ‘cross-cultural brokers’, Jesuit missionaries are identified as ‘glocal’ intermediaries, facilitating the localisation of Jesuit religious and sociocultural traditions. The metaphor of a ‘Glocal Mirror’ is employed as a way of capturing the bi-directional nature of intercultural exchange, in addition to the ways in which ‘culture’ (in defining the inter-cultural) functions on two important levels: as recognition of boundaries (be they religious, ethnic, or linguistic) to be overcome; and/or the acknowledgment of shared understandings. The first half of the dissertation (‘The Object’) looks to the performative practices of conversion employed by Jesuit missionaries in Japan. In analysing how music and theatre were practiced and experienced in these local contexts, examples of performative syncretism are explored. The second half of the dissertation (‘The Reflection’) demonstrates how globalisation in this period entailed both a real and imagined defiance of geography. In this way, the ‘Glocal Mirror’ not only relayed a re-imagined image of Japan across Catholic Europe, but it also served as a medium through which continental Jesuits could see an exemplary reflection of their own faith in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Three case studies of different compositional genre (melodrama, oratorio, and tragedy) in Europe are analysed for evidence of how and why Japan’s Christian Century was interpreted and re-interpreted over space and time. The ‘object’ and its ‘reflection’ are two halves of a whole that have yet to be considered in the same space. Indeed, this dissertation argues that these examples of European ‘Japanese plays’ were part of a broader process of intercultural exchange, central to an understanding of the global and local history of the Japanese Church.

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Encounters in the glocal mirror: The role of the performing arts in Japan’s Christian century and its reflection in early modern Europe, 1549–1783

Receiving Rist’s theatre – a literary-historical challenge
A claim in Die AllerEdelste Belustigung Kunsst- und Tugenliebender Gemuther (1666) indicates that Rist may have composed as many as 30 dramas. There are now only five dramatic works attributed to him: Irenaromachia (1630), Perseus (1634), Das Friedewunschende Teutschland (1647), Das Friedejauchtzende Teutschland (1653), Depositio Cornuti Typographici. The best estimate claims that only a further two had been published, a Herodes and a Wallenstein. The others have since been lost, perhaps even destroyed during Rist’s lifetime as his home was sacked twice by invading troops. Of the five that remain, Irenaromachia does not bear Rist’s name, while the Depositio differs greatly in conception and execution from the others and may not have numbered among the 30 claimed theatrical compostions. Thus the surviving dramas do not constitute a more or less unified body of works challenges German literary studies to engage with these discontinuities – a task which it consistently avoids. The problematic nature of the surviving corpus is compounded by the fact that this was only a fraction of what was produced, a situation which
invites an (albeit speculative) attempt to contextualise the surviving dramas in a wider sphere of literary-theatrical activity. This leads to the next difficulty,
considering that the composition of dramas, even when these number 30 rather than four or five, was just one area of Rist’s prolific activity as a writer. This presents the problem of how to relate Rist’s dramas to his other writings and activities. This task is itself complicated by the tendency to focus on Rist’s verse compositions, which
in the twentieth century emphasised his secular compositions.The current focus of much of Rist scholarship lies in his religious songs, from a theological, hymnological,and musicological perspective. He has also maintained a presence in the lay imagination, as several of his songs have been included in Protestant hymnbooks
since the 18th century. Scholarship is now, however, turning its attention again to Rist as a dramatist and
this thesis is part of this renewed attention. It is difficult to know what to do with Rist’s dramas. The problems they present are considerable, but this thesis will show that Rist’s dramas exist in the context of a concept of dramaturgy and a theory of acting that is much more sophisticated than has often been thought and that goes beyond the narrowly poetic into performance practice.

Johann von Rist (1607-77) and the Theory and Performance of Drama in Seventeenth Century Germany

Als vor 500 Jahren (1481) William Caxton die englische Ubersetzung der zwar moderneren, jedoch schon 240 Jahre alten franzosischen Enzyklopadie ›L’image du monde‹ herausbrachte, war das nicht ein verlegerisches Wagnis, ein vereinzelter Versuch der Wiederbelebung eines an sich uberholten Werkes einer im Absterben begriffenen Gattung; vielmehr erfuhr die Enzyklopadie des Mittelalters, die alte wie die modernere, die lateinische wie die volkssprachige, seit den siebziger Jahren des 15. Jahrhunderts im fruhen Buchdruck eine unerhorte Blute und erlangte nach reicher handschriftlicher Uberlieferung im spateren Mittelalter erneut eine betrachtliche Verbreitung im ganzen Europa. Caxton empfiehlt seinen ›Mirrour of the World‹, der ubrigens als erstes in England gedrucktes Buch illustriert ist [1], im Vorwort der ersten Ausgabe — ihr sollten noch zwei weitere folgen (von Caxton 1490 und Andrewe 1527) — als ein Buch besonderer Art: Unter den vielen verschiedenartigen Buchern, die der Befriedigung von Neugier und Wissensdurst, der Erbauung und der Befestigung der Erinnerung an Vergangenes dienen konnten, habe es seinen eigenen hervorragenden Platz: 
And emonge alle other this present booke, whiche is called the ymage or mirrour of the world, ought to be visyted, redde & knowen by cause it treateth of the world and of the wondreful dyuision therof. In whiche book a man resonable may see and vnderstande more clerer, by the visytyng and seeyng of it and the figures therin, the situacion and moeuyng of the firmament etc. [2]

Grundzüge der mittelalterlichen Enzyklopädik

Goethe had a complex and evolving relationship with the nobility, for reasons which can in part be inferred from his biography. This thesis, however, is primarily concerned with examination of relevant texts, and is largely confined to the years before the journey to Italy in 1786. The first three chapters cover the period before his arrival in Weimar. This is followed by an account of the relevant works from the first Weimar decade (1775-1786), with some biographical detail. The main weight has fallen on Wilhelm Meisters theatralische Sendung, a text which is still sometimes undervalued, and has a rather limited bibliography. It is naturally a more direct reflection of his social attitudes than the three major plays associated with the decade, which however have been given separate, more cursory treatments in the three final chapters. General themes include the emergence of Goethe from immature, or at least inherited, stereotypes of the nobility, first towards an attempted alliance between it and the ‘Genie’ of the Sturm und Drang, and then to a more detailed critique made possible by personal experience. The final phase (final, that is, within the limited time frame) was the formation and development of an internal ideal of nobility with an increasingly tenuous relationship with social and political reality. Goethe’s picture of nobility as performance and presentation of self is considered, and its links, for the non-noble author, with theatre and theatrical role performance. Other recurring themes include court manners and their value, both inherently and as an analogue of the heightening which for Goethe was essential to art, court life as a paradigm of social life in general, and the related subject of flight from society.

Goethe and the nobility as characterisation and presentation of self

Imagines Mundi: Metaphorische Darstellungen der Welt in der Emblematik

Modern Swiss Literature: Unity and Diversity

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Triumphall Shews: Tournaments at German-Speaking Courts in Their European Context 1560-1730

Die deutsche Barockliteratur : Wertung, Umwertung : eine wertungsgeschichtliche Studie in systematischer Absicht

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