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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 ...
Tense and Text in Classical Arabic
(2016)
In Tense and Text in Classical Arabic, Michal Marmorstein presents a discourse-oriented analysis of the indicative tense system in Classical Arabic. The study demonstrates the effect of the extended syntactic and textual ...
Metaphysical Poems
(2023)
Adam Mickiewicz (1798 – 1855) was the greatest Polish Romantic poet, and one of the great intellectual and literary figures of the first half of the 19th century in Europe. Through his verses, as well as his efforts as a ...
Time and the Ancestors
(2017)
Time and the Ancestors: Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art combines iconographical analysis with archaeological, historical and ethnographic studies and offers new interpretations of enigmatic masterpieces from ancient Mexico, ...
Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism
(2023)
The Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism (HCDM) is a comprehensive Marxist lexicon, which in the 9 German-language volumes concluded so far has involved over 800 scholars from around the globe. Conceived by philosopher ...
Memory and the Language of Contention
(2025)
How does language shape the memory of activism? And how do memories, of hope or of repression, inflect the language used by social movements in the present day? This edited volume, featuring international scholars across ...
Velázquez, Painter & Curator
(2024)
This book is the first to address the curatorial career of Diego Velázquez, painter to King Philip IV of Spain and chamberlain of his royal palace. It investigates the role that Velázquez played in overseeing the display ...
Factional Struggles
(2017)
Factional Struggles explores the dynamics of conflicts among ruling elites within cities, dynastic courts, rural areas and regional noble lineages during the early modern period. Building on case studies from France, Italy, ...
Dramatic Experience
(2017)
The authors explore the convergence of dramatic theory, theatrical practice, and various modes of audience experience that contributed to the emergence of ‘public sphere(s)’ across early modern Europe — and in Asia.
The Devil Next Door
(2014)
Rather than theoretical or abstract, above all else, this monograph endeavors to serve as a practical guide, a handbook for helping us navigate a dark terrain. It neither presumes to examine the sources of evil nor suggest ...
Herzog Albrecht V. und die Auswirkungen der Hussitenkriege
(2024)
Elf Studien aus den Fächern Geschichte, Germanistik und Kunstgeschichte präsentieren reiches, wenig bekanntes und neu gefundenes Material zur Rolle Österreichs in den Hussitenkriegen. Sie werfen Schlaglichter auf eine ...
Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions
(2015)
Islam is often seen as a religious tradition in which hell does not play a particularly prominent role. This volume challenges this hackneyed view. Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions is the first book-length analytic study ...
News Networks in Early Modern Europe
(2016)
In News Networks 35 scholars from 10 countries give a new account of the history of European news, emphasising its transnational character and the international transmission of forms and modes of news as well as information. ...
Escaping Poverty
(2013)
One of the biggest debates in economic history deals with the Great Divergence. How can we explain that at a certain moment in time (the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) a certain part of the world (the West) escaped ...
Jesuits in Africa
(2022)
Jesuits have been in Africa since the founding of their order, yet their history there remains poorly researched. Although scholars have begun to focus on specific regions such as Congo, Ethiopia, and Zimbabwe, a comprehensive ...
Dionysos in Classical Athens
(2014-11-14)
"Dionysos, with his following of satyrs and women, was a major theme in a big part of the figure painted pottery in 500-300 B.C. Athens. As an original testimonial of their time, the imagery on these vases convey what this ...
A Literary History of Medicine
(2024)
A Literary History of Medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (d. 1270) is the earliest comprehensive history of medicine. It contains biographies of over 432 physicians, ranging from the ancient Greeks to the ...
Beyond Binaries
(2023)
In Europe religion and the secular are often depicted as inherently opposed to one another, with religions often considered to be only relevant to private affairs and personal beliefs. In contrast, the public sphere is ...
Painted Pottery of Honduras
(2017)
In Painted Pottery of Honduras Rosemary Joyce describes the development of the Ulua Polychrome tradition in Honduras from the fifth to sixteenth centuries AD, and critically examines archaeological research on these objects ...
'A dream within a dream within a dream ...'?
(2024)
Dreams within dreams remind us of the treacherous nature of reality. This first comparative study on the subject reveals the diversity of dream-within-a-dream structures. Works of literature, film, TV series and comics ...
Religionsunterricht ›vor Ort‹ weiterentwickeln
(2024)
The organization of religious education (RE) at vocational schools is becoming increasingly complex due to growing religious diversity and school organizational conditions. To address this, alternative forms of RE were ...