Publications
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Handschrift im Druck (ca. 1500–1800)
(2023)
This edited volume examines the forms and functions of the interaction between hand writing and print culture in the period ca. 1500 to 1800. Handwritten interventions into printed books interrupt the text fixed in print ...
Mahnen und Regieren
(2015)
The shepherd metaphor is widely diffused in many civilizations. Using this metaphor Pope Gregory introduced a successful leadership model which, as the Author shows, was further developed by the clergy and the kings in ...
Principles of Decoration in the Roman World
(2021)
Principles of Decoration in the Roman World explores the manner in which architectural settings and action contexts influenced the perception of decorative elements in Roman culture. By examining the relationship between ...
Culture-bearing Women
(2019)
The study examines the fiction of Black Women’s Renaissance. It focuses on the novels of the 1980s, which appreciated “culture-bearing” mothers as reproducers of the nation, to analyze the vexed relationship between cultural ...
Gender in der deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
(2022)
This volume is the first to diachronously present the development of gender in German children's and young-adult literature from the middle ages to the present. It explores a topic of enormous societal relevance by examining ...
Die Ordnung der Zukunft
(2023)
The future is open: This is a basic assumption of modernity. It originated in the 18th century and still shapes our self-image today. This study uncovers another tradition: the effort to close the future again, to ‘fill ...
Zionism and Cosmopolitanism
(2022)
Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943) was a prominent German sociologist, economist and Zionist activist. As a co-founder of academic sociology in Germany, Oppenheimer vehemently opposed the influence of antisemitism on the nascent ...
Konflikt und Bewältigung
(2011)
On September 28, 1009, Caliph al-Hakim had the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem destroyed. How did it come to this? What did it mean for contemporaries? Why were Jews persecuted as a result? Did it interrupt the ...
Transformations of Romanness
(2018)
Few pre-modern empires had an impact on their subjects comparable to that of the Roman Empire. Over time, being Roman could mean many different things, e.g. Latin speakers under barbarian rule, subjects of the Byzantine ...
One-Volume Libraries
(2016)
Composite and multiple-text manuscripts are traditionally studied for their individual texts, but recent trends in codicology have paved the way for a more comprehensive approach: Manuscripts are unique artefacts which ...
Juden und ihre Nachbarn
(2022)
The contributions in this volume address developments in the emergence of a Jewish scholarship movement against the backdrop of diaspora and migration movements in Central and Eastern Europe. These studies on the epistemology ...
Prosodie und Konstruktionsgrammatik
(2020)
Most forms of construction grammar offer a usage-based model of grammar. To date, construction grammar researchers have been dismissive of prosody. This anthology seeks to redress this gap in the research, examining the ...
Libraries on the Agenda
(2024)
Libraries on the Agenda shows how to engage in lobbying and advocating for libraries. The book analyzes political elements of power, policy making and human values. Political decision makers from local communities up to ...
Auf dem Weg zur Normalität
(2014)
Despite the fortuitous leadership of Giscard and Schmidt, German-French relations during the 1970s experienced a series of major conflicts. There were a number of different governmental and societal forces that sought to ...
Landscape’s Revenge
(2018)
Drawing from diverse critical traditions from Latin-America and Europe, this work posits the landscape as the pathway to the hidden, dark depths of Robert Walser’s and Bernardo Carvalho’s literary projects. Behind the ...
Öffentliche Räume in Pompeji
(2023)
Experiencing towns means feeling atmospheres. This impact made by urban spaces depends largely on their architecture and its decorative and visual features – including its design. In this sense, this volume is about ...
Vergangenes verhandeln
(2019)
This study in cultural history addresses the value of past relations in Gallo-Roman and Italian discourses on social status in late antiquity. The volume examines how senatorial figures referred back to ancestors and ancient ...
After Dictatorship
(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 ...
Diaspora and Disaster
(2016)
On March 11, 2011 the North-East of Japan was hit by a massive magnitude 9 earthquake. The earthquake was followed by a tsunami that destroyed farmland, cities, factories and the infrastructure of the coastal regions and ...
Konstruktionen zwischen Lexikon und Grammatik
(2022)
The object of study in this edited volume is semi-schematic phrasemes, which are known in German construction grammar research by the term "phraseme constructions." Ten contributions by internationally renowned authors ...