Publications
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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 ...
Gefangen in Mauthausen
(2024)
“Gefangen in Mauthausen” (Imprisoned in Mauthausen) is volume three of a ”major European project on the history of the survivors” (Carlo Moos). It deals with the everyday life of the concentration camp inmates and their ...
An Overview of the Pre-suppression Society of Jesus in Spain
(2020)
In An Overview of the Pre-suppression Society of Jesus in Spain, Patricia W. Manning offers a survey of the Society of Jesus in Spain from its origins in Ignatius of Loyola’s early preaching to the aftereffects of its ...
Wasserträume und Wasserräume im Staatssozialismus
(2017)
Die Träume der kommunistischen Regime in der Tschechoslowakei und Rumänien zur Wassernutzung für die Modernisierung beider Staaten stehen im Mittelpunkt dieser umwelthistorischen Studie. Wie wurde die Wasserwirtschaft im ...
Die Spanische Grippe und die Habsburgermonarchie
(2025)
Als im Herbst 1918 die zweite Welle der Spanischen Grippe ausbrach, befand sich das Habsburgerreich bereits in einem politischen Todeskampf. Sein Militär stand vor dem Zusammenbruch, die Wirtschaft lag am Boden, die ...
Ratnakūṭa Studies, Volume I
(2024)
Indian Mahāyāna Buddhist traditions produced hundreds of scriptures and treatises, only a small number of which have received serious scholarly attention. The present volume inaugurates the Buddhist Open Philology Project ...
Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture
(2019)
Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture presents an overview of the digital turn in Ancient Jewish and Christian manuscripts visualisation, data mining and communication. Edited by David Hamidović, Claire Clivaz and Sarah ...
Schulbücher als Vermittler der Europäischen Integration?
(2021)
Ohne Kenntnisse über die Europäische Union lässt sich Politik heute nicht mehr verstehen und gestalten. Aber was lernen Schülerinnen und Schüler in Deutschland über die Europäische Union? Diese Studie verbindet auf innovative ...
Religious Minorities in the Middle East
(2020)
The relationship between religious majorities and minorities in the Middle East is often construed as one of domination versus powerlessness. While this may indeed be the case, to claim that this is only or always so is ...
Maker Education Meets Technology Education
(2023)
In this book two fields meet, Technology Education with its long history, and Maker Education, a relative new shoot in the educational field. Both focus on learning through making and both value agency and motivation of ...
The Makassar Annals
(2011)
The Makassar annals Translated and edited by William Cummings
Beginning in the 1630s, a series of annalists at the main courts of Makassar began keeping records with dated entries that recorded a wide variety of specific ...
Ekagi-Dutch-English-Indonesian Dictionary
(1969)
Indonesia
Nicholas of Cusa and Islam
(2020)
This collection of essays explores the complex relations between Christians and Muslims at the dawn of the modern age. It begins by examining two seminal works by Nicholas of Cusa: De pace fidei, a dialogue seeking peace ...
Mental (Dis)Order in Later Medieval Europe
(2014)
Mental (Dis)order in the Late Middle Ages sketches the boundaries between mental, social and physical order and various states of disorder – unexpected mood swings, fury, melancholy, stress, insomnia, and demonic influence ...
De eerste moslimse vorstendommen op Java
(1974)
Indonesia
Actions of Their Own to Learn
(2017)
What does it mean to take actions of one’s own to learn? How do human beings create meaning for themselves and with others? How can learners’ active efforts to build knowledge be encouraged and supported? In this edited ...
Life at Maripaston
(1973)
The Matawai Maroon Johannes King (ca. 1830-1898) taught himself to read and write at an advanced age. He wanted to bridge the gap between the generations by publishing his Book of Horrors (Skrekiboekoe) and the present ...
Power and Status in the Roman Empire, AD 193-284
(2011)
This book deals with changing power and status relations between AD 193 and 284, when the Empire came under tremendous pressure, and presents new insights into the diachronic development of imperial administration and ...
An Outline of the Recent History of Indonesian Criminal Law
(1961)
Indonesia
The Aesthetics of Taste: Eating within the Realm of Art
(2023)
When does eating become art? The Aesthetics of Taste answers this question by exploring the position of taste in contemporary culture and the manner in which taste meanders its way into the realm of art. The argument ...