Publications
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Internationale Wissenschaftskommunikation und Nationalsozialismus
(2022)
Taking a critical stance toward "internationality" was one of the central aspects of the notion of scholarship propagated in National Socialist Germany between 1933 and 1945. However, during this time, German scholars had ...
Semantische Spezialisierung vs. Polysemie
(2021)
Transitive verbs can often leave their arguments implicit. Until now, the objectless variants of these verbs have been frequently associated with specific meanings. This volume demonstrates that most verbs have different ...
Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies
(2021)
In the second volume a wide range of economic actors – from kings and armies to cities and producers – are discussed within different imperial settings as well as the tools which enabled and constrained economic outcomes. ...
New Cosmopolitanisms, Race, and Ethnicity
(2019)
This anthology offers fresh perspectives on cosmopolitanism that reflect cultural challenges in the contemporary world. It demonstrates that new cosmopolitan thinking can be combined with a sensitivity to ethnic and local ...
Mineral Building Traditions in the Himalayas
(2020)
This study gives fresh insight into the interaction between technical requirements, environmental resources and material implementation. It is the first scientific approach in studying the Himalayan earthen heritage in a ...
Caucasian Albania
(2023)
The handbook illustrates the present state of knowledge on the region of Albania in the Southern Caucasus and its inhabitants with a focus on its late antique and medieval history, its language and its written heritage, ...
Emma Goldman and the Russian Revolution
(2020)
How did Emma Goldman perceive the Russian Revolution and how did her perception change between 1917 and the early 1920s? What impact did the revolution’s corruption by Lenin have on the anarchist’s perception and what made ...
Aspects of the Performative in Medieval Culture
(2010-04-29)
The volume assesses performative structures within a variety of medieval forms of textuality, from vernacular literature to records of parliamentary proceedings, from prayer books to musical composition. Three issues are ...
Photomurals
(2024)
Das fotografische Wandbild, das sogenannte photomural, wurde in den USA der 1930er-Jahre zu einem Inbegriff nationaler Kunst und dabei als Gegenentwurf zum mexikanischen Muralismus positioniert. Johanna Spanke untersucht ...
A Touch of Doubt
(2021)
Scepticism claims that there is always something that slips through the epistemologist’s grasp.Drawing on the tradition of scepticism within continental philosophy, this volume discusses how the sense of touch uncovers ...
Lesepraktiken im antiken Judentum
(2021)
Practices of reading form an important center of synagogal worship as well as Jewish scholarship. The monograph reconstructs the development of ritual reading practices in ancient Judaism based on the triad of acts of ...
Invariant Differential Operators
(2017)
With applications in quantum field theory, general relativity and elementary particle physics, this three-volume work studies the invariance of differential operators under Lie algebras, quantum groups and superalgebras. ...
Popliteratur 3.0
(2023)
Mit der Digitalisierung erfährt der Literaturbetrieb der Gegenwart einen massiven Wandel. Autor*innen schaffen mithilfe der sozialen Medien zusätzliche Kommunikations- und Inszenierungsräume – mit der Konsequenz, dass sich ...
Galeni In Hippocratis Epidemiarum librum VI commentariorum I–VIII versio Arabica
(2022)
The present volume offers the first critical edition of the medieval Arabic translation of Galen's Commentary on Book 6 of the Hippocratic Epidemics. It is the sequel to the previous editions of Galen's Commentary. The ...
Rethinking Orality I
(2022)
The volume deals with the mechanisms of the oral communication in the ancient Greek culture. It focuses on the 'cultural message' of the texts, considered under two perspectives: the methodologies of cognitivism, and ...
Upon Entropy
(2024)
In his 1979 essay The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge philosopher Jean-François Lyotard noted that the advent of the computer opened up a stage of progress in which knowledge has become a commodity. Modernity ...
Informationsressourcen
(2022)
This reliable volume provides information specialists with an up-to-date introduction to using information resources. Alongside the theoretical principles, it selects about 400 general and specialist information resources ...
Cicero in Basel
(2024)
The contributions of this volume chart Cicero’s presence in the city of Basel – from the stories around the city’s foundation to humanist editions and commentaries and the politics of scholarship and education. They ...
Krise und Kult
(2010)
This volume contains twelve contributions on the urban development of the Near East and North Africa in Late Antiquity. On the one hand the authors consider historical and cultural aspects of the region. A comprehensive ...
Identitäten im Prozess
(2015)
Collective identities – national, regional, local, religious, linguistic – are all constructed as opposed to an "other" which is constructed in alterity. They are established by historiography, art, and media. The contributions ...