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Kämpfer auf dem Schlachtfeld – Kämpfer in den Texten
(2024)
In this book, Helen Wiedmaier analyses the depiction of men as fighters in written sources from the 14th and early 15th century which depict the battles at Gammelsdorf (1313), Morgarten (1315), Mühldorf (1322) and Sempach ...
Doubts on Avicenna
(2015)
In Doubts on Avicenna, Ayman Shihadeh offers an extended study and critical edition of Sharaf al-Dīn al-Masʿūdī’s al-Mabāḥith wa-l-Shukūk, a key and hitherto unstudied source for twelfth-century Arabic philosophy. This ...
Selbstorganisation im Sozialismus
(2019)
Diese Arbeit stellt die nationalen Rotkreuzgesellschaften Polens und der Tschechoslowakei als Beispiele für Selbstorganisation im sozialistischen Staat vor. Als Teil der internationalen Rotkreuzbewegung unterschieden sich ...
Grenzleben in Ceuta und Melilla
(2024)
Sara Mehlmer's microhistorical study offers surprising insights into the actions of Spanish actors in the enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta. Life in these enclaves at the end of the 19th century was characterized not only by ...
Zwischen Krieg und Frieden
(2013)
Landgraf Philipp von Hessen wurde in der Forschung bislang als der aus religiösen Gründen prinzipiell opponierende Dauerrivale des Kaisers im Reich dargestellt. Dagegen zeigt die vorliegende Studie unter Zuhilfenahme neuer ...
Treasured Oases
(2022)
Dunhuang: China’s traditional northwest frontier and overland conduit of exchange with the Old World. Jao Tsung-i: China’s last great traditional man of letters, polymath, and pioneer of comparative humanistic inquiry ...
Kooperationen in den digitalen Geisteswissenschaften gestalten
(2020)
Wie funktionieren Kooperationen in einem per se interdisziplinären Umfeld mit verschiedenen Herangehens- und Arbeitsweisen, Fragestellungen, Erwartungen und Zielvorgaben und welche Erfahrungen wurden damit im jeweiligen ...
Physics in Minerva’s Academy
(2025)
This monograph explains how, in the aftermath of the battle over René Descartes’ philosophy, Newton’s natural philosophy found fertile ground at the University of Leiden. Newton’s natural philosophical views and methods, ...
Spieltexte der Comœdianten
(2020)
In Europa rückte die Herausbildung eines modernen Berufstheaters vielerorts ins Zentrum nationalkulturellen Selbstbewusstseins. Die Commedia dell’arte, Werke von Shakespeare, Lope de Vega oder Molière avancierten dabei zum ...
Colours on East Asian Maps
(2023)
With a multi-perspective approach and transdisciplinary methods (humanities and sciences), this book offers an in-depth and systematic study of hand-drawn and hand-coloured maps from East Asia. Map colouring provides an ...
The Afterlives of Extraction
(2023)
The frontiers of extraction are expanding rapidly, driven by a growing demand for minerals and metals that is often motivated by sustainability considerations. Two volumes of International Development Policy are dedicated ...
Exploring Jesuit Distinctiveness
(2016)
The volume theme is the distinctiveness of Jesuits and their ministries. It explores the quidditas Jesuitica, or the specifically Jesuit way(s) of proceeding in which Jesuits and their colleagues operated from historical, ...
Guido Adlers Erbe
(2017)
Die Bibliothek und das Schrifttum Guido Adlers (1855–1941), des prominentesten Vertreters der Musikwissenschaft der Universität Wien, wurde von den Nationalsozialisten unter reger Beteiligung von Mitarbeitern der Universität ...
The Books Sānk and Pātanğal
(2024)
Al-Bīrūnī (ca. 973-1050) was an innovative encyclopaedist thinker. He is particularly known to have investigated into India of his time. Yet, his life and the circumstances of his encounter with Indian languages, culture ...
Hierarchies
(2024)
The Max Planck Society (MPG), one of the most successful research institutions worldwide, serves as a prime example of the German science system, in which hierarchies and relations of dependency play a major role. This ...
Holy Ground: Where Art and Text Meet
(2019)
The selected and revised articles in this volume by Hans Bakker deal with Indian culture, religion and history: Hinduism, epigraphy, archaeology, iconography in combination with Sanskrit textual studies. The studies focus ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 4 (1994)
(1996)
The Asian Yearbook of International Law is a major refereed publication dedicated to international law issues as seen primarily from an Asian perspective.
Islamic Law in Saudi Arabia
(2025)
This book provides an in-depth exploration of the Saudi judiciary in the 21st century. Drawing on interviews with leading members of the Saudi judiciary, seldom-seen legal literature and court judgments, the author addresses ...
The Dissolution of Mind
(2002)
This book presents an original thesis about the notion of sensory experience and of the mind’s architecture, which is grounded in current trends in cognitive science and philosophy of mind. Presented in the form of a ...
Jesus and Other Men
(2018)
In Jesus and Other Men, Susanna Asikainen explores the masculinities of Jesus and other male characters and the ideal femininities in the Synoptic Gospels. Readership: Anyone interested in masculinities and gender in the ...
Periodical Studies Today
(2022)
Combining theoretical and empirical approaches, this volume offers a wide-ranging survey of periodical research today. It illustrates the shift from content-related investigations and archival recovery to multidisciplinary ...
Space is the Ultimate Luxury
(2025)
This book explores the history, ecology, and society of a seemingly inhospitable stretch of land along the Orange River in southern Namibia. Here, a group of African farmers have succeeded against all odds to stay on their ...
Kollektives Schreiben
(2022)
Gegenüber dem einsamen Schreiben als vermeintlichem Normalfall moderner Textproduktion erarbeitet der vorliegende Sammelband erstmals eine umfassende Systematisierung und Theoretisierung kollektiven Schreibens. Der Sammelband ...
Epistolare Epistemik
(2025)
Dieser Band untersucht die epistemische Funktion des Briefes, d. h. seine Rolle als Medium der Wissensvermittlung, in der Korrespondenz des Publizisten und Diplomaten Karl August Varnhagen von Ense (1785–1858) mit dem ...
Women, Consumption, and the Circulation of Ideas in South-Eastern Europe, 17th - 19th Centuries
(2017)
Women, fashion, consumption, luxury, and education are the main subjects of our researchers. The contributors of this volume accompanied women and objects in their travels across Modern Europe and offered thorough and ...
The Intellectual and Cultural Origins of Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca’s New Rhetoric Project
(2023)
Chaïm Perelman, alone, and in collaboration with Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, developed the New Rhetoric Project (NRP), which is in use throughout the world. Sir Brian Vickers, in his historical survey of rhetoric and philosophy ...
Imaging and Imagining Palestine
(2021)
Imaging and Imagining Palestine is the first comprehensive study of photography during the British Mandate period (1918–1948). It addresses well-known archives, photos from private collections never available before and ...
Crossroads of Cuisine
(2020)
Crossroads of Cuisine provides a history of foods, and foodways in terms of exchanges taking place in Central Asia and in surrounding areas such as China, Korea or Iran during the last 5000 years, stressing the manner in ...
Duell unter Abwesenden
(2025)
The conflict between Duke Henry the Younger of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Elector John Frederick of Saxony and Landgrave Philip of Hesse demonstrates how closely political power and its communicative framework were ...
Statistics and Probability in High School
(2016)
Statistics and probability are fascinating fields, tightly interwoven with the context of the problems which have to be modelled. The authors demonstrate how investigations and experiments provide promising teaching ...
The Principal Pauline Epistles: A Collation of Old Latin Witnesses
(2018)
This collation presents the evidence for the earliest Latin versions of Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians and Galatians, enabling scholars to examine the development of the biblical text at an important early stage in its history. ...
Ḥadīth and Ethics through the Lens of Interdisciplinarity
(2022)
This volume addresses the interplay of ḥadīth and ethics and contributes to examining the emerging field of ḥadīth-based ethics. The chapters cover four different sections: noble virtues (makārim al-akhlāq) and virtuous ...
History of Wills, Testators and Their Families in Late Medieval Krakow
(2021)
This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis of wills in late medieval Krakow. It presents the origins of testamentary acts in the Kingdom of Poland and its centre, Krakow, and their subsequent transformation from ...
Unilateral Sanctions in International Law and the Enforcement of Human Rights
(2022)
Are unilateral economic sanctions legal under public international law? How do they relate to the existing international legal principles and norms? Can unilateral economic sanctions imposed to redress grave human rights ...
Orthodoxy in the Agora
(2024)
The radical socio-political changes in the wake of the fall of communism in many predominantly Orthodox countries of Eastern and Southeastern Europe have triggered an intense interest in formulating a specifically Orthodox ...
Governing Migration for Development from the Global Souths
(2022)
The 14th thematic volume of International Development Policy provides perspectives through case studies from the global Souths focusing on the challenges and opportunities of governing migration on the subnational, national, ...
Relationality and Learning in Oceania
(2020)
Relationality and Learning in Oceania: Contextualizing Education for Development critically engages debates in comparative education and international development relating to context, culture, language and indigenous ...
Muslims in Spain, 1492-1814
(2020)
In Muslims in Spain, 1492-1814: Living and Negotiating in the Land of the Infidel, Eloy Martín-Corrales surveys Hispano-Muslim relations from the late fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, a period of chronic hostilities. ...
Al-Maqrīzī’s <i>al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar</i>, Vol. V, Section 4: Persia and Its Kings, Part I
(2017)
Al-Maqrīzī's (d. 845/1442) last work, al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar, was completed a year before his death. This volume, edited by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, covers the history of pre-Islamic Iran from the Creation to the Parthians. ...
Vedic Cosmology and Ethics
(2019)
The articles by Henk Bodewitz collected in this volume, published between 1969 and 2013, deal with Vedic cosmology and ethics on basis of a systematic philological study of early Vedic texts, from the Ṛgveda to various ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 24 (2018)
(2020)
Launched in 1991, the Asian Yearbook of International Law is a major internationally-refereed yearbook dedicated to international legal issues as seen primarily from an Asian perspective. It is published under the auspices ...
L’œuvre en kanouri d'al-Hajj Musa ibn Hissein, un savant du Borno (Niger-Nigéria)
(2025)
La rencontre, au début du XXe siècle au Caire, de deux savants, un lettré du Borno, al-Hajj Musa ibn Hissein, et un linguiste amateur allemand, Rudolf Prietze, résulta dans la production d’un ensemble exceptionnel de ...
Stadt und Erinnerungskultur
(2023)
In Deutschland erinnern eine Vielfalt von Museen, Archiven und Gedenkstätten an die Geschichte. Häufigstes Thema sind die NS-Verbrechen, der Zweite Weltkrieg und die deutsche Teilung sowie deren Überwindung. Getragen werden ...
Transfer of Buddhism Across Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries)
(2015)
Transfer of Buddhism across Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries), ed. Carmen Meinert, offers a transregional and transcultural vision for religious transfer processes in Central Asian history. It explores Buddhist ...
Translating Technology in Africa. Volume 2: Technicisation
(2024)
This volume revisits one of the great challenges of our time - the global circulation of technology and the resulting technicisation. Together, the introductory essay and six case studies argue that while circulation ...
The Independence and Impartiality of ICSID Arbitrators
(2017)
In The Independence and Impartiality of ICSID Arbitrators, Maria Nicole Cleis examines the standard of independence required under the ICSID Convention, as evidenced in existing disqualification decisions, and makes novel ...
Among Digitized Manuscripts. Philology, Codicology, Paleography in a Digital World
(2019)
If you work with digital photos of manuscripts or archival materials, Among Digitized Manuscripts provides the conceptual and practical toolbox for you to create a state-of-the-art methodology and workflow. No previous ...
Sikh News in India, 1864-1924
(2024)
This handbook, divided into four volumes, presents the first English translations of newspaper articles about the Sikhs published in the weekly press reports for Punjab between 1864 and 1924. Covering press material from ...
Seventy Years of the International Law Commission
(2020)
Seventy Years of the International Law Commission: Drawing a Balance for the Future brings together voices from academia and practice to celebrate and critically evaluate the work of the United Nations International Law ...
In This Fragile World
(2023)
The present volume is a pioneering collection of poetry by the outstanding Kenyan poet, intellectual and imam Ustadh Mahmmoud Mau (born 1952) from Lamu island, once an Indian Ocean hub, now on the edge of the nation state. ...
Russland, der Ferne Osten und die »Deutschen«
(2009)
Welchen Anteil hatten die »Deutschen« an der Erschließung des Fernen Ostens durch das russische Imperium? Inwieweit waren sie an Gesandtschaften nach China und an den großen Entdeckungsexpeditionen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts ...
Contemporary Canadian Picture Books
(2021)
This enriched reference guide offers a unique overview of more than 200 picture books published by Canadian publishing houses between 2017–2019. The authors cover key themes in contemporary Canadian titles that match broad ...
China’s environmental policy in terms of European Union standards (Edition 1)
(2020)
It is beyond dispute that both China and the European Union stand to gain from promoting low-carbon development through the dissemination of clean and renewable energy sources, as this inevitably leads to increased ...
Sprache, politische Ökonomie und Legitimität
(2018)
Aktuelle Diskurse zelebrieren Zweisprachigkeit als Wirtschaftsgut und Schlüssel zum Erfolg auf dem Arbeitsmarkt. Anhand der ethnographischen Untersuchung der wirtschaftlichen Nutzung der lokalen Zweisprachigkeit in der ...
New Perspectives on Imagology
(2022)
With this volume, the editors Katharina Edtstadler, Sandra Folie, and Gianna Zocco propose an extension of the traditional conception of imagology as a theory and method for studying the cultural construction and literary ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 9 (2000)
(2004)
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 ...
The Impact of Covid on International Disputes
(2022)
With little warning, COVID-19 quickly escalated into a generational crisis, creating sustained havoc seen perhaps only in past cases of war, attack, and natural disasters. In the bedlam of the early months, health, science, ...
Stefan Javors’kyj's Sermons
(2025)
This edition presents a selection of 15 sermons by Stefan Javors’kyj (1658–1722), a Ukrainian poet and preacher of the late 17th century. His imagination, knowledge, and rhetorical skills made him one of the leading European ...
Religious Orders and the ‘World’
(2025)
This book shows how male members of Catholic religious orders fashioned themselves in their interactions with the sin-ridden “world” that they claimed to have renounced. Inspired by recent innovations in the cultural and ...
Mothering, Public Leadership, and Women’s Life Writing
(2017)
In Mothering, Public Leadership, and Women’s Life Writing, Claire E. Wolfteich presents a series of case studies in Christian spirituality, bringing mothers’ autobiographical writing into focus for theological reflection. ...
Performances of Peace: Utrecht 1713
(2015)
Performances of Peace: Utrecht 1713 aims to rethink the significance of the Peace of Utrecht (1713) by exploring the nexus between culture and politics. This book is available in Open Access. Readership: All interested ...
Lifelong Religion as Habitus
(2016)
In this book, Helena Kupari examines the lived religion of elderly Finnish Orthodox Christian women, displaced from Karelia in the aftermath of the Second World War, through an innovative reading and application of Pierre ...
The Making of Englishmen
(2013)
Making the Englishmen offers an account of how national identities were construed and contested in the post-Reformation public sphere 1550-1650. Readership: For historians of ideas primarily - it is in the history of ...
The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam
(2022)
This second volume of the series The Presence of the Prophet, explores the growing importance of the figure of the Prophet Muhammad for questions of authority and power in many regions in early modern and modern times.; ...
Precision agriculture '25
(2025)
These edited proceedings contain 181 peer reviewed papers presented at the 15th European Conference on Precision Agriculture, organized by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, June 29 – 3 July 2025, in Barcelona, Spain. ...
Prekäres Erzählen
(2020)
Robert Walser, Franz Kafka, and Theodor Fontane pursue a precarious narration in the context of the problem of order in modernity. While Fontane’s Der Stechlin attempts to put the rampant ambivalence in its place by means ...
Wien7_Neubau
(2025)
Dieses Buch stellt das erste umfassende Werk Wiens auf Bezirksebene dar, das systematisch versucht Stadtentwicklung konzeptionell nachvollziehbar zu machen. Anhand von zahlreichen Fallbeispielen wird die Neuverteilung ...
Contested Heritage
(2019)
In the wake of the Nazi regime’s policies, European Jewish cultural property was dispersed, dislocated, and destroyed. Books, manuscripts, and artworks were either taken by their fleeing owners and were transferred to ...
Plato’s Power
(2025)
What do we mean when we say that something has power? Plato's dialogues are probably the first philosophical corpus to address this question. Powers are causes; they account for how events happen. They are properties that ...
The Preaching of the Third Crusade (1187–1192)
(2024)
This book delivers the first substantial study of the preaching of the Third Crusade (1187-92). It assembles c.200 sermon texts and c.100 manuscripts, to understand the explosive dynamic of mobilization in the Latin West. ...
Aurores et crépuscules dans la Thébaïde de Stace
(2023)
The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Ce livre propose une étude intertextuelle des descriptions d’aurores et de crépuscules dans la Thébaïde ...
Dinner at Dan
(2013)
In Dinner at Dan, Jonathan S. Greer provides biblical and archaeological evidence for sacred feasting at the Levantine site of Tel Dan from the late 10th century - mid-8th century BCE. Biblical texts are argued to reflect ...
CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean
(2018-01-01)
CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Neighboring Regions provides case studies on archaeology, objects, cuneiform texts, and online publishing, digital archiving, and preservation.
Eleven chapters present a rich ...
Cultural Dynamics of Climate Change and the Environment in Northern America
(2015)
In Cultural Dynamics of Climate Change and the Environment in Northern America academics from various fields such as anthropology, art history, cultural studies, environmental science, history, political science, and ...
Zeugnisse des Okkulten
(2025)
This study examines the interactions between literature and occultism in Vienna around 1900. For the first time, it examines a comprehensive and disparate corpus of texts and asks how philological work relates to a worldview ...
The Scientific Imaginary in Visual Culture
(2010)
Popular media, art and science are intricately interlinked in contemporary visual culture. This book analyses the ›scientific imaginary‹ that is the result of the profound effects of science upon the imagination, and ...
Religion and the Everyday Life of Manichaeans in Kellis
(2022)
Religion is never simply there. In Religion and the Everyday Life of Manichaeans in Kellis, Mattias Brand shows where and when ordinary individuals and families in Egypt practiced a Manichaean way of life. Rather than ...
Stoff für Konflikt
(2021)
Für viele Menschen im deutschsprachigen Raum schienen nach der Revolution von 1848/49 gerade die Naturwissenschaften gesellschaftlichen Fortschritt zu versprechen. Als radikalste Vertreter dieser Deutung galten die sogenannten ...
Die Stiftung „Russkij mir“
(2024)
The Russkij Mir Foundation was established in 2007 to promote Russian language and culture abroad. Its work and methods have since become highly controversial. The EU declared the foundation a propaganda tool of Russia in ...
Fachspezifische und fachübergreifende Argumentation am Beispiel von Schöpfung und Evolution
(2016)
The study is in the German-speaking area the first and only one, which empirically evaluates the argumentation skills of students (n=48) at the high school level. It furthermore draws consequences for the research in youth ...