Publications
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Paideia: The World of the Second Sophistic
(2008)
In the World of the Second Sophistic, the Roman Empire's Greek elite turned education, paideia, and knowledge of the Classical age into a vital factor in their struggle for political power. This book presents, for the first ...
Okkultismus im Gehäuse
(2016)
Where was the locus of parapsychology – the academic involvement with the occult – during the 20th century? In this first attempt at an international comparison, the authors examine various institutional venues, including ...
Tsars, Soviets, Putin
(2025)
Wojciech Materski’s book gives a synopsis of the politics of memory practized by Russia from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. He shows how, irrespectively of the period in its history, Russia’s politics of memory ...
Opfernarrative in transnationalen Kontexten
(2020)
This edited volume examines the representation of victims beyond the categories of the “victim cult,” self-victimization, and the victim–perpetrator dichotomy. Adopting a transnational perspective, it mainly considers ...
Rassismus
(2022)
Racism is once again an issue in Germany. Few studies have addressed the changing manifestations of racism in West Germany and in post-1990 Germany. The essays in this collection trace an arc of continuity from post-1945 ...
Rulership in 1st to 14th century Scandinavia
(2020)
This book discusses the 3rd–11th century developments that led to the formation of the three Scandinavian kingdoms in the Viking Age. Wide-ranging studies of communication routes, regional identities, judicial territories, ...
Chapter Terezín und Jasenovac – Umkämpfte Gedenkstätten vor und nach 1989
(2020)
This volume examines memory narratives in literature, television, film, photography, and museum exhibitions that, firstly, take a transmedial approach and, secondly, narrate and de/construct the past or pasts in Central ...
Genre in the Climate Debate
(2021)
The volume offers an intriguing and enlightening new approach to the climate debate by taking it as a question of genre. Genres play a vita role in human interaction, as we use them to learn, express ourselves, and to act. ...
Andere Ästhetik
(2022)
The CRC research project Different Aesthetics aims to change perspectives in aesthetic discussions by directing attention to the 2000-year history of European art and culture before the 18th century.
Wanderungen eines Ortes
(2023)
Places and spaces are often considered to be static and immobile when compared with the dynamism of time. This volume challenges that notion, positing a theory of the mobility of places by tracing the changing localizations ...