Publications
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Physics and Literature
(2021)
Physics and Literature is a unique collaboration between physicists and literary scholars, the first book to explore together the relations between both fields in depth. Contributors analyze central aspects of literary and ...
Religiöse Erfahrung und ihre transformative Kraft
(2023)
The author approaches the phenomenon of 'religious experience' through a qualitative study in which young, urban people from Europe and the USA are empirically examined. It becomes clear that individuals themselves are ...
Deutsch-türkisches Kino zwischen Filmproduktion und Filmkonsum
(2023)
How does the way we look at a film change when it is classified as "German-Turkish cinema"? And how do we view it when we conceive of its images as products of film watching instead? In interviews with filmmakers, supplemented ...
Partitive Determiners, Partitive Pronouns and Partitive Case
(2021)
The fine-grained morpho-syntactic and semantic variation displayed by partitive elements across European languages is far from being well-described, let alone well-understood. This volume focuses on Partitive Determiners, ...
2018
(2018)
The Yearbook mirrors the annual activities of staff and visiting fellows of the Maimonides Centre and reports on symposia, workshops, and lectures taking place at the Centre. Although aimed at a wider audience, the yearbook ...
Grenzüberschreitungen
(2017)
This volume includes lectures and discussion from the Conference of the Association of German Professors of Constitutional Law in Linz, 5 October 2016
Conceptions of Time in Greek and Roman Antiquity
(2022)
This collection of articles is an important milestone in the history of the study of time conceptions in Greek and Roman Antiquity. It spans from Homer to Neoplatonism. Conceptions of time are considered from different ...
The Legacy of Early fraciscan Thought
(2021)
The influence of later medieval fraciscans on subsequent scholarly developments has been widely acknowledged. However, the legacy of early fraciscan thought, as it developed in fraciscan thinkers who worked in the first ...
Jugendkommunikation und Dialekt
(2017)
By examining communication among young people in East Tyrol, this study offers for the first time detailed insight into everyday conversation between Austrian adolescents. The central theme of this corpus-based analysis ...
Wütende Texte
(2022)
The furious text has not been an object of systematic analysis until now. In this volume, this analysis is based on an interdisciplinary definition of the emotion of fury itself. Text analyses thus provide insights that ...
Converts of Conviction
(2017)
The series Studies and Texts in Scepticism contains monographs, translations, and collected essays exploring scepticism in its dual manifestation as a purely philosophical tradition and as a set of sceptical strategies, ...
Diskurse – digital
(2022)
The aim of this publication is to expand the program and methodological inventory of discourse linguistics in two ways: firstly, by systematizing the specific descriptive categories and analytical tools available for ...
Marcado diferencial de objeto y semántica verbal en español
(2022)
The book examines the impact of verbal semantics – telicity and affectedness, mostly – on differential object marking (DOM) in Spanish. It presents two studies providing empirical evidence for earlier claims and, additionally, ...
Grundrechtsschutz zwischen Karlsruhe und Straßburg
(2012)
Protection of fundamental rights in Europe takes place in a tense balance between EU law, the Convention on Human Rights, and national constitutions. The author draws potential parallels to the relationship between the ...
Contemporary Debates in Bioethics: European Perspectives
(2019)
The volume aims to capture a European gist of theoretical sensibilities, conceptual resources, and research interests, but not in an adversarial way, as opposed to American bioethics. The volume gathers contributions from ...
New Directions in Geometric and Applied Knot Theory
(2022)
The aim of this book is to present recent results in both theoretical and applied knot theory—which are at the same time stimulating for leading researchers in the field as well as accessible to non-experts. The book comprises ...
Digital Papyrology II
(2018)
The ongoing digitisation of the literary papyri (and related technical texts like the medical papyri) is leading to new thoughts on the concept and shape of the "digital critical edition" of ancient documents. First of ...
Performing Modernism
(2022)
The book examines the reach of modernism in design and performance in Romania between the two world wars, focusing on remarkable Jewish avant-garde artists located in Bucharest. Based on extensive new research, it shows ...
Why Be Moral?
(2015-09-25)
What reasons do we have to be moral, and are these reasons more compelling than the reasons we have to pursue non-moral projects? Ever since the Sophists first raised this question, it has been a focal point of debate. Why ...
Proceedings of the International Seminar on Safety and Security of Autonomous Vessels (ISSAV) and European STAMP Workshop and Conference (ESWC) 2019
(2020)
Aalto University hosted the 2nd edition of the International Seminar on Safety and Security of Autonomous Vessels (ISSAV) together with the 7th edition of the European STAMP Workshop and Conference (ESWC). ISSAV promotes ...
Methods in Contemporary Linguistics
(2012)
The present volume is a broad overview of methods and methodologies in linguistics, illustrated with examples from concrete research. It collects insights gained from a broad range of linguistic sub-disciplines, ranging ...
Manuscripts and Archives
(2018)
The series publishes monographs and collective volumes contributing to the emerging field of manuscript studies (manuscriptology), which includes disciplines such as philology, palaeography, codicology, art history, and ...
Konzepte des Jüdischen: Ausstellen, Aufklären, Erinnern
(2022)
Museums have an important task when it comes to the subject of Judaism. Prejudices, stereotypical thinking, and sheer ignorance are widespread. What is the best way to present Jewish diversity today? The author examines ...
Die Schweiz – ein städtebauliches Portrait
(2005)
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, ...
Herakleios, der schwitzende Kaiser
(2021)
Focusing on the rule of Heraclius (610–643), this study examines the development of the Byzantine monarchy at the threshold between antiquity and the Middle Ages. It shows how the reigning Emperor responded to the domestic ...
Johann Christoph Gottscheds Briefwechsel - Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2016)
On the occasion of the two-hundred-year anniversary of the founding of the university, the Gottsched couple traveled to Königsberg. Their journey is reflected in the letters from 1744 and 1745 along with the events of the ...
La Représentation du Discours Autre
(2020)
This book offers a general model of reported speech that relies on clear, well-argued theoretical choices in order to describe accurately the diversity of observed situations. The metalanguage/alterity articulation is ...
Genus – Sexus – Gender
(2022)
This volume brings together the latest empirical research on the connections between grammatical gender, natural gender, and the social category of gender. This trio operates on various levels: lexically and semantically, ...
Black Boxes – Versiegelungskontexte und Öffnungsversuche Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven
(2020)
We are surrounded by complex things that affect us but which remain concealed behind interfaces. Examples of such black boxes are diverse: smart watches, artificial intelligence, complex software, and gene-editing technology. ...
An Imaginary Trio
(2020)
This book focuses on places and instances where Solomon’s legendary biography intersects with those of Jesus Christ and of Aristotle. Solomon is the axis around which this trio revolves, the thread that binds it together. ...
Die Macht des Definierens
(2021)
How is it that a definition of a phenomenon like "burnout" can assert itself in spite of academic criticism? This book pursues this question by modelling the embeddedness of discursive practices of definition within academic ...
Fallbuch Asylrecht
(2023)
This case book examines the facts of asylum law most relevant to practice and their relationship to residence law in 57 case studies. A team of emerging scholars, practitioners, and members of Refugee Law Clinics (RLCs) ...
The Civilising Offensive
(2018)
Around 1850 Belgium was continental Europe`s most heavily industrialised state. From the mid-century until the Belle Époque many international social reform associations were based in Belgium. This book will stimulate the ...
Primary Sources and Asian Pasts
(2020)
This conference volume unites a wide range of scholars from diverse fields in an effort to explore new perspectives and methods in the study of primary sources from the premodern world. It represents the culmination of the ...
Superconductors at the Nanoscale
(2017)
By covering theory, design, and fabrication of nanostructured superconducting materials, this monograph is an invaluable resource for research and development. Examples are energy saving solutions, healthcare, and communication ...
Tied and Bound: A Comparative View on Manuscript Binding
(2023)
Every book form – from China to West Africa, from Europe to Mesopotamia – requires a way to secure cohesion of its constituent elements and keep them together. Whereas codex binding, as it still appears in modern printed ...
Chapter Modelação de dados poéticos: uma perspectiva desde os dados abertos e ligados/ The modelling of poetic data: A perspective from linked open data
(2018)
The contributions gathered in this volume show how digital technologies can be applied to Medieval Studies (Philology, Art, and History) in order to improve our understanding of medieval societies and cultures.
Material Aspects of Reading in Ancient and Medieval Cultures
(2020)
Die Reihe Materiale Textkulturen ist das Publikationsorgan des gleichnamigen Heidelberger Sonderforschungsbereichs 933, der von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft gefördert wird. In der Reihe erscheinen Sammelbände und ...
The Formation of the Talmud
(2021)
This book examines the talmudic writings, politics, and ideology of Y.I. Halevy (1847-1914), one of the most influential representatives of the pre-war Eastern European Orthodox Jewish community. It analyzes Halevy’s ...
Wissenskulturen muslimischer Gesellschaften
(2023)
This festschrift in honor of historian of philosophy and Islamic studies scholar Anke von Kügelgen reflects her overarching research interest in the "knowledge cultures of Muslim societies." It presents contributions on ...