Publications
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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 ...
Jugendbewegung, Antisemitismus und rechtsradikale Politik
(2014)
The year 2013 marks the centennial of the first "Free-German Youth Day" that took place on the Meissner massif. Anti-Semitic outbursts erupted at the margins of this historical gathering. In its wake, a right-wing populist ...
Complexities of Spiritual Care in Plural Societies
(2022)
This volume contributes to an emerging field that could be referred to as "plural spiritual care and chaplaincy". It's innovative approach brings together contributions from a broad range of contexts and religious traditions ...
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 ...
Bronze Age Lives
(2021)
This book provides a personal view of the European Bronze Age by one of its long-standing scholars. It takes the period as a series of “lives”: of people, objects, places and societies, as well as of the Bronze Age itself, ...
Der Heeresdienst von Christen in der römischen Kaiserzeit
(2021)
This study examines the attitude of three important pre-Constantinian Church authors on the issue of military service by Christians. During their era, there were growing numbers of Christians in the army, and discussions ...
Confronting Antisemitism from Perspectives of Philosophy and Social Sciences
(2021)
The five volumes provide a compendium of the history of and discourse about antisemitism - both as a unique cultural and religious category. Antisemitic stereotypes function as religious symbols that express and transmit ...
The Epistolary Renaissance
(2018)
Since the late twentieth century, letters in literature have seen a remarkable renaissance. The prominence of letters in recent fiction is due in part to the rediscovery, by contemporary writers, of letters as an effective ...
The Oracle Bone Inscriptions from Huayuanzhuang East
(2020)
The Huayuanzhuang East oracle bone inscriptions form a corpus of more than 2500 individual divination accounts, which were engraved on turtle shells and bovine scapulae in the late Shang dynasty (c. 1200 B.C.). The book ...
Case Studies of Linguistic Representations of Motion
(2025)
How languages describe spatial motion events has been a hotly discussed topic in recent years in cognitive linguistics and linguistic typology. Based on a large-scale experimental study of motion event descriptions in ...