Publications
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The Summa Halensis
(2020)
Begründet von Michael Schmaus †, Werner Dettloff † und Richard Heinzmann Fortgeführt unter Mitwirkung von Ulrich Horst Herausgegeben von Isabelle Mandrella und Martin Thurner Das Grabmann-Institut ist eine im ...
New Silk Road
(2025)
In 2013, China's planned "New Silk Road" initiative began, the implementation of which has directly transformed many places in Asia and Africa, as well as in China itself. In some cases, urgently needed infrastructure was ...
Conditions of Violence
(2024)
Mass violence comes not only from states, but also from people. By analyzing mass violence as social interaction through survivor accounts and other sources, this book presents understudied agents, aims and practices of ...
Creating Standards
(2019)
This book deals with various aspects of standardisation by stepping outside the disciplinary and regional boundaries and providing a typological cross-cultural comparison of standardisation processes in writing traditions ...
Religion und Städtekonkurrenz
(2009)
Christa Frateantonio follows a new line of research in this study of Pausanias` Periegesis, his historical and geographical description of Greece.Her underlying premise is that it is in fact concealed praise (or criticism) ...
Kontrafaktik der Gegenwart
(2021)
Non-realistic narratives are currently immensely popular but have been frequently accused of political escapism. This study models counterfactuality using theories of fiction and shows the great affinity that this narrative ...
Johann Christoph Gottscheds Briefwechsel - Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2013)
The focus of this volume is on the world of theater. The reign of Frederick II is a subject of considerable attention in the correspondence: from Königsberg come reports about the politics of religion, and from Berlin ...
On the Way to the (Un)Known?
(2022)
Twenty-two authors from various countries analyze travelogues on the Ottoman Empire between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries. The volume discusses questions of perceptions of "otherness", the circulation of ...
Toward a New Culture of the Material
(2024)
The publication takes up the vision to rediscover the analog within activities of images, spaces and materials in the age of the digital. The contributions, based on digital lectures of the Excellence Cluster »Matters of ...
Mater Genetrix
(2024)
Beyond the traditional dichotomy between idealized and "monstrous" mothers, the contributions gathered in this volume analyze a wide range of maternal figures in French and Francophone literature of the 20th–21st centuries, ...
Embodied Dependencies and Freedoms
(2023)
Most people regard the arts as free. This publication demonstrates that Asian art and architecture are created in contexts of extreme dependence. They depend on the climate, resources, social and religious traditions and ...
Familiengründung mittels Eizellspende
(2023)
A strict ban on egg donation is unjustified in a liberal society. Yet, egg donation is nevertheless fraught with problems that should not be ignored. This work examines those problems from a moral philosophical perspective ...
Self-Help in the Digital Age
(2024)
This book unites literature and science, exploring how American self-help culture influences science communication and shapes expectations of success and happiness, particularly through TED talks. It highlights literature's ...
Einstein vs. Bergson
(2021)
On 6 April 1922, Einstein met Bergson to debate the nature of time: is the time the physicist calculates the same time the philosopher reflects on? Einstein claimed that only scientific time is real, while Bergson argued ...
Digital Humanities and Libraries and Archives in Religious Studies
(2022)
How are digital humanists drawing on libraries and archives to advance research in the field of religious studies and theology? How can librarians and archivists make their collections accessible in return? This volume ...
La Table des rois
(2023)
The Table of Kings by Ptolemy, a second-century Alexandrian astronomer, presents a continuous list of rulers from the Neo-Assyrian Empire to the Roman Empire. It is a crucial source for our chronological approach to the ...
Herausforderung Digitalisierung
(2024)
As part of a digital lecture series organized at Justus Liebig University Giessen in the winter semester of 2021/22 to mark this anniversary, renowned scientists from various disciplines gave valuable lectures on the topics ...
Norms of Dependency in Late Antique and Early Medieval Societies
(2025)
Late antique and early medieval normative sources frequently employ Roman legal terminology to denote a person’s legal inferiority, and thus suggest the continued relevance of the concepts associated with these terms. ...
Female Authority and Holiness in Early and Medieval Christianity
(2025)
This collective volume investigates the connection between women’s holiness and the notion of time from a diachronic perspective. By looking at temporality as intertwined with the construction of social and gendered roles, ...
Gender und Diversity in Natur-, Technik- und Planungswissenschaften
(2024)
Gender und Diversity spielen eine wesentliche Rolle bei der Produktion von Wissen. Somit sind Gender und Diversity nicht nur relevant für die Frage, wer an Forschung und Lehre wie beteiligt ist, sondern auch für die Frage, ...