Ewald Frie (Herausgegeben von) ist Professor für Neuere Geschichte an der Universität Tübingen.Thomas Kohl (Herausgegeben von) is acting professor of medieval history at the University of Tübingen.Mischa Meier (Herausgegeben von) ist Professor für Alte Geschichte an der Universität Tübingen und Sprecher des SFB 923 "Bedrohte Ordnungen".

• Ewald Frie/Mischa Meier: Dynamics of Social Change and Perceptions of Threat. An IntroductionI. Framing Situations of Social Change and Threat in Contemporary SocietyAndreas Hasenclever: Introduction: Taking the Cultural Contexts of Group Mobilization Seriously - Holger Stritzel: The Travelling Concept of Organized Crime as a Threat to Political and Social Orders - Jan Sändig: Framing Non-Violence: MASSOB and the Puzzling Non-Escalation of the Struggle for Biafra in NigeriaII. Urban Unrest, Power and the Internal Dynamics of Social Change, c. 1050-1550Klaus Ridder: Introduction - Thomas Kohl: Violence, Power and Social Change: European Cities c. 1050-1120 - Hannah Skoda: Threatened Orders in Paris, Oxford and Heidelberg - Beatrice von Lüpke: The Nuremberg Shrovetide Plays and their Perception of Social (Dis-)OrderIII. Making Sense of Threat - Systems of Belief under Threat, c. 200-800Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner: Introduction - Communication of Threat and the Construction of Meaning - Matthias Becker: Framing the Christians as Sophists in Porphyry's Contra Christianos - Phil Booth: Liturgification" and Dissent in the Crisis of the East Roman Empire (6th-8th Centuries)IV. Disasters and Social Change, 19th-20th c.Klaus Gestwa: Introduction - Anna Ananieva/Rolf Haaser: Coping with Floods: The Imaginary Community of the "Elegant World" and the Hungarian Flood Disaster of 1838 - Rebecca Jones: Understanding the Conundrum of Drought in AustraliaV. The End of Threat: Diverging perspectives on Social Change during the 'Sattelzeit' (c. 1750-1850)Renate Dürr: Introduction - Dennis Schmidt: 'Daß alles beym Alten bleibet' Josephinism and Religious Orders in Inner Austria - Fernando Esposito: The Two Ends of History and Historical Temporality as a Threatened Order