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 ...
Le udienze di Mussolini durante la Repubblica Sociale Italiana, 1943–1945
(2020)
Im römischen zentralen Staatsarchiv befindet sich der Terminkalender mit den Audienzen, die Mussolini in der letzten Phase des Faschismus, das heißt während der Italienischen Sozialrepublik (Repubblica Sociale Italiana), ...
Marseille, Montpellier und das Mittelmeer.
(2021)
The book examines how the integration of local merchants in the south of France contributed to the commercial expansion of the cities of Marseille and Montpellier in the 12th and 13th centuries. The origin of the flourishing ...
Passing Through Shanghai: Ethnographic Insights into the Mobile Lives of Expatriate Youths
(2016)
Passing Through Shanghai examines how children experience international mobility. Focusing on a specific yet diverse group of expatriate youths in contemporary Shanghai, the book investigates how children negotiate cultural ...
Von Preußen lernen?
(2021)
With the end of the Seven Years' War, a period of intensive search for reform ideas began in France an attempt to restore France's supremacy in the international state system and save the monarchy from bankruptcy. The ...
Minoische Bild-Räume
(2020)
This volume presents a new analysis of the wall paintings discovered over a hundred years ago in one of the most important centres of Minoan culture, the palace at Knossos. Introducing the theoretical concept of Bild-Raum, ...
Funerary Landscapes of the Late Antique “oecumene”
(2023)
This volume presents the first pan-Mediterranean panorama of Late Antique mortuary practices, combining and contextualizing an abundant dataset of archaeological and epigraphic evidence. In 17 contributions, a group of ...
The Psychology of Human Thought
(2019)
The “Psychology of Human Thought” is an “open access” collection of peer-reviewed chapters from all areas of higher cognitive processes. The book is intended to be used as a textbook in courses on higher process, complex ...
Modeling the Pāṇinian System of Sanskrit Grammar
(2019)
The present work is a study of the Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini from a new perspective. It attempts to explore the Pāṇinian system of Sanskrit grammar from a formal point of view and investigate the possibilities of representing ...
Handbuch Europäische Sprachkritik Online
(2018)
This second volume of the “Online Handbook of Language Criticism – A European Perspective” focuses on the processes of standardisation in German, English, French, Italian, and Croatian
and investigates them in the context ...
Bausteine einer Korpusgrammatik des Deutschen: Bd. 1 (2020)
(2020)
Bausteine einer Korpusgrammatik des Deutschen (“Building blocks towards a corpus grammar of German”) is a series presenting corpus linguistic studies on German grammar conducted at the Leibniz Institute for the German ...
The Past Through Narratology
(2022)
„The Past through Narratology“ proposes a fresh approach to various types of texts from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Starting from a broad definition of what a text can be – ranging from hagiographic narratives ...
“... der Augenblick ist mein und nehm ich den in Acht”
(2022)
Themes of existence of elderly people are considered in the context of different: different social classes, different residential contexts, different degrees of independence are understood as central components of the ...
Taming the Poisonous
(2021)
This rich ethnographic and socio-historical account uncovers how toxicity and safety are expressed transculturally in a globalizing world. For the first time, it unpacks the “pharmaceutical nexus” of mercury in Tibetan ...
Reshaping Glocal Dynamics of the Caribbean
(2018)
The Circum-Caribbean and its diasporas constitute a space of relations and disconnections. Historically, the Caribbean served as a bridgehead for the European conquest of the Americas and a point of exchange of human beings, ...
» Cette reine qui fait une si piètre figure «
(2020)
Successive generations have remembered Marie de’ Medici (1575–1642), Queen of France, as an incompetent regent, obsessed with power and alleged to have murdered her husband. Moreover, historians often saw no more to her ...
Pforta, St. Afra, St. Augustin und die Transformation der mitteldeutschen Musiklandschaft (1543–1620)
(2023)
The Albertine Prince’s Schools Pforta, St. Afra, and St. Augustin considerably contributed to the consolidation of Lutheran church music. The three schools, their teachers, and their alumni transformed Central Germany into ...
Konradin (1252–1268)/ Corradino di Svevia (1252–1268)
(2022)
Die schon zu Lebzeiten durch Anhänger und Unterstützer begonnene Mythisierung Friedrichs II. und seines Enkels Konradin hat sich im Laufe der Zeit nicht nur in Deutschland, sondern auch in Süditalien mit überraschenden ...
Die limitierte Auflage: Rechtsfragen zeitgenössischer Fotokunst
(2016)
Over the course of the past decades, photography has become one of the most popular fields of art. This development is also reflected in recent prices for some works of contemporary photography, which fetch up to several ...
Johann Stamitz und die europäische Musikermigration im 18. Jahrhundert
(2021)
This publication documents the papers presented at the symposium "The Stamitz family and European musician migration in the 18th century", which took place in Schwetzingen on 17 and 18 June 2017 on the occasion of the 300th ...
Ernst Kurth und Sergej Taneev
(2024)
The emergence of Linearity at the beginning of the 20th century represents a remarkable but yet rarely dealt with phenomenon in music history. Two main protagonists of the time were Ernst Kurth (Bern) and Sergei Taneev ...
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 ...
Heinrich Zoepfl (1807–1877)
(2019)
Heinrich Zoepfl (1807-1877), Heidelberg Professor of Legal History and Constitutional Law, was active in the turbulent times of the "Vormärz", the "German Revolution" of 1848/49 and the foundation of the German Reich in ...
Funerary Landscapes of the Late Antique “oecumene”
(2023)
This volume presents the first pan-Mediterranean panorama of Late Antique mortuary practices, combining and contextualizing an abundant dataset of archaeological and epigraphic evidence. In 17 contributions, a group of ...
Italia ed Europa centro-orientale tra Medioevo ed Età moderna
(2022)
It appears reductive to define the historical processes that characterised central and eastern Europe in medieval and modern times as a deviation or involution from the starting point of the western European model and ...
Arbeit. Wohnen. Computer
(2018)
In the 1960s, between the construction of the Berlin Wall (1961) and the change of power (Ulbricht / Honecker 1971), a field of tension between the claim to power and truth of the SED on one side and the subjective obstinacy ...