Publications
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Die Ausstattung kleinerer Häuser in Pompeji (Insula IX 5)
(2023)
The book examines the interplay of ancient and new decor elements on Insula IX 5 in Pompeii during the final phase of the city between AD 62-79 . This is the first time that an attempt has been made to grasp the construction ...
Die Papyri Herkulaneums im Digitalen Zeitalter
(2021)
The Herculaneum Papyri comprise the only surviving library of antiquity. In recent years, innovative technologies and new philological methods have effectively revolutionized research. Characters that were previously ...
Die Inschriften des Stadtgottesackers in Halle an der Saale (1550–1700)
(2021)
Between 1557 and 1590, the Stadtgottesacker in Halle, a prototype of a Protestant burial ground outside the city walls, was expanded into an architectural unity that in form and completeness has no parallel north of the ...
Sign Languages in Village Communities
(2012)
This book unites the work of both anthropologists and linguists who have conducted fieldwork in rural signing communities around the globe. In most cases, these signing communities have emerged in response to a high incidence ...
Gemeinsam gegen Deutschland
(2022)
By analyzing Warsaw’s Yiddish daily press, this volume reveals how Polish Jews gained and disseminated subversive knowledge of National Socialist Germany in spite of censorship and repression, and also initiated campaigns ...
Documentation and Argument in Early China
(2021)
This study uncovers the traditions behind the formative Classic Shàngshū (Venerated Documents). It reveals a genre of “Shū” (Documents) practice that was used creatively by contrasting conceptual communities for ...
Kindheit in Byzanz
(2012)
Although there have been many studies of childhood in Ancient Greece and Rome and in the Middle Ages in the West, there is no such study for the Byzantine world. To fill the gap, this bookreconstructs the most important ...
From Memory to Marble
(2020)
The book is a rare case study of the dynamics, processes and shifts around the creation and reading of one of the world’s major monuments, through all the processes of its design and making. The frieze which represents the ...
Transkulturelle Verflechtungsprozesse in der Vormoderne
(2016)
Pre-Modern Europe`s diverse ethnic and religious groups were in continuous contact with each other and also with "cultures" beyond Europe. This collected volume analyzes these reciprocal exchange processes, taking into ...
The Fish Lands
(2020)
Based on newly uncovered archival sources as well as archaeological studies, this book offers the first extensive overview of the German trade with the North Atlantic in English. It challenges assumptions about the ...
New Libraries in Old Buildings
(2021)
This book focuses on difficulties and opportunities in revitalization of old, derelict or abandoned buildings into a library and investigates the transformation of buildings which originally had a different purpose. The ...
Goldgrund und Perspektive
(2023)
Monographic study of the gold ground in Italian panel painting. Analyzes the art historiographical use of the term in the 20th century. "Gold ground" and "perspective" are not thought of as oppositional. For example, Fra ...
Jenseits der Grenzen
(2009)
The process of transformation which saw the Byzantine Empire and the world of the Early Middle Ages develop from the Late Antique Imperium Romanum led to changes in all areas of life. The central topic of this volume of ...
Hate Speech
(2023)
Hate speech creates environments that are conducive to hate crimes and broad-scale conflict. This book discusses the mechanics of hate speech and its expression from a linguistic perspective. The author addresses the ...
Confronting Antisemitism from the Perspectives of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
(2020)
This volume engages with antisemitic stereotypes as religious symbols that express and transmit a belief system of Jew-hatred. These religious symbols are stored in Christian, Muslim and even today’s secular cultural and ...
Reconstructing the Future
(2023)
The built environment is a critical factor in the climate equation. Approximately 40 percent of global emissions derive from the construction, operation, and demolition of human settlements. The 21st century must be the ...
Switzerland – an Urban Portrait
(2013)
The classic volume Switzerland. An Urban Portrait was published in three languages by Birkhäuser Verlag in 2005 and has lost none of its relevance to this day. The result of several years of research by ETH Studio Basel, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Michel Foucault y la literatura
(2023)
This collected volume explores Foucault's literary thought, in light of the recent publication of unpublished works from his first period (1960s–1970s). It aims at establishing an archeology of the texts that Foucault ...
Proceedings of the International Conference Sensory Motor Concepts in Language & Cognition
(2016)
This volume contains selected papers of the 2008 annual conference of the German Association for Social Science Research on Japan (Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung e.V. – VSJF). The academic meeting ...
Ausstellungskommunikation
(2021)
This study investigates museum exhibitions as multimodal communication offerings, of which texts and exhibits are just as much a part as exhibition architecture and design. It reconstructs the communicative potential of ...
Überforderungseinwände in der Ethik
(2022)
Gibt es überzeugende Überforderungseinwände gegen anspruchsvolle moralische Auffassungen? In der vorliegenden Abhandlung werden Überforderungseinwände sorgfältig charakterisiert, systematisch eingeordnet und argumentativ ...
Atem / Breath
(2021)
The anthology explores breath from the perspective of the arts and humanities, as well as experimental scientific and design practices. Focus is on the period from 1900 to the present day – an era during in which air has ...
Gleichzeitigkeit in der Interaktion
(2022)
By taking a conversation-analytical approach, this study uses mobile eye tracking and audiovisual recordings of theater rehearsals to examine how people who are interacting with each other simultaneously coordinate relevant ...
Hispanos en el mundo
(2021)
Moving elsewhere is a moving thing. This volume sheds light on the interdependence of emotion and the migration of Hispanics in the world. The essays, written in Spanish and English and departing from various perspectives ...
Les portraits de Marie-Thérèse
(2021)
In the Austrian monarchy, Maria Theresa is the first and only woman of the Habsburg dynasty to rule and impose herself in a context of wars and reforms. In a situation of multiform crises (territorial dynasty, etc.), the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Position of Roman Slaves
(2023)
Slavery takes many forms. This was also true in Roman antiquity, even though modern scholarship on Roman slavery paints the picture of a very homogenous institution. This volume intends to correct that perception. In it, ...
Metapher und Metonymie
(2015)
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 ...
Polnische Bürgermeister und der Holocaust
(2024)
This is the first study on the role played by Polish mayors in the German-occupied General Government. How did they work with the occupiers? How did they behave in relation to the persecution of the Jews? And how did they ...
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 ...
Inszenierte Moderne
(2014)
Modern popular culture came to the world from the stage. Even before film and radio had established themselves, popular theater had developed into a commercial and boundary-crossing entertainment industry that reached a ...
The Reparations Controversy
(2011-08-29)
This book about the reparations issue ("shilumim" in Hebrew) brings together selected protocols of all debates held regarding conducting negotiations with Germany. This is the first book documenting confidential protocols ...
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 ...