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The Ancient World Revisited: Material Dimensions of Written Artefacts
(2024)
Written artefacts, that is, manuscripts and inscriptions, are traditionally studied because of their texts. Material aspects of these artefacts have become increasingly important, enriching the study of ancient history in ...
Was ist Gesundheit?
(2021)
Obwohl Gesundheit für alle Menschen essentiell ist, unterliegt das Verständnis des Begriffs »Gesundheit« jeweils historisch, regional und kulturell unterschiedlichen Einflüssen. Mit verschiedenen Festlegungen von »Gesundheit ...
HORACE’s SERMONES BOOK 1
(2019)
This monograph interprets Sermones book 1 as a collection of Horace's credentials for Maecenas and traces his efforts in getting accepted as an associate of the latter after his miscalculation in joining Brutus. Although ...
Raumkonstruktionen = Spatial Constructions
(2021)
During National Socialist occupation in World War II, Eastern Europe was measured, surveyed, and planned anew. Alongside the actors, practices, and technology involved in this process, this volume presents results from the ...
Von der Dämonologie zum Unbewussten
(2014)
As the science of man, anthropology was among the most exciting disciplines during the period of intense change from the early modern era to modernity. Where demons had once wielded their power, after 1800, it was now the ...
The Imperial Qín Dynasty
(2024)
The Lǐyē 里耶 text corpus is one of the basic reference points when it comes to the research of pre-imperial and early imperial documents, and grants unique opportunities to redefine our knowledge about social, legal, ...
Islamic Law in Early Modern Iran
(2023)
Historical studies on the practice of Islamic law (sharīʿa) tend to focus on practice in a Sunni setting during the Mamluk or Ottoman periods. This book decenters Sunni and Mamluk and Ottoman normativity by investigating ...
Der Herrscher im Massenmedium
(2024)
Auch wenn im Zuge des Iconic-Turns Historiker vermehrt auf Bildquellen zurückgriffen, so blieben die verbreitetsten Bildmedien der poströmischen Zeit, nämlich Münzen und Siegel, in Handbüchern und Studien unterrepräsentiert. ...
The Encounter of Chinese and Western Philosophies
(2023)
This book revisits the encounter between Chinese and Western philosophy while unfolding questions about the way "comparative philosophy" is conducted today. The currently dominant exegesis organizes philosophical landmarks ...
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 ...
Privacy in Early Modern Saxony
(2024)
The volume examines how different historical notions, experiences, expectations, and suspicions regarding privacy emerged in early modern Saxony. It brings together insights from epistolary studies, women’s history, history ...
Elemente der antiken Erzähltheorie
(2021)
This volume is the first to systematically analyze ancient narrative theory in German. The guiding principle is the theory that, although ancient authors like Aristotle were the forerunners of the modern categories of ...
Eugenio Coseriu
(2023)
Eugenio Coseriu (1921–2002) was among the most influential linguists in the second half of the 20th century. Although known mainly as a structuralist and an expert in Romance linguistics, his work in fact goes far beyond ...
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 ...
SMOTIES TOOLBOX
(2024)
Human Cities/SMOTIES – Creative works with small and remote places is a four-year project, started in 2020, and co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union. The SMOTIES Toolbox aims to guide project ...
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 ...
Forensische Verfahren in den zeitgenössischen Künsten
(2022)
The research agency Forensic Architecture investigates war crimes and ecological as well as political crises and brings them into the exhibition as well as the courtroom through "Investigative Aesthetics" (MACBA 2017). ...
Der Kaiser und sein Gott
(2010)
In his reconstruction of the process and motivation of Constantine`s adoption of Christianity, the author proposes a number of new individual aspects. He commences with an analysis of theearliest testimonials bythe Emperor ...
Die Poesie der Dinge
(2021)
Distillation flasks, sugar cane mills, and the brain – the scientific revolution created a spectacular range of themes, even in a traditional genre such as didactic poetry. In this volume, internationally renowned researchers ...
Überlegungen zu einer Reform des Arbeitskampf- und Schlichtungsrechts
(2025)
This volume examines the German Federal Labor Court's labor dispute law over time. It presents the legal and factual framework and asks: Is labor dispute law still up-to-date, or does it require a reorientation? Does the ...
Writing Systems and Their Use
(2022)
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of grapholinguistics, treating questions concerning both the structure and use of writing systems by complementing the linguistic main perspective ...
Contesting Nordicness
(2021)
What makes the Nordic countries Nordic? The terms ‘Nordic’ and ‘Scandinavian’ are increasingly used in wide range of political and cultural contexts. Historically they have been associated with political projects and ...
Namenwechsel
(2020)
This interdisciplinary study examines how transgender individuals change their names in the course of their gender transition. It reveals the enormous social significance of first names in interpersonal communication and ...
Gender and Protest
(2023)
For centuries women had to protest to gain equality. Their demands were often matched by counter-protest from conservative forces within historical societies.The present volume will take a closer look at the interrelationship ...
Byzantium, Pliska, and the Balkans
(2009)
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Competing Knowledges - Wissen im Widerstreit
(2020)
Whatever societies accept as ‘knowledge’ is embedded in epistemological, institutional, political, and economic power relations. How is knowledge produced under such circumstances? What is the difference between general ...
Global Literary Studies
(2022)
This book sets the grounds for Global Literary Studies as an emergent field. It innovatively looks at cross-border cultural phenomena through the concepts of space, scale, time, connectivity and agency, channeling the ...
Materialität, Inschriftlichkeit und schrifttragende Artefakte im mittelalterlichen Rom
(2023)
Like ancient Rome, the medieval metropolis on the Tiber is also a landscape of transmission due to the diversity of its epigraphic legacy. This legacy had a lasting impact on the municipal area of the urbs and provides ...
Moving Workers
(2023)
This book brings together a variety of regions and periods to provide fresh perspectives on the study of labour. It deconstructs the polarisation between mobility and immobilisation in labour history and instead stresses ...
Atlas of Spatial Figures
(2025)
Globalization, as it is conceptualized in the early twenty-first century, is undergoing significant transformations. While we continue to live in a globalized world where markets, technologies, and cultures remain deeply ...
Roman Women’s Dress
(2022)
The book concerns female dress in Roman life and literature. The main focus is on female Roman dress as it may have been worn in daily life in Rome and in a social environment influenced by Roman culture in the time from ...
Female Agency in Manuscript Cultures
(2024)
Manuscript cultures have frequently forgotten or erased women’s contributions. Their agency is a glaring blind spot in the pursuit of gender perspectives on the production of written artefacts. This volume studies manuscripts ...
Against the Fetishisation of Plural Time
(2025)
It has become an unflinching belief that time is plural and temporal multiplicity is the best framework to study the relationship between time and society. Through a critical reading of existing scholarship, Sinha questions ...
When Tibetan Meditation Goes Global
(2022)
This pioneering ethnographic work on Western practitioners of Bon, or bonpos, presents the first in-depth study of the transition of the Yungdrung Bon religion, Tibet’s so-called "indigenous religion," to the West in the ...
Der digitale Pranger
(2018)
As a source of information for consumers to assess the quality of goods and services, rating portals basically make a useful contribution to consumer protection. However, the portals become a problem when critics express ...
Sometimes Hard, Usually Soft
(2020)
As an urgent response to the continually growing flood of information to which libraries, search engines, and cultural institutions are exposed, Data Loam combines radical approaches and strategies from the international ...
Neighbourhoods and City Quarters in Antiquity
(2023)
This volume focuses on the socio-spatial organisation of ancient cities, and more specifically on Late Republican and Imperial Italy. Referring to a praxeological and phenomenological perspective, it looks at neighbourhoods ...
Advances in the Sociology of Trust and Cooperation
(2020)
The book identifies conditions for trust and cooperation. It highlights unintended consequences of individually rational behavior, and shows how trust and cooperation change dependent on social embeddedness. Such analyses ...
Aufklärung zwischen zwei Welten
(2021)
Pierre Chaunu sprach 1971 noch vorsichtig von der Herausbildung von „l’Europe des Lumières“. Ein halbes Jahrhundert später ist längst zu fragen: Aufklärung nur in Europa? Die transareal angelegte Vorlesung will versuchen, ...
Vanitas und Gesellschaft
(2021)
This interdisciplinary volume delves into the significance of the early modern vanitas motif in the present day. In the arts, pop culture, and social discourses, it is utilized to make cultural-critical diagnoses. Reflections ...