Publications
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Agents' Abilities
(2020)
What is it for agents to be able to do things? This question, while central to many debates, is still awaiting a comprehensive answer. Jaster provides just that by developing the “success view,” which posits that abilities ...
Victimhood and Acknowledgement
(2018)
How does terrorism affect our picture of the history of terrorism then, if the victims are moved centre stage? If the focus is put on their suffering? The contributions to this edition of the European History Yearbook will ...
Grundrechte
(2022)
This casebook takes an innovative approach to address the basic rights granted by the German constitution. A team of young scholars from all over Germany has combined basic knowledge for students with more in-depth knowledge ...
Arrivals and Departures
(2024)
This book explores the human relationship with changing biodiversity. New animal and plant species arrive, and the ones previously existing may disappear. However, the historical and social perspectives of the matter have ...
Gottes Haus
(2012)
Using the idea that church buildings are sacred spaces, this study seeks to examine a central figure of thought in medieval society, the "ecclesia". Using normative, liturgical, and exegetic-theological sources, the book ...
Der Staat als Zuhälter
(2016)
Until the 20th century there were brothels throughout Europe where prostitution was controlled by the state. The study examines factors in the German, French, and Italian parliaments that gave impetus to the abolition of ...
Watchful Lives in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
(2023)
The book shows how Chicanx, Latinx and otherwise watched and "othered" people in San Diego, close to the US-Mexico border, respond to racism and surveillance. Watchfulness goes beyond counter-surveillance, as it is understood ...
Christliches Leben und die Verbesserung des Menschen
(2022)
Self-optimization is all the rage. What do theology and the church have to say about it? Should they issue a warning and strike up a cultural pessimistic tune? Maybe they could activate their own resources, which have the ...
Schönheitsdiskurse in der Literatur des Mittelalters
(2022)
This study provides a fundamental new reading of numerous commonplace positions in Germanic medieval studies relating to the physical beauty of literary figures. It looks at both canonic and more marginal Middle High German ...
Summa theologica Halensis
(2018)
So far, only the Latin text in a critical edition from the year 1948 has been available from the law treaty of the Summa Halensis. With the three-volume publication, a German translation and a commentary on this important ...
Die Landmauer von Konstantinopel-Istanbul
(2008)
The land walls of Constantinople are one of the largest and most important defensive fortifications from Late Antiquity. The subject of this book are the history and topography of the Theodosian Land Walls and the Walls ...
Berlin International
(2023)
By the time West Berlin was declared the European Capital of Culture of 1988, a heavily internationalized literary scene had already been developing on both sides of the Wall. In fifteen contributions, this volume traces ...
Uncertain Values
(2021)
How should you evaluate your options if you’re uncertain about what’s fundamentally valuable? This book introduces an axiomatic approach to explicate and vindicate Expected Value Maximisation. The result is a formally ...
Demystifying the Sacred
(2022)
This book investigates the relationship between blasphemy and violence in modern history, with a focus on cases from the European world, including its (post-) colonial ties. Spanning from the late-eighteenth century to ...
Chapter Terezín und Jasenovac – Umkämpfte Gedenkstätten vor und nach 1989
(2020)
This volume examines memory narratives in literature, television, film, photography, and museum exhibitions that, firstly, take a transmedial approach and, secondly, narrate and de/construct the past or pasts in Central ...
Culture as Soft Power
(2022)
Including a thorough literature review and a number of case studies referred to cultural institutions and organisations, this book sheds light on different usages of culture as a source of soft power. Through an innovative ...
Primitive Thinking
(2022)
This book examines the discourse on ‘primitive thinking’ in early 20th century Germany. It explores texts from the social sciences, writings on art and language and – most centrally – literary works by Robert Musil, Walter ...
Kalter Krieg auf dem indischen Subkontinent
(2020)
1971 was a critical year for India and Pakistan and also for West and East Germany. The Third India–Pakistan War led to the independence of Bangladesh, at the same time that the German–German policy of détente sought to ...
Tra i libri di Isacco Argiro
(2020)
This book reconstructs the figure of Isaac Argyrus, a byzantine scholar active in Constantinople of the 14th century, with due regards to the context of his work. The paleographical and codicological analysis of his book ...
Mapping Narrations – Narrating Maps
(2022)
This volume offers the author’s central articles on the medieval and early modern history of cartography for the first time in English translation. A first group of essays gives an overview of medieval cartography, ...