Publications
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Quadraturen des Staunens
(2024)
In „Quadraturen des Staunens“ wird die These entwickelt, dass sich Staunen in Ludwig Wittgensteins Wirken und Werk als signifikante, transformationsfähige und inkorporierende Figur mit intellektuellen und praxeologischen ...
Animal Rationality
(2018)
In Animal Rationality: Later Medieval Theories 1250-1350, Anselm Oelze offers the first comprehensive and systematic exploration of theories of animal rationality in the later Middle Ages. Readership: Everyone interested ...
De kraton van Majapahit
(1948)
Indonesia
Roma Portraits in History
(2022)
The book presents the life, visions and activities of the nascent Roma civic elite who initiated the movement for Roma civic emancipation. The book Roma Portraits in History, in the form of individual portraits, presents ...
De biografie van een Minangkabausen peperhandelaar in de Lampongs
(1961)
Indonesia
Stepping Back and Looking Ahead: Twelve Years of Studying Religious Contact at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg Bochum
(2023)
This book includes a collection of articles by leading researchers on the topic of religious contact in the study of religion. Resulting from the final conference of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Dynamics in the History of ...
Travelling Chronicles
(2018)
Travelling Chronicles presents fourteen episodes in the history of news and newspapers, from the early modern period to the eighteenth century, written by some of the leading scholars in the rapidly developing fields of ...
In het land van de overheerser
(1986)
Indonesia
Narratives in Silius Italicus’ Punica
(2023)
This study investigates the role of embedded narratives in Silius Italicus’ Punica, an epic from the late first century AD on the Second Punic War (218–202 BC). At first sight, these narratives seem to be loosely ‘embedded’ ...
Pesher and Hypomnema: A Comparison of Two Commentary Traditions from the Hellenistic-Roman Period
(2017)
In Pesher and Hypomnema Pieter B. Hartog compares ancient Jewish commentaries on the Hebrew Bible with papyrus commentaries on the Iliad. Hartog shows that members of the Qumran movement adopted classical commentary writing ...
The power of prophecy; Prince Dipanagara and the end of an old order in Java, 1785-1855
(2008)
National hero, Javanese mystic, pious Muslim and leader of the ‘holy war’ against the Dutch between 1825 and 1830, the Yogyakarta prince, Dipanagara (1785-1855, otherwise known as Diponegoro), is pre-eminent in the pantheon ...
Vision, Narrative, and Wisdom in the Aramaic Texts from Qumran
(2019)
This volume is a collection of scholarly articles on the Aramaic Dead Sea scrolls, some of the oldest and most fascinating literary compositions among the ancient Jewish manuscripts found in the Qumran caves. Readership: ...
Principles of Islamic International Criminal Law
(2011)
The goal of this book is to minimize the misunderstandings and conflicts between International law and Islamic law. The objective is to bring peace into justice and justice into peace for the prevention of violations of ...
Power and Religion in Baroque Rome
(2005)
This study analyzes the ways in which a variety of cultural manifestations were the necessary preconditions for (religious) policy and power in the Rome of Urban VIII (1623-1644). Precisely their interaction created what ...
Jan Verschueren's Description of Yéi-Nan Culture
(1982)
Joannis Cornelis Verschueren (1905-1970) worked as a Roman Catholic missionary in southern Irian from 1931 until 1970. In the 1950s he wrote a number of papers on the Y
Verbindende Mechanismen: Disziplinenubergreifende Erforschung biochemischer und biophysikalischer Vorgänge im fruhen 20. Jahrhundert
(2024)
Interdisziplinäre Forschung ist anspruchsvoll, aber oft der erfolgversprechendste Weg zur Lösung wissenschaftlicher Probleme. Diese Überzeugung setzte sich in den 1920er- und 1930er-Jahren zunehmend durch. Wie kamen ...
Kana Sera, zang der zwangerschap
(1955)
Indonesia
Memory before Modernity
(2013)
This volume examines the practice of memory in early modern Europe, showing that this was already a multimedia affair with many political uses, and affecting people at all levels of society; many pre-modern memory practices ...
Greek Inscriptions on the East Bank
(2023)
For the first time, this book presents the complete collection of Greek inscriptions of Gebel el-Silsila East – Ancient Egypt’s largest and most important sandstone quarry, including lists of names and professions of ...
Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature
(2014)
Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature: Their Status and Roles explores the different attitudes toward the woman