Publications
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Weltwirtschaftsstatistik
(2023)
By looking at the development of international economic statistics, this book examines globalization processes and the dynamics that drive them. It questions widespread periodizations by showing that, from the First World ...
Körper und christliche Lebensweise
(2012)
The authorexamines the historical context of instructions for the everyday conduct of prosperous Christians and the authors of these instruction manuals from 200 AD and links this examination with a study of attitudes ...
Giovanni Boccaccio: Die verliebte Fiammetta
(2023)
Around 1600, two independent translations were made of Boccaccio’s Elegia di madonna Fiammetta (ca. 1343/44) in the Upper German speech area. This historical critical edition presents the older of the two translations by ...
Health and Development
(2023)
Health and development require one another: there can be no development without a critical mass of people who are sufficiently healthy, and people cannot be healthy without societal developments. 11 case studies from 9 ...
Johann Christoph Gottscheds Briefwechsel - Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2009)
This third volume of the letter edition documents the correspondence of the years 1734 and 1735. With his appointment as professor of logic and metaphysics and his marriage to Luise Adelgunde Victorie Kulmus, Gottsched was ...
Molière et le théâtre arabe
(2016-01-15)
Molière, often considered the ‘godfather of Arab theatre’, was first introduced to the Arab world in 1847 by Marun Naqqaš and his adaptation of The Miser. Since then, Molière has never ceased to influence Arab dramaturgy. ...
Communism's Jewish Question
(2017)
In the last two decades a large amount of previously secret documents on Jewish issues emerged from the newly opened Communist archives. The selection of these papers published in the volume and stemming mostly from Hungarian ...
Wavelet Analysis on the Sphere
(2017)
The goal of this monograph is to develop the theory of wavelet harmonic analysis on the sphere. By starting with orthogonal polynomials and functional Hilbert spaces on the sphere, the foundations are laid for the study ...
Ancient Jewish Prayers and Emotions
(2015-11-13)
Given the recent interest in the emotions presupposed in early religious literature, it has been thought useful to examine in this volume how the Jews and early Christians expressed their feelings within the prayers recorded ...
Public History and School
(2018)
How do schools and public history influence each other? Cases studies focusing on school and public history around the world shed light on the intricate relationships between schools, students, teachers, policy makers and ...
The Poetry of Hanshan (Cold Mountain), Shide, and Fenggan
(2016)
Due to their popularity with the American counterculture, the poems attributed to Hanshan, Shide and Fenggan have been translated several times in recent decades. However, previous translations have either been broadly ...
Religious Experience and Its Transformational Power
(2023)
The author approaches the phenomenon of 'religious experience' through a qualitative study in which young, urban people from Europe and the USA are empirically examined. It becomes clear that individuals themselves are ...
Philosophy of Globalization
(2018-03-01)
The aim of the publication is both to provide the debates on globalization with a genuine philosophical perspective by working out its normative dimensions, and to scientifically ground the ethical-philosophical discourse ...
Figures of Radical Absence
(2023)
What is there to see in invisible artworks, empty books or blank screens? How do formal absences generate meaning? Constructing an argument by way of montage, the book is an annotated inventory of textual, visual, and ...
As You Law It - Negotiating Shakespeare (Volume 15)
(2018)
Shakespeare was fascinated by law, which permeated Elizabethan everyday life. The general impression one derives from the analysis of many plays by Shakespeare is that of a legal situation in transformation and of a ...
De la pluma a las letras de molde
(2023)
Ecdotics, or the study of text editions, is an essential part of Hispanic humanism. In a pluridisciplinary approach, the volume gathers contributions by scholars from Italy, Spain and Colombia about the vicissitudes of ...
Die Produktion besonderer Arbeitskräfte
(2024)
The "servant question" in the late nineteenth century led to the proliferation of debates and conflicts regarding domestic work. Were household servants to be viewed as workers or as members of the household? How should ...
Rêves de la littérature de divertissement en Chine impériale tardive
(2023)
The book offers a cultural, historical and literary study of dream narration in Chinese literature (particularly in the literary genres of xiaoshuo 小說, "petty talk" and biji 筆記, "notebook"). It considers texts from Late ...
German and Dutch in Contrast
(2020)
Designed as a contribution to contrastive linguistics, the present volume brings up-to-date the comparison of German with its closest neighbour, Dutch, and other Germanic relatives like English, Afrikaans, and the Scandinavian ...
Possession and Dispossession
(2022)
When different types of knowledge and practice meet, they enrich each other. This book reflects on this meeting of divergent processes in Jerusalem. The contributions attempt to challenge the apparent division between ...
Performing Interpersonal Violence
(2012)
This book offers the first attempt at understanding interpersonal violence in ancient Athens. While the archaic desire for revenge persisted into the classical period, it was channeled by the civil discourse of the democracy. ...
Impedance Spectroscopy
(2019-01-10)
This book covers new advances in the field of impedance spectroscopy including fundamentals, methods and applications. It releases selected extended and peer reviewed scientific contributions from the International Workshop ...
Die Restitution des Ullstein-Verlags (1945–52)
(2020)
European-Jewish Studies reflect the interdisciplinary network and competence of the new “Centre for Jewish Studies Berlin and Brandenburg”. The Centre gathers together the most important institutions working on Jewish ...
Photographing Central Asia
(2022)
The volume demonstrates that photography was the cornerstone of imperial media governance and discourse construction in colonial Turkestan of the tsarist and early Soviet periods. The aim of this volume is to interpret ...
Valency over Time
(2021)
The papers collected in this book are devoted to verbal valency, and share a diachronic perspective, by either discussing changes in the behavior of verbs or discussing verbal valency at different historical stages of ...
Nach der Kulturgeschichte
(2021)
The predicted end of the era of cultural studies in the humanities and social sciences opens the possibility for serious methodological debate. The volume collects essays by medievalists and modern linguists that explore ...
Wildes Übersetzen
(2023)
This book develops a theory of wild translation. It describes literary strategies that not only serve to translate content but also produce new poetic texts out of foreign linguistic material. Analyses of Johann Fischart’s ...
From Erasmus to Maius
(2024)
An-Ting Yi writes an extensive scholarly history of the famous Codex Vaticanus over the course of 350 years. Currently regarded as one of the most essential pillars to reconstruct the Greek New Testament text, the perceptions ...
Völkisches Denken 1848 bis 1948
(2023)
The emergence of parliamentary democracy and the political public sphere in Germany in the nineteenth century created the conditions for the development of collective ideological vocabulary. From the Frankfurt Parliament ...
Massenwahntheorie und Friedenspoetik
(2023)
The radical rupture in civilization, the future and defense of democracy, the fight against totalitarianism and mass hysteria, the commitment to human rights, and the utopian potential of literature – these were the topics ...
Tracing the Jerusalem Code
(2021)
With the aim to write the history of Christianity in Scandinavia with Jerusalem as a lens, this book investigates the image – or rather the imagination – of Jerusalem in the religious, political, and artistic cultures of ...
Mord(s)bilder - Aufzählungen von Gewalt bei Seneca und Lucan
(2019)
Often noticed, frequently criticized, the descriptions of physical violence in Seneca’s philosophical work De ira and Lucan’s civil war epic De bello civili irritate until today. Only looking at the theory of rhetoric, the ...
Making Religion and Human Rights at the United Nations
(2018)
The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems– both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and ...
Die Basilika in Byzanz
(2013)
In Byzantium, the central structure is considered archetypical. This study shows that this assumption is only partly true. It presents the basilicas of the 7th to 15th centuries, addressing questions of typology, appointments, ...
Variants of Rhetorical Ventriloquism
(2018)
This book-length study is concerned with the various - vicarious and delegative - devices pertaining to rhetorical ventriloquism (sermocinatio, ethopoeia, prosopopoeia, etc.) - including their technical, conceptual, and ...
The Forgotten Massacre
(2021)
The book discusses the history of a previously invisible massacre in Budapest in 1944 committed by a paramilitary group lead by a women. Based on court trials, interviews with survivors, perpetrators and investigators the ...
Postfaktisches Erzählen?
(2021)
It is often claimed in contemporary public debate that we live in a “post-factual age.” This interdisciplinary volume employs the theories and methods of narrative research to investigate the relationship between the ...
Multidimensional Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems for Differential Equations
(2015-10-29)
This monograph is devoted to statements of multidimensional inverse problems, in particular to methods of their investigation. Questions of the uniqueness of solution, solvability and stability are studied. Methods to ...
Johann Christoph Gottscheds Briefwechsel - Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2015)
This second volume of the letter edition shows that Gottsched already occupied an influential position in the academic and cultural life of Leipzig in the early 1730s. This is documented by his university career and his ...
Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition
(2022)
This volume explores and calls into question certain commonly held assumptions about the nature of writing and technological advancement in the Islamic tradition. In particular, it challenges the idea that mechanical print ...