Publications
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Politics of Pasts and Futures in (Post-)Imperial Contexts
(2024)
This volume brings together approaches that deal with the instrumentalization and lasting impacts of perspectives on empire and their place in time. The diachronic cut through all time periods from antiquity to modern times ...
Estetica e poetica in Giovan Battista Gelli
(2023)
This volume studies the profile of one of the most important figures of 16th-century Florence, Giovan Battista Gelli, highlighting some less studied aspects: not only was Gelli deeply interested in figurative art, attested ...
Shaping Visions in U.S.-American Magazines
(2024)
This book presents the first comprehensive study on U.S.-American female illustrators’ creative imaginations of femininity, 1890-1920. It offers insight into the multi-faceted visual-textual relations across mass and little ...
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 ...
Littérature française et savoirs biologiques au XIXe siècle
(2020)
By the metaphorical power and the modelling power which they take, biological knowledge and its representations arouse in the XIXth century the fascination of the writers. They find there the source of new poetry, of an ...
Is there a Judeo-Christian Tradition?
(2016-03-21)
The term ´Judeo-Christian` in reference to a tradition, heritage, ethic, civilization, faith etc. has been used in a wide variety of contexts with widely diverging meanings. Contrary to popular belief, the term was not ...
Networks and Practices of Connoisseurship in the Global Eighteenth Century
(2024)
The 18th century was the age of the connoisseur. It was also an era of an expanding global consciousness born of accelerating trade and imperial conquest. This volume puts into dialogue the consolidation of connoisseurship ...
Die Interaktion von Herrschern und Eliten in imperialen Ordnungen des Mittelalters
(2018)
At both the center and periphery of empire, patterns of access to imperial centers developed quite differently according to membership in different elite groups. The persistence of imperial systems may have depended on the ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen - celebrity
(2021)
Welche Strategien und Mechanismen trugen dazu bei, die öffentliche Persona des dänischen Bildhauers Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844) zu erschaffen? Die Autorin betrachtet die Verbreitung seines Ruhms und des beispiellosen ...
Chinese Euphonics
(2024)
Supported by digital texts, modern technologies and historical linguistics, Chinese Euphonics is a dive into the types of sound patterns that occur throughout the earliest corpora of narrative texts in the Chinese canon, ...
Humanities for Humans
(2025)
Building on the conversation series "Humanities for Humans," this volume introduces prominent academics in a manner that breaks down barriers between campuses and the general public. Sharing about their life journeys and ...
Different Aesthetics
(2025)
The CRC research project Different Aesthetics aims to change perspectives in aesthetic discussions by directing attention to the 2000-year history of European art and culture before the 18th century.
Men, Masculinities and the Modern Career
(2020)
This book focuses on the multiple and diverse masculinities ‘at work’. Spanning both historical approaches to the rise of ‘profession’ as a marker of masculinity, and critical approaches to the current structures of ...
Essential Cases on the Limits of Liability
(2024)
European legal systems have developed a broad range of instruments aimed at limiting liability. These instruments are systematically examined within the present volume, which fills a major gap in tort law literature. The ...
Conceptual Joining
(2021)
This book explores experimental approaches to the design and construction of wooden structures in architecture, while presenting the results of an artistic research project. By using digital tools, experimental formations ...
Jamaica Kincaid’s Writings of History
(2023)
Jamaica Kincaid’s works consistently explore the long-lasting effects of colonial history on contemporary lives. Focusing on the media of text, image, and the human body, the chapters of this book show how Kincaid’s ''poetics ...
Wissensgeschichte des Verhaltens
(2025)
Behavior is an important category in the life sciences. It is central to all negotiations of human-animal relationships and is present in both science and scholarship, and the popular media. Understanding the historical ...
Space, Time and Language in Plutarch
(2017)
This collection of essays by a team of international scholars offers a wide-ranging examination of the key concepts of 'space and time' in the work of the Greek biographer and philosopher Plutarch of Chaeronea (1st-2nd ...
Romantik zwischen zwei Welten
(2021)
This transareal lecture inquires into the (perhaps already lost) unity of Romanticism behind the polymorphism of the Romantic discourses that took place between two worlds, Europe and America. This lecture reveals the scope ...
Homosexuality in the German Armed Forces
(2024)
Homosexuals were mustered out of military service in the Bundeswehr until 1979, after which homosexuality alone was no longer considered grounds for unsuitability. But for homosexual soldiers, military service was an option, ...
La tradizione manoscritta dell “ars dictaminis” nell’Italia medievale
(2022)
This volume is dedicated to the study of medieval ars dictaminis. Analyzing several manuscript witnesses, it sheds light on the historical contextualization of the phenomenon and examines the close relationship between ars ...
Sujetos del deseo
(2021)
This book analyzes, conceptualizes and historicizes the amateur translator figure as political and cultural agent in US-Latin American relations, from the end of the 19th century to the mid-20th century. Centered on the ...
Die Transformation der Informationsmärkte in Richtung Nutzungsfreiheit Alternativen zur Als-ob-Regulierung im Wissenschaftsurheberrecht
(2020)
In the last 30 years, copyright law’s approach to knowledge and information has come under fire. This book makes an important contribution to the debate about the sustainability of current models combining freedom of use ...
Chapter An Initial Selection of Manuscripts for the Editio Critica Maior of the Pauline Epistles
(2019)
Thirty-three internationally renowned scholars of the text and transmission of the New Testament offer original contributions on ancient manuscripts and digital editing in honour of Klaus Wachtel, a pioneer in the use of ...
Der Engel in der Moderne
(2022)
Die anhaltende Präsenz von Engeln in der Moderne wurde oft auf ein gesteigertes Trostbedürfnis zurückgeführt. Die Engelsfigur ist aber nicht bloß statisches Überbleibsel einer verlorenen Glaubensgewissheit. Vielmehr steht ...
Education Materialised
(2021)
This volume reveals how manuscripts may be used in gaining knowledge of educational practices across Africa, Asia and Europe from the Babylonian period up to the twentieth century. Four major research topics are addressed: ...
Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World
(2020)
The Lived Ancient Religion project has radically changed perspectives on ancient religions and their supposedly personal or public character. This volume applies and further develops these methodological tools, new ...
Dependency and Social Inequality in Pre-Roman Italy
(2024)
In the past, most studies on Pre-Roman societies in Italy focused on the elites. The aim of this volume is to look at dependent and marginalized social groups, which are less visible and often even difficult to define. The ...
Vitale Mystik
(2022)
This study examines the form and reception of mystical writing in poetry by A. de Noailles (France, 1876–1933), E. de Champourcin (Spain 1905–1999), and A. Pozzi (Italy, 1912–1938) from the perspective of current transsecular ...
Religious Narratives in Italian Literature after the Second Vatican Council
(2019)
This book presents a semiotic study of the re-elaboration of Christian narratives and values in a corpus of Italian novels published after the Second Vatican Council (1960s). It tackles the complex set of ideas expressed ...
Die kommunikative Konstruktion von Normalitäten in der Medizin
(2024)
Wenngleich die Bestimmung des medizinisch ‚Normalen’ einen zentralen Aspekt wissenschaftstheoretischer und -historischer Diskussion darstellt, ist die kommunikative Konstruktion von Normalitäten nur selten Gegenstand ...
Mobility Design
(2022)
Climate change and the scarcity of resources, but also the steadily increasing traffic make it indispensable to develop new solutions for environmentally friendly and people-friendly mobility. The smooth and safe transition ...
Evaluating Interreligious Peacebuilding and Dialogue
(2021)
Featuring chapters by well-established interreligious peacebuilders from around the world, this volume examines the challenges and implications faced by religious and interreligious peacebuilders and provides new models ...
Private Sector Development in an Emerging World
(2024)
This book explores the interactions between private sector development, public policies and societal institutions with a strong view on contributing to sustainable and inclusive development in emerging countries. The private ...
Führung, wohin führst du?
(2012)
With this book, students receive a critical introduction to the opportunities and limits of value creation-oriented management of companies. In this way you gain a holistic picture of value-oriented corporate management. ...
The Politics of Service
(2021)
This is the first comprehensive history of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the central humanitarian assistance organization of American Quakers during the first half of the 20th century. It describes the ...
Das Tagebuch des Astronomen Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt 1862–1882
(2025)
The diary of Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt provides deep insights into his life, his personal contacts, and his research interests in the period 1862 to 1882. Schmidt used his diary to document visits and events in Athens ...
The Roll in England and France in the Late Middle Ages
(2020)
In the Middle Ages, rolls were ubiquitous as a writing support. While scholars have long examined the texts and images on rolls, they have rarely taken the manuscripts themselves into account. This volume readdresses this ...
Affirmation und Kritik des modernen Zeitregimes bei Friedrich Schiller, Heinrich Heine und Gottfried Keller
(2025)
Since the eighteenth century, societies have been increasingly orienting the way they think and act around the future. This is not the result of a natural process, but can be attributed to a complex discursive formation: ...
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 ...
Religionswissenschaft
(2025)
This volume offers a unique introduction to contemporary religious studies in twenty-seven accessible, clearly written chapters written by religious studies scholars from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The central, ...
Citation and Quotation in Early Modern Architecture
(2024)
This volume aims to tease out one of the principal threads of the over-arching theme of what might be termed ‘Lost and Found in Translation’ with regard to Early Modern Architecture. Citation of texts in relation to Early ...
Fremdes Begehren: Spiele der Identitäten und Differenzen im späten 12. Jahrhundert
(2024)
In the narrative literature of the late twelfth century, dynamics of desire produce complex identity and relationship constellations. This study examines the narrative logics of heterosocial and homosocial desire in the ...
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 ...
Perfekt unperfekt
(2021)
The book offers insight into the classical rhetorical strategies of elaboration for researchers interested in rhetoric as well as for designers and artists. The process of elaboration is governed by the tension between the ...
Studies in the Atharvaveda
(2024)
This volume, the first of its kind in nearly two decades, comprises 16 articles on the Atharvaveda, India’s second oldest text, by the world’s leading scholars in the field, from India, Japan, Europe and North America. ...
Framing Intellectual and Lived Spaces in Early South Asia Sources and Boundaries
(2020)
The contributions to this book address a series of ´confrontations`—debates between intellectual communities, the interplay of texts and images, and the intersection of monumental architecture and physical terrain—and ...
The Making of an Anglo-Jewish Scholar
(2025)
This book is a study of the life and thought of the Polish Jew Solomon Yom Tov Bennett (1767-1838). Arriving in London, he encountered an educated group of English literati who found him useful for their own intellectual ...
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 ...
Sprachen, Völker und Phantome
(2018)
Academics have long stopped speaking of “peoples” and “their” languages and cultures. Yet languages and cultures are still taken as evidence of quasi-ethnic community and “identity.” Nine papers by scholars in Egyptology, ...
Verwaltungsrecht in der Klausur
(2020)
This is the first textbook to present open access materials in administrative law geared toward the test-taking realities of law students. Focused on administrative process, it deftly presents the main areas of general ...
Lager als Architektur
(2024)
Since 1945, camps as a form of temporary mass housing have been either ignored or discussed only in the margins of architectural history. In this book, Antje Senarclens de Grancy examines for the first time the camps built ...
Katechismus-Andachten (1656)
(2016)
The Catechism Devotions are comprised of 50 spiritual songs that impart all of the material in Luther`s Small Catechism in vocal form. They are regarded as an important milestone in early modern theologia catechetica that ...
Anthroposophieforschung
(2023)
Rudolf Steiner's (1861–1925) anthroposophy is present in society (Waldorf schools, Weleda, Demeter…) but not in scholarly research. This volume is the first to present academic research articles that close this gap by ...
Qualität in der Inhaltserschließung
(2021)
This edited volume deals with issues relating to the quality of subject cataloging in the digital age, where heterogenous articles from different processes meet, and attempts to define important quality standards. Topics ...
Trading Zones of Digital History
(2021)
Will historians become programmers? How do historians collaborate with experts from computational domains? At the centre of the book is the question how historians are affected by such ongoing interactions. By following ...
Metaleptische Bilder des Erzählens
(2023)
Von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart wird erzählerisches Handeln immer wieder durch bildhafte Ausdrücke veranschaulicht, die den Erzähler in logikwidrigem Kontakt mit der erzählten Welt darstellen und sich damit narratologisch ...
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 ...
Die verletzte Republik
(2022)
This study examines the literary discourse about forms of violence in French society at the beginning of the twenty-first century. How and why does French contemporary literature tell stories about the now historical, ...
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 ...