Publications
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Religion und Politik in Christentum und Islam
(2024)
Why do Christianity and Islam approach their relationship to politics in distinct ways? Because they each have their own "grammar." Their canonical scriptures have different contents their early experiences of politics ...
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 ...
Machiavelli und Dantes „Commedia“
(2024)
Machiavelli is considered to have been an "admirer" of Dante, but his Asino is also read as satire on Dante. So what is the position of the Commedia in Machiavelli’s poetry? This volume provides a nuanced answer that ...
The Middle East and North Africa
(2024)
This volume gathers reflections on secularity from the Ottoman Empire, modern Arab states, the Turkish Republic, Iran, and Jewish perspectives from Europe and Israel, many translated into English for the first time. While ...
Medieval Art, Modern Politics
(2024)
This innovative volume of twelve essays by international scholars examines the political uses and misuses of medieval images, objects, and sites in modern times (16th to 20th centuries). In case studies that range from ...
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 ...
Munera und Agone in der Gesetzgebung der Spätantike
(2024)
Public games shaped urban life in the Roman Empire up into late antiquity. This study is the first to systematically examine the legal texts pertaining to gladiator battles and animal baiting (munera), as well as athletic ...
Réinventer l’art sacré
(2024)
During the first half of the 20th century, artists all over Europe investigated religious art and tried to renew its forms of expression. In Switzerland, an artistic society known as the "Groupe de Saint-Luc" was particularly ...
Latin America’s Contested Pasts in Telenovelas and TV Series
(2024)
This interdisciplinary volume analyzes the historical culture of Latin American society embodied in telenovelas and series from the 1960s to the present. Bringing together regional case studies on the representation of ...
La langue du peuple dans la littérature
(2024)
From the classical age to contemporary Francophonie, French-language literature features numerous instances of popular speech, whose mimetic or conventional character remains open to debate. This book brings together ...
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 ...
Yahwism under the Achaemenid Empire
(2024)
This book is dedicated to the study of the touchpoints between Yahwistic communities throughout the Achaemenid empire and the Iranian attributes of the empire that ruled over them for about two centuries. Its approach is ...
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 ...
Educational Secularization within Europe and Beyond
(2024)
Secularization as a political and ideological project has been part of transforming and giving new life to religion, not least through reforms in the education system and in public enlightenment efforts. The volume provides ...
Recognitions
(2024)
The volume explores the interpretive potential of the polysemic idea of recognition as it intersects with phenomena of transcodification, transmediality, and transculturality. Focusing on translation, adaptation, ...
Luxus-Praktiken in der Literatur der Aufklärung
(2024)
Modern human identity has been shaped by consumer practices. Contemporary discourses about consumption between addiction and self-determination have their origins in the eighteenth-century luxury debate. This volume is the ...
Die Sprache des erlittenen Krieges (1914–1938)
(2024)
This book focuses on poems by French frontline soldiers that address the sufferings of war. They bear witness, bring charges, and function as a medium for coping with traumatic experiences. Some of the texts examined pertain ...
Genealogical Manuscripts in Cross-Cultural Perspective
(2024)
Writing one’s genealogy by hand is a common practice across cultures, both past and present. This volume explores how lineages were expressed in handwritten form within different social, cultural, and religious contexts ...
Imágenes de la vejez
(2024)
Age studies add the perspective of aging to the issues of inclusion and diversity, which intersect with other axes (gender, race, class, functional diversity, etc.). This volume delves into the scenic, literary and audiovisual ...
A Show of Hands
(2024)
In contrast to the divide between conception and execution advocated by Anglo-American artists in the second half of the 1960s, this book reappraises conceptual art by examining it from the perspective of craft. Furthermore, ...