Publications
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Tracing and Documenting Nazi Victims Past and Present
(2020)
After World War II, tracing and documenting Nazi victims emerged against the background of millions of missing persons and early compensation proceedings. This was a process in which the Allies, international aid organizations, ...
Spätantiker Staat und religiöser Konflikt
(2011)
The process of Christianisation brought with it a new form of violent conflict to the Roman world: religiously motivated attacks on places, objects or people. The most radical form of such conflicts were attacks on the ...
Kardinal Cesare Baronio und das Kurienzeremoniell des posttridentinischen Papsttums
(2021)
This study embarks upon a new interpretation of the twelve-volume "Annales Ecclesiastici" by the Oratorian and cardinal Cesare Baronio within the context of the development of curial ceremony in the second half of the ...
Coming of Age in Byzantium
(2017)
The Millennium Studies seek to cross borders, boundaries between epochs and regional spaces, as well as boundaries between disciplines. Millennium is international, transdisciplinary and epoch-wide. The editorial board and ...
Identitäten im Prozess
(2015)
Collective identities – national, regional, local, religious, linguistic – are all constructed as opposed to an "other" which is constructed in alterity. They are established by historiography, art, and media. The contributions ...
Der russische Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine und das Völkerrecht
(2023)
This text addresses the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and the general development of international law. It focuses on three questions: What consequences does the Russian breach of the prohibition of violence ...
Poetics and Politics
(2018)
Far from teleological historiography, the pan-European perspective on Early Modern drama offered in this volume provides answers to why, how, where and when the given phenomena of theatre appear in history.
Using theories ...
Internationale Wissenschaftskommunikation und Nationalsozialismus
(2022)
Taking a critical stance toward "internationality" was one of the central aspects of the notion of scholarship propagated in National Socialist Germany between 1933 and 1945. However, during this time, German scholars had ...
Gefährliche Forschung?
(2022)
This volume examines the influence that scientific innovations like artificial intelligence are having on everyday life. By looking at issues like the responsibility of scientists, the application of innovations in public ...
Trends in Statistical Codicology
(2021)
The application of statistical techniques to the study of manuscript books, based on the analysis of large data sets acquired through the archaeological observation of manuscripts, remains to this day one of the most ...
Religiöse Individualisierung in historischer Perspektive
(2020)
This volume provides access to the working and results of six years of research on religious individualisation. It demonstrates the independence of individualisation and modernisation. It has proved that religion is a motor ...
Differential Object Marking in Romance
(2021)
After a “first wave” of traditional studies on prepositional accusatives and a “second wave” exploring the typological dimensions of Differential Object Marking in Bossong’s footsteps, a new line of research is currently ...
They did not stop at Eboli
(2020)
The analysis of UNESCO’s audio-visual archives for their digitization has brought to light a forgotten album of 38 contact sheets and accompanying texts by Magnum photographer, David “Chim” Seymour – a reportage made in ...
Biographie und Bildungskultur
(2012)
What role did biographies play for the intelligentsia of the 2nd century AD and what literary forms were used by contemporary authors in their personal portrayals? These two questions have led to this cross-genre investigation ...
Filming, Researching, Annotating
(2021)
The handbook Research Video is the introduction to a new kind of software and publication based on annotated videos. Practitioners and researchers who work with motion data, such as those from the fields of performative ...
Bildung und Briefe im 6. Jahrhundert
(2011)
Ennodius lived during the reign of the Ostrogothic King Theoderic. When he wrote his various works he was deacon in Milan, later becoming Bishop of Pavia. This study is an introduction to his life and works, and reveals ...
Himmelwärts / Das unbekannte Leben / Mit dem Kopf durch die Wand
(2020)
This volume presents two lesser-known plays from Horváth’s middle creative period – the tragicomedy Skyward, which he titled a “fairy tale,” and the comedy Head On. The volume reconstructs the plays’ writing process. ...
Chapter Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century in Aragon: Reassessing a Panorama of Fragmentary Sources
(2020)
Fragments of music manuscripts are some of the commonest finds inside bindings of later volumes, or unlabeled boxes tucked away in libraries and archives. Their surviving radically shaped our modern understanding of early ...
Kältebilder
(2021)
Cold has always been of fundamental importance to human culture, but it was not until the industrial age that possibilities of artificial cooling were invented which are taken for granted today. However, colling was also ...
Leben machen
(2023)
Synthetic biology attempts to redesign entire species and intervenes in the human germline with CRISPR. Martin Müller problematizes the technologies and discourses of this Promethean biology and situates them in a critical ...
Comparative and Global Framing of Enslavement
(2023)
Over the last two decades, social scientists, legal scholars, human rights activists, and historians, have sought common conceptual grounds in the study of enslavement, thus forging a new perspective that comprises historical ...
Jüdischer Widerstand in Europa (1933-1945)
(2016)
With courage born of desperation, Jewish fighters began their resistance in April 1943 in the Warsaw ghetto. This was the best known but only one of many Jewish resistance activities against the National Socialist policy ...
Toward a Cognitive Classical Linguistics
(2019)
Building on the momentum enjoyed by cognitive-functional approaches within Classics, this volume gathers a series of papers that bring the study of grammatical and syntactic constructions in both Greek and Latin under the ...
Ein Imperium wird vermessen
(2023)
This book is about the cartography and measuring of the Tsarist Russia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It views the topographical and cartographical surveying of the largest country on earth as one aspect ...
Johann Christoph Gottscheds Briefwechsel - Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2012)
Of the 218 letters, 126 belong to correspondence with the Imperial Count Ernst Christoph von Manteuffel, a dedicated patron of the supporters of Christian Wolff and the head of the Berlin chapter of the Society of Alethophiles. ...
The Enemy in Contemporary Film (Volume 12)
(2018)
While filmic representations of ‘enemies’ are legion, film studies have so far neglected the way in which filmic mediations of enemy images have contributed to shaping cultural memories. The present volume investigates ...
Führung, wohin führst du?
(2012)
With this book, students receive a critical introduction to the opportunities and limits of value creation-oriented management of companies. In this way you gain a holistic picture of value-oriented corporate management. ...
Vitale Mystik
(2022)
This study examines the form and reception of mystical writing in poetry by A. de Noailles (France, 1876–1933), E. de Champourcin (Spain 1905–1999), and A. Pozzi (Italy, 1912–1938) from the perspective of current transsecular ...
African languages from a Role and Reference Grammar perspective
(2023)
African languages cover more than one fourth of the world’s languages, but still have been underrepresented in linguistic theories. The volume intends to fill this gap and addresses aspects of the syntax-semantics-pragmatics ...
Frauensatiren der Frühen Neuzeit
(2023)
Bossy broads, lustful virgins, and pseudo-scholarly ladies can be found everywhere in early modern satiric writings. By taking up misogynist traditions/tropes, they prove to have been a significant transgeneric phenomenon ...
The Rhetoric of Topics and Forms
(2021)
Although the question of prioritizing either the level of content or that of form has often been controversial, most contributions of this volume treat them as internally connected. They undertake analyses of motifs, ...
La tradizione manoscritta dell “ars dictaminis” nell’Italia medievale
(2022)
This volume is dedicated to the study of medieval ars dictaminis. Analyzing several manuscript witnesses, it sheds light on the historical contextualization of the phenomenon and examines the close relationship between ars ...
Die Glasmalereien vom Mittelalter bis 1930 im Kanton Thurgau
(2022)
Erstmals in der Geschichte des Schweizer Corpus Vitrearum sind im Band zum Kanton Thurgau auch die Glasmalereien des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts erfasst. Während die Erforschung der vor 1800 geschaffenen Glasgemälde ...
Wie wird Weltliteratur gemacht?
(2020)
The debate surrounding world literature has been brought into renewed focus in light of questions pertaining to global networks in a polycentric world. Beyond theoretical debates, however, there has been a marked lack of ...
Erzbischof Hinkmar und die Folgen
(2010)
The present study is concerned with sources for the history of the dioceses of Reims and Trier since the 8th century. It starts with essential information on the history of these dioceses in the Early Middle Ages which can ...
Experimentalphysik
(2018)
Mit seinen stetig komplexeren Erläuterungen bildet dieses Werk den steigenden Schwierigkeitsgrad ab, den Studierende während der ersten Semester erleben. Durch zahlreiche Beispiele und künstlerisch sehr ansprechendes ...
Sujetos del deseo
(2021)
This book analyzes, conceptualizes and historicizes the amateur translator figure as political and cultural agent in US-Latin American relations, from the end of the 19th century to the mid-20th century. Centered on the ...
Sprachen, Völker und Phantome
(2018)
Academics have long stopped speaking of “peoples” and “their” languages and cultures. Yet languages and cultures are still taken as evidence of quasi-ethnic community and “identity.” Nine papers by scholars in Egyptology, ...
The Hirsch Institute of Tropical Medicine
(2019)
In 2013, the Hirsch Institute of Tropical Medicine was officially inaugurated as a branch of the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Infectious Diseases at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf under the direction ...
Diaspora, Law and Literature (Volume 12)
(2016)
The well-known challenges of international migration have triggered new departures in academic approaches, with 'diaspora studies' evolving as an interdisciplinary and even transdisciplinary field of study. Its emerging ...