Publications
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Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and Models
(2019)
Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry brings together a range of innovative approaches to the question of genre, what it means, and how to think about it for Greek poetry from the eighth to the fourth centuries BCE. ...
Cracking Facebook
(2020)
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 ...
Ordinary Jerusalem, 1840-1940
(2018)
In Ordinary Jerusalem, Angelos Dalachanis, Vincent Lemire and thirty-five scholars depict the ordinary history of an extraordinary global city in the late Ottoman and Mandate periods. Utilizing largely unknown archives, ...
Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion Volume 1, 2022
(2022)
The Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion is an annual collection of double-blind peer-reviewed articles that seeks to provide a broad international arena for an intellectual exchange of ideas between the disciplines ...
Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913
(2015)
In Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913, Lindsay Frederick Braun explores the technical processes and struggles surrounding the creation and maintenance of boundaries and spaces in South ...
End-of-Life Care, Dying and Death in the Islamic Moral Tradition
(2022)
Modern biomedical technologies managed to revolutionise the End-of-Life Care (EoLC) in many aspects. The dying process can now be “engineered” by managing the accompanying physical symptoms or by “prolonging/hastening” ...
Multiple Loyalitäten und Transterritorialität
(2024)
Die Forschungen zur Diplomatie der Frühen Neuzeit haben in den letzten Jahren die strukturellen Unterschiede zur modernen Diplomatie herausgearbeitet. Simultane Loyalitätsbeziehungen zu verschiedenen Fürstenhäusern und ...
Knowledge of the Pragmatici
(2020)
Knowledge of the pragmatici analyses pragmatic normative literature in colonial Ibero-America. It explores the circulation and the functions of these media in the Iberian peninsula, New Spain, Peru, New Granada and Brazil. ...
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 ...
Das Tagebuch von Leo Thun-Hohenstein (1825–1842)
(2023)
The edition of Leo Thun-Hohenstein's diary allows an intimate look at the early years of the later reformer of Austrians education system. Dealing with foreign cultures and questioning social norms characterized Thun's ...
Global Public Goods and Sustainable Development in the Practice of International Organizations
(2023)
This volume examines in an innovative and applied perspective the interdependence between the role of international organizations, the existence of global public goods and the need of sustainable development. Moreover, it ...
The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture
(2014)
In The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture specialists in various fields of art history, from Early Christian times to the present, discuss in depth a series of Western artworks, artefacts, and buildings, ...
Staging Holiness: The Case of Hospitaller Rhodes (ca. 1309-1522)
(2020)
In Staging Holiness: The Case of Hospitaller Rhodes (ca. 1309-1522) Sofia Zoitou offers a study of the history of relic collections, devotional rituals, and sites invested with special meaning on Rhodes, during a time when ...
Girjjohallat girjáivuođa - Embracing Diversity
(2024)
Unveil the dynamic world of Sami education across Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Russia in this book. This vital volume presents cutting-edge research from top scholars, enriching teacher education with innovative, ...
Meanings of Community across Medieval Eurasia
(2016)
How did Christianity, Islam and Buddhism frame the emergence and significance of particular communities in medieval Eurasia? This volume of well-linked comparative studies addresses the terminology of community, genealogies, ...
Animals in Stone
(2008)
The art history of South Asia covers a time span of roughly four and a half thousand years. During this period, a vast number of animal stone sculptures has been produced, ranging from the pre-historic period till today ...
The Post-Secular City
(2022)
“The Post-Secular City” is the first attempt to systematically map and assess the recent debate about secularization. “The Post-Secular City” examines the alleged shift from a “secular” to a “post-secular” dispensation ...
Discourses of Decline
(2021)
This volume explores the relevance of decline within the republican tradition. The essays in this volume focus on the Dutch Republic during the revolutionary era, as well as early modern Spain and Venice, the German ...
Hybrid Threats and the Law of the Sea
(2022)
Hybrid Threats and the Law of the Sea debates the practice of states that have resorted to discriminatory navigational restrictions or aggression against foreign ships and aircraft in densely navigated straits. The book ...
The Crisis of Causality
(1995)
The Crisis of Causality deals with the reaction of the Dutch Calvinist theologian Gisbertus Voetius (1589-1676) to the New Philosophy of René Descartes (1596-1650). Voetius not only criticised the Cartesian idea of a ...
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 ...