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Innovations and challenges of the energy transition in smart city districts
(2024)
As living, economic and cultural spaces, cities require a sustainable energy system and must be designed to be highly energy efficient. The book provides a framework for practitioners and scientists on how the energy ...
Krankheit und lyrische Selbstsorge
(2024)
Das Buch widmet sich der Frage, weshalb Krankheitserfahrungen in der frühneuzeitlichen Lyrik zwischen 1490 und 1720 eine beispiellose Prominenz entfalten. Die Basis der Untersuchung bilden Texte bekannter und weniger ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Der Witwer. Die Gefährtin
(2023)
Der Witwer. Die Gefährtin erscheint als 14. Band der – von Konstanze Fliedl herausgegebenen – historisch-kritischen Ausgabe von Arthur Schnitzlers Frühwerk. Ein Witwer erfährt aus Briefen vom Betrug seiner verstorbenen ...
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 ...
Praxishandbuch Bibliotheksmanagement
(2024)
From the point of view of library practice, the Practical Handbook on Library Management offers an up-to-date assessment of the current situation and an overview of all aspects of the management of academic libraries in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Libraries, Archives and Museums as Democratic Spaces in a Digital Age
(2020)
Libraries, archives and museums have traditionally been a part of the public sphere's infrastructure. They have been so by providing public access to culture and knowledge, by being agents for enlightenment and by being ...
Living Together
(2025)
The loss of urban biodiversity pushes us to rethink architecture. Drawing on ecomfenimist theories, "Better Together" challenges established practices of progress and permanence, offering new ways and tools to accommodate ...
Concilium Universale Ephesenum
(2024)
The Council of Ephesus (431) was summoned to clarify whether describing Mary, the mother of Jesus, as the "God-bearer" could be reconciled with the true faith. Its history has been documented in numerous records. This ...
Universal Singular
(2022)
Critical introduction to the planning and design of public space. The design of public spaces is a reflection of their time. In our globalised world of images and experiences, however, the striving for uniqueness tends ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Exploring Written Artefacts
(2021)
This collection, presented to Michael Friedrich in honour of his academic career at of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, traces key concepts that scholars associated with the Centre have developed and refined ...
The Roots of Respect
(2017-04-10)
Despite the increasing concern for the issue of respect for persons displayed over the last decades by political philosophers, human-right thinkers, social and ethical theorists, a comprehensive treatment of the problem ...
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 ...
Wirklichkeit oder Konstruktion?
(2018)
Do we have true access to reality or are we merely surrounded by our own constructions of reality? This classic question has been taken up again with great urgency in the sciences and by the media. The volume reflects on ...
Open Heritage
(2023)
"Open Heritage" is a response to the urgent need for a more open definition of cultural heritage, of the parties involved in protecting and maintaining it, and of the relevant planning processes in order to ensure the ...
Image, Text, Stone
(2022)
This book explores the intermediality of image and text in Graeco-Roman sculpture. By studying a wide range of material, from grand sculpture to humble reliefs, scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds explore ...
Filtern
(2025)
Der Begriff der Kulturtechnik befindet sich aktuell in einem entscheidenden Wandlungsprozess: dem Wechsel vom Apparat zur Umgebung. Kulturtechniken lassen sich nicht länger in Relation zu bestimmten einzelnen Gegenständen ...
Inszenierte Keuschheit
(2024)
Die historische Aufarbeitung von sexuellem Missbrauch und Gewalt in der Frühen Neuzeit steht noch ganz am Anfang. Auf detaillierten Archivrecherchen beruhend, geht diese Studie Sexualdelikten im Jesuitenorden nach, die an ...
A Grammar of Yélî Dnye
(2022)
This is a comprehensive description of a language spoken offshore from Papua New Guinea, remarkable for its phonological, morphological and syntactic complexity. As the sole surviving member of its language family, it ...
Glaube, Wissenschaft, Sprache
(2022)
This publication provides a diachronic overview of the main tendencies in Protestant theological jargon and academic language from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries from a Germanist-linguistic perspective. Using ...
Terrorizing Images
(2020)
This book combines two focal points: trauma and ekphrasis. It responds to the recognition of how terrorizing images permeate the public sphere in connection with traumatic experiences and conflicts and emphasizes the ways ...
Narrative der Migration
(2021)
The cultural history of German migration society is still unwritten, even though, since the 1960s, numerous interactions and aesthetic negotiations have taken place in literature, film, and in societal debates and theories ...
Toscana bilingue (1260 ca.–1430 ca.)
(2021)
The contributions gathered in this volume discuss the complex topic of translating in medieval itay from an interdisciplinary perspective, combining the philological approach with a detailed social and cultural analysis. ...
Confucius and Cicero
(2020)
This book explores the relationships between ancient Roman and Confucian thought, paying particular attention to their relevance for the contemporary world. More than 10 scholars from all around the world offer thereby a ...
Worlds Ending. Ending Worlds
(2024)
The notion of apocalypse is an age-old concept which has gained renewed interest in popular and scholarly discourse. The book highlights the versatile explications of apocalypse today, demonstrating that apocalyptic ...
Paulus als Erzähler? Eine narratologische Perspektive auf die Paulusbriefe
(2020)
In recent Pauline research, the critical importance of implicit narratives for understanding the apostle’s Epistles gained importance. The study examines this in a critical analysis using narrative theory and text linguistics. ...
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 ...
Thinking with the South
(2024)
This volume brings together a series of discussions by scholars from a range of disciplinary, (trans)regional and epistemic perspectives that came out of the Berlin-based "co2libri" networking initiative, with longstanding ...
Movable Inn
(2018)
The book presents the results of a systematic survey, the first of its kind, on the rural Jews in the Minsk Guberniya, from its establishment as a major administrative unit within the Russian Empire in 1793, to the outbreak ...
Theories of Informetrics and Scholarly Communication
(2016)
Scientometrics have become an essential element in the practice and evaluation of science and research, including both the evaluation of individuals and national assessment exercises. Yet, researchers and practitioners in ...
Grundlagen der Informationswissenschaft
(2022)
The seventh edition of the Principles of Practical Information and Documentation is now called: The Principles of Information Science. The new title does justice to the fact that there is an increasing need to theorize how ...
Diversity and Otherness
(2021)
This book critically examines multiple ways in which cultural diversity is, and has been represented and handled. It questions the construction of differences in doing culture while emphasizing the fluidity of cultural ...
The Summa Halensis
(2020)
The Summa Halensis (1236-45) was collaboratively authored by the founding members of the Franciscan school at Paris and represents not only the first official statement of Franciscan thought but also a defining text for ...
Restatement of Restitution Rules for Nazi-Confiscated Art
(2025)
What would be just and fair solutions in the spirit of the Washington Principles? This volume provides an answer to this question, identifying functional points of comparison via an extensive study of restitution practices ...
Der Westen als Wir-Gruppe im „Kampf der Kulturen“
(2022)
What is the "clash of civilizations"? What are us-group constructions? What is the West? This critical discourse analysis informed by cognitive linguistics answers these questions in detail using a data set comprising more ...
Using Ostraca in the Ancient World New Discoveries and Methodologies
(2020)
Throughout Egypt’s long history, pottery sherds and flakes of limestone were commonly used for drawings and short-form texts in a number of languages. These objects are conventionally called ostraca, and thousands of them ...
Zitate der Aeneis in den Briefen des Hieronymus
(2022)
In his letters, the church scholar Jerome describes a deep inner rift between Virgil and the gospels, between Cicero and the apostles. This volume traces late ancient processes of cultural hybridization using methods from ...
Kellers Erzählen
(2022)
Keller not only reinterpreted literary genres like the legend but, with the bildungsroman and the novella, also shaped the forms that psychologically gauge the modern subject. These contributions explore Keller’s texts as ...
Kaiser Konstantin als Leser
(2019)
To honor the 20th year of his reign, Emperor Constantine was given what may be the most precious gift of his lifetime: a codex of artistic panegyrics and odes dedicated to him by the poet Optatianus. Optatianus’ poems ...
Time in Diaries of Court and Bakufu Officials in the late 13th Century
(2024)
This monograph portrays temporality as it emerges from diaries produced by government officials during the late thirteenth century in Japan, thereby highlighting the complex and plural approaches to ‘time’ that these sources ...
A Mist Connection
(2023)
In 1783, an eruption occurred in Iceland. Soon after, a dry fog descended upon mainland Europe. These two events long went unconnected. "A Mist Connection" documents the Laki eruption and its consequences for Iceland and ...
Early Printed Narrative Literature in Western Europe
(2020)
The shift from hand-written to printed books left its mark on narrative literature in Western Europe. The essays in this volume address developments in the history of early printed narrative texts as well as publication ...
Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies. 2019
(2020)
The Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies mirrors the annual activities of staff and visiting fellows of the Centre as well as scholars of the Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion at the University ...
Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance
(2021)
Michael Stolberg offers the first comprehensive presentation of medical training and day-to-day medical practice during the Renaissance. Drawing on previously unknown manuscript sources, he describes the prevailing notions ...
Counting on Computers
(2024)
Counting on Computers is a compelling exploration of socialist ambitions for a computerised future in the German Democratic Republic. It examines the authoritarian leadership's positive vision of socialist computerisation ...
Expressions of Sceptical Topoi in (Late) Antique Judaism
(2021)
This volume of collected essays seeks to tackle the question of scepticism in an Early Jewish context, including Ecclesiastes and other Jewish Second Temple works, rabbinic literature, and reflections of Jewish thought in ...
Workplace Spirituality
(2022)
A state-of-the-art overview of the field of management, spirituality and religion, comprising concise chapters written by experts in the sub-fields and edited by recognized leaders in the field of management, spirituality ...
Nach der Diktatur
(2023)
What must be done after the end of a dictatorship so that the suffering of those persecuted comes to an end and history does not repeat itself? Only rarely have long-term studies academically investigated the effects that ...
Thinking the Re-Thinking of the World
(2022)
As too many intellectual histories from the ‘global South’ remain under-explored, this book aims to redress such imbalance. Authors from the region sketch out their perspectives of transformations. This includes case studies ...
Navigating the News
(2024)
Based on an extensive ethnography of news practices and perceptions among a broad range of youth in Sweden, this book discusses how the digitisation of news has shaped young people’s understanding of what news is, and how ...
Galeni In Hippocratis Epidemiarum librum VI commentariorum I–VIII versio Arabica
(2022)
The present volume offers the first critical edition of the medieval Arabic translation of Galen's Commentary on Book 6 of the Hippocratic Epidemics. It is the sequel to the previous editions of Galen's Commentary. The ...
Dictionnaire historique de l’adjectif-adverbe
(2021)
The Historical Dictionary of French Adjective-Adverbs (Dictionnaire historique de l’adjectif-adverbe) documents groups such as couper court which combine a verb and an adjective with adverbial function. The 2.600 entries ...
Wartime Shanghai and the Jewish Refugees from Central Europe
(2012)
The study discusses the history of the Jewish refugees within the Shanghai setting and its relationship to the two established Jewish communities, the Sephardi and Russian Jews. Attention is also focused on the cultural ...
Rewriting Maimonides
(2018)
Commentaries on the Guide of the Perplexed occupy a central but neglected place in the history of Jewish thought. In the first study on the subject, Igor De Souza examines this dynamic tradition in its most creative period. ...
Palmerston and Metternich’s Austria, 1830‒1841
(2025)
The book scrutinizes the diplomatic relations between British Foreign Secretary Viscount Palmerston and Austrian Chancellor Metternich from 1830 to 1841. Their conflicting views on how to solve the problems of the time ...
Chapter Russia in the Global Parliamentary Moment, 1905–1918: Between a Subaltern Empire and an Empire of Subalterns
(2020)
This volume adds to the plurality of global histories by locating the global through its articulation and manifestation within particular localities. It accomplishes this by bringing together interlinked case-studies that ...
Hidden Multilingualism in 19th-Century European Literature
(2023)
This volume provides a new set of methodological and theoretical approaches to the study of literary multilingualism in the age of national literature. Broader studies examine multilingual origins of seemingly monolingual ...
Zukunft Lernwelt Hochschule
(2020)
Based on the findings of the college learning environment research project, this book includes a range of articles on the future of colleges focusing on organization, didactics, digital structures and physical learning or ...
Elitesklavereien und Profifußball
(2024)
The concept of elite slavery describes the practice of abducting and then spending years training and disciplining children, who were then placed in high-level positions, sometimes amassing huge wealth. These features can ...
Playing American
(2023)
Tracing a practice called "playing American" through the stages of videogame development, gameplay, and reception, this book delineates how aspects of American culture are reproduced transnationally through popular open-world ...
New Hollywood and Countercultural Whiteness
(2024)
This book uses the New Hollywood as a case study for affective and discursive transformations of white masculinity between the 1950s and the 1970s. It identifies a subject position of countercultural whiteness that emerged ...
Watchful Lives in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
(2023)
The book shows how Chicanx, Latinx and otherwise watched and "othered" people in San Diego, close to the US-Mexico border, respond to racism and surveillance. Watchfulness goes beyond counter-surveillance, as it is understood ...
Kalter Krieg auf dem indischen Subkontinent
(2020)
1971 was a critical year for India and Pakistan and also for West and East Germany. The Third India–Pakistan War led to the independence of Bangladesh, at the same time that the German–German policy of détente sought to ...
Left-Kantianism in the Marburg School
(2024)
Widmer sheds light on a neglected aspect of the Western philosophical tradition. Following an era of Hegelianism, the members of the neo-Kantian "Marburg School," such as Friedrich Albert Lange, Hermann Cohen, Rudolf ...
Das römische Spielewesen in der Spätantike
(2014)
Daily life in Late Antiquity was heavily influenced by the tradition of Roman games. This is the first comprehensive study of the world of games in Late Antiquity, with special attention to specific forms of games in the ...
Christliches Leben und die Verbesserung des Menschen
(2022)
Self-optimization is all the rage. What do theology and the church have to say about it? Should they issue a warning and strike up a cultural pessimistic tune? Maybe they could activate their own resources, which have the ...
Günter Grass und die Berliner Republik
(2023)
Günter Grass has primarily been perceived by research and the public as an author. But he was also an influential political actor. His political work was not just limited to the Brandt era but also helped to define the ...
Diplomatische Wissenskulturen der Frühen Neuzeit
(2018)
The methodology of cultural history opens new pathways for researching diplomatic figures and structures in the premodern era. However, until now, early modern knowledge cultures have not been researched in terms of their ...