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Blockchain and Private International Law
(2023)
Blockchain is the first global mechanism for the transfer and storage of value. Despite being conceived as an alternative to state and law, the technology and its use cases raise many legal questions, most notably, regarding ...
Contacts of Languages and Peoples in the Hittite and Post-Hittite World
(2025)
During the 1st millennium BCE, Pre-Classical Anatolia acted as a melting pot and crossroads of languages, cultures and peoples. The political map of the world changed after the collapse of the Bronze Age, the horizon of ...
Global Agricultural Workers from the 17th to the 21st Century
(2022)
Agricultural workers have long been underrepresented in labour history. This volume aims to change this by bringing together a collection of studies on the largest group of the global work force. The contributions cover ...
Towards the Olympian Gods
(2025)
This book draws on extensive research into Baroque ceiling painting in Bohemia and Moravia. Three case studies of residential decoration present different representational strategies used by 17th century noblemen. Emphasis ...
Buchblogs zwischen Passion und Profession
(2025)
Digitization has changed the way people communicate about books. New practices, such as book blogging or social reading, cannot be directly classified by traditional socio-cultural categories such as “literary criticism”, ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 21 (2015)
(2017)
The Yearbook aims to promote research, studies and writings in the field of international law in Asia, as well as to provide an intellectual platform for the discussion and dissemination of Asian views and practices on ...
Theaterlobby attackiert Zirkus
(2023)
Anders als heute war der Zirkus um 1900 überaus erfolgreich in Berlin – so erfolgreich sogar, dass er für das bürgerliche Literaturtheater eine bedrohliche Konkurrenz darstellte. Dies führte nicht nur zu Diskreditierungen ...
Servants of the Kingdom
(2010)
Minister of the Word, shepherd and teacher—the titles of Dutch pastors exude authority and prestige. In the course of the nineteenth century, however, their social position was slowly undermined by the separation of church ...
Krieg und Kriegserinnerung im Museum
(2017)
Die Studie vollzieht die Entwicklung des polnischen historischen Selbstbildes in Bezug auf den Zweiten Weltkrieg nach, wie es in Geschichtsmuseen über einen Zeitraum von drei Jahrzehnten hinweg bis in die Gegenwart ...
An Introduction to the Japonic Languages
(2022)
Japanese is definitely one of the best-known languages in typological literature. For example, typologists often assume that Japanese is a nominative-accusative language. However, it is often overlooked that Japanese, or ...
Mit Gott, für Vaterland und Menschheit?
(2020)
With God, for Fatherland and Humanity is the first comprehensive study of the internationalism of freemasons. It examines, with a focus on Germany, England, France and Italy, how European masonic umbrella associations ...
Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas
(2019)
Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas brings together 15 archaeological case studies that offer new perspectives on colonial period interactions in the Caribbean and surrounding ...
The Library of Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār
(2024)
This study is the first to examine the history and composition of the library of Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār (d. 1804), the famous governor of northern Palestine in the late eighteenth century, on the basis of the inventory of ...
The Dream of the North
(2014)
Northern Europe and North America have dominated the world stage for more than two centuries. Using a wide range of sources, this book provides the first coherent account from a multi-national perspective of the ideas and ...
Truth and Responsibility: A Personalist Reading of Newman
(2023)
This book goes beyond a simple study of Newman’s thought and work and seeks to apply his deductions to modern value conflicts. Although it will be of particular relevance to academic readers with some prior knowledge of ...
The Historical Landscape of Ancient Kalabría
(2024)
This book focuses on Kalabría as an ancient land of Italy from its origin to the early Middle Ages. The place name referred to the Salento peninsula, also called Messapia, as part of present-day Puglia and later to the ...
Nicholas of Methone, Reader of Proclus in Byzantium
(2025)
This volume is the first complete study of the 12th-century CE Byzantine philosopher Nicholas of Methone, offering a critical examination of a key moment in 11th–12th-century Byzantine philosophy. Although traditionally ...
Field Station Bahia
(2023)
This book offers a new perspective on the making of Afro-Brazilian, African-American and African studies through the interrelated trajectory of E. Franklin Frazier, Lorenzo Dow Turner, Frances and Melville Herskovits in ...
Provozierte Bewunderung
(2022)
Bewunderung ›passiert‹ nicht einfach, sie wird provoziert und instrumentalisiert. Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge untersuchen, mittels welcher Verfahren und zu welchen Zwecken Bewunderung in sozialen, medialen und ...
European Citizenship under Stress
(2020)
European citizenship is facing numerous challenges, including fundamental rights and social justice considerations. These get amplified in the context of Brexit and the general rise of populism in Europe today. This book ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 16 (2010)
(2013)
The Yearbook aims to promote research, studies and writings in the field of international law in Asia, as well as to provide an intellectual platform for the discussion and dissemination of Asian views and practices on ...
Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia
(2022)
Case studies in the dynamic, contested, exciting, constant, and ever evolving relationship between Buddhism and the state across pre-modern East Asia.
Signaturen der Vielfalt
(2024)
Female authors from the Varnhagen Collection such as Charlotte von Ahlefeldt, Helmina von Chézy, Amalie von Imhoff, Amalie Schoppe, Fanny Tarnow, Karoline von Woltmann, Caroline de la Motte Fouqué, Amalie von Voigt, and ...
Music of the Baduy People of Western Java
(2020)
Music of the Baduy People of Western Java: Singing is a Medicine by Wim van Zanten is about music and dance of the indigenous group of the Baduy, consisting of about twelve-thousand people living in western Java. It covers ...
International Law and Chemical, Biological, Radio-Nuclear (CBRN) Events
(2022)
This book explores the interplay between International Law and Chemical, Biological, Radio-Nuclear (CBRN) risks. An all-hazards approach is adopted to cover events of intentional, accidental and natural origin, and ...
Männer über sich
(2024)
Who and what is a ‘male writer’? While ‘writing women’ are almost a genre in their own right, represented in popular and scholarly anthologies, ‘male’ writing, which has probably shaped ideas of masculinity more than any ...
Alltag – Erinnerung – Aufarbeitung an der Universität Wien
(2025)
Remembering is an active, collaborative process to slow down collective forgetting. The historical institutes of the Historical and Cultural Studies Faculty at the University of Vienna are increasingly dealing with their ...
The Social Structure of the First Crusade
(2008-01-01)
This books provides a detailed analysis of the social structure of the First Crusade (1096 – 1099) along with an original assessment of the sociology of its contemporary or near contemporary sources.
Handbook of Leaving Religion
(2020)
The Handbook of Leaving Religion introduces a neglected field of research with the aim to outline previous and contemporary research, and suggest how the topic of leaving religion should be studied in the future. The ...
Iconic Turn in den christlichen Konfessionen
(2025)
Visual imagery has always been part of Christianity, whereby the different ways in which Christian denominations deal with images has become an identity marker, oscillating between icon and aniconism. With the iconic turn ...
The Power of Parables
(2023)
The Power of Parables documents the surprising ways in which Jewish and Christian parables bridge religion with daily life. This 2019 conference volume rediscovers the original power of parables to shock and affect their ...
Placemaking in Practice Volume 1
(2023)
Placemaking has become a key concept in many disciplines. Due to an increase in digitization, mobilities, migration and rapid changes to the urban environments, it is important to learn how planning and social experts ...
Maximilian Hell (1720–92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe
(2019)
The Viennese Jesuit astronomer Maximilian Hell was a nodal figure in the eighteenth-century circulation of knowledge. This study of his career sheds light on the Enlightenment, Catholicism, reform in the Habsburg monarchy, ...
Composition Analysis of Writing Materials in Cairo Genizah Documents
(2021)
This work investigates the different writing materials in use in Egypt during the 11th century and the reason for their diversity.; Readership: Academics and specialists working in the Cairo Genizah and in writing material ...
Vulnerability
(2024)
This collection presents studies on a wide range of discursive positions marked by vulnerability and investigates the functions of (self-)positioning actors as vulnerable in contemporary social discourses. As a phenomenon ...
Victors and Vanquished in the Euro-Mediterranean
(2024)
The volume presents a comparative perspective on victors and vanquished according to the categories of remembering victory and defeat, practices of celebrating victory and triumphs as well as the culture of dealing with ...
Key Concepts in the Study of Religions in Contact
(2025)
There is no religion lest there are two religions. Therefore, it is only possible to examine the history of religions by taking the crucial situations of contact into account. Contact needs concepts. Not only scholars but ...
Modal Pragmatics
(2024)
Modal Pragmatics analyzes and systematizes differences among our uses of modal expressions in ordinary language which have not been adequately explained elsewhere. We say such things as: “By necessity, John Tylor was not ...
Making a Living between Crises and Ceremonies in Tana Toraja
(2013)
Making a Living between Crisis and Ceremonies offers an account on the practice of everyday life of the Torajan people both in the highlands of Tana Toraja (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) and elsewhere (Makassar, Jakarta, ...
Die Verfolgungsgeschichte der Göttinger Sinti
(2025)
The treatment of the Sinti minority was characterized by rejection, mistrust, and criminalization and has a history spanning at least 200 years. Rainer Driever's study is dedicated to the general development and – in ...
Handbook of Rituals in Contemporary Studies of Religion
(2024)
This book brings together leading international scholars with the aim of exploring ritual perspectives in the study of contemporary religions. It combines significant theoretical and methodological reflections and applies ...
Aktualisierte Sprache
(2024)
The negativistic and multidimensional linguistic phenomenon of "silence" has naturally been commented on in extremely divergent ways in Celan scholarship. Common lines of reception range from accusations of hermeticism in ...
Networks, Poetics and Multilingual Society in the Early Modern Baltic Sea Region
(2024)
The literarisation of the early modern Baltic Sea region was a long and complex process with varying trajectories for different vernacular languages. This volume highlights the interaction of local social and cultural ...
Roma Voices in History
(2021)
This ground-breaking book is an impressively extensive collection of primary historical sources in various languages that reflect the history of the Roma (formerly referred to as ‘Gypsies’ in local languages). The selection ...
Greenhouse horticulture
(2024)
Greenhouse horticulture' is an easy-to-read textbook for all those interested in protected cultivation, from university students and teachers to professional advisers in the field and managers of horticultural companies. ...
Kulturen des Entscheidens
(2018)
Der Band thematisiert Entscheiden als eine soziale Praxis, die keineswegs selbstverständlich sondern in hohem Maße voraussetzungsvoll ist und die mit unterschiedlichen Zumutungen einhergeht. Entscheiden nimmt je nach ...
Bird of Many Plumes: Conceptions and Applications of Authority in the Thought of William of Saint–Thierry
(2025)
Delphine Conzelmann unpacks the rich interplay of authority, tradition, and innovation in the works of William of Saint–Thierry, Benedictine abbott and Cistercian monk, whose contributions to Christian history were long ...
Memory and Identity in the Learned World
(2022)
Accounts and analyses of the formation of scholarly and scientific communities in the early modern period by means of memory and collective identity.
Creditor defuncti
(2025)
Der Tod eines Schuldners stellt den Gläubiger vor eine Herausforderung: Er verliert die Person, an die er sich zur Durchsetzung seiner Forderung halten kann. Das römische Recht bot dem Gläubiger eine Lösung, indem es die ...
Fremdes schreiben – fremdes Schreiben
(2022)
Der russische Schriftsteller Aleksandr Grin (1880–1932) gilt allgemein als Autor romantischer Abenteuergeschichten mit exotischen Schauplätzen und positiven Helden. Die Studie fordert diese Einordnung mit Hilfe des Prismas ...
Pre-suppression Jesuit Activity in the British Isles and Ireland
(2019)
Conceived in optimism but baptized with blood, Jesuit missions to the British Isles and Ireland withstood government repression, internal squabbles, theological disputes, political machinations, and overbearing prelates ...
Making Saints in a “Glocal” Religion
(2024)
Early modern Catholicism was a “glocal” affair: global in aspiration yet diverse in its local manifestations. Saint-making was no exception. In the wake of the Council of Trent, the Roman Church developed complex bureaucratic ...
Purity and the Forming of Religious Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean World and Ancient Judaism
(2012)
Focusing on concepts, practices and images associated with purity in the ancient Mediterranean, this volume contributes new aspects to the current discussion about the forming of religious traditions, from a comparative ...
Zofia Kossaks Geschichte(n)
(2023)
Die polnische Schriftstellerin Zofia Kossak (1889–1968) schrieb historische Romane, mit denen sie versuchte, die Traumata des 20. Jahrhunderts zu überwinden – zwei Kriege, die Oktoberrevolution, die Inhaftierung im ...
Transnationale Bildungsräume
(2013)
Bildung ist keine interne Angelegenheit einzelner Staaten oder Gesellschaften, sondern ereignet sich über nationale Grenzen hinweg: Fremde Bildungskonzepte und -inhalte werden ausgetauscht, angeeignet oder abgelehnt; Lehrer ...
Good Governance and Modern International Financial Institutions
(2019)
The first volume of the AIIB Yearbook of International Law (AYIL) examines a series of dimensions to the good governance of modern International Financial Institutions. Readership: All international legal practitioners, ...
Frieden übersetzen in der Vormoderne
(2012)
Übersetzungen sind das Bindemittel zwischenmenschlicher Kommunikation. Durch sie wird Wissen vermittelt und politische, kulturelle Prozesse sogar komplexer moderner Gesellschaften geregelt. Dieser Band stellt die vielfältigen ...
Un piccolo esempio. La psicagogia matematica di Platone
(2024)
‘Let me give you a simple example of what I mean, and you will see the rest for yourself.’ This is how Plato usually introduces mathematical examples to illustrate important philosophical puzzles. The research presented ...
Oyfn Sheydveg
(2025)
In continuation of the first issue of the Yiddish journal Oyfn sheydveg (At the Crossroads) from April 1939, this volume presents both the second issue, published in August 1939, along with the reconstructed third issue, ...
Relational Religion
(2019)
Håkon Naasen Tandberg explores how, when, and why humans relate to the non-human world. Based on two ethnographic fieldworks among the Parsis in Mumbai, the research focuses on the role of temple fires in the lives of ...
What Caused the Big Bang?
(2021)
This book critically explores answers to the big question, What produced our universe around fifteen billion years ago in a Big Bang? It critiques contemporary atheistic cosmologies, including Steady State, Oscillationism, ...
Judeans in Babylonia
(2019)
In Judeans in Babylonia, Tero Alstola presents a comprehensive investigation of deportees in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE. By using cuneiform documents as his sources, he offers the first book-length social historical ...
Wissensspeicher im Wandel
(2025)
Die Universitätsbibliothek Graz erhielt 1782 das Anrecht auf die Bibliotheksbestände der im Zuge der josephinischen Reformen aufgehobenen Klöster und Stifte im Herzogtum Steiermark. In den Folgejahren wurden tausende ...
The School of Salamanca: A Case of Global Knowledge Production
(2021)
Over the past few decades, a growing number of studies have highlighted the importance of the ‘School of Salamanca’ for the emergence of colonial normative regimes and the formation of a language of normativity on a global ...
Critical Perspectives on Interreligious Education
(2020)
In Experiments in Empathy: Critical Reflections on Interreligious Education, the contributors provide a roadmap for practicing and developing innovative ways to teach religion that promotes interfaith understanding and ...
Theological Libraries and Library Associations in Europe
(2022)
During the past 50 years, theological libraries have confronted secularisation and religious pluralism, along with revolutionary technological developments that brought not only significant challenges but also unexpected ...
The Echo of Die Blechtrommel in Europe
(2016)
The Echo of Die Blechtrommel in Europe presents an overview of the critical reception of Günter Grass’s classic novel throughout Europe since its publication in 1959. Readership: The book aims at a relatively broad readership ...
Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World
(2018)
This volume sets out to explore the world of domestic devotions and is premised on the assumption that the home was a central space of religious practice and experience throughout the early modern world. The contributions ...
Money and Coinage in the Middle Ages
(2018-11-24)
This volume is the first in a new series entitled Reading Medieval Sources, examining different genres of sources in the Middle Ages, and this book focuses on ways of studying medieval money, and the most direct manifestation ...
Selected Poems of Gregory of Nazianzus
(2010)
St. Gregory of Nazianzus' (ca. AD 330-390) classicizing Christian verse is the earliest Greek verse of its kind that survives in any great quantity. This is a critical edition, with introduction and commentary, of four ...
The Book of Disputation: A Mudejar Religious-Philosophical Treatise against Christians and Jews
(2024)
This is the first critical edition and study of a unique and important Muslim polemic against Christians and Jews. The Book of Disputation was written in Arabic by a Mudejar (subject Muslim living under Christian rule in ...
Drum prüfet, was euch ewig bindet
(2024)
In the early modern period, the question of how marriage was legally concluded was highly controversial. Unlike today's civil marriage, there was no single legal act that determined the point in time at which a marriage ...
Monetary Stability as a Common Concern in International Law
(2022)
Monetary Stability as a Common Concern in International Law convincingly argues that monetary stability should be recognised as a Common Concern of Humankind. It also claims that international monetary reform is needed and ...
The Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East, 12-13th Centuries
(2023)
This is the first in a series of sourcebooks charting the reception of Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d.1037) in the Islamic East (from Syria to central Asia) in the 12th-13th centuries CE. Avicenna was the dominant philosophical ...
The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate (NHC I, 5)
(2019)
In The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate (NHC I, 5), Paul Linjamaa explores the theoretical foundations and practical implications of the ethics in the longest Valentinian text extant today. As such, it is one of the first ...
Yoga in Transformation
(2018)
This volume explores aspects of yoga over a period of about 2500 years. In its first part, it investigates facets of the South Asian and Tibetan traditions of yoga, such as the evolution of posture practice, the relationship ...
Forschungsgegenstände und ihre Verwendungsfelder
(2024)
This volume addresses the issues in inter- and transdisciplinary dialogue as well as the interaction of individual disciplines in handling complex research topics related to foreign language learning and teaching. It is ...
The Transformation of Economic Life under the Roman Empire
(2002)
Ancient history: to c 500 CE
Private Enterprise and the China Trade
(2022)
This book examines the European commercial landscape of the early China trade, c.1700–1750. It looks at the foundational period of Sino-European commerce and explores a world of private enterprise beneath the surface of ...
Jesuit Art
(2022)
Mia Mochizuki draws upon masterpieces and material culture from around the world to show how the pre-suppression Society of Jesus (1540–1773) pioneered structural innovations in the history of the image. ; Readership: All ...