Publications
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Supersapientia: Berthold of Moosburg and the Divine Science of the Platonists
(2021)
This study examines the motivations and doctrinal coherence of the Commentary on the Elements of Theology of Proclus written by Berthold of Moosburg, O.P. († c. 1361/1363). It provides an overview of Berthold’s biography ...
Shipwrecks, Legal Landscapes and Mediterranean Paradigms
(2022)
This book changes our understanding of the Roman conceptions about the sea by placing the focus on shipwrecks as events that act as bridges between the sea and the land. The study explores the different Roman legal definitions ...
The Medieval Iberian Treasury in the Context of Cultural Interchange (Expanded Edition)
(2020)
The Medieval Iberian Treasury in the Context of Cultural Interchange—expanded beyond the special issue of Medieval Encounters from which it was drawn—centers on the magnificent treasury of San Isidoro de León to address ...
Polish Countryside in Transition
(2025)
Today’s quality of life in the Polish countryside is intertwined with residents’ social capital resources. To describe the matter comprehensively and suggest potential trends, the authors examine in four chapters critical ...
Quintessence of Dust: The Science of Matter and the Philosophy of Mind
(2020)
Quintessence of Dust by Harry Redner argues for a science of matter and a philosophy of mind based on emergence. Mind emerges from matter through five essential stages – “quintessence” ( Hamlet). Human mind is differentiated ...
Die Mathematik des Sozialstaats
(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 ...
Polish as a foreign and second language among Ukrainian migrants
(2024)
This volume compiles the latest research on learning and teaching Polish as a foreign and second language among Ukrainian migrants and refugees. The authors address the growing necessity for developing both theoretical ...
Der Wert des Geldes
(2025)
This study looks at the synoptic tradition on money in an innovative way of an overview with deep theological and ethical aspects. It looks at Jesus’ advice on money, God’s saving action and people’s hope of salvation, as ...
Human Rights and the Environment
(2011-01-01)
The book examines the genesis and development of environmental rights (or the Right to Environment) in international law and discusses their philosophical, theoretical and legal underpinnings in the context of sustainable ...
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Galen
(2019)
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Galen presents a comprehensive account of the afterlife of the corpus of the second-century AD Greek physician Galen of Pergamum. In 31 chapters, written by a range of experts in the ...
The Panama Canal
(2010)
The relationship between straits and interoceanic canals has always been ambiguous. Unlike straits, interoceanic canals are neither natural nor subject to a universal legal regime like the Law of the Sea. However, straits ...
Islam at 250
(2020)
This volume, which pays tribute to the work of G.H.A. Juynboll, is a collection of original articles on the state of Islamic sciences and Arabic culture in the early phases of their crystallization.; Readership: Specialists ...
The Assassination of Symon Petliura and the Trial of Scholem Schwarzbard 1926–1927
(2016)
Im Mai 1926 erschoss in Paris ein jüdischer Emigrant aus der Ukraine, der Uhrmacher Scholem Schwarzbard, den ehemaligen Präsidenten der Ukrainischen Nationalrepublik, Symon Petljura. Siebzehn Monate später wurde Schwarzbard ...
Europe from Below
(2021)
In this book, Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Katja Mäkinen, Viktorija L. A. Čeginskas, and Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus scrutinize how people who participate in cultural initiatives funded and governed by the European Union understand the ...
States at Work
(2020)
States at Work explores the mundane practices of state-making in Africa by focussing on the daily functioning of public services and the practices of civil servants. Adopting mainly an ethnographic approach as a basis for ...
Literature along the Lines of Flight
(2014)
This book presents new readings of D.H. Lawrence’s later novels from the perspective of established critical theory and contemporary thought: a specific critical theory or critical perspective is selected and applied to ...
Rural Granaries in Northern Gaul (Sixth Century BCE – Fourth Century CE)
(2019)
Rural granaries in northern Gaul (sixth century BCE – fourth century CE) offers a comprehensive account of rural grain storage and its role in the economy of a key region of the Roman Empire. Readership: All interested in ...
Documents and the History of the Early Islamic World
(2014-11-28)
Historians have long lamented the lack of contemporary documentary sources for the Islamic middle ages and the inhibiting effect this has had on our understanding of this critically important period. Although the field is ...
Landeskunde im Kontext
(2020)
Landes- und kulturkundliche Inhalte sowie interkulturelle bzw. kulturreflexive Aspekte sind fester Bestandteil des Fremdsprachenunterrichts. Doch wie sieht das in der Praxis und in Lehrmaterialien aus? Dieser Band bietet ...
Luther und die Reformation in internationalen Geschichtskulturen
(2017)
What do texbook write to the topic reformation? How do they interprete the legacy of Martin Luther? How do they depict the role of the catholic church? This book proviedes answers to these questions in the ligth of discourses ...
Kaiserlicher Hofrat und kaiserliche Herrschaft unter Karl V. (1520–1556)
(2024)
When Charles V took over the government of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in 1520, he was confronted not only with complex political issues. He also received thousands of petitions from rulers and individuals ...
Meanings and Functions of the Ruler's Image in the Mediterranean World (11th – 15th Centuries)
(2022)
The book investigates, from different methodological viewpoints, the multiple ways in which medieval rulers in different areas of the Mediterranean constructed their outward appearance and communicated it by means of a ...
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 ...
Querschnitt. Aktuelle Forschungen zur Habsburgermonarchie im 18. Jahrhundert
(2023)
Das 38. Jahrbuch der ÖGE18 vereint aktuelle Forschungsansätze zur Geschichte der Habsburgermonarchie im langen 18. Jahrhundert. In einer weiten räumlichen Perspektive werden die spanischen Niederlande, Schlesien, Ungarn ...
Transforming Higher Education for Community Development
(2025)
This volume explores educational transformation as a tool for community development in northern Uganda, with an emphasis on student-centred, hybrid and problem-based learning. It addresses key questions about existing ...
The INF Treaty of 1987
(2020)
Der von Ronald Reagan und Michail Gorbatschow am 8. Dezember 1987 unterzeichnete »Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty«, kurz INF-Vertrag, stellte einen Meilenstein der nuklearen Abrüstungsverhandlungen zwischen den ...
Recht und Gerechtigkeit?
(2024)
This book analyzes the significance of the legal and narrative responses to crimes against humanity in Yugoslavia. It provides a comprehensive overview of the development of Yugoslav war crimes law and identifies key actors ...
Due Process and Fair Trial in EU Competition Law
(2021)
In Due Process and Fair Trial in EU Competition Law, Cristina Teleki addresses the complex relationship between Articles 101 and 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and Article 6 of the European ...
The Corporation as a Protagonist in Global History, c. 1550-1750
(2018)
In The Corporation as a Protagonist in Global History, William A. Pettigrew and David Veevers reinterpret the role of Europe’s overseas corporations in early modern global history, uncovering their unique global sociology ...
Das Mediensystem im Alten Reich der Frühen Neuzeit 1600–1750
(2009)
Dieser Band beschreibt das Mediensystem im Alten Reich nicht als eine Summe einzelner Mediengeschichten, weist auch nicht auf die Faszination der Anfänge (»Erfindung« der Zeitung u.ä.) hin, sondern stellt den Zusammenhang ...
Das Erbe der Göttinger Septuaginta
(2025)
Anlässlich seines 100. Geburtstages ehren Kolleginnen und Kollegen der Septuaginta-Forschung und angrenzender Fachbereiche Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Robert Hanhart mit dieser Festschrift, die das beeindruckende Lebenswerk ...
Succession and the Transfer of Social Capital in Chinese Family Businesses
(2018)
This is the first systematic study of the succession process of Chinese family businesses which reveals what is truly happening during the time of hand-over. In explaining the features of the Chinese way of succession, ...
Ceremonial Entries, Municipal Liberties and the Negotiation of Power in Valois France, 1328-1589
(2016)
Neil Murphy considers the role the French ceremonial entry played in the negotiation between urban elites and the Valois monarchy for rights and liberties. Drawing on extensive research, he shows that ceremonial entries ...
The Early Reception and Appropriation of the Apostle Peter (60-800 CE)
(2020)
The Early Reception and Appropriation of the Apostle Peter (60-800 CE) investigates the interdisciplinary history of the reception of Peter from the first century up to Charlemagne, revealing as much about Peter as about ...
The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World
(2017)
The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World asks how the central sociolinguistic notions of language ideology and diglossia are affected by the rapidly increasing amount of writing in the Arabic vernacular. Readership: ...
Confucian Academies in East Asia
(2020)
The fifteen studies presented inConfucian Academies in East Asia offer insight into the history and legacy of these unique institutions of knowledge and education. The contributions analyze origins, spread and development ...
Qing Imperial Illustrations of Tributary Peoples (Huang Qing zhigong tu)
(2022)
Commissioned by the Qianlong emperor in 1751, the Qing Imperial Illustrations of Tributary Peoples (Huang Qing zhigong tu 皇清職貢圖), is a captivating work of art and an ideological statement of universal rule best understood ...
The Human Right to Citizenship
(2022)
The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the right to citizenship in international and regional ...
Schulbuch und religiöse Vielfalt
(2018)
Wie wird Religion in Bildung und Schulbüchern präsentiert? Religionsbezogene Analysen in Geschichts-, Ethik und Religionsschulbüchern unterschiedlicher Länder ergeben hinsichtlich der Konstruktion religiöser Vielfalt ein ...
Projektionen auf den Zionismus
(2020)
Der Zionismus ging nicht nur Juden an, sondern stieß auch bei verschiedenen nichtjüdischen Gruppen auf großes Interesse. Die zionistische Bewegung und ihr Ziel der Errichtung einer nationalen Heimstätte für die Juden in ...
After Conversion
(2016)
This book deals with the religious and ideological consequences of mass conversion in Iberia - where Jews and Muslims were forcibly converted or expelled at the end of the XVth century and beginning of the XVIth- and most ...
The Wolio Language
(1988)
Language: history and general works
Norms beyond Empire
(2021)
Norms beyond Empire seeks to rethink the relationship between law and empire by emphasizing local normative production. Its ten chapters explore normative production by focusing on case studies from the Iberian empires in ...
Angewandte Linguistik – Neue Herausforderungen und Konzepte (Edition 1)
(2021)
In 24 theoretischen und praxisbezogenen Beiträgen nähern sich Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aus Deutschland, Österreich und Polen den aktuellen Problemen aus dem weit verstandenen Gebiet der angewandten Linguistik ...
Gelistete Dinge
(2024)
Object inventories, collection catalogs, and other object lists can be used to reconstruct ownership, track the circulation of objects and object knowledge, and study consumer behavior. Accordingly, such lists have aroused ...
The Earliest History of the Christian Gathering
(2010-01-01)
Using recent insights into the nature of early Christian communities as religious associations, this book offers a new reconstruction of the origins and development of the weekly Christian gathering and its constitutive ...
Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean
(2023)
This book reveals how violent pasts were constructed by ancient Mediterranean societies, the ideologies they served, and the socio-political processes and institutions they facilitated. Combining case studies from Anatolia, ...
Der gerettete Retter
(2021)
Exodus 1-2 erzählt von der Unterdrückung der Hebräer in Ägypten und der Geburt der künftigen Retters Mose. Christliche und jüdische Ausleger in der Spätantike interpretierten diesen Text aus ihrer je spezifischen Perspektive, ...
Imagining Chinese Medicine
(2018)
A remarkable journey through Chinese medical illustrations from the earliest illustrated manuscripts to advertising and comic books. Senior and emerging scholars from Asia, Europe and the Americas rethink the history of ...
Handel, Nation und Religion
(2019)
Welche Bedeutung besaßen Herkunft und Religion eines frühneuzeitlichen Kaufmanns für seinen Handel? Worin unterschied sich die Tätigkeit eines Hansekaufmanns von der eines iberischen oder niederländischen Kaufmanns? Um ...
Die Stiftung von Autorschaft in der neulateinischen Literatur (ca. 1350-ca. 1650)
(2014)
This monograph throws new light on the question of authorship in the Latin literature of the early modern period. It shows that authorship was not something to be taken for granted in an empathic sense, but was chiefly to ...
Integration in Rome and in the Roman World
(2013)
Integration in the empire under the political control of the city of Rome, her princeps, and the different authorities in the provinces includes processes of inclusion and exclusion. They are explored from juridical, ...
Handbook of Intercultural Communication and Cooperation
(2010)
The ability to communicate with people from diverse cultural backgrounds is becoming increasingly important. Many employers consider intercultural competence to be a key criterion for selecting qualified candidates. The ...
Art Crossing Borders
(2019)
Art Crossing Borders offers a thought-provoking analysis of the internationalisation of the art market in the long nineteenth century and its unexpected and ambiguous relation with the simultaneous rise of nationalist modes ...
The Idea of Economic Constitution in Europe
(2022)
Behind the controversies that have marked the history of the idea of Economic Constitution emerges the highly political issue of the room for manoeuvre left to public authorities in the economic sphere. The notion thus ...
European Modernity and the Passionate South
(2022)
In the long nineteenth century, dominant stereotypes presented people of the Mediterranean South as particularly passionate and unruly, therefore incapable of adapting to the moral and political duties imposed by European ...
Early Buddhist Architecture in Context
(2012)
Since the dramatic discovery and tragic destruction of the monument in the 19th century, the Amarāvatī stūpa in the south-east Deccan has attracted many scholars but has also left many unanswered questions. Akira Shimada's ...
Erinnerungen an den Krieg – Krieg der Erinnerungen
(2018)
Dieses Buch schreibt die Geschichte der litauischen Erinnerungskultur auf eine neue und unkonventionelle Art und Weise. Durch den Fokus auf die Geschichte der Gedenkstätten und Denkmale des Zweiten Weltkrieges werden ...
The Priority of Locomotion in Aristotle’s Physics
(2014)
The book inquires into Aristotle’s claim that of the four kinds of change that exist, locomotion is the most fundamental and important kind. In a first step, the author shows that the arguments for the thesis of locomotion’s ...
Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange: The East Asian Legacies of Matteo Ricci's World Map
(2024)
How did Asia come to be represented on European World maps? When and how did Asian Countries adopt a continental system for understanding the world? How did countries with disparate mapping traditions come to share a basic ...
The Western Karaim Torah
(2021)
This volume offers the critical edition and an English translation of the oldest translation of the Pentateuch into Western Karaim copied in 1720 by Simcha ben Chananel (died 1723). The manuscript was compared against ...
Material and Digital Reconstruction of Fragmentary Dead Sea Scrolls
(2022)
Scholars working with ancient scrolls seek ways to extract maximum information from the multitude of fragments. Various methods were applied to that end on the Dead Sea Scrolls as well as on other ancient texts. The present ...
Free Will, Causality, and Neuroscience
(2019)
This book aims to show that recent developments in neuroscience permit a defense of free will. Through language, human beings can escape strict biological determinism. Readership: All interested in the philosophy of sciences, ...
Abenteuer in der Moderne
(2020)
Wer in der Moderne von Abenteuern erzählt, setzt sich dem Verdacht der Trivialität aus. Doch ein stillschweigender Verzicht aufs Abenteuer fällt auch kanonischen Autoren der Moderne schwer. Der Sammelband nimmt diese ...
Enough Already! A Socialist Feminist Response to the Re-emergence of Right Wing Populism and Fascism in Media
(2020)
This text analyses the rapid rise of global authoritarian populism and fascism and how these movements incorporate misogyny into their ideologies within and beyond social media. Readership: Readership includes those ...
Religions and Trade
(2013)
Religions and Trade carves new pathways into the world of religious dynamics. In this array of essays a number of international scholars investigate the ways in which eastern and western religions were formed and transformed ...
Schüler:innen mit Lernschwierigkeiten konstruieren Geschichte
(2025)
Jan-Christian Wilkening erforscht, wie Schüler:innen mit Lernschwierigkeiten gemeinschaftlich Geschichte konstruieren, indem einerseits das historische Denken jener Gruppe und andererseits angenommene konstituierende Aspekte ...
New Ancient Greek in a Neo-Latin World
(2023)
Did you know that many reputed Neo-Latin authors like Erasmus of Rotterdam also wrote in forms of Ancient Greek? Erasmus used this New Ancient Greek language to celebrate a royal return from Spain to Brussels, to honor ...
Vom politischen Anreiz zur liberalen Überzeugung
(2020)
Während Religionsgemeinschaften häufig zugeschrieben wird, inhärent demokratieaffin oder demokratiefeindlich zu sein, stehen sie tatsächlich in einer komplexen wechselseitigen Beziehung zu ihrer Gesellschaft. Ob eine ...
Women Judges in the Muslim World
(2017)
Women Judges in the Muslim World: A Comparative Study of Discourse and Practice offers a socio-legal account of public debates and judicial practices surrounding the performance of women as judges in eight Muslim-majority ...
Der Mann im Untergrund
(2022)
Die Arbeit konstituiert einen Männlichkeitstypus in der russischen Literatur der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts und verfolgt dessen Entwicklung von mitleidserregenden, insektenartigen Figuren (Gogol´s »Der Mantel«, ...
Cultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin’s Russia
(2018)
The developments in Russian official symbolical, cultural and social policies as well as the contradictory trajectories of important cultural, social and intellectual trends in Russian society after the year 2000. Readership: ...
Enthymemes and Topoi in Dialogue
(2020)
In Enthymemes and Topoi in Dialogue, Ellen Breitholtz presents a novel and precise account of reasoning from an interactional perspective. The account draws on the concepts of enthymemes and topoi, originating in Aristotelian ...
Buddhism in Central Asia I
(2020)
Buddhism in Central Asia (Part I): Patronage, Legitimation, Sacred Space, and Pilgrimage, 6-14th Centuries deals with the various strategies of legitimation and the establishment of sacred space and pilgrimage among both ...
From Capture to Sale
(2007)
Based on exceptionally rich private papers of Portuguese slave traders, this study provides unique insight into the diet, health and medical care of slaves during their journey from Africa to Peru in the early seventeenth ...
Confucian Role Ethics
(2016)
The essays collected in this volume establish Confucian role ethics as a term of art in the contemporary ethical discourse. The holistic philosophy presented here is grounded in the primacy of relationality and a narrative ...
Empires of the Sea
(2019)
Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume develops the category of maritime empire as a specific type of empire in both European and ‘non-western’ ...
An Invisible Thread
(2024)
In Toledo in 1529, a converso named Pedro de Cazalla declared that the connection between man and God was but a thread and that it should not be mediated by the Church. Hardly an isolated phenomenon, Cazalla’s inner ...
Practicing Biomedicine at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital 1913-1965
(2020)
Tizian Zumthurm uses the extraordinary hospital of an extraordinary man to produce novel insights into the ordinary practice of biomedicine in colonial Central Africa. His investigation of therapeutic routines in surgery, ...
How India Clothed the World
(2009)
Cloth has always been the most global of all traded commodities. It is an illuminating example of the circulation of goods, skills, knowledge and capital across wide geographic spaces. South Asia has been central to the ...