Publications
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La tradizione manoscritta dell “ars dictaminis” nell’Italia medievale
(2022)
This volume is dedicated to the study of medieval ars dictaminis. Analyzing several manuscript witnesses, it sheds light on the historical contextualization of the phenomenon and examines the close relationship between ars ...
Sujetos del deseo
(2021)
This book analyzes, conceptualizes and historicizes the amateur translator figure as political and cultural agent in US-Latin American relations, from the end of the 19th century to the mid-20th century. Centered on the ...
Die Transformation der Informationsmärkte in Richtung Nutzungsfreiheit Alternativen zur Als-ob-Regulierung im Wissenschaftsurheberrecht
(2020)
In the last 30 years, copyright law’s approach to knowledge and information has come under fire. This book makes an important contribution to the debate about the sustainability of current models combining freedom of use ...
Chapter An Initial Selection of Manuscripts for the Editio Critica Maior of the Pauline Epistles
(2019)
Thirty-three internationally renowned scholars of the text and transmission of the New Testament offer original contributions on ancient manuscripts and digital editing in honour of Klaus Wachtel, a pioneer in the use of ...
Der Engel in der Moderne
(2022)
Die anhaltende Präsenz von Engeln in der Moderne wurde oft auf ein gesteigertes Trostbedürfnis zurückgeführt. Die Engelsfigur ist aber nicht bloß statisches Überbleibsel einer verlorenen Glaubensgewissheit. Vielmehr steht ...
Education Materialised
(2021)
This volume reveals how manuscripts may be used in gaining knowledge of educational practices across Africa, Asia and Europe from the Babylonian period up to the twentieth century. Four major research topics are addressed: ...
Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World
(2020)
The Lived Ancient Religion project has radically changed perspectives on ancient religions and their supposedly personal or public character. This volume applies and further develops these methodological tools, new ...
Dependency and Social Inequality in Pre-Roman Italy
(2024)
In the past, most studies on Pre-Roman societies in Italy focused on the elites. The aim of this volume is to look at dependent and marginalized social groups, which are less visible and often even difficult to define. The ...
Vitale Mystik
(2022)
This study examines the form and reception of mystical writing in poetry by A. de Noailles (France, 1876–1933), E. de Champourcin (Spain 1905–1999), and A. Pozzi (Italy, 1912–1938) from the perspective of current transsecular ...
Religious Narratives in Italian Literature after the Second Vatican Council
(2019)
This book presents a semiotic study of the re-elaboration of Christian narratives and values in a corpus of Italian novels published after the Second Vatican Council (1960s). It tackles the complex set of ideas expressed ...
Die kommunikative Konstruktion von Normalitäten in der Medizin
(2024)
Wenngleich die Bestimmung des medizinisch ‚Normalen’ einen zentralen Aspekt wissenschaftstheoretischer und -historischer Diskussion darstellt, ist die kommunikative Konstruktion von Normalitäten nur selten Gegenstand ...
Mobility Design
(2022)
Climate change and the scarcity of resources, but also the steadily increasing traffic make it indispensable to develop new solutions for environmentally friendly and people-friendly mobility. The smooth and safe transition ...
Evaluating Interreligious Peacebuilding and Dialogue
(2021)
Featuring chapters by well-established interreligious peacebuilders from around the world, this volume examines the challenges and implications faced by religious and interreligious peacebuilders and provides new models ...
Private Sector Development in an Emerging World
(2024)
This book explores the interactions between private sector development, public policies and societal institutions with a strong view on contributing to sustainable and inclusive development in emerging countries. The private ...
Führung, wohin führst du?
(2012)
With this book, students receive a critical introduction to the opportunities and limits of value creation-oriented management of companies. In this way you gain a holistic picture of value-oriented corporate management. ...
The Politics of Service
(2021)
This is the first comprehensive history of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the central humanitarian assistance organization of American Quakers during the first half of the 20th century. It describes the ...
Das Tagebuch des Astronomen Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt 1862–1882
(2025)
The diary of Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt provides deep insights into his life, his personal contacts, and his research interests in the period 1862 to 1882. Schmidt used his diary to document visits and events in Athens ...
The Roll in England and France in the Late Middle Ages
(2020)
In the Middle Ages, rolls were ubiquitous as a writing support. While scholars have long examined the texts and images on rolls, they have rarely taken the manuscripts themselves into account. This volume readdresses this ...
Affirmation und Kritik des modernen Zeitregimes bei Friedrich Schiller, Heinrich Heine und Gottfried Keller
(2025)
Since the eighteenth century, societies have been increasingly orienting the way they think and act around the future. This is not the result of a natural process, but can be attributed to a complex discursive formation: ...
Jenseits der Grenzen
(2009)
The process of transformation which saw the Byzantine Empire and the world of the Early Middle Ages develop from the Late Antique Imperium Romanum led to changes in all areas of life. The central topic of this volume of ...
Religionswissenschaft
(2025)
This volume offers a unique introduction to contemporary religious studies in twenty-seven accessible, clearly written chapters written by religious studies scholars from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The central, ...
Citation and Quotation in Early Modern Architecture
(2024)
This volume aims to tease out one of the principal threads of the over-arching theme of what might be termed ‘Lost and Found in Translation’ with regard to Early Modern Architecture. Citation of texts in relation to Early ...
Fremdes Begehren: Spiele der Identitäten und Differenzen im späten 12. Jahrhundert
(2024)
In the narrative literature of the late twelfth century, dynamics of desire produce complex identity and relationship constellations. This study examines the narrative logics of heterosocial and homosocial desire in the ...
Die Inschriften des Stadtgottesackers in Halle an der Saale (1550–1700)
(2021)
Between 1557 and 1590, the Stadtgottesacker in Halle, a prototype of a Protestant burial ground outside the city walls, was expanded into an architectural unity that in form and completeness has no parallel north of the ...
Perfekt unperfekt
(2021)
The book offers insight into the classical rhetorical strategies of elaboration for researchers interested in rhetoric as well as for designers and artists. The process of elaboration is governed by the tension between the ...
Studies in the Atharvaveda
(2024)
This volume, the first of its kind in nearly two decades, comprises 16 articles on the Atharvaveda, India’s second oldest text, by the world’s leading scholars in the field, from India, Japan, Europe and North America. ...
Framing Intellectual and Lived Spaces in Early South Asia Sources and Boundaries
(2020)
The contributions to this book address a series of ´confrontations`—debates between intellectual communities, the interplay of texts and images, and the intersection of monumental architecture and physical terrain—and ...
The Making of an Anglo-Jewish Scholar
(2025)
This book is a study of the life and thought of the Polish Jew Solomon Yom Tov Bennett (1767-1838). Arriving in London, he encountered an educated group of English literati who found him useful for their own intellectual ...
Transkulturelle Verflechtungsprozesse in der Vormoderne
(2016)
Pre-Modern Europe`s diverse ethnic and religious groups were in continuous contact with each other and also with "cultures" beyond Europe. This collected volume analyzes these reciprocal exchange processes, taking into ...
Sprachen, Völker und Phantome
(2018)
Academics have long stopped speaking of “peoples” and “their” languages and cultures. Yet languages and cultures are still taken as evidence of quasi-ethnic community and “identity.” Nine papers by scholars in Egyptology, ...
Verwaltungsrecht in der Klausur
(2020)
This is the first textbook to present open access materials in administrative law geared toward the test-taking realities of law students. Focused on administrative process, it deftly presents the main areas of general ...
Lager als Architektur
(2024)
Since 1945, camps as a form of temporary mass housing have been either ignored or discussed only in the margins of architectural history. In this book, Antje Senarclens de Grancy examines for the first time the camps built ...
Katechismus-Andachten (1656)
(2016)
The Catechism Devotions are comprised of 50 spiritual songs that impart all of the material in Luther`s Small Catechism in vocal form. They are regarded as an important milestone in early modern theologia catechetica that ...
Anthroposophieforschung
(2023)
Rudolf Steiner's (1861–1925) anthroposophy is present in society (Waldorf schools, Weleda, Demeter…) but not in scholarly research. This volume is the first to present academic research articles that close this gap by ...
Qualität in der Inhaltserschließung
(2021)
This edited volume deals with issues relating to the quality of subject cataloging in the digital age, where heterogenous articles from different processes meet, and attempts to define important quality standards. Topics ...
Trading Zones of Digital History
(2021)
Will historians become programmers? How do historians collaborate with experts from computational domains? At the centre of the book is the question how historians are affected by such ongoing interactions. By following ...
Metaleptische Bilder des Erzählens
(2023)
Von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart wird erzählerisches Handeln immer wieder durch bildhafte Ausdrücke veranschaulicht, die den Erzähler in logikwidrigem Kontakt mit der erzählten Welt darstellen und sich damit narratologisch ...
The Fish Lands
(2020)
Based on newly uncovered archival sources as well as archaeological studies, this book offers the first extensive overview of the German trade with the North Atlantic in English. It challenges assumptions about the ...
Die verletzte Republik
(2022)
This study examines the literary discourse about forms of violence in French society at the beginning of the twenty-first century. How and why does French contemporary literature tell stories about the now historical, ...
Die Ausstattung kleinerer Häuser in Pompeji (Insula IX 5)
(2023)
The book examines the interplay of ancient and new decor elements on Insula IX 5 in Pompeii during the final phase of the city between AD 62-79 . This is the first time that an attempt has been made to grasp the construction ...