Publications
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Politics of Pasts and Futures in (Post-)Imperial Contexts
(2024)
This volume brings together approaches that deal with the instrumentalization and lasting impacts of perspectives on empire and their place in time. The diachronic cut through all time periods from antiquity to modern times ...
Estetica e poetica in Giovan Battista Gelli
(2023)
This volume studies the profile of one of the most important figures of 16th-century Florence, Giovan Battista Gelli, highlighting some less studied aspects: not only was Gelli deeply interested in figurative art, attested ...
Shaping Visions in U.S.-American Magazines
(2024)
This book presents the first comprehensive study on U.S.-American female illustrators’ creative imaginations of femininity, 1890-1920. It offers insight into the multi-faceted visual-textual relations across mass and little ...
From Memory to Marble
(2020)
The book is a rare case study of the dynamics, processes and shifts around the creation and reading of one of the world’s major monuments, through all the processes of its design and making. The frieze which represents the ...
Littérature française et savoirs biologiques au XIXe siècle
(2020)
By the metaphorical power and the modelling power which they take, biological knowledge and its representations arouse in the XIXth century the fascination of the writers. They find there the source of new poetry, of an ...
Is there a Judeo-Christian Tradition?
(2016-03-21)
The term ´Judeo-Christian` in reference to a tradition, heritage, ethic, civilization, faith etc. has been used in a wide variety of contexts with widely diverging meanings. Contrary to popular belief, the term was not ...
Networks and Practices of Connoisseurship in the Global Eighteenth Century
(2024)
The 18th century was the age of the connoisseur. It was also an era of an expanding global consciousness born of accelerating trade and imperial conquest. This volume puts into dialogue the consolidation of connoisseurship ...
Die Interaktion von Herrschern und Eliten in imperialen Ordnungen des Mittelalters
(2018)
At both the center and periphery of empire, patterns of access to imperial centers developed quite differently according to membership in different elite groups. The persistence of imperial systems may have depended on the ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen - celebrity
(2021)
Welche Strategien und Mechanismen trugen dazu bei, die öffentliche Persona des dänischen Bildhauers Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844) zu erschaffen? Die Autorin betrachtet die Verbreitung seines Ruhms und des beispiellosen ...
Chinese Euphonics
(2024)
Supported by digital texts, modern technologies and historical linguistics, Chinese Euphonics is a dive into the types of sound patterns that occur throughout the earliest corpora of narrative texts in the Chinese canon, ...
Humanities for Humans
(2025)
Building on the conversation series "Humanities for Humans," this volume introduces prominent academics in a manner that breaks down barriers between campuses and the general public. Sharing about their life journeys and ...
Different Aesthetics
(2025)
The CRC research project Different Aesthetics aims to change perspectives in aesthetic discussions by directing attention to the 2000-year history of European art and culture before the 18th century.
Men, Masculinities and the Modern Career
(2020)
This book focuses on the multiple and diverse masculinities ‘at work’. Spanning both historical approaches to the rise of ‘profession’ as a marker of masculinity, and critical approaches to the current structures of ...
Essential Cases on the Limits of Liability
(2024)
European legal systems have developed a broad range of instruments aimed at limiting liability. These instruments are systematically examined within the present volume, which fills a major gap in tort law literature. The ...
Conceptual Joining
(2021)
This book explores experimental approaches to the design and construction of wooden structures in architecture, while presenting the results of an artistic research project. By using digital tools, experimental formations ...
Jamaica Kincaid’s Writings of History
(2023)
Jamaica Kincaid’s works consistently explore the long-lasting effects of colonial history on contemporary lives. Focusing on the media of text, image, and the human body, the chapters of this book show how Kincaid’s ''poetics ...
Wissensgeschichte des Verhaltens
(2025)
Behavior is an important category in the life sciences. It is central to all negotiations of human-animal relationships and is present in both science and scholarship, and the popular media. Understanding the historical ...
Space, Time and Language in Plutarch
(2017)
This collection of essays by a team of international scholars offers a wide-ranging examination of the key concepts of 'space and time' in the work of the Greek biographer and philosopher Plutarch of Chaeronea (1st-2nd ...
Romantik zwischen zwei Welten
(2021)
This transareal lecture inquires into the (perhaps already lost) unity of Romanticism behind the polymorphism of the Romantic discourses that took place between two worlds, Europe and America. This lecture reveals the scope ...
Homosexuality in the German Armed Forces
(2024)
Homosexuals were mustered out of military service in the Bundeswehr until 1979, after which homosexuality alone was no longer considered grounds for unsuitability. But for homosexual soldiers, military service was an option, ...