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Polis-Freundschaft-Jenseitsstrafen
(2010-09-28)
Die Briefe des Synesios von Kyrene (ca. 370-413 n.Chr.), der nicht nur Philosoph und Schriftsteller, sondern auch Feldherr und Bischof war, geben Einblick in die sozialen, politischen und religiös-intellektuellen Verhältnisse ...
Die Konstruktion von Reputation
(2015-11-15)
Die Berühmtheit eines Wissenschaftlers lässt sich nicht ausschließlich an der Anzahl der auf seine Werke getätigten Verweise ermessen. Auch die Vernachlässigung der Vollständigkeit eines Verweises auf den Urheber einer als ...
The Nuremberg Trials: International Criminal Law Since 1945
(2006-08-08)
60 years after the trials of the main German war criminals, the articles in this book attempt to assess the Nuremberg Trials from a historical and legal point of view, and to illustrate connections, contradictions and ...
Reformation und Säkularisierung
(2017-07-12)
The Reformation was essentially a religious renewal of Christianity in Europe. As such, it has contributed decisively, along with the Renaissance and humanism, to the formation of a secular modernity. What exactly was this ...
Performing Interpersonal Violence Court, Curse, and Comedy in Fourth-Century BCE Athens
(2012-01-16)
This book offers the first attempt at understanding interpersonal violence in ancient Athens. While the archaic desire for revenge persisted into the classical period, it was channeled by the civil discourse of the democracy. ...
Childhood in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
(2005-07-18)
Although many researchers have taken a critical stance towards the theses on the history of childhood developed by Philippe Ariès in 1960, this volume is the first comprehensive collection of studies with a psychological ...
Privately Empowered
(2016-11-15)
Privately Empowered responds to the lack of adequate attention paid to Islam in Africa in comparison to the Middle East and the Arab world. Shirin Edwin points to the embrace between Islam and politics that has limited ...
Shelter from the Holocaust
(2018-04-30)
Shelter from the Holocaust came to fruition as the result of the opening of formerly classified Soviet and Polish archives, determined efforts to interview the last remaining Holocaust survivors, and the growing interest ...
Oil Sparks in the Amazon
(2014-01-02)
For decades, studies of oil-related conflicts have focused on the effects of natural resource mismanagement, with the attendant economic booms and busts, or clashes between rebels and ruling governments over hydrocarbon ...
Marking Time
(2018-03-12)
Scholars have long studied the impact of Charles Darwin’s writings on nineteenth-century culture. However, few have ventured to examine the precursors to the ideas of Darwin and others in the Romantic period.
Marking Time, ...