Publications
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Wir haben ja alle Deutschland nicht gekannt: Das Deutschlandbild der Deutschen in der Zeit der Weimarer Republik
(2016)
After 1918 Germany had to find a new definition for its identity on a political and social level as well as to rediscover itself as a unity in terms of geography and culture. This process can be described as „Inner ...
Von Aachen bis Akkon
(2023)
Published on the occasion of Hubert Houben’s 70th birthday, this volume focuses on border crossings as one of the topics dear to the jubilarian. By starting from a concept of borders as a social construct, the authors look ...
Von Aachen bis Akkon
(2023)
Published on the occasion of Hubert Houben’s 70th birthday, this volume focuses on border crossings as one of the topics dear to the jubilarian. By starting from a concept of borders as a social construct, the authors look ...
»Es ist nur ein Dorf«. Schwetzingen mit den Augen Leopold Mozarts
(2020)
This volume, which accompanies the exhibition of the same name, honours Leopold Mozart (1719-1787), who was not only a musician, composer and teacher, but also a well-informed observer of his time. His letters contain ...
Wir haben ja alle Deutschland nicht gekannt: Das Deutschlandbild der Deutschen in der Zeit der Weimarer Republik
(2016)
After 1918 Germany had to find a new definition for its identity on a political and social level as well as to rediscover itself as a unity in terms of geography and culture. This process can be described as „Inner ...
Baden-Baden, Sommerhauptstadt Europas
(2024)
Between the mid-1840s and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, the spa town of Baden-Baden emerged as Europe's leading fashion destination and a significant intercultural hub. On both sides of the Rhine, the city gained a ...
»Es ist nur ein Dorf«
(2020)
This volume, which accompanies the exhibition of the same name, honours Leopold Mozart (1719-1787), who was not only a musician, composer and teacher, but also a well-informed observer of his time. His letters contain ...
Game | World | Architectonics
(2021)
In its current digital, pictorial and viral ubiquity, architecture no longer has to be bodily present, but has a mediating role. As a medial hinge it folds different disciplines of media and art onto the realm of the ...
Il cardinale Pietro Gasparri, segretario di Stato (1914–1930)
(2020)
Pietro Gasparri (1852–1934) was a famous jurist, a valued university professor and an able papal diplomat. He headed the Secretary of State and the Roman Curia from November 1914 to January 1930, during a crucial period ...
"From the Australian Bush to the International Jungle"
(2023)
After World War I, membership in the League of Nations represented an important step for the British Dominions on the road to foreign policy independence. The internationalism of the League of Nations was not a purely ...
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 ...
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 ...