Publications
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Poets of Hope and Despair
(2018)
an account of the response of the Russian Symbolist poets to the Great War and the Russian revolutions of 1917. Readership: All interested in Russian modernism, especially Symbolism, and Russian history of the war years ...
The Newest Sappho: P. Sapph. Obbink and P. GC inv. 105, Frs. 1-4
(2016)
In The Newest Sappho Anton Bierl and André Lardinois have edited 21 papers of world-renowned Sappho scholars dealing with the new papyrus fragments of poems by Sappho that were published in 2014. Readership: All interested ...
Power and Possibility
(2019)
Power and Possibility: Adult Education in a Diverse and Complex World explores the topic of power and possibility theoretically, historically and practically through a range of perspectives and in relation to varied areas ...
A Byzantine Book on Dream Interpretation
(2002)
This monograph compares the most important Byzantine work on dream interpretation with the 2nd-century A.D. Greek work of Artemidoros and five medieval Arabic dreambooks and demonstrates that it was based on Islamic Arabic ...
The Raghupañcikā of Vallabhadeva Being the Earliest Commentary on the Raghuvaṃśa of Kālidāsa
(2024)
For more than a millennium, Kālidāsa’s poem “Lineage of the Raghus” ( Raghuvaṃśa) has been acknowledged as one of the masterpieces of Sanskrit literature. Thousands of manuscripts transmit it, and dozens of pre-modern ...
Migration Histories of the Medieval Afroeurasian Transition Zone
(2020)
This volume offers a systematic survey of migration histories in the central transition zone between Africa, Asia and Europe from the 4th to the 15th century C.E.; Readership: All interested in the medieval history of the ...
Verbindung halten
(2020)
1982 stellte der damalige Bundespostminister Kurt Gscheidle in einem Porträt über die Bundespost fest, dass die Post zwar lebensnotwendig, doch für die meisten Menschen uninteressant sei. Diese Feststellung lässt sich auch ...
A History of Displaced Knowledge : Austrian Refugees from National Socialism in Australia
(2025)
The book examines the migration of ideas and knowledge carried in the cultural baggage of Austrian refugees who fled to Australia in 1938 and 1939 to escape National Socialism. Through 26 life stories, it explores the ...
Arabic and its Alternatives
(2020)
Arabic and its Alternatives discusses the complicated relationships between language, religion and communal identities in the Middle East in the period following the First World War, taking its starting point in the ...
Women Writing Intimate Spaces
(2022)
The messy and multi-layered issue of intimacy in connection with transnationality and spatiality is the topic of this volume on women’s writing in the long nineteenth century. A series of intimacies are dealt with through ...
Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice
(2015)
Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice combines a critical survey of the most important concepts in Masculinity Studies with a historical overview of how masculinity has been constructed within British ...
The Tomb of the Priests of Amun
(2022)
Previously unpublished, the Danish Lot of antiquities from the Tomb of the Priests of Amun (Bab el-Gasus) is thoroughly examined in this book. The in-depth analysis of the objects is followed by an assessment of how these ...
Jüdische Fürsprache
(2021)
Die historische Forschung zur frühneuzeitlichen jüdischen Fürsprache, die für die Existenz aschkenasischer Gemeinden von herausragender Bedeutung war, beruht bislang häufig auf christlichen Quellen. Die Gemeindeprotokollbücher ...
Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500-1750
(2018-11-01)
Women were fundamental actors in early modern Low Countries society, playing major roles in the dynamic environment of economic, artistic, and cultural exchange of both the Catholic Southern Netherlands and the Protestant ...
Nazi Characters in German Propaganda and Literature
(2018)
Antifascist literature repurposed Nazi stereotypes to express opposition. These stereotypes became adaptable ideological signifiers during the political struggles in interwar Germany and Austria, and they remain integral ...
NS-„Euthanasie“ in Franken
(2024)
The Erlangen sanatorium and nursing home was the site of "euthanasia" crimes during the Nazi era. From here, over 900 disabled and mentally ill people were transported to killing centers, and many hundreds more fell victim ...
Disability and Aid
(2023)
At a time when rights are increasingly placed on the humanitarian agenda, this book provides a unique ethnographic account of the dynamics of aid to disabled people in a Ugandan refugee camp. By unraveling the complexities ...
Locating Religions
(2016)
This collection of articles applies concepts developed in the wake of the so-called “spatial turn” to the field of religious studies.; Readership: All interested in processes of interaction between societies and inidividuals ...
The European Commission of the Danube, 1856-1948
(2020)
The history of the world’s second international organisation, an innovative techno-political institution established by Europe’s Concert of Powers to remove insecurity from the Lower Danube.; Readership: Historians of ...
The Representation and Perception of Roman Imperial Power
(2003)
Ancient history: to c 500 CE