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Editors' Notes

Editors' Notes Editors’ Notes he articles in this thirty-eighth volume of the Austrian History Yearbook off er interesting new insights on issues that scholars have long recognized as important in Tthe history of Austria and Central Europe. Employing new analytic perspectives and tools and exploiting new sources, our authors take us behind the scenes, as it were, to uncover new layers of historical meaning, whether about critical events or changing social and political modes and relationships. Herwig Wolfram’s Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecture, which begins the volume, exemplifi es well such inquiries as he probes early medieval sources for the fi rst signs of identifi cation with distinct cultural groupings and loyalties to emerging political forma- tions in the territory that eventually became the Austrian Republic. Austrian scientists and thinkers such as Richard von Krafft -Ebing, Sigmund Freud, and Otto Weininger did pioneering work in studies of sexuality and gender, but ironically the history of sexuality has developed more slowly in historical studies of Austria and Habsburg Central Europe than for other parts of Europe and North America. Our forum on “Writing the History of Sexuality in Fin-de-Siècle Cisleithania” presents provocative examples of the interesting cur- rent research in this fi http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Austrian History Yearbook Cambridge University Press

Editors' Notes

Austrian History Yearbook , Volume 38: 1 – Jan 18, 2010
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Editors’ Notes he articles in this thirty-eighth volume of the Austrian History Yearbook off er interesting new insights on issues that scholars have long recognized as important in Tthe history of Austria and Central Europe. Employing new analytic perspectives and tools and exploiting new sources, our authors take us behind the scenes, as it were, to uncover new layers of historical meaning, whether about critical events or changing social and political modes and relationships. Herwig Wolfram’s Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecture, which begins the volume, exemplifi es well such inquiries as he probes early medieval sources for the fi rst signs of identifi cation with distinct cultural groupings and loyalties to emerging political forma- tions in the territory that eventually became the Austrian Republic. Austrian scientists and thinkers such as Richard von Krafft -Ebing, Sigmund Freud, and Otto Weininger did pioneering work in studies of sexuality and gender, but ironically the history of sexuality has developed more slowly in historical studies of Austria and Habsburg Central Europe than for other parts of Europe and North America. Our forum on “Writing the History of Sexuality in Fin-de-Siècle Cisleithania” presents provocative examples of the interesting cur- rent research in this fi

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