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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 ...
Czesław Miłosz in Postwar America
(2021)
Czesław Miłosz is at times called an American poet. This means one thing in Poland, and something else in the United States. To Polish readers, this description is mainly related to the moment of his departure from Europe ...
Imitate Anacreon!
(2014)
Despite their rich tradition, the Carmina Anacreontea transmitted in the Palatine Anthology have received little scholarly attention. This neglect is linked to questions concerning their authenticity. Long read as poems ...
Verfestigungen in der Interaktion Konstruktionen, sequenzielle Muster, kommunikative Gattungen
(2020)
The theoretically and empirically based contributions in this edited volume in honour of Susanne Günther examine different consolidations on the level of interaction. They span from relatively detailed formats such as ...
Digital Papyrology III
(2024)
The volume collects contributions about the most recent developments of the theoretical and practical concept of digital critical edition applied to Greek Papyrology, redacted by outstanding scholars involved in ground-breaking ...
Agents' Abilities
(2020)
What is it for agents to be able to do things? This question, while central to many debates, is still awaiting a comprehensive answer. Jaster provides just that by developing the “success view,” which posits that abilities ...
Mapping Narrations – Narrating Maps
(2022)
This volume offers the author’s central articles on the medieval and early modern history of cartography for the first time in English translation. A first group of essays gives an overview of medieval cartography, ...
Theory and Classification of Material Text Cultures
(2024)
The final volume in the series synthesizes the research conducted by the Heidelberg Collaborative Research Center 933 (SFB 933). Systematized into six topic areas (reflecting on writing, layout and text/image, memory and ...
Play Among Books
(2021)
How does coding change the way we think about architecture? Miro Roman and his AI Alice_ch3n81 develop a playful scenario in which they propose coding as the new literacy of information. They convey knowledge in the form ...
Religious and National Discourses
(2023)
The book introduces a new perspective on discursive categorisations in societies. We suggest a shift from minority/majority differentiations towards an analysis of marginalising and centralising discourses which leave room ...
A Basic Theory of Everything
(2022)
The book presents a theory of what the basic building blocks of the world are and argues that they can be reduced to three: a field, a set of values, and an actualizer. The theory is used to answer philosophical questions ...
Digitale Infrastrukturen für die germanistische Forschung
(2018)
Modern research in linguistics is increasingly reliant on digital infrastructure and information systems. This development began at the turn of the millennium and has since accelerated. The volume examines national and ...
Graffiti Scratched, Scrawled, Sprayed
(2023)
Over the last two decades, the study of graffiti has emerged as a bustling field, invigorated by increased appreciation for their historical, linguistic, sociological, and anthropological value and propelled by ambitious ...
Theatre Cultures within Globalising Empires
(2018)
This volume presents the proceedings of the international conference “Theatre Cultures within Globalising Empires: Looking at Early Modern England and Spain”, held in 2012 as part of the ERC Advanced Grant Project Early ...
Die „Confessio Augustana“ im ökumenischen Gespräch
(2021)
The year 2030 will mark the 500th anniversary of the Augustan Confession, the most important confessional document from the Wittenberg Evangelical movement. Written by Melanchthon as his last attempt to preserve the unity ...
Gesunde Stadt
(2021)
Unter der Maxime „Wien im Aufbau“ wurden im Ständestaat ab Mitte der 1930er Jahre nicht nur gezielt Altbauten abgerissen, sondern auch die Entfernung historischer Putzfassaden und Gliederungselemente gefördert. Neben der ...
Genealogisches Wissen in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit
(2023)
Genealogisches Wissen war in der Vormoderne eine wichtige Ressource. Adlige und bürgerliche Akteur:innen benötigten es im Ringen um Rang und Ämter, Gelehrte nutzten es für die Geschichtsschreibung. Zahlreiche Zeitgenossen ...
Die Stadt als beschriebener Raum
(2021)
Today’s visitors to Pompeii and Herculaneum encounter a vast profusion of written evidence. Painted announcements stand alongside inscribed notices and monumental stone inscriptions. The content is as varied as the conditions ...
Martin Luther in Rom
(2017)
About 500 years ago, Martin Luther visited Rome. Reflections about his journey often inquire as to its having been a critical factor for the Reformation, a prejudicial perspective often leading to a negative view of the ...
Intention and Interpretation: A Short History
(2022)
Should we take the author’s intention into account when interpreting literature? The question has been a subject of fierce debate since the 1940s that shows no signs of abating. The notion of authorial intent, however, has ...
Literary Translation, Reception, and Transfer
(2020)
The three concepts mentioned in the title of this book refer to different forms of contact between two or more literary phenomena. Transfer, reception, and translation studies all imply the ‘travelling’ and the imitation ...