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Religion und Politik in Christentum und Islam
(2024)
Why do Christianity and Islam approach their relationship to politics in distinct ways? Because they each have their own "grammar." Their canonical scriptures have different contents their early experiences of politics ...
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 ...
Machiavelli und Dantes „Commedia“
(2024)
Machiavelli is considered to have been an "admirer" of Dante, but his Asino is also read as satire on Dante. So what is the position of the Commedia in Machiavelli’s poetry? This volume provides a nuanced answer that ...
The Middle East and North Africa
(2024)
This volume gathers reflections on secularity from the Ottoman Empire, modern Arab states, the Turkish Republic, Iran, and Jewish perspectives from Europe and Israel, many translated into English for the first time. While ...
Medieval Art, Modern Politics
(2024)
This innovative volume of twelve essays by international scholars examines the political uses and misuses of medieval images, objects, and sites in modern times (16th to 20th centuries). In case studies that range from ...
Fremdes Begehren: Spiele der Identitäten und Differenzen im späten 12. Jahrhundert
(2024)
In the narrative literature of the late twelfth century, dynamics of desire produce complex identity and relationship constellations. This study examines the narrative logics of heterosocial and homosocial desire in the ...
Munera und Agone in der Gesetzgebung der Spätantike
(2024)
Public games shaped urban life in the Roman Empire up into late antiquity. This study is the first to systematically examine the legal texts pertaining to gladiator battles and animal baiting (munera), as well as athletic ...
Réinventer l’art sacré
(2024)
During the first half of the 20th century, artists all over Europe investigated religious art and tried to renew its forms of expression. In Switzerland, an artistic society known as the "Groupe de Saint-Luc" was particularly ...
Latin America’s Contested Pasts in Telenovelas and TV Series
(2024)
This interdisciplinary volume analyzes the historical culture of Latin American society embodied in telenovelas and series from the 1960s to the present. Bringing together regional case studies on the representation of ...
La langue du peuple dans la littérature
(2024)
From the classical age to contemporary Francophonie, French-language literature features numerous instances of popular speech, whose mimetic or conventional character remains open to debate. This book brings together ...
Navigating the News
(2024)
Based on an extensive ethnography of news practices and perceptions among a broad range of youth in Sweden, this book discusses how the digitisation of news has shaped young people’s understanding of what news is, and how ...
Yahwism under the Achaemenid Empire
(2024)
This book is dedicated to the study of the touchpoints between Yahwistic communities throughout the Achaemenid empire and the Iranian attributes of the empire that ruled over them for about two centuries. Its approach is ...
Lager als Architektur
(2024)
Since 1945, camps as a form of temporary mass housing have been either ignored or discussed only in the margins of architectural history. In this book, Antje Senarclens de Grancy examines for the first time the camps built ...
Educational Secularization within Europe and Beyond
(2024)
Secularization as a political and ideological project has been part of transforming and giving new life to religion, not least through reforms in the education system and in public enlightenment efforts. The volume provides ...
Recognitions
(2024)
The volume explores the interpretive potential of the polysemic idea of recognition as it intersects with phenomena of transcodification, transmediality, and transculturality. Focusing on translation, adaptation, ...
Luxus-Praktiken in der Literatur der Aufklärung
(2024)
Modern human identity has been shaped by consumer practices. Contemporary discourses about consumption between addiction and self-determination have their origins in the eighteenth-century luxury debate. This volume is the ...
Die Sprache des erlittenen Krieges (1914–1938)
(2024)
This book focuses on poems by French frontline soldiers that address the sufferings of war. They bear witness, bring charges, and function as a medium for coping with traumatic experiences. Some of the texts examined pertain ...
Genealogical Manuscripts in Cross-Cultural Perspective
(2024)
Writing one’s genealogy by hand is a common practice across cultures, both past and present. This volume explores how lineages were expressed in handwritten form within different social, cultural, and religious contexts ...
Imágenes de la vejez
(2024)
Age studies add the perspective of aging to the issues of inclusion and diversity, which intersect with other axes (gender, race, class, functional diversity, etc.). This volume delves into the scenic, literary and audiovisual ...
A Show of Hands
(2024)
In contrast to the divide between conception and execution advocated by Anglo-American artists in the second half of the 1960s, this book reappraises conceptual art by examining it from the perspective of craft. Furthermore, ...
El impacto narrativo del cuerpo humano
(2024)
The book explores the representation of the human body in Chilean author Lina Meruane's "Trilogy of Sickness" (Rotten Fruit, Blood in the Eye and Nervous System). The interdisciplinary, narratological and hermeneutic ...
Sprache und Vertrauen
(2024)
Trust depends on communication in all life domains – whether in private life, institutions, medicine, education, or other areas. The mechanisms of trust vary, reflecting their diversity. What is the relationship between ...
N+N-Komposita mit identischen Konstituenten im Deutschen
(2024)
In German, there are nominal compounds with identical constituents (ICCs). This study is the first to provide comprehensive data on the formal and functional properties of ICCs and a theoretical discussion in which these ...
Wann beginnt die Papierzeit?
(2024)
Parchment or paper? The choice between these two writing materials was available to people in Italy from 1100, to those north of the Alps from the thirteenth century. If we take them by their word, they preferred the ...
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 ...
Moscú por venir
(2024)
This volume studies the travel accounts of nine Ibero-American writers who went to Moscow and got to know the Soviet cosmos: F. de los Ríos, J. Pla, C. Vallejo, R. Alberti, M. T. Ríos, J. Revueltas, L. Cardoza y Aragón, ...
The Prosimetrum of the Íslendingasögur
(2024)
The chapters in this volume analyse the Íslendingasögur as prosimetrum – that is, they treat the combination of verse and prose as a salient generic feature of this body of sagas. Their innovative approaches will enable a ...
Standardization in the Middle Ages
(2024)
We live in a world riven through with standards. To understand more of their deep, rich past is to understand ourselves better.These two volumes turn to the Middle Ages to give a deeper understanding of the medieval ideas ...
Sylvester of Antioch
(2024)
This is the first English monograph on Patriarch Sylvester of the Church of Antioch (1724–1766), based on extensive Greek, Arabic and Romanian sources, many unknown before. Sylvester faced various challenges stemming from ...
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, ...
The Principle of Unjust Enrichment
(2024)
The principle of unjust enrichment came into fruition under English law in the last decade. It is now accepted that the four-stage-test "enrichment", "at the expense", "unjust factor" and "no defences" triggers remedies ...
Der Tumult der Anfänge und das Versickern am Ende
(2024)
Is it really necessary to explain what is new in literary history by breaking with established genre traditions? Do norm-breaking innovations in literature and the normative structure of a literary genre necessarily form ...
The Gait as Political Choreography
(2024)
This book explores the upright gait in the school context and the collective gait of adolescents as a political choreography in Germany and Japan that contributed to the consolidation of the nation-state. In shedding light ...
Praxishandbuch Bibliotheksmanagement
(2024)
From the point of view of library practice, the Practical Handbook on Library Management offers an up-to-date assessment of the current situation and an overview of all aspects of the management of academic libraries in ...
Elitesklavereien und Profifußball
(2024)
The concept of elite slavery describes the practice of abducting and then spending years training and disciplining children, who were then placed in high-level positions, sometimes amassing huge wealth. These features can ...
The Shīʿa in Iraqi Heresiography
(2024)
The book addresses the presentation of the Shiʿa in the theological-doxographical literature of Iraq up to the early fourth century of Islam. Understanding doxographies primarily as textual products of third-century kalam ...
Diskursmorphologie
(2024)
Discourse linguistics and morphology have had little in common in previous research. Traditional discourse linguistics often only considers morphological questions marginally, and word formation, despite the shift to ...
Preservation in Perspective
(2024)
The ‘Preservation in Perspective’ conference, held in 2021 to mark the 10th anniversary of the Coordination Office for the Preservation of Written Cultural Heritage (KEK), provided an opportunity to discuss the present and ...
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, ...
Writing the Heavens
(2024)
In the Middle Ages and early modernity, celestial observation was frequently a subject for verbal rather than numerical and geometrical recording. These records can now be difficult to decode, since what they address is ...
Representaciones cómicas de la discapacidad
(2024)
This volume analyzes the ambivalence of comic representations of disability in fictional texts, films and stage performances, as well as the ambivalence of reception. It seeks to describe precisely what kind of comicality ...
Internet Lexicography
(2024)
The Internet has become the most important platform for lexicographic content. In this volume, lexicographers and researchers introduce the central aspects of Internet lexicography and present the current state of scientific ...
The Time of Turāth
(2024)
This study argues for a new view of contemporary Arab thought by analyzing the idea of time that underlies key discussions over Arab heritage (turāth). Focusing on three authors, it shows how their work was shaped by a ...
Contemporary Global Thinking from Latin American Women
(2024)
The book brings to the public exceptional texts of prominent Latin American women thinkers translated for the first time into English. It offers also a discussion of the contribution of the selected thinkers to show how ...
Der Fall Eichmann transnational
(2024)
The Eichmann trial had a dramatic effect on legal history and the discussion of the Shoa and Nazi perpetration. In the history, reception, and memory of the 1961 trial in Jerusalem, German, Israeli, and South American ...
L’homme-machine – L’utopie d’un Homme nouveau ?
(2024)
Armoured soldiers, sexualized machine men, mechanized athletes: Between 1914 and 1926, artists of the German and French avant-garde used the mechanical body as a motif to illustrate the crises of their time and to question ...
Panoramic and Immersive Media Studies Yearbook
(2024)
The PIMS Yearbook surveys the historical and contemporary landscape of panoramic and immersive media. This interdisciplinary field includes—but is not limited to—360-degree paintings dioramas and museum displays gaming ...
Populäre Bildkulturen der Vormoderne
(2024)
Taking contemporary popular culture and its immanent theory building as its starting point, this edited volume is the first to ask whether the category "popular" can be applied to the Middle Ages and early modern period. ...
Die Weltkarte des Andreas Walsperger
(2024)
This study explores the unique world map produced around 1448 in Constance by the Benedictine monk Andreas Walsperger. With reference to texts and maps of the time, the analysis focuses on their content, processes of ...
The Impact of War Experiences in Europe
(2024)
This publication focuses on the impact of war experiences on non-German nationals serving in the Nazi German armed forces and labour organisations. It sheds light on the individuals and their biographies, exploring the ...
Die Mediävistik und ihr Mittelalter
(2024)
Medieval Studies has done away with many things once considered self-evident. It is even contentious whether it makes sense to speak of the "Middle Ages" as their own epoch. It is against this backdrop that this volume ...
The Imperial Qín Dynasty
(2024)
The Lǐyē 里耶 text corpus is one of the basic reference points when it comes to the research of pre-imperial and early imperial documents, and grants unique opportunities to redefine our knowledge about social, legal, ...
Handbook on the History and Culture of the Black Sea Region
(2024)
This first handbook on the Black Sea region provides an overview on relevant structural features from a cultural-historical perspective and thereby examines to what extent this region constitutes a historical meso-region ...
Privacy in Early Modern Saxony
(2024)
The volume examines how different historical notions, experiences, expectations, and suspicions regarding privacy emerged in early modern Saxony. It brings together insights from epistolary studies, women’s history, history ...
The Non-Religious and the State
(2024)
This book adds a hitherto absent historical dimension to the field of secular studies, and shows a variety of ways in which the non-religious at large – be it organizations, networks or even committed individuals – impact ...
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, ...
Meeting the Inclusion Challenge in Innovation
(2024)
Users play an important role in innovation, both as a source of new ideas and insights and as accelerators of downstream adoption and diffusion. Their potential contribution is well known, but we understand less about how ...
Women in Scandinavian Landscape Architecture
(2024)
Women were active in landscape architecture in Scandinavia throughout the twentieth century, yet little is known about their contribution. This volume presents new knowledge about women’s contributions to the cities and ...
New Horizons in Artificial Intelligence in Libraries
(2024)
This publication provides an opportunity to explore developing new library AI paradigms, including present use case practical implementation and opportunities on the horizon as well as current large ethics questions and ...
Colonial Entanglements and the Medieval Nordic World
(2024)
This volume takes advantage of recent developments within Medieval Studies and explore the entangled pasts and presents of the Nordic medieval period and colonialism. Through a diverse range of interdisciplinary approaches ...
Soziale Positionen – soziale Konstruktionen
(2024)
The study sheds light on typical linguistic patterns of stance-taking in online comments. It makes an empirically founded contribution to the investigation of construction-grammatical patterns of language use in knowledge ...
Control, Coercion, and Constraint
(2024)
The equality of all human beings before the divine is deeply rooted in religious thought. Yet religious discourse has also been used to explain, justify, and establish structures of strong asymmetrical dependency that may ...
Greek Culture in Hellenistic Egypt
(2024)
The volume investigates some aspects of the cultural consequences of the settlement of Greeks in Egypt during the Hellenistic period, with a focus on the reception and reuse of their literature, through a discussion of ...
New Hollywood and Countercultural Whiteness
(2024)
This book uses the New Hollywood as a case study for affective and discursive transformations of white masculinity between the 1950s and the 1970s. It identifies a subject position of countercultural whiteness that emerged ...
Citation and Quotation in Early Modern Architecture
(2024)
This volume aims to tease out one of the principal threads of the over-arching theme of what might be termed ‘Lost and Found in Translation’ with regard to Early Modern Architecture. Citation of texts in relation to Early ...
Political Violence
(2024)
This volume brings together scholars from intellectual history, social sciences, philosophy and theology to evaluate central questions concerning political violence and aggression. This multidisciplinary collection of ...
Dynamics, Mediation, Mobilization
(2024)
This book provides an accessible overview of cultural memory studies, a field substantially shaped by Ann Rigney. In more than 60 chapters, leading and emerging scholars present key concepts for the study of cultural memory. ...
Palimpsests and Related Phenomena across Languages and Cultures
(2024)
Palimpsests are manuscripts whose original content has been erased, scraped away, washed off and later overwritten. In their lower layers, they often contain unique versions of texts – including those otherwise lost – from ...
SMOTIES TOOLBOX
(2024)
Human Cities/SMOTIES – Creative works with small and remote places is a four-year project, started in 2020, and co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union. The SMOTIES Toolbox aims to guide project ...
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 ...
Anthony Munday: The First Book of Primaleon of Greece
(2024)
The last decades of the Elizabethan age saw Anthony Munday devote himself to the intermittent translation of Iberian romances. Among these, The first book of Primaleon of Greece (1595) results from Munday’s translation of ...
Freiheit der Kunst
(2024)
What are the limits of freedom? What is the meaning of phrases like "aesthetic autonomy" and "aesthetics of autonomy," which are currently omnipresent in art, scholarship, and the media? Taking the praxeological approach ...
Displacing and Displaying the Objects of Others
(2024)
By contextualizing the conducted research within a broader field of global history and new colonial history including postcolonial approaches, "Objects of Others" extends provenance research to not only examine the origin ...
Brief und Macht
(2024)
This volume examines collections of pseudonymous letters, that is, fictitious letters that were written under the names of famous historical personalities. It therefore navigates the intersection between studies of ancient ...
Der einsame Weg
(2024)
The Lonely Way is the fifteenth volume in the historical-critical edition of Arthur Schnitzler’s early works, edited by Konstanze Fliedl. This edition explains the complex genesis and printing history of the "Play in 5 ...
Modernism in Africa
(2024)
Many African countries are home to extraordinary architecture that is virtually unknown. There are interpretations of Art Deco, International Style, Brutalism as well as of African vernacular architecture. Climate-responsive ...
Ostfuturistisches Erinnern
(2024)
How do contemporary artists remember the post-socialist transformation period? What sources, media and strategies do they draw upon? Ulrike Gerhardt summarizes artistic memory of the Cold War’s conclusion using the newly ...
Lehre – Sammlung – Objekt
(2024)
This interdisciplinary study focuses on the eventful collection history of the Chamber of Mathematics and Physics of the former Jesuit College in Cologne from the 17th century to the present day. The collection for teaching ...
Lumières nouvelles sur le sacré
(2024)
After the rediscovery of the art of stained glass in the 19th century, artists reinvested in the glass arts and infused them with modernity, breaking with historicism. This was true of artists belonging to the Groupe de ...
Muslim Mobilities
(2024)
A spatial analysis of Tajik migrants’ engagement in projects of reform Islamic life in Dubai, the book maps Gulf migration onto larger geographies of Muslim mobility, piety and belonging across places in Eurasia, the Gulf, ...