Publications
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Performing Interpersonal Violence
(2012)
This book offers the first attempt at understanding interpersonal violence in ancient Athens. While the archaic desire for revenge persisted into the classical period, it was channeled by the civil discourse of the democracy. ...
Impedance Spectroscopy
(2019-01-10)
This book covers new advances in the field of impedance spectroscopy including fundamentals, methods and applications. It releases selected extended and peer reviewed scientific contributions from the International Workshop ...
Die Restitution des Ullstein-Verlags (1945–52)
(2020)
European-Jewish Studies reflect the interdisciplinary network and competence of the new “Centre for Jewish Studies Berlin and Brandenburg”. The Centre gathers together the most important institutions working on Jewish ...
Photographing Central Asia
(2022)
The volume demonstrates that photography was the cornerstone of imperial media governance and discourse construction in colonial Turkestan of the tsarist and early Soviet periods. The aim of this volume is to interpret ...
Valency over Time
(2021)
The papers collected in this book are devoted to verbal valency, and share a diachronic perspective, by either discussing changes in the behavior of verbs or discussing verbal valency at different historical stages of ...
Nach der Kulturgeschichte
(2021)
The predicted end of the era of cultural studies in the humanities and social sciences opens the possibility for serious methodological debate. The volume collects essays by medievalists and modern linguists that explore ...
Wildes Übersetzen
(2023)
This book develops a theory of wild translation. It describes literary strategies that not only serve to translate content but also produce new poetic texts out of foreign linguistic material. Analyses of Johann Fischart’s ...
From Erasmus to Maius
(2024)
An-Ting Yi writes an extensive scholarly history of the famous Codex Vaticanus over the course of 350 years. Currently regarded as one of the most essential pillars to reconstruct the Greek New Testament text, the perceptions ...
Völkisches Denken 1848 bis 1948
(2023)
The emergence of parliamentary democracy and the political public sphere in Germany in the nineteenth century created the conditions for the development of collective ideological vocabulary. From the Frankfurt Parliament ...
Massenwahntheorie und Friedenspoetik
(2023)
The radical rupture in civilization, the future and defense of democracy, the fight against totalitarianism and mass hysteria, the commitment to human rights, and the utopian potential of literature – these were the topics ...
Tracing the Jerusalem Code
(2021)
With the aim to write the history of Christianity in Scandinavia with Jerusalem as a lens, this book investigates the image – or rather the imagination – of Jerusalem in the religious, political, and artistic cultures of ...
Mord(s)bilder - Aufzählungen von Gewalt bei Seneca und Lucan
(2019)
Often noticed, frequently criticized, the descriptions of physical violence in Seneca’s philosophical work De ira and Lucan’s civil war epic De bello civili irritate until today. Only looking at the theory of rhetoric, the ...
Making Religion and Human Rights at the United Nations
(2018)
The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems– both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and ...
Die Basilika in Byzanz
(2013)
In Byzantium, the central structure is considered archetypical. This study shows that this assumption is only partly true. It presents the basilicas of the 7th to 15th centuries, addressing questions of typology, appointments, ...
Variants of Rhetorical Ventriloquism
(2018)
This book-length study is concerned with the various - vicarious and delegative - devices pertaining to rhetorical ventriloquism (sermocinatio, ethopoeia, prosopopoeia, etc.) - including their technical, conceptual, and ...
The Forgotten Massacre
(2021)
The book discusses the history of a previously invisible massacre in Budapest in 1944 committed by a paramilitary group lead by a women. Based on court trials, interviews with survivors, perpetrators and investigators the ...
Postfaktisches Erzählen?
(2021)
It is often claimed in contemporary public debate that we live in a “post-factual age.” This interdisciplinary volume employs the theories and methods of narrative research to investigate the relationship between the ...
Multidimensional Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems for Differential Equations
(2015-10-29)
This monograph is devoted to statements of multidimensional inverse problems, in particular to methods of their investigation. Questions of the uniqueness of solution, solvability and stability are studied. Methods to ...
Johann Christoph Gottscheds Briefwechsel - Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2015)
This second volume of the letter edition shows that Gottsched already occupied an influential position in the academic and cultural life of Leipzig in the early 1730s. This is documented by his university career and his ...
Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition
(2022)
This volume explores and calls into question certain commonly held assumptions about the nature of writing and technological advancement in the Islamic tradition. In particular, it challenges the idea that mechanical print ...