Publications
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Europäischer Buchmarkt und Gelehrtenrepublik
(2023)
The publishing house and bookshop Treuttel & Würtz was a hub of European exchange par excellence around 1800. While the publishing house targeted a transcultural elite audience with publications by Johann Wolfgang von ...
Lords of the Mountains
(2024)
With his authoritative monograph, Lords of the Mountains. Pre-Islamic Heritage along the Upper Indus in Pakistan, Harald Hauptmann brought decades of research in the Karakoram region of northern Pakistan to an impressive ...
The ‘White’ Mask and the ‘Gypsy’ Mask in Film
(2022)
The study ventures into a topic that has been so far largely neglected in film studies: the ‘gypsy’ phantasm on the big screen. It reconstructs the history of ‘gypsy’ representations in film since the birth of the medium ...
Verwandtsein und Herrschen
(2020)
Catherine de Médicis war fast 30 Jahre lang eine zentrale politische Figur der französischen Monarchie. Ihre Autorität beruhte auf ihrer Position als Königinmutter. Die Studie geht der Frage nach, was Verwandtsein für sie ...
Il Regno di Sicilia e i suoi confini
(2025)
The label “border” can encompass a wide range of phenomena: geographical limits, political boundaries, areas under military control, and porous zones of interaction. This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach, viewing ...
Mittelalterliche Stadtgeschichte(n)
(2024)
The title 'Medieval urban history/stories' evokes the dual meaning of the word as an event and as a narrative. On the one hand, it is about the event itself, and on the other, about what is reported and narrated about this ...
Entre mers—Outre-mer
(2018)
The history of individual seascapes has recently become a vibrant and innovative field of research. Nonetheless, connections between seas (entre mers) and the imagination of lands „beyond the Sea“ (Outre-mer) have only ...
Ein Haus für Herkules
(2021)
Dedicated to housing courtly architectural models, Landgrave Karl founded the so-called Modellhaus at the beginning of the 18th-century, an unusual building which went on to become one of the most admired sights of its ...
Antiziganismus im baden-württembergischen Staatsapparat 1945–1970
(2024)
Even after 1945, Sinti and Roma were confronted with marginalisation and discrimination, as antigypsyist prejudice structures continued to guide action, especially at state level. This study examines the state apparatus ...
Welt-Wissen und kartografische Repräsentation
(2025)
This interdisciplinary study explores the controversially discussed question of whether and how geographical and cultural knowledge from the Arab-Islamic world was utilised by European mapmakers. The contextual analysis ...