Publications
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Traces of Ink
(2021)
Traces of Ink. Experiences of Philology and Replication is a collection of original papers exploring the textual and material aspects of inks and ink-making in a number of premodern cultures (Babylonia, the Graeco-Roman ...
Strangers, Aliens, Foreigners
(2018)
To contend with others is to contend with ourselves. The way we “other” others, by identifying and reinforcing social distance, is more a product of who we are and who we want to be than it is about “others.” Strangers, ...
Khwadāynāmag The Middle Persian Book of Kings
(2018)
In Khwadāynāmag. The Middle Persian Book of Kings Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila analyses the lost sixth-century historiographical work of the Sasanians, its lost Arabic translations, and the sources of Firdawsī's Shāhnāme. ...
Syria's Monuments
(2016)
Syria's Monuments: their Survival and Destruction examines the fate of the various monuments in Syria (including present-day Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine/Israel) from Late Antiquity to the fall of the Ottoman Empire in ...
The Making of Englishmen
(2020)
Making the Englishmen: Debates on National Identity 1550-1650 asks how Englishmen defined themselves at a time of profound change and uncertainty. It will seek to contextualise the ways in which Englishness came to be ...
Zeitlichkeit und Geschichtlichkeit des bewegten Bildes in der Gegenwartskunst
(2021)
Time and temporality are not only inherent to the moving image because it is time-based, but also because it is able to reflect on time – through its materialization in the image, through the revelation of distinct layers ...
Lost Books
(2016)
Questions of survival and loss bedevil the study of early printed books. Many early publications are not particularly rare, but many have disappeared altogether. Here leading specialists in the field explore different ...
Religious Changes and Cultural Transformations in the Early Modern Western Sephardic Communities
(2019)
The Western Sephardic communities came into being as a result of confessional migration. However, in contrast to the other European confessional communities, the Sephardic Jews in Western Europe came to Judaism after a ...
Reconstructing Syntax
(2020)
Contributing to the vigorous discussion of the viability of syntactic reconstruction, this volume offers methods for identifying i) cognates in syntax, and ii) the directionality of syntactic change, thus providing historical ...
The Paradox of Openness
(2015)
Openness implies bottom-up empowerment and top-down transparency. The Paradox of Openness analyses the tensions encountered when openness is applied to the quest for democracy and markets, freedom and truth, compliance and ...