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Has nostalgia existed forever or only since a given date? The word is first attested in 1688, but the experience of homesickness for a specific place, time, or both may be universal among human beings. Today nostalgia receives extensive scrutiny, in mass media as well as in ­scholarship. Longing for the Middle Ages has been regarded as sometimes dangerous for political reasons. Suspicion has grown about nostalgia for and in the medieval period: consider the furor over the term Anglo-Saxon. The Medieval Latin Poem of Walthare, better known as the Waltharius, cries out for a share of attention.This essay situates the Poem of Walthare within nostalgia studies. The examination reviews the many different types of nostalgia that have been identified lately. Alongside private and collective, it touches on the role of consumerism and the politicization of ­nostalgia, especially by (neo-) Nazis, white supremacists, and their opponents. At the same time, the study delves into the earlier medical view of nostalgia: this syndrome was diagnosed among Swiss ­mercenaries in the late seventeenth century.The recent debates have interesting consequences for the short ­medieval epic, which is rooted in the events of a distant Germanic past, which produced legends of exiles who yearned for their homes and peoples. Yet the Latin of the Middle Ages does not fit naturally within modern national languages and literatures. Since the late eighteenth century, the poem has been coordinated with early medieval German culture. Jacob Grimm, who played a foundational role in this research, paid heed to the longing for a German homeland that he felt. Joseph Victor von Scheffel had his own nostalgia for long-ago Saint Gall.

Alphorn playing and yodeling are an integral part of traditional cultural events in Switzerland. Questions about musical contexts inevitably arise. Is alphorn-­playing to be understood as "blown yodeling"? Did the natural tone series of the alphorn influence yodeling? Are both rooted in the centuries-old Kuhreihen, the songs herdsmen used to lure the cows for milking?The team of authors explores possible links between yodeling and alphorn music and analyzes evidence pointing to a common origin of the two musical practices. The study area originates from Switzerland and extends over the south of Germany and Austria. Music-aesthetic connections are discussed, historical and current arguments weighed. In the Austrian Wurzhorner yodels, the name already indicates a connection to the instrument, and in the Muota­tal "Bücheljuuz", the yodel imitates the sound of the instrument so skillfully that the difference between voice and instrument is hardly noticed.However, not all types of yodeling have a musical relationship to the alphorn, and alphorn music is not always connected with yodeling. The study shows that there has been a tangible, albeit unsteady, musical interrelationship between alphorn and yodel for around 200 years.

Neue technische Möglichkeiten wie digitale Plattformen oder Roboter verändern derzeit auf radikale Art und Weise die Bedingungen, die Wahrnehmung und die Charakteristiken von Arbeit. Gleichzeitig hat sich das Verständnis von Arbeit durch feministische Kritik am Konzept der Lohnarbeit oder durch sozial- und globalhistorische Studien zu Formen von unfreier Arbeit gewandelt; die historische Migrations­forschung hat gezeigt, dass Arbeitsmigration der historische Normal­fall war.Die Beiträge im Band orientieren sich an diesen konzep­tio­nellen Debatten. Sie untersuchen in historischen Fallstudien soziale Konstellationen von Arbeit von der Zeit des frühen Kolonialismus und dem Wandel der Agrarsysteme bis zur digitalen Transformation. Dabei geraten Beziehungen zwischen Menschen und Tieren oder ­Maschinen und Menschen genauso ins Blickfeld wie Arbeitskämpfe, Geschlechterverhältnisse und die Rolle von Wissen in Arbeitsprozessen.