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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 ...
Euripides-Rezeption in Kaiserzeit und Spätantike
(2020)
During the Imperial Rome Age and late antiquity, Euripides was considered a tragic dramatist par excellence, and, alongside Homer, was the most frequently cited poet. This book examines the reception of complete and partially ...
Computational Approaches to the Study of Movement in Archaeology
(2014)
Within the framework of the Excellence Cluster Topoi, a fruitful interdisciplinary debate on
space and movement over the long term has developed. The workshop “Computational approaches
to movement in archaeology” (organized ...
Praxishandbuch Wissenschaftliche Bibliothekar:innen
(2024)
Die digitale Transformation stellt wissenschaftliche Bibliothekar:innen vor neue Herausforderungen, die nicht nur den praktischen Umgang mit neuen Technologien betreffen, sondern die eine neue Art des Handelns, Kommunizierens, ...
Natur und Kunst bei Claudian
(2022)
This volume focuses on twelve of the so-called Carmina minora by the late ancient poet Claudius Claudianus (ca. 370–404 CE), which describe of different kinds. Nature, art, and the concordia discors that characterises both ...
Fluchtlinien der Sprache(n)
(2023)
Migration bedeutet eine – häufig physisch und psychisch traumatisierende – Zäsur, die vor multiple Verlusterfahrungen stellt. Diese sind mitunter schwer artikulierbar, sei es aufgrund sprachlich-kultureller Hürden, sei es ...
Clarice Lispector – Weltliteratur?
(2021)
It has only been in the 21st century that the literary oeuvre of the Brazilian author Clarice Lispector (1920–1977) has received international recognition, after being repeatedly forgotten in the past. This volume traces ...
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 ...
Scripting Genocide
(2025)
Scripting Genocide traces the history of how and why the Wannsee Conference has repeatedly attracted the attention of American, British, and German screenwriters and filmmakers since 1960. This book investigates how the ...
Literatur und Unabhängigkeit
(2023)
The study writes a cultural history of transatlantic relations on the late 18th and 19th centuries. Using the example of the Neo-Spanish Dominican fray Servando Teresa de Mier (1763–1827), it examines how Hispanic American ...
The Thebaid in Times of Crisis
(2025)
This collective volume explores crises in the Upper Egyptian Thebaid during the Ptolemaic Period. As a result of an international conference held at the Freie Universität Berlin (May 2–4, 2019), the presented case studies ...
Gehörte Geschichten
(2022)
Auditive texts are on the rise: audio plays, readings, podcasts, audioguides, and electroacoustic experiments reveal the diversity of audible stories. The contributions in this volume systematize the genres of this diverse ...
Soziologie - Sociology in the German-Speaking World
(2021)
This book provides the first systematic overview of German sociology today. Thirty-four chapters review current trends, relate them to international discussions and discuss perspectives for future research. The contributions ...
Literarische Beziehungen zum Mittelalter
(2025)
This study examines the question of when and how German-language texts written between 1750 and 1930 refer to the literature of the Middle Ages. In a scalable reading, it performs a distant reading of medieval references ...
Zoomland
(2024)
Despite a variety of theoretical and practical undertakings, there is no coherent understanding of the concept of scale in digital history and humanities, and its potential is largely unexplored. A clearer picture of the ...
Die Geschichtlichkeit des Briefs
(2021)
There are few features that characterize the letter, and yet they have contributed to the successful history of this communication form for more than 3000 years: writtenness, materiality, mobility, address, the necessity ...
Taking the Alhambra to St. Petersburg
(2023)
Little is known of Russian architects’ in-depth engagement with Ibero-Islamic architecture, especially the medieval Nasrid palaces of the Alhambra in Granada, in the so-called Moorish Revival. This study, rich in material, ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Europe Across Boundaries
(2022)
The present issue of the European History Yearbook showcases research initially presented at the annual Mainz-Oxford graduate workshop "European History Across Boundaries from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century". The ...
PAINTING THE SKY BLACK
(2018)
Dieter Häussinger, Direktor des HITM und der Medizinischen Klinik und Poliklinik für Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie und Infektiologie und Lehrstuhlinhaber für Innere Medizin an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, ...
Infrastrukturen
(2019)
Why reflect on infrastructures? Today, we are experiencing a breathtaking expansion and intensification of infrastructural interconnections around the globe. At the same time, infrastructures have also become the explicit ...
Vulnus amoris
(2023)
The concept of love’s wound has haunted European culture for centuries. This book investigates this fundamental concept in Medieval French, Occitan, and Italian literature – with the purpose of tracing its transformation ...
Schriften zum Islam und zur arabischen Literatur der Gegenwart
(2025)
Rotraud Wielandt produced her studies on modern Arabic literature and contemporary Islamic exegesis and theology during forty years of research. Although the texts contain important insights and original observations, some ...
Personal Manuscripts: Copying, Drafting, Taking Notes
(2023)
Some manuscripts have been produced for the personal use of their scribe only whereas a number of them are valued as autographs, most have been ephemeral and were discarded. This volume introduces a number of such manuscripts ...
Deutsche und italienische Besatzung im Unabhängigen Staat Kroatien
(2020)
The “Independent State of Croatia,” occupied by Germany and Italy, is a laboratory for investigating Nazi and Fascist notions of empire, occupation, and the enforcement of power. For the first time, Sanela Schmid draws on ...
The Good Christian Ruler in the First Millennium
(2021)
This volume brings together historical research on classical antiquity and early medieval Europe with the study of eastern Christianity. To this end, it examines concepts of good rulership, especially of good Christian ...
The Epoch of Universalism 1769–1989 / L’époque de l’universalisme 1769–1989
(2020)
2019 marked both the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and Napoléon’s 250th anniversary. Picking up on this contingency of world history with an ironic wink, the volume analyses in retrospect the epoch of ...
Soft Computing
(2020)
Soft computing is used where a complex problem is not adequately specified for the use of conventional math and computer techniques. Soft computing has numerous real-world applications in domestic, commercial and industrial ...
Time and Soul
(2022)
In Book IV of his Physics, Aristotle asked whether time could exist without a soul that counts it. As a result, philosophers throughout antiquity tackled the problem of subjective time and its relation to the physical time ...
Kasus im Korpus Zu Struktur und Geographie oberdeutscher Kasusmorphologie
(2020)
This study provides a new methodological approach to the corpus-based analysis of case marking in spoken language and provides the first quantitatively based insights into the construction of a dialectal case system and ...
Politisches Handlungswissen im Venedig des Quattrocento
(2024)
Wie konnten Abwesende politische Prozesse im Venedig der Renaissance beeinflussen? Wie wurden entsprechende Praktiken tradiert? Antworten auf diese Fragen gibt die Briefsammlung des Amtsträgers Ludovico Foscarini (1409–1480). ...
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 ...
Ester – eine Gewaltgeschichte
(2022)
The Book of Esther tells the story of a plot to exterminate the Persian Jews and their great struggle against their enemies. This study locates these portrayals of violence in the Hellenistic epoch, in the Hasmonean period ...
The Medieval Archive of Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century Sweden
(2021)
This book is the first study of the development of antisemitism in nineteenth-century Sweden, based on an analysis of 150 books and pamphlets. The significance of religion for the development of modern racist antisemitism ...
Korpuslinguistik
(2018)
The study examines the concept of patterned language usage in scientific texts and, based on a data-led corpus analysis, describes scientific style at a formal and pragmatic level. With theoretical grounding in multiple ...
Gottes Werk und Teufels Wirken
(2014)
The volume provides the first comprehensive presentation of imaginary phenomena such as dreams and visions in early Byzantine monastic literature. Drawing on a broad range of sources, it examines imaginary experiences ...
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 ...
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 ...
Poetas hispanoamericanas contemporáneas
(2021)
Poetas hispanoamericanas contemporáneas: poéticas y metapoéticas (Siglos XX–XXI) reúne estudios sobre las poéticas –fundamentalmente las «poéticas explícitas de poetas» (Demmers), con la inclusión de las artes poéticas–, ...
Justifying Transgression
(2024)
How do people justify what others see as transgression? Taking that question to the Persian-Muslim and Latin-Christian worlds over the period 1200 to 1700, this book shows that people in both these worlds invested considerable ...
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 ...
KI:Text
(2024)
Wenn Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) Texte generieren kann, was sagt das darüber, was ein Text ist? Worin unterscheiden sich von Menschen geschriebene und mittels KI generierte Texte? Welche Erwartungen, Befürchtungen und ...
Der Briefwechsel Richard Dedekind – Heinrich Weber
(2014)
This volume provides the very first transcription of correspondence between Richard Dedekind and Heinrich Weber, one of the most important instances of written dialog between mathematicians in the 19th century. Nearly every ...
Die feinen Unterschiede
(2020)
In studies of the Roman elite, scholars have focused on their intensive and restricted commitment to political and military achievement. This book critically considers the lasting exclusivity of this way of life, widening ...
Sprachliche Aggression bei Martin Luther
(2022)
Martin Luther was not just a great reformer and bible translator, but also an extremely pugnacious and, in his argumentation, sometimes polemical contemporary. This form of linguistic aggression is very clearly expressed ...
Interpreting and Translation for Agri-food Professionals in the Global Marketplace
(2024)
In the context of an increasingly internationalized agri-food sector, this volume explores existing and new tools developed to help professionals with writing, interpreting and translating. Centered on the English-Spanish ...
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 ...
Zwischen Gott, Mensch und Teufel
(2024)
In the wealth of early modern portrayals of the devil as a fear-inducing monstrosity, narrative realizations that take a strangely different path stand out. This includes the staging of the diabolical enemy as a latent ...
Landscape impact assessment in planning processes
(2019)
The book is specifically dedicated to a broad spectrum of aspects of landscape impact assessment in the process of strategic planning and decision-making. It aims to show the required standard process, content and scope ...
Afrika – Atlantik – Amerika
(2022)
This book centers on the Africa-Atlantic-Americas system and its relationship to the complex of Atlantic slavery, regimes of slavery on land in Africa and America, enslavement and transport over land and water, and the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Vigilance and the Plague
(2024)
This collective work is devoted to the fight against the plague along the French coast between 1680 and 1760. It aims to analyze how sustained vigilance on an individual and collective level was used to the advantage of ...
Normas y diferencias
(2024)
This volume offers an innovative contribution to the field of Cultural Studies. It addresses the intersection between disability and scenic, literary and audiovisual creation and examines the role that 'functional diversity' ...
The French Revolution as a Moment of Respatialization
(2019)
This volume examines the effects of both dimensions on the reorganization of spatial formats and spatial orders in France and in other societies. It departs from the assumption that revolutions shatter not only the political ...
Grüne Sonnen
(2020)
In this study, the author develops a poetics of fantasy that calls into question the common interpretation of the genre as politically reactionary and aesthetically dull. On this basis, he argues that the video game has a ...
The Digital, a Continent?
(2024)
In The Digital, a Continent?, the author argues in favor of a way of thinking about digital technology that draws on the new materialism. She uses photosynthesis and nuclear fission as examples of processes that are as ...
Cicero in Greece, Greece in Cicero
(2024)
The volume aims at complementing the international literature on the interaction between Cicero and Greece. It offers new and unpublished material on Cicero’s presence in Greece literally, deriving from his epistles, ...
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 ...
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. ...
Bon and Naxi Manuscripts
(2023)
This collective volume offers an insight into the Bon and Naxi manuscript cultures and their possible interconnections. This is the first primarily object-based study to deal with Bon and Naxi cultural history, book ...
New Perspectives in Global Latin
(2025)
The Global Latin II Conference has highlighted the role of the Latin language as cultural medium between West and East. Adopting a diachronic perspective which spans from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age, the conference ...
Die Vergangenheitstempora im Alemannischen Deutschlands
(2022)
In this volume, corpus-linguistic methods and spontaneous language data have been utilized to prove that the tense forms preterite and pluperfect have reestablished themselves in German Alemannic. The reason for this is ...
Dinámicas lingüísticas de las situaciones de contacto
(2021)
The volume offers in-depth analyses of contact situations between Spanish and other languages, showing how language variation and change are part of the complex linguistic dynamics that characterize contact areas. Aimed ...
Excavations at Paithan, Maharashtra
(2020)
Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State is a research initiative hosted by the British Museum and the British Library in London. Moving beyond geographical, chronological, disciplinary and historiographical ...
Expressing Surprise at the Crossroads
(2025)
Expressing Surprise at the Crossroads has as its aim to evaluate the impact of mirativity in Romance languages or –expressed differently– to determine how these languages apprehend surprise and related notions as linguistic ...
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. ...
Encountering Others, Understanding Ourselves in Medieval and Early Modern Thought
(2022)
How did medieval and early modern religious traditions deal with otherness? Were the different and the divergent systematically rejected? How did these traditions pave the way for the tolerant and respectful views we ...
Latin America’s Contested Pasts in Telenovelas and TV Series
(2024)
This interdisciplinary volume analyzes the historical culture of Latin American society embodied in telenovelas and series from the 1960s to the present. Bringing together regional case studies on the representation of ...
Diskursive Verfestigungen
(2018)
The concept of frozenness has helped to shape recent lexicographic and phraseological research. The essays in this volume form a part of this current trend and examine discursive aspects of the problematics of frozenness ...
Infrastructure Aesthetics
(2024)
In recent years, more artists have been integrating institutions, funding structures, critics, and distribution circuits into the works themselves, putting pressure on the long-standing analytical division in art studies ...
Ernst Papanek and Jewish Refugee Children
(2021)
Ernst Papanek (1900-1973) was an Austrian-born Viennese reform pedagogue who realized already in the 1930s that unaccompanied, traumatized young refugees were self-directed. He organized "Kindertransporte" for about 1,600 ...
Commentary on Aristotle, ›Nicomachean Ethics‹
(2022)
This volume includes the first critical edition of George Pachymeres’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. An English translation of the Byzantine text and an extensive introduction on philosophical and philological ...
The Unity of Plutarch's Work
(2008)
The contributions to this volume inquire into many important issues of Plutarchean scholarship: the conditions under which Plutarch`s writings were split into two distinct corpora, his methods of work and the various ...
Creative Selection between Emending and Forming Medieval Memory
(2021)
How can it be, that only as much happens as fits into the newspaper the next day? (K. Valentin). Information of the past has to be organised, arranged and selected. The process of selection must be seen as the fundamental ...
The Science-Media Interface
(2023)
The publication and distribution of scientific results is of major importance for the functioning of an information society and the tackling of the complex challenges the world faces today. It is not only scholars who rely ...
Spätantike Chroniken im Fluss der Zeit
(2025)
One change in late antiquity was the emergence of a trend toward a minor historiography in the form of lists and chronicles that were regularly edited and continued in a decentralized manner. This study gives a historical ...
Das Imperium Romanum und seine Gegenwelten
(2012)
Ammianus is regarded as the greatest historian of late antiquity. Yet his geographic and ethnographic digressions were long underestimated as examples offeigned eruditionand as undue interruptions to the historical narrative. ...