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Claiming and Making Muslim Worlds
(2021)
This volume explores what ‘Islam’ is taken to mean in different social, economic and cultural contexts. It considers how people engage and employ varying traditions, institutions, and media in shaping their sense of self ...
Architektur und Klimawandel
(2024)
Architektur und Bauwesen stehen an einem Wendepunkt. Mehr als 40% der CO2-Emissionen weltweit gehen auf ihr Konto. Der globale Temperaturanstieg lässt sich nur reduzieren, wenn sich das Bauen radikal ändert. Wie aber sollen ...
Wesensattribute Gottes in der Theologie Sayf ad-Dīn al-Āmidīs
(2025)
This volume investigates the doctrine of the seven divine attributes in the Ashʿarite theological school and assigns them to three new main categories: (1) omnipotence, will, and knowledge (2) life and seeing (3) hearing ...
Das Christentum im frühen Europa
(2019)
During the transition from late antiquity to the early Middle Ages, the geographical space of Europe was Christian and Christianity was “European.” The essays present the major theological discourses and decisions of that ...
We, the City
(2022)
Given their unchecked neoliberal restructuring, Berlin and Istanbul have been exposed to various forms of political polarisation and social injustice over the last decade. As a result, the struggle for affordable housing, ...
Humanities and Big Data in Ibero-America
(2024)
This volume presents the first comprehensive study on the relationship between the Human Sciences and Big Data, with special emphasis on the Ibero-American space. The volume is divided into three parts (theoretical, ...
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, ...
Architecture and Welfare
(2025)
In the decades following World War II, ambitious building programs were launched across Europe to secure social prosperity. Scandinavia, in particular, underwent an intensive phase of modernization aimed at distributing ...
Youth and Memory in Europe
(2022)
What kind of historical narratives are young people exposed to and what do they make of them? This volume brings together humanities and social sciences scholars in a study of youth and memory in different European regions. ...
Tied and Bound: A Comparative View on Manuscript Binding
(2023)
Every book form – from China to West Africa, from Europe to Mesopotamia – requires a way to secure cohesion of its constituent elements and keep them together. Whereas codex binding, as it still appears in modern printed ...
The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri at Ninety
(2023)
This book engages the Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri, one of the most important collections of early manuscripts of Jewish scripture and the New Testament, by placing them within larger conversations relating to ancient ...
Une doxographie sunnite du IVe/Xe siècle
(2021)
This book contains an edition and annotated translation of the only remaining doxographical fragments written by al-Qalānisī, a Sunni theologian contemporary of al-Aš'arī. The study preceding the edition gives an overview ...
Antisemitism in the North
(2020)
Is research on antisemitism even necessary in countries with a relatively small Jewish population? Absolutely, as this volume shows. Compared to other countries, research on antisemitism in the Nordic countries (Denmark, ...
Historische Mehrsprachigkeit
(2023)
Die Erscheinungsformen und linguistischen Effekte von Mehrsprachigkeit sind nicht nur regional oft äußerst unterschiedlich, sondern auch historisch divers und veränderlich. Die Beiträge dieses Sammelbandes haben ...
Inzestverbot und Gesetzgebung
(2008)
From the 6th to 11th centuries, the prohibition of marriage between relatives (incest) often headed the agenda of legislative assemblies and can be seen as a key topic of this age. The reasons for this unique development ...
Von der Gebärdensprache zur Schrift
(2024)
Für gehörlose Lernende stellt das Schreiben eine doppelte Herausforderung dar: Gebärdensprachen verfügen über keine Gebrauchsschrift, weshalb gehörlose Schreiber/-innen die Schrift der umgebenden Lautsprache verwenden. ...
Exhibiting the Past
(2022)
With respect to public issues, history matters. With the worldwide interest for historical issues related with gender, religion, race, nation, and identity, public history is becoming the strongest branch of academic ...
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 ...
The Time of Turāth
(2024)
This study argues for a new view of contemporary Arab thought by analyzing the idea of time that underlies key discussions over Arab heritage (turāth). Focusing on three authors, it shows how their work was shaped by a ...
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, ...
Theorie und Systematik materialer Textkulturen
(2023)
The final volume in the series synthesizes the research conducted by the Heidelberg Collaborative Research Center 933. Systematized into six topic areas (reflecting on writing, layout and text/image, memory and the archive, ...
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 ...
Monastische Kultur als transkonfessionelles Phänomen
(2016)
A comparison between Western European Catholic monasteries and Russian Orthodox monasteries during the late Middle Ages and Early Modern period reveals their common roots in the Western and Eastern monastic traditions as ...
Abū Manṣūr al-Tha᾽ālibī
(2021)
Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl al-Thaʿālibī was a poet, critic, lexicographer, historian of literature, prolific scholar, and one of the most important literary figures in the tenth-eleventh centuries. This work of his entitled Khāṣṣ ...
The Students and Their Books
(2025)
In the practices of teaching and learning in the academy of the early modern age, epochal factors intervene, such as the rupture of the religious-ideological unity of the West, the spread of the printing press, the rise ...
Barbarische Bürger
(2012)
The Isaurians, a mountain people from Asia Minor, challenged Roman rule for over 600 years. Though one Isaurian did make it onto the Eastern imperial throne,they were never successfully integrated. Karl Feld'sstudy brings ...
Literatura latinoamericana mundial
(2020)
From the perspective of Latin American Studies, this volume offers a critical contribution to the current debate on world literature. It is structured around three conceptual blocks: gatekeepers, as the dispositives and ...
The Civilising Offensive
(2018)
Around 1850 Belgium was continental Europe`s most heavily industrialised state. From the mid-century until the Belle Époque many international social reform associations were based in Belgium. This book will stimulate the ...
Lexicography of Coronavirus-related Neologisms
(2022)
This volume brings together contributions by international experts reflecting on Covid19-related neologisms and their lexicographic processing and representation. The papers analyze new words, new meanings of existing ...
Model Order Reduction
(2020)
An increasing complexity of models used to predict real-world systems leads to the need for algorithms to replace complex models with far simpler ones, while preserving the accuracy of the predictions. This three-volume ...
Modalpartikeln als multimodale Konstruktionen
(2018)
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 ...
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 ...
Empire of Liberty
(2020)
M. Michaela Hampf analyzes American history from the end of the Civil War to the epochal year 1898. She argues that the rise of the United States to become an imperial power had already begun in the years following 1865. ...
Beyond Inhumanity
(2025)
Beyond Inhumanity explores harms caused by acts of brutality, such as historical wounds of transatlantic slavery, colonialism, and contemporary racism, as well as other forms of structural injustice. It gathers voices and ...
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 ...
Formen und Funktionen auktorialer Epitexte im literarischen Feld der Gegenwart
(2024)
How have the forms and functions of authorial epitexts expanded and developed in the German-speaking world since the turn of the millennium in a professionalised literary field with changed media conditions and possibilities ...
Goethe’s Faust and the Divan of Ḥāfiẓ Body and Soul in Pursuit of Knowledge and Beauty
(2019)
This book explores the poetic articulations of a shift from a transcendent to an immanent worldview, as reflected in the manner of evaluation of body and soul in Goethe’s Faust and Ḥāfiẓ’ Divan. Focusing on two lifeworks ...
Herakleios, der schwitzende Kaiser
(2021)
Focusing on the rule of Heraclius (610–643), this study examines the development of the Byzantine monarchy at the threshold between antiquity and the Middle Ages. It shows how the reigning Emperor responded to the domestic ...
Konzepte des Jüdischen: Ausstellen, Aufklären, Erinnern
(2022)
Museums have an important task when it comes to the subject of Judaism. Prejudices, stereotypical thinking, and sheer ignorance are widespread. What is the best way to present Jewish diversity today? The author examines ...
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 ...
Viral Lobbying
(2022)
Pandemic policies have been the focus of fierce lobbying competition by different social and economic interests. The contributions in this book analyse patterns in and implications of this ‘viral lobbying’. Based on surveys ...
Ontologische Narratologie
(2022)
This book writes theory. It looks at the example of the texts written by Wilhelm Raabe between 1856 and 1902 to develop the outlines of an ontological narratology that claims a systematic validity going beyond its historical ...
Standardization in the Middle Ages
(2024)
We live in a world riven through with standards. To understand more of their deep, rich past is to understand ourselves better.These two volumes turn to the Middle Ages to give a deeper understanding of the medieval ideas ...
Religious Otherness and National Identity in Scandinavia, c. 1790–1960
(2020)
The book addresses how certain religious groups were labeled as foreign and constructed as political, moral and national threats in Scandinavia between c. 1790 and 1960. Key questions are who articulated such opinions, how ...
Exodus
(2016-04-25)
The story of Exodus from Egypt is a key founding myth that informs Israel`s collective identity and pervades all of Old Testament literature. In the Hellenistic period, the Exodus story enjoyed a renaissance, and it continues ...
The Concept of Moral Progress
(2022)
What is moral progress? Are we striving for moral progress when we seek to "make the world a better place"? What connects the different ways in which moral agents, their actions, and the world can become morally better? ...
An Imaginary Trio
(2020)
This book focuses on places and instances where Solomon’s legendary biography intersects with those of Jesus Christ and of Aristotle. Solomon is the axis around which this trio revolves, the thread that binds it together. ...
Innovation Technology
(2017)
Comprise definition of 1500 terms.
Innovation from A to Z presents a glossary, including: Terms, older terms whose meanings have changed, acronyms, synonyms, famous names, selected abbreviations, and cross-references. A ...
Die Macht des Definierens
(2021)
How is it that a definition of a phenomenon like "burnout" can assert itself in spite of academic criticism? This book pursues this question by modelling the embeddedness of discursive practices of definition within academic ...
The Finest Souls of Our Rivers and Alps
(2025)
The first translation into any language of the only anthology of "High Tang" poetry actually compiled during that period, long renowned as the golden age of Chinese poetry. This anthology, of 230 poems in various forms by ...
Chapter Modelação de dados poéticos: uma perspectiva desde os dados abertos e ligados/ The modelling of poetic data: A perspective from linked open data
(2018)
The contributions gathered in this volume show how digital technologies can be applied to Medieval Studies (Philology, Art, and History) in order to improve our understanding of medieval societies and cultures.
Disseminating Jewish Literatures
(2020)
The multilingualism and polyphony of Jewish literary writing around the globe requires a collaborative, comparative, and interdisciplinary investigation into the methods of researching and teaching literature. This volume ...
Marcado diferencial de objeto y semántica verbal en español
(2022)
The book examines the impact of verbal semantics – telicity and affectedness, mostly – on differential object marking (DOM) in Spanish. It presents two studies providing empirical evidence for earlier claims and, additionally, ...
Mapping the Academic Debate
(2024)
This volume maps the international academic debate on secularity. It places contributions from within ‘Western’ academia alongside lesser-known texts from various parts of the world, in several cases translated into English ...
The Formation of the Talmud
(2021)
This book examines the talmudic writings, politics, and ideology of Y.I. Halevy (1847-1914), one of the most influential representatives of the pre-war Eastern European Orthodox Jewish community. It analyzes Halevy’s ...
Narratives of Dependency
(2024)
The 15 articles in this interdisciplinary volume examine facets of the history of asymmetrical dependencies via representations of dependency in a wide range of (factual and fictional) text types, including inscriptions ...
Religiöse Erfahrung und ihre transformative Kraft
(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 ...
Why Be Moral?
(2015-09-25)
What reasons do we have to be moral, and are these reasons more compelling than the reasons we have to pursue non-moral projects? Ever since the Sophists first raised this question, it has been a focal point of debate. Why ...
Sprache im kommunikativen, interaktiven und kulturellen Kontext
(2018)
The volume surveys the current state of research on the communicative use of language, its role in interaction, and relationship to culture. The essays present the theoretical foundation and historical development of each ...
Poetry, Bible and Theology from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages
(2020)
This volume examines for the first time the most important methodological issues concerning Christian poetry – i.e. biblical and theological poetry in classical meters – from a diachronic perspective. Thus, it is possible ...
Hacia una poética del rap feminista
(2025)
With renowned female rappers such as Ana Tijoux, Rebeca Lane or Gata Cattana, a new way of understanding rap as an anti-patriarchal, political and literary discourse has emerged in the Spanish-speaking world. Drawing on ...
Recognitions
(2024)
The volume explores the interpretive potential of the polysemic idea of recognition as it intersects with phenomena of transcodification, transmediality, and transculturality. Focusing on translation, adaptation, ...
Physics and Literature
(2021)
Physics and Literature is a unique collaboration between physicists and literary scholars, the first book to explore together the relations between both fields in depth. Contributors analyze central aspects of literary and ...
Contemporary Debates in Bioethics: European Perspectives
(2019)
The volume aims to capture a European gist of theoretical sensibilities, conceptual resources, and research interests, but not in an adversarial way, as opposed to American bioethics. The volume gathers contributions from ...
Herkünfte erzählen
(2025)
Origins have shaped contemporary literature. This volume is the first to take this into account from a cross-genre and intermedial perspective. It examines narratives of pluralized origins, the intersectional dissolution ...
Material Aspects of Reading in Ancient and Medieval Cultures
(2020)
Die Reihe Materiale Textkulturen ist das Publikationsorgan des gleichnamigen Heidelberger Sonderforschungsbereichs 933, der von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft gefördert wird. In der Reihe erscheinen Sammelbände und ...
Francesco da Barberino al crocevia
(2021)
This volume presents an interesting case study dealing with the relationship between bilingualism and society in 14th-century Florence. Francesco da Barberino’s Documenta Amoris are a sort of orthodox contrappunto of the ...
Primary Sources and Asian Pasts
(2020)
This conference volume unites a wide range of scholars from diverse fields in an effort to explore new perspectives and methods in the study of primary sources from the premodern world. It represents the culmination of the ...
Riso, pianto, lacrime
(2024)
This opening volume of the Storia letteraria delle emozioni (Literary History of Emotions) studies the evolution of how joy and sadness and the connotations associated with their more explicit, physical manifestations ...
History and Drama
(2019)
Historiography and literature are verbal representations of actions and events that either have happened or could happen in the human lifeworld. As such, they possess an uncanny ‘family resemblance’ that has impelled ...
Manuscript Treasures from Afro-Eurasia
(2025)
The significance of medieval manuscripts as vehicles for the transmission of knowledge is well known. Less understood, particularly when it comes to non-Latin manuscripts, is the complex web of human interactions that ...
Spuren der altägyptischen Gesellschaft
(2022)
The legacies of Old Egyptian society range from monumental pyramids to the microscopic traces of human activity, from stone inscriptions to novels. How can these things be put into a meaningful context, and what methods ...
Wütende Texte
(2022)
The furious text has not been an object of systematic analysis until now. In this volume, this analysis is based on an interdisciplinary definition of the emotion of fury itself. Text analyses thus provide insights that ...
Methods in Contemporary Linguistics
(2012)
The present volume is a broad overview of methods and methodologies in linguistics, illustrated with examples from concrete research. It collects insights gained from a broad range of linguistic sub-disciplines, ranging ...
Dynamics, Mediation, Mobilization
(2024)
This book provides an accessible overview of cultural memory studies, a field substantially shaped by Ann Rigney. In more than 60 chapters, leading and emerging scholars present key concepts for the study of cultural memory. ...
Donation of Constantine and Constitutum Constantini
(2012)
The Donation of Constantine is the largest and most powerful forgery in world history. Disputed until modern times, this document was the fuel of religious war, used by both the reformation, as well as the counter-reformation. ...
Pensamiento, Pandemia y Big Data
(2022)
This book explores the political, social and cultural consequences of COVID-19 through a corpus of over 15.000 articles published in Spain and Latin America in the first pandemic year. Organized around four epistemic fields ...
L’homme-machine – L’utopie d’un Homme nouveau ?
(2024)
Armoured soldiers, sexualized machine men, mechanized athletes: Between 1914 and 1926, artists of the German and French avant-garde used the mechanical body as a motif to illustrate the crises of their time and to question ...
Genus – Sexus – Gender
(2022)
This volume brings together the latest empirical research on the connections between grammatical gender, natural gender, and the social category of gender. This trio operates on various levels: lexically and semantically, ...
Fashion and Environmental Sustainability
(2024)
The wide range of topics that the book covers are organised into sections reflecting a cradle to grave view of how entrepreneurial, innovative, and tech-savvy approaches can advance environmental sustainability in the ...
Proceedings of the International Seminar on Safety and Security of Autonomous Vessels (ISSAV) and European STAMP Workshop and Conference (ESWC) 2019
(2020)
Aalto University hosted the 2nd edition of the International Seminar on Safety and Security of Autonomous Vessels (ISSAV) together with the 7th edition of the European STAMP Workshop and Conference (ESWC). ISSAV promotes ...
Fassungsvarianz bei Neidhart
(2024)
Die Berliner Neidhart-Handschrift R (mgf 1062 [Niederösterreich, ca. 1280]) enthält zehn Lieder, zu denen am Blattrand Strophen nachgetragen sind. Diese z.T. mit Zuordnungszeichen versehenen Randstrophen zeugen von einer ...
Grenzüberschreitungen
(2017)
This volume includes lectures and discussion from the Conference of the Association of German Professors of Constitutional Law in Linz, 5 October 2016
Rassismus im Norden?
(2025)
Can medieval Christianization and European expansion be described as colonialism? Were those encounters shaped by racism? This volume discusses questions regarding the similarities between premodern and modern phenomena ...
Black Boxes – Versiegelungskontexte und Öffnungsversuche Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven
(2020)
We are surrounded by complex things that affect us but which remain concealed behind interfaces. Examples of such black boxes are diverse: smart watches, artificial intelligence, complex software, and gene-editing technology. ...
Literatur nach der Digitalisierung
(2021)
Digital media are transforming narratives and literary texts. They are also changing how we think about the present. It is against this backdrop that this volume inquires into the status of contemporary literature after ...
Justiz im Umbruch
(2024)
This is the first volume to present the history of the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) in Karlsruhe, the superior federal court for civil and criminal matters, in the period 1950 to 1968. Volume 1 deals with the ...
Vom Hymnus zum Gebet
(2022)
This volume brings together studies on the diverse ways that the genres and usage of hymns and sequences transformed in the middle ages and early modern period, taking them from being Latin liturgies to becoming vernacular ...
Partitive Determiners, Partitive Pronouns and Partitive Case
(2021)
The fine-grained morpho-syntactic and semantic variation displayed by partitive elements across European languages is far from being well-described, let alone well-understood. This volume focuses on Partitive Determiners, ...
2018
(2018)
The Yearbook mirrors the annual activities of staff and visiting fellows of the Maimonides Centre and reports on symposia, workshops, and lectures taking place at the Centre. Although aimed at a wider audience, the yearbook ...
Family Instructions for the Yan Clan and Other Works by Yan Zhitui (531–590s)
(2021)
This is a new, accurate translation into English, with critical introduction and notes and based on recent scholarship, of Yan Zhitui’s (531–590s) complete literary works, including his famous Family Instructions, his ...
Conceptions of Time in Greek and Roman Antiquity
(2022)
This collection of articles is an important milestone in the history of the study of time conceptions in Greek and Roman Antiquity. It spans from Homer to Neoplatonism. Conceptions of time are considered from different ...
Althochdeutsche Glossen zur Regula pastoralis
(2024)
Gregors des Großen Regula pastoralis gehört zu den am stärksten althochdeutsch glossierten Texten. Eine umfassende Darstellung dieser Glossen fehlt und ist nicht zu leisten, solange einige der wichtigsten Quellen noch immer ...
Manuscripts and Archives
(2018)
The series publishes monographs and collective volumes contributing to the emerging field of manuscript studies (manuscriptology), which includes disciplines such as philology, palaeography, codicology, art history, and ...
Deutsch-türkisches Kino zwischen Filmproduktion und Filmkonsum
(2023)
How does the way we look at a film change when it is classified as "German-Turkish cinema"? And how do we view it when we conceive of its images as products of film watching instead? In interviews with filmmakers, supplemented ...
New Horizons in Artificial Intelligence in Libraries
(2024)
This publication provides an opportunity to explore developing new library AI paradigms, including present use case practical implementation and opportunities on the horizon as well as current large ethics questions and ...
Dialogue as a Trans-disciplinary Concept
(2015-05-29)
This volume of essays takes as its point of departure Martin Buber`s principle of dialogue, which he applied as a comprehensive hermeneutic method for the study of various cultural phenomena. The volume critically evaluates ...
Johann Christoph Gottscheds Briefwechsel - Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2016)
On the occasion of the two-hundred-year anniversary of the founding of the university, the Gottsched couple traveled to Königsberg. Their journey is reflected in the letters from 1744 and 1745 along with the events of the ...
La Représentation du Discours Autre
(2020)
This book offers a general model of reported speech that relies on clear, well-argued theoretical choices in order to describe accurately the diversity of observed situations. The metalanguage/alterity articulation is ...
The Prosimetrum of the Íslendingasögur
(2024)
The chapters in this volume analyse the Íslendingasögur as prosimetrum – that is, they treat the combination of verse and prose as a salient generic feature of this body of sagas. Their innovative approaches will enable a ...