Publications
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Performances of Peace: Utrecht 1713
(2015)
Performances of Peace: Utrecht 1713 aims to rethink the significance of the Peace of Utrecht (1713) by exploring the nexus between culture and politics. This book is available in Open Access. Readership: All interested ...
Lifelong Religion as Habitus
(2016)
In this book, Helena Kupari examines the lived religion of elderly Finnish Orthodox Christian women, displaced from Karelia in the aftermath of the Second World War, through an innovative reading and application of Pierre ...
The Making of Englishmen
(2013)
Making the Englishmen offers an account of how national identities were construed and contested in the post-Reformation public sphere 1550-1650. Readership: For historians of ideas primarily - it is in the history of ...
The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam
(2022)
This second volume of the series The Presence of the Prophet, explores the growing importance of the figure of the Prophet Muhammad for questions of authority and power in many regions in early modern and modern times.; ...
Precision agriculture '25
(2025)
These edited proceedings contain 181 peer reviewed papers presented at the 15th European Conference on Precision Agriculture, organized by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, June 29 – 3 July 2025, in Barcelona, Spain. ...
Prekäres Erzählen
(2020)
Robert Walser, Franz Kafka, and Theodor Fontane pursue a precarious narration in the context of the problem of order in modernity. While Fontane’s Der Stechlin attempts to put the rampant ambivalence in its place by means ...
Wien7_Neubau
(2025)
Dieses Buch stellt das erste umfassende Werk Wiens auf Bezirksebene dar, das systematisch versucht Stadtentwicklung konzeptionell nachvollziehbar zu machen. Anhand von zahlreichen Fallbeispielen wird die Neuverteilung ...
Contested Heritage
(2019)
In the wake of the Nazi regime’s policies, European Jewish cultural property was dispersed, dislocated, and destroyed. Books, manuscripts, and artworks were either taken by their fleeing owners and were transferred to ...
Plato’s Power
(2025)
What do we mean when we say that something has power? Plato's dialogues are probably the first philosophical corpus to address this question. Powers are causes; they account for how events happen. They are properties that ...
The Preaching of the Third Crusade (1187–1192)
(2024)
This book delivers the first substantial study of the preaching of the Third Crusade (1187-92). It assembles c.200 sermon texts and c.100 manuscripts, to understand the explosive dynamic of mobilization in the Latin West. ...
Aurores et crépuscules dans la Thébaïde de Stace
(2023)
The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Ce livre propose une étude intertextuelle des descriptions d’aurores et de crépuscules dans la Thébaïde ...
Dinner at Dan
(2013)
In Dinner at Dan, Jonathan S. Greer provides biblical and archaeological evidence for sacred feasting at the Levantine site of Tel Dan from the late 10th century - mid-8th century BCE. Biblical texts are argued to reflect ...
CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean
(2018-01-01)
CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Neighboring Regions provides case studies on archaeology, objects, cuneiform texts, and online publishing, digital archiving, and preservation.
Eleven chapters present a rich ...
Cultural Dynamics of Climate Change and the Environment in Northern America
(2015)
In Cultural Dynamics of Climate Change and the Environment in Northern America academics from various fields such as anthropology, art history, cultural studies, environmental science, history, political science, and ...
Zeugnisse des Okkulten
(2025)
This study examines the interactions between literature and occultism in Vienna around 1900. For the first time, it examines a comprehensive and disparate corpus of texts and asks how philological work relates to a worldview ...
The Scientific Imaginary in Visual Culture
(2010)
Popular media, art and science are intricately interlinked in contemporary visual culture. This book analyses the ›scientific imaginary‹ that is the result of the profound effects of science upon the imagination, and ...
Religion and the Everyday Life of Manichaeans in Kellis
(2022)
Religion is never simply there. In Religion and the Everyday Life of Manichaeans in Kellis, Mattias Brand shows where and when ordinary individuals and families in Egypt practiced a Manichaean way of life. Rather than ...
Stoff für Konflikt
(2021)
Für viele Menschen im deutschsprachigen Raum schienen nach der Revolution von 1848/49 gerade die Naturwissenschaften gesellschaftlichen Fortschritt zu versprechen. Als radikalste Vertreter dieser Deutung galten die sogenannten ...
Die Stiftung „Russkij mir“
(2024)
The Russkij Mir Foundation was established in 2007 to promote Russian language and culture abroad. Its work and methods have since become highly controversial. The EU declared the foundation a propaganda tool of Russia in ...
Fachspezifische und fachübergreifende Argumentation am Beispiel von Schöpfung und Evolution
(2016)
The study is in the German-speaking area the first and only one, which empirically evaluates the argumentation skills of students (n=48) at the high school level. It furthermore draws consequences for the research in youth ...