Publications
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Movable Inn
(2018)
The book presents the results of a systematic survey, the first of its kind, on the rural Jews in the Minsk Guberniya, from its establishment as a major administrative unit within the Russian Empire in 1793, to the outbreak ...
Theories of Informetrics and Scholarly Communication
(2016)
Scientometrics have become an essential element in the practice and evaluation of science and research, including both the evaluation of individuals and national assessment exercises. Yet, researchers and practitioners in ...
Grundlagen der Informationswissenschaft
(2022)
The seventh edition of the Principles of Practical Information and Documentation is now called: The Principles of Information Science. The new title does justice to the fact that there is an increasing need to theorize how ...
Diversity and Otherness
(2021)
This book critically examines multiple ways in which cultural diversity is, and has been represented and handled. It questions the construction of differences in doing culture while emphasizing the fluidity of cultural ...
The Summa Halensis
(2020)
The Summa Halensis (1236-45) was collaboratively authored by the founding members of the Franciscan school at Paris and represents not only the first official statement of Franciscan thought but also a defining text for ...
Restatement of Restitution Rules for Nazi-Confiscated Art
(2025)
What would be just and fair solutions in the spirit of the Washington Principles? This volume provides an answer to this question, identifying functional points of comparison via an extensive study of restitution practices ...
Der Westen als Wir-Gruppe im „Kampf der Kulturen“
(2022)
What is the "clash of civilizations"? What are us-group constructions? What is the West? This critical discourse analysis informed by cognitive linguistics answers these questions in detail using a data set comprising more ...
Using Ostraca in the Ancient World New Discoveries and Methodologies
(2020)
Throughout Egypt’s long history, pottery sherds and flakes of limestone were commonly used for drawings and short-form texts in a number of languages. These objects are conventionally called ostraca, and thousands of them ...
Zitate der Aeneis in den Briefen des Hieronymus
(2022)
In his letters, the church scholar Jerome describes a deep inner rift between Virgil and the gospels, between Cicero and the apostles. This volume traces late ancient processes of cultural hybridization using methods from ...
Kellers Erzählen
(2022)
Keller not only reinterpreted literary genres like the legend but, with the bildungsroman and the novella, also shaped the forms that psychologically gauge the modern subject. These contributions explore Keller’s texts as ...
Kaiser Konstantin als Leser
(2019)
To honor the 20th year of his reign, Emperor Constantine was given what may be the most precious gift of his lifetime: a codex of artistic panegyrics and odes dedicated to him by the poet Optatianus. Optatianus’ poems ...
Time in Diaries of Court and Bakufu Officials in the late 13th Century
(2024)
This monograph portrays temporality as it emerges from diaries produced by government officials during the late thirteenth century in Japan, thereby highlighting the complex and plural approaches to ‘time’ that these sources ...
A Mist Connection
(2023)
In 1783, an eruption occurred in Iceland. Soon after, a dry fog descended upon mainland Europe. These two events long went unconnected. "A Mist Connection" documents the Laki eruption and its consequences for Iceland and ...
Early Printed Narrative Literature in Western Europe
(2020)
The shift from hand-written to printed books left its mark on narrative literature in Western Europe. The essays in this volume address developments in the history of early printed narrative texts as well as publication ...
Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies. 2019
(2020)
The Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies mirrors the annual activities of staff and visiting fellows of the Centre as well as scholars of the Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion at the University ...
Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance
(2021)
Michael Stolberg offers the first comprehensive presentation of medical training and day-to-day medical practice during the Renaissance. Drawing on previously unknown manuscript sources, he describes the prevailing notions ...
Counting on Computers
(2024)
Counting on Computers is a compelling exploration of socialist ambitions for a computerised future in the German Democratic Republic. It examines the authoritarian leadership's positive vision of socialist computerisation ...
Expressions of Sceptical Topoi in (Late) Antique Judaism
(2021)
This volume of collected essays seeks to tackle the question of scepticism in an Early Jewish context, including Ecclesiastes and other Jewish Second Temple works, rabbinic literature, and reflections of Jewish thought in ...
Workplace Spirituality
(2022)
A state-of-the-art overview of the field of management, spirituality and religion, comprising concise chapters written by experts in the sub-fields and edited by recognized leaders in the field of management, spirituality ...
Nach der Diktatur
(2023)
What must be done after the end of a dictatorship so that the suffering of those persecuted comes to an end and history does not repeat itself? Only rarely have long-term studies academically investigated the effects that ...