Publications
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Munera und Agone in der Gesetzgebung der Spätantike
(2024)
Public games shaped urban life in the Roman Empire up into late antiquity. This study is the first to systematically examine the legal texts pertaining to gladiator battles and animal baiting (munera), as well as athletic ...
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 ...
Das Herz in den Bildmedien religiöser Frauengemeinschaften
(2024)
The heart had a key position in the visual media of religious women’s communities in the early modern era. Maria Schaller analyzes portraits and image-bearing jewelry created in Catholic nunneries and Protestant women’s ...
Yahwism under the Achaemenid Empire
(2024)
This book is dedicated to the study of the touchpoints between Yahwistic communities throughout the Achaemenid empire and the Iranian attributes of the empire that ruled over them for about two centuries. Its approach is ...
In Diensten des Afrikanischen Sozialismus
(2021)
Tanzania’s efforts to construct an independent “African socialism” were part of a global discussion about the royal road to development, the ambiguous role of capitaist “developmental assistance,” and the nature of ...
Zeichentragende Artefakte im sakralen Raum
(2018)
Sign-bearing artifacts are immanent elements of sacred spaces in many cultures. Often, one encounters a phenomenon there that might be described as deliberate “invisibility,” the conscious “concealment” of artefacts and ...
Prototypen – Schemata – Konstruktionen
(2021)
Prototype, schema and construction are three central concepts that can be used to model mental representations of grammatical structures and relations within the frame of functional-cognitive grammar theories. This volume ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Soziale Positionen – soziale Konstruktionen
(2024)
The study sheds light on typical linguistic patterns of stance-taking in online comments. It makes an empirically founded contribution to the investigation of construction-grammatical patterns of language use in knowledge ...
But There Was Love
(2025)
But There Was Love—Shaping the Memory of the Shoah proposes a new paradigm for Shoah remembrance in today’s cultural and political reality. It derives from the four-year workings of a group of researchers and artists in ...
Palimpsests and Related Phenomena across Languages and Cultures
(2024)
Palimpsests are manuscripts whose original content has been erased, scraped away, washed off and later overwritten. In their lower layers, they often contain unique versions of texts – including those otherwise lost – from ...
Laien, Wissen, Sprache
(2021)
Research from various corners has already shone light on the issue of what speakers know about their own language and their attitudes towards it. However, a joint theoretical and empirical basis is still missing. This ...
Offshoring of white-collar services
(2020)
This is one of few books in the market dealing with offshoring of professional services, the dynamic phenomenon of high relevance in the global economy. The unique feature of the book is merging economic and business ...
Petrified
(2025)
A rupture of life on Earth is unfolding. What, then, does this rupture signify, not only in terms of being alive during such an upheaval, but also in terms of being alive to upheaval itself? Lyrical, playful, and deadly ...
Grundrechte
(2022)
This textbook examines the fundamental rights granted by the German constitution in an innovative way. A team from all over Germany has combined basic knowledge for students with more in-depth knowledge for state examination ...
Gallipoli 1915/16
(2020)
The Battle of Gallipoli was the Britain’s most bitter defeat of the First World War. This volume seeks to place the Dardanelles campaign in proper perspective. It situates Gallipoli in the larger context of the First World ...
Carbon-Based Smart Materials
(2020)
Presents technologies and key concepts to produce suitable smart materials and intelligent structures for sensing, information and communication technology, biomedical applications (drug delivery, hyperthermia therapy), ...
Claiming and Making Muslim Worlds
(2021)
This volume explores what ‘Islam’ is taken to mean in different social, economic and cultural contexts. It considers how people engage and employ varying traditions, institutions, and media in shaping their sense of self ...
Architektur und Klimawandel
(2024)
Architektur und Bauwesen stehen an einem Wendepunkt. Mehr als 40% der CO2-Emissionen weltweit gehen auf ihr Konto. Der globale Temperaturanstieg lässt sich nur reduzieren, wenn sich das Bauen radikal ändert. Wie aber sollen ...
Wesensattribute Gottes in der Theologie Sayf ad-Dīn al-Āmidīs
(2025)
This volume investigates the doctrine of the seven divine attributes in the Ashʿarite theological school and assigns them to three new main categories: (1) omnipotence, will, and knowledge (2) life and seeing (3) hearing ...
Das Christentum im frühen Europa
(2019)
During the transition from late antiquity to the early Middle Ages, the geographical space of Europe was Christian and Christianity was “European.” The essays present the major theological discourses and decisions of that ...
We, the City
(2022)
Given their unchecked neoliberal restructuring, Berlin and Istanbul have been exposed to various forms of political polarisation and social injustice over the last decade. As a result, the struggle for affordable housing, ...
Humanities and Big Data in Ibero-America
(2024)
This volume presents the first comprehensive study on the relationship between the Human Sciences and Big Data, with special emphasis on the Ibero-American space. The volume is divided into three parts (theoretical, ...
Chapter Establishing Local Elite Authority in Egypt Through Arbitration and Mediation
(2020)
To integrate the regions of the early Islamic Empire from Central Asia to North Africa, transregional and regional elites of various backgrounds were essential. The papers analyze elite groups, their structures and networks, ...
Architecture and Welfare
(2025)
In the decades following World War II, ambitious building programs were launched across Europe to secure social prosperity. Scandinavia, in particular, underwent an intensive phase of modernization aimed at distributing ...
Youth and Memory in Europe
(2022)
What kind of historical narratives are young people exposed to and what do they make of them? This volume brings together humanities and social sciences scholars in a study of youth and memory in different European regions. ...
Tied and Bound: A Comparative View on Manuscript Binding
(2023)
Every book form – from China to West Africa, from Europe to Mesopotamia – requires a way to secure cohesion of its constituent elements and keep them together. Whereas codex binding, as it still appears in modern printed ...
The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri at Ninety
(2023)
This book engages the Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri, one of the most important collections of early manuscripts of Jewish scripture and the New Testament, by placing them within larger conversations relating to ancient ...
Une doxographie sunnite du IVe/Xe siècle
(2021)
This book contains an edition and annotated translation of the only remaining doxographical fragments written by al-Qalānisī, a Sunni theologian contemporary of al-Aš'arī. The study preceding the edition gives an overview ...
Antisemitism in the North
(2020)
Is research on antisemitism even necessary in countries with a relatively small Jewish population? Absolutely, as this volume shows. Compared to other countries, research on antisemitism in the Nordic countries (Denmark, ...
Historische Mehrsprachigkeit
(2023)
Die Erscheinungsformen und linguistischen Effekte von Mehrsprachigkeit sind nicht nur regional oft äußerst unterschiedlich, sondern auch historisch divers und veränderlich. Die Beiträge dieses Sammelbandes haben ...
Inzestverbot und Gesetzgebung
(2008)
From the 6th to 11th centuries, the prohibition of marriage between relatives (incest) often headed the agenda of legislative assemblies and can be seen as a key topic of this age. The reasons for this unique development ...
Von der Gebärdensprache zur Schrift
(2024)
Für gehörlose Lernende stellt das Schreiben eine doppelte Herausforderung dar: Gebärdensprachen verfügen über keine Gebrauchsschrift, weshalb gehörlose Schreiber/-innen die Schrift der umgebenden Lautsprache verwenden. ...
Exhibiting the Past
(2022)
With respect to public issues, history matters. With the worldwide interest for historical issues related with gender, religion, race, nation, and identity, public history is becoming the strongest branch of academic ...
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 ...
The Time of Turāth
(2024)
This study argues for a new view of contemporary Arab thought by analyzing the idea of time that underlies key discussions over Arab heritage (turāth). Focusing on three authors, it shows how their work was shaped by a ...
Ravenna and the Traditions of Late Antique and Early Byzantine Craftsmanship
(2020)
Ravenna is the place which preserves the highest number of historical evidence among all centres featuring the late Roman Mediterranean. Its cultural heritage is vast and composite, ranging from papyri to inscriptions, ...