Publications
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Gefährliche Forschung?
(2022)
This volume examines the influence that scientific innovations like artificial intelligence are having on everyday life. By looking at issues like the responsibility of scientists, the application of innovations in public ...
Euripides-Rezeption in Kaiserzeit und Spätantike
(2020)
During the Imperial Rome Age and late antiquity, Euripides was considered a tragic dramatist par excellence, and, alongside Homer, was the most frequently cited poet. This book examines the reception of complete and partially ...
Computational Approaches to the Study of Movement in Archaeology
(2014)
Within the framework of the Excellence Cluster Topoi, a fruitful interdisciplinary debate on
space and movement over the long term has developed. The workshop “Computational approaches
to movement in archaeology” (organized ...
Praxishandbuch Wissenschaftliche Bibliothekar:innen
(2024)
Die digitale Transformation stellt wissenschaftliche Bibliothekar:innen vor neue Herausforderungen, die nicht nur den praktischen Umgang mit neuen Technologien betreffen, sondern die eine neue Art des Handelns, Kommunizierens, ...
Natur und Kunst bei Claudian
(2022)
This volume focuses on twelve of the so-called Carmina minora by the late ancient poet Claudius Claudianus (ca. 370–404 CE), which describe of different kinds. Nature, art, and the concordia discors that characterises both ...
Fluchtlinien der Sprache(n)
(2023)
Migration bedeutet eine – häufig physisch und psychisch traumatisierende – Zäsur, die vor multiple Verlusterfahrungen stellt. Diese sind mitunter schwer artikulierbar, sei es aufgrund sprachlich-kultureller Hürden, sei es ...
Clarice Lispector – Weltliteratur?
(2021)
It has only been in the 21st century that the literary oeuvre of the Brazilian author Clarice Lispector (1920–1977) has received international recognition, after being repeatedly forgotten in the past. This volume traces ...
Spätantiker Staat und religiöser Konflikt
(2011)
The process of Christianisation brought with it a new form of violent conflict to the Roman world: religiously motivated attacks on places, objects or people. The most radical form of such conflicts were attacks on the ...
Scripting Genocide
(2025)
Scripting Genocide traces the history of how and why the Wannsee Conference has repeatedly attracted the attention of American, British, and German screenwriters and filmmakers since 1960. This book investigates how the ...
Literatur und Unabhängigkeit
(2023)
The study writes a cultural history of transatlantic relations on the late 18th and 19th centuries. Using the example of the Neo-Spanish Dominican fray Servando Teresa de Mier (1763–1827), it examines how Hispanic American ...
The Thebaid in Times of Crisis
(2025)
This collective volume explores crises in the Upper Egyptian Thebaid during the Ptolemaic Period. As a result of an international conference held at the Freie Universität Berlin (May 2–4, 2019), the presented case studies ...
Gehörte Geschichten
(2022)
Auditive texts are on the rise: audio plays, readings, podcasts, audioguides, and electroacoustic experiments reveal the diversity of audible stories. The contributions in this volume systematize the genres of this diverse ...
Soziologie - Sociology in the German-Speaking World
(2021)
This book provides the first systematic overview of German sociology today. Thirty-four chapters review current trends, relate them to international discussions and discuss perspectives for future research. The contributions ...
Literarische Beziehungen zum Mittelalter
(2025)
This study examines the question of when and how German-language texts written between 1750 and 1930 refer to the literature of the Middle Ages. In a scalable reading, it performs a distant reading of medieval references ...
Zoomland
(2024)
Despite a variety of theoretical and practical undertakings, there is no coherent understanding of the concept of scale in digital history and humanities, and its potential is largely unexplored. A clearer picture of the ...
Die Geschichtlichkeit des Briefs
(2021)
There are few features that characterize the letter, and yet they have contributed to the successful history of this communication form for more than 3000 years: writtenness, materiality, mobility, address, the necessity ...
Taking the Alhambra to St. Petersburg
(2023)
Little is known of Russian architects’ in-depth engagement with Ibero-Islamic architecture, especially the medieval Nasrid palaces of the Alhambra in Granada, in the so-called Moorish Revival. This study, rich in material, ...
Tracing and Documenting Nazi Victims Past and Present
(2020)
After World War II, tracing and documenting Nazi victims emerged against the background of millions of missing persons and early compensation proceedings. This was a process in which the Allies, international aid organizations, ...
Kardinal Cesare Baronio und das Kurienzeremoniell des posttridentinischen Papsttums
(2021)
This study embarks upon a new interpretation of the twelve-volume "Annales Ecclesiastici" by the Oratorian and cardinal Cesare Baronio within the context of the development of curial ceremony in the second half of the ...
Poetics and Politics
(2018)
Far from teleological historiography, the pan-European perspective on Early Modern drama offered in this volume provides answers to why, how, where and when the given phenomena of theatre appear in history.
Using theories ...
Europe Across Boundaries
(2022)
The present issue of the European History Yearbook showcases research initially presented at the annual Mainz-Oxford graduate workshop "European History Across Boundaries from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century". The ...
PAINTING THE SKY BLACK
(2018)
Dieter Häussinger, Direktor des HITM und der Medizinischen Klinik und Poliklinik für Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie und Infektiologie und Lehrstuhlinhaber für Innere Medizin an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, ...
Infrastrukturen
(2019)
Why reflect on infrastructures? Today, we are experiencing a breathtaking expansion and intensification of infrastructural interconnections around the globe. At the same time, infrastructures have also become the explicit ...
Vulnus amoris
(2023)
The concept of love’s wound has haunted European culture for centuries. This book investigates this fundamental concept in Medieval French, Occitan, and Italian literature – with the purpose of tracing its transformation ...
Schriften zum Islam und zur arabischen Literatur der Gegenwart
(2025)
Rotraud Wielandt produced her studies on modern Arabic literature and contemporary Islamic exegesis and theology during forty years of research. Although the texts contain important insights and original observations, some ...
Personal Manuscripts: Copying, Drafting, Taking Notes
(2023)
Some manuscripts have been produced for the personal use of their scribe only whereas a number of them are valued as autographs, most have been ephemeral and were discarded. This volume introduces a number of such manuscripts ...
Deutsche und italienische Besatzung im Unabhängigen Staat Kroatien
(2020)
The “Independent State of Croatia,” occupied by Germany and Italy, is a laboratory for investigating Nazi and Fascist notions of empire, occupation, and the enforcement of power. For the first time, Sanela Schmid draws on ...
The Good Christian Ruler in the First Millennium
(2021)
This volume brings together historical research on classical antiquity and early medieval Europe with the study of eastern Christianity. To this end, it examines concepts of good rulership, especially of good Christian ...
The Epoch of Universalism 1769–1989 / L’époque de l’universalisme 1769–1989
(2020)
2019 marked both the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and Napoléon’s 250th anniversary. Picking up on this contingency of world history with an ironic wink, the volume analyses in retrospect the epoch of ...
Soft Computing
(2020)
Soft computing is used where a complex problem is not adequately specified for the use of conventional math and computer techniques. Soft computing has numerous real-world applications in domestic, commercial and industrial ...
Time and Soul
(2022)
In Book IV of his Physics, Aristotle asked whether time could exist without a soul that counts it. As a result, philosophers throughout antiquity tackled the problem of subjective time and its relation to the physical time ...
Kasus im Korpus Zu Struktur und Geographie oberdeutscher Kasusmorphologie
(2020)
This study provides a new methodological approach to the corpus-based analysis of case marking in spoken language and provides the first quantitatively based insights into the construction of a dialectal case system and ...
Politisches Handlungswissen im Venedig des Quattrocento
(2024)
Wie konnten Abwesende politische Prozesse im Venedig der Renaissance beeinflussen? Wie wurden entsprechende Praktiken tradiert? Antworten auf diese Fragen gibt die Briefsammlung des Amtsträgers Ludovico Foscarini (1409–1480). ...
They did not stop at Eboli
(2020)
The analysis of UNESCO’s audio-visual archives for their digitization has brought to light a forgotten album of 38 contact sheets and accompanying texts by Magnum photographer, David “Chim” Seymour – a reportage made in ...
Ester – eine Gewaltgeschichte
(2022)
The Book of Esther tells the story of a plot to exterminate the Persian Jews and their great struggle against their enemies. This study locates these portrayals of violence in the Hellenistic epoch, in the Hasmonean period ...
The Medieval Archive of Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century Sweden
(2021)
This book is the first study of the development of antisemitism in nineteenth-century Sweden, based on an analysis of 150 books and pamphlets. The significance of religion for the development of modern racist antisemitism ...
Korpuslinguistik
(2018)
The study examines the concept of patterned language usage in scientific texts and, based on a data-led corpus analysis, describes scientific style at a formal and pragmatic level. With theoretical grounding in multiple ...
Gottes Werk und Teufels Wirken
(2014)
The volume provides the first comprehensive presentation of imaginary phenomena such as dreams and visions in early Byzantine monastic literature. Drawing on a broad range of sources, it examines imaginary experiences ...
Filming, Researching, Annotating
(2021)
The handbook Research Video is the introduction to a new kind of software and publication based on annotated videos. Practitioners and researchers who work with motion data, such as those from the fields of performative ...
Kältebilder
(2021)
Cold has always been of fundamental importance to human culture, but it was not until the industrial age that possibilities of artificial cooling were invented which are taken for granted today. However, colling was also ...