Publications
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Empirische Erforschung internetbasierter Kommunikation
(2017)
Empirical approaches based on qualitative or quantitative methods of corpus linguistics have become a central paradigm within linguistics. The series takes account of this fact and provides a platform for approaches within ...
Justinian und die Armee des frühen Byzanz
(2018)
Although the long reign of Emperor Justinian I (527–565 CE) and the military history of late antiquity have been frequent subjects of ancient historical research, the emperor’s military policy has not been closely studied ...
A Bridgehead to Africa
(2021)
This monograph analyses the role of the province of Tripoli, Libya, in the context of German foreign politics with a focus on the period between 1884 and 1918. Suaad Alghafal examines the German military, political and ...
Perfekt unperfekt
(2021)
The book offers insight into the classical rhetorical strategies of elaboration for researchers interested in rhetoric as well as for designers and artists. The process of elaboration is governed by the tension between the ...
IT für soziale Inklusion
(2018)
Social Inclusion is a topic of growing importance in all walks of life. Their enforcement is often not possible without information technology. The book describes the state of research. However, the focus is on tools and ...
Spatial Formats under the Global Condition
(2019)
Contributions to this volume summarize and discuss the theoretical foundations of the Collaborative Research Centre at Leipzig University which address the relationship between processes of (re-)spatialization on the one ...
Subaltern Sovereigns
(2023)
Through an ethnographic and comparative study of rituals in a "tribal" region of Odisha, this book, in its core, deals with indigenous conceptualizations of sovereignty. The local proverb that connects the ritual of the ...
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 ...
Die Macht der Wirkungsannahmen
(2015)
The collaboration between the military and the media that we know today was developed in the first half of the 20th century. This study shows that military leaders were primarily interested in the media because they hoped ...
Demystifying Artificial Intelligence
(2024)
The book provides an overview of the different AI technologies, demystifying terms such as search, reasoning, learning, adapting, understanding, and interacting. It covers the two dominant paradigms in AI, both the ...
Truth in Serial Form
(2023)
This volume examines the veritable explosion of serialized formats in all of forms representation, from painting to printing throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, and the way in which these formats ...
›satura‹ – Monströses Schreiben in Antike und Aufklärung
(2023)
Under the name satura, this volume examines a "monstrous" text tradition characterized by mixed forms and intertextual hypertrophy. In studies on authors like Lucilius, Varro, Horace, Petronius, Hamann, and Jean Paul, Sina ...
Spectral Flow
(2023)
This is the first treatment entirely dedicated to an analytic study of spectral flow for paths of selfadjoint Fredholm operators, possibly unbounded or understood in a semi finite sense. The importance of spectral flow for ...
Lernwelt Schule
(2024)
School development is increasingly being viewed as a holistic concept in which pedagogical concepts, learning spaces, methods, and the use of digital technologies come together and complement each other. This volume places ...
Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic
(2012)
The "Events after Homer", described by Quintus Smyrnaeus in the third century AD in his Greek epic Posthomerica, are an attempt to bridge the gap between the Iliad and the Odyssey , and to combine the various scattered ...
Antonius Diogenes, Die unglaublichen Dinge jenseits von Thule
(2020)
The Wonders Beyond Thule by Antonius Diogenes uniquely combines a range of themes, including aspects of a love story, fantastic journeys, and Pythagorean philosophy. The author reassembles this work, which has only been ...
Regions in International Trade
(2021)
The book provides a comprehensive approach to the assessment of the nature of exporting activity, combining well-established theoretical reasoning with empirical evidence, and also signalling important economic policy ...
Working At Night
(2022)
The night has always and almost universally represented a special ‘out of the ordinary’ temporal zone with its own meanings, possibilities, and dangers. It is only since the modern era that the night has become increasingly ...
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), ...
Paper Stories – Paper and Book History in Early Modern Europe
(2023)
This book examines paper and material aspects of the written word in early modern Europe. The contributors investigate the origins of paper production as well as manufacture, use, ownership, trade and preservation of books. ...
Namenwechsel
(2020)
This interdisciplinary study examines how transgender individuals change their names in the course of their gender transition. It reveals the enormous social significance of first names in interpersonal communication and ...
Gender and Protest
(2023)
For centuries women had to protest to gain equality. Their demands were often matched by counter-protest from conservative forces within historical societies.The present volume will take a closer look at the interrelationship ...
Das Hirsch-Institut für Tropenmedizin
(2019)
Das Hirsch-Institut für Tropenmedizin (HITM) wurde 2013 als Außenstelle der Klinik für Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie und Infektiologie der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf unter Leitung von Professor Dieter Häussinger ...
Aufklärung zwischen zwei Welten
(2021)
Pierre Chaunu sprach 1971 noch vorsichtig von der Herausbildung von „l’Europe des Lumières“. Ein halbes Jahrhundert später ist längst zu fragen: Aufklärung nur in Europa? Die transareal angelegte Vorlesung will versuchen, ...
Die DDR-Literatur und die Wissenschaften
(2022)
What is the relationship between literature and the sciences? What scientific insights has it adopted and which knowledge has it produced in the process? These are the kinds of research questions that this volume is the ...
Contesting Nordicness
(2021)
What makes the Nordic countries Nordic? The terms ‘Nordic’ and ‘Scandinavian’ are increasingly used in wide range of political and cultural contexts. Historically they have been associated with political projects and ...
Enhancing Boardroom Diversity in Saudi Arabia
(2023)
This book reviews Saudi boardroom diversity of listed companies with regard to age, gender, nationality, experience and educational profile data of board members. It summarizes Saudi corporate governance legislation from ...
Re-mapping World Literature
(2018)
The concept at issue in this book is Weltliteratur, or World Literature. Theoretical
frameworks usually view the now-famous epistolary exchange between Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe and the young Johann Peter Eckermann as ...
Diabolische Vigilanz
(2022)
While God looks directly into people’s souls as inspector cordium, the relationship of observation between man and the devil appears as an immanent and indirect, lateral and potentially reciprocal one. The contributions ...
Ravenna and the Traditions of Late Antique and Early Byzantine Craftsmanship
(2020)
Ravenna is the place which preserves the highest number of historical evidence among all centres featuring the late Roman Mediterranean. Its cultural heritage is vast and composite, ranging from papyri to inscriptions, ...
Fabellae
(2018)
Lying between the grammarians` and rhetors` domains, Aesop`s fables were known and employed in the Western and Eastern educational environments mainly for their intrinsically moral essence. Once having explored the literary ...
SignGram Blueprint
(2017)
We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union. Current grammatical knowledge about particular ...
Moses Dobruska and the Invention of Social Philosophy
(2022)
Moses Dobruska, born as a Jew in Brno, Moravia in 1753, died on the guillotine in Paris in 1794. His life was adventurous, but the biography is not enough to understand the creative force of this atypical intellectual. ...
Gleichheit, Vielfalt, technischer Wandel
(2019)
This volume includes lectures and discussion from the Conference of the Association of German Professors of Constitutional Law in Bonn, 3–6 October 2018.
Fragile Spaces
(2018)
This book consists of a range of essays covering the complex crises, tensions and dilemmas but also the positive potential in the meeting of Jews with Western culture. In numerous contexts and through the work of fascinating ...
Zukunftsgestaltung durch Öffentliches Recht
(2014)
This volume contains presentations and discussions from the meeting of the Association of German Constitutional Law Professors in Greifswald from 2 to 5 October 2013.
Chapter Establishing Local Elite Authority in Egypt Through Arbitration and Mediation
(2020)
To integrate the regions of the early Islamic Empire from Central Asia to North Africa, transregional and regional elites of various backgrounds were essential. The papers analyze elite groups, their structures and networks, ...
Paracelsus
(2021)
At the center of Schnitzler's one-act verse drama Paracelsus, written between 1894 and 1898 and set in sixteenth-century Basel, is a hypnosis experiment that blurs the boundaries between dream and reality. This historical ...
Der digitale Pranger
(2018)
As a source of information for consumers to assess the quality of goods and services, rating portals basically make a useful contribution to consumer protection. However, the portals become a problem when critics express ...
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 ...
Holiness and Power
(2016)
The book examines models of relationships between Constantinopolitan holy man and secular and ecclesiastical authorities in the capital of Byzantium. The study explores the ideal underlying the lives of the four ...
Materialität, Inschriftlichkeit und schrifttragende Artefakte im mittelalterlichen Rom
(2023)
Like ancient Rome, the medieval metropolis on the Tiber is also a landscape of transmission due to the diversity of its epigraphic legacy. This legacy had a lasting impact on the municipal area of the urbs and provides ...
Ambraser Heldenbuch
(2021)
The “Ambras Book of Heroes,” commissioned by Maximilian I, is one of the most important sources of medieval German literature. In this eleven-volume complete edition, all 25 texts from the codex appear in print for the ...
Sprachliche Muster
(2018)
Die Studie arbeitet den musterhaften Sprachgebrauch in wissenschaftlichen Texten heraus und beschreibt auf der Basis einer datengeleiteten Korpusanalyse den Wissenschaftsstil auf formaler und pragmatischer Ebene. Mit der ...
Zeitgenössische jüdische Autobiographie
(2011-05-01)
The proceedings of the conference of the same name assemble papers concentrating largely on Franco-Jewish autobiography in the last few decades. Relevant literature in English and German is also discussed. In addition, ...
Meyer-Struckmann-Preis 2013: Sir Ian Kershaw
(2014)
Der Meyer-Struckmann-Preis für geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung, ausgeschrieben für Deutsche Geschichte im 20. Jahrhundert, ging im Jahr 2013 an den renommierten britischen Historiker Sir Ian Kershaw. Die ...
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 ...
The expression of “collectivity” in Romance languages
(2022)
The empirical and comparative study examines various facets of the linguistic expression of collectivity in Romance languages. Against the background of an onomasiological conception of nominal aspectuality, collection ...
El queísmo en la historia
(2022)
The book offers a panchronic analysis of queísmo, one of the oldest variational phenomena in Spanish syntax, from the Classical era to this day. Within the framework of historical sociolinguistics and on the empirical basis ...
Jüdinnen - Literarische Weiblichkeitsentwürfe im 20. Jahrhundert
(2022)
In the nineteenth and, in particular, twentieth centuries, literature became a place to negotiate ideas of Jewish femininity, an experimental space in which contemporary discourses were carried out and tried out on and ...
gewohnt: un/common
(2021)
Neue Konzepte für unser Zusammenleben sind dringend erforderlich, um auf die wachsende gesellschaftliche Ungleichheit, die Auflösung klassischer Arbeits- und Familienstrukturen oder die Ausprägung vielfältiger sozialer ...
Data Disclosure
(2023)
This volume presents the proceedings of the bidt "Vectors of Data Disclosure" conference held in Munich 2022. The contributions give interdisciplinary and comparative insights into various factors of data disclosure decisions ...
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 ...
Coping with Urban Climates
(2022)
While 20th century architecture learned to control the climate of a building, the architecture of the 21st century needs to learn to cope with the climate of cities. Problems such as urban heat and air pollution need to ...
Aging between Participation and Simulation
(2020)
This publication aims to initiate an interdisciplinary discourse on the ethical, legal, and social implications of socially assistive technologies in healthcare. It combines practically relevant insights and examples from ...
Disruption in the Arts
(2018)
The volume examines aesthetic disruptions within the various arts in contemporary culture. It assumes that the political potential of art is not solely derived from presenting its audiences with openly political content. ...
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 ...
Innovationsräume
(2019)
This volume examines the relationships between innovation and space, illustrating a range of phenomena subsumed in the concept of innovation spaces. It presents new conceptualizations of innovation as a dynamic, territorially ...
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 ...
When Tibetan Meditation Goes Global
(2022)
This pioneering ethnographic work on Western practitioners of Bon, or bonpos, presents the first in-depth study of the transition of the Yungdrung Bon religion, Tibet’s so-called "indigenous religion," to the West in the ...