Making Sense as a Cultural Practice: Historical Perspectives

Content\nPreface\nWelcome Address\nIntroduction\nCOMMUNITIES\n	The Parables of Jesus as Media of Collective Memory. Making Sense of the Shaping of New Genres in Early Christianity, with Special Focus on the Parable of the Wicked Tenants (Mark 12:1-12)\n	Social Groups, Personal Relations, and the Making of Communities in Medieval vita monastica\nKNOWLEDGE\n	Writing a Life. The “family book” by Bartolomeo Dal Bovo\n	Knowledge Making and Authorization Strategies. A Study of an Eighteenth Century Norwegian Manuscript Culture\n	Making Sense of Europe\nPOLITICS\n	How to Create Political Meaning in Public Spaces? Some Evidence from Late Medieval Britain\n	Making Sense of Autocracy. The Example of Ivan the Terrible\n	The Dissemination of News in Early Modern Venice. A Walk in the Company of the Informer Camillo Badoer\n	Political Information and Religious Skepticism in Early Modern Italy\nEMOTIONS\n	How to Read a Renaissance Fool. Visuality, Materiality, and Symbolic Practice\n	Sixteenth-Century Classification of Passions and their Historical Contexts\nMEDICINE\n	Making Sense of Illness. Gendering Early Modern Medicine\n	Making Sense of the Confinement of the Poor. A Close Reading of the Speech Given at the Opening of the General Hospital in Paris\n	Making Sense of Diabetes Public Discussions in early West Germany 1945 to 1970\nList of Contributors