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Heidelberg (SW Germany) became famous for the
discovery of the lower jaw of Homo heidelbergensis
in October 1907 (Schoetensack 1908). Until the termination
of the extractions in 1962 the sand pit yielded
a rich and diverse mammalian faunal assemblage. In
2007 and the following years new preparation activities
connected to the celebrations of the centenary of
the hominid lower jaw discovery of H. heidelbergensis
produced samples of sediment (medium gravel to fine
pebble) in which at least two isolated lower cheek teeth
of macaques have been found. The finds demonstrate
the presence of Macaca sylvanus in the Mauer faunal
assemblage and represent the occurrence of a second
primate species in this Pleistocene hominid site.
Flirting with the forbidden?
(2020)
In an oft-quoted section of his Apology, written in 1125 at the request of his friend William of St Thierry, Bernard of Clairvaux mounts a strenous attack on Cluniae excesses in food, clothing, and buildings, ridiculing his rival order's large churches and their sumptuous paintings that catch the worshipper's eye and, as Bernard laments, dry up his devotion. Fiant haec ad honorem Dei - 'You might say', Bernard concedes, if only as a rhetorical gesture, 'these things are all to the honour of God; nevertheless, just as the pagan poet Persius inquired of his fellow pagans, I as a monk ask my fellow monks: "Tell me, oh pontiffs (as he said), what is gold doing in the sanctuary?" I say (folowwing the meaning, not the meter): "Tell me, poor men, if you really are poor: what is gold doing in the sanctuary?" - in sancto quid facit aurum?'
The mite species Scolotydaeus tauricus, so far only known from Yalta on the Crimean Peninsula, was found in a leprose crustose lichen on the mountain Königstuhl in Heidelberg. This is the first record of the family Paratydeidae for Germany. The adult, larva and nymphs of the Scolotydaeus from Heidelberg are described. The juvenile stages of Scolotydaeus tauricus are up to now unknown. Aspects of the taxonomy, morphology and ecology of this species are discussed.
Liturgy has often served as a source for studying the identities of medieval religious
communities through examining local saints and special chants or ceremonies. This article
deepens such approaches by considering the practice of liturgical coordination, which
required each convent to reconcile the obligations imposed upon it by the order to
which it belonged, the diocese in which it lay, and the personal networks of its sisters.
The shifting dates of the Easter cycle created a wide variety of possible calendrical conflicts
and necessitated that each convent’s liturgical practice be organized anew every year.
Focusing on German-language liturgical manuals from Observant Dominican convents,
this article introduces these sources and examines the various obligations, authorities,
and sources of advice that Dominican sisters coordinated when planning each year’s
liturgy. It then turns to the concrete example of a major calendrical conflict on May 1,
1519, which illustrates how convents negotiated their networked obligations and defended
their decisions. Supplementing traditional sources such as chronicles and charters,
liturgical administrative documents reveal how each convent’s liturgical identity was
both iterative and networked and how the tensions between these features opened up
spaces for assertive decision-making.