Publications
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Scorsese and Religion
(2019)
Scorsese and Religion explores and analyzes the religious vision of filmmaker Martin Scorsese’s oeuvre, showing that Scorsese cannot be properly understood without reflecting on the ways that his religious interests are ...
Muslim Empowerment in Ghana
(2024)
This book is the first ‘groundwork’ on Muslim NGOs in contemporary Ghana. It builds upon a database of more than 600 Muslim non-profit associations, foundations and grass-roots organisations whose activities are traced ...
Ports, Piracy and Maritime War
(2013-01-01)
In Ports, Piracy, and Maritime War Thomas K. Heebøll-Holm presents a study of maritime predation in English and French waters around the year 1300. Following Cicero, pirates have traditionally been cast as especially ...
The Reconstruction of Proto-Malayo-Javanic
(1975)
The work is concerned with the reconstruction of the phonemes of Proto-Malayo-Javanic, the last proto-language which is directly continued by the Sundanese, Javanese, Malay, and Madurese.
Middle Class Pentecostalism in Argentina
(2016)
Middle-Class Pentecostalism in Argentina: Inappropriate Spirits offers an intriguing account of how the middle class relates to Latin America´s most vibrant religious movement. The study posits that middle class Pentecostalism ...
Töne und Schälle
(2022)
Das Buch liefert die erste Studie zur musikalischen Walser-Rezeption mit über 200 Werken von über 100 Komponistinnen und Komponisten. Anhand der zahlreichen Walser-Vertonungen entsteht eine anschauliche Musik-, Literatur- ...
Frisian Land Law: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Freeska Landriucht
(2023)
Around 1485, the age-old compilation of Old Frisian customary law, partly dating back to the 11th century, was put into print. Latin glosses were included in the text with references to Canon and Roman law. This gloss ...
Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature
(2018)
This is the fourth volume in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. The book deals with the narratological concepts of character and characterization and explores the textual devices used for purposes of characterization ...
Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature
(2018)
This is the fourth volume in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. The book deals with the narratological concepts of character and characterization and explores the textual devices used for purposes of characterization ...
Corruption as an Empty Signifier
(2013-01-05)
Corruption as an Empty Signifier critically explores the ways in which corruption in Africa has been equated with African politics and political order, and offers a novel approach to understanding corruption as a potentially ...
Centers and Peripheries in Romance Language Literatures in the Americas and Africa
(2024)
What is center and periphery? How can centers and peripheries be recognized by their ontological and axiological features? How does the axiological saturation of a literary field condition aesthetics? How did these factors ...
The Carib Language
(1968)
Indonesia
The Reconstruction of Proto-Malayo-Javanic
(1975)
The work is concerned with the reconstruction of the phonemes of Proto-Malayo-Javanic, the last proto-language which is directly continued by the Sundanese, Javanese, Malay, and Madurese.
Bildhafte Räume, begehbare Bilder
(2022)
Virtuelle Räume bestimmen unsere Kultur heute bereits mehr, als uns bewusst ist. Wir betreten sie sowohl zur Unterhaltung, beim Spielen und Lernen, als auch in der Architektur und in industriellen Arbeitsprozessen. Zugleich ...
Himmlische Vorstellung
(2024)
Religiös zu glauben ist nicht nur ein Fürwahrhalten, sondern bedeutet auch existenziell einzutauchen in einen Imaginationskomplex und bisweilen an einer „ästhetischen Maschinerie“ (Kant) zu partizipieren, um so mit dem ...
The Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual
(2016)
The Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual addresses the varied modes of interaction between ancient Greek lyric poetry and the visual arts as well as more general notions of visuality. Readership: Students and scholars ...
The Legacy of Birgitta of Sweden
(2023)
Saint Birgitta of Sweden (d. 1373), one of the most famous visionary women of the late Middle Ages, lived in Rome for the last 23 years of her life. Much of her extensive literary work was penned there. Her Celestial ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 17 (2011)
(2014)
The Yearbook aims to promote research, studies and writings in the field of international law in Asia, as well as to provide an intellectual platform for the discussion and dissemination of Asian views and practices on ...
Muslim Subjectivity in Soviet Russia
(2022)
The world as seen by a Qur’an specialist in late imperial and early Soviet Russia. Our book tells a dramatic story of ’Abd al-Majid al-Qadiri, a Muslim individual born in the Kazakh lands and brought up in the Sufi environment ...
Prince, Pen, and Sword: Eurasian Perspectives
(2018)
A synoptic interpretation of the rulers and elites in Eurasia from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. Readership: All interested in the early modern global and comparative history of kingdoms and empires, rulers and ...
Centers and Peripheries in Romance Language Literatures in the Americas and Africa
(2024)
What is center and periphery? How can centers and peripheries be recognized by their ontological and axiological features? How does the axiological saturation of a literary field condition aesthetics? How did these factors ...
The Diary of Heinrich Witt (10 vols.)
(2015)
The diary of Heinrich Witt (1799-1892) is the most extensive private diary written in Latin America known to us today. Written in English by a German migrant who lived in Lima, it is a unique source for the history of Peru, ...
Of Worlds and Artworks
(2024)
The present volume brings together contributions which explore artworks – including literature, visual arts, film and performances – as dynamic sites of worlding. It puts emphasis on the processes of creating or doing ...
Dialektik der Schrift
(2022)
Was zeichnet musikalische Schrift aus? In den Notizen und Entwürfen zu seinem unabgeschlossenen Projekt einer Theorie der musikalischen Reproduktion blickt Theodor W. Adorno hinter das vermeintlich gegenständliche ...
Otherness and National Identity in 19th-Century Spanish Literature
(2022)
Which were the mechanisms by which certain groups were positioned at the margins of national narratives during the nineteenth century, either via their exclusion from these narratives of through their incorporation into ...
Muslim Empowerment in Ghana
(2024)
This book is the first ‘groundwork’ on Muslim NGOs in contemporary Ghana. It builds upon a database of more than 600 Muslim non-profit associations, foundations and grass-roots organisations whose activities are traced ...
“The Turk” in the Czech Imagination (1870s-1923)
(2021)
In “The Turk” in the Czech Imagination (1870s-1923), Jitka Malecˇková describes Czechs’ views of the Turks in the last half century of the existence of the Ottoman Empire and how they were influenced by ideas and trends ...
The Spectre of Capital: Idea and Reality
(2022)
What is money? What is capital? The Spectre of Capital tackles such fundamental questions at a deep philosophical level. It argues that the modern world is ruled by a ‘spectre’, the spectre of capital. This insight is ...
The Author as Annotator
(2022)
What literary and social functions do self-annotations (i.e. footnotes and endnotes that authors appended to their own works) serve? Focussing on Alexander Pope’s Dunciads and a wide selection of Lord Byron’s poems, Lahrsow ...
Bildhafte Räume, begehbare Bilder
(2022)
Virtuelle Räume bestimmen unsere Kultur heute bereits mehr, als uns bewusst ist. Wir betreten sie sowohl zur Unterhaltung, beim Spielen und Lernen, als auch in der Architektur und in industriellen Arbeitsprozessen. Zugleich ...
Dialektik der Schrift
(2022)
Was zeichnet musikalische Schrift aus? In den Notizen und Entwürfen zu seinem unabgeschlossenen Projekt einer Theorie der musikalischen Reproduktion blickt Theodor W. Adorno hinter das vermeintlich gegenständliche ...
The Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual
(2016)
The Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual addresses the varied modes of interaction between ancient Greek lyric poetry and the visual arts as well as more general notions of visuality. Readership: Students and scholars ...
Ethnicity and the Colonial State
(2015)
Ethnicity and the Colonial State compares the choices of community leaders in three different West African groups (Wolof, Temne, and Ewe), with regard to “selling” their identifications to the colonial rulers. The book ...
“The Turk” in the Czech Imagination (1870s-1923)
(2021)
In “The Turk” in the Czech Imagination (1870s-1923), Jitka Malecˇková describes Czechs’ views of the Turks in the last half century of the existence of the Ottoman Empire and how they were influenced by ideas and trends ...
Corruption as an Empty Signifier
(2013-01-05)
Corruption as an Empty Signifier critically explores the ways in which corruption in Africa has been equated with African politics and political order, and offers a novel approach to understanding corruption as a potentially ...
The Carib Language
(1968)
Indonesia
A Guide to the Heavens
(2023)
This is the first monographic study of the reception of Herman Hugo's emblem book Pia desideria (1624) in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It discusses ten different translations and adaptations, showing how the engravings, ...
Töne und Schälle
(2022)
Das Buch liefert die erste Studie zur musikalischen Walser-Rezeption mit über 200 Werken von über 100 Komponistinnen und Komponisten. Anhand der zahlreichen Walser-Vertonungen entsteht eine anschauliche Musik-, Literatur- ...
Scorsese and Religion
(2019)
Scorsese and Religion explores and analyzes the religious vision of filmmaker Martin Scorsese’s oeuvre, showing that Scorsese cannot be properly understood without reflecting on the ways that his religious interests are ...
Pathways in Early European Ethnomusicology
(2024)
The “anthropological turn” in ethnomusicology is generally associated with Alan P. Merriam’s “Anthropology of music” (1964). The present volume intends to correct this picture from a European perspective, presenting insights ...