Publications
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Exegesis of the Gospel of Luke
(2024)
This volume contributes to a better understanding of the Byzantine collections of exegetical excerpts on the Gospel of Luke. The edition of previously unknown or largely neglected series of comments on Luke and the examination ...
Public Poetry
(2023)
Die interdisziplinäre Studie untersucht Lyrik, die in städtischen Räumen zu sehen oder zu hören ist. Aus literaturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive interessieren vor allem die Ästhetik, Sprachgestaltung und Ortsbezüglichkeit ...
Fachkräfte für die Entwicklung
(2022)
After its independence in 1957, Ghana sent specialists to both German states for professional education and training. This transnational entanglement history takes various perspectives to analyze the goals that Ghana, the ...
Barren Women
(2020)
Barren Women is the first scholarly book to explore the ramifications of being infertile in the medieval Arab-Islamic world. Through an examination of legal texts, medical treatises, and works of religious preaching, Sara ...
Schreibweisen des Exotismus
(2023)
This study examines the relationship between sensory perception and exoticism in German, French, and British literature written between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its starting point is the proposition ...
Land, Dorf, Kehilla
(2020)
For secular, well-educated society, the “countryside” has always been a projection screen for desires and aversions. Almut Laufer examines the narrative traces left by rural Jewish communities by considering the texts of ...
Jüdische Expatriates in China und Hong Kong nach 1976
(2018)
Die Arbeit bietet die erste umfangreiche, empirisch fundierte Religionsgeschichtsschreibung der jüdischen Gemeinden in China und Hong Kong nach der Kulturrevolution. Zahlreiche Synagogen entstehen, das jüdisch-religiöse ...
Social, health, and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the epidemiological control measures
(2023)
The COVID-19 pandemic posed a major threat to the well-being of older Europeans. Its economic and social effects, however, varied across countries. This multidisciplinary book presents the first results of analyses that ...
Judah Halevi’s Fideistic Scepticism in the Kuzari
(2020)
The book provides the first comprehensive study on Judah Halevi’s use of sceptical tactics in his wrestling with the dogmatic-rationalistic trends of the Arabic culture of his period (11th- 12th centuries).
Transforming Spirit Bodies
(2025)
This edited volume is a comprehensive exploration of the bodies and embodiments of spirits, their (im-)materialities, and their bodily transformations. It focuses on the embodied experiences of asymmetrical dependencies ...
Linear Algebra
(2017)
In order not to intimidate students by a too abstract approach, this textbook on linear algebra is written to be easy to digest by non-mathematicians. It is also designed such that no other material is required for an ...
150 Jahre deutsche Verwaltungsgerichtsbarkeit
(2013)
The Baden Administrative Court was the first administrative court to be established in Germany and began its work in October 1863 in Karlsruhe. In 2013, the anniversary of its founding provided the occasion to reflect on ...
Developing Heritage – Developing Countries
(2020)
Seven Ethiopian heritage sites were among the first sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List – a stunning number for an African country at the time and the product of extended international technical assistance and tourism ...
Bewertungsinteraktionen in der Theaterpause
(2020)
This study inquires into the specific forms of critical interaction that occur in conversations during intermissions in the theater lobby. Using conversational analysis, it reconstructs how the assessments shared during ...
Rechtstitel und Herrschaftssymbol
(2019)
This study investigates for the first time in detail the specific context for the use of documents prepared for recipients in Italy by the Staufer Frederick II (1198–1250). It compares the texts used for typical writings ...
Internet Lexicography
(2024)
The Internet has become the most important platform for lexicographic content. In this volume, lexicographers and researchers introduce the central aspects of Internet lexicography and present the current state of scientific ...
Kellers Medien
(2022)
As an author and painter, Gottfried Keller deliberately experimented with different media and their forms – with genres from both literature and the fine arts. The objective of this volume is to trace the various intermedial ...
Wert und Subjektivität
(2023)
Die Publikation stellt den Hongkonger Philosophen Lao Sze-kwang (1927-2012) anhand seiner kulturtheoretischen Schriften und mit Blick auf seine Positionierung liberaler Werte vor. Lao gehörte zu jenen akademischen Philosophen, ...
Mitteilungen der Gemeinsamen Kommissionfür die Erforschungder jüngeren Geschichte der deutsch-russischen Beziehungen
(2023)
Main topics: "The Second World War in Historical Studies and Remembrance Culture in Germany and Russia" "Russian Emigration in Germany, German Emigration in Russia in the 20th Century" The fourth volume of the Mitteilungen ...
Wissenschaft als Grenzwissenschaft
(2020)
How does a field of knowledge achieve legitimacy as science? The focus of this historical analysis is on the ever-controversial “fringe discipline” of parapsychology and its most important advocate Hans Bender. It analyzes ...
Gestaltungsmetrik
(2025)
This treatise introduces Gestaltungsmetrik as a con¬ceptual framework for studying and designing infor¬mal spaces, from image and Gestaltung to anatomy and materials. In mathematics and physics, the nexus between movement ...
We Were All in Adam
(2019)
Contrary to a common conviction, original sin is one of the fundamental Patristic issues, because it is the starting point of Patristic anthropology and sets the stage for the need for salvation. The Church Fathers before ...
Selbstreparaturen in der schriftlichen Interaktion
(2021)
This empirical study examines self-initiated and other-initiated self-repairs in German and Russian SMS communication by applying methods from conversation analysis and interactional linguistics. It describes the sequential ...
The Principle of Unjust Enrichment
(2024)
The principle of unjust enrichment came into fruition under English law in the last decade. It is now accepted that the four-stage-test "enrichment", "at the expense", "unjust factor" and "no defences" triggers remedies ...
Klio hat jetzt Internet
(2023)
History videos on YouTube have obtained an enormous reach and relevance in the transmission of historical and political content. This edited volume examines media stagings, specific features in the historical portrayals ...
Local Self-Governance in Antiquity and in the Global South
(2022)
Society begins at the local level. This interdisciplinary volume analyzes different kinds of local self-organization against the backdrop of the rather limited states of Antiquity and the Global South of the present. By ...
Bildmedien
(2022)
This volume brings together a selection of contributions on the forms and functions of both contemporary and historical visual media. It aims to bring a range of perspectives from philosophical, cultural studies, and media ...
Historische Lexikographie des Deutschen
(2022)
This volume takes stock of the current state of the historical lexicography of German, sounding out the prospects for future research. It focuses on the ongoing development of dictionary projects in the digital age.
Progress in Commutative Algebra 2
(2012-04-26)
This is the second of two volumes of a state-of-the-art survey article collection which originates from three commutative algebra sessions at the 2009 Fall Southeastern American Mathematical Society Meeting at Florida ...
Handbook Global History of Work
(2017)
What is the day-to-day reality for workers in various parts of the world, and how was it in the past? How do they work today, and how did they work in the past? Did workers ever protest? If so, how? These and many other ...
Vergemeinschaftung und Distinktion
(2021)
One of the reasons for the social significance of pop-cultural formats like TV series is how they are communicatively processed in interactions. This book uses video recordings of conversations between students about series ...
Der Mensch als Bild des unergründlichen Gottes
(2023)
God is unfathomable and unknowable. This thought is deeply entrenched in the Jewish-Christian tradition. On the other hand, Biblical texts speak of the human being or Christ as having been created in God's image. How can ...
Exploring Structures in Languages and Language Contact
(2025)
This book explores aspects of language contact and linguistic typology. It focusses on various facets of language contact situations in Africa, Asia, North America, Australia and Europe. Typological inquiries and broader ...
Was heisst und zu welchem Ende studiert man romanische Literaturwissenschaft?
(2022)
This Potsdam lecture attempts to more closely define the object of “Romance literary studies” within the context of the literatures of the world, to define the exceptional, even essential significance of this object of ...
Inscriptions of the Aulikaras and Their Associates
(2019)
The Aulikaras were the rulers of western Malwa (the northwest of Central India) in the heyday of the Imperial Guptas in the fifth century CE, and rose briefly to sovereignty at the beginning of the sixth century before ...
Weissbuch Gastroenterologie 2023/24
(2023)
After cardiovascular illnesses, non-malignant diseases of the digestive tract are the most common illnesses affecting Germans, resulting in around 2 million hospitalizations every year. With the updated White Paper, the ...
Was macht die Digitalisierung mit der Politik?
(2022)
What role does digitality play in negotiating the question of how we want to live together in the future? How do processes of digitalisation affect the formation of opinion, the shaping of political parties, their communication ...
Das materielle Erbe des Steinkohlenbergbaus in Deutschland
(2020)
The publication aims to establish minimum standards for small museum collections of Germany’s coal mining heritage, including the acquisition and documentation of objects. It focuses on photographic techniques, database ...
Practices of Islamic Preaching
(2024)
Preaching, a practice composed of and accompanied by a myriad of different activities, is an essential element of Muslim religious life both within and beyond mosques. As such, Islamic preaching is a common means of religious ...
Poetic Critique
(2021)
This book seeks to breathe new life into Friedrich Schlegel's idea of ‘poetic critique,’ but also asks about its limitations. What forms might critique take when practiced poetically? Can this practice be rigorous enough ...