Publications
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Law and Language in the Middle Ages
(2018)
Law and Language in the Middle Ages investigates the relationship between law and legal practice from the linguistic perspective, exploring not only how legal language expresses and advances power relations but also how ...
Klosterneuburger Traditionsbuch
(2025)
The Klosterneuburg Tradition Book is one of the most important sources on Austrian medieval history. This manuscript, now housed in the monastery archives of the Augustinian Canons, contains just over 800 records of the ...
Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe
(2011)
The conference volume of the Bochumer Kolleg “Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe” outlines the thesis that religion is not a homogeneous cultural phenomenon, but a dense network of diachronically ...
Nicolaus Copernicus in the Culture of Memory
(2025)
The volume explores the cultural legacy of Nicolaus Copernicus, spanning from the 16th century to the commemorative events of 2023. It innovatively examines the reception of Copernicus’ research and ideas, tracing his ...
Minding Time: A Philosophical and Theoretical Approach to the Psychology of Time
(2012)
Minding Time: A Philosophical and Theoretical Approach to the Psychology of Time offers a theoretical account of the most fundamental kinds of time representation, drawing on philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and ...
Treason
(2019)
"The willingness to betray one’s country, one’s people, one’s family—to commit treason and foreswear loyalty to one entity by giving it to another—is a difficult concept for many people to comprehend. Yet, societies have ...
Whom to blame for Judah’s doom?
(2023)
The Babylonian exile is considered one of the worst trauma experiences in the context of HB/OT, with which a multitude of biblical texts are concerned. The final chapters of 2 Kings offer various theological interpretations ...
Switzerland and Sub-Saharan Africa in the Cold War, 1967-1979
(2021)
In this volume Sabina Widmer analyses neutral Switzerland’s foreign policy in Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia, and Somalia during the armed conflicts and regime changes of the late 1960s and 1970s, in a context of global Cold ...
Enlightened Religion
(2019)
This volume widens the scope of research into the relation between religion and Enlightenment. The contributions demonstrate the impact of changing worldviews in a variety of intellectual disciplines and cultural milieus. ...
Bevor die Fabriken schließen
(2024)
The balance of power between labor and capital changed dramatically in the last decades of the 20th century: entrepreneurs implemented restructuring and plant closures, workers faced fiercer competition between locations ...
Nicholas of Cusa and Islam
(2014)
To explore Christian-Muslim relations at the dawn of the modern age, this book examines Nicholas of Cusa’s seminal works on the Qur’an and world religions. It also considers Muslim responses to Christianity and other ...
Bilingual Europe
(2015-03-13)
Bilingual Europe presents to the reader a Europe that for a long time was ‘multilingual’: besides the vernacular languages Latin played an important role. Even ‘nationalistic’ treatises could be written in Latin. Until ...
Recollecting Resonances
(2013)
Over time Dutch and Indonesian musicians have inspired each other and they continue to do so. Recollecting Resonances offers a way of studying these musical encounters and a mutual heritage one today still can listen to. ...
Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion Volume 3, 2024
(2024)
The Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion is an annual collection of double-blind peer-reviewed articles that seeks to provide a broad international arena for an intellectual exchange of ideas between the disciplines ...
Glaubenskämpfe
(2019)
Seit Anfang der 2000er ist eine Zunahme von Studien zur »religiösen Gewalt« zu konstatieren, und das trotz Polemiken über ihr Wesen. Ist Gewalt »im Namen Gottes« eine Reaktion auf die Säkularisierung moderner Gesellschaften, ...
Arts, Religion, and the Environment
(2018)
Exploring Nature’s Texture brings together a collection of internationally-known group of artists, theologians, anthropologists and philosophers to look at the imaginative possibilities of using the visual arts to address ...
Interkulturalität, Übersetzung, Literatur
(2022)
Prag bildet einen Knotenpunkt der zentraleuropäischen Moderne, der durch vielfältige Verflechtungen zwischen deutscher, jüdischer und tschechischer Kultur geprägt ist. Diese kulturellen Verflechtungen bestimmten auch die ...
Up in Arms: Gun Imaginaries in Texas
(2022)
Up in Arms provides an illustrative and timely window onto the ways in which guns shape people’s lives and social relations in Texas. With a long history of myth, lore, and imaginaries attached to gun carrying, the Lone ...
Wahrheit – Geschwindigkeit – Pluralität
(2021)
Neue Techniken zur Informationsübermittlung befördern den Informationsaustausch. Das ist eine für das 20. und 21. Jahrhundert ganz selbstverständliche Feststellung. Genauso selbstverständlich gilt sie aber auch für das 16. ...
A Critical Companion to the 'Mirrors for Princes' Literature
(2022)
Why devote a Companion to the "mirrors for princes", whose very existence is debated? These texts offer key insights into political thoughts of the past. Their ambiguous, problematic status further enhances their interest. ...