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Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl. A Contextual Dictionary
(2020)
The dictionary expands on the original idea of Karttunen and Lockhart to map the usage of loans in Nahuatl, by using a much larger and diversified corpus of sources, and by including contextual use, missing in earlier ...
Making the Medieval Relevant. How Medieval Studies Contribute to Improving our Understanding of the Present
(2020)
When scholars discuss the medieval past, the temptation is to become immersed there, to deepen our appreciation of the nuances of the medieval sources through debate about their meaning. But the past informs the present ...
Männer mit Makel. Männlichkeiten und gesellschaftlicher Wandel in der frühen Bundesrepublik
(2017)
The transformation of West German society in the long 1950s led to changes in society`s understanding of masculinity. Men who were different – disabled war veterans, the homeless, homosexuals – were under pressure ...
Judah Halevi’s Fideistic Scepticism in the Kuzari
(2020)
The book provides the first comprehensive study on Judah Halevi’s use of sceptical tactics in his wrestling with the dogmatic-rationalistic trends of the Arabic culture of his period (11th- 12th centuries).