Publications
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Nur eine »Geld-Emancipation«?
(2018)
Im Mittelpunkt des Buches steht die Frage nach den Loyalitäten und Lebenswelten des Prager jüdischen Großbürgertums zwischen 1800 und 1867. Aufgrund seines enormen wirtschaftlichen Erfolges nahm es innerhalb der jüdischen ...
Verse and Transmutation
(2013-11-01)
Identifies and investigates a corpus of twenty-one anonymous Middle English recipes for the philosophers' stone dating from the fifteenth century. Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry ...
Körperkommunikation
(2022)
Das Auftreten falscher Mitglieder der Dynastie (russ. samozvanstvo) im Moskauer und Russländischen Reich wurde in der Vergangenheit meist als Form von Protest gedeutet. Im Unterschied dazu nähert sich die Studie aus ...
Gender Equality in the Mirror
(2022)
By taking an innovative perspective, Gender Equality in the Mirror aims to advance the debate on gender equalities and to engage with the complexities of their practical implications in everyday life. Through the voice of ...
Die Formierung der frühen Religionswissenschaft in China (1890–1949)
(2024)
How did modern religious studies develop in China before 1949? Which discourses, actors, and local contexts contributed to its adaptation in a non-Western context? Which transfer channels and motives were decisive? Christian ...
Politisches Entscheiden im Kalten Krieg
(2019)
Wer sich für die krisenhaften Zuspitzungen in der Politik des Kalten Kriegs interessiert, kommt um eine Analyse der hinter diesen Prozessen liegenden Kulturen des Entscheidens nicht herum. Als Spitzenereignis steht die ...
Kampf um Wort und Schrift
(2012)
Seit Beginn der Neuzeit expandierte das Moskauer Fürstentum gen Westen und Süden. Zu Zeiten der Romanov-Dynastie umfasste Russland weite Gebiete mit überwiegend nichtrussischer und konfessionell heterogener Bevölkerung. ...
Geschichtsvermittlung postkolonial
(2024)
Postcolonial theory is a topic of ongoing heated discussions: for some it is a “super theory” for the age of globalization, while others see it as an elitist discourse that only leads to sectarian identity politics. But ...
Plympton Priory: A House of Augustinian Canons in South-Western England in the Late Middle Ages
(2007)
A case study examining the history of a house of English Augustinian canons, this book reveals the ways in which Plympton Priory formed connections with the laity, the episcopacy, the secular clergy, and the Crown in the ...
Sterben und Tod öffentlich gestalten
(2022)
Die Thematik „Sterben und Tod“ erlebt seit den 2010er-Jahren in den Künsten einen enormen Aufschwung, der sich beispielsweise im neuen Genre „Autobiografische Sterbeliteratur“ manifestiert. Indem die Künste bestimmte ...
Geschichte eines jüdischen Soldaten
(2012)
Mit seiner während des Ersten Weltkriegs entstandenen Erzählung legte Simon Dubnow eine kollektive Biografie der russischen Judenheit vor. Er schildert die Ereignisse zwischen den Jahren 1881, der Zeit der Pogrome, und ...
Lateinische Dialoge 1200-1400
(2007)
In this monograph the dialogue production between 1200 and 1400 is presented in a detailed repertory. Building on this material, the author describes four genres of dialogue (didactic, polemical, introspective and philosophical ...
Ritual Dynamics and Religious Change in the Roman Empire
(2009)
This volume presents the proceedings of the eighth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire', which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire. It focuses on the impact the Roman Empire had on changes ...
The European Union and the Arctic
(2017)
The European Union and the Arctic examines the roles the EU can and should play in shaping Arctic governance to ensure sustainable development in the Arctic region. Readership: The target audience of the book includes ...
The Secret of Time: Reconfiguring Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls
(2023)
This book contributes to the rethinking of the Dead Sea Scrolls as an essential and integral part of Judaism in the Greco-Roman period. The Qumran manuscripts attest to the reconfiguration of Jewish wisdom concepts in this ...
Administrating Kinship: Marriage Impediments and Dispensation Policies in the 18th and 19th Centuries
(2023)
From the late eighteenth century, more and more men and women wished to marry their cousins or in-laws. This aim was primarily linked to changes in marriage concepts, which were increasingly based on familiarity. Wealthy ...
Worship, Ritual, and Pentecostal Spirituality-as-Theology
(2024)
Vibrant worship music is part of the Charismatic liturgy all around the world, and has become in many ways the hallmark of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity. Despite its centrality, scholarly interest in the theological ...
Traces of Ink
(2021)
Traces of Ink. Experiences of Philology and Replication is a collection of original papers exploring the textual and material aspects of inks and ink-making in a number of premodern cultures (Babylonia, the Graeco-Roman ...
A King and a Fool?
(2019)
In A King and a Fool? The Succession Narrative as a Satire Virginia Miller argues that the genre of the Succession Narrative is a satire. Accordingly, this narrative is pejoratively critical of King David. ; Readership: ...
Cracking Facebook
(2015)
This book presents a Facebook study on members of the Cusp Generation, or those born before the “great digital divide” of 1995. This delineation allows for a discussion on the possible socio-cultural implications of Facebook ...