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The Ancient World Revisited: Material Dimensions of Written Artefacts
(2024)
Written artefacts, that is, manuscripts and inscriptions, are traditionally studied because of their texts. Material aspects of these artefacts have become increasingly important, enriching the study of ancient history in ...
Was ist Gesundheit?
(2021)
Obwohl Gesundheit für alle Menschen essentiell ist, unterliegt das Verständnis des Begriffs »Gesundheit« jeweils historisch, regional und kulturell unterschiedlichen Einflüssen. Mit verschiedenen Festlegungen von »Gesundheit ...
HORACE’s SERMONES BOOK 1
(2019)
This monograph interprets Sermones book 1 as a collection of Horace's credentials for Maecenas and traces his efforts in getting accepted as an associate of the latter after his miscalculation in joining Brutus. Although ...
Raumkonstruktionen = Spatial Constructions
(2021)
During National Socialist occupation in World War II, Eastern Europe was measured, surveyed, and planned anew. Alongside the actors, practices, and technology involved in this process, this volume presents results from the ...
Von der Dämonologie zum Unbewussten
(2014)
As the science of man, anthropology was among the most exciting disciplines during the period of intense change from the early modern era to modernity. Where demons had once wielded their power, after 1800, it was now the ...
The Imperial Qín Dynasty
(2024)
The Lǐyē 里耶 text corpus is one of the basic reference points when it comes to the research of pre-imperial and early imperial documents, and grants unique opportunities to redefine our knowledge about social, legal, ...
Islamic Law in Early Modern Iran
(2023)
Historical studies on the practice of Islamic law (sharīʿa) tend to focus on practice in a Sunni setting during the Mamluk or Ottoman periods. This book decenters Sunni and Mamluk and Ottoman normativity by investigating ...
Der Herrscher im Massenmedium
(2024)
Auch wenn im Zuge des Iconic-Turns Historiker vermehrt auf Bildquellen zurückgriffen, so blieben die verbreitetsten Bildmedien der poströmischen Zeit, nämlich Münzen und Siegel, in Handbüchern und Studien unterrepräsentiert. ...
The Encounter of Chinese and Western Philosophies
(2023)
This book revisits the encounter between Chinese and Western philosophy while unfolding questions about the way "comparative philosophy" is conducted today. The currently dominant exegesis organizes philosophical landmarks ...
Victimhood and Acknowledgement
(2018)
How does terrorism affect our picture of the history of terrorism then, if the victims are moved centre stage? If the focus is put on their suffering? The contributions to this edition of the European History Yearbook will ...
Privacy in Early Modern Saxony
(2024)
The volume examines how different historical notions, experiences, expectations, and suspicions regarding privacy emerged in early modern Saxony. It brings together insights from epistolary studies, women’s history, history ...
Elemente der antiken Erzähltheorie
(2021)
This volume is the first to systematically analyze ancient narrative theory in German. The guiding principle is the theory that, although ancient authors like Aristotle were the forerunners of the modern categories of ...
Eugenio Coseriu
(2023)
Eugenio Coseriu (1921–2002) was among the most influential linguists in the second half of the 20th century. Although known mainly as a structuralist and an expert in Romance linguistics, his work in fact goes far beyond ...
Die Landmauer von Konstantinopel-Istanbul
(2008)
The land walls of Constantinople are one of the largest and most important defensive fortifications from Late Antiquity. The subject of this book are the history and topography of the Theodosian Land Walls and the Walls ...
SMOTIES TOOLBOX
(2024)
Human Cities/SMOTIES – Creative works with small and remote places is a four-year project, started in 2020, and co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union. The SMOTIES Toolbox aims to guide project ...
Culture as Soft Power
(2022)
Including a thorough literature review and a number of case studies referred to cultural institutions and organisations, this book sheds light on different usages of culture as a source of soft power. Through an innovative ...
Forensische Verfahren in den zeitgenössischen Künsten
(2022)
The research agency Forensic Architecture investigates war crimes and ecological as well as political crises and brings them into the exhibition as well as the courtroom through "Investigative Aesthetics" (MACBA 2017). ...
Der Kaiser und sein Gott
(2010)
In his reconstruction of the process and motivation of Constantine`s adoption of Christianity, the author proposes a number of new individual aspects. He commences with an analysis of theearliest testimonials bythe Emperor ...
Die Poesie der Dinge
(2021)
Distillation flasks, sugar cane mills, and the brain – the scientific revolution created a spectacular range of themes, even in a traditional genre such as didactic poetry. In this volume, internationally renowned researchers ...
Überlegungen zu einer Reform des Arbeitskampf- und Schlichtungsrechts
(2025)
This volume examines the German Federal Labor Court's labor dispute law over time. It presents the legal and factual framework and asks: Is labor dispute law still up-to-date, or does it require a reorientation? Does the ...
Writing Systems and Their Use
(2022)
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of grapholinguistics, treating questions concerning both the structure and use of writing systems by complementing the linguistic main perspective ...
Contesting Nordicness
(2021)
What makes the Nordic countries Nordic? The terms ‘Nordic’ and ‘Scandinavian’ are increasingly used in wide range of political and cultural contexts. Historically they have been associated with political projects and ...
Namenwechsel
(2020)
This interdisciplinary study examines how transgender individuals change their names in the course of their gender transition. It reveals the enormous social significance of first names in interpersonal communication and ...
Gender and Protest
(2023)
For centuries women had to protest to gain equality. Their demands were often matched by counter-protest from conservative forces within historical societies.The present volume will take a closer look at the interrelationship ...
Byzantium, Pliska, and the Balkans
(2009)
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Competing Knowledges - Wissen im Widerstreit
(2020)
Whatever societies accept as ‘knowledge’ is embedded in epistemological, institutional, political, and economic power relations. How is knowledge produced under such circumstances? What is the difference between general ...
Global Literary Studies
(2022)
This book sets the grounds for Global Literary Studies as an emergent field. It innovatively looks at cross-border cultural phenomena through the concepts of space, scale, time, connectivity and agency, channeling the ...
Materialität, Inschriftlichkeit und schrifttragende Artefakte im mittelalterlichen Rom
(2023)
Like ancient Rome, the medieval metropolis on the Tiber is also a landscape of transmission due to the diversity of its epigraphic legacy. This legacy had a lasting impact on the municipal area of the urbs and provides ...
Moving Workers
(2023)
This book brings together a variety of regions and periods to provide fresh perspectives on the study of labour. It deconstructs the polarisation between mobility and immobilisation in labour history and instead stresses ...
Atlas of Spatial Figures
(2025)
Globalization, as it is conceptualized in the early twenty-first century, is undergoing significant transformations. While we continue to live in a globalized world where markets, technologies, and cultures remain deeply ...
Roman Women’s Dress
(2022)
The book concerns female dress in Roman life and literature. The main focus is on female Roman dress as it may have been worn in daily life in Rome and in a social environment influenced by Roman culture in the time from ...
Female Agency in Manuscript Cultures
(2024)
Manuscript cultures have frequently forgotten or erased women’s contributions. Their agency is a glaring blind spot in the pursuit of gender perspectives on the production of written artefacts. This volume studies manuscripts ...
Against the Fetishisation of Plural Time
(2025)
It has become an unflinching belief that time is plural and temporal multiplicity is the best framework to study the relationship between time and society. Through a critical reading of existing scholarship, Sinha questions ...
When Tibetan Meditation Goes Global
(2022)
This pioneering ethnographic work on Western practitioners of Bon, or bonpos, presents the first in-depth study of the transition of the Yungdrung Bon religion, Tibet’s so-called "indigenous religion," to the West in the ...
Der digitale Pranger
(2018)
As a source of information for consumers to assess the quality of goods and services, rating portals basically make a useful contribution to consumer protection. However, the portals become a problem when critics express ...
Sometimes Hard, Usually Soft
(2020)
As an urgent response to the continually growing flood of information to which libraries, search engines, and cultural institutions are exposed, Data Loam combines radical approaches and strategies from the international ...
Neighbourhoods and City Quarters in Antiquity
(2023)
This volume focuses on the socio-spatial organisation of ancient cities, and more specifically on Late Republican and Imperial Italy. Referring to a praxeological and phenomenological perspective, it looks at neighbourhoods ...
Advances in the Sociology of Trust and Cooperation
(2020)
The book identifies conditions for trust and cooperation. It highlights unintended consequences of individually rational behavior, and shows how trust and cooperation change dependent on social embeddedness. Such analyses ...
Aufklärung zwischen zwei Welten
(2021)
Pierre Chaunu sprach 1971 noch vorsichtig von der Herausbildung von „l’Europe des Lumières“. Ein halbes Jahrhundert später ist längst zu fragen: Aufklärung nur in Europa? Die transareal angelegte Vorlesung will versuchen, ...
Vanitas und Gesellschaft
(2021)
This interdisciplinary volume delves into the significance of the early modern vanitas motif in the present day. In the arts, pop culture, and social discourses, it is utilized to make cultural-critical diagnoses. Reflections ...
Kunstfiguren
(2024)
Lady Gaga, Jilet Ayşe, Müslüm, Andy Warhol und Sun Ra sind Kunstfiguren, die national und international bekannt sind. Diese Publikation befasst sich mit künstlerisch gestalteten Identitäten an den Schnittstellen von Bildender ...
Design Thinking and Storytelling in Architecture
(2024)
This book offers a systematic account of the process of designing in architecture. Design thinking can be regarded as a fundamentally different way of knowing the world and a particular form of addressing creative problems. ...
Ambraser Heldenbuch
(2021)
The “Ambras Book of Heroes,” commissioned by Maximilian I, is one of the most important sources of medieval German literature. In this eleven-volume complete edition, all 25 texts from the codex appear in print for the ...
Zeitgenössische jüdische Autobiographie
(2011-05-01)
The proceedings of the conference of the same name assemble papers concentrating largely on Franco-Jewish autobiography in the last few decades. Relevant literature in English and German is also discussed. In addition, ...
Die DDR-Literatur und die Wissenschaften
(2022)
What is the relationship between literature and the sciences? What scientific insights has it adopted and which knowledge has it produced in the process? These are the kinds of research questions that this volume is the ...
Sprachliche Muster
(2018)
Die Studie arbeitet den musterhaften Sprachgebrauch in wissenschaftlichen Texten heraus und beschreibt auf der Basis einer datengeleiteten Korpusanalyse den Wissenschaftsstil auf formaler und pragmatischer Ebene. Mit der ...
Aufmerksamkeit und Wachsamkeit
(2024)
The chapters in this volume ask how texts written in scholarly Latin and the vernacular provided instruction on staying attentive during devotions and prayer, and how they explained the necessity of attention and attentiveness, ...
Filtern
(2025)
The concept of cultural technology is currently undergoing a decisive transformation: the shift from apparatus to environment. Cultural technologies can no longer be thought of in relation to specific individual objects ...
Innovationsräume
(2019)
This volume examines the relationships between innovation and space, illustrating a range of phenomena subsumed in the concept of innovation spaces. It presents new conceptualizations of innovation as a dynamic, territorially ...
Diabolische Vigilanz
(2022)
While God looks directly into people’s souls as inspector cordium, the relationship of observation between man and the devil appears as an immanent and indirect, lateral and potentially reciprocal one. The contributions ...
Working At Night
(2022)
The night has always and almost universally represented a special ‘out of the ordinary’ temporal zone with its own meanings, possibilities, and dangers. It is only since the modern era that the night has become increasingly ...
›Mos uetustissimus‹ – Tito Livio e la percezione della clemenza
(2023)
Clemency plays an important role in Livy and his value system. Clemency is invoked, exercised or denied in three areas: family, justice and army. What emerges is a complex understanding of this value concept, which relates ...
De la literatura latinoamericana a la literatura (latinoamericana) mundial Condiciones materiales, procesos y actores
(2019)
What is World Literature? To answer this question, this book asks another one: How is it produced, that is, what are the material conditions, processes, and actors, which enable Latin-American Literature to circulate ...
Dis:connectivity and Globalisation
(2025)
The volume explores key concepts that illuminate globalisation from a dis:connective perspective. Dis:connectivity refers to a more complex understanding of globalization that encompasses both connectivity as well as ...
Jews in East Norse Literature
(2022)
This book explores the portrayal of Jews and Judaism in medieval Danish and Swedish literary and visual culture. Drawing on over 100 manuscripts and incunabula as well as runic inscriptions and religious art, the author ...
Polarity-Sensitive Expressions
(2024)
Polarity (positive, negative) is one of the most fundamental concepts in the system of language and there are many expressions that are sensitive to polarity. For example, any in English and wh-mo in Japanese appear in ...
Die Macht der Wirkungsannahmen
(2015)
The collaboration between the military and the media that we know today was developed in the first half of the 20th century. This study shows that military leaders were primarily interested in the media because they hoped ...
Dividing Texts
(2020)
The number of manuscripts produced in the Indian sub-continent is astounding and is the result of a massive enterprise. The visual organization of texts in North Indian and Nepalese manuscripts from 800 to 1300 CE is at ...
Warum weinen?
(2018)
Demonstrating feelings of grief was of great importance in the elite culture of liberal Italy. At the same time, mourning the dead flew in the face of societal trends toward secularization. The study analyzes the background ...
Holiness and Power
(2016)
The book examines models of relationships between Constantinopolitan holy man and secular and ecclesiastical authorities in the capital of Byzantium. The study explores the ideal underlying the lives of the four ...
Christian Martyrdom in Late Antiquity
(2012-06-14)
The present volume`s focus lies on the formation of a multifaceted discourse on Christian martyrdom in Late Antiquity. While martyrdom accounts remain a central means of defining Christian identity, new literary genres ...
Zukunftsgestaltung durch Öffentliches Recht
(2014)
This volume contains presentations and discussions from the meeting of the Association of German Constitutional Law Professors in Greifswald from 2 to 5 October 2013.
Models, Simulations, and the Reduction of Complexity
(2013)
Modern science is a model-building activity. But how are models contructed? How are they related to theories and data? How do they explain complex scientific phenomena, and which role do computer simulations play? To address ...
Angstkonstruktionen
(2021)
In spite of extensive research in the field of cultural studies, the topic of fear has not yet been exhausted, especially considering that not even the semantics of its linguistic devices or the diversity of its linguistic ...
»Schizophrenie« in der Alltagssprache
(2024)
Since it was coined in 1908, the term schizophrenia has undergone a remarkable transformation. As well as being a medical diagnosis, the term is now also used to describe contradictory situations and as an everyday insult. ...
Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic
(2012)
The "Events after Homer", described by Quintus Smyrnaeus in the third century AD in his Greek epic Posthomerica, are an attempt to bridge the gap between the Iliad and the Odyssey , and to combine the various scattered ...
Antonius Diogenes, Die unglaublichen Dinge jenseits von Thule
(2020)
The Wonders Beyond Thule by Antonius Diogenes uniquely combines a range of themes, including aspects of a love story, fantastic journeys, and Pythagorean philosophy. The author reassembles this work, which has only been ...
Re-mapping World Literature
(2018)
The concept at issue in this book is Weltliteratur, or World Literature. Theoretical
frameworks usually view the now-famous epistolary exchange between Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe and the young Johann Peter Eckermann as ...
Keeping Record
(2024)
The production and retention of written records was an important facet of pre-modern rulership and administration. While such documents’ contents have been well studied, much can still be learnt by examining these records ...
Gleichheit, Vielfalt, technischer Wandel
(2019)
This volume includes lectures and discussion from the Conference of the Association of German Professors of Constitutional Law in Bonn, 3–6 October 2018.
Disruption in the Arts
(2018)
The volume examines aesthetic disruptions within the various arts in contemporary culture. It assumes that the political potential of art is not solely derived from presenting its audiences with openly political content. ...
Moses Dobruska and the Invention of Social Philosophy
(2022)
Moses Dobruska, born as a Jew in Brno, Moravia in 1753, died on the guillotine in Paris in 1794. His life was adventurous, but the biography is not enough to understand the creative force of this atypical intellectual. ...
Sylvester of Antioch
(2024)
This is the first English monograph on Patriarch Sylvester of the Church of Antioch (1724–1766), based on extensive Greek, Arabic and Romanian sources, many unknown before. Sylvester faced various challenges stemming from ...
Exhibiting Abstraction
(2025)
The time around 1910 has entered art history as the moment when «abstraction was invented». However, where and when works of non-figurative art became present in the public eye has been afforded little attention to date. ...
Ambraser Heldenbuch
(2021)
The “Ambras Book of Heroes,” commissioned by Maximilian I, is one of the most important sources of medieval German literature. In this eleven-volume complete edition, all 25 texts from the codex appear in print for the ...
Paracelsus
(2021)
At the center of Schnitzler's one-act verse drama Paracelsus, written between 1894 and 1898 and set in sixteenth-century Basel, is a hypnosis experiment that blurs the boundaries between dream and reality. This historical ...
Fragile Spaces
(2018)
This book consists of a range of essays covering the complex crises, tensions and dilemmas but also the positive potential in the meeting of Jews with Western culture. In numerous contexts and through the work of fascinating ...
Historische Fach- und Wissenschaftstexte kontrastiv
(2025)
This volume discusses the insights gained from the international Humboldt Colloquium “Comparing Historical Specialist and Scientific Texts,” which took place in collaboration with the universities of Warsaw, Rzeszów, ...
El queísmo en la historia
(2022)
The book offers a panchronic analysis of queísmo, one of the oldest variational phenomena in Spanish syntax, from the Classical era to this day. Within the framework of historical sociolinguistics and on the empirical basis ...
Medieval Art, Modern Politics
(2024)
This innovative volume of twelve essays by international scholars examines the political uses and misuses of medieval images, objects, and sites in modern times (16th to 20th centuries). In case studies that range from ...