Publications
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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 ...
Reading History in the Roman Empire
(2022)
Spanning the time from the 1st century BCE to the 400s CE, this volume highlights the multifaceted interactions between Greco-Roman historiographical texts and their readers. Its contributions focus on the testimonies ...
Das Herz in den Bildmedien religiöser Frauengemeinschaften
(2024)
The heart had a key position in the visual media of religious women’s communities in the early modern era. Maria Schaller analyzes portraits and image-bearing jewelry created in Catholic nunneries and Protestant women’s ...
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 ...
In Diensten des Afrikanischen Sozialismus
(2021)
Tanzania’s efforts to construct an independent “African socialism” were part of a global discussion about the royal road to development, the ambiguous role of capitaist “developmental assistance,” and the nature of ...
Zeichentragende Artefakte im sakralen Raum
(2018)
Sign-bearing artifacts are immanent elements of sacred spaces in many cultures. Often, one encounters a phenomenon there that might be described as deliberate “invisibility,” the conscious “concealment” of artefacts and ...
Prototypen – Schemata – Konstruktionen
(2021)
Prototype, schema and construction are three central concepts that can be used to model mental representations of grammatical structures and relations within the frame of functional-cognitive grammar theories. This volume ...
Der Zauberstab der Analogie
(2023)
The publication aims to view analogy relations as heuristic magic sticks or semiotic universals through which the unknown can be heuristically opened up with the help of the known. This means that analogies simultaneously ...
Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity
(2016)
It is estimated that only a small fraction, less than 1 per cent, of ancient literature has survived to the present day. The role of Christian authorities in the active suppression and destruction of books in Late Antiquity ...
Gamification for Innovators and Entrepreneurs
(2022)
This book provides a research-based overview of the use of games to facilitate learning in innovation/entrepreneurship and draws on work in several European institutions and well-known companies. Also, it provides a review ...
Mobility Design
(2022)
Climate change and the scarcity of resources, but also the steadily increasing traffic make it indispensable to develop new solutions for environmentally friendly and people-friendly mobility. The smooth and safe transition ...
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 ...
But There Was Love
(2025)
But There Was Love—Shaping the Memory of the Shoah proposes a new paradigm for Shoah remembrance in today’s cultural and political reality. It derives from the four-year workings of a group of researchers and artists in ...
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 ...
Laien, Wissen, Sprache
(2021)
Research from various corners has already shone light on the issue of what speakers know about their own language and their attitudes towards it. However, a joint theoretical and empirical basis is still missing. This ...
Offshoring of white-collar services
(2020)
This is one of few books in the market dealing with offshoring of professional services, the dynamic phenomenon of high relevance in the global economy. The unique feature of the book is merging economic and business ...
Petrified
(2025)
A rupture of life on Earth is unfolding. What, then, does this rupture signify, not only in terms of being alive during such an upheaval, but also in terms of being alive to upheaval itself? Lyrical, playful, and deadly ...
Grundrechte
(2022)
This textbook examines the fundamental rights granted by the German constitution in an innovative way. A team from all over Germany has combined basic knowledge for students with more in-depth knowledge for state examination ...
Gallipoli 1915/16
(2020)
The Battle of Gallipoli was the Britain’s most bitter defeat of the First World War. This volume seeks to place the Dardanelles campaign in proper perspective. It situates Gallipoli in the larger context of the First World ...
Carbon-Based Smart Materials
(2020)
Presents technologies and key concepts to produce suitable smart materials and intelligent structures for sensing, information and communication technology, biomedical applications (drug delivery, hyperthermia therapy), ...