Publications
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Holiness and Power
(2016)
The book examines models of relationships between Constantinopolitan holy man and secular and ecclesiastical authorities in the capital of Byzantium. The study explores the ideal underlying the lives of the four ...
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 ...
Ambraser Heldenbuch
(2021)
The “Ambras Book of Heroes,” commissioned by Maximilian I, is one of the most important sources of medieval German literature. In this eleven-volume complete edition, all 25 texts from the codex appear in print for the ...
Sprachliche Muster
(2018)
Die Studie arbeitet den musterhaften Sprachgebrauch in wissenschaftlichen Texten heraus und beschreibt auf der Basis einer datengeleiteten Korpusanalyse den Wissenschaftsstil auf formaler und pragmatischer Ebene. Mit der ...
Zeitgenössische jüdische Autobiographie
(2011-05-01)
The proceedings of the conference of the same name assemble papers concentrating largely on Franco-Jewish autobiography in the last few decades. Relevant literature in English and German is also discussed. In addition, ...
Meyer-Struckmann-Preis 2013: Sir Ian Kershaw
(2014)
Der Meyer-Struckmann-Preis für geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung, ausgeschrieben für Deutsche Geschichte im 20. Jahrhundert, ging im Jahr 2013 an den renommierten britischen Historiker Sir Ian Kershaw. Die ...
Reading History in the Roman Empire
(2022)
Spanning the time from the 1st century BCE to the 400s CE, this volume highlights the multifaceted interactions between Greco-Roman historiographical texts and their readers. Its contributions focus on the testimonies ...
The expression of “collectivity” in Romance languages
(2022)
The empirical and comparative study examines various facets of the linguistic expression of collectivity in Romance languages. Against the background of an onomasiological conception of nominal aspectuality, collection ...
El queísmo en la historia
(2022)
The book offers a panchronic analysis of queísmo, one of the oldest variational phenomena in Spanish syntax, from the Classical era to this day. Within the framework of historical sociolinguistics and on the empirical basis ...
Jüdinnen - Literarische Weiblichkeitsentwürfe im 20. Jahrhundert
(2022)
In the nineteenth and, in particular, twentieth centuries, literature became a place to negotiate ideas of Jewish femininity, an experimental space in which contemporary discourses were carried out and tried out on and ...
gewohnt: un/common
(2021)
Neue Konzepte für unser Zusammenleben sind dringend erforderlich, um auf die wachsende gesellschaftliche Ungleichheit, die Auflösung klassischer Arbeits- und Familienstrukturen oder die Ausprägung vielfältiger sozialer ...
Data Disclosure
(2023)
This volume presents the proceedings of the bidt "Vectors of Data Disclosure" conference held in Munich 2022. The contributions give interdisciplinary and comparative insights into various factors of data disclosure decisions ...
Der Zauberstab der Analogie
(2023)
The publication aims to view analogy relations as heuristic magic sticks or semiotic universals through which the unknown can be heuristically opened up with the help of the known. This means that analogies simultaneously ...
Coping with Urban Climates
(2022)
While 20th century architecture learned to control the climate of a building, the architecture of the 21st century needs to learn to cope with the climate of cities. Problems such as urban heat and air pollution need to ...
Aging between Participation and Simulation
(2020)
This publication aims to initiate an interdisciplinary discourse on the ethical, legal, and social implications of socially assistive technologies in healthcare. It combines practically relevant insights and examples from ...
Disruption in the Arts
(2018)
The volume examines aesthetic disruptions within the various arts in contemporary culture. It assumes that the political potential of art is not solely derived from presenting its audiences with openly political content. ...
Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity
(2016)
It is estimated that only a small fraction, less than 1 per cent, of ancient literature has survived to the present day. The role of Christian authorities in the active suppression and destruction of books in Late Antiquity ...
Innovationsräume
(2019)
This volume examines the relationships between innovation and space, illustrating a range of phenomena subsumed in the concept of innovation spaces. It presents new conceptualizations of innovation as a dynamic, territorially ...
Gamification for Innovators and Entrepreneurs
(2022)
This book provides a research-based overview of the use of games to facilitate learning in innovation/entrepreneurship and draws on work in several European institutions and well-known companies. Also, it provides a review ...
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 ...