Publications
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Philosophical Perspectives on Galen of Pergamum: Four Case-Studies on Human Nature and the Relation between Body and Soul
(2022)
This is a ground-breaking philosophical-historical study of the work of Galen of Pergamum. It contains four case-studies on (1) Galen’s remarkable and original thoughts on the relation between body and soul, (2) his notion ...
Philosophical Perspectives on Galen of Pergamum: Four Case-Studies on Human Nature and the Relation between Body and Soul
(2022)
This is a ground-breaking philosophical-historical study of the work of Galen of Pergamum. It contains four case-studies on (1) Galen’s remarkable and original thoughts on the relation between body and soul, (2) his notion ...
Following the Cap-Figure in Majapahit Temple Reliefs
(2013)
This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access. This publication provides a new understanding of the religious function of the East Javanese temples. The study of the cap-figures and their symbolism yields ...
The Body of Evidence
(2020)
In The Body of Evidence. Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine Francesco Paolo de Ceglia offers an overview of the evolution of the science of the ‘signs of the corpse’, from necromancy to forensic medicine. ...
A world of water: Rain, rivers and seas in Southeast Asian histories
(2007)
Water, in its many guises, has always played a powerful role in shaping Southeast Asian histories, cultures, societies and economies. This volume, the rewritten results of an international workshop, with participants from ...
Handbook of Megachurches
(2020)
This innovating edited volume provides a broad but detailed overview of a relatively recent significant development in church organisation, the megachurch. Its aim is to capture empirically and theoretically the megachurch ...
Handbook of Megachurches
(2020)
This innovating edited volume provides a broad but detailed overview of a relatively recent significant development in church organisation, the megachurch. Its aim is to capture empirically and theoretically the megachurch ...
The Body of Evidence
(2020)
In The Body of Evidence. Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine Francesco Paolo de Ceglia offers an overview of the evolution of the science of the ‘signs of the corpse’, from necromancy to forensic medicine. ...
Authoritarian Modernization in Indonesia’s Early Independence Period
(2020)
In Authoritarian Modernization in Indonesia’s Early Independence Period, Farabi Fakih offers a historical analysis of the foundational years leading to Indonesia’s New Order state (1966–1998) during the early independence ...
Tibetan Printing: Comparison, Continuities, and Change
(2016)
Tibetan Printing: Comparisons, Continuities and Change is the first publication that brings together leading experts from different disciplines to discuss the introduction of printing in Tibetan societies in the context ...
Waropense teksten (Geelvinkbaai, Noord Nieuw-Guinea)
(1956)
Indonesia
At the edges of states; Dynamics of state formation in the Indonesian borderlands
(2012)
Set in West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, this study explores the shifting relationships between border communities and the state along the political border with East Malaysia. The book rests on the premises that remote ...
Thauma(u)topoiesis
(2024)
Mithilfe der poetologischen Diskriminierung des Wunderbaren gelingt es der Gattung Roman, sich als kulturelles Leitmedium der anbrechenden Moderne zu konstituieren. Gleichzeitig lässt sich beobachten, dass in Romane immer ...
Tibetan Printing: Comparison, Continuities, and Change
(2016)
Tibetan Printing: Comparisons, Continuities and Change is the first publication that brings together leading experts from different disciplines to discuss the introduction of printing in Tibetan societies in the context ...
Print and Power in Early Modern Europe (1500–1800)
(2021)
Print, in the early modern period, could make or break power. This volume addresses one of the most urgent and topical questions in early modern history: how did European authorities use a new medium with such tremendous ...
Doing Interpretation
(2021)
Wer interpretiert, tut etwas. Dieser schlichte Umstand trat mit dem practice turn verstärkt in den Fokus hermeneutischer bzw. interpretationstheoretischer Debatten. Wo steht die Diskussion heute? Wohin soll sie sich bewegen? ...
Doing Interpretation
(2021)
Wer interpretiert, tut etwas. Dieser schlichte Umstand trat mit dem practice turn verstärkt in den Fokus hermeneutischer bzw. interpretationstheoretischer Debatten. Wo steht die Diskussion heute? Wohin soll sie sich bewegen? ...
The Years of Jesuit Suppression, 1773–1814: Survival, Setbacks, and Transformation
(2019)
The years leading up to the suppression of the Jesuits and the forty-one years, beginning in 1773, of the actual suppression, are analysed here, with special attention to individuals not usually covered in works dealing ...
Wann war Arabien? Historische Zeiterfahrungen im Kontext einer Forschungsreise (1761-1767)
(2021)
Im 18. Jahrhundert befanden sich Zeiterfahrungen in einem tiefgreifenden Wandel: So lautet eine der einflussreichsten Thesen zum historischen Übergang in die ‚Moderne‘. Was aber bedeutet ‚Zeitenwandel‘, wenn er in ...
On the Margins
(2020)
This title is available in its entirety in Open Access. Living on the margins of German society, Jews and Muslims in interwar Berlin explored common ground. Based on a number of private archives, the study discusses ...