Publications
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Drumming in Bhaktapur
(2023)
This groundbreaking publication offers a unique resource of information about one of the most glorious and diverse musical cultures of the Himalayas. The numerous drum traditions of Bhaktapur in the Kathmandu Valley are a ...
Semitic Dialects and Dialectology
(2022)
Characterised by the multiplicity and diversity of research and methodology, the European tradition of Semitic linguistics has always supported fieldwork and highly valued the data obtained in this way as it allows to ...
Caring for Old Age
(2020)
Many societies are experiencing growing longevity and population ageing simultaneously with increasing urbanization and mobilities. Such fundamental demographic and structural shifts have been reflected in a multitude of ...
Handbuch Europäische Sprachkritik Online
(2017)
The process of setting norms for language and language use is closely related to critique of language and its use. The German term Sprachnormenkritik as yet has no equivalent in English, French, Italian, or Croatian ...
Le roi, son favori et les baronset XVe siècles
(2021)
At the end of the Western Middle Ages, the new notions of the legitimacy of royal power and its exercise were made more visible by the presence of royal favourites whose figure should be reconsidered. The present study ...
Konstruktionen Europas in der Frühen Neuzeit
(2017)
Global history has long become an established field of research. At the 11th conference of the working group on the Early Modern Period (Historians’ Association, Germany), participants aimed at applying global-history ...
Il libro de la cocina: Un ricettario tra Oriente e Occidente
(2016)
European cookery has grown historically, and so has the Sienese Libro de la cocina. The book's origins are partly in Italy, partly in other cultures, combining recipes from Tuscan cuisine with those taken directly from the ...
Prinzip Personifikation
(2023)
The significance of allegorical personification as a cultural technique can hardly be overestimated for the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the early modern era. Particularly in the French-speaking world, this ...
Repräsentationen der israelischen Soldatin im Netz der Bildkulturen
(2022)
Representations of female Israeli soldiers are a popular subject in photography. However, a notable controversial imparting exists concerning gender and identity: heroic depictions of female Israeli soldiers as shown by ...
Chronologics
(2022)
Many contemporary periodisation schemes have their roots in Europe, reflecting particular national religious or historiographical traditions and teleologies. As part of the colonial encounter they have been translated into ...
Nation, Militär und Gesellschaft
(2022)
The National Guard, which emerged from the Revolution, left a lasting mark on French public life and institutions. For the monarchy restored in 1814, it was an indispensable upholder of order and occupied a central place ...
Komplexität und Problemlösen
(2025)
Complexity and problem-solving have become meaningful keywords for research in the cognitive sciences in recent decades. Joachim Funke's psychological approach is closely linked to both terms. His reasoning on complex ...
Kreuzzug als Selbstbeschreibung
(2020)
Die Geschichte der Valois-Herzöge von Burgund kann aus der Retrospektive zu einer Gegenüberstellung von modernen und mittelalterlichen Elementen dieser Herrschaftsbildung verleiten. Insbesondere die Kreuzzugspläne Philipps ...
Handbuch Europäische Sprachkritik Online
(2018)
In this third volume of the “Online Handbook of Language Criticism – A European Perspective”, linguistic purism is being understood as both criticism of language usage on the level of
parole and criticism of forms and ...
Being Single in the City
(2024)
What does it mean to be a single woman in India or China? Being single is an advancing trend, also in Asia. There is an ambivalent fascination with the single woman as a new type of empowered, pleasure-seeking, competent ...
Cinema as a Political Media
(2021)
Based on a comparative, transnational approach, the international group of authors focuses on the respective national interpretations of the past in Germany and Italy, as presented in the medium of film between 1945 and ...
Decorum und Mammon im Widerstreit?
(2022)
Entrepreneurial activity by nobles was highly debated in the European Early Modern period. Generally, it was considered socially inappropriate. Nevertheless, profit-oriented activities of the nobility were an economic ...
Une clôture hermétique?
(2021)
In the Middle Ages, the very existence of Benedictine monasteries was based on their proclaimed isolation from the world, a tenet diametrically opposed to their means of subsistence. Indeed, in order to extract goods from ...
To Jerusalem and Beyond
(2023)
With the expansion of trading routes, pilgrimage, and missionary endeavours in the 13th century, Latin travel literature emerged as a distinctive genre like never before. To highlight the importance of this genre, this ...
Marktstrategien der Kurienbanken
(2021)
With their branch networks and partners, the Florentine banks dominated international monetary transactions of the 15th century. Thanks to their presence in the main commercial centres of the continent, the merchant bankers ...