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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
A Bibliography of South African Languages, 2008-2017
(2018)
This concise bibliography on South-African Languages and Linguistics was compiled on the occasion of the 20th International Congress of Linguists in Cape Town, South Africa, in July 2018. The selection of titles is drawn ...
Buddhism and the Body
(2023)
Mahayana, Theravada, ancient, modern? Even at the most basic level, the diversity of Buddhism makes a comprehensive approach daunting. This book is a first step in solving the problem. In foregrounding the bodies of ...
Editing the Greek Psalter
(2024)
This collected volume is an indispensable part of any theological and philological library. It provides a detailed and up-to-date overview of the Greek Psalter, which plays a central role in the study of the Septuagint. ...
Streitkultur und Öffentlichkeit im konfessionellen Zeitalter (Volume 95, Edition 1)
(2013)
Öffentlich ausgetragene Debatten gehören zu den Grundmerkmalen moderner Gesellschaften. Eine entwickelte »demokratische Streitkultur« gilt mithin geradezu als Voraussetzung für das Funktionieren einer Demokratie. Die dieser ...
Mimetic Posthumanism
(2024)
It is tempting to affirm that on and about November 2022 (post)human character changed. The revolution in A.I. simulations certainly calls for an update of the ancient realization that humans are imitative animals, or homo ...
Sharīʿa in Africa Today
(2020)
Sharīʿa in Africa Today. Reactions and Responses explores how Islamic law has influenced relations between Muslims and Christians, through a series of case studies by young African scholars working in four African countries: ...
Ergativity and Other Alignment Types in Neo-Aramaic
(2021)
The alignment splits in the Neo-Aramaic languages display a considerable degree of diversity, especially in terms of agreement. While earlier studies have generally oversimplified the actual state of affairs, Paul M. ...
Dictionary as Commentary - Arabic Lexicography in the Post-Formative Period
(2025)
This is the first book-length study of Arabic lexicography in the post-formative period (ca. 1200-1800). It provides a window into the dynamics of the discipline and the intellectual debates that unfolded in the study of ...
Constructing Virtue and Vice
(2012)
The study examines textual representations of women’s laughter and smiling and their imagined connection to female virtue in a wide variety of discourses and contexts of the German Middle Ages, including medieval epic, ...
Reconstructing Syntax
(2020)
Contributing to the vigorous discussion of the viability of syntactic reconstruction, this volume offers methods for identifying i) cognates in syntax, and ii) the directionality of syntactic change, thus providing historical ...
National Stereotyping, Identity Politics, European Crises (Volume 27)
(2021)
The articulation of collective identity by means of a stereotyped repertoire of exclusionary characterizations of Self and Other is one of the longest-standing literary traditions in Europe and as such has become part of ...
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination
(2018)
In Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination Holning Lau offers an incisive review of the conceptual questions that arise as legal systems around the world grapple with whether and how to protect people against ...
Etnografie van de Kaowerawédj (Centraal Nieuw-Guinea)
(1962)
Regional and national history
Zeitlichkeit und Geschichtlichkeit des bewegten Bildes in der Gegenwartskunst
(2021)
Time and temporality are not only inherent to the moving image because it is time-based, but also because it is able to reflect on time – through its materialization in the image, through the revelation of distinct layers ...
The Making of Englishmen
(2020)
Making the Englishmen: Debates on National Identity 1550-1650 asks how Englishmen defined themselves at a time of profound change and uncertainty. It will seek to contextualise the ways in which Englishness came to be ...
Katholische Dunkelräume
(2022)
Seitdem 2010 der frühere sexuelle Missbrauch am Berliner Canisius-Kolleg bekannt wurde, wird auch in Deutschland intensiv über den sexuellen Missbrauch an Minderjährigen durch Vertreter der katholischen Kirche diskutiert. ...
Early Modern Privacy
(2022)
An examination of instances, experiences, and spaces of early modern privacy. It opens new avenues to understanding the structures and dynamics that shape early modern societies through examination of a wide array of ...
Schrift als Autorität
(2025)
In seiner drittmittelfinanzierten Studie fragt Tobias Meihofer in einer konfessionsvergleichenden Perspektive nach der normativen Bedeutung der Heiligen Schrift und nach dem diesbezüglichen Potenzial des Autoritätsbegriffs. ...
Climate Change and International Shipping
(2016)
In Climate Change and International Shipping: The Regulatory Framework for the Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Yubing Shi provides ground-breaking analyses of the evolving regulatory framework for the reduction of ...
Echoing Events
(2022)
“Echoing Events” questions the perpetuation, actualization, and canonization of national narratives in English and Dutch history textbooks, wide-reaching media that tendentially inspire a sense of meaning, memory, and thus ...
Die Mathematik des Sozialstaats Internationale Expertennetzwerke der sozialen Sicherheit 1930–1980
(2021)
Wie kann man in einer immer enger verflochtenen Welt einen zukunftsfähigen Sozialstaat gestalten? Und wie kann soziale Sicherheit zu einer friedlicheren Welt beitragen? Diesen Fragen widmeten sich nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg ...
Humanitarianism: Keywords
(2020)
Humanitarianism: Keywords is a comprehensive dictionary designed as a compass for navigating the conceptual universe of humanitarianism. It is an intuitive toolkit to map contemporary humanitarianism and to explore its ...
Historisch-Politische Mitteilungen
(2024)
The scope and intensity of contemporary German research on state politics largely do not correspond to the importance that the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany attributes to the federal system and thus to the ...
Signaturen der Vielfalt
(2024)
Ausgangspunkt und materielle Grundlage für die Beiträge des vorliegenden
Bandes bildet die Sammlung Varnhagen, eine der bedeutendsten privaten
Handschriftensammlungen des späten 18. und des 19. Jahrhunderts. Genauer
gesagt, ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 7 (1997)
(2001)
The Asian Yearbook of International Law is a major refereed publication dedicated to international law issues as seen primarily from an Asian perspective. Readership: Academics and practitioners who deal with international ...
Gezähnte Geschichte
(2018)
Sich mit Briefmarken zu befassen, sie zu sammeln, zu sichten und zu besprechen, gilt auch heute noch als eines der Standardbeispiele für das, was im alltäglichen Sprachgebrauch als Hobby bezeichnet wird. Den Status einer ...
Muslims in Interwar Europe: A Transcultural Historical Perspective
(2015)
Muslims in Interwar Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the history of Muslims in interwar Europe. Based on personal and official archives, memoirs, press writings and correspondences, the contributors analyse the ...
Stateless Citizenship
(2013-01-06)
Far from integration into the Israeli incorporation regime, Palestinians inside the state are today placed in a paradoxical situation where, as Arab citizens of a Jewish state, they are both inside and outside, host and ...
Auf dem Weg nach Europa
(2010)
Europa ist in der öffentlichen Diskussion präsent wie nie zuvor. Dabei schwingt immer auch die Frage mit, was dieses Europa denn eigentlich sei. Auch die Geschichtswissenschaft hat sich des Themas Europa in den vergangenen ...
Citizens in the Graeco-Roman World
(2017)
The twelve studies contained in this volume discuss some key-aspects of citizenship from its emergence in Archaic Greece until the Roman period before AD 212, when Roman citizenship was extended to all the free inhabitants ...
Lost Books
(2016)
Questions of survival and loss bedevil the study of early printed books. Many early publications are not particularly rare, but many have disappeared altogether. Here leading specialists in the field explore different ...
Strangers, Aliens, Foreigners
(2018)
To contend with others is to contend with ourselves. The way we “other” others, by identifying and reinforcing social distance, is more a product of who we are and who we want to be than it is about “others.” Strangers, ...
The Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East, 12–13th Centuries
(2025)
This is the second 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. Moving on from the metaphysical and ...
Women Judges in the Muslim World
(2020)
Women Judges in the Muslim World: A Comparative Study of Discourse and Practice fills a gap in academic scholarship by examining public debates and judicial practices surrounding the performance of women as judges in eight ...
Compound Histories
(2017)
Compound Histories: Materials, Governance and Production, 1760-1840 explores the intertwined realms of production, governance and materials, placing chemists and chemistry at the center of processes most closely identified ...
Vagaries of Desire: A Collection of Philosophical Essays
(2019)
In Vagaries of Desire, Timo Airaksinen develops a new philosophical account of desire understood as mental state that focuses on a desirable possible world. Literary and philosophical themes, including sexuality, are ...
Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Postcolonial World
(2021)
The contributions to this volume address conceptualisations of poverty and precarity from the perspective of literary and cultural studies as well as linguistics and investigate the ethics and aesthetic of representing ...
Four Kingdom Motifs before and beyond the Book of Daniel
(2020)
The four kingdoms motif enabled writers of various cultures, times, and places, to periodize history as the staged succession of empires barrelling towards an utopian age. The motif provided order to lived experiences under ...
Municipal Magdeburg Law (Ius municipale Magdeburgense) in Late Medieval Poland
(2021)
In this volume, Maciej Mikuła analyses the extant texts of the Ius municipale Magdeburgense, the most important collection of Magdeburg Law in late medieval Poland. He discusses the different translation traditions of the ...
Politics, Society and Culture in Orthodox Theology in a Global Age
(2022)
The articles in the book show that today’s Orthodox theology is constructively relating to modernity in politics, society and culture. In 20 articles very prominent Orthodox theologians and experts on Orthodox theology and ...
Peer Effects in Green Transformation: Leveraging Social Learning
(2024)
The global energy crisis has led to a growing debate on the need to expedite the phasing out of fossil fuels. Highlighting the advantages of adopting renewable energy solutions can act as a driving force for positive change ...
Changing Assessment
(2025)
Since the Delors report, education reformers have been working to create curricula that allow human beings to flourish. Schools should not only be places where we learn to be and learn to live together, but also places ...
Erprobung empirisch
(2024)
Many Protestant regional churches have established so-called innovation and testing spaces as part of their strategic church development. They are characterized by the diverse ways in which they allow and encourage deviations ...
Christlich-Islamischer Religionsunterricht im Teamteaching
(2024)
This volume presents the findings of the cooperative religious education project “Christian-Islamic Religious Education in Teamteaching”. In this specific teaching setting, one Catholic and one Islamic teacher taught ...
Formal Axiology and Its Critics
(2021)
Formal Axiology and Its Critics consists of two parts, both of which present criticisms of the formal theory of values developed by Robert S. Hartman, replies to these criticisms, plus a short introduction to formal ...
Governing the Galleys: Jurisdiction, Justice, and Trade in the Squadrons of the Hispanic Monarchy (Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries)
(2019)
In Governing the Galleys, Manuel Lomas analyses the political, legal and economic impact of the development of the Spanish Navy in the Early Modern Mediterranean (sixteenth - seventeenth centuries). Readership: All interested ...
Religious Changes and Cultural Transformations in the Early Modern Western Sephardic Communities
(2019)
The Western Sephardic communities came into being as a result of confessional migration. However, in contrast to the other European confessional communities, the Sephardic Jews in Western Europe came to Judaism after a ...
Herrschaftskontrolle durch Öffentlichkeit
(2012)
Das Mediensystem der politischen Publizistik im frühmodernen Deutschland war keineswegs eine obrigkeitliche Stiftung, sondern entwickelte sich in wechselseitiger Beziehung zu politischen Entwicklungsprozessen zu zunehmender ...
Aristotle reads Hippocrates
(2024)
Despite Aristotle's family background and his undeniable impact on ancient Greek medicine, the influence of medicine on Aristotle's philosophy is controversial and far from universally acknowledged. The aim of this volume ...
Describing God?
(2025)
This volume engages traditional and contemporary approaches to the Divine attributes in Christian-Muslim dialogue. A particular focus lies on the attributes of omnipotence and omniscience, justice and mercy, as well as ...
The Conceptualization of Equality and Non-discrimination as Legal Standards
(2024)
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the central concepts figuring in equality and non-discrimination standards across jurisdictions: formal and substantive equality, direct and indirect discrimination, reasonable ...
Khwadāynāmag The Middle Persian Book of Kings
(2018)
In Khwadāynāmag. The Middle Persian Book of Kings Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila analyses the lost sixth-century historiographical work of the Sasanians, its lost Arabic translations, and the sources of Firdawsī's Shāhnāme. ...
The Scholia on Cicero’s Speeches
(2023)
The ancient commentaries and scholia to Cicero’s speeches have hitherto received relatively little scholarly attention. This volume is dedicated to Asconius’ first-century commentary and the corpora of the scholia stemming ...
Chinese in France amid the Covid-19 Pandemic
(2023)
The day after the epidemic broke out in Wuhan, Chinese people in France are already busy sending masks across borders and sharing media information; at the same time, a significant number of Chinese people are victims of ...
The Eastern Question or Balkan Nationalism(s)
(2018)
This volume is critical to the two dominant historiographical paradigms on the topic of Balkan revolutions. This new treatment does not adopt a description of the national movements resulting from the dissolution of the ...
Re-Thinking Agency
(2024)
The book explores the multi-faceted nature of contemporary reflections on agency, focusing on various discursive practices that shape the posthumanist approach to the relationship between the human and non-human world from ...
BITE: Recipes for Remarkable Research
(2014)
BITE: Recipes for remarkable research is an edited field book capturing the research, learning and experiences of an international network of scholars studying effective and creative research environments. The book ...
Migration – Kommunikation – Transfer (Volume 1, Edition 1)
(2021)
Der Band behandelt Fragen des gegenseitigen Austauschs sowie ethnischer, kultureller und religiöser Verflechtungen der mitteleuropäischen Länder und ihrer Bevölkerung. In zwölf Beiträgen von Archäologen und Historikern der ...
Species Cleansing
(2024)
The book scrutinizes post-war rat control programs in Poland, exploring their intricate intersections with politics, science, and ideology. It delves into the impact of prevailing cultural narratives concerning problematic ...
Long-lived Family Businesses in Japan: Factors of Success
(2024)
Japanese family businesses are among the oldest in the world and many of them prove a history record of 200 years and more. Research on several case studies of century old firms (‘shinise’) in Japan reveal three factors ...
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 ...